Show THREE MEN LOOT PORTLAND BANK About in Gold Bills and Silver Carried Away by byALL the Robbers t ALL WERE HEAVILY ARMED CLIMAX Of GENERAL REIGN OF TERROR IN OREGON TOWN TOWN Portland Ore Dec Dee 7 The East Side bank located at East Washington W street and Grand avenue aven e was robbed at 6 tonight by three unmasked men It is understood that they the se secured secured secured cured about The president of the bank HenryH Henry H Newhall and his son Roger Newball N were just closing the days business b when two armed men men with revolvers entered President Newhall Ne hall and his hisson hisson hisson son were commanded toh i d dup up their hands hand and an while thus under the yer yero of o the robbers revolvers one m mit crawled through the cage window passed out three sacks of gold and anti t crawled back into the foyer foer through the tho window The three men made their escape before an alarm could be sounded Alarm Given Too Late From the neatness with which the th job was done and the tIme expeditious way In which the robbers made their es escape escape escape cape the police surmise that they must have had other assistance or had a cache somewhere in the vicinity of or the bank As soon as ag the frightened clerks recovered their senses an alarm alam was sounded sound d and the police were no j titled but ut it was too late Both stiles sides of the river are being searched by b a corps of ot police and de tie but it will vill be he no easy matter to apprehend the criminals The crime was as perhaps the boldest ever committed in this city and caps a series of ot mur ders tiers for robbery and a general reign of ot terror which a gang of has created in Portland for tor the past three months Statement of President President Henry H Newhall made the following statement of ot the robbery to the Associated Press Pres We Ve c were just preparing to close up for the night when the robbery oc occurred occurred occurred The bookkeeper Mr Ir Colton had just gout gone out to post a letter and ad admy 11 my mJ gon in Roger and myself were com pl ting the details incident inc Ident to the he t cbs clos ing of the bank when an unmasked man entered H Ie a Ig revolver In his hl hand han Slid er lS l lm We nn no position to make any defense and im irn I II I j I mediately complied Almost In an n Instant In th stant another man entered and a third was as standing outside The first man protected by his con federate then crawled through the tellers w window always keeping us cov coy covered covered ered and commenced to hand out coin and to his companion The third man entered and between them they the took away awa a bag of gold contain I ing I i a package l containing mostly in large bills and a lot of ot silver siler coins They had a receptacle of jome som kind and md dumped a portion of or the loot into it It Having HaYIng secured practically all the coin there was wao in sight the robbers made a hurried exit My Iy son Roger Ro er erand and myself each securing a revolver ran out after them The uThe robbery will not affect the baks stability in any an way We have ample money mon Y on hand band to meet all re requirements requirements I q |