The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-10-20
ROBBERS RUN TO EARTH.
Detectives Umavel Mystery OF Safe
Robbery Near Lake City.

Florence. Oct. 14-With the ar
rest of J. Hugh Truluck, assistant
cashier of the First National Bank of
Olanta, this afternoon, and his sign
eo 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 mort
cages and other securities amounting
to between $4,000 and 100000
events, today followed thick and fast
in robbery that has created NO lit
tie interest in this section of the
State. In the absence Of Mr.. Young
the safe was removed from the house
and was found later in Lynches river
rifled Of its contents.
Arrest was made in Sumter yes
terday OF two brothers, M. A. and A.
H. Truluck. and they were brought
here today and questioned closely by
Mr.. Smithfield, a representative OF
the Burns Detective Agency, who has
worked up the case and caused 4he
arrest OF the two men in Sumter.
When the third Truluck. boy,
cousin OF the two men arrested in
Sumter, was arrested while in the
bank at Olanta this morning, q SEN
sation was created. II was found later
that M. A. Truluck had nothing TO do
with the actual theft Of the safe and
he was released. 1t was declared that
the other Trulucks. however. had
confidant Of him and that he knew
all about the business from begin
ming to end.
AS result of the work Of the de-
tectives $4,000 worth of bonds, war
saving stamps and securities have
been recovered so far, and the offic-
ers believe they will get the rest of
the stolen loot.
When they walked into the sher-
ifs office here they entered at once
into a continuation of their alleged
confession to Mr.. Whitfield, a Burns
Agency detective, who put the clinch-
ers on the information he had pre-
viously received by having one of the
! Iruluck boys sign the same name to
a check he had signed on a check
drawn on the First National Bank of
Florence for 10000. This check bore
the signature of Fred A. Jones, which
the boys confessed was the assumed
name they adopted to carry out in
Florence the disposal of the stolen
/ liberty bonds
With confession from Hugh Tru-
luck, the master mind who engineer
ed the sale OF the stolen securities,
and alleged confessions 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 il was in New York
bank that he found the first trace
o. one of the stolen bonds, through
check signed for its purchase
1t was stated in the alleged confes-
sion of NJ. a. Tfuluck that the only
registered bond in the lot had been
burned; il was bond for $1,000
Ii was stated today by Mr.. Whitfield
that. following the confession of the
Truluck boys. he visited the Presby-
terian church at Olanta and found
stored under the steps the war saw
ings coruricat.-s, which. they deciar-
ed. had been hidden there
II was stated today that MI Young
some time ago withdrew his funds
and securities from the First Nation
q! Bank of Olanta because of some
disagreement This fact is believer to
strengthen the evidence against the
assistant cashier. who. officers be-
hcve. concocted the plot 10 take po-
So sSion of the bonds