Show II B BULLETS WERE I If 1 T Ill MX Air Full of Lead at Council Bluffs Yesterday After Aer noon I L ii iI i I i LIVELY RUG FIGHT Citizens and Bank Robbers Have a Tussle 1 1 r PrlK < m4i r < t CaugUt Are nelifevoi < o Have Been Implicated in the Rob I Tieify of the Gulswold RaiiU Yet Tlies Strenuously Detv > All Know ledge of < Ive CILMC Alleging That I Tlicy Are Fajcrn Hauds und 3Ieeoly Defended TliouiKclvcs Omaha Feb 2A Council Bluffs epecla1 to the Bee says A spirited fight between bank robbers and the localy authorities occurred here late this afternoon In which several per lternoon Eans were shot and much powder burned Officers had been notified to watch for the men who this moraine robbed the GrIswold Iowa bank Just after dusk a one of the of cer Tvas patrolling his beat he Noticed a man sitting in the office of the Kiel hotel who answered the description des-cription telegraphed from Griswold Deputy Sheriff OBrien was notified Smd coneluded that he was one of the men wanted and called to his assistance assist-ance Deputy Sheriff Hooker and In company with officers Peterson and Ware the party entered the office and invited the suspected man to jail As the flye men left the hotel two other irtelgueth rose and followed Keeping s eri yards behind Jthtthey reached the steps of thee court the-e OBrien dropped behind tellinirnls prisoner to walk in front As he did this the two men who had been fallowing the party commenced rnS at the officers Pulling their Euns the officers returned the fire the prisoner and the two strangers separating separ-ating from the officers and shooting a they ran For some minutes the fusilade was kept up citizens and other officers Dolning in the battle which had become be-come general all along the line until the desperadoes were overcome and two of them placed under arrest and taken to Jail where they gave their names a John Riley and James Wilson Wil-son As soon as they nrere secured behind the ba the officers te a g ofcer started to look for the wounded and in the starch they discovered OBrJen severely abounded a bal having struck liim in the abdomen entering the body and lodging near the spIne Riley was hit in the groin the ball penetrating Bore two Inches The third man escaped and fed towards the river pursued by n posse of citizens but he managed io elude thorn It is thought that he Is now In Omaha and the police of that city hale been notified to be on the outlook for the man In searching the men at the Jail their pockets pckets yielded a large number of postage stamps and a Quantity of small change which fact convinces the officers that the two prisoner now under arrest are members of the gang that robbed the Griswold bnk vVhlle the shooting was going on aiotorman SeuIIen met with a peculiar accident His train was In the vicinity of the battle and just a he was about to seeimthe seclusion of the inside of Ms c a i bullet struck the brick building build-ing near by and glancing flew tack and struck him between the eyes cutting cut-ting the flesh to the bone At the jail the men who are under arrest refuse to talk on the subject of the robbery They say that they are alt hands In regard to the shooting they state that they were soared and did not know that the men with whom they were fighting were officers and that they shot as they supposed to defend their lives |