Sheboygan Tales of the Tragic and Bizarre by William Wangemann

Author:William Wangemann [Wangemann, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

After the murder, wanted posters were distributed throughout the Midwest by Sheboygan Police. Author’s collection.

It was later learned that as soon as the bandits left the Bolden shoe store, Mr. Bolden and his clerk were able to free themselves and call police. Witnesses on the street pointed out to the officers the direction the robbers had fled only moments before and gave police a description of the getaway car. The witnesses further told the investigating officers that the getaway car was last seen traveling north on North Main Street at a high rate of speed. As the car driven by the robbers sped down the street in an attempt to escape, it very nearly missed a collision with a car driven by William Smith with his three children, which almost forced them off the road. The robbers were unaware that just a few blocks down the street, North Main Street was closed to traffic because of high water from a rainstorm the night before that had flooded the roadway near a subway entrance. Angrily, Smith turned his car around so as to pursue the reckless driver who had nearly struck him and his family. He had gone no more than a block when he saw the car he was after stalled in a large pool of water beneath a viaduct. Smith then stopped his car and asked his thirteen-year-old son to run over to the car and get the license number so they could report it to police. The bandits, however, noticed the boy behind them and became suspicious of his interest in their car. Putting the car in gear, the thieves began turning over the engine with the starter, which caused the car to move ahead out of the pool of water. The two robbers then jumped out of their car, continued their flight on foot and disappeared. At this time, the Smith family was in the little village of Norman, which is just immediately north of Bloomington. Smith ran to a grocery store and called the Norman Police, informing them of the incident with the recklessly driven car, and advised them that he thought possibly the car was stolen. Smith was still not aware that the car and its occupants were wanted by Bloomington Police for armed robbery.

The Norman Police and all surrounding police departments in the area had been advised to watch all highways in their area and to be alert for any strangers they might encounter. When Smith told the Norman Police about the car he had trouble with, they immediately realized that it could, most likely, be the car that law enforcement agencies were looking for.

As soon as word was given out that the fugitive car was in Norman, the area was flooded with police officers from every jurisdiction nearby. As the manhunt went on, officers received information that two suspicious-looking men had been seen walking along a nearby railroad track. The chief of police from Norman and a detective began walking along the train tracks looking for the bandits.

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