BANK ROBBER’S STORY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9100, 20 March 1908, Page 7

BANK ROBBER’S STORY.

Jackson, Miss., U.S.A., Jan. 19. A strange confession ■was made to-day to Mr A. F. Thomason, president of the National Bank of Mattie bn ri?, by James Harper and W. T. Smith, expert safe blowers, brought back from Seattle, where they were caught after a long search by Federal and private officers. ‘Harper says the bank president walked in his sleep. He and Smith watched the bank for several nights, he says, and frequently saw Thomason enter, noing his door key. They never supposed that bo was not in full possession of hie senses until they caught glimpses of him under electric light with eyea closed and hands extended creeping over a muddy crossing. Then, (jjthe safeblowers oay, they conceived a plan to enter the bank with Thomason and to gag him if he came ont of the trance. They declare that Thomason gave them the combinirition to the safe, whore they got the money, and that they loft Thomason asleep in the bank.