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Telegrams were at once started in all directi(jns to intercept the outlaws. Unfortunately the operator at Dundas was not in, or the whole gang might have been captured there. Parties were organized at various points, and the story of the flight with the wovinded man, the pursuit, with the attending escapades and hair-breadth escapes on lioth sides, affords a most exciting chapter in this kind of literature; for the whole country between here and Missouri, the headquarters of the gang, was excited and under arms, and the rtsult was that three were captured and ime more killed, making six left behind of the eight who started on this errand of plunder. The two who escaped were Jesse and Frank James, the latter being the oue wounded in Northfield. The names of those killed in Northfield were Clell Miller and Stiles. Charley Pitts, alias George Wells, was killed at Madeliu, where Cole, Robert, and James Younger were finally captured, and subsequently lodged in the Faribault jail. Rumors of a rescuing party oau.sed a guard to be placed outside the jail, and on the 3d of October, 1876, a watchman, who was coming to report for duty, was shot and instantly killed by Frank Glazier, a guard at the jail, who mistook him for the advance guard of a rescuing party. This was indeed a sad and fatal mistake, making the sixth human life destroyed in consequence of the attempt to rob the Northfield bank.

Passage source: History of Rice County, published 1882.

In the autumn of 1862, after the Sioux massacre, the people in and about Northfield were in a chronic state of apprehension. Indians wore constantly passing in small bands, and while the days were passed with feelings of security, the nights were instinct with emotions of dread, every unusual sound was transformed into inJieatious of the approach of the blood-thirsty savage, and very many persons, who had retired for the night had the most gloomy forebodings, and felt that it

Passage source: History of Rice County, published 1882.

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