The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-05-12
Olivia Man Catches
Bandits, They Take
His Car and Escape
Transforming THUGS
TRAILED THROUGHOUT
STATE BY OFFICERS

Fay Ellis, Olivia pinball ma
chine serviceman, lost his pickup
truck to two young gunner early
Tuesday evening after he chased
them at a 95 mile an hour clip
down the Bloomkist road north
of Olivia.
With a third accomplice who
was not with them when they
held up Ellis, the youths sped on
to st. Cloud where they got 5000
in a holdup of the LANCER Gro
Gerry store about three hours lat
er. In their fight they abandon
ed the Ellis machine at Sank
Centre and stole another car, a
1885 Oldsmobile in which they
are now believed to be travelling.
Ellis recovered his truck We'd
nesday.
The three men, described by
series of holdup victims through
out the state as ranging in age
between 20 and 81 years of age,
are on an armed transforming
tour which took at least two of
them to Olivia Tuesday afternoon.
After attending a baseball game
there, they rammed car owned
by Rev. A. w. Blauert, Lutheran
minister, while leaving the ball
park.
They stopped, gave him ficti-
tious names and told him to have
the car repaired, promising to pay
the bill.
A short time later, evidently in
an attempt to get out of, town in
a hurry, they ran through stop
sign and Ellis chased them
more out of curiosity than any
thing else" They tore down the
highway at terrific rate of
speed.
The 1886 Ford sedan in which
they were travelling became over
heated and they stopped.
When Ellis came up they COW
cred hirn, one youth with a Ger
man Luger and the other with
another gun. They asked if he
could repair Ford V-8 and when
he replied that he couldn't they
transferred articles, among them
two other guns from the sedan to
the pickup, telling Ellis they
would leave his car at the next
town.
Evidently an amateur on his
first hold-up spree, one of them
was so nervous that he accidental
ly discharged a long-barrelled 30
revolver in making the transfer.
The other. was plenty cool and
tough" Ellis said.
They took the keys to the sedan
which they were abandoning, got
into the Ellis car and sped down
the road.
Reaching a telephone, the VIC
tim called authorities and an at
tempt to block surrounding roads
was made by the highway patrol,
Renville county sheriff and de-
puties, and members of the state
bureau of criminal apprehension.
They evaded the blockade.
According to KIND, the youths
holdup, car theft and license
plate-stealing career began April
10 when two of them stole car,
held up an oil station and thefted
a set of license plates from used
car lot in Bemidji. They got $40
in one dollar bills there.
They struck next April 81 at
Shakopee, netting $50 in hold
up.
Since then they have stolen Ii
cense plates at Elk River, Crooks
ton, Bagley and Detroit Lakes,
the Detroit Lakes plate-theft oc-
curing after they fled from Sank
Centre Tuesday.
They are also wanted at Nc
Intosh for a 500 hold-up May 2
and are suspected in a Grand
Forks hold-up Monday night.
The car abandoned at Olivia
was stolen at Park Rapids and
plates found on it We're taken at
Bagley. The machine contained
three empty money bags marked,
First National Bank, Park Rap
ids"