The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-05-16
RETURN or BANK ROBBERS
t PALM BEACH COUNTY
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Wauchuh he came across q topless
Ford at a cross roads in the dark
with two men asleep in it. He was
uncertain whether they were the
men he was after and left his depu
ties on guard while he wnt on to
get the sheriff in case they we're and
there should be any trouble in arrest.
ing them. When he got back the
car was found and il was learned
from the sheriff Of the county that
the men were two of his deputies
and not the robbers.
From there he decided to have The
road to Arcadia covered and go on
himself 10 Lakeland and finally arriv-
ed at Plant city two hours after his
quarry who had been arrested in the
meantime by motorcycle policeman
from Lakeland and w. b. Germany.
Plant City policeman and q lifelong
friend of Sheriff Baker
The pursued had abandoned the
Ford at Lakeland and gone to no.
;el, where they registered under the
names of Davis, Young and Jones.
They made inquiries as to route
out of the state that would not take
them through jacksonville and were
advised they could catch the Sea.
board train going north at Plant
City TREY hired a car to take
them there and Mobley and Jones
were located in the waiting room Of
the station and arrested. although
Mobley is said to have made an eff
Tort to pull his gun on the the police
men.
They each had "A through ticket to
Savannah and in six minutes more
would have been on the train which
was almost due. Sheriff Baker said
that they thought the third man was
nearby when the arrest was made
and managed to get away and board
the train unseen, taking the bulk of
III stolen money with him. He said
he thought the man who jumped the
train in the Jacksonville yards was
the missing third, though Mobley
laid there we're two others and that
he and Jones" were forced to leave
them at a guns point, taking tho
small share of the loot and that It
was agreed all should meet in Saw
annah.
Special guards were thrown around
the Jail that night and the two hand
bags of money placed in the vault OF
the bank for safekeeping.
The sheriff left with his prisoners
from Lakeland Saturday evening and
identified the abandoned Ford as a
car stolen from T. j. Smith of this
city. the husband of Mobley's grand
mother, who died a short time ago.
About two miles this side of ks
simmoe, the return trip was delayed
by furious storm and twenty-three
miles later a bearing in the car gave
cut and finally the sheriff decided to
turn back and lodge his prisoners for
the night in the Kissimmee Jail for
safekeeping while he and his men
would try to get a little sleep. Before
leaving there yesterday morning he
had Sheriff Farmer take finger prints
of the two youths and then started
for home still having hard going. First
they got stuck and later pump which
quit held them for an hour and a half
AT Melbourne a message was do
livered to Sheriff Baker from the st.
Lucie county sheriff that an attempt
would be made to rescue the prisoners
at Stuart and for him to stop at Fl
Pierce. He got the same notice
again at Sebastian and at Vero, but
came through without any stop and
withCu1 anyone Offering to mcIest
his party"