The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-03-16

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ter two o'clock the next morning by the
sound of an explosion. He had just
gotten some burglars into the jail and
suspected that they were trying to get
out, so he dressed. Sheriff King was
then deputy sheriff and slept in the same
room with Sheriff Powers. The first ex-
plosion did not awaken him, but just as
Powers got dressed another and louder
explosion occurred, that awoke King,
and he got up and asked Powers to
wait for him to dress. Powers, how
ever, said that he feared that bank
was being robbed, and ran down the
street, after telling King to follow with
shotgun. King followed as soon as
possible.
1t appears that Powers reached the
bank and found two men posted on the
outside as guards. He engaged in fus-
ilade with them and drove them into the
bank, intending to hold them there until
King could arrive. One of the band had
emptied his revolver and the other half
emptied his. When they went into the
bank and told Dunn, who was at work
on the vault, that they had been driver
in ne bacame exceedingly angry and
ordered them out to fight, saying that
| if they did not go he would shoot them
| They then told him that one had emp
tied his revolver and that the others
weapon was half emptied and that the
| trigger stuck and would not move. He
then rushed out with his revolver drawn
and saw Powers standing beside tele
phone pole Powers ordered him to go
back into the bank, but instead of doing
so Dunn fired at the sheriff, killing him
| At the same instant the sheriff fired
inflicting the wound on Dunn's hip. The
| robbers then fed, and as King came ur
he heard them running away IN the
darkness and found the sheriff dead.
All four of the band was hunted down
and captured. Feeling ran high, because
Sheriff Powers was one of the most pop
ular men in the state. Dunn was found
on Feb. 10th in st. Francis hospital at
Wichita, Kansas, and was placed under
arrest, but his friends raised $4,000 ant
by means best known to them affidavits
were secured as to his condition and the
governor refused to allow him to be re-
moved from the hospital, and required
the sheriff to leave. Mr.. King had then
been appointed sheriff to succeed Pow
ers. and has since been twice elected tC
the office Dunn was taken from the
hospital one night by his friends and
was sent to San Francisco. He was
traced into Mexico and through the
southern states. and was then lost track
of.
Durham and Underwood were hanged
June 10th, 1908, and Clark, who turned
states evidence and told all about the
operations of the gang, was sent to the
penitentiary for twenty one years.
Sheriff King believes that the whole
band would have been captured in the
bank if Sheriff Powers had waited fol
him to accompany him to the scene of
the robbery. The men had enough nitro
glycerine with them at the bank to blow
up block of buildings.
If Dunn should be brought back TIC
GAINESVILLE for trial, it might be that
Clark would be pardoned out of the pen
itentiary so that he could testify agains:
him. He would necessarily be the stal
witness at the trial.
Not the Man.
Sheriff King today received replies
from messages sent to the penitentiar-
les at Joliet and Saltwater, and became
convinced that Sullivan is not the man
that he is seeking. Sullivan has served
two terms in Joliet and three in Still
water, and was in Joliet at the time OF
the GAINESVILLE murder.
Sheriff King left for home on the 45o
d. m. train this afternoon. He states
that while he came to Mankato on his
own expense, the state of Arkansas not
making any provisions for trips of this
kind, he does not regret the expense o.
the time taken. He states that he ap-
preciates the many cOurtesies extended
him bv the officials in Mankato. AS to
Sullivan, he says that he is a very bad
man and experienced crook, and that his
resemblance to Dunn is so great that tbs
officers were thoroughly. justified in
holding him and notifying the Clarks
vile authorities. Sullivan is an inch too
tall, and not as heavy as Dunn, and the
wound is lower on the hip than Dunn's.
Safe Blowers Tools.
w. F. Southwick, marshal of Water
vile, arrived this noon, bringing with
4Lo b,,rclorc, foolc that ho found in