Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1904 — MADE A SIEVE OF HIM [ARTICLE]

MADE A SIEVE OF HIM

Job Put Up on s Thug, IVho Receive* th« Contents of Six Shotguns, Yet Still Lives. Coshocton, 0., Sept. 16. —Alva Rivers lies in prison here mortally wounded. He was shot by a posse of citizens while he was trying to blow* the bank at Warsaw, ten miles from here. His brother Verne was captured later after a desperate hand-to-hand tight. The officers arranged for the robbery with a local citizen, William King, who was taken into the confidence of the Rivers boys. Six citizens were waiting on guard at Warsaw, and when Alva Rivers broke into the bank they poured the contents of their shotguns into him. He has fifty-six shots in his body, but holds & remarkable grip on life and swears vengeance on King. The broth - ers have been terrorizing the community and were suspected of burglaries and safe-blowings recently.