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Show ATTEMPT TO ROB BANK Trio of Robbers Hold Citizens at Bay While They Dynamite the Safe; Secure Only $15 Oakland. April 5 Three of five men who attempted to rob the bank of Alvarado. held a number of men at bay early today while two others set off six charges of dynamite Aroused by the first of seven explosions explo-sions the townspeople rushed to the bank only to be confronted bj re-voiers re-voiers and awed Into inaction while the work cif attempting to loot the bank continued The dynamite failed to shatter the vault, in which was $l'7.inu and the roidK?rs obtained only $ifi They drove back tho citizens and escaped in an automobile. Alvarado is seventeen miles from here and the robbers obtained a sood start before the sheriff and posse could begin pursuit. |