The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1924-10-23

, most W0ndefful presence OF mlnu ant
fortitude throughout the ordeal, anc
in spite of the three heavy blows OF
his head, evidenced by THREE ugly
wounds in his scalp and pools OF
blood on the bank floor and in ths
vault, was still able to give an outline
of what had happened
Shortly after he had opened the
bank following the noon lunch hour
two of the robbers (evidently Thurs
ton and Myers) appeared in tthe lob
by, but they were delayed in their in
tentions by w. E. Marckel, local
citizen, who had dropped in on busi
ness. He remarked their suspicious ap
pearance to the young bookkeeper.
When he had gone, the young man
was confronted at the cage window
by one of the pair pointing a gun and
ordering him to get his hands up. The
other man made his way through the
door at the side of the cage and while
he held gun on Olson his pal also
entered the cage, roughly turned the
bookkeeper about and struck him. He
was then dragged into the vault, sup
posedly out of commission for some
time. But contrary to this supposii
tion, Olson retained his wits suffici-
emily to hear what was going on, and
it was due to his quick action after the
looters had departed that they were
overhauled on reaching the outskirts
of Lewiston and their plans of escape
frustrated.
The sheriff's office at Nezperce
was called shortly after the robbery
and Deputy Sheriff Leslie Brown re-
sponded, going to Craigmont and get
ting active in thte chase at once. Sher
iff A. w. Mitchell was serving papers
in the Forest section and could not
be located during the afternoon and
was not aware of the affair until
about 600 O'Clock Tuesday evening,
when he and Sanford Stapleton, who
had accompanied him from Nezperce,
drove into Winchester. Mr.. Mitchell
left directly for Lewiston and has
since been working with the sheriff
of Nez Perce county in the effort to
capture the criminals.
Prosecuting Attorney G. G. Pennell
has been busy on the case since the
first report of the robbery and spent
Wednesday in Lewiston in conference
with Prosecuting Attorney Phillips of
Nez Perce county and other officials
interested He elected the confes-
sion from Sam Myers, which was
made at the Nez Perce county Jail
in the presence of several newspaper
men and other witnesses a few hours
after Myers capture. This prisoner Is
story of the crime is as follows:
"My name is Samuel Myers, age 33,
and | am the son of Charles Myers,
pioneer farmer of the La Grande re-
gion in Oregon, our place being four
miles from North Powder
ri never was in Jail in my life, ex-
cept when confined for petty larceny
at La Grande. I Would tell the spe-
cific charge, but prefer not to. That
is all Gods truth. I have worked
about ranches and in logging camps.
"About 10 days ago l went to Pen
dleton looking for work and met Oar
rel. I don't know him by any other
name, and don't know where he had
come from. Through him I met James
Marrs and Chester Marrb, who are
here in Jail. Last Monday we had the
conference deciding on this trip and
left Pendleton at $ p. m. that day
I had never been in this country.
81 went to the bank with Darrell
and around the counter after DarreI
held up the man there (Bookkeepe:
Glade Olson), but did not strike the
blow that knocked him QUIT. Darrel
came through the cage some way. We
both grabbed some money. Neither