Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1911 — Highwaymen and Police Have Desperate Fight at Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

Highwaymen and Police Have Desperate Fight at Lafayette.

_ At about 7:30 o’clock Tuesday evening two men held up James Rutherford, in Lafayette. They secured his watch. Rutherford met a policeman and told of the hold-up, and a teamster stated that he had seen two men go up an alley near the Monon depot. The officer and teamster set after them and when they encountered them a fierce fight ensued. The watch was found on one of the men.. The two highwaymen, with three others, arrived that morning from Chicago and are evidently the worst sort of criminals. One of the men, with a quick and'powerful twist of his wrists, succeeded in breaking the chain that fastened a pair of handcuffs on his hands and again started a fierce fight. The men were not landed ig jail until three or four more officers had taken a hand in the fight. Later another highwayman was arrested in the Big Four yards. He and the other two had earlier in the evening held up a man and robbed him of $2.65 and taken his shirt. He was identified by the man that had been robbed. It Is believed that three desperate criminals have been captured, n