Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1926, Page 20

NDITS RISK LIVES INESCAPE OVER ICE lee Over Rlver After Rob- bing Bank and Terrorizing lowa Town—Caught. By the Associated Pross OMAHA, Nebr., December 16.—Two brothers, one of whom confessed that the sked their lives by c-sheeted Missouri after they Jowa, citizen: Town and robi the ht. Modale men were wounded, neither seriously. in the shooting. The men, Dave and Broy Harding, 40 and 23, were arrested as they drove © rooming house in a taxicab, in which, police said, they found $3.151. Although Broy's confession ated the brother, Dave refused tatement. said the; ene of ‘crossed the escape and into Omaha, where They hired the cab. Full of Thrills. ‘The robbery and chase along the River lowlands in Towa and ska_were full of thrills. The 1wo robbers foiled the posses at al- nost every turn by their coolness and daring. Before they crossed the ice, they burned their stolen car and &hanged clothes. Volleys of shots Were the only answer of pursuit the dowa posses could give as the pair ®ntlertook their ‘hazardous journey $cross the ice, thin in places, into Nebraska. The holdup, in Sassman, bank Jackson, a passer wounded, likewise dramatic, The men left their car a short dis- tance from the bank. Sauntering across the street, they picked up Hi Sigler, who was passing, and forced him inside with them. With Carl Bair and B. Walch, bank patrons, Sigler was forced to stand against the wall, hands in air. Sassman was sitting at his desk. Shoving a gun &t him, one of the robbers ordered him to put up his hands. “You can't have it,” replied Sass- which Robert fer, and Taft were slightly was bold and SOCIETY (Continued from Fifteenth Page.) Ing, Mrs. C. J. Morris, Mrs. Wymong Bradbury, Miss C Osgood, Mr Virgil C. Miller, . George E: ment, Mrs. Ellen | Mary T By < Little Coffee I at 1718 I street, was opened yesterday | for afternoon when a number of | 1 1 riven. Mi Kelley of Detroit, who is | school in Washington, gave a num! nong them a “‘ja | toe dance,” which she was obliged to | “7} repeat. | tro Mme. Ekengren had as her guests Mrs. Lindsay Ru Mr. Wurt How and Mr. Walter Davidge, and among others entertaining were Mrs. Hewitt Welles, Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman, Mrs. Henry Flather, Mrs. J. A. Van |/ den Bosch, Mrs. Rushmore Patterson, [ | Mrs. Goring Bliss and Mlle. Heflmann. | dia S pr | Ke Maj. Borden Ordered Here. Maj. William B. Borden, Army Medi- cal Corps, at the Army General Dis- pensary, Baltimore, has been ordered to this city for duty in the office of the Surgeon General of the Army, Munitions Bullding. Births Reported The following_births have been reported to the Health Department i the last 24, elen Vermillion. ir.. girl J e . Horan, bos: boy. and Mary ¥ aiid Katherine A 1 W. and Vera M. Roberis. girl. E.and Katherine Jamieson, girl and Amy Becker; boy, Katharine rlemm( girl. e ma Ragterite. Wacker, boy. Hamy and Nellie Morris and o Filliam . And LTy & James and Irene Slater. Marriage Llcenscs. Vlzv‘na:e licenses have been issued to the 'o‘(“':“wl":: v.'nll‘k!l(ul u“g (l;‘:x \luld Byr‘)n(fl\l X On AN t«’:“.m.m..‘l‘i"" Miams. of “this city, and man. “Stick 'em up,” pulling the trigge the cashier’s head, to the floor. Opens Door of Safe. The robber persisted in his demand, again thrusting his gun at the wound- ed cashier, who got up, staggered to the safe and threw the door open. The men scopped up currency and bonds and ran out the door. In the street the robbers began firing widly, aiming at any pedestrian they happened to see. In the meantime, Arch Schul- meister, assistant cashier, who had been in the rear of the bank, ran from the back door through a \olle) of bullets from the robbers’ guns to & drug store to spread the alarm. Ed Drake, hardware merchant, perched himself atop his store and repeated the bandit, A bullet struck and he dropped fired at the bandits as they emerged | ital. from the bank. Several others by this time were &xchanging shots with the robbers. Jackson was shot in the thigh as he stepped from his car op- posite the bank. As the robbers drove away, Jess Middleton, a garage man, and Dean Strain, followe(' unarmed, in an au- tomobile. A posse organized quickly. At noon Middletown reported he had the robbers cornered in the lowlands and several posses of sheriffs and deputies from Omaha and Council Bluffs raced to the scene. Escape Over Ice. As the posse closed in the pair took to the ice ond escaped into Nebraska. In his confession, police said Broy stated he and his brother left Omaha Tuesday night, staying all night near Blair, Nebr. He said they went to Mo- dale yesterday morning and that he went into the bank while Dave stayed outside. “What did vou do when you Intr; the bank?” ’ i stuck them fellows up and got this money.” Broy replied. . = He admitted shooting while in the bank, but denied shooting after he came out. He then told how-they went al- rectly to the river, how he burned the automobile which he said was stolen in Omaha, and how they crossed to Nebraska and walked from Blair to Omaha, where they hired the taxicab. Broy insisted Dave was with him all lttl‘w (lmt(-, :;\dbsflld he gave all the oney to his brother wh out of the bank. ey Yellowstone National Park is not numbered among the seven wonders of the modern world, but it is included lmong the wonders of Americ For Christmas Snappy, up-to-date Cards at popular prices Hundrld- at 5¢, 10c ea. Harry C. Grove, Inc. 1210 G St. N.W. 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