Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-08-15
THREE men ROB
BANK OF EAGLE;
ESCAPE WITH LOOT
Force Taxi Driver to Drive
Them About
$2,7OO OBTAINED
BY THE BANDITS
Cashier and Daughter Locked IN
Vault by Men, and Narrowly
Escape Suffocation-No
Arrests to Date

Sheriffs of two states were Monday
night securing the country for three
bandits who raided the bank OF
Eagle Monday morning In broad day
light, took $270O from the strong
box, locked e. H. Fikkan, cashier OF
the bank, and his 1S-year-old
daughter, Margaret, in the vault and
escaped in Boise taxicab.
Meanwhile H. F. (Hank) Endsley
taxicab man and driver of the
bandits car, is held by the Ada coun-
ty sheriff for investigation. He said
he had been held by the robbers all
night in deserted shack and was
of the robbery and then to drive
like hell to a point beyond Middle
ton where the hold-up men had
cached dust-covered Hudson road
ster in which they made their
escape.
Scuttling under the low plate
glass windows OF the bank, two of
the bandits, masked with black
handkerchiefs, appeared in the bank
door suddenly at about 9:15 Monday
morning.
Cashier Fikkan had just opened
the vault and its strong box pre-
paratory to starting business and
was at the moment sitting at his
desk in the front of the bank. Mar
garet Fikkan, his daughter and as
sistant, was at an adding machine
back of the teller's window.
When one of the masked men,
covering Fikkan with a gun, COM
manded him to throw up his hands |
the girl ran into the open vault |
The bandits crashed through the
low swinging door in front of the
bankers desk, backed him into the
main room back of the grill and out
of sight of the street and ordered
the girl out of the vault.
She came but refused to put up
her hands.
While one of the men was rifiing
the strong box and the other cover
ing the man and girl, Fikkan en-
deavored to get view of the bandits
car parked in the street east of the
bank building. He saw shiny big
Cadillac with a driver unmasked
and a crouching figure in the rear
seat which he thought to be a wo-
man.
But the man with the gun, seeing
the direction of his gaze, growled,
You're looking around too much"
and faced him to the wall, mean
while calling to his confederate in
the vault, make 1t snappy."
The other dashed out, his arms
loaded with currency and coin.
Then both banker and daughter
were marched into the vault. The I
door changed shut. The heavy bolts
were shot home with twist of the
door handle Fikkan and his daugh- !
ter were prisoners.
Meanwhile the bandits stuffed
their plunder into sack and rushed
for the door.
The screen must have caught shut,
for it developed after the robbery
that in their haste to get away they {
had broken the frame of the door I
and ripped two of the hinges from I
their fastenings.
The robbers scrambled into the big
car. A quick order was given the |
driver and in a few seconds the car a
was going at high speed on the pave G
ment leading toward Star, Middleton
and Caldwell. '
Approximately six hours after the G
robbery of the bank, Hank" Ends ?
ley, Boise, driver of the Cadillac car 0
which carried the robbers and which v
had been in their possession, accord v
ing to Endsley, since about 10
oclock Sunday night, reported to y
he Ada county sheriff's Office. He t
lad been searching with deputy sher- C
ifs from Canyon county for the hold
ips since they alighted from his car Z
ibout mile north of Middleton and t
ordered him to turn back. {
Endsley. who is employed as
,hauffeur by the Central livery, in &