Show SUPPOSED ROBBERS OF BANK ON TRIAL Battle on Towns Town's Outskirts Characterizes Arrests ROA ROANOKE OJE Va Dec 20 William O. William Porter and Charles Carter captured by Roanoke police In Jn the tho early morning of oC N November vember 19 a few hours after acter the Bank Dank of Glasgow Va Ya was robbed of in Liberty bonds and securities were placed on trial here today In a pitched battle on the outskirts of Roanoke James B. B Rodgers Hodgers or ot Philadelphia driving IV a largo tO touring louring m etO rela automobile w was killed t by the e police I and his companions Porter who bears the aliases atlases of oC William Welsh and Bell Bell- fontaine Slim and Carter whose alias is Charles Wilkes were arrested Much of the loot was found In the automobile The police had been In Informed Informed informed In- In formed of ot the robbery by the Glasgow bank officials at 3 1 o'clock in the morning mornIng morning morn morn- ing and immediately set watch on the three e roads from that place When Intercepted on one of the roads an hour later the automobile was goIn going going go go- In ing at high speed and turned turtle when an effort was made to swerve around the police pollee patrol which had been placed d across the road In the battle which followed Rodgers was killed and a policeman wounded About fifty shots were exchanged between the authorities and the bandits Inthe Inthe In Inthe the automobile was found a I quart flask of ot nitroglycerine carefully packed In cotton in a wooden box Although all the loot was Identified as belonging to the Glasgow bank local police maintained that the men were responsible for Cor robberies In Virginia North Carolina Georgia and Tennessee In addition to the valuables tho the three men had about 1600 in cash Half Hal of this thin was found on Porter on his second second second sec sec- ond day in Jail when he refused to tei take a a. bath Baltimore authorities claim to have Identified Porter as a of twenty vears years years' standing who ho was arrested arrested arrested ar ar- rested there by federal postal Inspectors Inspectors tors In 1909 Carter told the police his real name is Wilkes and Rave Jave Petersburg Pe Pe- Va as his home The Identity identity iden Iden- of or Rodgers remains a a. mystery al although although al- al though scores of people viewed his I body The only clue colue the police have Is Isa isa isa a statement of Porters Porter's that Rodgers i told him his name was Beale Porter added that he knew Rodgers only a I I week before the Glasgow robbery Bank officials and others have interviewed Interviewed inter Inter- viewed the men in jail here but failed to obtain any Information connecting I them with any other than the Glasgow robbery It was thought they might have been implicated in the robbery of the Bank of Mineral Va when more than worth of Liberty bonds I and other securities were taken and the Landisville Pa bank robbery in I which three men overpowered the watchman and took I |