Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Battle With Burglars.

Business Man of Bedford Station, N.
", Killed end Three Burglars Shot
Down.
Burglars attempted to enter the store of
w. b. Adams IL Son at Bedford Station,
N. y, early Thursday morning. The post
office is in the store. Mr.. Adams and his
son were aroused by the alarm which con-
nected their house with the store. The
father took a shot gun and pistol and the
son Winchester and the former proceed
ed to the rear and the latter to the front of
the building. The young man soon dis
covered a stranger standing in the street,
evidently a guard. The man claimed that
he was doing nothing but young Adams or
dered him to 90 with him. A moment later
a dozen shots rang out in the rear of the
store. Young Adams felt something strike
him in the back and knew that he had been
shot. He found later that the bullet struck
his suspender buckle and glanced off, max
ing only a slight flesh wound.
After the shooting a man ran out into
the clear moonlight and started down the
railroad track. The distance was 100 yards,
but young Adams took aim and fired. The
man pitched forward on his shoulder and
shreked my God" The man at Adams's
side made motion as if to start but the
young man covered him with the rifle.
About this time another man came running
down the track. Seeing the two figures he
lodged behind a telegraph pole, pulled a
revolver from his hip pocket and shouted
"Say, if you have got any shooting irons l
am going to do you" Before he could use
his revolver Adams fired. The burglar had
turned half around as he tugged at the
weapon and the rifle bullet struck him in
the back, penetrating his abdomen. Throw
ing his revolver over the embankment, he
dropped on all fours, and so holding him
self up with stiffened arms, he cried out
brokenly:
Charley, Pm shot, too. It's all up"
Adams then seized the man whom he had
first encountered and ordered him to go
with him. Adams stopped for a moment
to fire into the air Jas an alarm and the
burglar seized him. After all exciting
struggle Adams whired his opponent ovel.
The man then said that he would give in,
and that he had been shot early in the af-
fray. In the morning revolver was found
on the ground. There was dent on one
cartridge where the hammer had struck it.
1t is probable that the burglar auv. tied
to shoot his adversary with his pistol in his
coat pocket.
first two citizens who appeared and then
went in search of his father, who was found
in the rear of the store, with a bullet hole
through his head. Hearing young Adams's
cry the two citizens started to his assistance
and the burglar left with them fled. Mr..
Adams was taken to his home, where he
died in a few hours. The second man
whom Adams shot was unconscious. The
one that he shot first was not found until
daylight as he had crawled 200 yards. Both
men are expected to die. They were taken
to the Jail. The citizens who first APP
preached after the shooting saw a fourth
burglar run away.
A man with an arm shattered by bull
let came to Brooklyn surgeon Friday, and
because of his serious injury W. 1T TO
the Long Island college hospital, although
he was loath to go there His actions were
so suspicious that the police were notified.
He was recognized by the two citizens of
Bedford Station as the burglar who had es-
capped. His name is John Glare and he has
been a notorious bank robber for years.
He was shot by the elder Adams, whose re-
volver was found with one chamber empty.
Two women who said they were the
wives of the wounded men visited the burg
lars in the Jail at Mt. Kisco Friday. After
the visit they were examined - the otfic-
ials. The younger woman broke down
completely and said that her husband was
Peter James and that the other man was
Dick Burns. Burns is crook who has
been in Jail several times, who has been
mixed up in a score of burglaries and who
shot and killed sheriff in st. Louis II
years ago.
There was great excitement at Bedford
Station for 4S hours after the tragedy and
it was feared at one time that the wounded
men would be lynched.
Clare's arm has been amputated and
when he RECEIVERS he will be held on the
charge of numbering Mr.. Adams. All three
of the men were known as members of a
prosperous bicycle concern in Brooklyn,
with store on Atlantic avenue and shop
on Henry street. The firm was Peter
James & Co., John and Charles jenkins
being his partners. James is the slim burg
lar who was shot. The police expect to
capture the fourth man who was implicated,
but who escaped. 1t is thought that the
gang are the post-office tn eyes who have
appeared in many places within 100 miles
of New York in the past three years.