/ # VOL. LXXVI. X X THE STORY OF THE CAPTURE. Sheriff Taylor and Posse Capture the Burg- lars after Seriously Injuring One of Them. The four desperate characters who committed a series of be- tween Laurelton and Linden Hall last week were captured in the Seven Mountains Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, When Sherifl’ Taylor the foot of Sand Mountain he was met by W. Frank Bradford and ers who had kept a watehful eye on the stable in which the burglars wer in hiding. There wus a hurried con- sultation, during time the sheriff gave his men orders where to stand. These points were at a distance of line of sight from the stable. They were further directed t: close in on the building when the: would see their leader drive down th pike toward the stable. The men were obedient, and at once started for their After sherifl hind given the men ample tim: to reach their destinations, heand Mr Foster got their leisurely drove to the old Their team side of the pike immediately south robbers = reached Liis support. which and out posts, the nto Luge il hotel site was hitehed on the wes the building. Sherif! ed, at once went to the door of the oid building, threw the door open, and, in afirm thai the come out and permit themscives toe placed under arrest. On the first floor of the stable the sheriff’ saw located to Pay lor, unarn tone, demanded Hot tirrer of the men —two he the jeft, and one door st the back man His which was loosely covered w K fine with tue T thie thirectiy n wall, wer fourth wus ri up in finy fel th homrd« : vs 1} rif Having loested his prey tn retreated, again ashing ithe men witl- Bj buggy, near in to come ont, this tise bie hind his Mr Foster was standing, secured his Krag Jorgenson rifle, and in the act of urcoverivg his gun and walking in front of the stable, the Sheriff's at- protrud- reached w lies while tention was called toa hand ing through the second empty, but eight or forty-four ealibre Sheriff ness and the weatherboarding of not sir 4 thirty floor. The hand was was clutchivg =a revoiver. Puylor renlizing the fearless. filerceness of the characters within the fort, and the of the mecha fauitlesgrions iam of the modern fire- arms at once ordered the deputies who stood nearest to him to fire, he him- relf doing likewise, The rotation of the firing was as follows : Foster, Tay- lor, Bradford, Foster—four shots, A silence followed. The sheriff and deputies retreated to the road, from which point the sheriff again asked the fortified prisoners to surrender. His appeals were unheeded, the prisotfiers realizing that they held not only a good fort, but had a minoiature arsenal to fall back on, and that if they could stay the advances of the sherift until night-fall they might by chance escape under the cover of darkness For a full halt hour 1 by i he had the entire building surrounded with men not only with revolvers, but with shot guns and Winchester ‘and Krag-Jorgenson rifles. Silence fol- lowed. There was a condition existing in the interior not known to those on the outside, which finally drove the nervy characters to treat for peace. *‘A man has been hit,”” came from one of the quartet, “and if you will guarantee protection, we'll come out.” sheriff vouchsafed their safety, and in a few moments three fierce and de- praved looking characters stood before the shed door, each armed with two revolvers, throw up your hands,” was the stern and firm demand of Centre County's High Sheriff. There was obedience, The three men, with hands raised sky- ward, walked abreast to a point on the sward midway between the shed and the pike. “Halt!” the sherift cried, with a distinctly military ae cent. The men were handeuffed and hastily searched, and lined up as though for inspection. Later they were taken to the county jail, DEPUTIZED CITIZENS, W. F. Bradford - Patrick Garrity Walter Garrity Calvin Ruhl K J. Bwestwood Wm. Cummings R, W, Colyer F. A. Carson Frank Pennington J. H, Ross Frank Shute W. A, Sandoe H.W, Smith James Smetsler OTHER ARMED MEN, J. 8. Beblehimer A. J. Richley W. A. Catherman, w. Boorer rice Runkle er Runkle short time Calvin Ruhl, R. W. Colyer, { Beblehimer came along, each armed with rifles and side armas. took a course around the old improve ments and located on Bald Mountain, and the balance of the men impatient- ly awaited the arrival of the sheriff, With Sheriff Taylor was Treasurer Phil, D. Foster, Frank Shutt, W. A, Bandoe and Walter Garrity. ATTEMPTED TO LOOT SAVE, | Burginrs Enter the Store of J, #1. Roos, Linden Hall, Friday night four burglars entered thestore of J. H. Ross, at