Show ROBBER KILLED BY BOMB WHICH HE DROPPED mailo blade nil an attempt to hold up bunk bank nud aud met alet death by of ills ilia own weapon according to recent advices advises from skagway Sk Sir agway alaska an unknown man walked into the canadian bank of commerce a 4 revolver in one hand and a dynamite bomb in the other and demanded or threatened to bloy blow nil all to eternity cashier pooley and teller wallace were the only two in the bank wallace jumped to pet get his gun and ran quickly to the back of the room yelling for pooley to do the same latue no you dont yelled the man and dropped the bomb the clerks clerics had bad just gotten butof cut of the win window flow the bank banic was wrecked and the robber had liis his licad smashed and one arm tot torn n off A hole was torn in the right wall of the bank und the front windows were blown clear across the street and money was as scattered to the four winds the side of the building bulged out and people living in in the rooms above the bank blown into the air from the concussion windows for blocks were broken the fire boll bell was immediately rung r the soldiers responded and capt summerall took cli charge arge no one but the unknown man and the two clerks clerics were in the bank at the time J G price formerly prosecuting ug attorney was just entering the bank banic lie he was hurt around the head but not seriously the dynamiter was taken to the hospital where lie he died not regaining consciousness no papers were found on the body to reveal his identity and there was only on his person A at t the inquest it was baroug brought b t out that the man fired two shots at ab wallace one of which is believed to have abse l bof nr w i 0 at the servi wc t 14 ft thousand dollars chiefly in gold dust which was lying on the counter |