The front page of the Wilkes-Barre Record, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 15 March 1901, featured a story on the Halifax Bank Robbery that took place the day before in Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
The headline reads:
A CASHIER MURDERED
Work of Young Desperadoes Near Harrisburg
Two Young Men Enter a Bank at Harrisburg and on the Refusal of Cashier John Scott [sic] to Hand Over the Cash He is Shot Through the Groin
Murderers Captured By a Posse
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Front page from Newspapers.com.
See also: Halifax Bank Robbery.