Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-24
THE MURDERER.

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MENoMINEE, Wis, Nov. led. Max.
well, alias Williams, arrived here thi:
afternoon in charge of Sheriff knight
of Pepin county, and Under-Sherif
Coleman, of Dunn, and was safely
lodged in Jail. There was no attempt a,
violence and no particular excitement
except that of curiosity by the crowd
Maxwell is small and rather good.
looking man, and does not appear OF
act like blood-stained desperate that
he is. In an interview with your cor
respondent this evening he conversed
gladly and smoothly. When asked il
he was Ed. Maxwell, he replied eyes. y
''Do you acknowledge the killing OF
the Coleman brothers,
eyes, sir but it was done in self
defense"
"Did you know who the men were
before you shot?"
"We thought it was Sheriff Knight
and his deputy, and we wanted to see
him"
Glow long were you in the Eau Gale
woods"
"About five days"
Have you any objection TO giving
me
AN ACCOUNT OF YOUR FLIGHT
after the killns?"
None whatever sir. Immediately
after the shooting we crossed the Chip
pewa river in skiF we found on the
bank, using shingie and fence board
for paddles We both were wounded,
myself in the right hand, arm and
shoulder, Lon in the arm breast and
face, his being so badly hurt and swol-
len so that at times he would be crazy
with pain. and twice drew !. knife on
me. After crossing the Chippewa we
pursued a westerly course, travelling at
night and lying still during the day.
We were eighty-five hours without
food enough to make one decent meal.
| killed u steer, but we had been so
long without food that we could eat but
little, it made us sick"
During the time you were in the
woods did any of lie pursuing party
pass near your
eyes, good many quite close. Al
one time
HAD BEAD ON HENRY COLEMAN,
brother of the two killed, but was afraid
to shoot, there being two others with
him. We crossed the Mississippi near
Maiden Rock. We crossed the river
in a batou which we found on the bank
1t seemed as though Providence helped
us get away as we did, and IN the Grip
pied condition we were in
What do you know oil the man
kuhl that we had here, supposed to be
your brother Lon ?n
81 don't know anything about him,
but / think that if District Attorney
Williams, of Milwaukee, had taken the
blacksmlth's las he termed Sheriff
Severson) advice and let him go when
he was so plainly identified he would
have done a brighter thing than he
did do"
odd you have any help in your
flight?'
"None whatever, to use strong
phrase. We had been away so much
that we were afraid to trust any one. u
What do you think ofthe chances for
Ions capture"
81 don't know" but he added signifi
can.ly, che is good shot"
AT ST. PAUL.
Specie Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. 17.-From the
Sioux City train which arrived at the
Union Depot this noon stepped com
pactly built little man, apparently 80
years of age, five feet three in height,
with black hair, mustache and chin
whiskers, dressed in new black store
clothes, and with mild look, who, but
for the heavy irons at ankles and
wrists, would never be taken for the
notorious desperate and murderer for
whose apprehension $1,000 reward had
been offered. This was Ed Maxwell,
one of the notorious Williams brothers
who killed Sheriff Coleman and his
brother at Durand last July. He was
in charge of Sheriff Joseph Killian,
of Hall county. Nebraska, who distin-
guished himself by the capture of the
outlaw, Ed. G. Coleman and Henry
Coleman, of Durand, WIS, brothers of
the murdered men, and Mr.. Knight,
under sheriff of Pepin county, Wis.
The officers We're
SUPPLIED WITH WINCHESTER RIFLES.
besides their small arms, and kept
close watch of their prisoner, who, as
he stepped from the train, was the tar
get at which thousands of pairs of eyes
were turned. Ii any doubt had been
wanted to the villains identity, how
ever, it was speedily furnished, for as
Maxwell stepped from the car Mr.. Z.
C. Austin, well-known lumberman of
Hersey, extended his hand to Maxwell
with "Hof, are you, Ed?' Chow do
you do, Mr.. Austin % said Ed. Mr..
Austin said to reporter that there was
no doubt about his identity. 'His
brother Lon worked for me for long
time 1t made my blood run cold to
shake hands with murderer, but |
wanted him to know that he was recog-
nized."
Followed by curious crowd Of sew
eral hundred people,
THE OUTLAW
was taken to room in the depot,
where your correspondent interviewed