Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-16
Oscar Anderson Saved His Mon
ey end Life by Jumping
From the Train
DRAGGED HIMSELF THRU SNOW
When the Tramps Fired a Bullet Into
His Hip Anderson Leaped From the
Train and Managed to Crawl Half a
Mile to Farm House-Three sus-
poets Arrested.
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derson, half railroad grader and half
hobo, is patient at St. Lulle's hos
pital with revolver bullet lodged
somewhere near the bone of his left
thigh. He was shot yesterday evening
two miles east of Bertram. while beat
ing his way home from Boone tn Mo
line. ILL.,. by one of three other Does,
who were riding in the same box car
with him Oscar hasn't been over
from Sweden many years and it was his
first experience in an affair of this
kind. He seems to be one of the kind OF
fellows for whom the things that infest
railway cars are always lying in wait.
He had about SIS with him the time
he was shot and 1t was for the purpose
of getting this money that he was at
tackled Just as he was shot he jumped
from the car. The train was going at
a good rate OF speed at the time and
he rolled over and over on the frozen
ground. getting some skin wounds on
the back of his head and Il general
shaking up. The man who had tried t.
get his money, reached from the car
and fired another shot at him but 1t
did not hit him and while his three
erstwhile companions continued their
box car ride towards Clinton, Oscar
lay in the snow and wondered what he
was going to do next.
For long time he lay in the snow
and called for help but none came and
finally he half walked and half drag
ged himself about half a mile until his
continued shouts aroused J. L. White,
farmer. who went and found the in
jured man. Then he rang up one Of
his neighbors. John Clymer, and they
hitched up to the sleigh and took An
derson to Bertram. where he was soon
! surrounded by several score of men.
Practically the whole town was out 70
see him. 1t was at first thought tina.
he had been fatally wounded.
The Northwestern officials in this
city were notified and a special train
consisting OF a road engine and a coach
was made up within very few mill
utes. The police We're notified and DIR.
injured hobo. Meanwhile the telegraph
instruments had been kept busy and the
operator at Beverly reported that three
hoboes We're in the foot of the tower
there having just alighted from a vest
bound freight, No. 127. 1t was thought
that the men who tried to hold up
Anderson might have got off the train
and doubled back to Beverly. The
message was given to the police ana
Captain McKernan with Night Ser
geant Kvapil, and Patrolmen Cleary
Long and Mason, went on the special
with DR.. Ruml.
BY the time the special arrived al
Bertram Anderson had been taken TO
the depot there and made as comfort
able as possible. DR. Rumi gave his
wound temporary dressing and h,
was brought back to Cedar Rapids and
taken to the hospital in the city am
bulance. He was weak from his ex-
posure and from his dragging himself
that half mile thru the snow.
When the special stopped at the tow
er at Beverly, the police sprang from
the coach and made for the door of the
tower, where the hoboes were. There
was some effort to keep the door closed
but Captain McKernan's broad should
ers made 1t give way ut once and in a
moment he was inside and had one
of the fellows in tight grip. The
other officers secured the others almost
simultaneously and they were hustle1
on board the train and brought to Ce-
dar Rapids.
They do not answer the description
given by Anderson very well and II
| is hardly probable that they are the
men wanted tho some points of the
description they answer fairly well. One
OF them gives the name of Fred Lam
berry and says he is from Grand Rap
Ids. Mich; another is John Madderer
of Milwaukee, and the third is Henry
Wagner of West Superior. They ara
young fellows of the Van Dine Nieder-
meier age and appearance. They claim
that they all left Fulton together yes
terday morning, and that they expectel
to so to work on the interurban this
morning. No weapons We're found upo:,
them.