Show iMilTs MAIZE f Him ATTEMPT TO ROB DAttI Band of Robbers Who Would Emulate tho Deeds of the James Younger Gang Get a SetBack Bald Knob ArU While seven ot their number rotlo about the streets discharging their weapons and boldIng bold-Ing the populace In terror others of a hand of robbers worked for more than an hour on Friday In an unsuccessful unsuc-cessful effort to dyimmlto their way Into the vault of the hate of Dahl Knob abandoning their task aftor fir Ing nearly a score of blasts which Icmollshcd the outer door of the safe but failed to forco tho Inner doors One citizen was wounded In the parting fiiRllado of the band as they rode away the first explosion aroused the citizens cit-izens who emerged from tholr houses and were greeted br the bullets of the outposts They quickly ran to shelter shel-ter while tho robbers kept I up an almost al-most continuous lire taking chance shots at any one who came within I range In the meanwhile those at work In the bank building continued to explode dynamite but without success suc-cess other than to partially wreck tho building as well as tho adjoining structure Before beginning operations the rob hers destroyed telephone communication I communica-tion out of Bald Knob but overlooked a railroad telegraph wire Ames Rage to Augusta over this wire brought a posse of citizens from that place who joined several other posses hastily formed here and Immediately started In pumilt of the hand |