The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-08-21

during the the past month reads like
chapter from the life histories of Jesse
James or Eeimund Holshay, the noted
highway man.
On the night Of July 9th three sales
were blown open at Rocklaud, this
county, in "a manner which Indicated
that no amat0rcs did the work and the
occurrence created considerable excite
ment throughout the country, inasmuch
as the officers were unable 90 detect the
the culprits The affair had almost
been forgotten when the news OF
similar Job having been done at Calumet
on Friday night oll0st week. Following
close on the news Of the Calumet robbery
came a telegram from Sheriff Lean Of
lloushtou county TO Sheriff Corbctt
giving a description Of q suspect who
had driven through overland.
In the absence Of The sheriff the mess
age was delivered to Under Sheriff G. l..
IIollopeter who immediately began work
on the case aud by Tuesday morning
had satisfied himself that w +. Foster
a well known butcher Of this place, am
swered the description exactly, and upon
further inquiry learned that lie hadcome
overland from Houghton on sunday
night, arriving here about midnight and
getting out Of the RIG a mile from town.
cut across the country TO the homestead
OF his son-in- law, VIM. j. Heard, which
Is located west Of town about six miles
up the Iron River road
On the following day there arrived by
the afternoon train two young men who
gave their names as Carson and Mann-
ing who were known TO have been visit
ing at the Heard homestead short
time before.
Tuesday morning Under Sheriff John
Mcnamara of Iloughton county in par
suit oi Foster arrived at Greenland and
telephoned Under Sheriff HOllopcter To
arrest the man Foster at once, which he
,IIollopetcr) proceeded TO do, but upou
arriving at the homestead wa, informed
by Heard and his vile that he had left
the house a hall hour before on a visit
10 a neighbour uaued Dawson Thinking
it useless Tor hin 10 attempt 90 do any
thing without assistance be returned TO
town when hc met Under Sheriff Me
Ndmarn aud Special Deputy Abuer Shcr-
man OF Iloushton WHO had arrived from
Greenland expecting TO get the prisoner
when they arrived here
"a ,,.ts..tf ,I g., .4.ssa,
deputies Two gangs woso sent out' one
under Hollopeter was to 60 by brtt as
lar as Iron River. fourteen miles up 'he
lake, aud return 10y the road, meeting
the other party Under Mcnamara which
would go by wagon Although il was
not thought at this time that there was
going TO be any real shooting, every man
carried a revolver
Daylight found the party ON the alclt
and coming back ON the road a short
distance they took positions in the bush
alongside Of the road, dividing the party
so there were tarce con one side and two
ON the other
II was understood that when the three
men got between them they were 20
cover them with their revulyers and give
the command "t row up your hands "
The wait was long aud tedious but thc
battle which took place when the sale
blowers came along was lively enough TO
make up for all the dizziness OF the hours
OF waiting Some OF the deputies we're
OF their guard when the three men came
along or the whole party would now be
behind the bars, rs 1t wt7 two of them
were taken the third ono AMI the only
one which did any shooting,l got
away II was about $50 when they
put in their appearance, Carson, in the
lead, carried a double barreled shot gun.
The officers waited a iow seconds for the
other two TO get in range and then the
commands throw mp your hands" rang
out on the stiffness Of the forest W. r.
Foster was the FIRST 90 obey and the
boys say lie ooundu't Get his hands high
enough The man called Manr ng whom
many may think ON the close re-
semblance is brother Of Fosters, was
not 40 prompt bnt Cnrsons hands went
up and he fired -four shots into the
bushes in the d ection Of the sornd one
Of them striking Special Deputy Ahncr
/ sherman just above tho forehead and
filling the top OF his head iall Of No four
Duck shot. All Oh time it must not be
supposed that the officers wore idle, each
one was trying Gao bring dowd tho man
with the gun while they kept themselves
covered lIollopcter and Mcnamara
emptrd their fevolveis hn shots 10 all,
after him a. be ran down tie road while
the others were securing Manning and
Foster. BY the time llollopeter's rcvol-
yer was empty Carson had while uun-
inc put two moro shol in his gun and
TURNING aimed al the officer but Ilollo.
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