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Show GOT DROP ON BANDIT Man Accused of Killing Cashier Middaugh Is Captured. CHEYENNE. Wyo., Nov. 17.-The robbers rob-bers who held up and killed Cashier Mid-daugh Mid-daugh of the Cody National bank, and ttad their escape with a considerable aum of money, have been captured In northern "Wyoming. . According to news received by telephone from Thermopolia only one man baa been captured. This waa tha larger of the two men wno robbed the Thermopolls saloon. sa-loon. The captured man appears to fill the description of the one who shot Mld-daugh Mld-daugh in the attempted bank robbery in Cody.- The capture waa made about three -quarters of a mile above the mouth cf., 0wL creek ,n big vaUey a few miles from Thermopolls. The poase rode cautiously upon tha ruffian ruf-fian and succeeded in getting a drop on him before he was aware of their presence, pres-ence, and upon being questioned as to the identity and whereabouts of his partner, part-ner, he reused to utter a single word. In fact, he has remained silent ever since his capture. Upon his person were found a revolver and some money that are known to be the same as that taken from Edwards saloon yesterday. Parties from Cody will go to Thermopolls for the purpose of Identifying the captured man as the larger of the two men who attempted to hold up the bank at Cody. It will be remembered re-membered that it was the larger of the two men who fired the fatal shot that killed Mlddaugh. |