“We were very imprudent, this morning, in going to the house for food, but we were so hungry.”
He said the name of the bald-headed man was King, and the one lying dead was Ward. He would tell more, he said, in the morning.
The man has a wonderfully easy manner of speaking. His voice is soft but strong, and marvelously sympathetic and emotional.
THE DEAD MAN
was next interviewed. He was 5 feet 9¾ inches in height, rather slight, with regular features, black straight hair, stubby moustache, black beard of short growth. His hair is not dyed, and is, therefore not a James, for they are light complexioned. Hands rather coarse and covered with black hair. He was shot, with a heavy ball, between the second and third ribs, and one inch to the left of the breast bone. He had also had a buckshot wound in the right arm, five inches from the point of the shoulder and another five inches from the right hip, striking behind.
This man has been identified as Charley Pitts, and recognized by Mr. Bunker as the man who shot him through the arm.
The writer next found the boy who brought in the news to Madelia of the robbers being in the neighborhood.
OSCAR OLESON SUBORN,
is a lad of about seventeen, who said he lives about eight and one-half miles from Madelia, at Linden, Riverdale township. He said that at about seven o'clock in the morning, his father was milking, when two men came past, walking, and said “good morning” and went on. He was coming to the house with milk pails at the time and walked up to the gate, but could not see the faces of the men. But [pg 56] he could see one had a black moustache and the other red whiskers. They went past but he said, “I knew right away”