The Meeker Herald

Shut In a Bank Vault.

At 7:30 last Thursday morning two masked robbers got away with about $4,000, taken from the vault of the Dexter, Michigan, Savings bank, leaving O. C. Gregory, the assistant cashier, lying stunned inside the vault.

Mr. Gregory had just swept out the office and was carrying out the dust when he was confronted by a couple of masked men who poked revolvers in his face and threatened to blow out his brains if he uttered a cry. He was at once compelled to open the vault. The safe inside the vault is furnished with a time lock, but it had run down and, while one man held Mr. Gregory, the other seized the money in the drawer. Their next act was to knock Mr. Gregory senseless. Then closing the vault door upon the prostrate clerk, the men made their escape. H. W. Newkirk, the cashier, arrived at the bank at 8 o'clock. On opening the vault door he found his assistant stretched out on the floor apparently lifeless, and $3,000 missing. In a few hours Gregory recovered his senses. He says he was badly frightened when the robbers confronted him, but hoped the time-lock would save the cash. No suspicion is attached to Gregory.