Pueblo chieftain., 1921-04-16

Inc stolen money was recovered lntac'
The robbery took place in Aguilar,
which is twenty miles north of Trini-
dad, at . o'clock this afternoon. The
two bandits, wearing handkcrchiefs
over the lower parts of their faces and
automobile dust goggles over their
eyes, entered the bank with drawn
revolvers. One covered President En-
bertop. who was talking to a custo-
mer, and the other levoled his gun at
the cashier and bookkeeper and
grabbed the currency and silver on
the counter. Holding the bank offic-
ials at bay, the robbers rushed out
side and jumped into an automobile
and sped thru the storm toward Trinl-
dad. Mr.. Embcrton rushed to the door
and emptied siN-shootcr at the car
as it was speeding away.
Two posses of nine men each were
quickly formed by Aguilar citizens
and the pursuit started. Two miles
out of ASuilar one OF the cars ran into
the ditch. and the other car stopped
to render assistance. So much valu-
able time was lost in getting the auto
mobile out of the ditch. that the
posses decided to return to Aguilar
and obtain another motor car.
In the meantime, Sheriff Marty OF
Trinidad had been notified and hastily
called five men together. some of them
ucputlcS, hTIltu SciIeu an du'O-
mobile and hurried north on the
Trinidad -Walsenburg road to intercept
the bandits. Just q quarter of milo
outside the city limits OF Trinidad.
the sheriff noticed an autcmnhilc
stalled on cut off road leading
his posse advanced on the car from
the rear. Tim Workman special
agent for tho Santa Fe railroad and
deputy sheriff. was slightly in the lead.
He was armed with sawcdoff shot
gun and quietly slipping up on the
stalled car. showed the muzzlc of tho
weapon thru the side curtains and
covered the occupants. He ordered
them to throw up their hands. A 3s
caliber automatic was lying on the
floor of the car near the drivers seat.
Don't reach for that. boys" shouted
Workman. for this thing shoots big
holes at this range"
The rest of the party camc up, the
occupants OF the car were disarmcd
and placed under arrest.
An examination of tho contents OF
the car disclosed 80 feet OF fuse. n
dozen sticks of dynamite and can of
nitro glyccrinc. Also there was 1T
tie black leather bag that was found
to contain tho $5&l.64 stolen from tho
Aguilar bank and a humber OF style.
of caps and hats and two black wigs.
probably used as DISCUSSES. The sheriff
contents of the automobile which was
n large Jeffrey that the couple are re-
sponsible for number OF bank rob-
leries in the state and probably are
the men who shot and killed tho night
marshal at Fountain, Colorado. ten
days ago.
II was found that one of the bullets
fired by Embcrton at the fleeing car
had pierced the gasoline tank.
Avery says he has resided In Denver
for six months and is married. He
left his wife n month ago. he says.
Sloan who declares he Is 20 years
old, looks older. and refuses to give
his address except to say that ho is
from the Texas Panhandle country.
on approaching Trinidad. tho bandits
saw they were near the city and did
not desire to enter the city on n main
travelled road. Hence they took tho
cut off and tried to enter by another
route.
Tho storm was SO bad that tho snow
had covered the tracks OF tho road
and the robbers stopped TO decide what
should be done. They did not see the
shcrifrs car coming up tho other road
and did not know that any officers of
the law were near until Workman
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