Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-21

Frank eande The Las~aa and Worst
O4 All Ru0anS.

81 All 9s0ass.
JOLIET, March 3.-"The Briliisns Ban
dit of the Wabash as Frank Rande
loved to call himself. lies low in the
prison hospital in this city with two or
three big weits across the skull. bullet
hole in his ear, and another in his side.
His murderous assault on Depaty War
| den Mcdonald has already been de-
| .cribed. ~ we'll a. the DISASTROUS conse
auences to himself Of that attack. Al
though desperately hurt, there are fears
| that Rande will recover. He has been
shot through and through before this,
but has always managed to rally,
30 a. TO be a little tougher
than be was before. IL possible.
There is not an officer or a
convict in the penitentisrs who, il left
| TO himself, would not take pleasure IN
| finishing this fellows career IN short
order. He Is probably the most desper
ate man with whom the authorities of
| Indiana, Illinois and Missouri have ever
| had to deal. Starting out In 1870. when
about ~ years old, as a burglar and
| general thief. Rande visited almost
every town Of any size in Indiana and
| Illinois. stealing everything be could
| put his hands on. 1t made no differ
snce to bin whether the article taken
was Of value or not. II il Was portable
he took IL. Doing his plumber mp in
bundles, and. wher possible. packing II
| in satcheis ard trunks. be would leave
these things at railroad stations. hotels
| and expres- offices to b. called for. tig-
| ING IN each case different name ~
| that Of the owner. Hundreds OF these
satchels and bundles were in existence
at time. aud very few of them were
| ever called for.
Ia the spring of 1872 be was arrested
at Fort Wayne for safe burglary, and
on conviction vas sent 20 she psniten.
tisry AT Michigan City for five years
His service in this institution seems t.
have hardened him. The keepers de
olared that he was the III ost troublesome
man they ever had Ia charge. II 4
one uDending round of fiopRings, soil
tary coEfiaements in dungeons on a
bread and water diet. and punlshments
| by ball snd chain Al long AS he wa
there. He was prolific writer, and in
mapping out s~hemes of robbery and
murder he had the ingenuity of the
devil. Several times while confined a,
Michigan City he drew up elaborate de-
| bCftpttouS ~ ttopJ-ed Pttsou ucliscties
| giving maps, diagrams. DO, Of the town
penitentiary, ami the surrounding
country. with the fullest directions tC
be observed by confederates on the out-
side. In one of these productions be
| went 80 far as to designate the particu-
lar people about the prison whom i,
would be necessary to kill. When bis
term Of Imprisonment was up the Of
ticials were very glad to part company
with him. He left Michigan City and
the state. threatening vengeance on all
of his former keepers and promised to
return some day and clean out the en-
tire establishment.
Purchasing two magnificent re<olverf
of the largest calibre, he wore them
outside his coat in harness specially
made for the purpose, which held the
weapons about on level with his vest
pockets, 10 that with the slightest
movement of the hands he could SEIZE
them. For several u.onths nothing Wa
heard Of him, bat during August he sp
peared in the vicinity of ST. Elmo, Ill
| where he made daily aud nightly raids
ON houses, barns and stores. On Sunday
ROon il WAS discovered that the resi-
denoe Of WoOlford Pierce had been rob.
bed while the family were ut church
and a party Of citizens started in pnr
+! suit Of kande, who was known to be
hiding near the town. Starting him
from his cover. the posse ran him int, a
corn field, where, appar, ntly enraged by
the pursuit, he mounted a rail fence
| and gave q wonderful exhibition of his
skill as a marksman With n revolver In
each hand he discharg d both weapons
at once. killing tive men, Charles Bel
den and Charles Mckowu, at the first
| fire. His firing was so sudden and the
execution so deadly that the pursuing
party became panic-stricken. but he
shot two more IL on before they could
get out of the range of his pistols.
| This tragedy caused the wi dest ex-
citeinent throughout Illinois. and the
most exaggerated tales of the mans
prowess were circulated. Many be
| iieved that the fellow Was Je Ne James.
and almost ever day some imaginative
farmer would drive madiy to the near
| est town to report that the James aud
Younger boys we're III his neighborhood.
Hundreds of men turned out and
secured the country in all directions.
but nothing further was seen or heard
OF Ranae for three weeks. One day in
September John Scholes of Gibson,
Knox county, Illinois, found thief
IN his house and gave chase. Overtak-
ing the fellow III AN open field. Mr.
Scholes called out to him to halt. The
thief turned squareiy in his tracks
with revolver In each hand and put
four bullets into Scho,es, two In the
head and two in the heart. A hundred
men. all armed to the teeth, wers soon
in pursuit, many of them mounted
Overtaking the fugitive. Frank Barnes.
who was slightly IN advance, called ont
to him: Halt 0ryou are dead man"
kande's only reply was four pistol shots,
two striking Barnes and two penetrat-
ing the skull of Frank Wiseman. Both
men fell dead in their tracks. Turning
his fire GU the other men in the party.
he dashed upon them with yell. STAN
pedino the whole crowd and wounding
several Of them.
Although the identity of the murderer
was still unknown. IL was soon decided
that the st. Elmo and Gibson despera-
does were one and the same person.
Heavy rewards werc offered for his cap
turt, not only by several counties, but
by the State. and dozens of armed bands
hunted for weeks IN "A vain endeavor to
apprehend him. The search had been
all but abandoned when news Was re-
oeived that tbs offender had been taken
in st. Louis. On the morning of No
vember 18th Rande entered a pawn
shop in that city Ia redeem a v,lise.
The keeper Ut the place suspected tie
fellow. and sent a clerk out to call the
police. Policemen White and Heifer-
nan strolled III, sized the man up. and
concluded he was a bad one. A. they
reached for him. kande sprang wit h the
agility Of tiger three feet in the air,
and before his feet touched the floor his
revolvers we're barking and bullets we're
flying 81 thick and fast that panic
seized rybody IN the neiehborhood.
White received severe wound in the
leg, but Hetfcruan and the pawnbroker
managed to hit Rande twice, the former
sending two bullets through his lungs.
and the latter putting one or two into
his legs. White WAS carried away IN
sensible, aud died soon Afterward.
When Rande received the bullets in
his lungs h. fell to the floor, saving:
Let me lie down now: l am dying. ]
anu shot through the lungs" A moment
later he had whipped out another re-
volver, aud was about to use il on Hef
ferman. when the latter bounced on the
PROSTATE murderer and wrenched the
weapon from his grasp kaude hiss,d