The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-11-19
HOLD=UP GANG
SURRENDERS
Richard Wallis, Ringleader of
Desperadoes Shot.
WANTEDHEREFOR ROBBERY
Gang Identified as Those Who Held
Up Graham and Wald0n Bros.
in Box Car Near Oswego.

The gang Of desperadoes which
has been preying on the men return
ing from the Dakota harvest fields
and committing crimes in various
towns along the line. came to a sad
ending at Great Falls this week, when
Richard Wallis, the ringleader, was
shot and killed and the other three
captured by the sheriff's force.
Wallis was fatally wounded while
resisting arrest on Monday and died
later at the Columbus hospital in
Great Falls. He was a desperate
character and said, himself, that he
was ''bad man." Deputy Sheriff
Curtis S. Dennis, the officer who
fired the shot that ended Wallis life,
was exonerated of all blame and his
course thereby commended, as the Of
ficers knew they would have their
hands full in capturing the gang.
Wallis was wanted for shooting
Brakeman Herschel Tanner of the
Great Northern at Big Sandy, having
fired on him from behind and had in
flicted an ugly wound. The Great
Falls authorities were informed of
the shooting at Big Sandy and when
the freight bearing the gang, pulled
in, the officers were ready for them.
That Wallis was the leader of
band of desperadoes, who have been
terrorizing the harvest hands in
North Dakota and along the main
line of the Great Northern in Mon
tana, has been definitely settled. G.
T. Graham of Great Falls positively
and quickly identified Wallis as the
leader of the gang that had held up
he and the Waldon brothers while rid
ing in box car about two weeks ago,
and robbed them of more than $500,
a diamond ring and then kicked them
off the car as the train was running
at ereed of about 20 miles an hour.
Graham then looked over the other
men who had been taken, but il was
harder for him to identify them.
"One of the interesting facts about
the case related by Graham" says
the Great Falls Tribune, twas found
in the description he and his compan-
ions gave of the leader of the gang
that relieved them of their money.
Sheriff C. w. Powell of Glasgow is
sued circulars requesting the arrest
of the suspects. In these he stated
that the leader was about S feet 10
inches in height, would weight about
$50 pounds, had fleshy face, pointed
chin, wore black hat, had dark COM
plexion, wore black pants and macki-
nav of dark red mixture. The age
was placed at 35. The description
is quite close, except the age, and
even that is not such a variance that
would preclude belief that the men
who were robbed were giving as ac-
curate notion of the man who took
their cash, as would be expected"
Sheriff Powell has been doing ev-
erything possible to gather in the
gang since the hold up and every
town along the line was on the look
out for the offenders. Graham, after
leaving here, went to his home in
Great Falls, and the Waldon brothers
secured work under Contractor Jay
Lytle to earn enough money to take
them to their home in Washington.
Immediately after identifying Wal
lis as one of the gang that had COM
mitted the hold up, Graham wired
Sheriff Powell and Wednesday morn
ing he left for the Electric City.
taking along with him one Of the
Waldon brothers to help identify the
other men who are held there.
Four sheriffs are now in Great
Falls to claim the men, as they are
wanted on charges in Valley, Blaine,
Chouteau and Cascade counties. They
will have to face the hold up charge
in this county, and in Blaine county
they are charged with robbing re-
sort at Chinook a few nights ago
In Chouteau they are implicated in
the shooting of Herschel Tanner.
CORN DISPLAY WANTED.