The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-09
YEGGNEN ON TRAIN
SHOOT At POSSE
IN AUTOS
Running Battle With Sheriff
Force for Nine Miles
THREE SHOT AND CAUGHT
Two Members Of Gang Escape With
$1,000 Loot from Bank They
Had Robbed

Chicago, April S.-The Sheriff of
Morris, town about sixty-one miles
southwest OF here, and posse of cit
liens riding in several automobiles
carried on q running fight early yes
ferday with five yeggmen who were at
tempting to escape in an empty box
car attached to Santa Fee freight
train from Coal City, where they had
blown NJ the bank and escaped with
$4,000, For nine miles the Sheriff
and his men ran their machines
along the Santa Fe right Of way,
keeping even with the train, and at
intervals exchanging shots with the
robbers, who poked their weapons
through the open door of the car.
At Veront where the train came to
stop, the Sheriff and his men cap
tured three of the bandits while they
were attempting to leave the car. All
of them were wounded. 1t is suppos-
ed that two of the band, which was
known to consist of five when the as
sault was made upon the Coal City
bank, eluded their pursuers by
springing from the train upon the
side opposite that on which the Sher-
ifs forces were making their race.
The fight on the train was the sec
ond- in which the yeggmen had EN-
gagged since they attacked the bank,
and 1t is not known whether their
wounds resulted from the bullets Of
the automobilists or from those fired
at them at Macon, several miles
south of Coal City, by DR.. II. d. Watts
and Night Waterman Eugene Miller.
The train upon which the robbers had
left Coal City stopped to drop car
at Macon, and DR.. Watts and Mil
Ter. already notified by bank watch
man, whom the burglars had left
trussed up and who had broken his
bonds after their departure, were
awaiting them.
The yeggmen leaped from the train
and hid In a clump of shrubbery near
the track Miller and the physician,
the former armed with revolver and
the latter equipped with repeating
shotgun, discovered their hiding
place and opened fire upon them.
More than twenty-five shots were ex-
changed, the bandits showing them
selves we'll armed by the rapidity
with which they returned shot for
shot. AS the train started again the
robbers sprang from their hiding
place, fired one last volley at their
opponents, and leaped on to the NOV
ing train.
Or. Watts and Miller Immediately
notified the Sheriff Of Morris by tele.
pIone and he and his men were
awaiting the arrival Of the burglars
when the train passed through that
town. II was then that the running
fight. which extended for nine miles,
was begun None of the Sheriff s
force was injured.
The robbery in Coal City aroused
the entire population. The yeggmen
entered the town on a freight train,
from which they dropped in the
yards. Their first move was TO cap
ture and tie up Barney Ghetto. the
night Waterman. and Washington
Frye. the night engineer OF the
towns electric plant. Then they en-
tered the bank and blew up the safe
with a charge of roglycerine.
Taking the contents. which was part
ly In stamps, they returned to the
railroad aud presently boarded an
other train, swinging upon the brake
rods as the cars ran through the sta
ton. The train had left town al
ready before Ghetto managed to free
himself from his bonds. Then he
telephoned to DR.. Watts and Miller