Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-20
0RT0NVILLE'S '0RR0R.

Raid of Nebraska Rascals In Minnesota
They Are Pursued by Ofhcers and Citizens
and Fight Ensues-Finally Arrested by
Military Authorities.
Since last Sunday evening the vicinity of
Ortonville, Big Stone county, has been the
scene of an excitement nearly akin to that
which aroused the whole State at the time
of the Mortified raid. The Ortonville af-
fair had the similarity to the other mernora
bic event in being a robber hunt by
citizens and desperate resistance
when the robbers we're encountered. The
beginning of the business occurred about
| three weeks ago, when two desperadoes, call
ing themselves Boon and Meyers, got on q
hurrah in Ortonville and gave desperate re-
sistance to the authorities who attempt
ed, and successfully, to arrest
them. The Ortonville newspaper &C.
counts of this affair attracted
tho attention of Government Detective
Llewellyn, at Lincoln, Nebraska, who forth
with addressed letter to the Ortonville an
thorities, asking for further particulars, and
claiming that he thought he recognized in
Boon and Meyer two Nebraska cattle and
horse thieves, Jack Nolan and Joe johnson,
whom he wanted and was willing to give
5000 for their apprehension. These, two
men, Nolan and johnson, belong to "a
| organized gang of murderous robbers, who
have distributed their attention all over
Nebraska, around Ortonville, Montevideo
and other places in Minnesota and Iowa,
! and are members of the Doc
Middleton gang, which has terrorized the
| tbinly settled frontier. The last seen in
Nebraska of these desperadoes was on
August rs, when they crossed the Missouri
river with herd of horses, eighteen in
number, marked Nv. H." going north.
Just before this they robbed the postoffice
at Bone Creek, Nebraska, and for this crime
Detective Llewellyn wanted the men.
THE SEARCH.
Fast upon this information, impaired with
the inquiry of the Ortonville desperadoes,
Llewellyn arrived in Ortonyille. He got
there last Sunday, accompanied by the
| sheriff, A. J. Mullen, of Montivideo.
These Two officers began
systematic inquiry, which resulted
in the arrest of several parties, Lynch,
Conklin, Clifford ard Tu:tle of one of the
Ortonville newspapers, for having aided the
desperadoes in escaping.
Getting the assistance of citizen named
r. 81. Major, the officers having received an
intimation as to the whereabouts of the
robbers, started in pursuit. Just
at this time citizen named Mckinley came
in and reported the discovery of the robbers
on Yellow Banks, out OF Ortonville ten miles
or so. Without more ado, party was Or
gained and left in hot haste to find the rob-
bers. They found and besieged them in a
house belonging to man named Troy.
The robbers we're called to surrender, but
answered with we'll directed fire, which
disabled one man and a horse of the besieg-
ing party. AS the robbers had guns of
greater range, the posse Of citizens with
drew out of range, and the robbers seized
this opportunity to escape; and cap
turing a farmer named Fordman,
and his team, they succeeded in
of the pursuers, who were prevented from
firing upon the fugitives, because they had
placed several women and Fordman between
them and the officers posse. The night
coming on favored the robbers, and they
made good their escape, the pursuers being
compelled to 60 into camp. The pursuit,
however, was kept up on Tuesday, when
Fordman, the farmer who had been compelled
to aid the robbers, was overtaken or rather
met on his return home. Fordman proved
not very satisfactory guide as to the direc-
ton taken by the robbers, but finally after
persuasion of threatening and emphatic
kind, he disclosed that he had taken them
to- the residence of man
named Giles. Arriving here the parties we're
found to have left in the direction of what is
known as the Indian church-off towards the
Sisseton reservation. The pursuit was re-
newed, and the Indian church reached, wher
the trail was lost and further pursuit was
abandoned, and Llewellyn's party returned to
Ortonville Tuesday night.
ARRESTED.
However scouts were kept out and every
precaution taken to get the first word of the
whereabouts of the robbsrs. This doubtless
came to Ortonville, as it did yesterday to
Gen. Terry's headquarters in, the following
telegram:
S1ssEToN. d. T., Oct 10Th.
Gen. Geo. D. Ruggles, Assistant Adjutant
General:
Tonight arrested John T. Nolan aud Joe
johnson; each admitted true name. Will hold
them as prisoners for delivery to civil authori-
ties. Nolan is shot in foot; DIR. Ferguson will
attend to that. have notified by telegraph
". 81. b. Llewellyn, Omaha; r. F. James,
sheriff Dawson county, Nebraska; George A.
Draper, sheriff Laramie county. Wyoming, and
civil authorities, Ortonville, MINI.
O. E. BENNETT, Commanding.
Capt. Clarence E. Bennett, Seventeenth
United States infantry, is in command at
Fort Sisseton, and though his telegram is
meagre, the fact is doubtless that the alarm
extended to his neighborhood, and the
military want the honor of Kidding the coun-
try of the two desperadoes.