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morning 110 possitive truce of their presence eouId llt;* gained, and many thought they had escaped. Early this morning people same fairly swarming in, and at one time to-day fully 2,000 must have been on the ground.the ciiaruk on the urovk.At H o’clock in the morning a strong picket and mounted patrol was stationed outside. A force of perhaps 2lt;h were formed in line on the south side, under command of A’ill Hal-dernian, of Avoca, with K. J. Freeman, of Audubon, in charge of the right wing, and a gentleman whose name we do not now remember in charge of the left, while the subdivisions were in charge of other officers. The battalion deployed so that the men were ten feet apart, and marched cautiously into the grove toward the north. It was a tedious progress, and after they had proceeded a certain distance the right wing wheeled to the left and the right of the line to the north side of the grove, and proceeded toward the west, the lines being so arranged as to cover nearly every foot of the ground, and closed in on I he murderers at or near the southwest point. Mere there was nearly a mile of underbrush to penetrate, and it consumed about three hours time. When perhaps half way throughA LOl*I REPORT W AS HEARDon the left, and instantly the word was passedthe line that another man had fallen mortallywounded. This onlv added fuel to the flames,•as we were then certain that the villains were before us, that they did not propose to surrender, but to kill as man of us as possible, and then die game. We had gained an accurate description of the robbers from Gardner, and every man in our line wore a handkerchief tied around his left arm. The rightJiKe to he of your gJuly IsHates co nearly ki tice. ' If me.I am a 1 was yoi I had to t robhed ai would lik that can f hristian ask justiilie w rote ;“As I ii the last ti ful thoug come to s kill you,Griggs wi give you I and dyinji I have an have sonn ho vs.’ [‘SignMr. Sh; the dav lt;the followAtlaki rounding at Polk C finally so! the past tlt; irove, incount v.•citizen an two other perpetraU his accoii) heen the t solution c burden fo
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Fairfield Tribune
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 19, 1883
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