Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-08-08

Mandan Wednesday night by Deputy
Sheriff Anderson of Morton county,
Chief of Police Roby and George Cha
pin, is a Norwegian who says he has
been in the United States but four
years, and came west to grow up with
the country, and the officers are Of
the opinion that he was growing at a
swift gait !
He says he met the other fellow,
whose name he will not give, at Miles
City, where he was known as tough
citizen, and they got chummy at once.
They started out from there with a
horse each, and snapped these ami
mails at the H T ranch for better
goers. At Hebron he says they held
up two men and got 80 cents, but
struck better luck at New Salem, but
that the other fellow only gave him
$12 of the swag, as he had done the
collecting act.
Just here a good story on Wagner,
the New Salem hotel man, is told by
a travelling man who participated in
the Joke They had been talking
of the hold-up further west while sit
ting in .Egge's pool room at New Sa-
lem, when the two cowboys entered.
Wagner said he would bet they were
the hold-up men, and the two slid out
| before the entertainment opened.
Wagner and the traveller went to a
drug store and told the druggist to
hide his money, as the bandits were
at the pool hall and might go else
where, and he guessed he would get
his rifle and lay for the fellows when
they. came out of the hall if they had
been acting ugly. The traveller joshed
him about the scare he was raising,
| and dared him to go back to the hall
and play him game of smear, which
dare was taken, the men taking the
precaution to put their rolls in their
stockings before again entering the
hall. They had just started their
game of cards, when the invitation
came to throw up your hands, gen.
tlemen," and they had the satisfac
ton Of being relieved of several dol
lars each in silver. vg.., .. j.. So. :. .
r Deputy Sheriff Anderson has farm
a few miles from Mandan, and was al
home Wednesday afternoon when the
two cowboys came to his house to
borrow a spider to cook their grub
He had none, and directed them to the
house, where the subsequent ight
took place. Anderson had heard OF
the hold-up near New Salem,r and sus
pecting the men, went to Mandan and
got their description, which tailed al
right. ,*
He was joined by Roby and Chapin
and they drove to the Wheeler place
arriving there about p. m. The mel
We're there yet, and made a run fol
it when they saw the posse, and. tool
shelter in the stable, from which they
fired at the officers, and it. was there
| that the Norwegian was captured af
4 ter a number of shots had been free
on each side. The other fellow goi
out the back way and, creepins
around the corner of the building, shot
( left handed at Chaplin, who was only
a few feet away, taking the skin of
one Of his little fingers, and then va
moosed. The Norwegian says the fel
low who escaped was fine shot, ant
| he don't understand why he missed
hitting anybody he shot at, to say
nothing of the man and his family O.
wife and several children who lived
at the place, and were running about
too scared to seek shelter, and Otter
in the line of fire. z @ E2s
The captured man says he had moth
ing to do with the planning of the
trip, and had no idea where they were
going or what the leader had in his
mind. In their travels from Hebron
they kept off the roadways, but stop
ped at several houses to get food
which they paid for, and at one place
they stole the horse which had beer
newly branded. It is a, mystery tt
the officers why the men werep head
ing for Mandan as they must have
known they were being parsued, and
4 they had plenty of time to get many
miles away to the north or south be
fore the officers reached New Salem
Friday morning a man living SIX
miles from Mandan came to town
and reported that a man had come tc
his house and asked for something t.
eat, and got It. He assigned as the
reason he was afoot that he had slept
in nearby rayine the night before
and that his horse had either strayed
away or had been stolen. IA posse
immed iately started out to search the
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