Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-02-28 | Page 6 | One Man Captures Five Highwaymen

ONE MAN CAPTURES FIVE HIGHWAYMEN Muskogee Feb Fob 27 In the San Samm Bois Dois Mountains and In the dark James Beck Bock a farmer Carmer residing near Oklahoma captured five Oye robbers who ho had robbed him of 2000 recovered part of the money and then made maJe an Ineffectual attempt to land his game In jail Two were wounded but all escaped tI Sunday morning last the time men broko Into Int Becks house and nOd escaped with his hi money mone Arming himself with a revolver the time farmer farm r started in pursuit He trailed trolled tho robbers days and night until at dusk Thursday ho he saw them enter Cater the tho San Bols Bela Mountains seventy miles mites south southwest southwest southwest west of ot Muskogee He las lav la in wait walt till darkness covered the robbers rendezvous and when whon finally the th quintet fell teil asleep Beck Deck ap approached approached yelling Hands Han s up Cover Coer them boys bOH I Leading Lending the robbers to believe they tho were ero surrounded Beck forced them theft to return 1600 of his money mone all ail they the had lund left lert and anti attempted to bring them to lo Muskogee to Jail Learning that their capture had hall been effected by b ono man the men made madea a dash for liberty Hbert They The escaped but not until two of them had been shot anti and wounded by Beck how badly IB is i not nol know A sheriffs posse is scour scouring scouring ing in the mountains pm the robbers rob ers