Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-10-20
|qIJlCKERS GET
SI5I2 AT A HAUL
,,rir Trnman Of Mead Tells Of BE.
" ;rr U,lirvcd Of That Sum and
nj, (.r and Eound and Gagged

l. (Arvin) Tupman. living
arsc.f NJ rths of a mile north OF
y,.l lis a story of u hold ur
tb ItSi,b unraralled in this section OF
VS. .' tw.o both as to the boldness
l.b h it was executed and the
W., T p. grcd by the hijackers.
"Nr Tman's story, as he related
~ a ., rrscntative of the News is
!, flows: He had completed the
.-oc,i.9 # house near Mead for
rmr,. "a James and had come to
,,~Y r, Tuesday to get the checks
.s.tl. araning to carry the money
sscE lead and nay for labor and
ro... Ir had one check for
s,so' on the First National Bank.
w. fr $4,000 on the Commercial
yo. and one for S13G3 on the
n~o,' Rational Bank. totalling
yYr.. These he took payment
Sr in "rcncy. save that he paid off
rr.. '.r Sl10 at the Durant Nat
srq Nrrl. The rcst, little money
h NJ IS had, left him S1512.OO in
( i. r..'r..
II, '4rcd home in his Ford car,
vbirh vas running badly and intend
n 70 have the money over night in
he val Of the former Mead bank,
Thi,h ':iHt is owned by B. +. Edel-
m in lad. Nearing home, his car
|nn.ir. to work badly so he decided
h turn off this side of Mead and
'nrr wr.t straight to his home, lust
north o. town and keep the money
nth him during the night.
As h. was crossing little branch
INST a quarter of a mile from his
iome. he was held up by two strange
men each with his face covered with
pme sort Of mask, covered with two
runs and ordered to get to the ground
Tteeuron. he says, he was tightly
bound. well gagged and relieved of
+ II; roll, after which he was carried
little piece from the road and
iumped to the ground, whereupon his
E'ailants got into his car and drove /
hi. All this occurred about seven
,tOck p. m. just as it was beginning
b get dark and only faint streaks |
red could be seen where the sun
has setting. There he lay until day
eak Friday morning. when he was
found by his brother-in-law, J. C,
Bunch who had been sent to search
Dor him, his wife becoming alarmed
his failure to show up when ex-
rrtcd about dark the night before.
He says his two assaiiants were
men Of medium size and build and
That neither of them was in any way
Familiar to him. either in Ceneral
|sprearance or the sound of their
|yuiceS.
He came at once to Durant and
|Dh hii story in detail to County
Attorcv Phillins; bloodhounds were
prO"nrol from the State prison farm
krd taken to the scene bnt failed to
Eeyclon" my sign of the thieves. The
bar. which the hiiackers had taken.
and were evidently unable tn make
run nroorrlv. was found in a field not
Jar away from the scene of the rob-
berry, and he says he nresumes that
bis assa'ants abandoned the car. and
n'do for the railroad. not very far
lwHv and walked west out of the
.Ounty
Officers are investigating the. af-
lair thoroughly and are determined to
lift it TO the bottom.
Many remarks are heard at the cx-
remo holiness of the hold up, being
pulled off rs it was. before dark had
ully settled, and within earshot of
he vi''im's home. where scream
might urrly attract attention to his !
NstreS' and bring help shortly.