The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08
KODACKED ON THE SPOT.

every time those serving them would turr
around. Mr.. Dalameter noticed that tht
| man he was waiting on attempted, ap
| parently, to arrange the rear button of his
| shirt collar. He thought, however, that
when he reached his hand back it can
tained some watch chains and when he
returned 1t it was empty.
what did you do with those chains you
had?" said Mr.. Dalameter.
81 had none," replied the customer,
81 believe you are lying. said Dalameter.
'!No, lam not" said the customer, in
dignantly.
Mr.. Dalameter then stepped to the door,
and after locking it, made dive for the
vest pocket of his customer and pulled out
nice string of watch chains.
Open that door, said the robber, or Tll
kill you on the spot. Instead of replying
Mr.. Dalameter turned in the police alarm.
The tinkle Of the alarm bell made the rob-
Der tremble. He recognized its import
and. with desperate look on his face.
made spring for the plate glass door and
shot through it like cannon ball. His
partner followed him, and so did Mr.
Dalameter and Mr.. Pierce. They all went
through the shattered pane Of glass like
horses going over a fence in an English
hurdle race. Robber No. disappeared as
if the ground had opened up and swallow
ed him. The crash of the breaking glass
brought a multitude of people to the
scene, and it is supposed that instead of
taking to his heels he mingled with the
crowd. The robber who first jumped
through the glass. made desperate run
east on Douglas avenue with Officer John
Fisher sailing after him and yelling stop
thief |" like a COmanche Indian.
Owing to little incident that happened
at the Pea Ridge while John was putting
down the rebe lion, be was not as swift of
l..,k
cellent shape, and every foot the robber
gained on him, he raised his yelIs an addi-
uional note.
Captain Foster. the well known private
detective was sitting in John Goodyear's
hotel, reading about the exciting contest
between Napoleau Bonaparte and Arthur
Wellesly at Waterloo when he heard the
yells of Officer Fisher, and picking up his
revolver, ne started out the side door just
rs the robber WAS bounding by him like n
grey eyhouud. The captain threw out his
long right arm and caught the gentle
man by the collar, but the speed of flight
WAS so great that he could not hold him
and WAS jerked about ten feet out in the
mud. He was used, however, to such ex-
citing experiences and he followed and
made the robber surrender in the alley
between En:poria and Topeka avenues.
The robber was in desperate straits and
showed vicious fight, but Foster hit him
over the head with his revolver This
only euraged the robber and he attacked
Foster like mad bull, but by this time
John Fisher came up and anther exciting
tussle followed. The fight waxed warm
and promised to be hard one, but 0. c.
Daisey reinforced the policeman and de-
tective and the robber was taken in tri-
umph to the hoodlum wagon depot,
whence he WAS driven TO the city Jail and
locked mp, after showing some more fight
there. The robber showed wonderful
nerve in his fight and seemed TO be utterly
void of fear Or course Captain Foster
and officer Fisher could havs easily
taken all the fight out of him by radical
use of their weapons, but they did not
want to spill unnecessary blood.
AT police headquarters the robber gave
his name as John Locke, but this is evil
IDENTIFY an assumed name. The police
think they have an uncommon criminal,
and they are determined to hold fast to
him.
DR.. Hoffman. the city physician. was
called IN at O'Clock aud dressed
Locke's wounds. One cash in the forehead
WAS made by the plate glass through
The glass was three-eighths of aa inch
thick.
Shortly after o'clock Captain Foster
and Officer Wood arrested another man on
the corner of Main and Douglass who is
supposed to be Locke's partner and con-
federate.
The affair caused considerable commo-
tion in that part of the city and reports OF
all kinds were current. Some said that
the captured robber MAS one OF the Dalton
gang, and scme gorgeous spectacular
stories were told of how be held up Mr.
Pierce with brace OF revolvers and
ordered him TO shell out his diamonds,
pearls, Iubies, etc.