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Unmasked Man Holds Up the Cashier at Jarbalo and Takes $1,262. OVERLOOKED $3,000 IN CASH Official's Ruse Worked Successfully and Currency and Gold was Saved from Bandit. More than $3,000 in gold and currency was overlooked by an unmasked robber who entered the only bank at Jarbalo, a little town sixteen miles west of Leavenworth, the other afternoon and escaped with $1,262 in company with two other men and a woman in a motor car. The man who committed the robbery was seen in town about four hourse previous to the deed. He arrived on a train from Topeka and spent the time walking quietly about the village. T. H. Moore, bookkeeper at the Jarbalo State Bank, noticed while he was cashing a check for a farmer that a man was looking through the window. When the farmer left the man walked calmly up to the cashier's window, reached to his inside coat pocket as though for a check and drew out a revolver. The weapon was flashed in the bookkeeper's face with the old order of "throw up your hands." Moore complied and when ordered to bring out all the money in the bank he went to the vault, bringing out two trays, containing $1,262 in gold and currency. The bookkeeper explained that the bank had enjoyed a heavy run and that there was no more money. The ruse worked. The robber ordered Moore into the vault. Both doors were shut on the bookkeeper, but the combination lock was not turned and he was able to free himself within ten minutes, when the alarm was spread. Shortly before the robber entered the bank Jarbalo citizens were shocked at the actions of a woman in company with two men driving into town in a motor car. All three were laughing, drinking and smoking cigarets. The motor car pulled up in front of the bank and stopped for a few minutes. It started on and waited only a block away until the third man joined with the loot. The car started south for Kansas City. Farmers Up in Arms.-The farmers in the northern part of Barton county are up in arms over the burning of several stacks of wheat on the W. W. Truxall farm, near Hoisington. Seven stacks of new wheat on the Truxall farm were burned, all catching fire about the same time. An investigation of the other stacks is said to have disclosed a wet rag in which some substance, probably phosphorus, was wrapped. The evidence has been turned over to the county authorities, but no arrests have been made. It is suspected that the work was done by ultra radical members of the I. W. W. who were run out of Hoisington the other day. Wild Auto Injures Four.-Miss Marie Pettit of Winfield was seriously injured and three other persons received painful injuries when a big automobile escaped control of the driver and backed through the gates at the entrance of Island park just as people were leaving the Chautauqua grounds. Bonds Declared Void.-The special election held at Olatthe on March 21, when $50,000 in bonds were voted by a big majority to erect or purchase an electric light plant, is void on account of a technicality in the wording of the ballot and a new election will have to be held should the city desire to vote on it again. * Killed by Fall.-Ralph L. Beasley, 22 years old, of Coffeyville, was instantly killed while working on a drilling rig about two miles south of there. He had climbed to the top of the rig to fix the machinery, when he fell, breaking his neck. * * Normal Girls as Nurses-Fifty-one girls of the state normal have joined a Red Cross class for nurses. The class, which will be taught by Dr. F. W. White of the department of physiology and hygiene, will follow directions prescribed by the American Red Cross. A Durham Boy Drowned.-Francis Keso, 18-year-old son of George Keso of Durham, was drowned in the Cottonwood river recently while in swimming. * c. M. Harger Re-elected.-C. M. Harger of Abilene was re-elected president of the Golden Belt Road Association at the annual meeting at Salina. George Stansfield of Topeka and Row L. Wood of Russell are vice presidents, and Frank Hageman of Salina, treasurer. * Woman Drowns Herself.-Miss Katherine A. Burke, 23 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burke of Mission township, Johnson county, drowned herself recently by jumping into the lake at Overland park. She had been in ill health. * * Motor Into Hayrack.-A motor car driven by J. R. Sanders of Summerville, crashed into a hay rack driven by Andrew Gile
