Show BOlD ROBBERY Of KANSAS BANK Cashier and Business Man of Chautauqua Locked in Vault LOOT AMOUNTED TO POSSES CLOSING IN UPON THREE THREE SIDES OF BANDITS 4 4 4 M M M M f M t 4 4 Chautauqua Kan Ken April 17 Late 4 4 4 tonight It is reported that officers t 4 have the two robbers who o this morn mom 4 log ing robbed the Citizens State bank 4 4 here surrounded in the hills fifteen n 4 4 miles south of ot this place No o at attempt attempt 4 4 tempt will be made to take the men 4 until tomorrow morning M 44 f M t H 9 44 t M t i i t t 4 t t t t Coffeyville Kan April 17 Two men entered the Citizens State bank at Chau Chautauqua Chautauqua Chautauqua miles mUes west of ot Cot Cof Coffeyville at 9 this morning and after forcing Cashier C C and Del Easley a business man to enter the vault locked them in secured all the currency in n sight eight amounting to about and escaped Into the Osage hills across the line Une in Oklahoma Four posses are ara ar In pursuit and arid as the roads are muddy It Is believed the robbers will be cap captured captured captured The robbers secured but half halt an hours tart Rivals Work of Starr Gang The robbery robbe was one of ot the most daring ever eer executed In this part of ot Kansas the scene Beene of many bold holdups on oil the part of Daltons Starr and other gangs of out laws who from time to t time have made their rendezvous In the mountainous country of ot nearby Oklahoma Cashier Walter house had scarcely opened the bank at Chautauqua this morning and placed his currency on the counter ready read for the days dars business when the two rob robbers robbers bers hers entered The only other person in inthe inthe inthe the place was Del Easley The robbers both of ot them well dressed made their way leisurely to the cashiers window Thought It Was a Joke One of them was a man about town and he commanded Walter house and Easloy Easley to throw up their hands the latter two took the matter In the light of a joke The serious in 1 of the robbers was realized a moment later however when they both drew revolvers and pointing them th m at their victims ordered them to get Into the vault Without further ado and Easley both complied The robbers quickly slammed the door shut and then leisurely went about their business of o looting the bank Took All At the Money in Sight First Fir t they t threw down the window shades facing the street teet and locked the doors to prevent interference When they the had h l scraped up all the money in sight they walked out the front entrance and up the maIn mala street str et One of it the men car carried ned ried a gunnysack sack Several persons who knew the man whom and Easley say Is a awell known Chautauqua character spoke to him in a friendly man manner manner mannet ner net Nothing In the appearance of ot the robbers betrayed the part they had just played Escaped to Oklahoma A block away they mounted horses that they had tied at the curbing and rode off of After going a few blocks from the cen center center ter of the town they directed their horses south toward the state stateline stateline stateline line and whipped them into a gallop The robbery was not until half an hour later when J H Edwards president president dent ent of oC the bank entered his office After Aftel releasing Walter house and Easley from the vault President Edwards gave the tha alarm locally and to surrounding towns town Within another thirty minutes posses had been made up in Chautauqua and at El Elgin Elgin Elgin gin and Sedan Kan and Okla Ohm all aU contiguous to the scene of the robbery and from three sides the armed men began a hot chase attar after af t r the robbers |