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Show I r-:- v;-v' j 1 1 i r J,' ''.. tie.HI jicAiUX, It I) LIBER. r: Cashier and Assistants Bound and 1 Locked in Vault Robber Se-; Se-; cures $ 1 6,492 and is Captured J. in Less than Thirty Minutes Several Accomplices Under Ar-i Ar-i ; rest Money Recovered. -. ' (By I. II. Masters.) , - One of the most daring as well as sensational robberies that was ' ever committed in Utah took place in Bingham Tuesday afternoon - when a professional crook by the name'of Bert Heaton with well i :' laid plans held up the Bingham State bank and took from its vaults ( $16,492 and locked. Cashier Earl Randall and his two assistants, in . the vault and started up the canyon. Jle entered the bank about r 3 o'clock witha bandage tied over his head and a parcel tinder his I -arm and began talkmg with the cashier and stated that as soon as f his wife came he would deposit about $3,000. lie had been in the i bank on Monday and talked with Mr. Randall about depositing the f money and Mr. Randall had showed him the vault and the safety f devices of the bank AY hen Mr. Randall and Assistant Cashiei1 Geo. Dobson-had their backs turned he drew a revolver and shouted t "Hands up' By forcing the gun into their faces he compelled Henry r 7 Oddie, the office boy, and Mr. Dobson to lie face duw'n on the floor -l while he tied their hands behind them. He also-tied 'Mr. Randall's hands behind him and then forced him to give the co'mbination to the k safe. This was quickly, opened and the money secured and the three ; : men snaked into the vault and locked up. lie then deliberately left j the bank n id started up the .canyon but shortly changed his course, j and climbed to the Copper Belt line and ' then rn down , this track to the Bingham Coal and Lumber company. Here he went across to j -, the Star Livery and tried to hire a rig. In the meantime Henry Oddie worked a knife from his pocket and Mr. Dobson took this and cut the cords from young Oddie's hands and then he released the ' y others. -Mr., Randall-.grabbed, a''sK,rewdrivr;whichheha01?PJ!i Tbars, which held them as prisoners. He quickly spread the alarm and s. large force, of officers were hurraing in every direction artd ; Bert Heaton, the robber, was quickly located in an outhouse. not I , - far from the Bingham Coal and Lumber company..' He was arrested I . by Patrolman J. H. White and Rex "Holden and amid the shouts of j the cro.wd Heaton was landed behind the bars in less than thirty minutes after he had robbed the bank. This was one of the quickest captures ever made in the state. .; Below is Earl Randall, Cashier of the Bingham State Bank. I e ' ; ' ' - ' .. i , .1 J X ..:', ' - - , . . ... , v:.... ; . ' r- i 'in- : i S ' F" - 1 l.'-Oijwr. u X "I i j Bert Heaton, 39 years of age, who I eays Joplin, Mo., is his home, is the ) man arrested oh a charge of having j! directly perpetrated the hold-up and I - robbery. Also under arrest are Scott Cunningham, formerly of the St Jo-' Jo-' ' seph roadhouse in Davis county and known in connection with many es-J es-J capades ; Peggy Dean, Norma Dean and $ Lola Kendall, recent denizens of Bing-' Bing-' ' ham's "red light" district; Ed Turner ' and Prank H. Welch, known to the un-, un-, dreworld both in Bingham and Salt Lake. . Succeeds by Ruse. j Sauntering into the bank shortly be- j 'fore 3 o'clock in the afternoon i. stranger, attired in the garb of a for , , eign laborer and with his face grimy, made a pretense of depositing a packn ' of $3,000 in the bank. He informed : ; Earl Randall, the cashier, of this ia- atention in a visit Monday afternoon. I But before he would consent to let ttu -.. ' cashier and clerks examine the packet he Maitl "he would first wait tor his f " wife. - 1 " ' "She will be here In a few minutes and you may get ready to count my T -money," said the bandit, slowly walk-i walk-i ln toward the bank's main entrance, V " the newspaper-bound packet still un-? un-? der his arm. In the course of the !. routine of closing the bank's business t for the day Randall, ths cashier, " George Dobson, assistant cashier, and i Henry Oddie, an apprentice who is but 14 years of age, proceeded down to-' to-' ", ward the big vault, which was open to 'j receive the day's receipts. Binds His Victims. . Instantly the bandit covered them J with a heavy calibre revolver and toid tjjenl not to move. Then in low tone ; be ordered them to lie down on the floor with tbelr faces downward. They, obeyed. Asaln he told them to ex- tend their hands upward. They obey- e(li aa about their wrists he bound " stout pieces of cord, tying them bo tightly tbt his victims could hardly restrain themselves from crying out Jr on account of the pain. Then tbe banult swiftly stepped to the front door of the bank, locked It and wa back in an instant. He seized Randall by the collar and dragged him into the "pen vault. In turn he dragged -: in Job9on and Oddie, laying them bo-Bide bo-Bide Randall. Demands Safe Combination. As If familiar with affairs of the bank ihe bandit then dragged Randall, ! tbe t-a"'-r. Into a sitting position, I (CoE'Jnued :n Page Plve.) r v BIKGHAM BANK ROBBED (Continued from ' Page One.) leaning his back against the wall of the 'vault He pressed the muzzle of his revolver against the cas'hler'sTem-pie cas'hler'sTem-pie and demanded the combination to the bank treasure box. For but a moment mo-ment Randall hesitated. "I am desperately in need of money for my poor old mother and father, who are starving over In Beglum," said the bandit. "If you don't give me the combination com-bination I w ill have to kill you and the other two. My life Is nothing to me." , Bandit Appears Nervous. The bandit's revolver still pressing against his temple, Randall told the combination. The fingers of the bandit's ban-dit's unengaged hand leaped to the knob. It turned to the left and right, but the door to the safety deposit vault, failed to open. The bandit cursed. But Randall assured him that he had beea given the correct combination, and the bandit tried aaain. He failed the second sec-ond time, wbeh Randall felt the muzzle of the revolver pressing harder against! his temple. Finally after making five attempts the bandit pulled open the door to the treasure box. Into a sack he dumped gold and currency cur-rency aggregating about $16,500. He said something a bo ft having no use for a farce quantity of silver, which he could have taken. Leaving the vault with the bag of gold and currency, the bandit locked its hugh steel portal on the cashier, his assistant and the apprentice. No sooner bad the bolts shot into place than the three victims began a struggle strug-gle to release themselves, but at first this seemed Impossible. Finally Henry Oddie succeeded in wriggling a Christmas present pocket-knife pocket-knife out of his trouser pocket. Then with more wriggling he guided tu bound hands of Dobson to the knife lkbson succeeded in opening the big blade and with great difficulty he directed di-rected it to the cords which bound the hands of Oddle. ' Finding his wrists free, Oddie picked up the knife, cut tbe cords which bound the hands of Dobson, who In turn cut the cords which bound the bands of Randall. Regaining his feet, Randall seized a screwdriver, hidden In the vault to guard against emergiencies of being looked In, particularly In the case of hold-ups. With this instrument he drew screw-s trom the mechanism of the vault portal's luck and In less than a minute he drew back the big hoi's and threw open the vault door. |