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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1022, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
MCGRATH. ALASKA. AUG. 10. 1922
4 Robbers and Posse
of 100 Battle in Bog
Dowagiae, Mich.—Battling for two
hours in a swamp, a posse of one hun
dred farmers and officials from sur
rounding communities, late Tuesday,
captured four men, identified as the
robbers who held up the Eau Claire
bank earlier in the day.
Fully one hundred shots were ex
changed in the desperate fight of the
thugs to escape, and it was only after
one of them was wounded that the at
tacking party was able to close in on
the fugitives.
The chase extended orer a stretch of
marsh land, three miles in length, and
the posse met with many handicaps be
cause of the unsettled condition of the
land.
i he four men, it is charged, held up
and robbed the Eau Claire bank of
$1,500. They gave their names as
George Ellis, Elmo Evans and Henry
Gridin, negroes, and Mike Franko
discb, white, all of Gary.
The battle began the second the
thugs fled from the bank in a touring
car after they had forced Homer Hess,
president, Elmer Talman, cashier, and
Marion Haer, clerk, to hold up their
hands while the men took possession of
tke cash.
A telephone message sent to Berrien
Springs, the direction taken by the
robbers, resulted in their being met
there by a fusilade of bullets which
turned them back in their wild flight.
They then started east on the dirt
road, where their .car became mired in
the mud.
Finding themselves trapped, the men
left the automobile and ran into an or
chard. The owner shot Gridin in the
left arm. He dropped, and was desert
ed by hie pals, who ran across the fields
to the swamp for their last stand.
Here officers and farmers from Niles,
Dowagiac, Benton Harbor and many
smaller towns closed in on them and
with guns and revolvers literally
peppered the swamp with lead. De
spite the return of the fire by the fugi
tives, none in the attacking party was
hit.
Griffin was brought to Dowagiac and
his wounds dressed. He declared, au
thorities said, that the loot had been
thrown away in the fight. He will be
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taken over the ground in an effort to
recover the money. lie is said to have
admitted to officers that the four left
Gary early Tuesday with the intention
to rob the bank and reached EauCSlaire
about 10 a. m. He said they watched
the bank carefully and that while sev
eral ^customers were inside no effort
was made to carry out their plans, but
that once the bank was clear they en
tered upon their work.
Cops Stage Mock Duel,
Pave Way for Gin Raid
—
Detroit—How two Highland Park
policemen fought a mock duel in Vic
tor avenue to attract the attention of
the attaches of a soft drink bar so de
tectives could exercise a search war
rant before possible evidence could be
destroyed, was told in justice court
Thursday morning. As a result of the
fight, George and Eli Rykoyich and
Elias Spanachezich were taken into
conn and pleaded not guilty to a liquor
charge. They are the proprietors of
the bar at 156 Victor avenue.
According to the police, it is the cus
tom of these people to keep only one
quart of liquor in the building at a
time. This is in a pitcher in the room
farthest removed from the door. If
detectives enter, there is plenty of
time to empty this into a sink before
they can show their search warrant
and get to the back room.
Not so Thursday, however. Patrol-'
man Frank McCann, in full uniform
and apparently the officer on the beat,
was walking east on Victor avenue.
From the other direction came Patrol
man Orrin Ford. He wore overalls and
a cap, aod his face was covered with
grease. He staggered about as if
drunk, and the two met opposite the
suspected store.
McCann pretended to attempt Ford’s
arrest, and Ford resisted. Over and
over the men rolled on the street, re
covered their footing, aud down again
they went.
It doesn’t take much to attract a
crowd of foreigners in Victor avenue,
and in a moment a large, crowd had
gathered. The men in the store wanted
to see the fun, too, and walked to the
front door. George Rykovicb, who,
the police say, was supposed to stand
by the liquor in the back room, couldn’t
resist the temptation either. He walked
into the front room, and just as he
placed his nose against the window
pane, in walked Detectives Napoleon
Rancour and Forrest Howell and Ser
geant James Earnshaw. They were
armed with a search warrant signed by
Justice William Rankin and reached
the back room before any of the pro
prietors.
There, they said, they found the
quart bottle of whisky they later took
to police headquarters.
In the meantime the “fighting cop
pers” had not seen the detectives enter
and so kept the battle going. Even
when the patroi wagon came they were
so engrossed in the fight that they did
not see or hear it, and it was not until
a superior called them off that they
realized they were wasting their
strength.
Red Hair, Big Ears,
Are Valuable Assets
New York.—Red hair and large ears,
instead of being a drawback, are an
asset—that is. if young men thus
equipped desire to become wireless op
erators.
This was made known Sunday, in
connection with a call for 150 to attend
a naval militia radio school, when
naval recruiting officers said applicants
so qualified were especially desired.
Red hair is an aid to alertness, it
was said, while ample ears aid in tun
ing the instruments
Clips Off 4 Feet of
Wife’s Golden Hair
—
Akron. O.—Nearly four feet o£ tfol-j
den tresses were shorn from the . head i
of Mrs. Clara Cox, 27 years old, hy her
husband, Orrin Cox, a rubber worker,
to prevent her from leaving her family
to travel as a hair tonic demonstrator,
it was learned Thursday. She and her
husband quarreled over Cue proposed
tour, and she remained from home
until late Wednesday night. Cox
awaited her return. He watched her
as she braided her hair for the night.
Then as she arose from in front of her
mirror, he clipped the braids,.which
reached to ner ankles.
Mrs. Cox is now in a hospital suffer-,
ing from a nervous collapse, the result
of the hair cutting.
“I would give a million dollars if I
could restore your hair,” Cox told her
as they were reconciled at the hospital
Thursday.
“Human Fly” Stunt.
Mexico City—Numbers of small boys
have been injured, one fatally, in the
last few days while trying to emulate a
“human fly” who has .thrilled the
crowds by scaling public buildings.
Shortly after the professional eltmber
arrived from the United States and
began his exhibitions an epidemic of
wall-climbing broke out, among t-he
boys, and the police and firemen have
responded to numerous calls to rescue
lads from precarious perches.
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[(For the Loug Term)
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