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Show Girard Bank Mfced of $30,000 in Cash GIRARD, Alabama, Jan., 17. Four masked robbers held up officials and customers of the Phoenix-Glrard bank here and escaped with approximately $30,000 in cash and securities. A shot fired as a warning and the command of "hands up everybody" was given. One of the robbers statiouel himsolf by the door, another covered the cler ical force and the customers, while a third proceeded to loot the vaults of paper .njpney and-? sjpcuriyeB. The fourth robber, making his way into the private office of the, president of the bank, C. L. Mullins, commanded! him to throw up his hands or be shot.j Mullins refused and the assailant j clubbed his gun and struck at him. Miss Maude Bruce, a bank employe, warded off the blow. . The thieves then fled to an automobile automo-bile and escaped. Pursuit was begun immediately and a general alarm was spread throughout Alabama and Georgia. oo |