The Saint Paul globe., 1903-10-04

to hear the cry for mercy. His call to
the citizens guard delayed thefr con-
templated action.
In another moment he was before the
body of pursuers with drawn gun. He
commanded Nugent to stand by him,
and although there were cries "To kill
the brutes," Young won the day and
prevented massacre Of the surren-
dered prisoners.
The fallen bandits were hurried to
Annandale in farm wagons, where
their injuries were dressed.
Shannon WAS killed instantly. He
never moved after being hit with one
of the rifle balls. Burns is mortally
wounded, more than a hundred shot
piercing his flesh. Some of the shot
entered his lungs. Desmond is wound
ed about the abdomen, and Martins
head is filled with shot. Rice and
Moran were hit in the legs with several
pieces of shot. .sa
After the wounds were dressed the
men were taken to the county building
at Buffalo, where the large court room
was turned into hospital and prison.
Armed deputies guard the wounded
men.
Talk With the Sheriff.
When interviewed today Sheriff Young
said he had but little to say regarding
the capture of the desperadoes.
IF 1t were not for the loyal support
the citizens of South Haven and An
nandale gave us we could never have
taken the men," said he. THE posse
was an ideal one, and was easily han
died
"rhat the men captured are desper-
ate characters is certain. Each was
armed with two Colt revolvers of
large caliber and carried a big supply
t,1fft Tow
several hundred signal torpedo caps in
the car which they occupied.
1T is my opinion that they were
preparing to hold up the 500 lines ex-
press, and that their maraudings about
this county was only preliminary
work. 1 am sure that we have round
ed up the whole gang and that none
escaped us. However, there was a re-
port from Annadale today that there
were seven in the roginal party, but
hardly think that is SO, as there were
only five men in the car when we en-
tered to make the arrest"
And With Prisoner.
"It is all a mistake" said Tommy
Burns, one of the captured bandits.
1--WE were bumming our way to the
West, and are not the desperate char
acters that the sheriff says we are.
However, he is all right, and if 1t was
not for him we'd all been slaughtered.
1.-THE whole gang was drunk Thurs
day and Friday, and when the sheriff
disturbed us we all got nasty. That's
how the affair started. Later there
was some shooting, but 1 tell you we
never fired a shot after entering the
woods.
1--WE intended to give up when ask
ed to surrender, but we didn't get the
chance. Some one yelled surrender
and then fired. Martin yelled to the
fellows not to shoot, but they paid no
attention to him. Then, when we were
all hit, the rubes were going to finish
US, but Young stopped them. If he'd
been present when they found US there
would have been no shooting. The
other fellows got rattled.
eff I'd known they were going to
pepper us, anyway, why I would have
taken a shot or two at the push"
More than 500 farmers and trades
men from all parts of Wright county
visited the Jail here today to look at
the captured desperadoes. The ban
dts complained to Sheriff Young
against the exhibition game and to-
night were moved from the court to tho
jail proper.
Finally Give Their Names.
The men refuse to answer all ques-
tions concerning themselves. Until to-
night they refused to give their names,
but finally consented to do so, If Sher-
iff Young would promise to let no more
visitors into the cell rooms.
The following were the names given:
Gerald Shannon, aged twenty three,
home at Rochester, N. Y; Frank Mo-
ran, age twenty-six Boise, Idaho; Ed
Rice, age forty, Boise, Idaho; James
Martin, age thirty three, South Omaha;
Tommy Burns, age thirty-six, Seattle;
James Desmond, age twenty-tree; Den
yer, Col.
Monday the men Will be given their