The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1919-09-18
|H0LOUP ARTISTS
PLEAD GUILTY
FOUR OF THEM SENTENCED ro
TWO YEARS EACH
Other Five Steadily Maintain rh.v
Were Not Of the Gun Men,
But Of the Men Held Up

Ellendale. Sept. 15-Joe Young. Joe
Cooper, Walter McCloud and T.. J.
Futhey, four OF the nine men who
nave been detained iu the county Jail
mere since August 9Th, charged with
ROBBERY. plead guilty last Saturday
evening and We're sentenced to tw.
years at the state penitentiary bv
Hon. F. j. Graham, Judge OF the dis.
tr1ct court. The sentence was pro.
nounced at O'clock in tue evening
the court situns in chambers.
In their confessions. which were
obtained early Saturday evening, the
tour men plead guilty to charge of
robbery in the first degree. but stated
that the ether five men. Chas. Zim.
mer, Ray burke, James Ebert, Oscar
Gauch and Ralph -.anzine, who were
captured with the first four. and have
been detained since. were not impli.
Gated in any way in the robbery.
fhis Claim has been made by the men
ever since their arrest. -.
Ihe sentencing of these four men
Is the result of their daring act of
August 9TH, when they with olaers
held up at the point of guns and sep-
arated 6S harvest hands ana hoboes
from their wealth. in the junsles at
Oakes. After relieving them of their
money, the holdup artists marched
their victims down to creek near
town and forced them to dtsrobe
They made their getaway. but were
seen by a sinai. boy, who reported the
case, and nine men were captured by
Deputy Sher.. Singleton. Accord.
ing to the story of the men. there
were seven in the gang that commit.
ted the robbery. Five were captured.
one OF whom has been sent to the in.
sane hospital at jamestown. Two OF
the gang managed to make their a.
cape.
The other five men who are detain.
ed here are alleged to have been in
the party that was robbed. Just why
they were later found in the company
OF their former captors has not been
Battsfactorily explained. -'s
Try to Break Jail
Cooper and McCloud. two OF the
men who were sentenced Saturday.
made foolhardy attempt to break
jail Sunday morning. when they en-.
tered the veAtilating tiue in their cell
room, and were climbing toward the
roof when they were heard by Sheriff
HUFFMAN. The sheriff gained the rooI
poked gun down at the men. and
invited them to return to the hospi.
talfty of the county bastile. His arku-
ment was conclusive, and the two &C
cepted the invitation.
Tuesday morning one of the men
tried to brain the sheriff wlt.. a milk
bottle. when .-.e latter went down to
give the prisoners their breakfast.
The bottle fortunately struck a bar
instead of the sheriff's head, but
showered him with milk and broken
glass. He fired one shot in the cell
room, which was sufficient to tame
the bunch.
Are Bad Men
AuCoC ucu nave ollOWu themselves
to be thorough outlaws ever since
their capture. They have broken
windows and furniture, and tried +,
assault the officers until it has been
necessary to confine them to tAe
cages at times. They made one $
tempt to break Jail some time ago, by
saving the fastenings of door with
saws made from knives, and Tuesday
they succeeded in some way, 70 break
a big steel hinge. They have made
their boasts that this Jail could not
hold them. But Sheriff Thurman and
his crew have been successful in de-
taifing his playful guests, and will
doubtless be able to turn them
to the transportation officer, who is
expected this week.