Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-01

The light of the new moon showed
them the road dimIy, but they kept
their eyes glued to the family out
lined strands of phone wires running
at the tops of the high poles. Three
miles out they found wire down. A
moments halt showed them that the
wire had been cut from pole to pole.
and it told them they were on the
right track
Saw Men ON Poles.
A minute later there Ioomed in
front of them dark form of two men
high upon two poles, silhouetted against
the sky. The chauffeur put on more
speed and the auto raced across the
intervening stretch Of road just as the
men scrambled down from the poles
and leaped into a two-horse truck i'll
which a third confederate was wait
ing.
The driver of the truck whipped his
horses into a gallop. just as Rounds
man McGee, in the rapidly gaining
auto, yelled TO them TO stop or be shot
Answered officers with Bullets.
They had no sucn intention. The
two pole men" were gun lighters as
way to the rear of the truck. grabbed
up two rifles that they had lair there
ready for such an emergency: then
fortifying themselves behind the steel
tailboard of the swaying vehicle they
began the boabardment of the oncom-
ing policemen.
They shot in dim moonlight, and at
first their aim was bad The police
men drew their pistols and fired
back as their auto raced in pursuit
but if the robbers could not shoot By
moonlight they could take quick aim
by the flashes of their enemies guns
At the third volley Roundsnan Ma
gee, standing and shooting from the
running-board OF the automobile. sud-
denly pitched <out head-first and went
TO the ground with a bullet through
his back
They've killed him" shouted his
fellow officers to the chauffeur Stop
the machine till we pick him up
Smith and Dolan Wounded.
At the same instant one of the men
in the flying truck sent forth a yell
such as only a man makes when he Is
badly hit. But in the next second the
other robber had fired from his moving
barricade, and Smith. now out of the
car, sank do n on the rosd with lot
of buckshot inbedded in the calves of
both legs Another shot. fred with un-
erri.-g aim put hole in Dolans ear.
in the lobe. less than an inch from his
brain. TAen the chauffeur was struck
on the shinbone
ith all three policemen wounded,
and one of them perhaps dying on the
road, was decided to give up the
iight, and the patrolmen picked up the
roundsman in the automobile and re-
turned to the police station. They had
thought from the fall he made that he
would be either dead or unconscious;
but he was neither They came upon
him sitting on the roadside. staunching
as best he ould a deep wound in his
back Just above the kidneys The
chauffeur lifted him into the machine,
and al four hustled TO the police sta
tion, reaching that place at $3.50. DIR.
Walter r. Reick was called. and ad-
vised that AIagee be taken to St
Michaefs Hospital, this city. where the
bullet was extracted from Magee and
he was taken home Before all this
happened Sergeant Zitzow, at Kearny
police headquarters, had tried another
way of making certain the capture OF
the robbers. He did not know of the
battle on the meadows. nor of the de
feat of his own men: but he hurried
call to the Jersey City police. asking
them to head of the wire thieves il
they should flee toward that town
The Jersey City police sent out a
patrol wagon filled with men. and they
would have undoubtedly made the CAPE
ture except for the fact that they took
the Harrison turnpike. instead cf tbs