The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-16
.R|)BBER Is SHOT DEAD
BY Officers at Perry While
Resisting Arrest.
CLEANED OUT A FARMER
Showed Up While His Victim
Was Posting the Police.

Perry. o. T.. July 15.-Another bold. bad
man lies in the undertaking rooms of Mr..
Wade of this city, awaiting the arrival
OF his old and honored father from Paw
nee county. Stiff in death he lies there
without one true friend to drop a tear
over his magnificent physique and early
departed life. He was probably dime
novel reader and thought he was smart
| enough to make a living without hard
work or an honest effort.
The readers of the Eagle will remem-
Der that Fridays paper contained an ac-
count of Storekeeper Wilson. east of this
city, being robbed of about $50. No ap-
parent clue as TO the perpetrator of the
crime was discovered. but on Thursday
afternoon a young fellow about % years
old accosted a farmer boy named George
Dague, who had just sold a load of
wheat to permit him to ride out in the
country for the purpose of hunting job
with threshing outfit. Young Dague
willingly and unsuspiciously consented
and about 6 o'clock the two started out
of town. Dague had used three horses
in bringing his wheat into town, and on
the road home led one of the horses be-
hind the wagon About dark, when about
ten miles from the city, the stranger
asked Dague to stop his team a moment.
whereupOn the stranger jumped out of
the wagon, drew a revolver and COM
manded young Dague to turn over what
money he had. Dague did so, giving the
highway robber about $40 The robber
thereupon united the horse from the rear
of the wagon, told Dague to drive on
home and, mounting, rapidly fed in the
direction of the city. Dague proceeded
but a short distance until he was over
taken by young Morgan, another farm
boy, and together they unhitched their
horses, bestrode two of them and rode
rapidly after the fleeing man. On the
road they secured a buggy and finished
the trip into town, arriving here about 10
o'clock Dhe officers were promptly noti-
fed, and while Dague, Sheriff Foster and
Under-Sheriff Payne were in Jones' sa-
loon talking the matter over, the robber
appeared on the scene. Dague told the
sheriff that his robber was before him,
and to arrest him. The sunrise at the
quick appearance of the man created a
moments delay, which the thief took adj
vantage of by drawing his gun and snap
ping IL at the sheriff. Foster immedi-
ately drew his gun and fired, the ball en-
tering the robbers body four inches to
the right of the right nipple. ranging up
ward, and 1t left the body under the left
arm, tore across the partition of the sa-
loon and imbedded itself in the wood of
the frame OF the, window beyond The
man staggered, made an Intellectual eff
fort to shoot again. reeled, and would
have fallen had not Foster and Payne
gently assisted him to the floor. He died
without aw ord.i a few moments. On
his person was found part of the money
taken from Dague. his weigh ticket for
the wheat sold and several other things
which established his identity beyond a
doubt. A corOner's jury returned a YER
dict of justifiable homicide at the hands
Of an officer. The dead mans name is
S. NJ. Wilson, or Nose Wilson, as he is
known at his home, near Crystal, o. T.,
south of Pawnee. Yesterday afternoon
he was identified by both Mr.. Wilson and
his wife as the same person who had
robbed them at their store a few even
ings before. On Wilson's person was also
found a false beard and mustache one
green goods letter and a slung shot. He
was evidently a victim Of the glare and
tinsel OF the dime novel. This is the end
of the third highway robber in three
months in this county. the other two.
with indictments still hanging over them.
are each doing ten years In the penitpn-
tiary at Lansing. Kansas.