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Show ; NITROGLYCERIN i USED TO WRtCK - COLORADO BANK Robbr Loot IntUution . Near Denver and Make j" Way With Twelve Thou-j Thou-j and in Curencjr, Bonds : NIGHT MARSHAL IS BOUND AND GAGGED Four Bandit Are Alleged to Have Pulled Off Affair; Citizen Is Shot in Leg by One of the Raiders ' DENVER, Colo.. May 1 (Ry A. P.) i After firing nine shots of nitroglycerin. i which practicaiy wrecked the frame building of the First National bank at I.afayette, fifteen miles from here. 1 early this morning, bandits escaped . 1 with approximately 112,000 In currency :k and Liberty bonds. , 1 Oeorge Stubbs, night marshal, who i was found tied and gagged In an allev, "j declared he was set upon by four men 1 about 1 o'clock and overpowered. J O. C. Alderson. one of the many 3 residents awakened by the blasts, se'a-Ing se'a-Ing his rifle, attempted to rut off the escape of the yeggmen, but waa shot In the leg end wounded, a The last of the nitroglycerin blssts a waa ao heavy that the huge door of 1 the vault waa blown through the plate I glaas window of the bank and across ; the street. The robbers worked in darkneaa having shot out the light In front of the hank building and were unln- ; terrupurd, having cut all the tele- , phone wires leading out of the city. J. M. Mahaney, a lineman, spread the alarm which brought a flying nuadron of police from this placee. . j when he climbed a telephone pole and, T - picking up tha connection, cut into the I penver office. . j All roads leading Into Denver have i tteen blocked by tha police. i ;ranqer take charge. t At o'clock this morning, Colorado , rangers -took charge of the hunt for 'the bandits, but It was believed ths men had made a clean get-away. After overpowering the marshal, binding him with ropes snd blindfold-Inr blindfold-Inr him, the bandits walked their prisoner around town, slgxagglng back and forth until he did not know where he was. The bandits finally kicked him over on the ground in the alley in . the rear of the bank, leaving one of their number to stand guard while the others forced an entrance to the bank building. ' BLASTS WRECK BANK, t The first blast to force an entrance a to the vault and the two cages In the gf bank was fired at 1:10 o'clock. The p others followed In rapid succession. Having wrecked the Interior of the hank, the robbers gathered up their Vliwt, consisting of 17000 In cash and 16000 worth of Liberty bonds, and fled. The hank Is owned by Arthur snd lrry Maroney of Denver. Only a few weeks ago It took over the Farmers' Farm-ers' tttalo bank of LaFayette. The bank was capitalised at 126.000, but waa one of the largest banking institutions insti-tutions in northern Colorado, its deposits de-posits frequently running above the $200,000 mark. Third Party of Triangle Surrenders BOSTON, Mass., May I. An all night search for Edmond Pitlock of Chicago by police investigating thel fatal shooting of William B. Hubbard, I manufacturer of a vegetable germicide, : by Mra Carrie N. Hubbard, his wife, at their Rosltndsle home late yesterday, yester-day, ended today when Pitlock surrendered surren-dered at police headquarters for examination. ex-amination. The shooting was said by Mra. Hubbard to have followed threats bv her husband on her return from a ' walk with Pitlock. The latter had gone when police came. Mrs. Hubbard, who Is 45, told the police po-lice tha she fired at her huahand after he had turned remarks agalnat Pitlock to herself, making innuendoes which she. resented, and making an advance to attack her. Pitlock, 21 years old. a naval veteran under treatment at a hospital here, ha.1 been a guest at the Hubbard home from time to time before he returned aeveral fT months ago to his wife and child at k Chicago. Visiting Boston again for medical attention, he was invited by the Hiihhards to stay at their home and had been a gueet there four days. Mrs. Hubbard said she and Pitlock went walking In the Orborway for two hours yesterday and when they returned re-turned home, found her husband awaiting await-ing them in an angry mood. Mra. Hubbard pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder and waa held without with-out bail for the grand Jury. Investigating Many Disappearances CHICAOO, May 1 The ramifications ramifica-tions incident to the diaappearance of Henry Vette'a 190.000 has the attention of the state's attorney's office today. A II. 000.000 corpora Ion promotion and the sale of stock In a large Chicago department de-partment store are among the Incidents Inci-dents to be Investigated, along with A. L. Salsman, A. O. Schwartx, C. F. Mayer and one Pastel, the four men charged by Vetta with being Implicated In the deal. Love Triangle . Ends in Death PLACERV1LLE, Cel.. May 1 Wll-liam Wll-liam Cooper, blackemlth. and R. F. Bar-(Contlnued Bar-(Contlnued on page 1.1 NITROGLYCERIN (CVntlnued from page 1.) nett are dead and Jamea B. nark ley, brother-in-law of Cooper, la seriously wounded as the result of a shooting affray at t'aldor, near here, yeaterday. Harnett, who Is said to have shot and killed Cooper and later wounded Hark-ley, Hark-ley, sent a bullet through hie own herd aa Sheriff Klmer K. Hand approached to arrest him. (Sheriff Hand declared that events leading up to the tragedy revealed a love triangle. Harnett was married. |