Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-12-19

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nominations.
Chief Of Police Williams an
nounced that DenYrr police were
guarding all roads leading out Of
the city but that he believed the
bandits still We're in hiding in Dem
YER. Orders issued to policemen by
Chief Williams said:
stop every car on every
road out of Denver and make
every man account for himself
and shoot IL you find the
robbers"
Police expect to be aided in their
search for the bandits by the fact
that one--apparently the leader
was shot seriously, If not mortally,
by government guard on duty at
the mint as he turned to fire a
final volley at the guards as the
bandit car sped away from the
scene of the holdup. A speeding
automobile carrying seven men,
two wearing masks and one droop-
ing over the edge of the machine,
bleeding profusely, was reported to
police as having been seen speeding
northward out of tho city shortly
after the robbery. Police riot cars
have been dispatched in pursuit of
this car.
Sensational Holdup
Denver police unhesitatingly de-
clared following the robbery that
it was the largest and unquestion-
ably the most sensational daylight
holdup ever staged in Colorado.
All patrolmen and detectives of the
local police department have been
armed with riot guns and are being
assisted in the search by county
and federal authorities.
The disregard of the bandits for
human life marks the robbery, ac-
cording TO police, as one of the
bcldest in police annals. With
sawed -off shotguns, two of the
bandits bombarded the front door
Of the mint as they leaped from
their automobile. Fifty employees
of the mint, summoned by an
alarm bell, seized shot guns and
rushed to the doors and windows
of the mint, shooting at the ban
dts, who returned their fire and
at the same time proceeded to load
the fifty packages Of currency into
their own car.
FuslIIades OF Shots
F'usillades of shots ripped their
way through buildings across the
street from the mint and spat
against the granite walls of the
mint building as the guards and
bandits exchanged shots.
The four members OF the fed
eral reserve bank crew engaged
in the transfer of the funds, con
sisting of ]. r. Olson, cashier of
the bank. C. r. Linton, ]. Adams
and William Hayenor, had just
left the entrance of the mint and
were walking toward their own
car, standing near the curbing
when another car containing the
bandits drove up alongside of the
bank truck,
According to witnesses, two or
three men carrying guns leaped !
from the car, and with a shout of
"hands up" opened fire on the
reserve bank employees. The shoot |
ing attracted the attention of |
guards within the entrance of the |
mint who sounded the alarm to
other employees inside and then |
rushed out upon the steps of the |
government building opening fire !
on the bandits.
Linton, according to information |
obtained by the police after ques- |
tionins of several eye witnesses, |
attempted to throw the money
into the grilled back compartment |
of the reserve truck at the com
mand and was shot by the leader |
of the bandits. He fell to the |
pavement but managed to crawl |
to the sidewalk where he lay DUR |
ing the fight.
Linton Dies at Hospital
After the escape of the high
waymen Linton was removed to
the county hospital, where he died
at 1910 o'clock this afternoon
without regaining consciousness.
Employees n government |
guards at the mint were afraid to !
shoot at the bandits for fear they
might kill members of the re-
serve bank truck crew.
The work of transferring the
currency from the guards to their
own car completed, the bandits,
amid a rain OF bullets from
guards in the second story of the
mint, reentered their car and
sped eastward on Colfax avenue
toward the civic center.
AS the car was speeding away
the leader of the highwaymen.
standing on the running board of