The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-09-05
SECURED 5000 FROM PAYMAS.
TER-HE AND THE DRIVER
THE VICTIMS.
RAIN HELPED BANDITS
Crime Committed at Hudson, N. j.
Guardians of Mouey Hid Be-
hind Buggy Cover-Shot
Without Warning.

|. Hudson, N. r., Sept. b.--Masked
men, alongside lonely lane, yester-
|day afternoon held up Dent Fowler,
paymaster of the Atlas Brick Com
pany, and his negro driver, shot and
killed both the driver and Fowler, and
made off with chest of pay en-
Ivelopes containing $4,000. George
Ragsdale, the driver died instantly.
His head was shattered by two A.
calibre revolver bullets. He was 60
years old and trusted employc.
Fowler was wounded over the heart
and died without regaining conscious
ness. He was 21 years of age, son
Of Everett Fowler of Haverstraw.
N. Y.tA
The robbers escaped.
Saturday is pay day 1t the yards of
the Atlas Brick Company, and ae
|cording to custom, young Fowler call
led at the Newburgh bank for his pay
money, sorted it out INTO the proper
|amounts, pocketed the envelopes aud
started to drive back to the yard
half mile out of town, on the banks
of the Hudson river.
Five Shots Fired.
He went armed, as paymasters do,
and for further protection took with
him Ragsdale, who was stable boss at
the yards 1t was raining, and they
rode with the buggy top up, the hood
well raised In front, and their heals
far back. That made 1t easy for the
robbers
Just what happened when the holt
up came win never be known until;
the murderers are caught and CON
|fess, Fowler died before he could
utter more than few unintelligible
words.
Although the shooting was done
within 500 yards or the State Fire
mems Home and within sight of the
yards themselves, it was neither seen
nor heard. The police have to piece
together a theory of the crime from
the bullet holes and footprints. Five
shots were fired. Two Of them tore
away the side Of Ragsdale's head. A
third struck the paymaster above the
heart. The fourth and fifth passed
through the back Of the raised buggy.
In Desperate Earnest.
From the size of the holes 1t would
appear that the robbers used regula-
ton army 44-calibre revolvers. From
the footprints there seem to have
been ave in the band.
The hold-up and the shooting must
have followed each other almost With
the rapidity of the shots themselves.
1t can be seen that somebody grabbed
the horses bride. II demand for
the paymaster's box was made he
never had time to refuse of comply.
There ia no evidence that he at
tempted to defend himself. His re-
volver III still clean.
Huddled in the buggy top, muffled
in the hood, he must have been shot
down like a trapped animal From
their unreasoning haste the police de-
duct that the robbers we're desper-
ately terrified. The police incline to
believe the holdup 90 have been a
professional Job. The robbers carried
with them the small pay chest. 1t
has not been recovered, and may
have been weighted down and thrown
into the river.
They Got 5000.
Five sets of tracks led northwari
from the scene OF the murder. A
|short distance from the roadside the
New York Central detective and the
Hudson police found where the trails
separated, but have no other clue and
no descriptions
+ 1t was variously reported here to-
day that the murderers got sl5,0DJ
and $500, but advices from New
burgh, where the money was drawn,
lplace the amount at $4,000.
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