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Lake Shore Freight Crew Outwits Quartet of Robbers.Four ear bandits at noon Monday robbed a. freight train on- the Lake Shore at Terre Coupe, and were captured after a running battle with a posec.The men drove to the right of way in a wagon, flagged the train, forced their way into a freight car and threw the merchandise but.. The train crew was- held at the point, of revolvers, but the engineer detached the engine and a dash was made for New Carlisle, where the posse was organized and returned.The bandits gave their names as follows: William Webber, aged nineteen, LaPorte county; Herman Fink, thirty-five, Logansport; George Kling, twenty-two. Ashland, Ky.; Thomas Burns, forty, Cleveland, O.The New Carlisle posse was hastily organized, the men being armed with all kinds -of weapons, including lt;shotguns, revolvers, rifles, clubs and ' pi tch forks.Boarding the engine, a dash was made back for Terre Coupe, where another posse, attracted by the shooting, had gathered to make an attack 011 the car, which held the thieves.Realizing that they were about to be hemmed in. the quartet made a break for liberty, boldly- advancing from the car toward tlie posse and then gradually backing away with their revolvers aimed at the crowd. Before the farmers regained their nerve the robbers had disappeared. By this time the New Carlisle posse had reached the scene and the posse tok up the chase. A running fight ensued, in which both exchanged shot after shot. Finally exhausted by the chase and out of amnniliition, the robbers gave up and submitted to arrest.Webber was the last man to be captured, and when he was finally run down after a chase of five miles across the fields he begged to be shot iu order that his identity would be concealed. He said he has a wife and mother, and the shock of his arrest would prove a terrible blow to them, who regarded him as an upright man. The quartet were arraigned before a justice at New Carlisle and in the evening were brought to the South Bend jail.The crew which figured in the sensational affair have not returned from Chicago, and the Review was therefore unable to learn the details of the incident,.The crew consisted of Conductor ! Arthur Culp and Brakeman A. V. Me-Calley and Sherman Swan. Engine-man D. K. Morse was in the cab.
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Elkhart Daily Review
Elkhart, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 12, 1907
Page 7
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