UTAH BANK ROBBER KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 166, 16 July 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)

UTAH BANK ROBBER KILLED.

SHOT BY A POSSE WHILE SUEHOUNDED IN A CANYON.

Springville, a town of 3,000 inhabitants, in Utah' county, fifty miles south of Salt Lake City, was the scene of a bank robbery on May 27th. Within an hour one bandit was dead and another a £}risoner, while all the money stolen was recovered.

During- those sixty minutes the citizens of the quiet little town had armed themselves, taken the chase, and run ■ down the bandits, one of whom was killed in an encounter'that ensued. The dead man is supposed to be Jack Moore, while the captive has been positively identified as I. Maxwell. Both are members of the 'Robbers' Eoost' gang.

Governor Wells several months ago placed a reward of $500 on the heads of both men, who were charged with various crimes.

Soon after 10 o'clock on the morning two men entered the Springville bank and engaged A. O. Packard, the assistant cashier, in • conversation. Packard was alone. They haggled with Packard for a time regarding the cashing- of an order they had been given for a night's lodging. Packard's attention was distracted for a moment, and when he looked out oi the cage again two big revolvers were pointed at his head. Maxwell held the pistols. Moore walked behind the counter and scooped into an outside pocket all .the money lying on the cashier's desk. There was about $3,000 in the various piles of gold, silver and currency. Moore took it all, even to the rolls of small change. Then he turned, without giving a glance at the vault, in which was over $30,000, -and walked back to the outer door.

In the meantime Maxwell had backed slowly to the door, all the time keeping both guns levelled on Pack-, aid. Both robbers disappeared from the building together, jumped into, a buggy, and went toward the 'Kobbers' Boost' country. •

Packard immediately rang an electric burglar alarm with which a num> ber of Springville houses are connected, and in a few minutes a dozen men fully armed and well mounted were at the bank.

So swift was the pursuit that the two robbers were forced to take to the brush near the mouth of the canyon, two miles up. which two horses, saddled and bridled, were later found picketed.

Soon 100 men were at he mouth of the canyon. Georg-e Packard was crawling stealthily through the brush when he came squarely iipon Maxwell. His double barrelled gun was upon the bandit in a flash, and the latter surrendered without a murmur. Over $2,000 dollars was found on him.

The other robber was soon 16cated. He opened fire upon the posse, wounding William Allen, a blacksmith, shattering his leg between the knee and hip. As Allen fell he returned the fire, and brought down the bandit, who also received a shot from Daniel Crandall's. gim.j He was shot three times, the last fatally, in the lungs, and soon expired. In the dead man's pockets was found the balance of the stolen gold.