The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-03-28
BANDITS
IN BATTLE
They Had Robbed the Carbondale
Traction COmpany's Office.
ONE OF THE ROBBERS SHOT DEAD

TWO Others In the Lackawanna Hos
pital and Two In Jail-The Captures
Effected by Citizens, Led by IA Noted
Hunter and Trapper.
Scranton. Pa. March 2s.-Five or the
gang Of six crooks that robbed the Car.
bondale Traction company's station az
M0yhold yesterday morning have been
brought 10 earth. One Of them is dead.
two are In the Lackawanna hospital In
this city, and two are in the Carbonate
Jail
After sundhagging Fireman Patrick
Dempsey and Engineer Frank Coggins
and shooting Night Clerk w. z. Breck-
enridge in the foot they made of with
the cash box, containing over 81 600
aud headed towards Carbondale. with a
posse in pursuit.
The next heard Of them was at Forest
City, on the line Of the jefferson branch
Of the Erie road They were aboard
box car on Conductor Sig" Robbins
northbound train and when ordered to
get of drew revolvers and referred to
them as first class tickets" At Union
dale the conductor learned from the
operator Of the Maytield affair, and sizing
up his passengers as the perpetrators Of
the daung deed telegraphed ahead To-
Mount Ararat FOR assistance 20 capture
them. big Bill' Leach, a noted hunter
and trapper, who keeps a summer hotel
not far from the station, was aroused.
and summoning as many OF the neigh
bors as the time would allow formed
posse to effect the capture.
When the train stopped the robbers
saw the crowd at the station and jump
ed out on the opposite side and started
down the tracks. Leach who had
Winchester repeating rifle. and Miller
Jesse Vail who had a revolver ran
around the engine and called upon the
robbers to surrender. The answer was
voliey Of bullets. Leach and Vail
returned the fire. The robbers stood and
sent back another volley. Leach's rife
cracked three times and three robbers
bit the dust. The remaining three fled
one going down the railroad and two
making for the woods A fourth shot
from Leach's rifle winged the man on the
tracks, but he picked himself up and
continued his flight A fifth shot was
sent at random in the woods in the di.
rection in which the other two fugitives
disappeared.
When the crowd came from behind the
train they found LEACH and Vail nnhr-.
ana three Of the robbers lying on the
ground hundred feet away. One OF
them was pierced through the brain by
a rifle ball The second, a boy not
over is years OF age. had a bullet hole
clear through his body, extending from
just above the heart to the middle of the
back and passing through the left lung.
The third had his right arm shattered
below the elbow.
The dead man was turned over to 4
local undertaken. The wounded men
were brought To the Lackawanna hos
pital in this city. The boy gave his name
as James Kelly and his home as Ashley,
Pa. He says he has no relatives The
other gives the name Of James Cum
mings, and claims to come from Logans.
port, Ind Both claim they do not know
the name OF the dead man.
A posse headed by Constable Michael
Moran came in at noon with two robbers
who escaped into the woods. They were
captured after a long chase a few miles
this side Of Susquehanna They refuse
TO talk. Ii is supposed they hid the
stolen money in the woods.
All of them were we'll dressed. each
having on a white collar. They are evil
IDENTIFY professional crooks, and not or
dinary tramp thieves.