Forwarded from the Iowa list as tells what became of bank robbers sent last week. Jan Nelson Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:10:06 -0600 From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <labaths@celticcousins.net> Subject: [IOWA] Happenings in Iowa Jan 27, 1904 To: <iowa@rootsweb.com> Emmetsburg Democrat Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa Wednesday, January 27, 1904 HAPPENINGS IN IOWA Robber Reveals Plunder. Before leaving for the penitentiary, Abner Hicks, one of the four robbers of the Quimby bank, piloted the officers to a haystack where the robbers had cached $70,000 worth of notes and securities taken from the bank, Dec. 16. Of the $3,300 in money stolen all has been recovered except $400. Just thirty-five days from the night of the robbery the four self-confessed robbers, Hicks, Dunning, Wicks and White were in the penitentiary to serve seven years each. ................................................................... Quimby Bank Robbers Sentenced. The Quimby bank robbers, Charles White, John Wicks, Elmer Dunning and Abner Hicks, pleaded guilty at Cherokee and were sentenced to seven years in prison at hard labor. The men seemed utterly indifferent. ***********************************

> .The article in the Qimby Anniversary book said-- "....the four men had been very quite and peaceful (in the county jail) until they received their sentences, .....opened up the batteries on Tuesday and the quiet of the jail was changed to something akin to pandemonium. .........they did so in language that would not look well in print. White was the most savage of the quartet. He was sore at Dunning and Hicks for being captured and getting them all into it." "Just think of it, he (White) shouted, "All captured and in a little country jail." > --so they weren't "completely" indifferent!!!! > Quimby Bank Robbers Sentenced. > > The Quimby bank robbers, Charles White, John Wicks, Elmer Dunning and > Abner > Hicks, pleaded guilty at Cherokee and were sentenced to seven years in > prison at hard labor. The men seemed utterly indifferent. > > *********************************** > > > PLEASE CHECK EACH OF YOUR SUBJECT LINES! > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WHITE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >