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Show EASTERN. ; ! lu Illluots Bank Robbery. ; Chiea-o, VL There was great ex-t citemeut at tjuiney, IH., this morn-, ing, by the di-icovery that the First National Bank had been entered and the vault robbed of about $100,000 in j currency belonging to the bank, be-: sides a quantity of bonds and valua-I valua-I ble papers; and it is said quite an! i amount of special deposits. The bank . j was entered by cutting the hall floor, ot the sto-y immediately over the' 'vault. The burglars then made a i breach through three feet of mason- j lry of alout four feet square; they , then cut the rivets of a twentyfoot, inch thick, sheet of boiler iron, with which the vault is lined, and remov- ing it, descended into the vault. They i then charged loth the money safe j and the one containing the Ixjnds'and j the valuable ; papers with powder, and by the means of a ' small India-rubber hose carried a train to the top of the safe, where a pistol was secured to it, and an old led-1 ger was arranged to set it off. A string was attached to this pistol and passed out of a window of the second story to the street below, and by this means the operators were enabled to discharge dis-charge their blasts when the streets were clear of people. The clock in the bank was stopped at seventeen minutes past two o'clock, as it is supposed sup-posed by the explosion, which must have occurred at that time. The door of the safe, which was a Dodd's Burglar Proof, was completely com-pletely wrenched from its hinges. There is no clue whatever to the perpetrators, per-petrators, but one McCoy, recently connected with a variety show, has been arrested and is held on suspicion. |
