The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22
TOP. At point on the Wabash river, g Z
miles from Oakland, they discovered where

TOP. At point on the Wabash river, Y
miles from Oakland, they discovered where
the
TWO MEN HAD CROSSED
to little boat that lay upon the Indiana
shore. This craft was visited, but no one
was found in it. It was floating whisky
shop, that being its ostensible business,
though il is probably a 'fence'' for stolen
goods. The officers had ascertained in
some inscrutable manner, that both men
bad been seen enter this boat
Nothing was left to be done but TO call at
the nearest house. This was done with the
greatest difficulty, as it was found necessary
to cross the river and also to wade this way
through perfect jlngle. An idea OF its
denseness may be given when we tell that il
took the man hunters two hours to get over
mile and half of ground. This after
dark, through an unknown country, with
unseen and hidden dangers about them. 1t
wasn't very cheerful, to say the bsst of it.
At last little clearing which the officers
approached cautiously, they saw two men
sitting in front of the cabin talking to-
gether. THAT is our man." said
Vandever, designating one of them.
The party laid low and crept up cautiously.
Vandever approached and held out his hand.
"How do you do, Bill, he said To the tallest
of the men. This man held out bis hand
and grasped Eds. That acute officer felt
that two fingers on the right hand we're
gone. He observed his height. and
black hair, his black moustache, and he
frightened his grasp on the mans hanG. Al
that instant. on a given signal, the officers
leveled their revolvers AZ this maD. He
held up his hands, Gibson disarmed
him, and the man wss in their
power. He had managed some
time before to dispose OF
his two large revolvers, and when searched,
nothing was found upon him but small
five-shOoting pistol and a hOwie.knife.
When the officers started from Oakland, $50
citizens went with them as far as the river.
They declined going turther. When the
officers
STARTED BACK WITH BRIDGEMAN
that is the murderer, the crowd followed.
talking of lynching him. They knew him.
He had formerly lived in Sullivan county,
had served two terms III the peni-
tentisry, and had killed a man there.
The prisoner was securely bound, put in an
express wagon, and Vandever and Johnston
| stood guard over him during the whole
night. This morning they brought him 10
the city as stated above. He is, beyond any
| question, one of the murderers, as he answers
| in every particular the description of the
| largest one OF the two, which we publish
elsewhere in this article. He is an old Jail
| bird, and has learned discretion from former
episodes, and in consequence refuses TO
| talk. His parter is not far of and we expect
| that he, too, will be captured to-day, as the
officers and about two hundred citizens are in
hot pursuit. Officer Vandever, tired and
| exhausted though he was, went east with
| certain officials OF the road at 2P. NJ, in
| tending TO go to Shelbyville where a man
was arrested this morning who is looked on
| with suspicion. The detectives art of the
| opinion that the scheme was connected in
Shelbyville, Indiana. Conductor John
McMahon, was the person who recognized
the murderers, as it was on his train
that they went west two days
before. They at that time had
| the steel armor, which figures
in the case, in their possession. All day the
station house has been surrounded by O
large but reasonably quiet crowd, and prom
inent among them was great number ol
locomotive engineers. The chief of police
| has issued an order that no person be al
| lowed to see the prisoner
This morning there were placed in Byer's
| window two suits OF steel armor which
were worn by the murderers. They were
| found in a corn field by Detective r. The
| and party consisting of l.. Hazen, George
Harrington and others. 1t was dropped
there, while the blood-stained villains were
fleeing from sight of their victim.