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Show BANK ROBBERS ON FREIGHT TRAIN PURSUED BY OFFICERS IN AUTOS Following a Battle in Which a Doctor and a Watchman Wound Three of the Bandits -After Being Captured the Outlaws Disclose Their Identity. r struggle that ende.l in Dr. Miller shooting Sayler. The version of what occurred as related re-lated by Grnnder, who Is 73 years old and a vendor of medicine, differed In no essential from the. story of hl- daughter. Mrs. J. It. Sayler. or of Dr. W. R. Miller, on trial with him for the murder of J. B. Sayler in Crea- cent city. Grunden told of going to the porch tl.at July Sunday night and asking Mr. Sayler to Join In a game of cards "He refused," said Grunden. "and I urged him again and still ho would not come. I went back to the parlor, then Into the other room for my hat and then back again to the parlor. "Then I saw Sayler rushing toward Dr. Miller, brandishing an axe and heard him say, 'I am pr?pared for this; I am going to kill you." "I started to separate tbeni. Th" lamp overturned. I wnw the flashes of shots and I stopped. Then I saw Mr. Sayler stagger bark and fall. I grabbed the gun from Dr. Miller and helped him Mud up his wrist. Ttaeu I went to call the neighbors." Chicago April 7. Three bank roh-bers roh-bers were wounded and captured at Morris, Ills., today, after an exciting" r:cj between a freight train, bearing the fleeing robbers, and a number of motor cars carrying tho members ot a pursuing posse. The captives belonged to a band of five which raided the bank of Coal City, at Coal City. Ills., today and escaped es-caped with $2,000. Ceal City Is G3 miles southwest ot Chicago. The iopulatlon was aroused by the explosion In the bank. Tho mauraders entered the town on a freight train and began operations by Capturing Barney Ghetto, the night vDtehman, and the night engineer ot the plant. Then then entered the b.iiik, blew open the sofo and with the money they found, fled to the railroad where they leaped on a Sante Fo train. Three hours later three men suffering suffer-ing from shot wounds were arrested at Morris. Ills. As tho train carrying the bandits pulled out of Coal City, Ghetto succeeded suc-ceeded in cuttlug his bonds and rushed to the telephone ootlfying the Night Watchman Miller, at Mason, seven miles south of Coal City, and he. with Dr. Ed Watts, laid in wait for the robbers. Watts was armed with a repeating shotgun and. Miller carried a revolver. At Mason the freight train stopped to switch cars. The bandlta leaped from the train and hid In a clump of shrubbery near the track. Miller and the physician discovered their hldin? place and opened fire, which was promptly returned, twenty-flvo or more shots being exchanged. When the train started, the bandits leaped aboard and escape! Immediately tho sheriff at Morris was nollHed. Several Sev-eral automobiles were pressed into service and the pursuit began, the machines following a. road along tho Sante Fe right-of-way. For a time the motor cars sped directly alongside the freight train, the members of tho posse, pos-se, occasionally firing at dark object. which were thought to bo the bandits ban-dits When the train ftopped at Vernon, near Morris, tho car3 were searched by the sheriff nnd his men. Three of tho fugitives were found. All were wounded. The other two had fled. It Is believed they leuped off the train from tho sldo opposite the posse and escaped with tho booiy taken from tho br.nk. The prisoners were taken to Morris, Mor-ris, where tliey refused to givo their names o rdiscusa the robbery. Later the prisoners admitted that their homes were In Chicago and gave tho names of John Hoyt, R. A. Werton-aszwskl Werton-aszwskl and Jos. Crowllek. |
