The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-11
Another Held
In Bank Case
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Miss Emma Olsen. II, bookkeeper
when he attempted to rob tbs
bank. Amber first told deputie.
his name was Dave Olson.
Keen eyes Of Deputy Sheriff.
Powell (Pete) Clay and Sig Kettle
son were responsible for apprehen-
sion Of Pierce, Undersheriff Clyde
Knowles disclosed.
Clay ana Kittleson spotted a car
answering description Of machine
seen pulling away from the Orting
bank few minutes after Amber
entered it at e:05 a. m. Thursday.
The vehicle was parked in front
Of tavern on Tacoma ave.
Clay left Kittelson to watch the
machine while he went to the
courthouse to get aid. fearing a
gun battle might result In attempt
to apprehend driver of the machine
for questioning.
While Clay was at the court
house, two men and q woman
came out of the tavern, climbed
into the machine, q 1854 model
Terraplane sedan with license
plates covered with mud, and
drove away.
Clay returned a few minutes
later with Undersheriff Knowles
and Deputies Lyle Lathrop and Ed
Dahl.
The deputies spied the car leav-
ing the 2100 block on So. X St.
heading down the hill. Next, they
located the auto parked in front
Of an apartment house at 1914
Tacoma ave.
Deputies went into the apart
ment house. where they found
Pierce in bed in an apartment that
Amber had been occupying.
He surrendered without resist
ance.
The man and woman occupants
Of the car were quickly located, but
were released when deputies were
convinced they had no connection
with the attempted bank robbery.
The woman, Knowles said. was a
sister of Pierce and the man was
her husband.
Pierce, under influence Of
h.toxicants when arrested, de-
MED he was Ambler's accom-
plice, although he admitted he
had known the ex-convict since
he came to Tacoma from Abb
erdeen a month ago.
'If I was with Amber" Knowles
quoted Pierce as saying when ques-
TONED about the attempted bank
stickup, 81 must have been so
drunk i don't remember, but
don't think was that drunk -. :"
Pierce was to be questioned fur
Their by deputy sheriffs and three
FBI agents who were assigned to
the case by the Seattle district Of
flee.
Amber, following his capture
by Miss Olson and lodging in county
Jail on an open charge, insisted his
name was Dave Olson and that he
was from Butte, Mont, until Dep
uty Lathrop confronted him with
fingerprint records showing he was
an ex-convict.
Fingerprint records were dis
covered by Lathrop and Lieut..
Herman Wallace of the police
department.
1t was shortly before 8 p. m. that
Amber admitted his real identity.
He confessed he was born in Den
yer, that he was released from
Leavenworth federal penitentiary
In 1888 after serving three years
for forgery of a postal money Or
der and that he served time in
Mcneil island penitentiary from
1881 to 1884 on a similar charge.
Amber said he was the son of
William Amber, former Tacoma
apartment house owner and real
estate man. He said his mother
was dead and that his father is
row in business in San Francisco.
Amber said he has a wife and
child residing in Denver.
Reopening of the murder case OF
Chief Chadwick and Officer
Storem, who were shot to Death
July Is, 1885, when they attempted
to stop a car in which a bandit.
who had held up and robbed the
orting bank of $500, was fleeing.
was ordered by Knowles and
Deputy Prosecutor Dewitt Row
land when Amber admitted he was
in Tacoma during the month Of
July of that year.
Amber told Knowles the
.s2-calibre gun Of American
manufacture he used when he
entered the Orting bank
Thursday had been In his pos
session the past 10 years.
He declined to reveal what be-
came of the weapon while he was
serving prison terms other than to
saw he had cached IT,"
1t was a .32-caliber gun that
was used by the bandit VINO
snuffed out the lives Of CHADWICK
and Storem as they emerged from
their police car on the orung-
Sumner road, near the county pour
farm, TO take the robber into Gus
tody.
Markings of bullets taken
from the bodies of the two Po-
lice officers Indicated they had
been fired from a gun Of for
eign make.
Deputy LAthrop, county identin-
cation bureau head. however, said
\. had learned since the murder 4