River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-09-28
SUCCESSFUL AFTER ALL.

SJCCESSfUL AFTER ALL,
Four of the Mortified Robbers Caught.
Almost every one had abandoned
the idea of the capture of the murder
Gus Missouri banditti, who invaded
Mortified. Minnesota, on the 9Th of
September. and attempted to rob the
bank, when the telegraph flashed the
news that four of them had been cap
tured, one being killed and three
wounded. 1t appears that their cap
ture is primarily due to Oscar Olson
SuboTn, boy about seventeen years
Old, who lives eight and one half miles
from Madelia, WatOnwan county. Min
nesOta. In a talk with this boy, he
saie that about seven o clock, his faith
er was milking, when two men came
past. walking, and said good morning"
and went on. lie was coming from
the house with milk pals at the time
and walked up to the gate, bat could
not see the faces of the men. But lac
could see one with a black muStache
and the other with red whiSkerS. They
went past but he said Il knew right
away they were the robbers, and ran
out to my father and said there goes
the robbers" But his father said
they were not and told told him to go
and attend to his milking. He MIXED
one COW and put his pail inside the
gate and ran up the road which they
had gone up. His father halloed after
him To come back and to take care, for
if they were the robbers they would
shoot him.
The boy became so earnest
that his father finally consented
to let him go to Madelia and give the
alarm. The boy rode at a break-neck
pace to Madelia and Sheriff Glispin,
with a small posse started in pursuit
between nine and ten o'clock. They
overlook the robbers five miles from
Madelia. and opened fire on them at
once. They crossed over a slough,
walking slowly and deliberately, but
the horsemen were unable to get over.
\ party went on to South Bend. to
DoOlittle's place, to head the robbers
from going west or crossing the river,
which they must have swan, the
river being very deep. The pursuing
party. now numbering about fifty. sur
rounded the little patch of willows
where the robbers were hid. Captain
Murphy, B. NJ. Rice, Geo. Bradford,
Chas. PomerOy, Sheriff Glispin and
John NOght advanced into the cOppice
and secuted it thoroughly, advancing
in skirmish line. Suddenly the rob-
beTs opened fire at the advancing Skin
mish line, emptying their revOlvers
rapidly and their balls flying about as
thick as hail. The advancing party as
quickly responded to the fusilade, dis
charging several shots each, and the
men along the river Joined in the rapid
vOlleys. one of the skirmishers in the
wood called out to the desperate ban
dts to hold up their hands and come
in or they would continue the fire.
Almost at the commencement of the
firing three men fell, and the fourth
put up his hand and came out. He
had fired several times after the others
fell. getting another wounded man to
load his pistols for him, for one of his
hands were useless. The attacking
party then told their captain TO go IN
fOI the rest, fearing some treacheTy,
when he replied. ''IlOw can do so +!
They are all down. and you fired at one
after | had held up my hand"
The men in the woods then advanced
and secured their prisoners, assisted
them out of the woods and, placing
them in lumber wagon, breught
them into Madelia.
4 reporter for the st. Paul Dispatch
gives the following account of the con-
ditiOn of the wounded men:
Arriving at Madelia the reporter
FASTENED to the Flanders House, where
he was informed the three prisoners,
all wounded, were in bed. Finding
the courteous and Obliging landlord,
he was soon allowed to pass the guard
At the foot of the stairs, and ascend
ing he entered a small chamber where
two men lay in one bed. The first
glance told the fact that one of the
men was Cole Younger, large, pow
erful man with bald head and sandy
whiskers and mouStache, answering to
the description given SO many times Of
/ this man. He was pretty badly wound
/ ed and at the time was somewhat de
/ Irious. so that nothing could be CLEAN
Ills wounds are a shot in the left lat
erRk position. Two buckShOt entered
i the poSteTiOr of the scapUla. One
/ pierced the aXillarv space. One lodged
I in the middle third of the upper arm.
+ Another entered at the angle of the
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/ palate arch and lodged in the left SUI
+ peTiOr maXillary. This is the most
+ serious wound. Another entered at
+ the left lateral occipital region and es-
caped at the centre of the parietal
bone. without injury to the skull.
None of the wounds except that which
+ broke down the palate arch, are seri-
/ Gus. and that is not necessarily fatal.
I At present nothing indicates that his
+ death viii ensue from it.
The man lying beside this one is his
brother. and not nearly of such pow
+ erfuI physique. This one is wounded
+ by a ball passing through the middle
/ third of the right thigh. Another
+ ball struck the centre of the upper
/ Jaw, and broke down half of the left
/ maxillary. Neither of these wounds
in themselves are necessarily mortal.
In another room, about ten yards
/ from the first, lay the third man by far
/ the finest looking man of the whole
gang, and apparently the youngest.
| He is six feet two inches in height,
we'll prOpoTtiOned. with brawny arms
and thick neck. His features are well
defined, with rather a small nose, Gre
clan in type, we'll cut lips and express