 iThe Howe Enterprise March 6, 1980 pg. 1 HOWE STATE BANK ROBBED A white male in his 20's entered the Howe State Bank Tuesday afternoon, March 4, at approximately 2:45 just minutes before the 3 p.m. closing time and demanded money from note teller Nancy Eisenhut. The man, wearing a blue toboggan cap pulled over his brown hair and rolled up just over the eyes, left after he received an undetermined amount of money. He was described as having a thin brown mustache on The Howe Enterprise Thursday, December 11, 1980 pg. 1 NO SUSPECTS IN BANK ROBBERY Lawmen still have no no suspects in the November 18 robbery at the Howe State Bank in which nearly $2,500 was stolen, reported the Sherman Democrat Friday. Nor can authorities pin an earlier Howe robbery or a 1977 robbery of Tom Bean First National Bank on any suspect. In the November 18 Howe robbery, a woman handed a teller a note demanding bills placed the money in her purse and fled the scene at 12:25 p.m. More than 20 photographs of possible suspects have been shown to witnesses, but none can identify the woman, say Grayson County Sheriff Jack Driscoll and FBI agent Ken Sims. More than a dozen "tips" have been called in to the authorities and they are all being checked out, but so far nothing has come up. The FBI is comparing the note used in the robbery in their files to see if the robbery is related to others. The woman bandit is described as about 26, 5'5", blond streaked brown hair and weighing 125 pounds. Howe State Bank also lost $8,100 on March 5 when a young man robbed a teller at gunpoint. The man had a baby-face with a neatly trimmed mustache, stood about 6 feet tall and weighed about 175. Authorities have been unable to connect that earlier robbery with others in Texas and elsewhere. A major obstacle in the investigation of the Howe robberies is the vague descriptions of the robbers and their getaway vehicles, Driscoll said. In both robberies, witnesses provided conflicting accounts of the getaway vehicles and no license numbers were available. Witnesses told Howe Police Chief Tom Griffith they saw a woman fitting the robber's description get into a dark blue van. Another witness saw someone dressed the same get into a white van. Driscoll said the description fit many people and there is nothing distinctive to set the robbers apart. The FBI's investigation of the February 6, 1977 Tom Bean bank robbery, in which $6,500 was taken is "inactive." Sims said. In the robbery two masked men entered the First National Bank carrying rifles and forced bank officials to hand over the money. Their getaway car was found abandoned on a dirt road about 5 miles southwest of the bank. Howe History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |