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Show NOTIERID OFTPOTO Bingham, April 25. At an early hour this morning no trace had been found of the daring oandlt who at noon yesterday walked Into the Cop-.perfield Cop-.perfield State bank and successful1 made away with nearly $4000 In gold and currency. A posse of county and local officers, headed by Sheriff John S. Corless, searched throughout the afternoon and evening, Inspecting hotels, room ing houses and other places where the man might hide. It is tho general opinion that the man Is still hiding in Bingham. The bandit walked Into the Ccpper-fleld Ccpper-fleld bank at 11:555 o'clock yesterday morning, when all tho employos had gone out to lunch except the cashier. A Walter Koehler. Mr. Koehler was jUBt completing a statement and was adding the figures "when the mar, stepped up to tho teller's w-1 low. I got a job today with the Utah Copper company," said the man, and am going to work next Monday. 1 want to open an account here. Holds Up Caahier. The cashier asked tho man to wait a moment, while he finished adding up t statement, and then turned back to his work. A second or two fnToand from that over tho railing ?nd into the banking room proper. He and inio " t fitand up and put ordered Koenier w i his hands behind ."o from I)IeCCl ? theSt bwloundtno0tlght-a bwloundtno0tlght-a pocket, .?. SSrfor'B wrists, and ly around the easier doQr r,Sc he wound Z other about his ankle. tho shades, aB Is the bank's custom when tho employes lock up and go out during tho noon lunch hour. He then returned and forced Koehler Into the rear room, putting a handkerchief in his mouth for a gag and binding it Into In-to place with a towel lie made tho cashier He down on the bed In tho back room and bound him to the bed with a sheet. Having rendered tho official helpless, help-less, tho bandit stopped into the vault, the entrance to which is off the back room. When he had helped himself to the cash he left tho place, and It was not until ten minutes later that Koehler was able to release himself. Alarm was immediately given, but there was no trace of the man, except that later In the day H. D. Batz said he saw two men, one of whom ho believed be-lieved answered tho robber's description, descrip-tion, walking down the canyon. 'C. C. Countryman, tho Bingham postmaster, came up the canyon a few minutes later, however, and said he saw no one. This led to the belle? that the man did not go very far down, but probably went into some previously prepared hiding place. oo |