Lincoln Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, December 18, 1933

Barry, Ill., Dec. 18. - AP – The First National Bank of Barry was held up this morning by four men. Loot was estimated at from $6,000 to $7000. Cashier Orvie Williamson was kidnapped and released a mile out of town.”

Moberly Monitor, Moberly, Missouri Friday Evening, January 19, 1934 page 1 Posses and Bank Robbers in Gun Fight Near Quincy
Quincy, Ill., Jan. 19. AP – Lawrence P. Bonfoey, chief of the State Aviation Commission, took off with a pilot and two policemen armed with rifles this afternoon to lead the hunt for five men who had robbed the State Bank of Girard.The robbers had been chased more than 100 miles by two posses of deputy sheriffs and were last reported near Basco, in Hancock county, whither they had sped after several running gun battles with officers QUINCY, Ill., Jan. 19 (AP) – Posses and bank robbers engaged in a hundred-mile running gun battle over the highways of western Illinois today after the bandits had robbed the State Bank of Girard. Pike County deputies under Sheriff Ivis Johnson cornered the robbers in the hills to the north.Surrendered by officers, the desperadoes shot their way out of the trap and reached the highway at Plainville, in Adams County. None of the officers was wounded, but they reported the small speedy sedan of the bandits was peppered with their bullets.Heading north the robbers reached Coatsburg, where they were fired on by Adams County deputies who had been warned of their approach. The chase went on, with two posses now in pursuit, to Camp Point and then to Golden, where the officers under Sheriff Johnson and Sheriff James Jacobs of Adams County and several Quincy policemen again fired on the fleeing men.The chase from Golden was northward toward Carthage.Three bank robberies have occurred in this part of Illinois in the last few weeks and the route of escape into the hills north of Barry was the same used by the robbers who held up the First National Bank of Barry. The automobile with red wire wheels, was believed to have been the same one used by the Barry bandits. There were five men in the gang that robbed the Girard bank of an estimated $5,000. They carried submachine guns and pistols.

The Evening Tribune, Albert Lea, Minnesota, Saturday, January 20, 1933 page 1
POSSE OF 250 BATTLES WITH FIVE BANDITS
Gang That Shot Way Through Police Three Times After Girard, Ill., Holdup, Captured - $3,000 in Loot Found.

Quincy, Ill., Jan. 20
Five youths, two of them wounded, were captured Friday night on a farm near Basco, Ill., after a furious gun battle with a posse of nearly 250 peace officers seeking the five men who earlier Friday robbed the State bank of Girard of between $2,000 and $5,000.