South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-11-11
EVEN MORE REAL
THAN THE MOVIES
Colorado Train Robbers Out
class the Moving Pic
ture Actors.

DENVER. Colo. Nov. 1O-visions
like the cinematorgraph's most
realistic projections OF the long past
stage-coach-holdup days are called
up and then quickly dispelled by the
modern realism attached TO the MS
tory OF the Katy" mail train rob-
berry and subsequent Colorado ban
dit battles of a year ago.
Two policemen one a detective
chief. were killed, and four detec-
tives and another man who was
charged with participating in the
train robbery. were wounded in FIVE
encounters in or near Denver and
Colorado Springs.
Frank Lewis, declared by the po-
lice TO have confessed a long Grim
inal career. his wife and Roy Sher-
rill, the only persons actually
charged with being implicated in
the robbery Of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas train near Koch, Kans., the
night OF July 1. 1918; Miss Eva
Lewis de Morris, Lewis sister; John
Babb and wife. parents of Lewis, and
George Eudaley, were arrested on
Sept. 13 and IA last. Eudaley and
Miss de Morris were charged with
highway robbery. Lewis parents
were held pending developments.
Easily Elude Police.
A house in the Capitol Hill fash
ionable residence district of Denver
was placed under police surveillance
as the probable rendezvous Of the
train robbers. Before the police
could carry out a plan to raid the
house on Sept. 10, four men depart
ed in an automobile. A private de-
tective trailed them TO Colorado
Springs.
An attempt to arrest the quartet
cost the life of Chief of Detectives
John Rowan. He was shot down by
a rife ball as he approached the
motor car at the wheel of which was
a we'll dressed woman. She turned
or the power as the rifeman In the
car shot and seriously wounded De-
tective J. D. Ryan and the machine
and its occupants escaped.
1t was automatic with the bandits
10 shoot and run but shoot first. -
Shoot up Detectives.
The same night Detective Harry
Lane and Frank Cole were shot and
wounded when they attempted to
stop an automobile that paused be-
fore the Capitol Hill house just long
enough for a woman to rush out and
climb in.
Detective Carl Wilson was slight
" wounded and a companion was
disarmed a few hours later-early
in the morning of Sept. 14-when a
man boldly leaped from an automo-
bile in front of the same house and
attacked the detectives.
In the next battle the luck turn
dand Roy Sheriff. was wounded
and captured with Miss de Morris by
Denver, when found in possession OF
a stolen automobile from which two
other persons escaped. The car be-
longed TO Miss Mildred w. Gates. of
Dallas, Tex, who with w. D. otter.
of chicago, were held up by a man
and woman in the outskirts of
Denver and carried 20 miles into the
country and abandoned.
About the same time Frank Lewis
was captured at Palmer lake with
cut a fight
The fifth battle occurred two hours
after the captures when Policeman
Luther McMahill was shot and kill
ed by an occupant of a closed car
which he approached on his way TO
his home in Denver
Shortly after daybreak Eudaley
was arrested near Sedalia.
Dale Jones and Roy Lancaster,
alias Kansas City Blackie." whom
the police believe took jart in the
battles, went to Kansas where Ian
caster was killed in. a fight with the
police and his brother. Warren, ar
rested. Jones still is at large.