The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-06-27
ITALIAN MARAUDERS
Wild West Man Hunt In New
York State
ALL HICHWAYMEN NOW IN THE TOLLS
Remainder of Gang Who Robbed
Treasurer Longyear Rounded Up
After Great Chase by Police
and Farmers Near shOISnn.

and Farmers Near ShOlSan,
KINGSTON, y. Y, June 27.-Crazed
with fear and exhausted from their
long flight without food or rest. the
two remaining Italian bandits. con
front"d by two Of their pursuers armed
with revolvers, weakly threw up their
hands and surrendered. Thus, after
sixty hours Of pursuit by numerous
gangs of men and boys, armed with
every conceivable weapon, from shot
gun and revolver to hay rake aud pitch
fork. the most exciting man hunt VI
ster county has ever known ended in "a
truly wild west fashion Not even the
bloodhouUds We're lacking 10 make the
hunt realistic, for the local peniten-
tialy supplied three which We're i'm
posing if ineffective
When the news reached this city
that the bandits had been captured,
great crowds began to gather, and
when at last the prisoners were
brought in, handculfed and bound in
great coils of rope for the captors took
no chances, hundreds Of people jeered
and howled until the terrified Italians
covered behind their captors for pro-
lection, fearing mob violence.
The arraignment before Judge Hum
phrey was equally dramatic. Until
that time all the prisoners had refused
TO talk. But there Vincenzo Crezella,
a braWny Sicilian, generally believed to
be the leader OF tie -uu-, broke down
and sobbingly begged to be sent back
to Italy His broken talk of far
away sweetheart convinced many that
the whole desperate scheme had been
planned by him to" get enough money
TO return to his native country and
win his Sicilian bride. But this ro-
mantle explanation is not accepted by
others, who point out that $500 of the
81 stolen by the highwaymen when
they held up LOngyear and. after rob
bling, bound him and left him helpless
by the roadside is still missing. This
they believe was the share of other
cOnfederates, perhaps members of To-
cal Malta of the Italians in the quar-
ries.
The story of the capture of the ban
dts is replete with sensational details
of dime novel character. When the
pursuit became hot and the blood
hounds were close ON the robbers trail
the four desperadoes separated. The
two who were captured turned back
toward Kingston, while the others
made for the mountains and from the
hilltops watched their pursuers. The
former couple were rounded up, but
for many hours the other two eluded
their pursuers. Late in the forenoon,
however, they were gathered in by the
man hunters.
Finally, weary and Disguised. the
sheriff and his deputies had given up
the chase and started home Among
the pursuers Were two men, Elmen-
dOrf and Teas. residents of Shokan, a
mountain hamlet on the Ulster and
Delaware railroad. They were return
ing dejectedly from the pursuit and
had just come ont of the underbrush
near Browns Station, on the Ulster and
Delaware road, when before them, sit
ting deicctedly by. the trackside, they
saw their dcSpcradoes, looking any
thing but desperate. Both Teas and
Elmeudorf wCrE armed, ana without
warning they rushed nj the Italians,
pointed their revolvcrs mt them and or
dered them To hold up their hands.
Apparently the exhausted fugiuyes
bpI inst gu,uob str.u,gtb rom, ipfr,r tp
do this.
Then followed long delay. The
captors and captives sat looking at
each other from different sides of the
reviewers, neither side caring to move
until the station agent came along and
opened his office. Then telephone
call brought sheriff and posse and in
a few brief hours the Italians were
safely behind bars.