The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-10-04
The Williams Brothers Again
at Their Bloody Work.
They Kill Sheriff Lammy and
Seriously Wound His
Deputy,
Who, Together with a Large and
Weli-Armed Posse, Attempt
Their Capture.

For the past 1ew DAYS telegraph dis
patches have gave meaSre accounts of IN.
, killing oil sheriff Lammv, OF Calhoua
county, ILL.,, and the seriously woundinp
of his deputy, by the Maxwell brothers
! alias the Williams brothers, the notorious
Wisconsin outlaws, while attempting their
capture in Il dense forest, in Calhoun
county. iii.
The crimes which have made these
brothers So notorious are manv, but the
one Tor which they are ID Ost wanted - for
the killing of Charles and Milton Coleman,
Il sheriff and his deputy, at Durand, Wis,
on the 10th day OF last July. The Colemans
were shot down while they were reading
To- the Maxwells a warrant ior their ar
rest. Both were killed, and the murder
ers made their escape, taking a Winchester
rifle and two reyolyers with them. Heavy
rewards were ut once offered for their cap
ture, $500 by Pcpin county and 500 by
Henderson county, Wisconsin.
Although several attempts were made to
arrest these outlaws, none of them were
successful, and they both made their es-
cape. Since making their escape nothing
had been heard of them until last Thurs
day afternoon, when deputy sheriff Geo
W. Roberts, OF Pike county, ILL.,, who
WAS out hunting happened to run
acro>, them in the woods. He formed
their acquaintance and was soon engaged
in conversation with them. They said
! that they were out hunting. One of them
I had gun and il took Roberts eve. He
thought IL was a beauty and told them 81.
and of course wanted To- examine it, The
man with the gun expressed desire to see
what Kind OF a gun Roberts carried, and
as he handed over his gun he took that of
/ Roberts. The latter noticed that the sec
Ond man leaned against tree. with one
hand back OF him ON his hip pocket, and
that he kept close watch on him, Rob
erts, all the time. Roberts examined the
gun handed To him and found that il was
Winchester rifle, answering the descrip-
tiOn OF the one reported To- be In the pos
session OF the Maxwell brothers
Early next morning Roberts sent tel
egram tn r. W. Blades, the sheriff OF Pike
county, informing him of the meeting in
the woods, sending the message from
Pearl, station on the Rhodehouse
branch OF the Chicago 4 Alton road. The
sheriff at once summoned 4 posse and
started out To effect the capture of the des-
pcrad0es The story of the pursuit and
the death of Sheriff Lammy, who was
summoned To assist in their capture, is
best given in MIR. Blades own words
which he did to reporter OF the
-. Loui> Republican OF Yesterday:
'On receiving the telegram from nv
deputy, summoned posse of two men,
Mike Fisher and James Mellon and after
tclesraphing To Pitt,held, the county 5, at
for more men, left Pearl with my deputy
NOV md tot Tar b.,y l.
in which Roberts
HAD MET THE MUIDERERS.
After inquiring 1T a number OF houses
We learned the men We were looking tor
had taken breakfast that morning at Peter
Wickct's house, near the woods. We fol- !
lowed the direction they had taken, and |
nj Samuel BRUINS we found that they had |
-eken dinner there. / showed the family |
my photographs al the murdererS, and they j
said that the men We were looking for /
were evidently the men who had eaten
dinner there only u short time before. We
continued our Journey west, but divided 1
into two squads, Fisher going with me
and Mellon with Roberts. We took differ
ent roads and met again about o'clock in
the evening. We here aSccrtained that
the murdererS had taken 4 by-road lead
ing to the Mississippi bluffs, about two miles
away They had gone along ravine.
We went along another ravine about a
mile and half south OF IL, AMI reached
the Bluff road about dark 1T Belleview.
Here we were reinforced about > o'clock
Yesterday morning bv two men from Pitts
field, the four had sent for. They were
James HAYES. ex-Sheriff SimpkinS, l..
Huntlcy and H. W. Crittwood. At day
light
HIRED \ MESSENGER
and sent him Oft to notify the sheriff of
Calhoun county, Mr.. Lammy, Of what |
was doing, and to- ask him for assistance
Sheriff Lammy had heard two weeks be-
fore that the murderers were In his county
and had made an effort To- get ON their
track, but without success. We searched
in the vicinity of Belleview up to 2oclock
afternoon without again strik-
ing the trail of the murderers, when We
learned that they had passed the farm
house of John Crosby that forenoon. We
separated into two companies, and one
went southeast, and one went
northeast intending 10 meet at =
o'clock 1T Il point further ON.
We met per agreement, but neither party
mad learned ANYTHING new. We STAYED all
night here, ut the farm house of III. Nevis.
This was Saturday night.
sheriff Lammy had in the meantime
reached Belleview with a posse, and sun
lay morning
HE STRUCK THE TRAIL
II the murderers, ana followed ii mp, and
lbout the middle of the forenoon met our
'arty. We then Joined forces, and searched
Ogcther for an hour or more, We found
hat they had been refused breakfast AT two
Houses, one OF them Gotlieb Quiller'S. I've
orgotten who lived at the horf>t Use.
(uiller sent them to John Barnes house.
nd ut Barnes, which Is at the mouth of &
rocked creek, we found that they had :
'een breakfasted. We divided our forces ,
nto two parties. Sheriff Lammy went 9
outheast with his, and | northeast with y
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