Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-14
GAVE WOMEN FIVE
MINUTES TO LIVE
ERE KILLING THEM
VILLAGE OF LOWELL CENTER OF
WARlIkE STORY-TRREE HUNS
ARE TAKEN IN CUSTODY BY
RAlDlNG PARTY.

An enemy raiding parry which
threatened to disrupt the usual peace
alt quiet OF placid oil Lowell with
the ,-lIing off of 4 few women was
chctfed in its wild clreAr at an early
ho'r This morning o. possn of sher
III aids Not until moppers.up hai
been sent into the foe dug.outs there.
0? lt@ting the attacking party 10 sout
Yves order restored 70 the little con
nInity down on the Vermilllon
Three of the fugltlyc Aliens wero
ta%en prisoner ava ING close exam.
lnatich under the 5c.ntiEiz'a, inter,
rogation Of Generalissimo L. NJ. Davis.
Notified at midnight (the clock was
striking low twelye) that she ana
three of her friends were given Just
five minutes to live, Mrs. Josef Sin
kinia, called Sheriff Davis for help.
with Adjutants William Mischke and
Arthur Barrett, aide.de-camps, the
commander-in-chief of the La Sale
county forces hurried to the scene.
Visions flashed before their minds
eye OF four innocent women being
torn limb from limb by flock of
drunken brutes
Arriving at the rendezvous, a mod.
ern cottage located just north of the
Nermillion off the Tonica road the
| army Of retrieyers failed to find any.
thing but females and babies about
the scene where the scheduled mur.
der was TO take place under such
short notice.
a scouting party was sent out TO
take bearings The Buffalo Bills and
Bill Hickock's of the local army, soon
learned that the enemy were ambush.
ed on the farm somewhere, but where
no one seemed to know. The fright
ened females, who then we're living
on borrowed time as threats of five
minutes more of life failed in execu.
tion. were certain the would be as.
sassins had not left the place.
Then came rush into every build
ing that might serve as a shelter for
two or three likely lady killers. Th.
first scouting expedition bore fruit
! one Of the fugitives was found by
Adjntant Barrett under buggy
where he sought shelter from the rain
Of bullets he thought was coming hI+
way the man who had entrenched
himself, as he thought, out OF danger
parried a little before giving up, but
Barrett soon took the achtl out OF
came upon another enemy. He lay on
stall floor in the barn, trying 10
/ hide himself under some struggling
bits of straw and other material left
Nthere by his successor the horse,
/ This fellow gave battle He tried
i to bite Deputy Mischke As Mschke
never did like being a mayhem vic
tim. the man WAS given the start o
his fair young life, His captor pushed
/ him up against a wall and with every
squawk, or bite, he got good bump
ling against the barrier head frs
He was finally subdued.
The third man was found IN an olt
shack down near the river. He CAV,
no resistance but came along peace
fully.
i When the officials arrived at tn,
spot designated by the frightened
Mrs. Sinkinia, they found that almos
every window In the house had beef
smashed out. tables and chairs wer,
overturned and the yard was IN grea
disorder. The women while being II
dlshabille, proved that they needle,
help.
The men we're all so burned drunl
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