Linden Hall, wrenched ofl’ the handle to the door of the safe, plugged the seams around the door and were about ready to blow up the safe, when tha experts were disturbed by A. E. Zeigler, a 8 A SICKENING SIGHT. Bespattered With Blood, and Pierced by a Bullet Through the Neck, More Dead than Alive, the Fourth Man Lay on the Loft Clutching his Weapon of Defense. When the hs t of the old shed, which was Ie the preferred his av lof thelr resis pitien, =» sicks 12 sight was edd hils horrowing met Here being in a erimsou po iny a fluely develop human f ine be- spattered with | nod, pale as t tightly weapon of death, more dead that ciutehiog a fieree lookibg defense Pwo plank were lesed against the side of thie shed, and on this the wounded 1usn was slid to the ground. From the end of the plank he was carried to a carriage and con- Mills hotel and place Alex. £0. 4 veved to Potters ed under the care of Dr. H 8, ander. The rifle bullet entered the neck on the left side, a trifle back of the larynx, and passed through the neck to point on top of the shoulder midway between the arm and neck. The mis sile possibly cut the back part of the wind-pipe. cd —— TRAPPED BY A FISHERMAN, W. F. Bradford Shadows the Burglars— Scours Mountains for Rifles — Puts Men on Picket and Awaits the Sheriff, To J. Hale Ross, of Linden Hall, jand W. Frank Bradford, of Centre | Hall, belongs the credit of locating the burglars. Before daylight Mr. Ross | was out with his rifle, looking for the | parties who only a short time before | had rifled the cash drawers of his store \and had prepared to blow open his safe with nitroglycerine. Mr. Ross tracked the culprits to Earlystowny at | which point they left the public road {and went out the lane of L. C. Lingle. | Mr. Bradford and son William and | James Bmetzler were on the way to | Pat. Garrity's to fish, and at the Old | Fort they met Mr. Ross who related they discovered one of the four men whiskey. Later they passed several was observed in the bushes. Mr. Bradford and his companions passed Garrity’s, all the while keeping an bucket, seen to enter the stable, of Mr. Garrity and related their story, Mr. Bradford secured a Winchester rifle and took a brush route for Band coming from the valley, The first to arrive was J. H. Rows, G. R. Meias, Wm, Cumings and W. A, Catherman, Mr. Ross’ carriage was sent to Potters JANES GELT WALT, ide of the shed, and 3 foe Fatt il + 3 seen the Potters Mills hotel and placed under PROFESSIONALS HOUT D Penns Valiey Dank Attacked by Profession: als Who Were Greeted hyn nilet An attempt was made to burglarize the Penns Valley Bank, ini} Friday night at 1:20, but the is place, burglars were obliged to quit the see crreitlony of un 48 calibre William MeClenahan, The burglars, » without rCcount lel from revolver in the the four in number, walchiuan, al tempted to gain entrance through a front window by removing the glass Watchman MeClenalian slo rear of #iX inches of p= in the the building, but iv about the glazing had been re. moved before he awoke, sod intuitive. ly, jumped to his feet, grasped his fire. arm, took aim, fired ! In au instant after the shot, the watchman heard the men hastily re. treat. Mr. MeClenahan calculated that an effort was being made to loosen the window fastening on the upper part of the lower sash, and he The bullet struck the middie partition of the double window almost immediately opposite that point, and made a clear out through and through. He also heard a noise similar to the fall of a man, and he was confident that his weapon had more than frightened the burglars, bat the noise was evidently caused by an outside watchman jumping from the window sill. The inside shutters were almost closed, which hid the burglar from view. An investigation in the morning revealed that the tools used in the at- tempt to remove the windo » light had been secured at the planing mill. The tools of the section men on the railroad bad also been taken from the tool house, and were stacked in front of the bank building. A hand car was used to make the Journey to Linden Hall, where, as is told elsewhere in this issue, the store of J. H. Ross was burglarized. > ROBBERY AT LAURELTON. Robbers whom he Surprised while at Work. bers blew open the safe in the Laurel ‘ton Lumber Company’s office and Pressler’'s Hotel, at Laurelton. They secured $50 from the former and al | most $6000 in money, bonds and ne- gotiable papers from the latter, Reno Zimmerman, of Laurelton, hap- pened along when the robbers were preparing for the first job. He was caught, bound, blindfolded and led a hundred