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At the time of removing the old locust trees and under- brush, some opposition was met with on account of leaving the square so barren and even the county court was severely cen- sured. The planting of the elms and maples was mostly done by Doctor Greene and Hiram F. Woodford, assisted by Scipie Davis, a colored man. The doctor says Mr. Woodford staked off the ground and he and "Sip" dug the holes and set them out, the former "chouncing" the earth about the roots of the young trees.
On the 21st of April, 1877, after the planting was finished, Doctor Greene and his two assistants joined hands about a small forked tree, and here made a solemn vow to stand for and protect the trees they had planted as long as they or any of them should live. That forked tree, large enough for a saw- log now (January 15, 1913), stands just east of the present band stand.
In the spring of 1912, when the court house agitation was
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at its height and the new structure was to be erected in the park, thus destroying many of the trees and naturally the symmetry of this favorite resort, Doctor Greene, on the thirty- fifth anniversary of the planting of the trees, decorated with flowers the last resting places of his colaborers, H. F. Wood- ford, Benjamin Smith and Scipie Davis. This he did in memory of their good work and in moral protest against what he denounced as "wicked folly and destruction of the beau- tiful park for the purpose of erecting a court house just where it ought not to be."
For ten years after the trees were planted Doctor Greene was made park commissioner, the late Dr. R. Barney, Sr., succeeding him and acting in this capacity until his death more than a decade ago. Only a few of the original friends of the park enterprise are now living, but the Doctor says that he and the few remaining ones can sorrow and weep for them all because of the partial destruction of the stately old trees which have been removed to make room for the magnificent new court house now under construction.
OUR MANUFACTURING INTERESTS
The Chillicothe Ice & Fuel Company's plant was erected in 1909 with a capital stock of $35,000. The plant has a ca- pacity of twenty-five tons of ice every twenty-four hours. The officers of the company are C. H. Hackney, president; W. Turner, vice-president; L. P. Coblentz, secretary; W. J. Wiley, manager and treasurer. Directors: R. L. Isherwood, I. M. Timbrook, W. J. Wiley, C. H. Hackney, W. Turner and J. J. Turner.
The Chillicothe Iron Company, incorporated, is one of the successful and prosperous young manufacturing plants of Livingston county. The buildings were erected on the site of the Frank Way foundry and machine shop and the machinery and equipment are up to date. The company was incorporated September 1, 1911, and is capitalized at $8,000. The officers are men of push and enterprise. C. T. Botsford, president; F. B. Wheeler, vice-president; R. L. Rawlins, sec-
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retary, and W. H. Ellett, treasurer. The company gives em- ployment to from ten to fourteen men. The capacity of the foundry is one hundred tons per annum. The machine shop is equipped with electric driven motor machinery with all metal working tools necessary to complete almost any machine job. The main building of the plant is a new and substantial brick structure 58x120 feet and the warehouse 30XII2 feet. The company manufacture emery stands, portable cranes, combination rip-saw, planer machines, sash weights, post mauls, municipal castings, sled runners, etc. They also carry a full line of brass goods, belting, packing, engine sup- plies, etc.
The Crow Cigar Company was established in Chillicothe in 1879 by Messrs. Ball and Michaels, incorporated in 1893 by F. R. Ball, Andy White and W. B. Leach. The present capitalization is $4,000. The cigar factory is District No. 100; the smoking tobacco factory No. 49. The present offi- cers of the company are J. R. Wilson, president; W. D. Wil- son, secretary, under whose management the factory has been operated since 1902. The annual output of the factory is one-half million cigars and one and one-half tons of cigar clipping smoking tobacco. The factory gives employment to twenty-five hands who are paid $11,000 annually. The products of the Crow Cigar Company reaches a territory one hundred miles east, west, north and south of Chillicothe.
The P. E. Burgy Cigar Factory of Chillicothe was estab- lished in the year 1903. The district number of the factory is 96. Four cigar makers find employment here. The out- put of the factory, which supplies the local merchants exclu- sively, amounts to 128,000 cigars annually, valued at $4,500.
The W. H. Booth & Company's Cigar Company of Chil- licothe was organized in 1893. The district number of the factory is 26. The factory gives employment to four men. They manufacture exclusively for the local trade, their an- nual output being approximately 130,000 cigars, the gross value being about $5,000.
Brownfield Bros. Ice Cream and Candy Factory .- The firm of Brownfield Brothers, manufacturers and wholesalers
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of confectionery and ice cream and jobbers of chewing gum and cigars, was established some twenty years ago in a store building on North Washington street. Later the firm purchased the three buildings on West Jackson street which they now occupy and remodeled them into a factory, store- room and offices. Their trade zone extends in all directions within a radius of 100 miles of Chillicothe and a force of twenty people is necessary to manufacture and prepare the goods for shipment. Both the members of the firm are hust- ling young men full of twentieth century push and enterprise and are alive to the possibilities of the city as a manufactur- ing center.
The M. B. Hamilton & Co., Glove and Mitten Factory, Chillicothe .- This is a branch of the glove and mitten fac- tory of Leavenworth, Kansas, established in Chillicothe in 1912. The factory is located on South Elm street and fifty or more people are given employment.
The J. E. Andrew Broom Factory, Chillicothe .- This fac- tory was established in Chillicothe a quarter of a century ago. The factory gives employment to a number of men and their products find a ready market throughout North Missouri.
