Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-17
.HE fOILS HIS PURSUERS
One Of the Sherburne Bandits
Takes His Own Life.
Brought to Bay He Kills the Mar
shall of Bancroft aud Then
Kills Himself---Stolen
Money Recovered.

Algona. Ia. oct. 10.-The robbers and
nurderers Of the Sherburn cashier and
he passive bystander have paid dearly
or their act. R~etributive justice was
,ast upon their track. and one Of them
Is now dead and seemingly nothing but
4 miracle can save the other from a
tate 80 much deserved.
After the robbery and double murder
At S%herburne the bandits set out for
The southwest. pursued by a large posse.
Yesterday the citizens of Emmett and
Kossuth counties, in Iowa. turned out
m masse In search Of the robbers. They
separated near the Des Moines river.
jne going due east. Deputy Sherif
Brayton of Kossuth county and Mar
shall Gallon. with a posse from BAN
croft, la. took the east tran. This they
followed all day. and at night they
rested. They were up n at an carry
hour Thursday morning 1t was evident
they were close pon the bandit Al Z
o clock the latter stopped at q farm
house to get something to eat, and ten
minutes later the robber was startled
oy the sound OF hoofs. The posse had
come I'm upon him and the house was
surrounded. The robber was not TO sur
render without a show of hght. ana ne
dartcd for a window, out OF when ne
jumped. Marshal Gallon was stationed
there. but before he could level his gun
the bandit had whipped out his revolV-
or and sent a bullet through the breast
Of his victim. 1t entered just above
the left nipple. Gallon fell and was
carried into the house. He lived only
A few hours.
bandit FIees on His Bicycle.
The bandit mounted his bicycle,
which was leaning against a tree, II
ne sped away eastward at a tremendous
rate. The posse was stunned at me
loss of one OF their leaders, but sopl
collected thelnse lives and started In not
pursuit. The robber was about a nile
n advance. aud for five miles manage
to keen a good distance in thu .eSd.
His BICYCLE then went down on him on
account of a puncture and he left It by
the side of the road and set out on foot
through a cornfeld. Deputy sh"lin
BraytJn was close upon his heels, ara
opened fire with a double barreled sho'
gun. The bandit, seeing he had no
| ,hance to make his escape, placed a e.
volver to his head and sent Il ounce
through his BRAN. BY the time the
deputy sheriff reached him he was
lead. His body was then r.ddl-d with
bullets.
Most of the money taken IRON the
sank was found on his person. a con-
yeyance was secured and his body was
taken to Gilmore, MINI. The body OF
he marshal was taken to his late home
nt bancroft, where the whole town is IN
grief over his tragic death. ne other
robber is believed to be in custody at
Jackson, Mimi, although officers are
hot I'm pursuit of another man VINO Is
making his a southeast through
Winnebago county. The man VINO Is
under arrest at Jackson tallies exactly
with the description. The man killed
Is j.. ID. Sair, who at one time lived at
Heron Lake. The other Is supposed TO
pe Fred Pratt, who was seen win SAT
two days before the robbery.
Keport OF Another Robbery.
\ report is also received that a tall
man entered the Bank Of Hardee, south
east Of Luverne, Ia, in the afternoon
covered the cashier with a revolver ana
demanded the proceeds. He was hand
ed over $500 and made his escape. Sair
and Pratt worked his year on a farm
owned by an uncle Of Pratt near Heron
Lake. They nave been regarded as hard
cases. A large barn was recently set
on fire and burned at Heron Lake and
the crime was charged to them.
u other Robber Surrounded.
Sherburne. Mimi, Oct. 10.-A report
has been received here that a large
posse Of armed men has partly sur
rounded the other robber near Forest
City. Ia. IL Is said that the robber
fought desperately and several shots
were exchanged, but he finally eluded
his would lie captors, The posse con-
tinuel the pursuit with good prospects
Of success. Coroner Johnson has ar
rived in S%herhurne from the south. He
reports that all northern Iowa is on the
lockout for the bandit who is still al
large. Every road where he is liable to
pass is guarded and escape Is almost
impossible.