The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-10-20

| all the summer. He bore tie name
here Of Jesse Lake and that was Prob
! ably his true name
| Fairmont. Mimi, Oct. 15.-The Sner-
buthe bGhk fobbet, confined in the
Martin county Jail. made q statement
/ to Sheriff Hill to-day, which has been
| verified giving his name and home.
! His name is Lew Kellihan, and his
home Rock Ranids. Iowa, where BIS
| parents reside. He gives his age as
| tWenty-one years; and states that bis
brother, who was killed, Was the
| younaet beibg but eighteen;
Sheriff Hill to-day sec6red 4 detailed
| statement from the prisoner, Showing
| the route he followed before being cap
| tured, and the manner in which he
| evaded capture for SO long a time. He
| also made a more detailed statement
| Of the affair in the bank, refusing,
| however, to go into details concerning
| the shooting of Cashier ThOrburn and
| Collector Oestern. He said:
CAS- | said before, my brother
| planned the robbery and came to our
home to have me help him with 1t.
| We thought the idea Of Using bicycles
| would be an excellent one and that it
would thus be very easy to escape. 1
| i'm il good rider and my. Brother was
an EXPERT. He could ride fifty mites
without stopping at pretty near record.
breaking time; and it was BECAUSE he
was such a good rider that it was
agreed that he should take the money.
| We believed that we could get hun
dred or more miles away from Sher-
burne before the people would have
any idea where we were, even if it
was found that we got away on BIZ
| cycles. We intended to meet at Albert
Lea on Thursday. Oct. 49, to divide the
money, and then we had planned to
ride into Missouri and Texas and prob
| ably into MeXico We figured on rely
ing on our bicycles entirely and new
er intended to use the trains. Ill that
way we thought it would hot be SO
| easy to use the telegraph to head lis
| Off
Planned The R0bbeFy:
eve did not know at first what
bank we would rob. We were well ac-
quainted with all the ground in North
ern Iowa and Southern Minnesota and
relied upon that q good deal to help us
in getting away. We had our different
routes all picked out, where they af-
forded the best hiding places and
where the country was Sparse1y set
and NOrWegianS, who, not speaking
English very well, would not become
so soon informed of the robbery. We
rode over the ground several times and
knew just where we were going. We
did not decide, however which bank
to rob for several days, which we
spent in riding about the country. We
finally determined to try the one at
Heron Lake ard boarded at place
there for several days. The scheme OF
setting fire to the building In order to
get the people out of the bank, we
made up Our minds would not work
after trying it at Heron Lake, and
then we determined TO try the SheI-
burne bank.
I'VE first agreed not to shoot. l
told my brother that / would not go III
with him If any shooting was to be
done. We thought that the bank OF.
fciais would be scared to death if
we threatened to shoot them; and got
big revolvers FOR that purpose. We
got the revolvers at Lakefield. We
broke a window in the store and ]
crawled through and got the revolvers
and the big knife. We went to Sher-
burne Tuesday. | remained outside of
town and he went in and bought tile
overalls We rode back to Heron
Lake, where we stayed all night at
the place at which we had been stop
ping, and Wednesday morning early
we started for Sherburne. We rode in
very fast so that not many people
would see us to recognize us. We first
put our wheels in the back alley be-
hind the bank building and watched
tie bank from a buggy shed across
the street We waited for a couple of
men to do some business in the bank.
and when we thought there was no one
in but the officials we cut across the
street and went in. We
Walked Right Up to the Counter.
We had agreed that | was TO ask the
officials the questions 10 attract their
attention, while he was to cover them
with his revolverS and command them
to throw up their hands. Then 1 was
to get the money, lock the doors and
windows and we were to go out the
front way and lock the door on the
outside so that they could not get out.
In that Way we expected to be a long
way off before the alarm was given.
There We're two men behind the cOun-
ter Of the bank when we came in.
They We're talking to each other, ard
when l approached the counter as
though l wanted something one Of
them looked up and | asked him if l
could get a draft. While | was ask
ing the question he (the brother) got
out his guns and commanded the metz
TO throw up their hands. l started
for the money drawer when l heard
him dhe brother) shooting | was
scared and said: Let's get out of
mere. Let's jump through the window
He said: Attend to your business
and so then | went around and took q
na ol 4 90 of money ont of fho dra Upr