yards up the railroad track, where one of the robbers stood guard, Because he fought, Zimmerman was struck three times on the head with a piek, reeciving dangerous wounds, Al daybreak the robbers raided the kitchen of John Strausser, a farmer, slva hreakfust and escaped, Zimmerman Shgge red to town early in the morni is still Before the Toubers hay Sogud. moved the bandage from his eyes. was slid carried the care of Dr. H. 8S. Alexander.” to the ground clerk, who sleeps in the store building d floor, Zeigler im the seen Mr e330 n on wus nwakened at d heard a Hoise nbeut the building H lay awake for a while, and finally went to the win- dow distine He, however, thought that the nove about RY slight when he hes Noises, was made by workmen on their way to the Bear Meadows, who frequently tap at the store door to see whether he i# a good sleeper Mr. Zeigler did not care Lo become the butt of a joke, 0 he retired ed on the porch roof ; the nos lelow The third Mr Z flor arose from Lids te i, he saw Later he got up and hammer ceased ; he returned, time Lwo nen walk toward the bridge, near the store building, where they held a whispered couversation ; they return ed to the store again, and in a few mo- ments four men leisurely walked away from the premises. Mr. Zeigler went to bed, but in a half hour the four men came back and again disturbed the clerk, who all the while thought he was avoiding being made the laugh- log stock of bis companions by keep- ing quiet. He nevertheless watched the quartet who were disturbing his peace, and saw them again walk away from the building. Failing to recognize any of the men, Mr. Zeigler decided to call Mr. Ross, the proprietor, who lives near by, Up- on going down stairs he was surprised to find the frout door open. An in- vestigation showed that entrance had ' been gained through a window, and that the safe was in the condition above described. The cash drawers in the postoffice and store were taken on the front porch for inspection, but the only cash they contained was one dol- lar and twenty cents, respectively, { which was not discovered. The experts now made preparation for retirement for a season, and accord. ingly went to the home of William | Catherman, the blacksmith, entered | the cellar and took therefrom three | loaves of bread, lard, mest and a tin | bucket. When daylight dawned there was | considerable excitement in the ham let, and it was decided to send out a | scouting party, accordingly J. H. Ross, Wm. Catherman, Harry Hagen and Charles Ross took a trail which led them to Earlystown, and across thé valley to Potters Mills. I ———— ——— At the Justice's Office. All along the road from Potters Mills to Centre Hall little groups of men, women and children had gather- ed toget a glimpse of the robbers, When Centre Hall was reached the victims were taken before Justice W. B. Mingle, who bound them over to court, and in default of bail they were HN of To Mr. Mingle belongs the credit enlisting the aid of the commissioners’ attorney, Harry Keller, and District | i TRAIL OF THE ROBBERS, The Trail of the Robbers from the Time They Left Laurelton Until Their Cap- ture at the Foust Stable, | The party of burglars arrested on Baturday on the Beven Mountains are the same gang who during Wednes- day night of last week blew open sev- eral safes at Laurelton, and clubbed, bound and gagged a young man by the name of Reno Zimmerman, took from him what money he had, amounting to fifteen dollars and twen- ty-five cents. From the safes they re- alized twelve dollars aud fifty cents, amounting in all to twenty-seven dol- lars and seventy-five cents, They got some jewelry and other erticles, be- sides a large amount, of signed checks, drawn to the order of the men employ- ed by the Laurelton Lumber Compa ny. These they threw into a stream of water, from which they were nearly all recovered. . The gang then started up the turn- pike toward Woodward, where the next night, Thursday, they broke open the store of R. M. Wolfs heirs, and robbed the postoffice, which is in the same room, getting a small amount In money and some postage stamps, They took from the store several re volvers, razors, umbrellas, shoes, ete Friday evening they were seen at Coburn, later at Spriug Mills, evident- ly following the railrosd. About two o'clock Saturday morning they made An attempt to enter the Penn's Valley Bank, by removing a large light in the front, which wakened the watch- man, William MeClenahan, who at once opened fire on them. They were evidently frightened as they left a basket containing some eatables, the tools which