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SHOT DOWN.3XVV ;•. 7(y;l«_ •/ r • *• • %5; 'iltftSfY CONSTABLE KILLEf? BY UNKNOWN PtftSON.wtlfi EeadWiiH* Htturntn*Midnight Rafd—Rebet* of Sa* Snrrender a tit! Are 11 eld ft* Pri*-Wier# hy Qcn. F# 1. Ortitti.VCJbttrtalilfi Charles Engelbmdw. has becti shot to death in a lonely stretch of the. Secancu* road near Snake’Hill. N, X Thy police sire searching fnr a fellow whom they suspect of the murder. -iSrigfclbrcehl wan a constable of the township of Secauvns, Ao ooipa»i^l by Coil* St a liters Doyle ami IlcSlieh he planned ft descent on an alleged disorderly house on *41ie-Secawns ToaiL Engclbiwht and bis assistants reached the place shortly before midnight. They found nothin? of Ml jncritninatii!? nature and departed, lhey started down the road and had reached a dark stretch near the meadows, when a inan opened fire within a few paces of the eons table. Engel breeht fell, with two wound* in hi» back. Doyle and Hellich jumped aside until the man had emptied his pistol and then sprang toward him. He evaded them and darted into the rushes by the side of the road. They searched in vain ami then hurried to Sc* cats cum. where an alarm was spread and a IKiMKC set forth to hunt for the murderer. Kngelbrecbt's father was murdered by robbers five year a ago.
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Williamsburg Journal Tribune
Williamsburg, Iowa, US
Thu, May 01, 1902
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