Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-28
YEGGMAN DIES IN
BARR|CADED HOME
Georgia Desperate Hit by Bullet
of Armed Force That
Besieged Him
TROOPS RUSH BANDITS HOUSE
Children, Imprisoned by Father,
Found HuddIed in Corner,
Uniniured
Associated Press1

ATLANTA, Ca, June 27.-W. II.
Bostwick, the desperate who killed
three men and wounded three at his
home near Ocilla yesterday. was
found dying in his barricaded home at
4 o'clock this morning when the F1tz-
gerald company of the National Guard
rushed and captured the house. lie
expired within an hour. The five chill
dren who were in the house with him
were rescued uninjured. 1t is sup
posed a bullet fred during the fight
with the posses last night struck him.
Sheriff ]. p. McInnis died today about
the same time as Bostwick.
The militia company on arrival
today promptly rushed to the house
which had been the scene Of fierce lire
of bullets all night.
For fear Of hurting the children the
soldiers did not fire. They assembled
on all four sides of the house 200 yards
away and at the command Forward"
moved upon the place at double quick
time The first ones kicked in the
door and with drawn revolvers entered.
Bostwick was found on the floor un-
conscious. The children, terrified,
huddled near. The father had kept
them on the floor all night and thus
they had escaped the bullets.
1t was reported at first that the
guardsmen had killed Bostwick, but
this was denied later.
The affair began Sunday afternoon
when an officer went to arrest Bost-
wick and failed. Then Sheriff Nc
Innis and a posse went after him.
Steve Davis and Deputy Sheriff Shelf
field of Ocilla and Sheriff McInnis
and two deputies fell badly wounded.
A new posse was formed and another
attack made, the troops being ordered
out meanwhile. 1t was known that
Mrs. Bostwick had fled with one child,
but the father kept the remaining five
in the house with him. One of the
children he sent cut to get the re-
volver the dead police chief had
dropped, knowing that the posses
would not fire on the lad. The soldiers
orders were not to fire on the house,
but to capture it by sheer force of
numbers.
The posse of local citizens kept up a
fire on the besieged man all night.
Three living victims Of Bostwick' 3
bullets are expected to recover All
the troops were ordered home today.
Five hundred women had been drawn
to the scene by anxiety for Bostwick' s
six little children whom he had forced
to remain in the house with him all
| day Sunday, during which he killed
two officers and wounded three others
while resisting arrest for a misde-
meanor.
Not until just before the last two
volleys were fired and the final rush
made did Bostwick allow the children
to leave the building. Until they left
the troops fired high. So much did
the little ones stand in dread of their
father that even after they had been
removed to place of safety they re-
| fused to tell whether he had received
his death wounds from the besiegers
or from his own hand.
The oldest daughter, Jennie, who had
passed the night on he floor trying to
shield the younger children, chied be-
| cause the youngest boy was forced tC
| leave the building without his trous-
ers. The oldest boy was i'll.
The women of the neighborhood sent
hundreds of kilograms to Governor
Brown appealing to him to call of
the troops and denouncing the admin
| istration.
Scarcely half an hour before he died
one of Bostwick's bullets inflicted 8
dangerous wound on Deputy Sheriff
James Gill.
The coroner's jury held an inquest
| today and returned a verdict that Bost-
wick died by his own hand, but the
manner in which he met his death will
| not be definitely known until the chill
| dren disclose it.
At midnight officers who have been
searching for the robbers west of Og-
den returned on a Southern Pacific
train, having in custody four suspects
They will be held at the Ogden Jail with
four others until some of the passen-
gers and the train crew can be brought
here to identify them.
| New posses were organized this even
ing and will leave early in the morn
| ing for the western part of the state.