New-York tribune., 1905-12-29
FOILED IN MAN HUNT.
ARMED MOB KEEPS WATCH
Ohio Bandits, One Wounded, Seen
Lurking Near Golf Links.
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Toledo Dec. 2S.-Armed posses nurnDer-
ing 700 men returned to Toledo at nightfah,
without having captured the bandits who shot
Marshal Thornton and Deputy William Scott at
Perrysburg last night. The bandits are be-
lieved to be hiding in the thckets and under
brush between here and Perrysburg. At least
one of them fs known to be wounded, and their
condition In heavy rain and hail storm which
set in late In the afternoon, is believed to be
desperate.
More than hundred men. including Toledo
and railroad detectives, armed with shotguns
and winchester rifles. are guarding every avenue
of escape tonight and in the morning the man
hunt will be resumed with augmented forces.
The first clew to the whereabouts of the
bandits came to the police shortly after noon
to-day A caddy and several golf players saw
three men, answering the description OF the
bandits, hiding behind a log near the links OF
the Country Club. midway between Toledo and
Maumee AS the party approached the men
were seen to draw revolvers and crouch behind
the log.
The golfers rushed to the clubrooms and tele-
phoned the police who Immediately sent twenty
men 70 the golf grounds The squad OF police
arrived too late to capture the bandits but in
the soft ground their tracks were plainly visible
and on the spot where they had lain were two
pools of blood.
The caddie. who first saw them, and the golf
ers. report that one of the men was without hat
or coat and wore a white sweater, His COM
Danions were trying to cover him with their
o1ercoats and carrying him along with MS
feet dragging.
hat and coat were found at Perrysburg
after the shooting of Marshal Thornton and
Deputy Scott.
A deposit of $4,000 was made in the Citizens
Rank at Perrysburg yesterday, and the theory
has been advanced that the men knew Of this
and were planning to rob the bank
DR. Bowers said tonight that Thornton might
live several days. but that there was no hope
for his recovery.
Late tonight the police arrested a man giving
his name as Martin Kirby and his residence as
Baltimore. Because he was caught near the
golf grounds and was badly bruised the police
think he may be one of the bandits.
Harry E. Roswell of Cleveland, and T. E.
Persole. of Toledo with unknown street car
man. who was later released were brought to
the Central Station tonight by detectives Del
ehanty and Mickey. Both of the men claimed
that they were street car men and had Formerly
worked for the Toledo Railways and Light
Company It is said he is wanted for arson.
There is a great amount of talk about the sta
tion which, although unofficial, leads TO the De-
lief that the officers think the SAFE blowing at
the Central-ave barns Sunday was done largely
by employees of the company who knew the
ropes and they are being rapidly run down.
Caught in the Perrysburs Interurban station
about / 30 O'Clock this morning, the men. be-
lleved to be members of the safe blowers gang
which raided the Central-ave. car barns at To-
IedO Sunday drew reVOlVerS and, Snootlng 10
kill wounded Marshal Frank Thornton In the
stomach so that he will probably die Another
member of the gang shot Deputy Marsnal WIN,
lam Scott in the right foot. causing painful
hut NOT dangerous wound. About twenty shots
were fred before the desperadoes escaped