The evening world., 1903-12-17
After Keeping Sherif's Deputies at Bay
All Night, Alonzo Tuthill Reeves,
Who Killed Capt. Rafor1, Wounded
by a Fusillade of Bullets.
Refuses to Make Any Statement About
His Actions and as He Is Driven to
Jail Asks One of the Deputies to Look.
Out for His Chickens.

RIvERHEAD L. l., Dec. 1Z-After ar al-night fight, eliminating in
a successful piece of strategy by one of the armed guards who had sur
rounded him for hours, Alonzo Tuthil Reeves, the supposed mailman, who
murdered Deputy Sheriff Rafford yesterday, was captured to-day in his
house at Aquebogue.
Driven from the upper part of his badly shattered home by the cold
which poured into the broken windows, the lunatc took refuge in the
kitchen. There his attention was diverted from the front, while Deputies
Gordon and Val, sneaked up on HIM from behind under cover OF a Wood
shed. Pokng his double baTened shotgun through the kitchen window
Gordon gave a shout, and as Reeves turned around he ennpied one of the
barrels Of his gun into the mans body. Bullets entered his back, arm
and chest.
havoc, faced the other barrel of the .Deputy's gun, then threw up his
hands. and, with a moan, sank to the floor AS Gordon and Vail jumped
through the window after him he got to his feet again. but made n effort
to resist them. wipins the blood from his face, he passed his hand over
his mouth. blue from the cold Of the night. and walked out into the yard,
followed by the deputies. MI
1t was surrender o die for Reeves Had he shown a inclination tic
fight back when cornered in the kitchen. the other barrel of Gordon's gun
would have been fred at him and Vail would have followed it with both
charges from his own weapon
TO BE AXE DEAD OR ALIVE s-g
I'VE cannot take this ma without inturins him, perhaps not without
killing him." said the Sheriff, who had been on the ground all night.
HE must be taken att once, dead If necessary, but he must be taken.
said the DistrGt-Attorney firmly. 49,
Sheriff Preston said nothing but returned to Aquebogue, where he or.
dered all of his men to begin firing. Pistols. rifles and shotguLs began to
sing q merry tune around the Reeves house. From every side the bonn
bardment a carried O. n Windows that had survived the fusiade OF
stones early in the night were smashed; inside of the house plaster and
brick from the chimney could be heard falling. Into every window a per-
feet hail of lead vas pouring and even Reeves. desperate mailman that he
IN. didn't dare to show himself
For an hour the attack was kept up Nothing had been seen of Reeves
during it all, and. thinking he might have succumbed to som of the hull
let's, his name a called out and a demand was made that he surrender.
"Never!" shrieked the lunetic from a window in the lower part of the
house. "In kill more of you yet. damn you'll" ''.
A storm of bullets vas sent at the window from which the IA had
screamed his defiance. but he had dived out of range. rad a moment later
he could be heard laughing Historically.
HAD TO USE. STRATEGY.
Deputies Gordon and Vail discovered a small woodshed in the rear of
the house. If the madmans attention could be kept to the front, they
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