Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1893 — THE PREVAILING EPIDEMIC. [ARTICLE]

THE PREVAILING EPIDEMIC.

Citizen* of Delphi I’ursue Burglar* and a Battle Ensue* Early Wednesday merninr, two >uig’:ars were discovered in the act ot carrying arms and ammunition from Charle- Lyon’s hardware store, at Delphi, and there was a running fight with the night watchman, in which a number of shots were exchanged. The shooting aroused tho town, and scores of mon joined in tho pursuit. Wednesday afternoon the burglars were overtaken at Burrow’s station, by an armed posse, and again th'.re was a running fight in which both of them were wounded and one of them was captured. He gave the name of George Wilson, which is Known to be ..tsumed. Wilson was wounded in the head with birdshot, and he was captured after a desperate struggle. The other bu-glar although wounded in tho thigh and neck, held his pursuers at bay until he reached the woods, and he succeeded in effecting his escape. The burglars were discovered in Lyon’s store about 4 o’clock in -he morning by tho night watchman, and he attempted to atrest them. They Immediately showed iheir desperate character bv firing upon him and it was this shooting which aroused Delphi and cansod a prodigious excitement. Sheriff Sims is authority for the statement that there is evidence indicating that the burglars, with others, had planned a train robbary in tho vicinity of Delphi, and that a raid was made upon the store to secure arms. Heroports that his prisoner wu formerly in the employ of the Wabash railroad. Kone of tho purmars were wounded.