Show I I STOOD Oft Off THE THI i I i WHOLE TOWN TilL BANK BANKST wAs WS ED ST ST. T. T PAUL r. Minn Sept 9 The Th Tho old ild days of or J Jesse Jcsse ILle James nn anal I tho the Younger Youns r brothers brother were i r revived I for a 1 short hort time at Frankfort a 1 little town In Spunk Spink count county South Dakota when the tho Jams James 8 Riverbank River nI Riverbank bank was aa robbed of or MOO In cash and some somo valuable papers paper The d ded d was as committed b for ford r d daybreak break Th The vault ault Rn and anal safe Mf wore were blown blo 11 or open n with seven char charges of dynamite Nf rrb tho entire nUrn front of the th building i a was wrecked T The explosion aroused th the citizens citizen of ot the tho flown tow but they f were r rA kept at III a distance b by several ral of the robbers robben who ho sun gun In hand stood alood guard In front and rear while th their lr companions were nere robbing th the bank Men Many shots shot were fired b by tho the bandits to hold the citizens at bay ba Th The only citizen citizen citi citi- zen hit hitas was as Frank Trank Fitzpatrick a n hotel guest gut He lie was as severely rI but not fatally wounded The robb robbers I. I having completed operations operations operations opera opera- Inside th the bank and stilt still tm holding the crowd off ocr broke Into the Chicago Northwestern railway station house and a handcar on which th they made th their lr escape Thc They I left ft tho the handcar sr midway mid mid- midway way 8 between Frankfort and Redfield A largo Posse has hall started In pursuit The gang that performed this t feat Is III believed to 10 be bo tho the I same me that robbed the First State bank of or S. S D D. Wednesday nuda nl night ht aa as the methods method II employed employed em tm In both cases calU wern were Identical So 80 far as could b be Judged all the th robbers were ere strangers In that thal part of the country coon coun tl try and are aro evidently members of ot the gang that looted d three or four our banks bank a In Inthe tho the north northwest st In the last lut week t k |