BANKS Research by Tom and Judy Hotchkiss Oskaloosa Independent- January 14, 1893 The Perry Bulletin A Charter for a State bank at Perry was filed with the Secretary of State this week. The parties furnishing the capital are well known in this county and will make it a success. Oskaloosa Independent-January 28, 1893 Charles W. Huddleston was in Perry Tuesday, looking after the organization of the new State Bank at that place. The directors of the bank are J. F. Goepfert, Thos. Lee, J. L. Raines, Frank Stark, and J. M. Grinter of Perry, W. H. Huddleston of Oskaloosa, and A. Shoner of Newman. Mr. Goepfert was elected president, Mr. Lee vice president and Mr. Raines Cashier. The capital stock is $10,000, which will be all paid up when the bank opens for business, March 1st. This new company gives Perry what she needs-a good, substantial bank with reliable officers, and we have no doubt of its success from the start. We understand that Mr. Raines will devote his entire time to the bank that his brother George will carry on the merchandise business. Oskaloosa Independent-March 11, 1893 The Perry Bulletin The new State bank will soon be ready for business. The new bank building is to be built of brick with a metal roof. J. L. Raines, Esq., who is to be cashier of the new Bank of Perry, was in town Wednesday and until Thursday morning, and ordered half-a-dozen jobs of printing for the new institution-and he will get a fine class of work at low prices, too. Mr. R. tells us that the bank will begin business next Monday, and that ground was broken this week for the new building, which is to go up on the lot just west of Raines & Co.’s store. J. L. will make an excellent cashier, and the bank will be a success from the start, we predict. Oskaloosa Independent-December 24, 1897 The Perry Bulletin At the Perry bank burglary a week ago Wednesday night (December 15, 1897), the burglars got a little over $800. The vault and furniture were damaged some. The big safe was a complete wreck; the outer door and the door of the burglar (?) proof chest were twisted and torn all to pieces. The burglars broke open a U.P. Ry. Tool house and got a crow-bar with which they pried open the door of the bank building. The clock that hung over the vault door was taken down and laid on a desk. It stopped at about 1 o’clock. They drilled two holes through the vault door and threw the bolts with a punch. It is supposed that they drove wedges into the door of the safe and pumped nitroglycerine into it. The entire loss was fully covered by insurance and the bank did not stop business a day. The bank will now put in a time-lock bank safe. There is a suspicion that the men arrested here last Friday week and taken to Topeka and released for want of evidence had a hand in the Perry bank robbery. Perry Mirror-June 30, 1898 THE BANK ROBBER CAUGHT The Bank of Perry was robbed on the night of December 15, 1897, by John Daily, alias John Foley, with the assistance of two men and a boy. They blew the vault doors open with nitro-glycerin, and secured $1,047 of which amount Daily got the largest share. A Pinkerton detective was immediately detailed to hurt the robbers, and after a six month chase, “Black Jack” Daily has been run to earth in Evans, Colo., and was arrested by the city marshal of that town last Sunday, at the instance of the detectives. Evans is about thirty miles north of Denver. Since robbing the Perry bank he has had his hands in several big jobs in Kansas and Texas. He is 60 years old and has been a robber for thirty years, always with success, and spends his ill-gotten gains recklessly. County Attorney Howard Phinney and Sheriff George Hamm were down from Oskaloosa Monday morning to get out a warrant for the arrest of the Perry bank robber, John Daily, who is being held at Evans. Sheriff Hamm and Assistant Superintendent Tillotson of the Kansas City branch of the Pinkerton Agency left for Colorado the same day, with requisition papers and they are expected to return to Perry today with Daily, and the noted burglar will have his preliminary hearing before Squire Oliver tomorrow.
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