Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — HAD BEEN DEPUTY MARSHALS. [ARTICLE]

HAD BEEN DEPUTY MARSHALS.

Desperadoes Who Held Up a Train Had Been in Uncle Sim's Employ. Henry I-’. Gorman and Willia n Lake are now prisoners in the West Chicago Avenue Police S.ati n, ch rged with hoi i gup a train cn the Chicago, Milwau' e : & St. Paul Road at Deerfield, murdering Special Officer Patrick H. Owens,'attempting t > take the life of Wm. McGrath, a watchman employed by the Northwestern Load, and robbing Conductor N. A. Sargent. The nen were inly captured after a desperate tight, in which icO poli e officers and they were engaged. Both prisoners were badly wounded before they surrendered. Over 200 shots were fired during toe qngagemant, and the

man hunt, for such it was, lasted over eight hours. During the desperate fight a distance of ever thirty-two miles was covered. At first it was thought that the bandits were novices in crime, butafterthe exhaustive examinations made by Inspector Schaack and Capt. Koch it is the general opinion that the murder and robbery of Detective Patrick H. Owens, the shooting of Detective McGrath and the robbery of the conductor and brakeman of the Milwaukee fraight train, for which they are now held, are but Ihe last of a series of depredations marked by the same flaring recklessness. • Of the two men. Gorman, Griswald, or Gordon—and the police only conjecture how many other aliases he may nave—is the deperado. He is the one who did most of the shooting and allof the talking, and it has become apparent to the police that Lake was only an underituiy, a pupil, sworn to do the bidding of the master-hand in crime. It is now believed that the two m.n committe 1 many o’ the tocent depredations on the N rthwestern and Milwaukee Roads. Their appointment as deputy marshals to protect the property of the railroad companies against the ravages of the strikers during the recent disturbances attendant < n the boycott doubtless gave them a double opportunity to pursue their path of crime. The hold-up of a freight train on the Lake Shore road several weeks ago and the robbery of the conductor and brakeman in a manner exactly similar to the attack on the Milwaukee trainmen early Saturday morning can, the police think, be traced to Eandits Gorman and Lake.