The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
Officers Have a Desperate En-
counter With Calumet POST
Office Robbers.
TWO OFFICERS WOUNDED.
Three of the Suspected Thieves
are Now Safely CHARTERED
in HOughtOD Jail.

The following dispatches give an
interesting and rather thrilling ac-
count of the encounter and capture
of the thieves who looted the post
Office at Calumet:
Rockland. Mich, Aug. 1.-THE
sheriffs of Houghton and Ontonagon
counties, accompanied by several
deputies, located the robbers who
cracked the safe in the Calumet post
ofice last Friday night and secured
S48l in cash, near Iron River, a
small town about nine miles south
west of Ontonagon, today, and
battle in which about twenty shots
were exchanged ensued. Deputy
Sheriff Abner Sherman, of Hough-
ton, received a charge of birdshot
in the head Two of the robbers
we're captured and lodged in the
Ontonagon Jail. The third man
escaped, but the officers are con
fident he cannot get away, as he was
wounded during the fusilade. The
gang is supposed to be the same one
which cracked three safes in Rock
land not long ago.
Houghton, Aug. ia clue has
probably been found to the Calumet
postoffice robbery which the sheriff 5
force is following up in the hope of
landing the robbers Sunday morn
ing stranger called at Oskar's
farm house and asked for breakfast,
which was given him, after which
he asked if he could be driven to the
Ontonagon halfway, stating the
price was no consideration. Four
dollars for the trip was agreed upon,
and the start made by way of the
Atlantic mine road. Arriving with
in three miles of the halfway the
stranger suggested that the horse
be fed and watered. The driver
thought he might as well continue
=, the journey without a stop, but the
stranger insisted. He then alighted
and started to walk ahead, telling
the driver if he was not to be seen
when he reached the halfway to turn
around and go home. OF course, he
was not to be found. The stranger
called at the halfway later, however,
and was furnished supper, after
which he walked nine miles to Dick
inson's place, whence he was driven
to Greenland, which is the last place
he had been traced to.
Later-After desperate fight in
which Deputy Sheriffs Holfetter, of
Ontonagon and Abner Sherman, of
Houghton, were wounded, Deputy
Sheriff. John Mcnamara Wednesday
afternoon secured the arrest of two
men supposed to be implicated in
the Calumet postoffice robbery and
lodged them in the Ontonagon jail.
The men were traced from Green
land to a homestead, where they
lived the past month, representing
themselves as coming from Cleve
land. The men had been missing
from the homestead for week and
returned Monday. The officers be-
lieve the missing man is badly
wounded and cannot escape. The
woman in the case was located
Wednesday afternoon at Kenton,
and her arrest is expected without
trouble, The officers are satisfied
they have the right parties.
The following is from the copper
country department of the Mining
Journal of Yesterday: Acting un-
der instructions from Sheriff Lean,
John. H. Hid, sheriff of Baraga
county, arrested a man named Tom
o Day on the train at L'Anse Thurs
day afternoon, ,and brought him back
to Houghton, where he is wanted in
connection with the Calumet postof
fee robbery. O'Day claims to be
from Gladstone and has been in the
county a month. He is believed to
have laid out the work for the
robbers
Abner Sherman arrived home at
Houghton on Thursday noon S train
with his head bandaged as result
of the shooting affair with the rob-
bers at Ontonagon. He was shot in
the head, receiving discharge from
a shotgun, but his wounds are not
likely to prove serious. Deputy Nc
Namara was also shot in the leg dur
ing the fight, but not serious. Twenty
FIVE shots were exchanged. Two of
the robbers, when headed off, threw
up their hands, and the third, with a
shotgun and two revolvers, backed
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