The producers news., 1926-12-03

and checks, which he carried out in
to the office and threw on the floor,
at the same time ordering the County
Treasurer and his deputy into the
vault, the door of which he shut and
locked.
Locked Up in the Vault
The imprisoned county officers were
unable to say what the bandits did
after that. They were probably re-
flecting on how long the air would
hold out in the small vault when,
Ronald Torstenson, the little seven
years old son of the County Treas
urer, tiled to get into his fathers
office, about seven o'clock and start
ed to shake the door to make a noise.
He was sent by his mother to fin d
out when Burt would come home TO
supper. Mr.. Torstcnson was able to
shout out to the little boy that he
could not open the door and told him
to go home and tell his mother tC
conc 10 The office.
Frank Die ne Appears on Scene
Q Soon after Ronald had started home
Y Frank Dionne, who was working IL
: the next office sensed that something
@ was wrong in the building. Steppin!
/. out into the hallway to investigate
\ he found the door of the Treasurer
S office locked. Opening it he went i
V and listened to dim voices he hear
) coming from the inside of the vault
a Mr.. Dionne had come from home t
If do some work in the courthouse be
I e.sxr 1olo 10
the basement putting c 0 a in tn
boiler when the outlaws were doin
their work.
Dionnc's Statement
Mr.. Dionne gives a graphic dc
scription of what happened in the fo
1 lowing interview which he gave 20 tf
News editor, Thursday:
"When in the basement ! though
l | heard footsteps in the Treasurer
office.
5 Gas soon as | came up the trs
! door to my room opposite the Trea
urer's office, | heard someone passiT
a in the hallway and heard the outsic
door close. Then l took my broo
and went into the Clerk and Recor
er's office and started sweeping theI
[ could see the light on in the Trea
urer's office through the window b
Z tween. | then went to the Clerk
~ the Courts office. While workil
there l heard someone shake the do
and holler "let me in" | heard a fa
away voice reply. | then went in
he the Assessors office and as / start
ht to sweep there / heard a human vol
IT, sounding as if it was far away. TIL
TO like a flash ] felt that there W
let something strange about the buildil
and started out to listen and inves
gate I walked to the Treasures
X office and found the door locked.
ali unlocked it with my key. Then
dd heard Burt Torstenson holler from O
tie of the vaults "let me out" As | pl
81 ceeded to the vault door l stepp
10 across a lot of papers strewn on
"a, floor which / afterwards found q
iv- were warrants, etc. / then shouted
i'd the closed door to Mr.. TorstensC
lie "Burt give me the combination nu
he bers." He then hollered them ba
lty but l could not open the door. Tn
a Mrs. Torstenson came in with her
vi tie boy. Then it came to my mi
led that if the Treasurer took off a scr
or which I knew to be inside / COZ
an open the door This he succeeded
r. accomplishing. after some time, W
ew a quarter dollar which he found
ar the floor Then l opened the dc
est and found Mr.. Torstenson and NJ
by Hovet Imprisoned inside. Miss Ho
was very much excited and the fl
thing she said was: "They took
the money" We then went to
telephone and Mr.. Torstenson cal
<Y up the sheriff who arrived in a v
short time"
Anna Hovet when asked how
- liked her experience in the vault 81
oor ed that S h e would not like to
on through the same thing again.
ribs said she hardly realized what W
her happening when she was first held
vail When she had time to reflect in
he'd dingy vault, however, the danger
yer: was in dawned on her. Events h
was pened so rapidly that she was una
red to give any description of the ban
e is further that they were men of m
: of um height and one was taller t
nds the other.