The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-11-07
BANK BANDITS
VISIT NASHUA
GRAB $500 IN CASH; MAKE
CLEAN GETAWAY TRAVEL
ING NORTH

Warning to watch for a Nash
coupe with two" bandits came
over the Great Northern phone
line from Nashua just after four
o'clock Thursday afternoon to op-
orator Charley Simon. The mes
sage said they had just robbed the
First National bank there Of from
$4,000 to $4,000 and started east
on highway No. Q, which comes
through Wolf Point. Nashua is
about 3S miles west of Wolf Point
with Frazer, II miles west of here
in between. A good highway lead
ing north to Lustre and Opheim
forms a junction with No. Q about
two miles east of Frazer.
Operator Simon Immediately
notified the sherif's office, the To-
cal banks and other places. Un-
dersherif Council had already
been notified from Glasgow and
he and Deputy Bannister left at
high speed on highway No. Q for
the junction with the Opheim
road. They reached there before
4:30 but the robbers did not come
that way. Evidently they are not
travelling main highways farther
than necessary. Later reports in
dictate the bandits turned north
just east of Nashua and were met
by another car near Larslan. The
first car, a Ford, not a Nash, being
abandoned.
Jimmy Maresh, a paper sales
man, had his car parked in front
of the office of the Nashua indie
pendent, next building west of the
bank. The bandits parked their
car near his but he did not get
sight of them. He said be believ-
ed the bandit car carried a Wis
consin license. He started for
Wolf Point Immediately after the
robbery and was stopped at the
Opheim branch by Officers Coun-
ell and Bannister. There we're
three robbers. One stayed in the
car and two entered the bank. The
Nashua Independent, issued the
same evening, says:
Nashua Account
While a comrade waited in a
car outside, two bandits entered
the First National Bank here at
$3.50 Thursday afternoon, forced
the two bank employees, e. T.
Peterson and c. H. Brocksmith, 10
the floor, later ordered them n
the vault, which they closed but
did not throw the combination,
and made away with a little over
$1,000 in cash, currency and gold.
They took the north road out of
town. :
1.-THE first bandit entered the
bank, approached the window and
asked for change for a ten-dollar
bill. When c.. H. Brocksmith look
ed up from making the change, he
found himself covered with a As
calibre revolver and ordered to
Stick 'em upi" e. T. Peterson
vas engaged in tipping a letter
and was not aware of anything
out Of the ordinary until he found
himself covered by the second
bandit. The two bank officials
were then forced to the floor and
later into the vault while the two
bandits cleaned out all the money.
They locked the bank door, taking
the keys from Peterson.
Peterson and Brocksmith got
out of the vault and spread the
alarm. Grin Cure, coming from
the post office, was within a humid
red feet OF the bank when the ban
dts left. He suspected nothing,
however, until he entered the
bank and was notified of the rob-
berry. Mr.. Cure observed that the
car in which the bandits left was
a new maroon colored Deluxe
Ford coupe with no license plate
in front. The sheriff was called
and all towns notified. Two cars
of Nashua men followed in pur-
suit within fifteen minutes, but
took the gravel highway east,
whereas it was later found that
the bandits headed north. Gerda
Aaberg, who teaches Shamrock
school ten miles out Of Nashua,
stated she saw a car answering
the description of the n driven
by the bandits, tear past her
schoolhouse on the main road
north at a breakneck speed short
Iy after four o'clock 1t is pre-
5umed this was the robbers. To
date no trace has been found OF