135 Iowa 371 | Iowa | 1907
The Marshall Vinegar & Pickle Works was entered where not likely to be noticed, and its safe blown open, at about eleven o’clock p. m. of April 17th or 18th, 1906. The explosion was heard by E. M. Haas, a policeman, who reached the scene in time to see six or seven men running away from the building. Notwithstanding his command to halt, they kept on running, and he opened fire on them with his revolver. They fled down the middle of the street around a railroad freight house with the policeman after them. After shooting five times, his ammunition became exhausted, when he dropped into a restaurant and notified the desk sergeant of the police force, got a box of shells at the police station, and then secured a switch engine, on which he went out on the track some distance. Hpon his return, he alighted at the pottery plant, and .then walked in. As he crossed the Linn Creek Bridge, he heard some one on the tracks of the Iowa Central Bailroad Company, and, going over there, saw
The record is without error, and the judgment is affirmed.