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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
New York Times 09.20.1900
BANDITS ROB NEVADA BANK First National at Winnemucca Entered in the Daytime and $13,000 Taken.
WINNEMUCCA, Nev., Sept. 19 - The First National Bank was robbed of about $13,000 at noon to-day by three men, who entered the front door of the building, and with revolvers made all present throw up their hands.
There were five people in the bank at the time, Cashier Nixon, Assistant Cashier McBride, Bookkeeper Hill, Stenographer Calhoun, and a horse buyer named Johnson. The robbers threatened with instant death the first man who made a show of resistance. One bandit, at the point of a pistol, made Cashier Nixon open the safe and take from it three sacks of gold coin. They threw this into an ore sack, together with all the gold coin in the office drawer. The robbers then marched the five men out through a back door to an alley, where three horses were waiting. The men were kept covered with guns until the desperadoes mounted their horses and escaped.
The whole affair occurred in but five minutes. An alarm was quickly given and several shots were fired at the men as they sped through town, but without effect. The robbers returned the shots, but no one was hit. Officers and armed citizens have started in pursuit of the robbers, who took a course up river. A posse has also started from Golconda to head them off, and it is thought they cannot escape. (New York Times 09.20.1900)
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