Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-27
ITALIAN MARAUDERS
Wild West Man Hunt Tn New
 York State.
ALL HICHWAYMEN NOW IN THE TOLLS
Remainder of Gang Who Robbed Treasurer LonEyear Rounded Up After Great Chase by Police
 and Farmers Near ShOkan.

KINGSTON, N. r, June 27.-Crazed with fear and exhausted from their long flight without food or rest, the two remaining Italian bandits, con- fronted 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 and pitch fork, the most exciting man hunt Ul- ster county has ever known ended in 9 truly wild west fashion. Not even the bloodhounds were lacking to make the hunt realistic, for the local peniten- tiary supplied three, which were 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, handcuffed 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 tection, 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 the gang, 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 TO- mantle explanation is not accepted by others, who point out that $500 of the $2,766 stolen by the highwaymen when they held up Loagyear and, after rob- ping, bound him and left him helpless by the roadside is still missing. This they believe was the share of other confederates, perhaps members of a To- cal Mafia of the Italians in the quar- ries.
 The story of the capture of the ban dits 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 disgusted. 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 out of the underbrush \ near Browns Station, on the Ulster and Delaware road, when before them, sit ting dejectedly by the trackstde, they saw their desperadoes, looking any thing but desperate. Both Teas and Elmendorf were armed, and without warning they rushed at the Italians, pointed their revolyers at them and or dered them to hold up their hands. Apparently the exhausted fugitives had just enough strength remaining to do this.
 Then followed long delay. The captors and captives sat looking at each other from different sides of the revolvers, neither side caring to move until the station agent came along and opened his office. Then a telephone call brought sheriff and posse, and in a few brief hours the Italians were safely behind bars.