The Yale expositor., 1910-01-14

street; Detroit; thought to have
street, Detroit: held in connec-
ton with the robbery.
Beginning with a gun fight in a
jewelry store which was being robbed
and followed by another revolver
battle in the Michigan Central depot,
then followed by hot chase across
country after two perpetrators of
these acts, Ypsilanti enrolls on it's
criminal annals one OF the most spec
tacular episodes that has occurred OF
recent years. The tragic summary OF
events is one railroad man shot to
death, another dying, and TWO desper.
ADDE'S wounded.
Carl Billings, Robert Mccormick
and Henry Harrington, whom they
call "Winky' obviously so nicknamed
because or the markedly peculiar &C.
tlon OF his eyelids, came to Ypsilanti
in company on a Michigan Central
train which left Detroit at 9:15
O'Clock, Billings asked at the ID. L.
X. waiting room when the next car
would leave. He was told, AT 11:15
p. m"
The next development came when
Night Waterman Cady entered the
alley in the rear of SwitZer Bros
Jewelry store and heard a man run.
ming out of the other end of the alley
ahead of him. A moment later he
discovered that the store had been
entered through back window
Cady surmised that the man In the
nllaV rd nd uyl aaH
through the window into the store.
AS he did so the figure of a man rose
over the counter at the front of the
store. The officer fired and rushed
forward, but two men slipped through
the plate glass window. which had
been broken.
blew his whistle for assistance.
Officer William Mowrey and Chief of
Police Gage responded. Mowrey and
Cady pursued the two men, McCor-
mick and Harrington toward the
river, while Gage started after the
man who had run from the alley,
Billings.
At the river bridge the two men
turned and one of them, supposed to
have been Mccormick. opened fire
with an automatic revolver. The
officers returned the fire and the men
ran and made their escape.
Gage discovered Billings overcoat,
which he had thrown away as he left
the alley. He followed to the Michi-
gan Central station, where he cap
tured Billings.
Gage warned Baggageman Minor at
the depot to keep watch for the other
robbers and returned to town with
his prisoner. 1t was 5:15 o'clock
when Minor phoned that two men
answering the description were in the
depot.
II warned Minor to look out for the
guns and keep watch of the men, but
it could not have been ten seconds
after ] hung up the receiver before
the telephone operator called me and
said she had heard shots at the depot
and was unable to get an answer to
her calling" said Gage. when | got
to the depot five minutes afterward
Minor lay on the floor of the baggage
room dead, and Emmett was appar-
emily dying, with blood streaming
from ragged wound in his chest.
Emmett was able to tell me some
thing of the fight. When Minor left
the phone he decided with Emmett
to try to capture the robbers, both of
whom seemed to be merely boys.
They did capture them without diff
Guilty and marched them TO the bag
gage room. but without first remov.
ing the guns from them.
LAS they entered the baggage room
Mccormick suddenly broke away and
fired shot from the deadly auto
matte gun. Both Minor and | had
guns and we began to fire, but the
others were too fast for us. A dozen
shots were fired. | saw Minor slip
to the floor, and almost the same in
slant | went down, too. The men ran
from the depot"
Billings was arrested at 1880, while
young Harrington went to the home
Of L. H. Pattee with his wounded
wrist after the shooting and told a
story of having fallen from a coal
car and hurt his wrist Non-suspect-
ing, Pattee bandaged it up and Har-
rington took a ID. u. h. r. When
Pattee heard of the shooting he noti-
fed the officers and Harrington was
overtaken on an Ypsilanti-bound car
and arrested. He was faint from loss
of blood. Mccormick refuses to talk
All theories in the Miner murder
case were upset SaturdGs afternoon
and Charles Harrington's confession
duplicating Robert Mccormick as Mi.