Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-12-19
BANDITS GET 100000
LOOT IN SHOTGUN RAID
ON MINT AT DENVER
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livery truck. Fifty packages of cur
rency OF $4,000 each were seized by
tho robbers. Witnesses differ as to the
number OF mon participating in tho
holdup.
Denver police unhesitatinEly do
clared the holdup was tile largest
and tho most sensational ever exc
cutcd In Colorado
lombard Front Door.
With sawed-off shotguns. two of
the bandits bomtarded the front door
Of the mint as they leaped from their
automobile.
FIFTY government employees. sum-
moned by an alarm he'll. seized shot
guns and rushed TO the doors or
windows OF the mint shooting at tho
holdup men, who returned the fire
and at the same time calmly pro-
ceeded TO load the nifty packages of
currency In their own car.
The four members OF tho Federal
reserve bank crew. employed in the
transfer OF the funds. j. T. Olson.
cashier: c. T. Linton. J. Adams and
William Hanover, had just left thu
entrance of the mint and were walk
Ing toward their machine standing
near the Curbing when another car
containing the bandits drove up
X.
According to witnesses. two or
three men carrying guns leaped
from the car and with shout OF
Hands up" opened fire on the re-
serve hank employees.
Guards OF the mint. and other In
side employees then rushed out upon
the steps of the government building
TO shoot 1T the robbers.
Linton, according To the police, at
throw nj n
the grilled back compartment OF the
reserve truck at tho holdups' COM
mand and lie was shot by the leader
of the bandits. Linton was later re-
moved to the county hospital where
he died without regaining conscious
ness.
bandits Use Employees for "Ambush."
Employees and government guards
employed at the mint were afraid TO
shoot freely at the bandits for fear
they might kill members OF the re-
serve bank crew.
Their work OF transferring the cur
rcncy, which they had taken from
the guards To their own car complct-
ed. the bandits rc-cutcrcd their auto
mobile amid a rain Of bullets from
guards in the second story of tho
mint and sped toward the civic cen
ter.
As tho car gathered impetus. the
leader OF the highwaymcn. standing
on the running board. turned toward
the government building as though
10 fire final voiley at the guards.
AS he did so. Pctcr Kicdinger a
guard who was on duty at the main
entrance. fired with rifle at the
bandit. who was seen to crumple up
on the running board and was pulled
inside the car by the driver. IIieding-
tive.
The money was the property OF the
Denver Federal Reserve Bank. tho
mint merely being depository for It.
due TO the lack OF sufficient vaults in
the building. Manager Burkhardt,
of the reserve bank. later issued a
statement. saying the entire amount
was covered by insurance. Director
Grant also announced that tho num-
Der OF every bill in the consignment
was on record.
Make Forty bullet Holes.
So terrific was the gunHrc during
the clashes that forty bullet holes
can be counted in the transoms above
the main entrance to the mint. and
in the windows of the second story
Of the building. The granite walls Of
tho government building likewise
are Clipped where the bullets struck
buildings across the street likewise
show the Intensity OF the fire OF tho
guards. Windows i'm various stores
and apartment houses over the stores
were riddlcd. and many narrow es-
capes from bullets on the part of tho
roomcrs were reported to police
headquarters.
Il had just come out OF the mint
with sack full of currency when
t,slN 81 u
truck" said William Havcncr. driver
Of the Federal reserve truck II
heard somebody say Hands up" and
then there was shooting. l Owed un-
der my car to escape the rain OF bull
lets They could have shot me east
iy enough. 1t was all over 80 quick
~. though 1t seemed a long time. The
automobile drove away and | came
out from under my truck and got in
IT, was afraid the mint guards
would shoot me. as they were shoot
ing in my direction at the bandits"
j. l.. Olson. cashier of the Denver
branch bank in charge OF the guards
who We're transferring tho money
from the mint to tho truck. probably
had the most prccarious position OF
any one participating.
we had just gotten the money
from the mint when car drove up
and 1 heard some one say Hands up.
| started to rush into the mint for
help. The guards inside the mint
started 10 shoot at me.
Il never held up my hands. After
one OF the m!ut guards had shot at
me, l screamed :or him not to shoot
me. but to shoot at the bandits. who
arc YOU? no asked. I told him and
then he directed his are in tha d.
rection OF the bandits
Mr.. Olson collapsed shortly after
the robbery and had 10 be removed
10 his home