they had taken from the planing mill of A. P. Luse & Son, sev- eral umbrellas, and smaller articles, They went back to the railroad and NO. 26. Shoes, Etc, Missing. The postoflice at Woodward was robbed Thursday night of last week, The raiders vecured $5.00 in cash and about $150 00 in stamps of various de- nominations, revolvers, watches, knives, five pairs of shoes, three um- brellas, rezore, and other articles, The pt office is located in the general tae of Mrs, BR M. Wolf, who succeeded bir late husband as posts avd merchant. Eutrance the way of the front door, and exit by the rear. Once in the building the wank easy, because there was no sufe to encounter, * was gairsd Ly robbery the stamije a d money being kept in drawers, The robbers left no clew whatever of their identity, where they came from or whither they went. —————— i —— Conveyed to Hospital. Monday morning Sheriff Taylor and Commissioner P. H. Meyer, County Physician R. G. H. Hayes and Livery- mau Baum drove to Potters Mills and conveyed James Geltwall, the injured prisoner, to the Bellefonte hospital. fr ——— Names of Burplars, James Geltwalt, Wm. Palmer James Ryan, Namuel Bhireman. eames A Nerve Test. Before beginning to remove the win- dow light, the Valley Bank building, a stone was pitched in Penns through one of the exchange windows or not from that Mrs, Annas Boozer lay sleep- in order to discover whether any resistance would eome fqusrter, ing on a couch under the window and was thoroughly frightened. Jes = Three prisoners to the left, three minutes after the avoid the camera, and it was only This view was taken in less than by deception that the view was taken. took a hand car, and pext turned up at Linden Hall, where they broke in- | to the store of J. H. Ross, who also has the postoffice. Here they were again frightened off, but came back the second time and succeeded in get. ting a few stamps and a small amount | of money. They then broke into the! cellar of W. A. Catherman, a near neighbor of Mr, Ross, and took eats bles and a tin pail, which was hang-| ing on the fence. This pail proved their downfall as this was what they | were identified by. By the time they were through at Linden Hall it was about daylight. They then took the public road back toward Centre Hall and came as far as L. R. Lingle’s farm, about one and one-half miles from Centre Hall where they crossed the fields toward Potters Mills, evidently with the intention of going to Milroy. To Mr. Ross belongs the credit of their arrest. He at once started after them with a rifle and when fully day- light found their tracks which he and Wm. Catherman and Harry Hagen followed to where they took to the field. They found that a number of people had seen them carrying the tin pail which belonged to Mr. Cather man. Mr. Catherman came on to Centre Hall and made information against them before Justice W. B. Mingle, who issued a warrant and placed it in the hands of a constable, W. F. Bradford was just about start. ing to fish at Pat. Garrity’s place in the Seven Mountains, apd heard Mr, Ross’ story and description of the men. Inabout half an hour after ward he learned at Potters Mills that the gang had been there, They had taken the public road across the mountains, Mr, Bradford THE BOOTY. $12.62 in Cash, Postage Stamps, Revolvers, Explosives, Ammunition, Walches, Jewelry, Etc. When the looters were safely hand- cuffed a quick survey of the old stable and adjoining sheds was made. The booty found in the stable and pockets of the now very meek and docile men is here enumerated : In the stable were found two razors, a pint of nitroglycerine, stick of dyna- mite, a revolver, postage stamps, in various denominations, to the value of $167.44. In the pockets of the men were found a half dozen or more re- volvers, razors, twenty-five percussion caps, about seventy-five rounds of ammunition, watches and jewelry. Before leaving the stable, Sheriff Taylor deputized Messrs Garrity to thoroughly search the premises, nnd in fulfilling their duty they unearthed the postage stamps by digging in a pile of manure in one of the stalls, Look Out for Fake Pictures, The outlaws repeatedly turned thelr backs to the Reporter's camera, and it was only by deception that one of the three had his face exposed. Pictures that appear in newspapers, other than those credited to the Reporter, pur porting to be a likeness of the outlaws, are more than likely fakes. The Re- porter’s camera was the only one on the ground, and itis not likely that the men, after the excitement was
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