Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1922-04-20
BURGLARS in
NAPLES STORE
CAUGHT IN THE ACT BY THE
LUNDEN BROTHERS EARLY
WEDNESDAY, MORNING
ONE BURGLAR is SHOT TWICE
Five Are BeBlieved To Have Been In
plicated In the Robbery.

Lunden Bros. store at Naples was
burglarized about three o'clock We'd
nesday morning, three of the burglars
having been caught on the job by two
of the proprietors of the store, Charles
and Emil Lunden, one being shot and
wounded seriously enough that he
gave himself up. The others escaped
and although officers in all nearby
towns have been wired descriptions
and are on the lookout for them they
have not yet been apprehended.
1t was between three and four
o'clock yesterday morning that Emil
Lunden was awakened by the barking
of his dog and noise in the store
building. He and his brothers live in
houses close to the store building.
Lunden first aroused his brother,
Charles, and the two started out to in
vestigate, each starting for the front
of the store by opposite sides of the
building.
They found one of the burglars
standing in front of the store, appar-
emily acting as a lookout, one was ON
the platform packing goods which had
been taken from the store in gunny
sacks and the third was rummaging
about in the store. When the burglars
saw the Lunden brothers, they started
to run. One fellow headed towards the
Great Northern station, another
started in the opposite direction.
Charles Lunden called to the fellow
who had been on the platform to halt
and fired a shot at him. The fellow
kept going and Lunden shot again,
shooting low and hitting him in the
leg below the knee. Emil Lunden,
coming from the other side of the
building, also fired and hit the fellow
in the abdomen. The burglar al
though hit twice, kept on going. His
two pals shot at the Lunden brothers
several times while making their es-
cape but none of the shots did any
damage.
About 20 minutes after the shoot
ing the burglar who had been shot,
returned to the Lunden store and
asked to be taken to a physician. He
appears to be about 20 years old and
gives his name as Joe Stevens He
claimed to have come to Naples from
Troy Mont, but it is now known that
the burglars came to Naples on a cat
tie train Tuesday evening. 1t is said
that Stevens has been making his
home for some time in Standpoint and
is known to the police of that city
In their haste to protect their prop
erty against the burglars, Emil and
Charles Lunden neglected to waken
their brother, Gus Lunden, and he was
only aroused when the shooting
started. In their search for the bur-
ula no I
a gunny sack packed with all sorts
Of groceries and canned goods which
had evidently been dropped by one of
the burglars near the Great Northern
railway tracks. sack found on the
platform had been packed with 81
suits of union underwear. Eleven or
twelve pair of shoes and other goods
are missing and it is known that at
least five men had a hand in the bur-
glary, two having gone before Charles
and Emil Lunden arrived at the store.
Entrance to the store was gained by
jimmying one of the large windows in
the front of the store.
Stevens was brought to the Bonners
Ferry hospital and his wounds were
dressed by DR.. Bowell He tainted at
the hospital from loss of blood but
quickly revived. Later in the day he
was removed to the county jail.
Boundary county seems to be a
rather poor district in which to carry
on outlawry and few more incidents
like that of the Lunden robbery and
the First State Bank hold-up will
teach stick-ups and burglars to steer
clear Of a community where the citi-
zens are prepared and able to take
care of their property.