The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-01-20
TOWN RAnED.
Chris Evers and HIS Pupil, Des-
perate by Went and Hunger,
Como Out OF Their Hiding Place aaA
Stir Up the Town of Fowler. Call
They Raid u Provision Store
and hattie Follows.

FRESNO Cal, Jan. 1.-two men, bo-
lieved to be Chris Evans, the visalia
bandit, and his promising understudy,
Ed Morrell, raided the town of Fowler
Wednesday evening. Another tale OF
bloodshed and terror is the result
Fowler is a village OF 300 inhabitants
ten miles southeast of Fresno. George
Leon, the station agent, and three men
employed as section hands were in the
depot at Z o'clock, just after the Los
Angeles express had passed. While the
four men were talking, q masked maa
with revolver in each hand appeared
Mt the open door and ordered them to
throw up their hands. Not one hesi-
tated to obey.
At this iuncture Howard Harris and
A. Vincent, prominent business men OF
Fowler, stepped upon the depot plat
form and took in the situation. They
were about to run away and give the
alarm, when the robber espied them
through window. The outlaw, still
keeping the other men covered, backed
slowly out of the door and ordered Har-
ris and Vincent into the depot, saying
he would kill them If they refused.
They naturally went in. The masked
man then stood the six citizens along
the wall, covering them with one revolt
yer and went through their pockets.
He secured q little over $70 The dar-
ing freebooter then ordered his six
prisoners into the street and made them
walk down town through the principal
thoroughfare to Kutner & Goldstein'a
grocery. The robber followed his ak
prisoners into the store, and 1t was evi.
IDENTIFY his intention, alone and single
handed, to loot the grocery. However.
just as he ordered three men previously
in the store to throw up their hands,
the proceeding was interrupted by Con-
stables Ochs and Nelson.
Then began bloody shooting affray.
Ochs, with his pistol drawn, rushed
into the store. The bandit turned upon
him and fred. Ochs fell and rolled out
through the door, firing at the robbeI
from the floor. His aim was wild,
however, and the constable shot one
citizen through the arm and another in
the breast The man hit in the breast
was struck by spent bullet and not
seriously hurt, though knocked down
During this general fusillade the rob
ber escaped and disappeared in the
! darkness.
Another robber appeared upon the
scene, however, during the battle il
the grocery. A wagon dashed up tc
the door and the driver began shooting
at Constable Ochs, thus aiding in the
escape of the robber within. The mar
in the wagon then drove rapid,
away. This man answers the de
scription of Chris. Evans In the othei
robber, who wore a bandana handker
chief over his face, the men attacked
believe they recognized Ed. Morrell
The robber told them, also, that hi
name was MorrelL 1t is believed herr
that the bandits, becoming pressed fo
food and money, came down from TIN
mountains determined to make a raid
A posse left this city Wednesday nigh
to organize pursuit from Fowler
Constable Charles Ochs, who is badl.
wounded in the right thigh and groin
was one of the jurors who convicte'
Chris. Evans of the murder of Deput.
United States Marshal Vic Wilson
Ochs declared that he wounded tn
younger of the two robbers. 1t is gen
orally agreed here and in Fowler tina
the daring raid was the work of Evan
! and Morrell.