St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-22
Thieves and Highwaymen
Grow Bolder and Work
More Openly.
Two Lawless Acts Tepporize
Residents Of Irvine Park
Locality.
Highwaymen in a Buggy At
tack and Loot Men on
Cedar Street.
A Citizen Captures Check I'm
depWOOd and Hands Him
Over.

| lEeTe is no question OuL CnaG IL is LIE
bounden duty of every honest man in
this city to "carry gun" and have it
ready for instant use after dark. Then
| he must have hesitation in using it at
the first hostile move of a suspicious
| character. For, besides the burglar,
porch climber and forger, the highway
robber is with US. He is very nervy,
too, and does nothesitate to do his work
under the shadow of the capitol. Some
times he, or they rather. for he travels
i'll pairs, is on foot and sometimes in
| buggy. The detectives are not running
him down to any great extent. but the
| private citizen is getting the best of
him. the GLOBE limited yesterday the
"fybobs" fear they will.
| Capt. q. W. Anderson made record
! Thursday night as the only citizen in
the city-and probably in the state
| who was held up by robbers with gun
and took the gun from them. Capt.
Anderson is quartermaSter and treas
| urer of Garfield post. G.. A. K. The
meeting of the post Thursday evening
was quite lengthy, owing to the Column
| bus day business. and it was after IL
! O'Clock when the captain started for his
home, at the corner of Franklin and
| post money and some of his own in his
| pocket, and spark in his shirt front.
| But he has no fears oil personal injury,
| for he has travelled that route down
| Franklin across Irvine park, many a
time without interference, and he
strobe along enjoying a good cigar and
| bordering over the events of the NOR
| row.
1t may be we'll right here to go back
some minutes and pick the story up at
| another point. A little before Capt.
man by the name of Murray, who lives
| In the house on Franklin street Just
north of Anderson's, was going home.
| Before he reached the park two men
| started to follow him, and he ran
through the park yelling Fire, murder,
thieves" ETC., and into his home for
revolver. He got it and stood on the
| steps OF his home like the boy on the
burning deck. When Anderson had
| passed through the park later, the
| same two men, as 1t was learned later
him i'll dark spot on the corner, and
the taller clapped gun against
Anderson's temple, saying Hand
out your cash." The captain
was somewhat startled 10y the sudden
ness of the attack and involuntarily
| stepped back. Then the gun was showed
| against his nose with a force that
brought him to realization of the fact
| that the man
Meant Business,
as he said: You -. pass over your
| money and be quick about it or I'll
blow the top of your head off," The
captain has passed the half century of life
and weighs but 1913 pounds, but he saw
a few guns during the war, and did not
propose to surrender if the other fellow
was larger by 40 pounds. He quickly
knocked the gun to one side with his
right hand, grasped it with his left, his
first two fingers closing over the rob.
ber'S thumb. Then, realizing that it
waS~a fight to a finish, he swung his
right with all the force that desperation
lent him. 1t landed OH the robbers
temple. The blow staggered the rob-
Der, and Anderson followed it up with
two more On the cheek as fast as he
could swing his arm. But the man was
too heavy to drop, and he clinched An
derson, bending the latter almost double.
The captain twisted his body and
! grasped the robber by the throat with
his right hand. But the big fellow bent
him over again and called to his pard:
Slug the ---- over the head and
drop him." The pard stepped up to do
so, when Anderson stepped around so
as to keep the big fellow between him
and the pard. But this loosened his
hold on the throat, and he transferred
his right hand to aid the left in trying
to wreSt the revolver away. As he was
twisting it it was discharged, the bullet
whiZZing between the two mems heads.
This frightened the pard, and
he dropped something, as the cap
tain saw, and called to the big
fellow 10 cut and run. Anderson gave
desperate wrench and succeeded in
twisting the revolver from the robbers
hand. The two men ran and Anderson
tried to shoot. But his right thumb and
forefinger were so numb from the strain
on them that he could not pull the trig-
ger. He then took the gun in his left
hand and fired two shots as he ran the
robbers into Lawyer Horne's yard. But
they had got SO much start while he was
trying to shoot with his lame hand tn at
his shots were wide of the mark. He
followed them around Horne's house
and toward the bluff past Capt. Fishers,
but thought he better not go too far in
the dark, as his body was beginning to
feel sore from the wrenching he re-
ceiyed in his hard struggle, and the
fellows might have another gun and
take shot at BIN from an ambush
So he went to his home, but block
away. and few minutes later Patrol
men Newell and Kennedy came up, hav-
ing heard the shooting from tine other
side of the park. Young Murray then
came down from the steps of his house
and told the officers that the smaller of
the two robbers had come around the
block, walked past him and gone south
on Franklin. He stood there all the
time with gun in his hand, but did or
said nothing. The officers spent some
time in looking for the men. but could not
find them, and later the affair was Re-
ported at the station. No hint was
given to the reporters, though Chief of
Detectives Mason and lieutenant spent
about an hour in vain search for the
robbers. Yesterday Capt. Anderson gave
the detectives the best description of the
men he was able and Mason TOOK ''the
gum for few days, though Anderson
said that he wants it back. He PROPOSES
to carry it hereafter, and says he thinks
he has fully earned the right to do so.
lie will not sell it for SO, and he would
not take several hundred dollars and 20
through similar experience.