The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-05

St. Paul, Sept A Brainerd, Mimi,
special says: 4 sensational robbery at
St. Matthias, in this county, eighteen
miles below Brainerd, has just become
public. Robert A. Magee, a bachelor,
farmer who resides with his widowed
was captured by two masked men, blind
folded, and, after dark, walked to his
farm and was there guarded by one
while the other overpowered Mrs. Magee,
an aged lady, and bound and tied her
10 a chair The robbers evidently knew
that last fall Mr.. Magee drew from the
banks large sum and they threatened
to burn them if it was not given up.
Finally they secured nearly $500.
Before they left one of the robbers in
formed Mr.. Magee that the money would
be returned in November if no effort
was made to discover their identity and
that he would send them his note by
mail for the amount. explaining that he
was business man and needed the
money TO keep him from going into
bankruptcy No clue has yet been found
COUNTERFEITER CAUGHT.
Washington, Sept 4.-The secret ser
vice bureau today received a telegram
announcing the arrest OF the maker Of
the s. counterfeit of the old National
Bank of Grand Rapids. Mich, warning
of the existence of which was sent out
less than a week ago. The bureau re-
CARDS it as an important capture and
owing TO certain undeveloped features
Of the case, decline to make public the
name OF the counterfeiter or the place
Of his arrest
TRIED TO MAKE DOLLARS.
Richmond, Ind, Sept. 4.-John Murphy
and Clayton Milo, of Unionsport, Ran
dolph county, were arrested in this city
today charged with counterfeiting. The
had purchased a forge, crucible and
meta here for their work. Milo con-
fessed and told of attempts TO make dol
lars from moulds in the woods near
Uni0nsport. Murphy is an eX-convict.
HELD BY HIS TRUNK.
Phoenix, a. T, Sept. A. T. Herd.
late chief clerk in the Office of the Unit
ed States marshal of Kentucky, and
heretofore private secretary TO Govern
or Hunter, and wanted in Louisville for
defalcations, arrived in Phoenix three
days ago. Today he was recognized on
the street by Mrs. Mary r. Half, TIL a
year ago a resident Of Frankfort, Ky,
who claims to be his creditor 20 the
the basis of a note for $128 signed by
Herd, she attached his trunk and the
fugitive has thus been prevented from
leaving the city, which he apparently
was on the point OF doing.
EDMUNDS CASE PUT OFF.
Jefferson City, Mo-. Sept. 4.-The hear
ing OF the Johnnie B. Edmunds requsi-
ton case before Lieutenant Governor
Bolte was today postponed by that Off
cial until further notice. Sheriff Boyton
of Colorado expects TO bring three wit
nesses from that state to identify Ed
munds, and they cannot reach here be-
fore Monday or Tuesday next.
THREE HUNDRED PURSUERS.
Little Rock, Ark, Sept. News from
the mountain Businesses Of Pope county,
the scene Of last Sundays bloody butch
cry, is rather meagre, though ii is mo-
mentarily expected that intelligence will
come telling of the capture of the muir
derers of Taylor, Dodson and Renfroe.
1t is reported that fully three hundred
armed men are on the trail of the muir
derers.
LET MIR. BOBO OFF EASY.
Atlanta, Ga, Sept. Al. II. Bobo,
father Of a young woman who commit
ted suicide a week ago at Roswell, a
small town twenty miles from Atlanta,
was arrested at his home in that place
last night. charged with having been the
cause OF his daughters death. To a
committee of citizens who called on her.
Mrs. Bobo admitted the truth OF the
charge. The victim being dead and the
wife an incompetent witness. the COM
mittee decided that it would be imposs,-
bic 70 convict Bobo in court They,
therefore, contented themselves with CIV
ing him notice to leave town and never
return. Bobo left at once.
HALF A BILLION MORE
Excess in Value of This Years Crops Over