Millard County Chronicle | 1911-09-28 | Page 5 | Clerk Turns Bandit

CLEilMMlIT SALT LAKER HOLDS UP BANK AND SHOOTS HIMSELF WHEN CORNERED BY POLICE. Win and Women Cause Downfall of Young Man, Who Attempt Desperate Des-perate Ventur With Determination Determi-nation to Win or Die. Salt Lake Clty.-Ollver W. Harvey, Har-vey, aged 3.1 and married, walked Into the Utah Commercial and Bavins Bav-ins bank at 2:30 Tucaduy afternoon, and at the point of a revolver compelled com-pelled the teller to hand him out $1,-000 $1,-000 In blila. After securing the money, Harvey ran out of the bank and down the' street, warding off pursuers with his. revolver until cornered tn an alley, when ho turned the weaKn upon hlmaelf and aent a bullet through bla head, lie waa taken to a hospital, hos-pital, hla death being momentarily expected. That Harvey Intended to kill hlmaelf hlm-aelf If the robbery waa not uecesa-f uecesa-f ul waa made plain In a letter found In hla pocket. The cIihho waa witnessed by hundreds hun-dreds of peraona. many of w hom participated. par-ticipated. When Harvey aunt hlmaelf hlm-aelf behind the ear aa lie mood In the alley the crowd waa ao thick that he could not have got much farther had he continued hla race for liberty. Harvey waa formerly employed aa a clerk In the grocery department of the Z. C. M. I. Last aununer he commenced com-menced treading the prlmroae pnth; ho loat hla poHltlon and began paas-lug paas-lug around bad check. Wine and women are aitld to have been hla downfall.