Raleigh, Aug. 29—An attempt to rob the large vault of the Wachovia Bank and Trust company, recently opened in this city, was frustrated shortly after midnight last night when the electric burglar alarm did its work on time and frightened off three men, who used a high powered automobile in fleeing the scene. Beyond three and four indentions around the combination lock of the vault, no damage was done inside or outside the bank.
The county officer trailed the three men he saw enter the automobile after coming from an alley at the bank, but he lost them about a mile from town.
The trio had their hats pulled down over their faces. One touch of the door to the vault was sufficient to start the electric burglar alarm on the outside of the building.
From the front page of the Twin City Sentinel, Winston-Salem, Aug. 29, 1922
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