The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-06-23
SALOON HOLD-UP AT MONIDA RE-
SUITS IN SERIES OF
TRAGEDIES
Conductor Kidd Killed and Others
Wounded-Niany People in Pur-
suit and Whole Country In
terested

Last Friday night a saloon was rob.
bed at Monida, and the two men wee
traced down the road where they
boarded a train Saturday morning,
An attempt to arrest them on the
train was so badly conducted that the
bandits made their escape, leaving a
trail of blood and suffering. Conduc-
tor William Kidd, of Pocatello, is
dead, Deputy Sheriff Melton of Spen-
GER, Edgar McGill of Hamer and Rube
Scott of Menan are suffering from
gunshot wounds.
! A Montana man returning from the
Iscene gives the following account of
what happened in the early stages
of the case.
AS soon as the saloon at Monida
was robbed" he said, 1.-The bartender
boarded the pilot of No. 2 and rode
to Spencer, hoping to see the men
on the track. At Spencer he notified
the deputy sheriff, who saw the men
at the depot after they had walked
from Monida. Instead of arresting
them then, he allowed them to board
the train and sat beside them. When
out of Spencer he walked up to them
and in quiet way asked them to
come back to the smoking compart-
ment, where he could search them.
They did not want to come and he
coaxed them. When in the back part
of the coach he told them to put up
their hands, The tall robber laid
down his gun and the short man, who
later did the shooting, did so a mo-
ment later. The guns were laid on
the double seat. The sheriff, to use
both hands laid down his gun also.
Quick as flash the short robber
grabbed the gun, which was an auto
matte affair, shot Melton twice, once
in the shoulder, while the other bull
let entered above the left hip. b..
"Just then Conductor Kidd heard
the noise and seeing the gun play,
grappled with the short man. Kidd
weighed 100 pounds and clenched his
mans arms from behind. Twisting
the robber poked the gun backward
and fired. The bullet passed between
the first and second ribs, lodging in
the back.
when the passengers saw the con-
ductor fall they ran into the vesti-
bule fearing that their turn was next.
The short robber pulled the bell cord
and calmly waited for the train to
stop. eEs.5 .sr A
when the engineer heard the sig
nal he whistled for flagman. When
the train stopped he went to the cab
door and saw the short man Jump off
and stand by the baggage car fences.
He looked at the engineer and smiled
and at the same time displayed a gun
in each hand. Without haste he crawl
ed through the fence and after look
ing around, again walked back. Just
then the expressman opened his door
and opened fire with a saw-off rifle.
The robber smiled when he saw he
was out of range and waited for his
companion. The three cowboys were
notified to get the man but they did
not move.
"The train was started again and
when it was going at good rate the
tall bandit jumped from the baggage
car, where he had been hiding. It
was going SO fast that he was pitched
headlong into the little ditch. He
got up and rejoined his companion
and they made of"
Cowboys Unarmed
The comboys gave the excuse that
they were not armed when asked to
capture the man. They are blamed
for not having followed them up at a
safe distance until the posse could
have arrived.
Railroad men familiar with the
country say it is extremely level for
several miles to the foothills, to
which the men hoped to escape, are
20 miles away. The best means OF