Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-15
SETTLES THE GANG.
Remaining Sherburn Robber is
Captured.
EPISODE Is OF UNUSUAL BREVITY
ute of Their Crime Until Death
OvertaiSes One and the
Other Caught.

uIbuef mere on the Charge VI
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 arerst near Gilmore 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
and kill the two men in the Sherburne
bank. After detailing the killing of the
two men, he said:
My brother and 1 were greatly alarm
ed lest we should be penned up in the
bank and agreed that we should work
rapidly. I went to the money drawer
and took out the money. L thought
there was about $500 in the bunch
had. / put 1T in a sack we had for
that purpose. Then we cut the screen
to the bank window and let down on
our bicycles. Just 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 Sner-
burne. My brother, being the fastest
rider, made south for the state line,
and l took a southweSterly direction
until got south of Jackson, and then
river to -A1gona. Then 1 crossed THE
country around by Britt and Forest
City to 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 shook
his head and said:
81 do not wish TO let my folks know
anything about this. I suppose / shall
plead guilty under an assumed name.
The name he first gave upon being
taken into custody was Jim McMullen.
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 Paramount, 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 Sherburne 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 lynolhed in
Martin county, where the crime was
committed and it is feared that even
in Farbault an attempt to lynch him
may be made. He has confessed i'm
addition to his previous admissions,
that he and the dead robber, his broth
er, fired a barn at Heron Lake, Mimi,
a 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 in to a hardware store
at SherbuHIe and stole their revolverS
and bicycles.
A Mason City, Ia, special says that
| the dead robber known as ]. D. Sair
has bene identified as Jesse Lake, who
clerked 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 1. 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 VIII be
shipped to Ontario.
KILLED BY A FRIEND.
San Francisco, Oct. 12.-Charles Abb
ger. who killed Count Won Balfestrem 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
| trem'S 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 lavish1y and it was soon
| gone. For a time he led a precarious
existence, working as housepainter
and bootbback, and finally enlisted in
the United States army, wnere ne ser
we'd as a, private. Late ne said he had
| become reconciIed 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 latter's story of the shoot
ing is believed by the police, but there
| are a few discrepancies in IT. He says
| the shotoing occurred at shutdown while
the neighbors say they heard the shot
after 8 o'clock Won Ballestrem's
clothes were not powder burned, as they
| would have been had the shot been fired
1 at close range.
| INSTEAD OF HIS WIFE.
| Washington, Oct. 12.-Gwynn r.
| Thompkins, a sporting writer and a
turf man, who has gained some no
torietya by the disappearance of his
wife a writer under the non de plume
| of Helen Dare, and her subsequent di-
vorce, followed by her recent marriage
| to a California turfman named Nor
man Broug1l, was shot and painfully
| though not seriously wounded in West
Washington this afternoon by john Col
| Jfr.S a district government enpbOye. 1t