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Show Woman's Story Leads To Arrest I Of Sheriff For Bnk Robbery HILLSBORO, Ills.. Jan. ; (By The Associated Press i Arrest of Sherifi .lohn Wilson and six other men in connection con-nection with the $31,000 robbery of the Panama State bank, resulted from the disclosures of a woman who Im- , plicated her own husband In the case. lit waa announced this morning by State's Attorney Ralmejr. Mrs Jerrv Brown, the state's attorney said, has J made a detailed statement of the use lof her home as a rendezvous by the, alleged robbers. She implicated her own husband. Mr Raimc-y announced and declaied she determined to tell, w hat she Knew after Mr. Brow n had j I used the money the robbers had )ven ; him to buy a new automobile and I "skip out." Six men not Including the sherifi of Montgomery county, met In her horu"! by previous agreement with her hus-! band, she said, and gavo him his pa) $700. Th? rest of the loot, according i to her statement, was divided intoj seven part", and one part 9 as fori Sheriff Wilson. When her husland took all the $700. bought an automobile automo-bile and left, she de ided to tdi every-1 thing. Sheriff Wilson was released on $10 -Ono bonds civen bv a farmer near Greenville The six other men under: arrest aie held In the county Jail here.) |