The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18
FAME'S LATEST PET
7m1
STORIES OF sHERBURN, THE SCENE
OF THE RECENT BANK ROB-
berry.
TRIALS OF EXCITING TIMES.
HARD LUCK STORIES OF A SEEKER
=u. FOR NEWS AT THE
FRONT.
WET OUTSIDE AND DRY WITHIN.
Chronicles of a Rainy Night ON the
Prairies of Martin
County.
TRIALS OF EXCITING TIMES.
WET OUTSIDE AND DRY WITHIN.

/ Fame and fortune are tickle; some
work for the former a lifetime, and at
| the finish are forgotten even before
| the mound above them has settled into
| f1rnlness; others scale the eminence
! like a pompier crew on a city sky
l.scraper.
AS with individuals, so it is with COM
| munities.
up to ten days ago, the general pub
illic did not know Of the existence of a.
little village4 i'm Martin county known
as Sherburn, ser Sherburne, much the
less to worry as to which was the
+ proper spelling; today it's fame is world
wide, as the scene of a robbery as novel
in it's conception as it was bloody in
its execution.
Sherburn as the town folk spell it,
is a modest little settlement accredited
by the state census of 1895 with pop
ulation of 704 When it has no bank
robbers to enliven it, it's principal
characteristics are remoteness and reg.
ularity.
= 1t was a week ago Wednesday at 4:50
p. m. that the writer was impelled by
an overwhelming desire for geograph-
sical research and the mandate of news
paper exigencies to find out all that he
could about Sherburn He desired to
perfect his knowledge before the Globe
went to press next morning. He was a
+ little late. If you want to get to Sher-
burn yourself the same day you start,
you want to get up early and have
your grip packed the night before;
. otherwise it is better to telegraph and
save anxiety.
saSherburn is on the Southern Mime
kee & ST. Paul, which runs almost due
5west from La Crosse into South Da-
kota Captious writer's might insist
that the trains and not the line did
the running, but they~do not run often
enough to cause any serious gramati-
cal discomfort in either case The man
agement of the road is very accom-
modating, however, and held one Of it's
trains at Albert Lea half an hour or
more to permit a reporter to ride to
Sherburn on a deadhead ticket the
same night, and then showed that the
road was good fellow by making up
the half hour it had lost and bring
ing him into Sherburn on time, and
half an hour before his paper went to
press.
- But at the time that this original
thirst for geographical knowledge be-
came manifest, Sherburn was practi-
ca1ly isolated from actual reacn. There
are several lines in a southerly direc-
ton from this city which intersect this
cross country road, of which the Chica-
go Great Western is the first Begin
ming at the right of the map. 1t was
so far east that it was not considered
in the cauculations at all. The connect
ing line of the Milwaukee road inter
sects it at Austin and Ramsey, but in /
ccih Ia coll ioin
trains do not come within two or three |
hours Of each other, and the only APP
: parent way of getting to Sherburn |
over that road at that time of the
forenoon would be to reach there at |
10:49 the next morning. BY taking /
the Omaha road to Prairie Junction
enc could reach Sherburn from the |
west the next forenoon, but neither of
these routes was really available for !
newspaper purposes.
Sherburn is 100 miles from st. Paul, 1
as the crow flies but the railroads do /
not. go that way. The towns along the +
southern tier Of the counties are pref
ty generally located in straight line |
through the center of the tie, but the /
route of the railroad is made some
what circuitouS with the seeming in |
tentior of having the depots in each /
town of any size as far away from the I
hotels and business center as possible. I
However, a train leaving here at /
, SIS reached ST. James at 12:40 a. m. I
It is just nice little drive OF twenty
five miles-on the map-to Sherburn,
so that it could easily be made before /
daybreak-on the map 1t is different
when you try it with horses. The I
Glob man was clad only IN money
and a hopeful disposition when he dis
embarked at st. James and proceeded I
to negotiate with hotel keeper for
rig and driver TO pilot him TO SHEER
burn, but the hotel man took pity on
the chaser of bank robbers and /
wrapped him ina heavy overcoat Be |
1t recorded that Thursday morninug, |
aOct. s, 1896, Shstween 2 and 6 o'clock |
was quite cold Ter the season, and the
prairies Of Wafonwan and Martin
.scounties have qB steam heating plants, |