Bisbee daily review., 1904-09-03
Wanted Money
 But Got Bullets
PLOT TO EXPORT MONEY FROM
 FARMER COMES TO GRIEF.
Deputies Hid in Field-Fired When Young Man Appeared at Place Des- ignated for Delivery of Money Three Bullets Were Put in Him.

Sioux City, Sept. 2.-Charged with a plot to extort s1.600 from Jacob Feldner, a rich farmer near Holley Springs, Ia. Joseph c. Francis. twenty years old. has been brought to the jail in this city. He was arrested af- ter a daring attempt to escape from spot near a rural mail box where the money was to be deposited. As he ran down the road he was fired on by four deputy sheriffs and was shot three times in the right arm and hand and his horse was shot in the left hip. John and Dick Arnold, brothers-in-law of Francis Francis, have been arrested, charged with complicity in the youths scheme.
 Last Thursday Feldner receiver in a scrawling hand, in which he was charged with having wronged the Arnold boys. and as a penalty was commanded to deposit s1.G0O in cash in mail box about a mile and half from his house. Failure to comply meant death at the hands of Texas Bill,' alias Sure Shot," President of the "Unknowns."
 The letter concluded as follows:
 This is our tenth case this year, and it is ou. business to uphold reo- pie who are w-onged.'
 The letter alarmed Feldner He called on Sheriff Jackson. of Sioux City, who detailed five deputies to go to Holley Springs and watch the Han ner mail box
 Under fsleir inssrrfction1 Feldne- rode up to the mail box at 10 P. NJ, the time specified. and deposited a white envelope, the deputies being con- cealed in an adjacent cornfield. A few minutes later a horse and rider came. slowly down the road, passed the mail box. turned around, rode back. stopped. and the rider was in the act of taking the envelope when Deputy Kelso shouted: ''Throw up your hands or I'll drop you!"
 The rider wheeled. put spurs to his horse and galloped wildly down the road. The deputies tumbled out of the cornfeld and sent volley upon vol ley after the fleeing figure, and were eismayed to find that he had escaped
 Returning to Holley Springs. at the office of Dr. Clam they found a young man with bad wounds, which the doctor was dressing. He was put under arrest and produced letter which he said he had been compelled to accept from two strange men, fully armed, who met him on the road and told him that he would be killed if he did not act according to instructions in the letter. which in part was as follows:
 Life or death! At about 10 o'clock go to Hammers mail box tomorrow night, rain or shine. There find s1.600. Give $500 to John Arnold and $500 to Dick Arnold. Tell them to never say anything about it. Do not destroy this. You may need it. It will clear you"
 The boy, who gave his name as Joseph c. Francis. stoutly maintained his story and said he did not tell his family because he was afraid some of them might be shot When he re- turned home with bullet wound in his right arm. one in the wrist and another in the fleshy part of the arm, his brothers hurried him off to the doctors office.
 John and Richard Arnold married sisters of Francis and bought farm of Feldner for s5,2S0, paying s1 900 in cash and giving a chattel mortgage