Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — TW[?] BANDITS ARE KILLED. [ARTICLE]

TW[?] BANDITS ARE KILLED.

Union Pacific Train Bobbers Blain bjr • Posse in Kansas.'-' The two men who robbed a Union Pacific train in Colorado and killed a passenger were surounded by oftcers Friday morning three miles east of Goodland. Kan. In the battle which ensued one of the robbers was shot to pieces. The other was burned to death in the house. J. B. Riggs, owner of the Commercial Hotel of Goodland, and George Cullins, members of the. posse, were severely wounded, and another of the pursuing party, name unknown, was wounded slightly. The Union Pacific Kansas City-Denver train was robbed between Limon Junction and Hugo, Colo., ninety miles east of Denver, the previous Sunday morning, and W. J. Fay. an aged man, who resisted, was killed by one of the robbers. The robbers dropped off. the train at Hugo and escaped. They went on to the ranch of D. E. Bartholomew, three miles out from Goodland, and 100 miles overland from Hugo, and asked for food and lodging for a few days. A boy, whom they sent to Goodland to get the Denver papers, reported the circumstances. A posse, consisting of Sheriff Walker, J. B. Riggs, George Cullins, E. C. Biddison, and several others, all heavily armed with rifles and revolvers, went over to the Bartholomew place. Walker and Riggs were the first to dismount, and proceeded to the house. One of the robbers caught sight of them and gave the alarm. Walker a moment later began kicking on the door, and then came a volley of shots from inside. The remaining members of the i »ss» quickly lined up around the house, and for ten minutes bullets whirred at a lively rate. The robbers returned the fire strongly, and Riggs soon fell, hit in the breast and back. One of the robbers then jumped through a window and made off in the smoke. Before he had gone half a dozen steps be fell in his tracks shot to death. Cullins was shot in the back and seriously wounded. While the posse were removing Cullins the lone robber made his way to an old kitchen near by and barricaded the door. Meanwhile some men, by crawling through a cornfield, got to a shed near the house nnd threw two railroad fuses into the kitchen setting it on fire.