Headline News: Citizens Bank of Campti Robbed, Natchitoches Parish Louisiana
Source: Natchitoches Times April 8, 1921
Submitted By: Kay Thompson - Brown




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CITIZENS BANK OF CAMPTI ROBBED
April 8, 1921

People passing the Citizens Bank of Campti, before banking hours on Monday
morning noticed the door open but thought that the janitor was cleaning up and
it was only when the officials arrived that it was found that the bank had
been robbed during the night.

Taken was $298.45 in cash and about $100.00 worth of jewelry were taken as the
burglars failed to open the safe. The vault door was blown off and the small
amount of cash taken from a shelf and jewelry from safety boxes in the vault.
Evidently the burglars were afraid that the noise of the explosion had aroused
the town as they did not open the safe and so missed $20,000 worth of Liberty
Bonds and other securities in the bank's safe.

Three strangers seen in Campti on Sunday but who were missing on Monday are
supposed to have been the robbers. Two Campti boys who passed the bank just
before two o'clock on Monday morning noticed three men near the bank but it
was too dark to get a good look at them.

Sheriff J.W. Payne was notified and went to the scene of the robbery but no
clue to the robbery has been found.

A peculiar instance was the finding that the bloodhound in the jail yard here
had been poisoned Sunday night and it is thought that the thieves put the
hound out of the way before robbing the bank.