Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-04 | Page 1 | Cashier Fatally Shot in Defending His Bank

oo CASHIER FATALLY SHOT IN DEFENDING HIS BANK MITCHELL, S. D.. Feb. 4. R. G. St ipleton, aged 35. assistant cashier of tho Corona Stuto hank. Corona, S D., was fatally WOUndsd by a trio of band- - I Its shortly before 12 o'clock Thursday when he att-mpled to defend the hank's money. Staple-ton. who was HBs found some time after tho shooting by a customer of the bank, lay dylnt near HHJ 'the front droop, his gun hitched in hi HBl hand and bullet wounds in the hue ; HBs of his heck and the back of his head. HHl He was rushed to a drug store, but HBl lived only long enough to say that' ho HHl ha'l been hold up. He was iSjuhle to give a description of the robbers who BHJ iiad an hour's start on their pursuers. HBs An examination of the bank's cash HBl revealed about $501) in cash missing. HBl The bandits apparently made no effort HBl to reach the vaults. oo :HrH