The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-29
POSSE AFTER
A BAD MAN
Killed One, Shot Two Others,
Beat His Parents and is
Pursuing Two Girls up
Mountain.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 2s.-Aided
by occasional tracks off the main
path over the rugged hills, posse
was today securing the snow clad
Of New Homestead, mining
village near here, for Estelle and |
Mary Yakabik, seventeen and fifteen
years old respectively, who fed into
the wilds to escape Henry Rokowsld,
twenty-five, a suitor.
Rokowsk was at large, and believed
to be after the girls. having escaped
after killing Constable Windt, shoot
ing probably fatally. Mrs. Estella
Yakabik, mother of the girls, and
Ignatz Baukoski, neighbor, and beat
ing his own parents. Windt was TAX
ing Rokowski to the lookup for the
latter assault when Rokowski drew
revolver and shot him to death. He
then went to the Yakabik home and
shot Mrs Yakabik in the head because
she had had him arrested for paying
unwelcome attention to her daughters.
The girls ran to the home OF Baukoskl
Baukoski was shot through the head
and in one leg as he entered the
| Yakabik home.
The two girls seeing Baukoski go
down, took to the hills with Rokowski
after them.
Outwitting the second posse sent
out from West Homestead to capture
him, Henry Rokowski, the youthful
desperado who stood G & twenty-five
men In four hour gun battle early
today, was believed at noon today to
have made good his escape. When
the party of fifty men headed by
Chief of Police N. ]. Dean. OF West
Homestead, surrounded the shack II
which he was thought to have bar
ricaded himself they found 1t empty
And there was no evidence that h,
) had even entered 1t. He Is said to b'
. well armed and to have a goodly sur
ply of money to aid him In gettin
) away. Nearly five hours Intervene
/ between the departure of the frs
, posse and tho approach of the second
1 But 1t gave him time to steal into tn
t barn of Frank Bokasa, farmer on tn
8 hill side, and take a nap Rokowsk
4 was seen leaving the barn and warn
n spot In the hay gave evidence tha
: he had rested.
Rokowski's father and mother, bot
Of whom were badly beaten by tn
youth when he went on his rampag
yesterday, were arrested as witnesse
? to the shooting of the constable. Mr.
: Rokowski was released after midnigt
:. on her own recognizance and left fc
:, home with her daughter, Helma, thi
teen years old. AS they reached tn
hill at West Homestead, members
the posse seeing only the larger for
of the woman in the darkness, vel
ed There he goes!" and began flrin
Y With bullets whistling about the,
they ran back to the police static
er The father in his cell today declare
he would stand by his son and sper
his fortune said to be $4,000. He VIZ
a good son, and until Mrs. Kayab
j had him arrested for paying attentic
e to her daughters, never gave any tro
ell Bile, said the father. The two gir
lie who took refuge in farm house, 9
y, ter he shot their mother, were suffe
lie inp from nervousness bordering
le hysteria as the result of their expe
ence. They said he demanded ki
ro when he came to their house. aft
IN killing the constable and fired upt
u their mother when they refused
le He blamed their mother, they said t
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