Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — POSSE FIGHTS BANDITS [ARTICLE]

POSSE FIGHTS BANDITS

Postoffice at Crown Point, Ind., Raided by Thieves. After blowing open the poetoffloe safe with nitroglycerin and securing S7OO three cracksmen fought a pistol battle with a posse of citizens at Crown Point, Ind. One of the fugitives is thought to have been fatally injured. His bloodstained hat, containing bullet holes, was found beside the road over which the battle was waged. For more than two miles the posse in charge of Sheriff Thomas Gray battled with the s&feblowers, who were riding in a buggy and were heavily armed. The daring raiders eluded their pursuers in spite of the bullets rained at them.