Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-10-30
Are Caught After Many
Hours Chase in Pine
County Woods.
Much Cash and Two Guns
Found in Cabin on
Kettle River.
Clover Township Woman
Constable Stops Suspects
by Blocking Road.

Two suspects presumed TO be the
bandits who held up and robbed
the Burnett county state bank at
Webster, Wis, Saturday morning
between $3.50 and 10 O'Clock were
forced to take cover in a brush section
in Clover township this county, and
were captured by a posse made up of
Pine county citizens working in con-
junction with Wisconsin and Mime
sofa authorities. The capture was
made Sunday morning in a log cabin
on the banks of Kettle river south
east of Sandstone where loot to the
extent of $4,7S9 was recovered and
of this some $4,39O and two guns
were found under a mattress in the
cabin. The suspects, two young men,
one about % years of age and the
other about 80, have been lodged in
the Pine county Jail at Pine City
awaiting further developments.
The Robbery.
The Webster bank was held UP by
two bandits Saturday morning, who
entered the bank soon after it had
opened for the day, and forced Byron
Selves, cashier, and three other en-
ployees to lie on the floor while they
escaped with about $4,000 according
to Sheriff Danelski of Pine City.
The Capture.
Immediately after the robbery was
perpetrated and the captives were re-
lieved from the vault by a customer
coming TO the bank the alarm was
sounded and every road of any con-
sequence was urged to be guarded.
A general call was sent to Askov
as it was also to other towns and
communities in Pine county that the
bandits were headed in this direction
across the Wisconsin line through
Danbury in a 1890 model Ford coupe.
The bravery of a woman constable
and her children was the undoing of
the fleeing men and placed them in
the hands of authorities which, il
found guilty, will net them many
years in the penitentiary. Mrs.
Gordon Thompson living on a farm
three miles east of Cloverdale, and
about IL miles east of Hinckley
along the road from Danbury received
the telephone message that the bandit
car had passed through Danbury and
was headed in that direction Mrs.
Thompson with cool and deliberate
action aided by her son. Orville Har-
man, 90, and daughter Ruby Hartman
(by former marriage) and another boy,
naf hA
at the Thompson home at that time
had barely time to place instructions
across the road in front of the Thomp-
son home when a car with two men
was sighted coming down the road at q
terrific speed. Mrs. Thompson with
only her star as a weapon accompa-
MED by her son with a 1890 rifle,
her daughter with a revolver, and Sid
ney Daley with shotgun loaded with
buck shot placed themselves in the
road in obstruction to the approaching
car. Mrs. Thompson after giving
her instructions to her deputies ad-
vanced toward the fast approaching
car, held UP her hand for them
to stop and commanded three times,
the third time being emphasized with
shot from the 1920 rifle held by
Orville Hartman in order to enforce
her command. The men seeing
that they were frustrated in their at
tempt to make their getaway ahead,
first attempted to whirl their car but
seeing the fruitlessness of this,
jumped from the car and started to run
for the brush at the side OF the road.
After few steps one man turned
and took something from the back
of the car, throwing rifle on the
ground and again followed his CON-
panion. OrviIle aimed at the fleeing
mans legs and shot once more but
failed to hit them. He ran to their
car. climbed on the top, and shot
once more into the brush where they
were running. but also missed. At
this point Ruby Hartman, bearing ND
braveiy In the aid Of her mother and
brother ran to the telephone, called
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