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Show ROBBERY AT I COpiE Whitney, the Desperado, - Enters Bank and Holds Up the Cashier COKEVILLE, Wyo.. SepL 11. The Cokovllle National bank of this place was entered by two masked men this afternoon and eight men who wero in tho bank at tbe time wero lined up along the wall and searched. Tho robbers secured about $500 in money and locked tho ofllcors of tho bank In the vault and escaped. Tho rObbera I wero last seen riding up Smith's Fork canyon. A posse of mounted mou have taken up tho chase. The robbery Is attributed to Hugh Whitney, the Idaho Ida-ho bandit, and his brother. It is claimed that the Whltneys have been about Cokovllle lately and they wore I charged with the theft of a string of horses on Thomas Fork a few days ago. A holdup of some character has ' been moro than half expected and tho 1 banks have kept most of their funda j under tight lock. Hugh Whitney has 1 not been beard from definitely since j he outrode and outmaneuvered huu- . dreds of possmon In Idaho last June. Ho was pursued for the murder of Conductor Kidd on a train near Spencer, Spen-cer, Idaho, while attempting to escapo from the custody of a deputy sheriff. In the saddle day and night for almost al-most a week with only a meal or two, he reached the mountains on the Idaho-Wyoming llnq and tho chase was given up. |