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Show UNMASKED MEN HOB BANK AIVANGQUVEB Manager and One Clerk Driven Driv-en Into Vault; Another Clerk Knocked Senseless. VANCOUVER, B C, Jan, 26. Two anmasked men, arrucd wifh revolvers, entered the Uilli-reFt braueh of the Txoval BanV: of Canada, at Main street and Sc cntecntli a venue, in hrojl day-licbl day-licbl 1odav.. droo fanaoor Stcavcs and one of hi clerks into lite vaults, knocked 1 be other clerk uneonscioue with 8 blow from a revolver butt and escaped with $1090. all the money thai was in the till. According to a statement made by one of tbe bank officials, the first man to enter the bank pointed his revolver a1 Manager Steares while the other eoered Ledger Keeper Harrison and Teller "Rirhmond, ordering them to bold up their bauds. Blchmond ynd Harrison were some distance from the thief, and Biohmond, instead of complying com-plying at (nice with the command, harked out of bin cage quieklj and threw ! he key.1 Into a box inside, ,-tt the same time slamming the cage door. A he stepped out the door locked it self witli the key's inside a maneuver which compelled the robbers to hunt a poker which tlmv used to reach through for the keye, thus eruisin;: some delay in execution of their project. The bandits ordered tbeh prisoners to enter the vault. Harrison demurred, upon which one of the men said to his companion: "Let's shoot him." "No. T'll Battle him," said the other, aud felled Harrison. The rnon pocketed all the moucv in the cash boxes and left the building by t ho back entrance. The police have a food description of the men. buj have no idea of I he direction di-rection ley took. This is the fourth tune in two years that B branch of the Boyg Bank in Vancouver has bn bold up |