Henry Starr and the Bank of Seligman Robbery

I've previously written on this blog about notorious outlaw/bank robber Henry Starr. One time I gave more or less an overview of his criminal career, and another time I focused on the 1893 train robbery near Pryor Creek, Oklahoma, which he was involved in. In the overview, I mention the robbery of the Bank of Harrison, Arkansas, in February 1921, during which Starr was mortally wounded. However, Starr was also involved in another bank robbery just a couple of months earlier, a crime I have not previously mentioned on this blog. 
About 10 a.m. of Dec. 20, 1920, a Marmon 6 automobile pulled to a halt in front of the Bank of Seligman. Two men got out and went into the bank, while a third stayed behind the wheel of the vehicle. Several people were on the street at the time, but nothing about the appearance of the men or the car aroused suspicion. Once the two men were inside the bank, though, one of them drew a revolver and ordered everybody to “Put ’em up!” Meanwhile, the other man looted the vault and the cash drawer, securing a little over $1,200, mostly in currency. The robbers ordered bank cashier Walter Stapleton, bookkeeper Lawrence Chapman, and patron F. W. Frost into the vault and closed the door on them. The two bandits then walked leisurely out of the bank to the awaiting getaway car. The Marmon sped away to the south toward Eureka Springs. 
Inside the vault, Stapleton went to work extricating himself and his fellow captives. He had recently read an account of a bank robbery in which a cashier had been locked inside a vault, and Stapleton had studied his own vault’s lock at that time to ascertain if and how one might be able to open it from the inside. His preparation proved worthwhile, because he was able to free himself and his companions in less than five minutes and give an alarm.
Stapleton described the apparent leader of the robbers as a dark complexioned man, who wore colored glasses, stood about six feet tall, and walked with erect posture. The second man, according to Stapleton, was blond, stood about five feet, eight inches, and appeared nervous. Neither man wore a mask, and Stapleton said he could easily identify either one.
After the alarm was given, a posse quickly organized and pursued the bandits about nine miles southeast of Seligman, where the burning Marmon was found at the foot of a steep embankment. Apparently the robbers had run the auto off the cliff intentionally and escaped to the hills on foot. Deputies followed the trail of the bandits into the woods but lost the track after about two miles.
A bank association of which the Seligman bank was a member offered a reward of $300 each for capture of the holdup men. Lee Ahl, from Galena, Kansas, was arrested on suspicion at Tulsa and brought back to Barry County in mid-January of 1921. Ahl had also been arrested on suspicion of robbing the Bank of Sarcoxie in January of 1920 and was out on bond when he was arrested on the Seligman charge. At his preliminary hearing, though, he was released for lack of evidence, and the Sarcoxie charge against him was soon dropped as well.
After notorious robber Henry Starr was mortally wounded in a botched holdup attempt in Harrison, Arkansas, in mid-February of 1921, Cashier Stapleton traveled to Harrison and identified Starr as the leader of the gang that had robbed him. In addition, Starr made a deathbed confession admitting that he and two sidekicks had pulled off the Seligman job.