Boone County Recorder . ht. The d^pd are: James Ryan, city mar-shal. Night Watchman Basbahan andF. O. Hawes. The wounded: Night Watchman Pollock Hawes, who was 22 years old, theson of a Johnson county farmer, whoreturning. to his home on a MissouriPacifte -train Sunday evening-from- atrip to a neighboring town, when, It iebelieved, he suddenly lost his were noticed by the otherpassengers, and the officers here werenotified. Vfhen the train arrived ats: HO Oft*/ Marshal Ryan and two nightwatchmenof the town were at the sta-tion. Hawws got off the train and ashe did so the
Boone County Recorder . ht. The d^pd are: James Ryan, city mar-shal. Night Watchman Basbahan andF. O. Hawes. The wounded: Night Watchman Pollock Hawes, who was 22 years old, theson of a Johnson county farmer, whoreturning. to his home on a MissouriPacifte -train Sunday evening-from- atrip to a neighboring town, when, It iebelieved, he suddenly lost his were noticed by the otherpassengers, and the officers here werenotified. Vfhen the train arrived ats: HO Oft*/ Marshal Ryan and two nightwatchmenof the town were at the sta-tion. Hawws got off the train and ashe did so the officers attempted tomake the arrest. Hawes drew a re-volver and began shooting. At the firstshot Maralml Ryan fell dead, shotthrough tin; head. Other shots follow-ed H&fl Basbahan fell dead. He wassho^tbrough the lungs. Pollock wast heflfnst one shot, and he received whatlsJDelieved to be a mortal wound inthe abdomen. Hawes started to runfrom tne scene, but was shot and kill-ed by fhe negro porter of a local Coffeyville, Kan. — Two men en-tered the Citizens bank at Chau-tauqua, 25 miles west of Coffeyville,Friday, and after forcing Cashier C. and Del Easley, a busi-ness man, to enter the vault, lockedthem in, secured all the currency insight, amounting to about $3,000, andescaped into the Osage hills acrossthe line in Oklahoma. Four possesstarted in pursuit and as the roadswere muddy it was beileved the rob-bers would be captured. The robberssecured but half an hours start. The robbery was one of the mostdaring ever executed In this part ofKansas, the scene of many daringhold-ups on the part of the Dalton,Starr and other gangs of outlaws whofrom time to time have made theirrendezvous in the mountainous coun-try of near-by Oklahoma. Cashier Walteniou8e had scarcelyopened the bank at Chautauqua Inthe morning and placed his currencyon the counter ready for the daysbusiness when the two robbers en-tered. The only other person in the Washington. — Senator
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