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Show iDBKHATE BANDITS . r- BBBJMIL BAHKS Then Engage in Pitched Baltic With Citizens and Make Escape Es-cape in Auto. I : r GIBBON, Neb.. Dec. IS. Six rob bers, after (h'nnmitinp: ihc snfes of the Farmers Slnte Bank of Keenc at Kcene. iwonty-eiplit miles south of Gibbon, mid the Commercial Bank of Gibbon, en-caged en-caged in a pitched battle hcre with a number of citizens early tocInymd escaped es-caped in an automobile with $5500. .One of the robbers is believed f o liaye boeii wounded and to hnvo been carried ofi bv his comrades. Posses are in .pursuit. "The Kceno bank was first entered. , Tlcro two ault doors wero forced by an explosion. The robbers secured .$3000, climbed into an automobile and started south. A farmer, aroused by the- nxplosion, saw the robbers as they left town, but matte no attempt to stop them. Aji hour later the robbers reached . Gibbon, and while four of them began ! Tvork inside the Commercial bank, two others kept guard outside. Here the explosion attracted a number of citizens citi-zens to the- scene, among them G. T, Ilollowny, president of the bank. ITol- loway, approaching the two men stationed sta-tioned outside the bank, accosted them, believing them to bo acquaintances of his. For reply two bullets whizzed by him, one piercing the banker's overcoat over-coat but doing no harm. Tho robbers inside the bank kept steadily at work, tho guards meanwhile keeping up a steady fire on the citizens. Finally the ".'itizons partially surrounded ihc build-jug build-jug and for fifteen minutes a lively fusillade fusil-lade of shots was exchanged. Then, at a given signal, all six robbers made their escape through a rear door and 5o6n made off, again .jumping iillo their machine. An investigation disclosed bloodstains on the bnnk floor, indicating that one of the robbers had been shot. They had taken $2500 from tho bank's vault. The posse started in pursuit, but rhe robbers soon gained tho lca'd and wero-lost to sight. |