The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-16
Crowd of Two Hundred Angry Citi- .
spend All Day Sunday i'm
Exciting Man Hunt.
STANDARD OIL TRUST SCHEME
REPORT THAT 1T HAS CONTROL OF
THE CUDAHY PIPE LINE.
Indiana Producers VIII Not Escape
the Clutches of the Monopoly
Glass Worker TO Meet. A
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FARMLAND Ind, Nov I5.- A discharge
OF about twenty shots in rapid succession,
at an early hour this morning was the
first intimation that many received OF the
fact that burglars were I'm town and had
visited several houses. AS early as IL
o'clock last night they entered the house
of Phillip Dick and secured his watch and
trousers. He was awakened by the noise
and gave the alarm. A crowd collected and
undertook to patrol the town. with the hope
of catching the burglars. Wiley Jordan next
reported that his house had been entered
and a portion OF his clothing and s. in
money taken. His house was then placed
under guard and held undisturbed until the
Teeters bloodhounds. which had been tele-
graphed for, could get here from Anderson.
In the meantime four young men, who were
patrolling North Main street. observed a
couple of men come out of the residence
of Mrs. Ella Norviel and cross the street
and enter the yard of ]. S. Davis the mer-
chant. The guards called a halt. but the
strangers turned around and opened fire
on the party. The young men. who were
armed with revolvers and shotguns, re-
turned the fire. and rapid firing followed
for the next few minutes. All escaped in
jury. The burglars. in their hasty depar-
ture. dropped an overcoat, i'm the pocket OF
which was found the watch OF Mr.. Dick.
the first man who reported. The burglars
were last heard of when Rev. c. A. Sholtz.
living one mile east Of town. reported that
they had entered his house and secured the
eatables prepared for his Sunday dinner
The bloodhounds arrived on the early
morning train and were taken to the Jor-
fl,oxv II
and followed il through town over the very
ground where the shooting took place,
thence east to the Sholtz residence. thence
south to a road running west at the south
end of town, and along this road to Num-
Gle. where they arrived after dark. and. as
reported here. located the fugitives in an
old house in that city. A procession OF
over a hundred persons followed the dogs
all day TO assist i'm the capture.
The Burglars COrnered fn Muncfe.
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MUNCIE. Ind. Nov. 15.--The bloodhounds
that started on a trail of burglars at Farm
land this morning arrived IN Muncie to-
night. A crowd numbering perhaps two
hundred people followed. The trail showed
two or three In the party of robbers and led
direct to this city, a distance OF fourteen
miles. The dogs followed the rall 10 tne
home of an old colored woman on Beacon
street. in a colored settlement. but instead
OF demanding an entrance 10 the house at
once the party came down town after the
police, and when they returned three men
who had been seen had left. Their trail
was again taken and at midnight the dogs
were searching for the men In the vicinity
OF the pulp mill, south OF the city. The
| dogs followed the trail through every house
| that was robbed. doing fine work along the
| way TO Muncie Ii is alleged that the rob-
| bers were colcred and attempted TO assault
| a woman I'm one of the houses they entered.
BIoodhOunds Catch n Burglar:
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WILLIAMSPORT, Ind, Nov. 15.-Satur-
| day morning about o'clock the Williams
port Bloodhound Company was called TO
! Hedri0k, Ind. TO trail a burglar that was
I discovered breaking into the store and post
office owned by w. w. Crane. The burglar
! succeeded in breaking into the store and
| was heard by neighbors, who surrounded
4 the building. After the exchange or several
| shots the burglar succeeded In making MS
escape. After the hounds arrived they were
put on the trail. and after a circuit OF three
| miles went 10 the home OF VIM. Lennen.w who
| was captured and brought here for trial.
Squire Fisher bound him over TO the next
term of court in the sum OF $l0O