Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-19

guards. As he did so Peter Kiedln- | ger, a guard who was on duty at the main entrance, fired with a rifle at the bandit He was seen to crumple up on the running board and was pull ed inside the car by the driver who did not slacken his speed. Kiedinger is positive that he inflicted serious injury to the bandit.
 As the car sped away it forced car driven by A. L. Bethke, assistant city attorney, into the curbing and against a fire plug, which was broken off This did not slacken the speed of the fleeing car for an instant.
 Five riot cars, the first carrying Manager of Safety Downer and Police Chief H. R. Williams, answered the first call from the mint. One of the cars was wrecked on the way to the mint in a collision at Sixteenth and Court Place The occupants of the car escaped injury.
 The stolen money was the property of the Denver Federal Reserve Bank, the mint merely being depository | for it due to the lack of sufficient se- cure vaults in the bank building. Ac- cording to R. J. Grant, director of the mint, receipt for the money had
 been issued by J. E. Olson, cashier of the bank, just prior to removing the money outside the mint where the i bandits secured it. Manager Burk- l hardt, of the reserve bank, later is
 sued a statement saying that the en- | tire amount was covered by insurance
 Director Grant also announced that the numbers of every bill in the con
 signment was in hand and that banks
 throughout the country would be l warned to be on the lookout for the currency.
 So terrific was the gun fire during the course of the fight that more than 30 distinct bullet holes were
 counted in thee transoms above the main entrance to the mint and in the windows of the second story of the building. The granite walls of the government building likewise are clipped where the bullets struck. Buildings across the street from the ! mint which is on ColfaX avenue, bounded on the east by Cherokee street and on the west by Delaware ' street, likewise showed the inten-
 sity of the fire of the government
 guards within the mint. Windows in various stores and apartment houses over the stores were riddled by Dr- lets and many narrow escapes on
 the part of roomers were reported
 to police headquarters.
 Miss Catb.rine Feist an employe
 of a restaurant directly across che street north of the mint, declared, that she was attracted to the dool by the shooting and is emphatic in
 her declaration that in addition tC
 the bandits who leaped out of the cal
 she saw two men hiding behind tele
 phone poles near the car who ap parently were members of the ban did gang. 5io g.
 Paul Clar, r years old- gave g
 thrilling account of the gun fight : He declared he was standing direct : Fly across the street from the min ; when the bandit car, heavily cur tained drew up. He said three o , the men, all carrying shot guns f jumped out and rushed up to tn
 guard standing nearest the reserv' l bank truck. couldn't hear wha
 they said but they apparently wer
 telling him to open the wagon. H
 shook his head and then one of tn
 bandits struck him a terrific blow don't know whether it was wit
 his fist or d gun. As the guard stag gered under the blow shot ran d out and he crumbled to the pave r. ment.
 At the sound of the shot a nun IT Der of guards came running out c e the mint and started firing. The tt were ssotting. straight at the bal 1t dits, who began shooting back. On s of the bandits remained in the ca