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Show Ilj LIKE A MELOOBfiMA ,-?j Two Youths Hold Up Santa Clara 5 Bank; Get $7250; Escape in Auto, i'-if JIACIIINE "GOES WRONG" AND POSSE COMES IN 'fllJ While Evidently Amateurs, -They Keep Sileiiee After Be-iS Be-iS ' iS Taken to Jail. j.'i SAN FRANCISCO, A up. 13. Two n,3n armcu w''' shotguns nnd unmasked Ji'ijj walked into the Valley bunk of Santa J Jj:$ tiara shortly after .10 o'clock today ;r,jii,;f;: and covering the cashier and liis three VWH clerks demanded $7000. After securing 3uj,;i the money they fled in a waiting auto- jj'-ii'N mobile, but wero . captured two hours ,ntci" seven -miles from town, submit- lli fl'M ling without resistance, pfljll Cashier Frederick Birgo and liis as- "'ii sistnnts had just begun tho day's busi-ncss busi-ncss when iho bandits entered the bank.' ij The -were amateurishly bold, their r I 7 faces not even being concealed. With- ' j out any preliminaries I hoy lined the tliree clerks against tho wall and then ijjjt ifj pushing tho muzzle of a shotgun in f "fll Birgu's face, one of them commanded $V 'm Birgo to hand out "seven thousand dol- Jars and be quick about- it. If it's i!' M shy," ho added, "I'll blow the top of fa. ,f. yo"r lcad off." ,J Gun Good Argument. -fl ;H . Birgo hastened io com pi 3, placing IjImF V. that amount in a sack and delivering njli J J- to the bandil. Tho men ran from f the building and jumped into a wait- I ; ' l . ing automobile which it later developed j,' had been hired this morning from a f'l' San .lose garage." Tho regular garago f . driver was inx i.he machine, which had .! been left half a block away. Thrust- '' 4 ing a gu: In the chauffeur's face thoy J J & ordered' hiui to "let her out," and the Y heavy cir dashed off.;. The alarm was ' ( "'j. Quickly-' given., and wjth a description iy' i of tlnV car and its rmmhor the police of J! San Jose, Santa' Clara and posses of ' " ' citizens, started in pursuit. Tho Snn ; . k( Francisco and Oak laud police wero also f notified and two heavy cars full of I .j u arnied- detectives, wero sont out from l 't here. i Some miles out of town, however, ' iiv- tbe machine either broke down or tho ' drivor .purposely disabled it, and the , A robbo'rs took to tho fields. Their di- 4 rectida' was ascertained and shortly af- f ; ter Ihov were ovortaken by Sheriff ' Langfofd, Deputy Sheriff Lowell and 'V .) Mr. Aldeman, a citizen, on tho banks " of Moody creek. The men were ex-hausted ex-hausted by their flight and submitted !j without resistance. Criminals Were Boys. ; ; When tiro fugitives surrendered to ' j the menacing influence of rifles and l. ' , shotguns; it was discovered that they . ( r wore little moro than boys. Neither : ' . appeared to be 'over. ..IS. years of age ) and it was evidently their first attempt ) j " i at such a crime; ; ) Sheriff liangford asked for the bag I ; of gold, which- one of the youths pro- , i duccd. .It contained $7250, and it is ' .1 .believed that this is tho amount taken ' j from tho bank. . j Tho two prisoners were started for ; i tho count3' jail, the captors being as- li .7 sisted by. a rapidly . growing crowd. C . j Upon arriving at' the jail in San Jose pi thev were placed in separate cells. I Sheriff Langford mado every effort i to establish tho idontit3' of his priuon- .j ors, but they refused to give their .'. uameff of furnish any information as to l' who planned the crime. -J No person in the largo crowd that j .. " witnessed -their arrival at. the jail was ;j , able to identify cither -of the robbers. |