Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-14
Bandits Get
$ll4,000I In
MineWa ages
Deputy Sheriff and Company
Officers Held Up and Rob.
bed of Pay Roll for
Illinois Workers.
Escape in Automobile

Springfield, ILL.,, Aug. 13. - Four
bandits in an automobile held up a
deputy sheriff and mine officer of
the Peabody Mining interests at
Kincaid this afternoon and escaped
with pay roll of $4,000. .
The pay roll was for miners of
three mines in the vicinity of Kin
caid. mining town near Taylor
willie and southeast of Springfield.
F. M. Jones, cashier Of the Kincaid
Trust and Savings bank. was struck
over the head with revolver by
one of the bandits who grabbed the
pay roll.
Jerome Lockhard, the deputy who
accompanied him, was armed with
rifle and revolver, but was COM
PEELED to drop his weapons. Jones
and Lockhard were on their way
from the railroad station to the bank
with the packages containing the
money which arrived on an Illinois
Midland train.
Automobile Waiting.
After securing the money the
bandits jumped into an automobile
and drove in the direction of Spring
field.
The robbers are believed to be the
same who robbed F. M. Cornthwaite
of Decatur of his automobile on the
highway 10 miles north of here.
Highwaymen, at point of revolvers,
bound Cornthwaite hand and foot
and gagged him, leaving him con-
cealed in a corntield. They then
drove away with the auto. He man
aged to release himself and notified
the countryside. The robbers had
not been captured late tonight.
Sheriff Dunbar of Taylorville,
with posse in automobiles, started
in pursuit: Sheriff Mester of Spring
field, with force of men, was guard
ing roads into Springfield.
Money Sent from Chicago.
Money for the mine payroll was
sent from Chicago to Taylorville to-
Gay At Taylorville it was trans
ierred to the Illinois Midland for
Kincaid. The money was to have
been held in the bank over Sunday
and paid to the miners Monday.
1t was believed that the bandits
followed the Peabody payroll from
Chicago.
The bandits appeared so suddenly
and worked so rapily that they were
speeding out of the village before
the inhabitants realized what had
happened. Volunteers in automo-
biles started in pursuit.
Three of the men ordered Jones
and Lockhart to hold up their
hands. The fourth bandit stayed in
the machine with the motor running.
Jones was slow in following the
bandits command. Without nesita-
ton one of them knocked him down
with revolver. Lockhart was
overpowered by the other two men,
who took his weapons from him.
Posses Lose Trail.
Pursuing posses lost the trail OF
the bandits north of Taylorville.
A farmer whom Sheriff Dunbar
passed said he saw machine with
four men speeding toward Decatur.
Only meager descriptions of the
bandits were furnished by Jones and
Lockhart and witnesses of the
holdup. One of the robbers, it was
said, had broken nose.
1t was believed the bandits ar
rived in Kincaid earlier in the day
and hid where they could watch the
street through which Jones and
Lockhart passed. Two strangers
were seen back of a motion picture
> heater during the afternoon The
theater is near the bank in front Of
where the robbery occurred.
A score of people witnessed the
holdup, but appeared to be dazed
hy what thew saw.