Coffeyville, Kan. Coolly, pleasantly and without interruption, two men, one Walter Tenant, the other believed to have been Henry Starr, entered the Citizen’s State Bank in Chautauqua, Kans., at nine o’clock Friday morning, locked Cashier Walterhouse and Del Essley in the vault, secured $3,000 in case, which had just been taken from the safe and laid o the counter sacked heir booty, walked calmly up the street to where their horses were hitched and rode out of town in the direction of the Osage hills in northern Oklahoma.

Thirty minutes later President J. H. Edwards reached the ban, unlocked the vault, liberated the banker prisoners and notified the authorities. A posse at once set out over mud-burdened roads in pursuit of the robbers. It is reported that the two men were surrounded in the hills fifteen miles south of Chautauqua but have not as yet been captured.

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