The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-22
THE 81. ELMO MURDERER.
An Account of the Capture of Frank
Rande, in q st. Louis Pawnshop- Desper-
ate Resistance Of the Fiend
[From tho ST. Louis Republican,

| necessarily, while not splitting up blood,
to those about him ia the ambulance.
| He sid: Il arrived here last night,
and it was my intention to get away with
about seven men during my stay, and
am happy to think I got away with one
OF them. / am sorry, however, to have
been stopped SO soon. [ had two Smith
& Wesson improved forty-four caliber
revolvers, which I intended would carry
me through. Ny object in attacking
the officer was to get away, as / am
sworn to kill every man who attempts to
arrest me. [ guess I succeeded III this
case. 1t was my intention TO kill him,
and [ want him to die. I am only sorry
I could not finish him on the spot. I
have natural hatred for policemen,
anyway" Officer Heffernan's statement
Of the desperate encounter in the pawn
shop is as follows: 81 met Officer
| White ON the corner Of Fourth street
and Washington avenue about 9 o'clock
this morning. He asked me to go with
him to Wright's pawn-shop, saying that
| there were two men In there whom
Wright wanted arrested. He also said
the men were desperate characters, for
whom the detectives had been looking
for ten days. We walked around to the
place, and, SIS we entered, Wright nod
ded with his head, intimating to us whom
we should take in charge. Officer White
placed his hand on the shoulder Of one
Of the men, saying: [ want to see
you, my friend, while was about to do
the same thing with the other fellow.
White had no sooner uttered the words
than the prisoner whipped out navy
revolver and cooked it. I grabbed the
weapon with both hands, but in spite of
all ! could do the man pulled the trigger.
White staggered and said he was shot in
the leg. | held on to the pistol, and
the man managed to cock it again. He
was powerful one, L tell you. Placing
my thumb on the hammer of the pistol
[ held to it like grim death, but finding
that White was losing strength rapidly,
and that matters were in desperate
condition, I yelled to Wright, who all
this time had the other man covered
with a revolver: Shoot this fellow,
Wright he will kill White. Wright
turned toward my man and fred At
that instant my man yelled, TIM shot
here, pointing to his breast but innme-
diately tackled me again. White by
this time had fallen to the floor weak
ened by the loss of blood, and was calling
to me to prevent my antagonist from
again firing. The scuffle continued I'M
til managed to get my pistol out, when
[ fired, striking the man in the leg. He
kept cursing and swearing that he could
get away with half dozen ID officers.
He also intimated that he would give up
now that we had him dead to rights.
though we were the first that ever had
him that way. He looked at White ly-
ing on the floor, and said he hoped he
had killed the - - - -
Meantime Wright was guarding the
other fellow, and as / turned my face
that way for o second, to see that there
was no danger from that quarter, my
man slipped another navy from his pock-
ct, got the muzzl8 of it to my side, and
in another second would have fired, but
[ knocked the weapon from his hand, at
the same time striking him over the
head with the one in my hand. He
looked at me fercely and said Yes,
you --- , L was going to
put hole through you, and went down
on the floor
The man who was captured in the
pawn shop with Rande is locked up,
but the officers are satisfied he is only a
common tramp, whom Rande picked up
as a companion few days ago.
A History of Some of the Outlaws Bloody
Deeds.
[From the Chicago Tribunel
The most famous and extraordinary
tragedy in which Rande has figured was
that which occurred near the little town
Of st. Elmo, Ill, Sept. IL, 1877, in
which the outlaw, having murdered John
r. Scoles, and being pursued bya posse
of 100 citizens. killed Frank Barnes and
Frank Wiseman, wounded George Side
mar, shot three horses, and escaped. At
that time the hero of these exploits was
thought to be Frank Nichols, but the
proof is now positive that it was Frank
Rande.
The little village of st. Elmo, Ill, stu
ated on the Vandalia road, seventeen
miles from Ehingham, was, on the morn
ing of Sep. II, 1877, thrown into intense
excitement by the preparation of the
murders herewith detailed: About 8
o'clock that morning Mr.. John Scoles, a
most estimable citizen of the village,
with his family, returned to their resi-
dence, situated in the midst of thickly-
built part of the place, from visit East,
where they had been absent for several
days. On entering the house, he i'm
mediately discovered that it had been
robbed of numerous articles of value,
and from several Indications was con-
vinced that the burglar had but Just left
the place, as he had left freshly-pre-
pared breakfast on the table. This fact
induced Mr.. Scoles to commence instant
search for the thief. He searched
carefully through the house, out-houses,
and ont in the rear yard, going toward
his stable. As he did so, he perceived a
man running rapidly through the field
to the rear, looking back, and showing
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