The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-09-23
ROBBERS NOT CAUGHT
NO TRACE OF THE BOLD IN
DIANA BANDITS.
The Men Who Piundered Lake shore
Express OF 100000 Still at Large,
ard the Detectives" Haven't the
slightest Idea Who They are

! KENDAIIvILLE, Ind, Sept Is De-
| tectives and officers have visited every
village and farmhouse in Noble county
in search of the robbers who held up
the Lake Sho train On Monday night.
| The large force which was here has
been strengthened by new arrivals
and no less Than 100 men from the
Lake shore railroad and the United
states express company have been
4 laboring with great ardor since day
| light yesterday morning.
The citizens of kendallville and of
Noble county feel very much chagrin' d
that such a robbery should have oc-
Cured in their vicinity. They stood
on the street corners and argued
| loudly that no such desperate char
acters as the robbers must have been
could have been reared in this county.
Notwithstanding the arguments OF
the citizens the detectives have begun
to think that the robbers were not all
/ strangers From relia BILE sources IL is
ascertained that the theory now being
worked by the detectives is that the
robbers af err having the money safe
| in their hands, made a circuit through
! the dense woods near the scene of the
| robbery and finally ran into Green
! township, 10 the south of kendallville
some ten miles. The country there is
| hIlly and rough, and in some places
| thick swamps arrest all passage 1t
was in this region that the notorious
I Marvin kuhns had his retreat some
! years ago. Others of unsav, ~ repu-
| tation have lived in that vicinity in
! times past.
The theory that the robbers are hid
| ing in the swamps to the south of
| Kessler is based on the trace which
was left when the robbers fed. A
careful investigation of the ground in
! this vicinity shows that when the
bandits made their escape they went
| to the southeast Tracks were found
| leading out 10 the wagon road which
runs north and south. This road
crosses the axe shore tracks on a
viaduct about 400 yards south of the
west end of the switch, which was
turned to throw the train in the siding.
] A few hundred feet in that direction
! pile of ties had been placed across
! the rails of the siding. This
is in deep cut, and just up the EN-
bankment to the south is rail fence
! hemming in the tracks This had
been carefully prepared by the des-
peradoes for the hasty escape. With
in a distance of 80 feet the rails had
been let down in eight piac.s as
soon as the daring deed WAS done,
they clambered up the embsn srnent
with the load of plrnder, and walkinp
across the s,ubblefeld passed o., AZ
the eastern gate. across the wagon
road and made their escape in south
east.rly direction. Thcir tracks were
pa My visible on en- erinr the field
ia esrsfr . l,s y al
trace was lost.
Col Hvrne of Buffalo the chief de-
tcctive OF the express company, said
- believe they made their escape on
horses, and, believe there were three
men
Every stranger coming into any of
the towns near here is closely scrut.n-
lied. Yesterday morning "Dave" Blk
Ter was arrested as he came wa king
from Avilla to Keufallvlle Bixler
comes of bad family and he has long
been an object of mistrust He has
not been seen around here lately and
his sudden appearance at this time
was commented upon. After his ar
rest he was Glossy examined by the
railroad and express company officers
and detectives. What he told was not
given out, but after half an hour he
was let go.
Sheriff Shauck is confident that
something more definite will be
known in the next twenty-four
hours. Before he left.for Green town
ship he said: Il have made careful
examination of the vicinity of kess-
lers station, )ut nave been unable to
find anything to show where the rob
bers went 1t seems as il they had
dropped down from the sky and gone
off in some equally peculiar manner.
| am satisfied thoroughly that no per-
sons in this country committed the
robbery. Every individual upon
whom the least suspicion could rest
has now been accounted for He
also said there wore two WAYS in
which the robbers could have es.
capped. One by horses. taking the road
to the south for about three miles
where it terminates, then going east
or west by cross-road. The other
was that of going on foot through the
dense woods to the east.
The train schedules of all the rail-
roads through this part of the country
indicate that the robbers could not
have left here by rail. A north-bound
Grand Rapids & Indiana train at
about o'clock in the morning is the
only passenger which they could have
taken. But SO far as learned no sus-
picious persons boarded that train
Monday night. The only reasona BILE
theory seems to tie the one that they
are st II together, with their booty, in
the vicinity.
Engineer Knapp is still very weak
DR.. Gilbert said that, while recovery
was not absolutely certain, the proba-
bilitics are that the engineer will lie
able to leave for home within a week.
His sister came here Tuesday night
from Toledo, and she is in constant a,
tendance.