The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-09

the subsidiary silver in the compart-
ments nearest the observer Heavily
loaded with coin as 1t was, the natural
result Of suddenly pulling out the
drawer would be to slide the upper
part back, concealing the gold. and
leaving only the subsidiary silver to
view. The bills which were taken.
amounting, as nearly as can yet be
figured, to about $1,000, were kept in
the lower part of the drawer. and were
the first seen by the burglars.
The miscreants then hurried to the
rear window of the bank room, raising
1t and kicked the screen off. or kicked
portion Of the wire loose. leaving the
frame still In position, but with an
aperture in the netting large enough
for their exit. Not two rods away Is
the warehouse where Farmer Kohler
was loading his wagon, and to get
to the place where the men had their
bicycles in readiness they had to pass
directly by him. Kohler however was
too excited to act, even If he had not
already been at a decided disadvan-
tage in respect of force of arms.
These bicycles were left in the rear
of the barn behind the Empey house,
which is at the northern end of the
square in which the bank was, next
to the southern corner. 1t was there
fore, something over half a block that
the men had to run before getting their
wheels. Reaching them, they started
west Immediately without making any
further appearance on the main streets.
Schunk, who. as mentioned before,
was the last man in the bank except
the murderers and their victims, when
he left the place, met Proprietor Empey
between the bank and the Empey
house. Schunk and he had a very few
words. exchanging greetings, and
Schunk went to the hotel, Empey to
the postoffice in the block south of the
bank. When Empey returned, the
murders had been done and the vag-
abonds had escaped. Empey and Max
Jacobs, who were with him when the
bodies were found, spread the alarm
rapidly, and in few minutes the
clangor Of the fire bell wakened the
people Of the slumbering village to
such action as they had never ex-
perienced, never sought, and hope, no
very short time armed parties Of two
and three were covering every known
route Of egress from the village, but
the robbers had evidently made phe-
nomenal time in their flight, for, in
spite Of the fact that the surrounding
country is prairie, and some of the
highways are visible for miles at a
stretch, none Of the pursuing parties
actually came in sight Of the mur-
derers. 1t Is the general belief, how
ever, that they kept toward the west,
one of them, perhaps, turning to the
southwest into Iowa. They knew what
the people of Sherburne did not know
that they had tried to play similar
trick in Heron Lake but the day be-
fore, and they therefore avoided that
direction.
OTHER TOWNS AROUND
AS the news spread, every town for
twenty-five miles east or west organ
lied bands of armed men to pursue the
murderers to the bitter end, and at a
late hour tonight the search was still
being prosecuted with undiminished
vigor
Wednesday afternoon and night and
all day yesterday reports came from
various points Of the capture of sus-
poets, more or less circumstantial in
their supposed accuracy, but none of
them, SO far as can be learned, au-
thentic. One report was to the effect
that the men were in Wildcat Hollow
just outside Jackson, but this proved
canard. Another had it that they
had been rounded up at Alpha, TO-,
while still another narrated the cap
ture Of one of the duo at Superior, To-,
where he was making his way toward
Sioux City
AT an early hour yesterday morning,
young man named Kinehout, who
runs threshing machine outfit, rush
ing into Fairmont, Paul Revere-like, on
a bounding steed, reported that the
men had been seen near Mill Lake,
which is situated about eight miles
south of Fairmont, near the state line
Company d, of the Second regiment,
Capt. r. A. Everett, which is located
at Fairmont, was at once modified
and, supplemented by a strong corps
of unframed, but none the less, de-
termined citizen soldiers, went in pur-
suit. They did not succeed In getting
the supposed murderers, however.