LIKE MOVIE DRAMA.
PLUCKY BANK GIRL DEFIES
BANDITS
BOUND AND GAGGED.
WINNIPEG, June 3.
A bank robbery like a movie drama occurred at 3 o'clock this morning at Yorkton, a small town on the Saskatchewan, 100 miles from Regina. . ' .'■ Miss Emma Lindolum, the Dank cashier, was suddenly awakened by three men, who compelled her to walk in her night "attire and unlock the bank next door to her hoardinghouse. She had the keys of the -jioor, but stoutly declared that she did'not know tho safe combination. They then bound and gagged her, and threw; her into a corner. They blew the safe, but failed to smash the* lock, and, fearing interference following the explosion, fled. ..." The building caught fire, and the girl nudged herself along the. flood_ with her heels, dragging her body an inch at a time until she reached the door and rolled down the front steps. She was senseless when rescued. The building was destroyed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17056, 10 June 1926, Page 7
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