Show seven western blanks banks robbed in day I 1 M FENCER IND for two hours houra 1 this town was in the hands of a 0 S i baud band of robbers who threw a cordon of guards guarda on every road loading lending out of tile the town cut nil all electric light telephone find and telegraph wires find and after wounding two citizens who attempted to interfere lols arely robbed tile the first national bank and the exchange state bank about daybreak the outlaws numbering between 15 and 20 took they had collected from tho the banks climbed into four automobiles find and drove away toward indianapolis A blast of nitroglycerin used in one of the bank vaults i wakened several citizens who ran into the streets to learn the cause but were driven back into their homes by a volley from the bandits on guard frank gray a see sec ond hand dealer and J A barge a bilker baker were slightly wounded st louls louis four armed bandits robbed the park savings backan bank in tile the southwestern part of the city of 2380 find and escaped in an automobile three employees employee s were compelled to lie on the floor as the quartette scooped UP lip the money new ulm glnn five robbers wo vi blow tho the vault in tile klosser bank four miles north of here ev e cabled with 1300 in currency and diver and 1200 in liberty bonds the robbers used four charges vt of nitro glycerin to blow the inner door winona Wl nona alinn ll robbers obbera blew the th vault of the first national beli ot mabel near here find and escaped with about 1000 in silver after isolating the town by cutting till all telephone and telegraph wires oklahoma city okla the state bank at bethany six miles west of here was robbed by three men who ho drove up in it a large roadster forced the cashier anto nto the vault and ami escaped with an undetermined amount of loot groton S D three bandits hold held up three employees in tho first national bank here at 3 p ni and cole a sack containing in currency and liberty bonds and an unknown sum of loose cui cu rency trency and coin |