The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-22
SHOT By 4 POLICEMAN.
Seattle-s Lone Highwayman'
Comes to Grief at Last.
He Holds Up omcer Nick Hanna
Early This Morning ard Is Wound
ed and captared-Handyv with the
Pistol Hinself Two aoles I'm the
Psliceman's Coat

The = lone hisGEsynan gho : held
up the cable cars recently. and has been
making a business Of 9 holding up = pee
pie PromiseEoGsIy at night, was bsgged
this morning q Htsle after three O'Clock
under peculiar circumstances, and when
he was captured. both his legs we're shot
under him, and his head severely ham
mered by G revolver IN Police ofaeer
Nick Hanna's hand.
Hat the city Jail the fellow gave the name
of John WEIGH. and admitted to Police of
feer Thompson having committed thA.
bold midnight highway robbefies recorded
lately. He Is 3 cool desperate. OF the
curly headed, brunette type. tall and bold.
and he took the affair with grea. uneoa-
Germ
some time during the night he held up
a man named j. L. Wether5y, on Jackson
street, near Fifteenth Mr. Netherby was
on his way home from the thesfer, accom-
panied by lady. From wstherty Welch
secured Sl2 wstherby was unarmed, and,
Of course, subm tied 10 being robbed,
his lady coraE anior, the while, almost
fainiiug with fright. After accompanying
( the lady home, WetaeTby returned down
town, aad met q friend named Arthur
Pratt ON Jackson street, near Eighth, TO
whom he was explaining how he was
robbed, when Policeman Nick Hanna over
heard the conversation
Hanna did not have his uniform on, but
he told the two men that he would go up
Jackson street to see II the naa would at
tempt TO rob him. He went ahead, leaving
the two behind him.
When going down Jackson street and
between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets,
rr.woaira n. he tsarr SnIrfh sahool h.1h aa rs1
somebody following him. The policeman
turned around and observed that his steal
thy pursuer was masked By having hand
kerehiefs tied around his face,
Hold up your hands" yelled the police
man. The man shot at the officer instead
The policeman then opened fire upon the
highwaymau. firing two shots, but his
weapon refused TO obey the trigger then,
and the highwayman, seeing his opp0r;u-
nifty, emptied his revolver at the police
man, two bullets passing through the
skirts OF the officers rubber coat.
The foOtpad then turned and
ran, and Policeman Hanna
emptied his revolver at the man, shooting
him in the calves of both legs. While the
fugitive was crossing the street he made
an effort TO take another revolver from his
inside coat pocket. He stumbled against
an embankment and the pursuing police
man fell over him aud beat him over the
head with his pistol.
The man was taken 10 the Jail and Justice
Soderberg was called up. The prisoner
was searched and on his person were found
three reyolyers-0ne new Colts old STYLE.
and one old Colts, both ealiber-and one
British bull dog, IS caliber The new pis-
tol was empty aud the Others loaded to the
mrzZle. i lot of cartridges were found and
and huge sand-bsg. He had a stiff felt
hat tied 10 the tail OF his coat and soft
sloueh hat on his head. evidently SO that
he could change his disguise quickly. A
warrant was made out, and he was placed
in cell.
Welch says be was born in Savannah,
Ga, and he is believed to be q deserter
from the Fourteenth L. S. Infantry. STA
toned at Fort Vancouver, on the Column
bia river. He said he held up three men
last night and obtaiued from them
an aggregate of only 10 cents. and that he
held up one old man who did not have
anything at al. The Sl2 he got from Weth-
erby was found in mis- pockets He is evil
IDENTIFY determined Desperate who has
been in the business for some time