The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-09-27
DESPERATE FIGHT.
lt.Took Place Behind The Doors
Of q Bank.
TWO MEN WILL DIE.
An Aged Cashier Attacked By
Stranger. Supposed Robber
MORALLY Wounded, An
Unlikely Story.

A dispatch from Chicago, Of Sept. 20,
says: Frederick j Filbert, the aged
cashier of the Palatlue bank IN
Palatine, H., 26 miles uorth Of Chica-
60, is lying close to death asthe result
of an attack made upon him today by
young man who gives the name Of Wal
ter LaBton. The latter, who is un-
parently Of good education, is in the
county jail suffering from bullet
wound in the abdomen which will PROB
ably prove fatal Henry Plaggo, 40
years old, farmer, whose Intervention
at critical moment prevented the out
right murder of the cashier, IS at his
home west of the village cut and bruis-
ed and disabled as result CT his strug-
gle with Jawton, whose motive for the
assault, according to his repeated state
ments, was not robbery.
The attack upon Fiibert was made
with a tack hammer and the aged
cashier was struck at least dozen
times before. Plaggo interfered. The
attack occurred at 3 O'Clock IN the al
terncon. At this hour many Of the re-
sidents of the community were thrown
into a tumult by hearing the report OF
revolver and the noise Of a fierce strug-
gle in the bank rooms. Wm. Garme,
farmer, was.amcng the first to reach
the bank roons. AS he entered ne al
most stumbled over the. form OF Cashier
Hilbert, who with torn clothing and
bleeding head was feebly endesvorlng
to crawl through the open door.
Ga-re turned and ran into the street
shouting murder" and then returned
to the bank. Sounds Of a struggle still
came from the rear room and Garmc
hurried to that apartment. As he push
ed open the glass door, he found the
old German farmer, Piaggo, bleeding
from number of wounds, but fighting
vigorously with stalwart young man
who lay on the floor with Plaggo on
TOP Of him. A bloody tack hammer and
a revolver with a broken butt lay on
either side of the struggling men: The
young mans clothing was stained with
blood in the region of the abdomen.
The crowd which had gathered rap
idly after the alarm had been given seE-
arated the two men ard took the sup
posed robber@ to the village lookup.
He was too severely wounded to otter
any resistance and this fact vas all that
saved him from violence at the hands
Of the excited crowd that followed him
to the jail. Lawtou's confessed motive
for the assault was revenge on FlIoert,
who be alleges. alicna'ed the affections
of his wife. His story is rot believed
by the police, however. They have no
doubt.the looting Of the bank was his
ultimate design.
The robber says he tracked Fiber
for FIVE years and that he discover d
only recently where the object OF hls
pursuit lived. He went to the bank.
he asserts, to demand l.500 in salts
faction for the old injury. The cash
balance Of the Institution was 500,
600, all of which was in the vaults at
the time the assault took place. Law
ton was brought 10 Chicago on late
train tonight and placed in the county
Jail. He denied that he had entered
the bank for the purpose Of robbery,
and claimed that the alienation OF his
wife's affections By Filbert took place
five years ago at the Fifth Avenue hotel
in New York city. Filhert declares he
has not been in New York for twenty
years.
Late tonight 1t was announced that
both Filbert and Lawton will die. The
formers skull is fractured IN t%o
places and the latter cannot survive the
wound in his abdomen.
Dies In His Buggy.
News reached Spartapburs Hednes-