The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-16

4 A Times reporter has secured posses.
donof the facts In j singular case Of
what was evidently rAeant to be deliber-
ate nardet ond robhy. but which was
tthwafted ~ the weifs rounded csdtion
Of the wife of the intended victim. 1t
happened more than q month ago in
Colchester. and only .. few days before
the murder of Harvey Chappell, for his
money, in Lebanon, town adjoining
Colchester. but nothing about it appears
to have got into the newspapers. Mr..
William Rollo.T who lives in rather So
cluded place on acrOss-road in Colches-
tor, lad that week drawn five hundred
dollars from the bank, and had it with
him. He was alone. for his wife had
gone oh5a weeks visit to her mother,
Mrs. Lyman, in Hartford These facts
were known, as such things will be
known in rural neighborhoods. On the
night In question Mrs. Rollo had re-
tYrned to Colchester. accompanied by
| ber mother, and her intention to return
1T that time was not known in Colches-
Ter. at least not outside of her house.
Just before dawn Mrs. Lyman, who
CHANGED to awake, heard a low and
rather dubious rapping on the side door
Waiting. she again heard it unmistaka-
bly-and then she arose, and going to
her daughters bedroom, Weakened her,
telling. her somebody was rapping.
Mrs. Rollo got mp. went to the door,
and asked: "Who is there?" A num-
bling voice answered: 1.-The horse is
d0wS, and we want some help As
other help on the main road must have
been ncarer-provided the stranger had
been travelling that road-Mrs. K. 'ssus.
picions were excited, and she said:
"Who are you? What's your name?"
10 this there was no Immediate re-
Spouse. At length the name of "San-
fordt''sor some thing like it was given.
BY this time Mr.. Rollo had risen,
dressed himself and come to the door,
intending to go out and assist the
stranger. His wife, feeling deep i'm
preston of danger, was resolute against
his going without he took his revolver.
Mr.. Rollo at length acceded to her
wish, took his loaded revolver, I'M
locked the door and went out. He saw
nobody, but went on toward the barn,
which was at some distance. Turning
corner of the barn he came upon two
men who stood behind a big walnut
tree. One had a big club.
RollO, who had been growing more
and more angry at every step, and who
had now reached decided pitch of in
dignatiOn, exclaimed: .r.
"Where is your horseP'
"Oh," one of the men said. AZ both
stepped forward toward him, she's got
up and gone OFF,"
Instantly drawing bis pistol and GOV.
ering the leader. Mr.. Rollo, who was
now nerved to anything, promptly an
swered:
'And you two follow him, quick, or
III kill you in Your tracks"
They saw he meant it. and that he
chad the drop on them, too-and the
two villains turned and left in hurry.
After daylight Mr.. Rollo and neigh
Dor followed their tracks in the snow.
They followed their tracks five miles to
a certain place, but no arrests appear
to have been made, and nothing done in
the matter. One of the would-be MUIR
derers had q striking popularity in his
heel. rs shown in his tracks. This one
had followed his companion from the
barn almost to the house door, when
the other raped, and had evidently
stood ready, if their intended victim had
been (as they supposedly alone in the
house and ha opened the door. to have
given the skull-crushing blow that was
to have put him out OF the way and
left the villains free to TamDage the
house and secure tie moneY-Hlsttord
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