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0LANTA BAN KER
TELLS Of ROBBERY

| TELLS UF ROBERY
ASSISTANT CASHIER OF BANK
ADMITS PART IN $4,000 ROB-
Berry FROM HOME OF FLOR
ENcE COUNTY FARMER.
/ MAKES CONFESSION.
Florence, Oct. 14.-With the ar
rest of J. Hugh Truluck, assistant
cashier of the First National bank
of Otlanta, this afternoon, and his
signed confession to the part he
played in the robbery of the home
of Sam w. Young, Florence county
farmer, of an iron safe containing
Liberty bonds, war saving stamps
| and mortgages and other securities
amounting to between $4,000 and
$50, 900, events today followed thick
and fast in a robbery that has Gre
ated no little interest in this section
of the state. In the absence of MIR.
Young, the safe was removed from
the house and was found later in
Lynch's river riaed Of its rich con-
tents.
Arrest was made in Sumter yes
terday of two brothers, M. A. Tru-
luck and A. H. Truluck and they
were brought here today and ques-
toned closely by Mr.. Whitfield, a
representative of the Burns Detec-
tive agency, who has worked up the
case and caused the arrest Of the two
men in Sumter.
When the third Truluck boy, a
cousin of the two men arrested in
Sumter, was arrested while in the
Bank at Olanta this morning, sensa.
ton was created. It was found later
that M. A. Truluck had nothing to do
with the actual theft of the safe and
he was released. 1t was established
that he other Truluck, however, had
made a confdante of him, that he
knew all about the business from be-
ginning to end.
AS result of the work of the de-
tectives, $4,000 worth of bonds,
war savings stamps and securities
have been recovered so far and the
officers believe they will get the
rest of the stolen loot. When they
walked into the sheriff's office here
they entered at once into a continua-
ton of their confession to Mr.. Whit
field, Burns agency detective who
put the clinchers on the information
he had previously received by having
one of the Truluck boys sign the
same name to a check he had signed
on a check drawn on the First Ma
tional bank of Florence for $4,000.
This check bore the signature of
Fred A. Jones, which the boy con-
fesseG was tie assumed name he had
adopted to carry out in Florence the
disposal of the stolen Liberty bonds.
With the confession from Hugh
Truluck, the master mind who en-
gineered the sale of the stolen securi-
ties, and a confession from the two
Truluck cousins, who committed the
actual theft, Mr., Whitfield believes
that he has closed case upon which
he has been working for several
months and one that has led him
from Florida to Maryland and on to
New York, for it was in New York
bank that he found the first trace of
one of the stolen bonds, through a
check signed for its purchase.
It was stated in the confession of
M. A. Truluck, that the only regis
tered bond in the list had been burn
ed. 1t was a bond for $1,000. It was
stated today by Mr.. Whitfield that
following the confession of the Tru-
, luck boys, he visited the Presbyteri-
an church at Olanta, and found
stored under the steps the war saw
ing certificates which they declared
had been hidden there.
1t was stated today that Mr..
Young some time ago withdrew his
funds and securities from the First
National Bank of Olanta because of
some disagreement. This fact is be-
lieved to strengthen the evidence