Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-04-04
Toll Bridge
Bandit Is
Captured
Robber Shot by Cateman and
Again by Council Bluffs
Officers Arrested at
Missouri Valley.
Wounds May Prove Fatal


Harry Bolden %, one of the pail
OF bandits who Saturday night held
up Charles Vanderloo, 2443 Avenue
d, Council Bluffs. tollmau on the
Douglas street bridge and escaped
from tight corner into which they
were forced by Bluffs police, was
captured by the marshal at Missouri
Valley and is now in the Jennie Ed
mundson Memorial hospital at Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
The gunman is suffering from
wounds which may prove fatal. One
of them was inflicted by 3 bullet
from Nanderloo's gun as the two
bandits made their escape from the
scene of their crime, and the others
are results of shots fired at them by
Ray Brown, Bluffs policemen, as
they ran the gauntlet of squad of
officers at Pearl street and Broad
way. ....,.
Bolden was arrested at the home
OF a doctor in Missouri Valley,
where his companion took him for
medical attention. The town mar
shall saw them. enter the house and
called Sheriff Walter MiliiInan from
Logan, who placed the wounded
man in custody. The second robber
, escaped in the automobile before
sheriff arrived.
= Little Loot Obtained.
The two gunmen parked their
roadster at the east end of the Doug
las street bridge Saturday night.
Then they walked to the dollhouse
at that end Of the structure and
held up Nandcrloo. They obtained
between SO and 81 from the cash
register and struck the tollman over
the head in all attempt to make him
produce more cash.
The moment they left the toll
house, Vanderloo seized the door and
yer, stepped outside the door and
began shooting at them. \ bullet
struck Bolden in the shoulder and
he fell to the ground. His comrade
carried him to the automobile, then
drew his own gun and returned
Vanderloo's FIRE. Several bullets
penetrated the dollhouse walls, but
none struck the tollman.
Vanderloo telephoned the IWcn-
ty-eighth street barn and reported
the episode Bluffs police headquar-
ters were in turn notified to look
out for the automobile. ......
Bandits Intercepted.
= A squad of policemen lett the
station in a police car and drove
west ON Broadway, They met the
gunmen's car at Pearl street and
Broadway, at the head of long
string of automobiles approaching
for the west. The bandits were
forced TO stop their car in observ-
ance OF traffic rules, by Fifth
avenue street car which stopped at
the corner to take on passengers.
The police chauffeur drove in
ahead OF the street Car and stopped
lust in front of the roadster, nearly
blocking the roadway. Two or
three officers jumped out of the po-
lice car and called to the bandits
to throw up their hands. The gum
man at the wheel OF the other car,
threw his machine into reverse,
backed few feet, then changed
gears, stepped on the accelerator
and shot past the police machine.
Wounded Second Time.
Ray Brown, sitting in the front
seat OF the police car, fired three
shots at the robbers, two of his bull
lets striking the already wounded
bandit in the abdomen. The en-
gine in the police car had stalled
and by the time it was started, the
escaping men were out of sight.
Less than an hour later the mar
shall at Missouri Valley noticed a
roadster stop i'll front OF a doctors
house in that town. He saw the
driver help an injured man into the
house. The marshal had not been
notified OF the Bluffs shooting, but
he investigated the incident. When
the two men did not give him a
satisfactory explanation of the bullet
wounds which one had sustained,
the marshal notified Sheriff Walter
Milliman at Logan.
One Man Escapes. ~
The one bandit left his injured
companion at the doctors house and
escaped in the car before the sheriff
arrived. Police are seeking him.
The machine bore Nebraska num-
Der and it is believed both robbers
were from Omaha.
Chief of Police James Nicoll. upon
being notified yesterday morning Of
the apprehension of the one gunman
at Missouri Valley, took Charles
Vanderloo and Ray Brown to that
town. Both men identified the
wounded prisoner as one of the pair
who held UP the toll station and es-
capped. He was brought back to the
Bluffs and lodged in the Jennie Ed
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