Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1893 — SUMMITTVILLE'S SENSATION. [ARTICLE]

SUMMITTVILLE'S SENSATION.

Duel In the Dark Between u Officer and • Burglar, Six weeks ago George Stroud secured a position as night watchman at Summittville. Ten days ago he notified the merchants that he had discovered that there would be an organized attempt at wholesale burglary on Tuesday night, October 34, and named the store that would first be entered. Accordingly Deputy Sheriff Coburn and a force of armed men were located in the store, and at 3 o’clock in the morning Dick Goodman, ono of the gang,, appeared at a side window near the rear of tne building. He raised the window and went in. At the order to throw up his hands he commenced to shobt. Coburn responded, and Hanan and Fennimore also Joined in the fusllade. Tom May. another member of the gang, appeared at the window and took part in the affray. Goodman, directly facing Coburn in a room eighteen feet wide, emptied his revolver. and Coburn emptied his. Goodman received a shot in the abdomen, from which he cannot recover, but succeeded In backing out of the window and running several squares from the build-

ing, when'he fell, to be eaptared and taken to jail at Anderson. Coburn received a trifling wound tn the side. Just back of where be stood, in a space of six feet, are nine bullet holes. Over twenty shots were fired in the room, most of them at a distance of less than the width of the room. May, the companion of Goodman, was captured by members of the Swmmitville Horse-thief Detective Associartdon, who had been patrolling the streets. Before his capture, however, over seventy shots were fired. The other members of the gang escaped. The organization of plunderers is believed to number a dozen- men. Stroud, the night watchman, has been admitted to the inner councils for some time. There are fears that members of the gang still at large will try to avenge their betrayal, and Stroud is naturally somewhat uneasy;. A determined effort,wiH be made, to ran down tbe rest of the villains.