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'''November 19, 1926 Spokesman-Review Page 2:'''
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[[file:1926-11-19-sr-p2-swift-justice-for-bank-robbery.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]'''Swift Justice for Bank Thugs.'''

DAVENPORT, Wash, Nov, 16.—Justice
overtook two of the robbers
who held up the Reardan Farmers’
State bank yesterday, 24 hours after
the crime. Pleading guilty, James
Kelly and Robert Williams this
afternoon were sentenced by Superior
Judge Joseph Sessions to 10 to 26
years In the state penitentiary,

Meantime “Blacky,” third of the,
bandit trio, is leading Deputy Sheriff
Ray Kurtz and a posse of 12 on a wild
chase north of Reardan. A telephone
report from Kurtz to Prosecutor J.
H. Johnston here tonight said the
posse had located the spot where
Blacky slept Monday night, and it is
believed the fugitive is heading
northwest in timber along the
Spokane river, north of Davenport.

Ranchers in the river district have
been warned. The convicted bandits
declared Blacky was lightly clad, and
officers think hunger and cold will
force him to surrender before
morning. They have patrolled all
highways and side roads all day, and say
Blacky could not have reached Spokane,
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