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Show BLUFFS OUT FIVE BANDITS. Farmer Victim Corrals Gang and Gets His Money Back. Muskogee, Okla. In the San Bois mountains, single-handed and in the dark, James Beck, a farmer living near Stigler, Okla., captured five bandits band-its who had robbed him of $2,000, recovered re-covered part of the money and made a gallant but ineffectual attempt to land his game in jail. Two were wounded, but all escaped. Sunday morning the men broke into Beck's house and stole his money. Armed only with a revolver, the farm-. farm-. er started in pursuit, and trailed the robbers day and night until at dusk Thursday he saw them enter the San Bois mountains, 70 miles southwest of Muskogee. He lay in wait until dark, and when the quintet fell asleep Beck approached yelling: "Hands up! Cover them, boys!" leading the robbers rob-bers to believe they were surrounded. Beck forced them to return $1,600 all of his money they had left and then attempted to bring them to Muskogee to jail. Learning that their capture had been effected by one man. the men made a dash and escaped, but not until Beck j had wounded two of them. A sher-j sher-j ill's posse is searching the mountains for the robbers. |