The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-10-10
INDIANA BANK
IS ROBBED BY
five BANDITS
Four Auto Yeggs Lock Book
keeper and Customers IN
Bank-Get $4,000 While
Fifth Waits.
POSSE IS NOW ON TRAIL
(By Associated Press)

DYER, Ind. Oct 10.-Five bandits
IN an automobile held up the First
National bank at Dyer. at 10:3o this
morning and escaped with $4,000 in
Guiding $4,000 in cash, and $4,000 in
government bonds. They fed toward
Chicago. Dyer is near the Illinois In
diana border, eight miles south OF
Hammond, Ind.
Four of the bandits entered the bank
while the fifth waited in the car. A.
W. Stommel, the cashier, his book
keeper and four customers were herd
ed into the vault, the door closed but
not locked.
They escaped two minutes after
the bandits left and spread the alarm
A posse of citizens took up the pur-
suit, and police and all the southern
suburbs of Chicago were notified
Stommel was in his Gage when one
of the bandits entered and showed a
$40 bill through the window asking for
10 81 certificates. The cashier turned
to the till to make the change when
the man stuck a revolver through the
bars and ordered him to throw up his
hands
Three other men who had followed
the first into the bank drew guns and
ordered the frightened customers and
thetwo bank employees to open the
vault. While two bandits guarded the
six the others opened small safe
and obtained the bonds, then scooped
up all the available currency.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 1o.-one
of three bandits, who held up the Mum
Gle State bank, at Muncie, Kans..
near here today and fled in a motor
car with between 100000 and $780,
900. was seriously wounded and with
another was captured.
The bandits were fired upon by
| ltownspeople.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 1o.-Robert
| Hardaman, negdo messenger for the
Grand Avenue bank, was held up to-
| day by two. men. who escaped with
| a satchel containing $17,650 in cash
and $S4,322 in non-negotiable papers.
The robbery was committed on a
crowded street Car near the downtown
district. Hardaman was taking the
money TO a downtown bank After
obtaining the satchel and compelling
the conductor to stop the car and open
the door. the robbers escaped in an
automobile.
CLEVELAND, O., Oct 10.-Bandits
operating with an automobile held up
Frank Cloarelli, manager of the Mia
CARA Laundry company at noon today
and robbed him of S1,045 with which
he was returning from a bank. The
robbers escaped.
D.
motor bandits shortly after noon to
day held up the National bank here
and escaped with a satchel containing
approximately $4,000 in cash.
Only three persons, an official, a
clerk and depositor were in the insti-
tuition at the time. Pedestrians were
held at bay at the point of pistols
while the bandits made their escape
ANSONIA, Conn, Oct. 10-Joseph H
Brown, missing cashier of the Ameri
can brass company here, is alleged
to have left Ansonia with more than
100000 in Liberty bonds, according to
: officials of the company, who examin
: ed the cashiers account. Brown left
- Sept. II on vacation, and has not
yet returned.
i DETROIT, Oct 1o.-While fedora
agents were questioning a man giving
: the name of Bob Cunningham" dc
u tained in Toledo on suspicion of con
: nection with the mail robbery herr
j last Friday, police today instituted +,
rigorous search of all foreign quarter
0 of the city for the four bandits.
!. The first clue to their identity was
I
!, tanning the mutilated mail sacks anC
i rifled envelopes was found in an al
; ley. Finger prints taken from The en-
l. yelopes and the trunk were expectei
to aid the officers.
u Police were unable to identify Gun
I ningham by that name and said tn
: fact coin bag bearing the name 0
. the National Bank of Commerce her
7 was found on his person might no
q connect him with the mail robbery
They pointed out that none of the reg
4 istered packages stolen containe'
}, money shipments to that bank.
d Grebe in Custody
r Carl Grebe, arrested Saturday on
technical charge of violating III
United States code, was still in cuc
today today, although William MAJ
| Auley, the mail wagon driver, faile
| to identify him as one of the bandit,
The trunk in which the mail bag
were found was turned over 10 fec
', eral authorities today after it ha
n been carefully examined by polio
There was no mark of identified tic
y on it, but from the part of the cit
It in which it was found officers sal
10 they were convinced the holdup va
y the work of foreigners.
t. All of the mail pouches had bee
IS ripped open and all the letters an
O. packages carefully opened, the bar