Ogden Daily Standard | 1898-11-29 | Page 1 | Burglars Caught at Work

I 1 BURGLARS CAUGHT AT WORK WORKS refused to throw up their hands when commanded to do so nbattle A battle ensues in which a robber and one of the attacking force are sever ly wounded hot P pursuit or alt t of the bandits 1 I f i detroit mich nov 29 A special from grand rapids mich says isaac grand rapids and indiana station agent at martin and his assistant marshal wicks had a wild west battle with two robbers in the depot today wicks and one of the burglars were wounded the robbers had blown open the depot sate safe A burglar alarm ran from the residence 0 of and when W from n the robbers began work and wick appeared armed with winches and ordered the bandits to throw up their hands instead they opened fire and a fusillade of shots was wan exchanged wicks tell fell badly wounded but will recover one of the robbers was shot in the leg but both escaped the wounded man stole a horse from a farmers barn and rode towards grand rapids when his horse became exhausted he stole another it Is reported that he has been captured near wayland the wounded robber Is surrounded in a swamp both the martin robbers were easily captured later one of them at dunn lake the other at wayland both were tracked through the snow by posses of citizens