New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
BANDITS KILL TWO,
RORbING PAybOX
Few CleWs to Gang Who Shot
Paymaster and Driver Near
Hudson, N. 7.
GET AWAY WITH $1,000
Evidence Points to Ruthless
Murder of Youthful Official
and Aged Negro, Who
Acted as Guard.
rFv -eler-aph 20 The Tribune.


Hudson. y. Y. Sept. 3--In broad da--
light. three hundred yards from help,
two men. travelling with a chest of
money were held up in a buggy and
killed bv a band Of robbers. who jumped
cut Of a clurnp of bushes. near here THIS
morning.
The chest, containing 5000 is gone
the robbers. supposed 10 be five IN num-
Ter. have escaped. and the police have
TO clews except tracks leading north
ward from the scene Of the crime Tnese
latter are seen TO separate and then are
lost.
The robbers gave their prey 10 warm
irg. Dent Fowler twenty-one years OLD.
paymasrar of the Atlas Brick CompanS'
and George Ragsdale, sixty years DID,
his negro driver. were attacked IN
lonely lane while carrying the pay
tickets TO the brickyard- The robbers
shot the driver dead and mortaIly
wounded Fowler. who later died WINE
irving 70 assist the police TO secure the
facts on which 10 work
The driver died instantly. half the side
If his head being torn away By snots
from a neavy caIihre revolver He was
4 trusted er9ploye- Fowler was WOUND
ed over the heart and died without re-
gaining full consciousness He was a
eon of Everett Fowler, Of HaVerstra"'
Ny
Young Fowler called at NeUburs
hank this morning. according 70 custom
II was paw day at the yards Of tne At4as
Prick COMPANY He drew $4,000, sorted
If ont into the proper amounts. ticketed
the envelopes, and took tram 70 ,iiis
citv. where he was met at the sIalloil'
and started to drive 20 the brick yards on
the hank of the Hudson River. one-naH
a mile away.
Fowler carried revolver as Is the
general custom of payrnasters, and lor
further protection. took with him Rags
dale Who was stable boss at the wards
7, uas raining. and before starting
+bev mt ND the buggy top. the boot we!i
raised in front They seated themselves
in srch manner that their heads were
far hack in the hood This all operated
AGAINST them when the robbers sought
their victims
ebo+ Down Without Warning
There is no evidence that the men N
rha buggy had any opportunity 20 pro-
+.o+ themselves The holdup and the
firing of revolver shots by the n1urderers
r,uet have occurred simultaneously
There are signs that the horses BRIDE
-,-,- Grabbed bv some one But II a de-
,,,,d for the payrnaster's box was made
I, ~, -THT COM
ply
There Is no evidence that he tried TO
defend himself His revolver is sun
clean Caught in the rubber robe re-
and his companion we're shot down IKE
animals in 4 trap.
Inst uhat happened viii never he
L,ovr, ,,n1ess the rnurderers are caught
and confess. While the police were en-
deavnring TO get some Clew from Fowler
his vitality. lessened by reason OF IN
rernsT hennorrha ges. and he soon died
The shooting was done within three
hundred yards of the state frener1's 5
home but was neither seen nor heard
The police have to piece together
theory of the crime from bullet holes
and footprints Five shots were fred
Two of them tore away the side of RAGS
dale's head third struck the pay
master above the heart The fourth and
fifth passed through the back Of the
raised buggy top.
Worked in Great Haste.
Everything points to unreasonins
haste. and so the police assume the rob-
hers were desperately terrified. II was
thought AT first that they might have
been Iaborers at the briCkyards. but the
supposition is not verified and the po-
lice think il a professional job
The robbers carried with them the
small pay chest. II has not been recov-
cred and may have been weighted down
and thrown into the river.
Five sets of tracks lead nOrthward
from the scene of the murder At 4
short distance from the roadside New
York Central Railroad detectives and
the Hudson police found where the trails
separated but they have no other clew