Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-26
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MAKEGETAWAY
Provincial Police Had Tip
That The Pipestone Bank
Would Be Robbed /; Failed
To Ask Aid OF Mounted
Police, Report. Say; No
Loot Obtained.
tHerald Special Service. }

Winnipeg. Oct. 26.-All Manitoba IL
aroused at the alleged lack of co.
operation between Manitoba pro.
vincial police and the mounted police.
controlled by the federal government.
In allowing bandits who attempted
Wednesday to rob the bank at Pipe
stone. southern Manitoba, to get away
although the Manitoba police were
forewarned that an attempt would be
made to rob the bank at Pipestone
early Wednesday. Tho alleged desire
Of the Manitoba police who had the
tip, to gain all the glory accounted
for miscarriage Of the law, It Is de-
clared.
The circumstance Is highly import.
ant in that the mounted police have q
post at Waskada, in the vicinity of
the bandits route from North Dakota.
Men from this post could have been
notified in time. according to reports.
and would have been available, but in
the absence of the information from
the provincials, were out on patrol in
other direction at the time of the COM.
mission of Wednesday q mornings
crime.
There was no concentration Of po-
lice forces in Pipestone. Police Con-.
stable Tullock, OF -Reston. Man. was
sent by Colonel Rattray, commissioner
!
Pipestone to- organize the defense. He
organized a committee of four citizens.
armed with rifles and shotguns and
took up the post with them in house
opposite the bank. Between 2 and
a. m. the bandits arrived on foot
They left their auto behind an ele-
vator ong the far side of the railway
tracks from town.
Cut Wires.
They first went to the Canadian
Pacific railway station, cut the tele-
graph and long distance telephone
! wires and then broke into a tool shed
at the station and took all the tools
they wanted. They took also an g.,
foot length OF telegraph pole. Then
they proceeded to the bank, broke in,
| pole as battering ram to ssmash
down the door. of the office within
the bank. AS soon as they started to
batter, the defense committee Nlaunch-
ed an attack. A shot was flred by a
provincial policeman and regular
| fusilade followed
Bandits Escaped.
Nevertheless, tho bandits got olear
away and nobody saw them leave
town in their car. It is stated, how
ever. that they went north and west
into Saskatoon.
There was substantial sum Of
money and securities in the bank but
nothing was secured by the bandits,
although, to quote the nians6ger, the
place was pretty badly shot UP, The
bandits according to all information
in the hands of the police, made Il
clean getaway by way OF Goodlands
and Napinka, across the United
States boundary. 6- &
Automobile patrols of provincial po-
lice are searching the country side.
Vigilance committees of the border
towns are on the lookout for the men.
The aid of the royal Canadian mount
ed police has been secured.
Tullock Notified.
Constable Tullock of Reston had
| been notified an attempt would be
| made and he In turn had notified
Pipestone citizens, reports say
Although the provincial police had
odvance Information that gang Of
| bandits intended to leave North Da
kota Tuesday night and rob the royal
bank branch at Pipestone, and in
spite Of elaborate stories of strong
provincial police border patrol, the
yang was able to cross the line. drivn
! right into Pipestone, cut telephone
wires. break into the bank at a. m
! and finally, after rifle duel with the
citizens in which II shots were fireo
get clear away, although without any
loot. & ,ega.
This is the latest and most star.
| ling demonstration of impunity CT
borden lawlessness since the epidemic
| o! bank robberies started few weeks
ago. sbi.%. ID FIJI s1