Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-21
TWO Captured
IN BIC MAN HUNT
BACKGROUNDS ROUND UP AL
LEGGED BANDITS NEAR MIL
LER's STATION, IND.
THE SUSPECTS EXCHANGE
SHOTS WITH PURSUERS
Posses Still Securing the Country for
Other Desperadoes-Chic Police
Take Part in Chase-Hunt for Iowa
Bandits Given Up.

ular hunt in Indiana, in which heavily
armed Chicago detectives and posses Of
citizens participated, two men were
traced with bloodhounds east of Mil
ler's Station, Ind, Friday, and captured.
They were caught after they had tenn
porarily eluded citizens of the village
snd exchanged revolver shots with
them. They were finally overtaken by
the dogs, forced to surrender by the
posse and taken to Miller's Station,
where, after being bound, they were
placed under guard of citizens.
They are supposed to be members of
the gang that shot and killed Hans Pc
tersOn here the other night.
The chase and the presence of Chicago
detectives who were sent early to Indi-
ana to find the men, coupled with bur
glaries Thursday night and an incen-
diary fire in the home Of John Ryan at
Miller's Station, caused great excite
ment In the village and neighborine
towns.
Posses Hunt for Others.
Armed posses are still securing the
country in search of other supposed des-
peradoes, and many dogs have been
placed in service in an attempt to make
further arrests The excitement Gen.
tiers about the dugout made famous by
the car barn murderers
The prisoners are both we'll dressed
and use good English They refused to
give their names and denied that they
know anything of crime in Chicago or
any other place. While these men were
being captured the Chicago detectives
were securing the woods near Calumet
Heights, where the men we're first seen
Search of Citizens.
While the detectives were on one
trail William Westergren and William
Lally, citizens of Millers Station,
went into the woods east of the village
They had proceeded about one mile
when they came upon two men in a dense
underbrush. The citizens were armed
and when they came into view of the
strangers the latter drew revolvers and
fired several shots.
Westergren and Lally returned the
fire and the men exchanged several shots
from behind trees and bushes. The
strangers then began to retreat and
Westergren and Lally fastened back to
town.
Bloodhounds on Trail.
Lally owns three bloodhounds These
dogs were liberated and taken to the
spot where the fight occurred and they
took up the trail The dogs followed the
trail for about 20 minutes, when they
came upon the men concealed in some
underground.
The hounds attacked the men, but the
strangers made no attempt to resist ar
rest and went to Miller's Station with
out further trouble
The prisoners are believed to be the
men who attempted to rob the summer
home of J. A. Andrews, member of the
Chicago board of trade, within the
grounds of the Calumet Gun club, early
Wednesday. Three men were discovered
attempting to break into the place by
Ernest Kohler, keeper, but they es-
capped
Search for Bandits Abandoned.
Winfield a.. Sept. IT, - Sheriff Tee
tiers, of Washington county, spent the
night in hotel here, after making a
search for the men who we're observed
last Wednesday in a strawstack upon
the Metsgar farm, six miles from here,
by Farmer Bemis, and supposed to be
the Rock Island train robbers. The
strawstack is ten miles from the scene
of the robbery, which took place three
days ago. 1t is an open country, and the
general impression prevails here that
the alleged bandits were tramps. There
is no posse following the men, and there
has been no special train here carrying
detectives or citizens armed. Sheriff
Teeters has two men and there are also
three or four detectives and seven OF
eight newspaper men, At II O'Clock Fri
day not detective or an officer was out
in the country looking for the supposed
| robbers