The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-03-01
FOUGHT IT 10 A BITTER FINISH.
Council Bluffs Officers Have q Fight
With Bsnk Robbers.
LOOTED THE BANK AT GRIsW0LD.
Discovered in Hotel at Council Blufs-
Attack the Officers While Being
Taken to Jail.

TRlswOLC, Ia, Feb. 26.-The First
National baok was burglarized by ex-
pert craeksruen. The vault was blown
TO pieces and the safe was attempted,
but the burglars only succeeded in de-
mOhshing the time lock. The secured
$3.50 IN money and 800 in postage
stamps which were in the vault The
estimate loss to the vault, safe and
money and stamps taken is $500.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Feb. pa spirited
fight between bank robbers and the
local authorities occurred here late Mon
day afternoon, in which several persons
were shot and much powder burned.
Officers had been notified to watch for
the men who in the morning robbed the
GTiswold, Ia, bank.
Just after dusk as one Of the officers
was patrolling his beat, he noticed a
man sitting in the Office of the Kiel
hotel who answered the description tele-
graphed from Griswold. Deputy Sheriff
o Brien 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
Peterson and Ware the party entered
the Office and invited the suspect to take
q walk
AS the five men left the hotel. two
other hotel guests rose and followed,
keeping several yards behind. The sus-
pect was conducted toward the county
jail, and Just as they reached the steps
Of the courthouse O'Brien stepped be-
hind, telling mis- prisoner to walk in
front. AS he did this the two men who
had been following the party commenced
firing at the officers. Pulling their
guns, the officers returned the fire, the
prisoners and the two strangers Beparat-
ing from the officers and shooting as
they ran,
O'BFien Severely Wounded.
For some minutes the fusilade was
kept up, citizens and other officers join
ing in the battle, which had become
general all along the line, until the des-
peradoes were overcome and two Of them
placed under arrest and taken to Jail.
They gave their names as W. Smith
and James Wilson. AS soon as they
were secure behind the bars the officers
started to look for the wounded, and in
the search they discovered O'Brien Sc.
Yerely wounded, a ball having struck
him in the abdomen, entering the body
and lodging near the spine. Smith was
hit in the groin, the ball penetrating
some two inches.
John Riley, the third rObber, the one
who led the shooting, got away
and fed toward the river, pursued by a
posse of citizens, but managed to escape.
It is thought that he is now in Omaha,
and the police Of that city have been
notified to be on the outlook for the man.
In searching the men at the jail, their
pockets yielded a large number of post
age stamps and a quantity Of small
change, which fact cOnvinces the off
GERS that the two parties now under ar
rest are members Of the gang that
robbed the Griswold bank.
While the shooting was going on
Motorman Scullen met with a peculiar
accident. His train was in the vicinity
of the battle, and just as he was about
to seek the seclusiOn of the inside of
his car, bullet struck the brick build
ing near by and glancing, few back
and struck him between the eyes, cut.
ting the flesh to the bone.
At the Jail the men who are under ar
rest refused to talk upon the subject of
the robbery.
TRAITORS IN THE POPULtST CAMP.