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Show OFFICER'S COOLNESS' PREVENTS ROBBERY ir'AHO FALI-S. Idaho. J'.ilv 2. A bod 1 attempt at robbery of the First National: tank of F.irie, a small town northeast of ' here, was frustrated Saturday evenin? ; when Cashier W. II. Homer grabbed the gun thrust aeainst his stomach by the would-be robbers and tussled with them until help arrived. Mr. Homer had just ' stepped out of tiie bank when two men stiu-f; a Kun a.trainst his stomach and ordered him to open up the bank. He: grasped the sun and managed to keep tiie 1 ipir busy until help arrived from a hard- I ware store across the street. With the arrival of reinforcements, the pair ran, but a posse later found them hiding in a coal ehed behind a store. "When searched by Sheriff Newt Adams of Jefferson county, a German pistol and a quantity of chloroform" were found upon them. They told tiie sheriff they had j intended to chloroform the cashier and lock him In the vault. They gave thetr i names as Oscar Wonacott, aged 20, of j Twin Fails, and Ho ward Milliiran, acred : 25. of Long B-ach, Cal. Later develop- rrents implicated a third man. and John j W. Sidweil, aged Zi, was taken into custody cus-tody on trie streets of Idaho Falls Monday Mon-day noon. |