Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-22
Fights vithBurg|ars.
One Officer and Two of the
Crooks Killed.
A PISTOL BATTLE AT MIDNIGHT.

Officers Pursuing Escaped Criminals Fired
Upon with Fatal Efect-The Fire Re
turned and "A Burglar kiiled-A Gang
Surprised in a Store-One Bad Citizen
Less-CowardIy and Atrocious Double
Murder Ending with Suicide-Other
Deviitry.
CLEVELAND, O., July % Two young
criminals escaped from the county jail about
$50 o'clock Saturday night They were
W A. Smith held for grand larceny, and
Richard n Mansfield, horse thief. Deputy
sheriffs ami policemen started on their trail,
and shortly after midnight two men in a
buggy We're overtaken by detachment of
pursuers. Revolvers were drawn, score of
shots were exchanged, and Deputy Sheriff
Goldsoll, one of the best criminal officers
that ever served in the city fell with a
wound that will probably prove fatal The
men In the buggy drove away.
The buggy and Dead Man.
Shortly atterward the buggy was found
abandoned with the body of a Young man.
supposed to be Smith. in it. Later it devel-
oped that 1t was not Smith, and up TO last
evening the body had not been identified.
The police believe that the two young men III
the buggy were bent on some unlawful mis-
sion.
The Fatal Coincidence.
The result of circumstances shows a pecu-
liar coincidence. While the sheriff. posse was
looking for the escaped prisoners a buggy
containing two men came along A cry of
shalt was made in the darkness, but instead
OF stopping the men drew their revolvers and
commenced firing. A pitched battle of few
seconds duration ensued, with the result that
two men will lose their lives, one being dead
and the other IN dying condition. A
burglars outfit was afterward found in the
buggy, which had been deserted by the man
not wounded The affair has caused quite a
sensation throughout the city, but no clue to
the whereabouts of the escaped prisoners had
been found at a late hour last night
Another Encounter with burglars.
TITUsvILLE, Pa, July 20.-As Samuel
DeLamater passing Marsh x Radle's
store, at TowEville at 8 O'clock Saturday
morning, burglars We're noticed within and
the propretors were promptly notified. MIR.
Marsh, armed with a revolver, and Radle
with "a double-barreled shot gun, approached
the store and three of the burglars ran out
Radle cried To the fugitives to halt, and when
they continued TO run, he put load of shot
into one of them
The Other Barrel Did Good Work.
At this juncture another man jumped out
of n rear window Mr. Radle again cried
shalt ami not being oheyed fired the second
barrel The load took effect between the
mans shoulders mortaliy wounding him. A
priest was sent tor at the burglars request,
to whom he confessed that his name was
James McCuen, resident at Lancaster, Pa.
Probably "a Notorious Criminal.
A description was wired to the chief of
police at Lancaster from here Saturday, and
he photographed back that the description cor
responded exactly with that of the notori-
Gus criminal Lancaster Jim," desperate
and fugitive from justice. The physicians
have given up all hope of the burglars re-
covery.
An armed posse of men started in pursuit
Of the rest of the gang, and have tracked
them as far IS Little Cooley, n small hamlet
ten miles distant from Townville and nine
teen miles from here