Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-26
EXCITING ROBBER HUNT
Bullets F;ew Thick In Council
 Bluffs Streets For a Time.
SEVERAL MEN HURT, TWO BADLY.

Bank Burglars Attempted to Rescue One
 of Their Gang Who Was Under Arrest
 and Stirred Up the City-Motorman Hit
 by a Bullet While Seeking n Refuge.
 COUNCIL BLUFFS. la, Feb 26.-A spir- ited fight between the bank robbers and the local authorities occurred here in which several persons were shot and much DOW der burned.
 Officers had been notified to watch for the men who Monday morning robbed the Griswold Qa.l hank. Just after dusk, as one of the officers was patrolling his beat, he noticed a lnan sitting in the office of the kicl hotel who answered the description telcgTaphcd from Griswold Deputy Sher- if O'Bricn was notified, and concluded that he was one of the men wanted, and called to his assistance Deputy Sheriff Hooker, and in company with Officers Pc terson and Ware the party entered the office and invited the suspect to jail.
 As the five men left the hotel two other hotel guests rose and followed, keeping several yards behind. Just aS they reach ed the courthouse O Brien dropped behind, telling his prisoner to walk in front. As he did this the two men who had been fol- lowing the party commenced firing at the officers
 Presenting their guns, the officers re- turned the fire the prisoner and the two strangers separating from the officers and shooting as they ran. For some minutes the fuSillade was kept up, citizen sand oth- CT officers joining in the battle, which had become general all along the line. until the dcspcradoCS were overcome and two of them placed under arrest and taken to jail, whore they gave their names as John Reilly and James Wilson.
 Two Robbers BadIy Wounded.
 As soon as they were secure behind the bars tho officers started to look for the other, and i'll the search they discovered O'Brien severely wounded. bullet hav- ing struck him in the abdomen, entering the body and lodging near the spine Reilly was hit in the groin, the bullet pen etrating some two inches The third man escaped and fled toward the river pursued by posse of citizens, but he managed to clude them. It is thought that he is now in Omaha, and the police of that city have been notified to be on the lookout for the man.
 In soarchiug the men at tho jail their pockets yielded a large number of postage stamps and n quantity of small change which fact convinceS tho officers that tho two parties now under arrest arc members of the gang that robbed tho Griswold hank While the shooting was going on Mo turman Sculirn met with a peculiar acci- dent. His train was in the vicinity of the l battle, and just as he was about tO seek ! the prOtCCtiuu of the inside of his car a | bullet struck building near by, and. | glancing, flow hack and struck him be- tween tho eyes, cutting the flesh to the ! bone
 At the Jail the men who arc under ar r.st refused to talk upon the subject ot the robbery. They say that they arr farm | hands.
 l In regard to the shooting they state that 1 they were scared, and did not know that the men with whom they were fighting wero officers. and that they shot, as they l supposed, Ia defend their lives