The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-17
DARING HOLD UP.


Horse Shot.
Thomas Malady, who is associat-
ed with his brother, Charles Mala-
DIV. in the livery business in Mil
ton. drove over to Danville last
Friday and about 8 o'clock that
evening started on the drive home
ward. This is what happened, he
SAYS. As he was approaching the
stone culvert a few hundred yards
east of the Maus Touring mill three
men suddenly materialized in the
road ahead of him. Two of them
seized his horse while the third
sprang into the buggy and seized
him by the throat. A desperate
struggle between the highwayman
and driver ensued, during which
the horse broke loose from the two
men who had seized him.
Mr.. Malady succeeded in hurllng
his assailant backward to the
ground; the horse had hardly NOV
ed half dozen yards forward when
one of the men opened fire on the
animal. Three shots were fred,
when the horse began to stagger
and the next moment fell to the
ground and expired.
Just as the horse dropped Mr.
Malady leaped out of the buggy in
the darkness and escaped from the
highwaymen. Nearly overcome
with excitement he made his way
back to Wise's hotel at Mausdale,
where he telephoned into Danville
for the police.
f. P. Johnson with his automo-
bile took Officers Mincemoyer and
Voris, Sheriff Williams and several
others to Mausdale.
They found the dead body of the
horse in the road. Mr.. Malady,
and others, had returned to the
scene of the hold-up, where he told
the story as related above.
Mr.. Malady describen the high
waymen as being large, portly men,
each wearing a slouCh hat.
Returning to Danville the officers
at once learned that several freights
had passed over tho Reading going
toward Catawissa after the hold-up
and word was sent up the road to
be on the lookout for the men. The
operator at the Rupert tower was
the first to see them.
About II o'clock Friday night
the officers were notified by the tel
ephone operator in the Rupert tow
CT that three men who bore re-
semblance to the highwaymen got
oil a south bound P. & R. train at
that point and took to the bushes.
Chief Mincemoyer lost no time
making arrangements for trip to
Rupert. Learning, however, that
inside of an hour a train would pass
the Rupert tower, which the sus-
poets might jump and thereby elude
pursuit, he telephoned to Chief of
Police Baum, of Bloomsbury, re-
questing him to hurry to Rupert
and arrest the men should they at
tempt to get away before the Dan
vile officers arrived.
Chief Baum hunted up a posse
consisting of Edward Shaffer, VIM.
Evans, Frank Dieterick, Charles
Van Liew, Harry McKelvy and G..
l.. Henshall.
After much skirmishing around
freight trains on both sides of the
river three men were found as they
We're trying to board a north bound
freight at East Bloomsbury. Two
Of them escaped and the other was
captured. He gave his name as
frank Lowe OF Williamsport. He
was turned over to the Danville au-
'norlties, but Malady failed to iden-
oiy him, and he was released.
Certain circumstances have arous-
ed suspicious that possibly there
was no hold up, but that the horse
met Its death in some other way.
The man who was captured said
ne and his pals tried to escape be-
cause they thought they were to be
arrested for stealing a ride on the