Evening star., 1924-12-07
2DEAD, { WOUNDED
IN SALOON HOLD-UP
Two of Injured Likely to Die.
One Robber Caught. Posse
Seeking Other.
BY the Associated Press

SOUTH BEND. Ind, December e.
Three men were shot and killed and
four others were wounded, two OF
them perhaps fatally by two robbers
who were frustrated early this eve
ming attempting the robbery OF a
soft drink saloon, and then shot their
way toward liberty in a running bat
tie with police. sheriff's deputies and
citizens.
One OF the robbers was arrested
when highway construction work
man, who was. in turn, shot. felled
him with blow from a sledge ham
mer, while the other is believed to be
surrounded in a field west of South
Bend by a posse made up of hundreds
of officers and citizens from the
countryside.
List of Fatalities.
The dead:
Frank Rathfon, So South Bend,
customer in soft drink saloon.
Elmer J. Caufman, SO, Lydic, Ind,
road worker
The wounded:
Felix sevens. 81. bartender in
saloon.
William Rice, 65, South Bend Cwas
in saloon when shooting commenced.
Expected to die. Shot in head).
c. L. Camp, farmer living west Of
South Bend. Shot in side and not ex-
pected to live.
Stanley Polmarzek, South Bend.
shot in side.
Homer Curry, road worker, shot in
side. Not expected to live.
Made Attack Suddenly.
The shooting began when the rob
bers, who for few minutes. had
been lounging about the soft drink
saloon on Chaplin street a short dis
tance from the depot OF the New
York Central Railroad, suddenly pro
duced revolvers and commanded the
others in the place 10 put up" their
hands
The wife of the owner OF the sa
loon, who was in the place, looked on
in horror as the shooting started. The
robbers opened fire when Rice, who
also had been lounging in the place,
started for the youthful robbers.
cautioning them 10 refrain from care
lessness with their firearms.
The robbers didn't speak, but in
stead shot Rice through the head
He fell to the floor and is believed
mortally wounded.
Robbers Start Shooting.
AS Rice fell both the would-be rob-
bers began shooting and Felix Stew
ems. bartender, was shot down. He
died later in st. Joseph's Hospital.
Rathbon also was hit during the flu
sillade from the robbers revolvers as
they fed through the front door.
Outside the saloon the robbers got
into the automobile Of Stanley Pol
marzek. local agent for the Pruden-
tial Life Insurance Company. Pol
marzek and his young nephew were in
the machine. They commanded Pol
marzek to drive west as fast as he
could. Polmarzek attempted to de
lay the robbers and was shot through
the shoulder, disabling him.
Boy Drives Machine.
Polmarzeks nephew was forced 10
take the wheel of the machine after
the wounded man had been dragged
from under it. The boy, thoroughly
frightened at the shooting of mis-
uncle, did not hesitate, and started
along Chapman street.
Appearance of the car with the
young man at the wheel, speeding
through traffic, aroused suspicious Of
citizens and police officers, but none
were able to take up the chase until
the machine had made it's way out
of the city. The robbers were lost
for a time to both police and sheriffs
officers, summoned to the soft drink
saloon.
Trail Is Picked Up.
The trail was picked up within -
minutes, by a telephone call to the
sheriff's office, which announced that
Camp. the farmer. living miles
west of South Bend, had been shot
by the two bandits when he resisted
them as they sought to steal his
automobile.
Taking Camps car, the robbers
then fed along the highway near the
Camp farm where they encountered
the crew of a ditch dredging outfit.
There were only two men in the
dredger, Cauffman and Curry.
When the robbers attempted to
compel one of the dredgers to get
into the automobile with them
another fight resulted and one of
the desperadoes was struck over the
head with a sledge hammer by Curry.
Curry was shot down and Cauffman
was killed in his tracks.
The blow on the head so stunned
one of the robbers that he was un-
able to continue the fight and his
partner fed alone.
The lone robher then fed afoot into
the nearby fields and there is now
supposed to be surrounded by police
and sherif's deputies and armed
citizens.
Quick arrival Of the officers and
others and the fact that in some parts
the fields amount almost to a morass,
leads the sheriff to believe that the
lone highwayman is surrounded and
that IL is but a question of time until
he is under arrest
The robber who was struck down
with the sledge hammer gave his
name to police as Raymond l.. Mos
ley Of Boston. Mass. Mosley refused
to discuss the attempted hold-up or
the shooting of and killing of so
many men that followed II.
The battle aroused the entire city.
filled as 1t was with residents and
out-of-town shoppers. Hundreds in
automobiles and afoot joined in the
man-hunt and it was possible to see
almost every sort of weapon in the
posse which followed the sheriff out
of town
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