The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-26
EXCITING CHASE
AFTER BURGLARS
North End People Witnessed
Fine Run by Fugitives.
FIRST I'M SAND PHI
Them in Elevator and Pair
Rounded up Against Fence.
FIRST IN SAND PIT

Fred Able is a prisoner in the Sedgwick
county jan and Tel Irwin is a guest OF
Chief Burt in the city cooler. These are
two young colored men who for the past
week have terrorized the north part of
the city The arrest is important and
other Developments are expected 10 fol-
low shortly.
The arrest of these two ccIored boys
caused great excitement in the north part
of the city yesterday morning. The i'm
mediate cause OF the arrest was an at
tempt Of the two coIored men 20 get into
the Dold packing house. and when Doid's
crowd gets after a man he might as well
surrender and be done with it.
The watchmen in the different build
ings at the Dold Tlant are of duty az 8
O'Clock in the morning and the packing
house men commence work at :. During
the hour from to = officer Reeder is the
only watchman about the plant and that
is how he came TO be an important fac
tor in the exciting race and arrest.
about $40 o'clock some of the foremen
OF the different divisions began TO ar
rive Perry Martin went into the third
story of thu sausage house and looking
out OF a north window saw two colored
men go from the packing house 10 the
hay chute carrying something in a sack.
n a few minutes they came back to-
ward the house with an empty sack
Mr.. Martin rushed down the stairs and
took with him the other men who had
arrived The employees went around the
f7,.slI nd NH ~
them they ran between the fertilizer
building and the creek and past the ice
plant south. The big gates were closed
and the colOred men climbed the high
fence. The Dold employees were in hot
pursuit and Carl Wilson caught one of
the coIored men by the foot as he was
getting over the fence and held him fast
until the colored man flashed a revolver
In his face.
Wilson did not want TO be shot and re-
leased his grip on the mans foot. The
two supposed burglars ran down CHS
holm creek toward the Watson mills.
Officer Reeder learned what was up He
called to Clarence Wilson to run into the
office and get revolver. Wilson did as
requested and jumped into a buggy with
Officer Reeder and the two went down
Topeka avenue. the horse on the run, to
head of the two colored men. People /
saw the chase and not knowing what it J
was about they were greatly excited.
The colored men made out 10 reach the
sand pit west of the Watson mills, which |
IL covered with a thick growth of young |
timber. They ran into this brush and /
Reeder left Wilson in the buggy and 7,
went in after them. Wilson saw the men !
run out toward the Nevling elevator F:
He called for the officer. who ran for his
buggy and continued the chase.
The men ran into the elevator and
Reeder after them. Wilson drove north
Of the elevator to see that the fugitives
cid not run out on that side. In a few
minutes he saw them running down the
Rock Island tracks. officer Reeder was
called from the elevator and again took
his place in the buggy.
BY the time that the men reached Tkir- I.
teenth street the officer and his assist
ant were so close to the fugitives that
they ran across lots, where the horse /
and buggy could not follow. They ran 4
gainst a high board fence and before .
they could get over it Recder and VIII
sen had them covered with their guns,
and when that gentle voice OF Reeders
told them to hold up their hands they
concluded TO do it.
Wilson allowed them to look into the
barrel of that big navy revolver that he
got in Fred Dolds Office while Reeder
went through their pockets. They had
no gun William Bowers. the time keeper