The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-04-20
QUIET TOWN
UP in ARMS
Peaceful Citizens Aroused by
Doings of Escaping
Criminal.
Takes a Shot at Sheriff and
Then Makes Mastery
Retreat.

Redwood Falls was storm center
last Thursday morning, when it be
came known that Sheriff Schueller
had arrested two supposed bank rob-
bers and that one of them had later
resorted to gun play and made his
escape, incidentally shooting up Mr..
Burmeister's Rambler car and taking
a wing shot at our big sheriff.
A dozen or more autos, most OF
them loaded with members of Co. [
armed with their rifles, hurried to
the southeast part of town, where
the sheriff's prisoner had made his
getaway, and responsive to mum
Der of false alarms, reconoitered the
barn on the Powell place and one or
two other possible hiding places
without success, trying in vain by
telephone and scouting parties to
get clue to the fugitive. But the
foxy criminal was taking no chances
in breaking cover and has up to this
time managed to keep his pursuers
guessing. 1t developed next day,
however, that an Indiancanoe moor
ed along the Minnesota, beyond the
Tyson farm, had been taken across
to the Renville shore during the
night, and since then school children
at a point between the river and the
Milwaukee road reported seeing q
man with a grip, answering to the
description of the escaped criminal
Sheriff Schueller was obviously
chagrinned over being thus outgen
eralled, but having an accurate meas
ure of the fellow, does not despair OF
some day meeting him again under
circumstances more agreeable thar
those which accompanied his enforced
adieu. We shall try and briefly out
line these circumstances and what
led up to them:
Investigations after the Seafortl
bank robbery led the sheriff to the
conviction that the robbers used ar
auto to reach the vicinity of their
enterprise, the car leaving the coun,
ty the day before. The sheriff also
had bunch that the party was like.
ly to return soon for the silver they
carried away from Seaforth, which
was too bulky to carry away on their
persons without exciting suspicion
Frank Japs, among other auto users,
was asked to keep a lookout and
notify him of any strange auto driv-
ers who might inquire Of him the
road to Delhi or Belview. Just be-
fore 2 o'clock Thursday morning a
motor car stopped in front of the
garage and reused Mr.. Japs up to
ask the way to Delhi. After giving
directions, Mr.. Japs remembered in
structions and reused up the sheriff
in turn, who proceeded to trace the
car to Delhi and on its way to Bel
view. Communicating with Mr..
Gimmestad at the latter place, that
gentleman found the marshal and
stationed him at the back entrance
of the bank while he kept his eye on
the street approaches, the auto com
ing into view about A o'clock or
thereabouts. The robbers halted
somewhere near the lumber yard,
the driver stating after his imprison-
ment that he got out at this point
and crawled under the car to make
some adjustments. That his passen-
ger at this time unearthed some loot
from the Seaforth enterprise is
strongly suspected by many.
The stop was not long, and Mr..
Gimmestad having watched the car
go east on the Delhi road notified
parties there, and the marshal and
j. M. Stewart were near the road
when the car went through at a
rapid gate, and as an experiment
fired their guns to see if the robbers
would slow up, but they only put on