Volume 17 , Issue 34

1892, Spearville Kansas Bank Robbed

It was Wednesday morning, 2 November 1892, that we read in "The Wichita Daily Eagle, out of Wichita, Kansas, about the "Spearville Bank Robbed By Masked Bandits." The cashier was covered with revolvers and compelled to shell out the cash on hand. The thieves followed by a posse, but managed to escape with their booty after a running fight.

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Dodge City, Kan., 1 Nov. 1892 -- Three masked robbers came into the Spearville bank, fifteen miles east of Dodge City, Kansas, and entered the Spearville bank. They confronted J. L. Baird, the cashier, with revolvers,a nd took all the money they could secure, something more than a thousand dollars. After the robbery they fled in a southeasterly direction, but were quickly pursued by men well armed, with he expectation that they would be captured near the river.

Robbers Escape

Spearville, Kan., 1 Nov. 1892 -- About 2 o'clock this afternoon two men entered the Ford County bank at this place and, with drawn revolvers, robbed cashier Baird of $1,700. In their haste the robbers overlooked another large sum in the vault. A confederate held their horses while the two robbers entered the bank. As the robbers ran out of the bank and jumped into their saddles a party of hunters came along, and learning of the bold robbery, opened fire on the thieves. The robbers returned the fire. About fifteen shots were exchanged, but no one was hit on either side.

The three robbers rode south, but were soon overtaken by a mounted posse, who started in pursuit. Another running battle ensued, in which many shots were exchanged, but the robbers managed to escape. It is not known whether any of them were wounded or not.

One of the robbers was a medium sized man with a two weeks' growth of sandy beard and wore dark clothes and a white hat. Another was a young man, small in size, with dark complexion, and small, dark mustache and dark eyes. The third was of medium size, rather young, with a dark mustache, dark clothes and a light hat. They rode away on medium sized horses, one a bay, one a sorrel and the other of cream color with dark mane and tail and a dark stripe along the back.

A reward of $450 was offered by the owners of the bank for the capture of the men. The bank was one of several banks owned by Soule & Munsel.
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