The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-09-24
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train on the Milwaukee railway
had q rather unusual experience
a few miles south Of this city last
Thursday night, and possibly i
narrow escape from a holdup. &,
At about a quarter of a mile
this side of Glenora siding, some
four or five miles out Of the city,
the train was stopped by q man
waving lighted matches across the
track in front OF it. When the
train came to a standstill. the man
who had signaled it was taken
aboard He had been shot through
the fleshy part Of The right thigh,
claiming to have received tho,
wound from one of three men who
had held him up in box car, at
the siding, and who had also ta-
ken from him his money, which
amounted to about SO. y .s3ss
He also informed the train men
that he had overheard these same.
men planning to turn the switch
at the siding. Forewarned wss
forearmed. and an investigation
proved that the plan had been car
ried out. The switch had been
turned and the lock was gone. The
train might not have been wreck
ed. as the switch opens Eat the
south end of the siding and this
train was approaching it from
the north. but the switch had ev-
identity been turned for the pur-
pose Of at least bringing the train
to a stop there, where nobody
lives, and if it had stopped it no
doubt would have been boarded by
these three men who had evident
ly planned a holdup of the train
at that point. 10
The wounded man was taken to,
Fairmount and turned over to Dr..
Steele. = = 40 ~ ~ -
The same night Sheriff Budacl
went to the siding and as far down,
as Tyler in search or any suspio-
ious characters that might he
lurking about, but nobody .s4vsass,
found, that night, and next morn
ing he went to Paramount 70 in
terview the wounded man and
continue the search for the would
-be' holdups. On reaching Fair-
mount he found a couple Of Mil
waukee detectives there on an err
rand similar to his own. 8
1t was arranged between the
sheriff and the detectives that
they. would prosecute fe search
northward in the direction of the.
hoidup. and some distance below
Tyler three suspects were picked
up and brought to the county iail
and are being held on suspicion.
Inc wounded man was also
brought to the county Jail and is
being held as a witness and pos
sibl e completely in the attempt
to hold up the train. His wound
is healing nicely and is not con-
sidered at all serious. ~.
1nAt the siding a broken hack
saw was found. which is the pro-
bablei instrument used in break
ing the lock to the switch, and on
two of the men were found re-
yolvers and. also a fashlight.
There is said to be considerable
evidence tending j to- show that
they' are the men wanted and the
detectives and sheriff Kachelhof-
fer are busy ferreting out all the
evidence possible in the case. ~
John Macdonald and James
Villains the two men who were
found with reYoivers in, their pos
session. have been, bound over to
district court by Judge schnel-
lerr. under $1,000 bonds. on
the change of carrying con-
cealed weapons. j. Jackson, the
third man captured, was given 80
days on the, charge of vagrancys
The man who was shot in the box
car is improving.
A. Lutznow. the man who was
shot in the thigh by hold-np
men. while in a boxcar on Mil
waukee siding. last week. has so
recovered that he is able to leave
for his home at Milwaukee. Wis.
He called at the Times office af-
ter his release and, says the men
ling held at the county Jail are
not the ones whom he heard
planning the .holdupa Of the train
OF who shot him. ~, o4 II
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