The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1876-09-15
WORK OF DESPERADOES.
A Band OF Armed Men Enter q Min
nesOta Bank-The Faithful Cash.
Ter Murdered I'm Cold BlOOd-TwO
OF the Ruffians Killed and One
Wounded.

ST. PAUL, September s.-A North
field, Minnesota, special to the Pioneer
Press SAYS that about two o'clock yester-
day afternoon eight men well-mounted,
entered the town and proceeded to the
bank. Three entered il and sprang ov-
er the counter and ordered the cashier,
]. l.. Haywood, with a knife to his
throat, to open the vault. At the same
time all the persons in the bank, A. E.
Bunker, assistant cashier, and Frank
Wilcox, clerk, were ordered to hold up
their hands. Mr.. Haywood refused to
obey the orders and open the money
vaults. His neck had been slightly
scratched with the knife, and still per-
sistiDg the robbers put the muzzle of
pistol to bis right temple and fired, Mr..
Haywood fell dead. They then turned
to Mr.. Bunker and ordered him to open
the vault. He said he did not know the
continuation. As the robbers made de-
monstrations toward him he ran out of
the back door. They fred at him, shoot
ing him through the shoulder. Mr..
Wilcox was not interfered with.
While this was transpiring within,
the people of the city without were do
ing good work. Two ofthe robbers killed
were outright and one wounded. The
wounded man was taken away by his
confederates. One of their horses was
killed and one captured. The citizens
Of the city behaved like old veterans,
as many Of them are. The robbers did
not get into the vault nor did they find
the cashiers drawer, except the nickel
drawel, and a handful of nickels taken
from 1t was thrown to the floor.
Four Of the eight pen came to the
town before midday, and waited on the
north side of the bridge until the other
four came into town from Dundas, well
mounted ond armed with navy revolvers
and, putting their horses into full gal
lop, dashed through the streets shouting
to the people on the walks to get inside,
and ornamsnting their shouts with most
fiendish curses and imprecations. While
the three men were engaged in the bank
the others stood on the street threatening
to shoot any who interfered and firing
several shots harmlessly.
Pistols and guns were quickly secured
by the citizens, and young man named
Wheeler, from the window of an oppos-
lite building, picked off one of the viii
lians, shooting him through the heart.
Another shot, thought to be from
Wheeler, Immediately after prostrated
another, when the robbers mounted their
horses and beat retreat. A third rob-
Der was hit, but escaped. A band of fif-
ty citizens was organized, and, headed
by Wheeler, started in pursuit.
ST. PAUL, MINI, September 10
The latest information from the pursuit
of the Mortified robbers is that they
have been run out of the woods at Lake
Elysian and across the bridge toward
Waterville. Squads Of men sent in var
Ious directions headed them off. A spe-
cial train leaves here this evening on the
st. Paul and Sioux City Road, carrying
the Chief of Police and twenty five or
thirty picked men. One hundred men
are surrounding the country in which
the robbers are, and it don't seem posi-
BILE for them to escape.
Hazen, detective in the employ OF
the American Express Company, sent
here from Cincinnati, 1entifed the two
dead men by photographs, as Charley
Pitts and Bill Caldwell. He says, also,
the light haired man wounded at North
field, is undoubtedly Frank James,
There is no mistake about this being the
famous gang operating in Missouri, and
if any of them are lucky enough to es.
cape they will, hereafter. give Minnesots
wild berth.