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Show oo CASHIER FATALLY SHOT IN DEFENDING HIS BANK MITCHELL, S. D.. Feb. 4. R. G. St ipleton, aged 35. assistant cashier of tho Corona Stuto hank. Corona, S D., was fatally WOUndsd by a trio of band- - I Its shortly before 12 o'clock Thursday when he att-mpled to defend the hank's money. Staple-ton. who was HBs found some time after tho shooting by a customer of the bank, lay dylnt near HHJ 'the front droop, his gun hitched in hi HBl hand and bullet wounds in the hue ; HBs of his heck and the back of his head. HHl He was rushed to a drug store, but HBl lived only long enough to say that' ho HHl ha'l been hold up. He was iSjuhle to give a description of the robbers who BHJ iiad an hour's start on their pursuers. HBs An examination of the bank's cash HBl revealed about $501) in cash missing. HBl The bandits apparently made no effort HBl to reach the vaults. oo :HrH |