The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-08-26

Sioux Falls, Aug. 26-The man
hunt is over. 1t ended yesterday
afternoon in a corn field Is miles
north of Wall, S. D., at the border
land of the Black Hills when a pur-
suing posse overlook the four con-
vices and a battle ensued, conclud-
ing the terrorizing drive of the men
over South Dakota. After it was
over Henry Coffee, the negro, was
dead; Joe Forman, ringleader of the
sang, had been captured after be
ing severely injured and the other
two, Joe Teel and j. B. King, had
surrendered to the authorities.
Through three counties the con-
victs had streaked yesterday, during
which they severely wounded a coun-
ty official and injured two others in
a clash near Stamford.
Their mad flight was halted north
of Wall when crack shot from a
sheriff's rifle killed Coffee and the
car tumbled into the ditch. The
other three occupants scurried into
a corn field along the road but with
the sheriff's party reinforced, they
soon were routed out ana captured
The first hot clew of yesterday de
yeloped at Murdo in Jones county
early yesterday morning. Kenneth
Peel, at a. m, went down TO the
stock yards there to prepare a ship
ment of hogs for loading. Arriving
at the wards, he saw an old Ford
motor car with a Nebraska license
plate, parked near the scales. He
told the lone occupant, a negro, that
he would have to move the car so
that he coudl get his hogs on the
scale to weigh them.
Peel recognized the man in the
car as Coffee, the escaped convict,
but went about his work as usual
for few minutes until he could
slip away undetected and go up
town to get aid. When he got mp
town, he learned that someone had
stolen tires from the car of ]. A.
. Robertson. He notified Robertson
who in turn notified States Attor-
ney M. l.. Parish and Sheriff j. C.
Babcock of Jones county.
The three started for the stock
yards in Parish's car Arriving there
and finding the men and car gone
they started west on the main high
, way in pursuit. About half mile
, east of Stamford the pursuers
found Ford car with four occu-
I pants stalled in the road. The of
I ficers stopped and talked a little
while with the men in the Ford anC
then proceeded into Stamford. Here
r they found that the reason the Ford
! was stalled was because of lack OF
$ gasoline and oil. They also learn
! ed that one of the men had gone into
town to get these supplies but WHY
, he returned without them could no
: be learned.
, Parish, Babcock and Robertson
= then went back to the stalled ForC
| and asked the men if they could tow
: them into the town.
stick 'em up" shouted one o
the convicts as the men came up {,
the car.
The pursuers complied but whel
ordered to walk over into a draw
I short distance from the road Parisl
resisted saying, Il would just a
soon be killed here as over i'm tn
draw"
i He had no more than uttered tn
# sentence when he fell, Forman fir
e ing charge of buckshot into hi
n face and shoulders. Both Babcocl
e and Robertson also were injured i
J. the bullet battle. The only guns tina
II the fugitives had were shotgun an
e a .22 calibre rifle.
After the three men had been sho
they We're forced to the draw an
bound and gagged. Sheriff Babcoc
was the only one of the trio armed
His revolver and money were take
g away from him before he wa
bound.
After the men had been left layin
in the draw for dead the bandit
~ piled hay over them to prevent ther
Is from being discovered The sherii
1 soon worked himself free, release
y the others and hastened to sprea
z the alarm.
oI News of the merciless attack o
3 the Jones county officials spread lik
Is wild fire on the dry prairies of th
" open plains. Posses were hastily OF
II ganized everywhere. Cowboys frol
re Interior, gathered there in full r,
re gala for the Frontier day celebr;
e, tion, took the saddle as in the day
as of old when the horse thief roame
le the plain. The roads were mass
e. dust from flying hoofs and scorchin
he automobile tires and the count
ne needed the call to battle.
In that country where men sho,