The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22
RUN. DOWN AT LAST.
ONE OF THE vANDALIA MUIR.
DERERS.

THE SEARCH IN THE swAMP-oN THE TRACK
-CAPTDRB OF BRIDGEMAN-THE ROBBERS
ENcAsED IN MAIL-No DOUBT ABOUT THE
NAN.
1t will be seen by the following extract
from the Terre Haute Gazette of Saturday
night that the search for the railroad mur-
derers hiss been so far successful
that one of them has been taken:
Detectives Hazen, of Cincinnati, and Loner-
gan and Thiel, of st. Louis, were employed
to work up the case i'm the interests of the
express and railroad companies. On the heels
of the murder began the arrests. Edmons
and Cochran, the saloon keepers, were first.
Since that time the arrests have averaged
two per day. North, south, east and west,
tramps, poor, miserable, harmless and worth.
less tramps. have been taken in With that
acuteness which detectives have for a stock
III trace, they soon succeeded in discovering
that the men they were ia search of (the two
men who jumped aboard the engine) had two
days before the murder gone west on the
Vandalia, and got off at the tank. 1t is said
n0w that it was their intention to rob the
west bound train. but the accOmplices failed
TO oe on time. These two men were closely
observed, by some accident on the part OF
the conductor, and the following
DESCRIPTION OBTAINED:
The first is 80 years old. feet inches high,
weighs about 15O or 160, light moustache and
chin beard, light complexion, sunken hazel
eyes wore, when last seen, dark pants and
vest, light linen coat and soft black hat. The
second is of the same age, 5 feet inches
high, weighs, 135 to las pounds, black hair,
slightly curly, keen black eyes, black
moustache and imperial; wore, when
last seen, dark pants and vest, long
With this description in hand the detectives,
amateur and professional, went to work
with vim. Step by step the robbers were
trailed from the spot where the attempt was
made to break into the car where they were
scared of by section hand near by, to their
wagon, thence through the woods
to Greenup. Here the trail was crossed and
became indistinct and almost oblitsratsd.
This was a daInper on the ardor of manv
OF the parties iDspursuit. Detec ctives Thiel,
LoneIgan and Hazsn, however, por-
IL was, then, into this sinister region that
the murderers of Milo Eames had fed. The
iuntless detectives determined to follow.
Thiel, Lonergsn and Hazsn, each in charge
of a party, started in the direction of the
swamp. Each party bad the same objective
poiut, though at the start each pursued a
line quite distant from the other, yet gradu-
ally converging. like the ribs of a fan.
Terre Haute officers were communicated
with, and Officers Vandever, Ragen, Gibson,
Johnson and Deputy Marshal Alb. Bucking-
ham were put on the trail. They plunged
| into the country from Robinson, on the
p. & ID. r. r. seven miles from Marshall,
| Ills. On horse back, they slowly went
thorough the country southwark. They
traced the men from house to house.
/ Here they purchased clothing-agsin they
had taken supper, and always armed with
those heavy navy revolyers, there could be
no doubt as to the identity of the men, The
| tugitives did all their travelling by night, as
was evidenced by the discovery that they
had procured breakfast at house
and supper at cabin only
half mile distant. Their actions
from the time they left Greenup are mi
nutely known. The detectives knew
what they ate, and how they ate, what
clothes they have worn and where they slept
each light, alone and cowery in the fast
nesses of the mOrass, haunted probably by
the scene of the murder with their victim
dying at their feet. They finally pushed
THROUGH TO vINCENNEs.
They found the county in arms. Here they
met the other three detectives. Vandever
and Johnson we're obliged to return home,
and they accordingly started home, accom-
panied by Deputy Marshal Buckingham, who
was obliged 10 return on account of illness.
They had hardly left on the north
ward bound train which arrives here at
] :52 P. NJ, when the people of Vincennes
we're summoned TO the court house by the
ringing of the bell. When the crowd had
! assembled, Detective Lonergan, of st. Louis,
arose and addressed them. He gave his
tory of the case from the beginning,
detailing the search nlinutely, and
then stated that on Thursday evening the
fugitives had been seen IN the swamp two
miles from Vincennes, and on yesterday
morning six piles distant. He closed by
exhOrtiDg the people to assist him and his
colleagues in the search. Two hun
dred men at once volunteered to sur
round the swamp and hunt them down.
The pistols with which the murder was
committed are known to have been the
"44 Smith IL WessJn," and were purchased
at Beck's Indianapolis store. The men are
beyond question in between the Embarass
and Wabash rivers, wltn no likelihood oi
their escaping, il indeed they are not low IN
hsud. One OF the
MOST CURIOUS DIsCoVER1FS
is that the mnrderers were prepared to
fight, a. they were arrayed in steel bress'
plates and Jessup steel masks. The latter
weighed between ten and eleven pounds
This is known to be fact as the lower por-
tions the breast plates were found in q fencs
corner having been thrown there on account
of beng long to impede locomo5ion.
IL is known that the armor Ter both of these
men was put together in Edmonss saloon
the day before the murder. Thus, link by
link, the cham of evidence is riv-
tied about the two saloon keepers
and their connection with the das
, tar5ly deed is now beyond question
WheR several days ago the four officers
were sent TO the seat of war, they
went at once to Robinson, Ill. They
were joined at that point by ex-Sherifi
Houston. The parry then embarked in Gwo
spring wagons and rode south all night
Here aud there they found q clue to
their men. At Morea, Is miles south
they lost all trace OF the men. They
had been there las Saturday night. The
officers pushed on further, still not finding
anything of their men until they found
themselves at Lawrenceville, on the o. 4
M. r. r, few miles west of Vincennes.