The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-10-20
ASSISTANT CASHIER
TELLS OF ROBBERY
SIGNS CONFESSION AS TO REMOV-
ALOF SAFE FROM HOME.
Loot Found at Church.
Twenty-six Thousand Dollars of More
Than Eighty Thousand Lost
Recovered With Arrest.

lecCOScICu 1AAASoCe
Florence, Oct. 14.-With the arrest,
of J. Hugh Truluck, assistant cashier
of the First National bank of Olanta,
this afternoon, and his signed confes-
sion~to the part he played in the rob-
berry 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 100000, events today
followed thick and fast in robbery
that has created no little interest in
this section of the state. In the ab-
sence of Mr.. Young, the safe was re-
moved from the mouse and was found
later in Lynche's river rif1ed OF It's
rich contents.
Arrest was made in Sumter yester-
day of two brothers, M. A. Truluck
and A. H. Truluck and they were
brought here today and questioned
closely by Mr.. Winfield, a represen-
tative of the Burns Detective agency,
who has worked up the case and caus-
ed the arrest of rthe two men in Sum-
ter.
One Gets Release.
When the third Truluck boy, a cou-
sin of the two men arrested in Sum-
ter. was arrested while in the Bank
at OIanta this morning, sensation
was created. 1t was found later tnat
NJ. A. Truluck had nothing to do with
the actual theft of the safe and ne
was released. 1t was esta blished that
the other Truluck, however, had
made a eonfidante of him, that ne
knew all about the business from be-
ginning to end.
AS a result of the work of the de-
tectives, $4,000 worth of bonds, war
saving stamps and securities have
heen 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 continuation of their
confession to Mr.. Whitfield, a Burns
agency detective who put the cllnch-
ers on the information he had prevl-
ously received by having one OF the
Truluck boys sign the same name TO
a check he had signed on check
drawn on the First National Bank OF
Florence for $4,000. This check
bore the signature Of Fred A. Jones;
which the bos confessed was the as
sumed name he had adopted to car
ry out in Florence the disposal OF tine
stolen Liberty bonds.
Followed Clues Far
With the confession from Hugh
Truluck, the master mind who engl-
neered the sale Of the stolen securl-
ties and a confession from the two
Truluck cousins, who committed the
a ctual 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 a New York oanK
that he found the first trace of one
Of the stolen bonds, through check
signed for its purchase.
It was stated in the confession OF
NJ A. Truluck, that the only regis
tered bond in the list had been burn
ed It was a bond for $1,000. 1t was
stated today by Mr.. Whitfield that
following the confession of the Tru-
luck boys, he visited the Presbyterian
church at Olanta, and found stored
under the steps the war saving GER
tifcates which they declared had been
hidden there.
It was stated today that Mr.. Young
some time ago withdrew his funds
and securities from the First National
bank of Olanta, because of some dis
agreement. This fact is believed to
siren CITIZEN the evidence against the
assistant cashier, who officers believe
concocted the plot to take possession
of the bonds.