The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-11-24

and contents and have them forwarded to De
catur, III. His identification with the 81. Elmo
murders il thus established. In the It. Elmo
tragedy, rs in the one at ellison, it was noticed
that the outlaw was "a compactlybuilt, dark
haired man, about 30 years Of age, with
srlnken or broken nose. and that he fought with
the same uncrring navy six, But to complete
the chain of evidence against him as the per
petrator of both murders il now transpires, that
while at ellison he dropped the express receipt
obtained at EmwOod, at ST Elmo he dropped
the St Louis pawn ticket for the same VaIlse'
both papers bearing his name.
HIS PURSUIT AND ARREST.
When Sheriff Hitchcock, Of Peoria county,
was advised of this Elmwood receipt, he went
Immediately to Decatur, where the valisc was
found in the possession Of the express agent
The agent was made aware Of the facts i'll the
case, and instructed to keep secrcsy. II Rande
called he was to be arrested. If he wrote for
the yalisc. the letter was to be forwarded at
once to Hitchcock. With these arrangements
Hitchcock left the matter to work out Its own
salvation Randc never came for the valisc, but
about the 25th Of oct sent postal card, post
marked at Lafayette, Ind, to the express office
at Decatur us follows:
Erpress Agent, Decatur, Ill.,: viii you please
inform me by postal card what the charges are
on my brown lcathervalsc, sent from St Louis,
Mo-, about the last of July 1877. ! will send
the charges on receipt OF card. Address
FRANK RANDE, Kokomo, Ind
This card having been forwarded to Sheriff
Hitchcock, he, in company with kimsey,
superintendent Of police at Peoria, went to
Kokomo to watch for Randes calling at the
post Office for an answer to his postal card,
After waiting ten days in VAN, they returned
to Decatur, renewing their instructions TO the
express agent to arrest Rande If he called for
the valisc. On the It'll Of November Randc
called. The agent told him that he had not
seen the valise, but at once reached for the tele-
graph and sent word to Kimscy that his man
was in town. Randc smclt a mouse and got
ont Of town Immediately.
Next in the order Of the history Wright, the
ST. Louis pawnbroker, who was now also fully
posted as to Rande and on the alert, received
letter from him at ElmwOod dated Nov. Sth,
again requesting him to forward the valisc to
Decatur Wright of course made no reply to the
letter, which neglect finally, about o'clock A.
NJ. on. Friday of last week brought, Randc, in
company with a tramp named Morrison, into
Wright's pawn shop at St Louis, where the
occurrences are thus narrated: Randc having
INQUIRED for his valisc, Wright, in order to gain
time, told him he would send to the express
office and see why the valise had not been for
warded, at the same time "tipping the wink"
to his clerk, George Hess,) who started out for
police officer. Two officers were soon found,
one of whom-IIcticrncn- the following
statement:
Il met officer White on the corner Of Fourth
street and Washington avenue, about O'Clock
This morning. He asked me to go with him to
Wrichts pawnshop 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 dur
ing ten DAYS. Wewalked around to the place,
and, as we entered, Wright nodded 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: L
want YOU, my trendn was about to do the
same thing with the other fellow. White had
no sooner uttered the words than his prisoner
whipped out navy revolver and cooked it, |
grabbed the weapon with both hands, but in
spite of all could do the man pulled the trig-
ger White staggered and said he was shot in
the leg | held on to the pistol, and the man
managed 20 cock it again. He was apowertul
one, / 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 a
desperate condition, yelled to Wright, who,
all this time, had the other man covered with
n revolver, Shoot this fellow, Wright, he will
kill White Wright turned towards my man
ard fired At that instant my man cried, Pm
shot here pointing to his breast but immc-
diatclv tackled me again. White by this time
had fallen to the floor, weakened by the loss of
blood, and was calling to me To prevent my
antagonist from again firing. The Scutic con
Itinucd until 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.adozen damned officers. lie
also intimated that he would give it out now
that we had him dead to rights, though we
were the first that had ever had him that way.
He looked at White lying on the floor, and
said he hoped he had killed the - -.
Meantime Wright was guarding the other tel-
| low. and, as turned my face that way for a
second to see that there was no danger from
that quarter. my man slipped another navy
from his pocket, got the muzzle 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