Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-01-19 | Page 4 | Armored and Robbers

ARMORED ND ROBBERS Almost daily dally the dispatches car car- carry ry 27 a 5 story of o banditry from some poInt In the tates Two wt eks ago the news was from Salt Lake L e Then two or three eastern clUes lad had their battle with thugs Yesterday the Railroad National bank at Calif was rob rob- ted rob ted Then followed fallowed a wild ride by the robbers In an autom automobile In their efforts to escape Pursued by officers the bandits made a fight but were at a disadvantage because the automobile which v as 88 speeding after them was an n armor armor- armored armored armored ed police car from Sacramento and the officers carried shotguns load loaded ed with buckshot the battle ended one ot 01 the robbers had been killed and two filled with buckshot proTes proves proves This the value of o the armored car and the necessity If If having officers equipped to meet the gunmen men Once more the ex cx- cx convict ex-convict convIct plays his part In a des des- desperate des way Two of the men at least hive have h penitentiary rec records One of ot them had bad been four Umes convicted of o bank robbery It becomes necessary to urge on boards of pardon that they pro pro- proceed teed with great caution in considering considering ering Eling the tho application for tor parole of whose records indicate they are hopelessly criminal Men do donat donot donot not nat become bank bank robbers going armed to kill until their mInds have been filled with base bue thoughts and they have lost all sense of ot right and wrong They Theyo o out to rob resolved on murder It If necessary No man gets Into that frame o of mind In a a day and andance once ance he ho has hu arrived at that point he is hardened and calloused In all his thinking While W was excited over Its Ita bank robbery Franklin puk prk a suburb of af Chicago was ex cx- cx ex a similar robbery with tour leur thugs engaged In the work foreign People In foreign lands reading of the robberies and in this country must must hank aC o us much as we have bought of af Mexico or even China Its ita banditry