Newspaper Articles for Chase County, Kansas

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Chase County, Kansas

BLEW THE SAFE OPEN

Bank Robbers at Chase Secure About $2,000

Citizens Aroused by the Explosion and Give Chase - The Outlaws Surrounded but Elude the Pursuers

Sterling, Kan., Oct. 2 - Robbers blew open the safe in the bank at Chase, Kan., last night. About $2,000 is missing. Some of the money, currency, was destroyed by the explosion.

Two men suppose to have been the robbers were surrounded near Allen by citizens of Chase, who were aroused by the explosion.
The robbers escaped, however, in the darkness. (Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital, October 5, 1897)