The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-08
car, which, Whitley said. was purrins
when he drew up alongside it.
Wagner Forced tn Omen Safe

wagner rOFCcO 10 OpcI1 SALE
With the employees and customers
on the floor, the leader commanded
Wagner to enter the vault and open
the safe. He seemed to know Wag-
ner's position in the bank.
Wagner was made to walk with
head bowed and his hands up. A pis-
toll was held against each of his sides,
When the safe had been opened, he
was made to lie face down again. out
side, while two of the bandits stood
guard, at the head of the group,
the other at the foot. each with two
| guns, which they had drawn from the
bibs of their overalls.
After the safe had been rifled. the
leader ordered the bankers and cusS
toners into the vault and lockedsfhe
door on them. Al Brink began ex-
ploring for some means to transmit
an alarm outside, but there was no
alarm button or telephone either
above or i'll the basement of the vault.
Meanwhile A. J. Arnot entered the
bank and found the place vacant. The
bandits had gone. This was at about
2:35 p. II.
Wagner, from the vault. shouted,
Anybody there?' Arnot answered
and they were able to talk loud
enough for Arnot to grasp what had
happened. He turned the knob on
the vault and released the hold-up
victims.
The suggestion was made today that
the robbers may be in hiding nearby.
waiting for the affair to blow over
before getting away. However, the
thoroughress of their operations in
the bank would suggest also that they
hay have had other cars in waiting
to which to transfer after getting
away here.
May Have Used Two Hudsons
Nobody about the street while the
hold-up was under way inside the
bank noted the Hudson car except
Emmett Red" McGarry, 10, Tribune
newsboy, and Charles Whitley, en-
ploye Of the Corwin- Churchill garage,
who stopped his truck by the parked
car. but did not note the license
number. There was no reason to pay
any attention to the car, he said, as
it was parked there like any other
car. There was a man inside, dressed
In overalls. Whitley remembers.
McGarry had stepped from the
curb at the Hoskins- Meyer corner
when the Hudson came down the
street and around the corner. He
had to Jump back to avoid being hit.
He says that drew his attention to
the fact that q small red-faced man
was driving and another man was
sitting by his side. One had or a
straw hat, the other q cap. The
driver showed signs of agitation.
Saw Two Cars
The newsboy said there were two
Hudson cars with Kansas numbers.
After the first came down Fourth
street from the bank. the second car.
parked at the Hoskins- Meyer corner.
backed out and followed the first,
both going around the ~postoffice cor
ner and north on Third street. Nc
Garry remembers the Kansas license
plate, but was confused in his recol-
lection of the number. He thinks,
however. that it began with a / and
Cnere was a I anu a y.
Honked for Passageway
Frank Lee, Jr., a boy who was
standing on the other side of Fourth
street in front of the Bismarck hotel
also recalls that the Car carried a
Kansas license and was a Hudson
sedan. either dark blue or black.
Otto Timm, porter at the G.. P
L1<ol ~,o e y,,,chinr thu hnte1 RIO II Cov1
to the postoffice and heard the cal
honking back Of him. Broadway wa:
TANNED with the lineup of "57" tax
cars along the south curb and Other
cars and trucks parked both or
Broadway and Third streets near the
federal building. He said he saw the
Hudson car which honked for him tc
clear a passageway. swing around the
corner into Third street at such 9
speed that about a gallon OF gasoline
was whirled from the tank and over
the sidewalk.
Reported Everywhere
From that poin onward. the Hudson
was everywhere and nowhere. It was
reported seen rushing at about IL
miles an hour through Mandan; wat
said to have attracted attention al
Wilton, Wing and Steele and to have
passed through McCluskey.
May Have Eaten at Home Shop
Harry Runyan of the Home Bake
Shop said two of the bandits pos
sibly had eaten luncheon there. Two
men, one tall and wearing q sloucf
hat, and one smaller and wearing Q
cap. and both attired in new blue
overalls, came to the restaurant about
100, when all other patrons had lef,
the place and the Runyans them.
selves we're eating. The one with the
cap asked for water to wash up. He
stuck his cap into his hip pocket
while he washed his face and care.
fully combed his hair. When they
sat down to eat, the taller man re-
tanned his hat on his head. After
eating they sat around and watched
the clock. talking of "Shi"-ChicagO-
and of Billings. Montana. About 2
o'clock they left. They were seer on
Fourth street just before the bank
was entered and the hold-up staged,
Runyan said.
Harry Osbourne, a bricklayer on the
community building. who worked at
Van Hook when the Sanish bank was
neld up recently, said the descrip-
ton of the men who staged the job
here correspondent with that OF the
five men who raided the Sanish In
stitution and that they conducted
their operations in exactly the same
manner.
Whitley Describes Them
Charles Whitley, said when he en-
tered the bank, one mar stood at the
desk where depositors make ouG their
slips. He was about 5 feet, 8 incnes
tall, said Whitley. and he seemed to
be writing out a slip. AS Whitley
started to take out his check book,
the man ordered him to "sticl: 'em
up"
Whitley saw two men in the Two
cages scooping up the cash and plac-
ing it in a black valise. One was
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