The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-13

TranogreesofS Lot nut AeIniueess -
Episode of Unusual Brevity-Hounded
| by Pursuers From the Very Minute Of
Their Crime Until Death Overtakes One
and Prison Doors Close Behind the
Other-Crime News in General.
Lake Mills, Ia, Oct. 12.-The young
man under arrest here on the charge OF
having been implicated in the double
murder and bank robbery at Sherburne
has made a confession acknowledging
that he was an associate in the affair.
He says that the man killed while re-
sisting arers. near Elmore was his
brother He will not reveal his true
name nor the location of his home.
The confession was secured by his
captor, Marshal Ruby. He declares
that his brother planned the robbery
ann Kill the two men in the S1ez ou-ne
bsuk. After dete Hing the killing Of tas
Two men. ne said:
My brother and were greatly alarm
ed lest we should be penned up in the
1 bank and agreed that We should work
rapidly. / went to the money drawer
and took out the money. l thought
| had. i put it in a sack we had for
that purpose. Then We cut the screen
to the bank window and let down on
our bicycles. Just as we got on our
| bicycles handed my brother the money
and he put it in his bicycle bag. We
separated about two miles out of Sher-
| burne. My brother, being the fastest
rider, made south for the state line,
| and / took a southweSterly direction
until / got south of jackson, and then L
struck out south along the Dies Moines
river to Algona. Then 1 crossed THE
country around by Britt and Forest
City 10 Lake Mills. had a pretty hard
time getting through"
After making the confession to Mar
shall Ruby, the latter wanted the pris-
oner to tell his right name. but he shock
his head and said:
II do not wish TO let my folks know
anything about this. / suppose l shall
plead guilty under an assumed name.
The name he first gave upon being
taken into custody was Jim McMuilen.
He now says that it is fictitious, but
will give no other, so that is the name
under which he will probably be ar
raigned. He will be taken to the Blue
Earth county Jail, located in Blue Earth
City, for safe keeping as it is consider
ed dangerous to lodge him in the county
jail at Fairmount, the county seat OF
Martin county, in which the Sherburne
affair occurred.
Minneapolis, oct. 12.-An Albert
Lea. Mimi, special to the Journal says:
The second Sherbunne bank robber.
captured at Lake Mills, passed through
here today on his way to Blue Earth
City, where he is to be jailed for safe
ty. He would certainly be lyndhed in
Martin county. where the crime was
committed, and it rs feared that even
in Faribault an attempt to lynch him
may be made. He has confessed, in
addition to his previous admissions
that he and the dead robber, his broth
er, fired a barn at Heron Lake, Mimi,
week ago today with the idea of rob-
bing the bank during the excitement.
Owing to the care the cashier took to
lock up the funds the plan failed. He
says they broke into hardware store
at Sherburne and stole their revoivers
and bicycles.
A Mason City, Ia, special says that
the dead robber known as j. D. Sair
has bene identified as Jesse Lake, who
clerl1ed IN that city last May.
A dispatch from Sherburne, Mimi,
says: The body of the dead robber, j.
d. Sair. was inferred at Sherburne Sun
day. The only services was a short
prayer by Rev. J. J. Lutz. Thousands
of people camel rom all directions. The
other funeral was that of George A.
Thorbune, the dead cashier. The /. o.
o. F. lodge, of which the deceased was
a. member. had charge of the funeral
and Rev. C. w. Walker preached the
funeral sermon. The body Will be
shipped to Ontario.
KILLED BY A FRIEND.
San Francisco Oct. 12.-Charles Abb
ger, who killed Count Won Baliestrem at
Monterey last night, is of good German
family. He says he was preparing to
go. hunting just at dusk and had a
playful struggle with his friend for the
gun. The weapon was discharged and
a load of bird shot entered Won Bales
trems breast, killing him instantly.
The dead man came from a prominent
German family. He served IN the Ger
man army and came to the Pacific
coast about ten years ago. He spent
his money lavishly and ii was soon
gone. For a time he led a precarious
existence, working as housepainter
| and bootblack, and finally enlisted in
the United States army, where be SER
we'd as private. LateIS ne said he had
become reconciled with his family and
that he was receiving money from Ger
many. He went to Monterey a few
months ago and lived with his friend
Abiger. The iatter's story of the shoot
ing is believed by the police, but there
are a few discrepancies in 1t. He says
the shotoirlg occurred at shutdown while
the neighbors say they heard the shot
after S O'Clock. Won Ballestrern's
clothes We're not powder burned, as they
would have been had the shot been fired
at close range.
INSTEAD OF HIS WIFE.
Washington, Oct. 19.-Gwynn P.
Thompkins. a sporting writer and a
turf man. who mas gained some no.
toriety by the disappearance OF his
wife, a writer under the non de plume
OF Helen Dare, and her subsequent d.
vorce, followed by her recent marriage
10 a California turfman named Nor
man BTough. was shot and painfully
though rot seriously wounded in West
Washington this afternoon by John Col
Inns, a district government ernploye. 1t
IS said that note from Thomkins ask
ing Mrs. Collins to meet him today fell
into the hands OF her husband VINO met
Thcmpi1irs at the appointed hour and
used his revolver on him.
4 MAN may feel happy In rags, but he
doeSn look it.-Hartforo Religious Herald