The Jenkins Hay Rake and Stacker Factory, Chillicothe, Marion R. Jenkins, proprietor, is the largest and most ex- tensive manufacturing plant in the county. The plant was established in Chillicothe several years ago, coming here from Browning, Missouri. The factory and foundry com- bined cover several acres and their products, amounting to many carloads annually, find a ready market in the central and western states. From seventy-five to a hundred men are given employment in the factory.
Milbank's Flouring 'Mill .- The City Mill was built in 1867 by George Milbank, who at that time also owned a small mill at Troy, Illinois; his limited means only permitted him to start in a small way by installing two run of stone and three bolts; as his business grew and prospered this number was increased to five run of buhrs, and the necessary bolting machinery. As the improved methods developed, among which the purification of middlings were adopted, using a
JENKINS IMPLEMENT FACTORY, CHILLICOTHE
TENNIS COURT, STATE INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR GIRLS
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purifier of his own invention, the products of the mill were always of the highest quality. In later years the roller process of milling proved itself superior to the buhr or stone system for making flour, and in the year 1883 the mill was remodeled to the roller process, and the capacity increased to 150 barrels per day. In that year Mr. Milbank wishing to retire from active business sold the mill to his sons, John T. and H. S. Milbank, who remodeled the mill again in 1905, installing the latest system of bolting by means of the swing sifter, so that the mill has always been kept up to the highest state of efficiency. In 1911 H. S. Milbank sold his interest in the mill to John T. Milbank, who is now the sole owner of the property. Previous to the building of this mill in 1867 there was very little wheat grown in this county, as there was no ready market for it, but after the mill was built and started it made a market for wheat at all times for cash, which encouraged the growth of same, so that at the present time Livingston county ranks among the largest wheat growing counties of Missouri.
BANKS AND BANKING
EXCHANGE BANK, CHULA, MISSOURI
Resources.
Loans and dis-
counts $136,765.31
Overdrafts 7,565.86
Real estate. 1,875.00
earned 4,904.49
Deposits 130,801.47
tures
1,400.00
Cash and ex-
Total $175,705.96
change
28,099.79
Total
$175,705.96
Geo. A. Gardner, president.
J. E. Lowder, vice-president. W. E. Payton, cashier. Jas. Graham, assistant cashier.
Liabilities.
Capital $ 25,000.00
Surplus earned. . 1 5,000.00
Undivided profits
Furniture and fix-
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Directors : J. S. Hopper, J. E. Lowder, G. A. Gardner, T. H. Gibson, L. L. Lauderdale, E. L. Treadway, L. M. Kil- burn, W. R. Edrington and B. C. Lightner.
THE CITIZENS BANK, AVALON, MISSOURI
Resources.
Liabilities.
Loans $44,811.42
Capital stock. . . .. $10,000.00
Overdrafts
294.06 Surplus and prof- its 7,099.48
Real estate. 440.00
Cash and sight ex-
Deposits 54,915.65
change 26,069.65
Furniture and fix-
Total $72,015.13
Total $72,015.13
H. J. Barnes, president.
S. O. Linton, vice-president.
Emery C. Poynter, cashier.
Elmer F. Kerr, assistant cashier.
Directors: H. J. Barnes, O. S. Linton, F. G. Ashbaugh, J. D. Linville and S. A. Browning.
THE FARMERS AND TRADERS BANK, DAWN, MISSOURI
Resources.
Liabilities.
Loans and dis-
Capital $10,000.00
counts .$54,393.89
Overdrafts 1,043.72
Deposits 44,166.14 Bills payable. 6,500.00
tures 1,300.00
Cash and ex-
Total $66,961.70
change 10,224.09
Total
. $66,961.70
T. E. Jenkins, president. John R. Williams, vice-president. A. E. Gibson, cashier.
Undivided profits. 6,295.56
Furniture and fix-
tures 400.00
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Directors : T. E. Jenkins, John R. Williams, A. E. Gib- son, Roy E. Gibson and Minta M. Gibson.
THE FARMERS NATIONAL BANK, LUDLOW, MISSOURI
Resources.
Liabilities.
Loans and dis-
Capital stock .... $ 40,000.00
counts $128,024.43 Surplus 10,000.00
Overdrafts 6,695.38
Undivided prof-
5 per cent red.
its 4,091.94
Circulation
40,000.00
Banking house F. & F.
4,000.00
U. S. bonds at
par 40,000.00
Premium on
bonds
1,200.00
Total $205,592.08
Cash and sight ex- change 23,672.27
Total $205,592.08
R. J. Lee, president.
A. S. Dean, vice-president.
A. J. Riedel, assistant cashier.
Directors: R. J. Lee, T. R. Lee, Frank Copple, A. S. Dean, Jo Dusenberry, G. H. Lawson, T. N. Haughton, F. A. Stauffer and A. Wells.
MOORESVILLE SAVING BANK, MOORESVILLE, MISSOURI
Resources.
Liabilities.
Loans $ 48,754.68
Capital stock .... $ 10,000.00
Overdrafts
207.2I Surplus and prof- its 4,233.65
Real estate. 1,800.00
Cash and sight ex-
Deposits 85,779.88
change
47,754.58
Dividen ds un- paid 16.00
Furniture and fix- tures
800.00
Expenses
538.06
Total $100,029.53
Unadjusted claims
175.00
Total
$100,029.53
Jo Dusenberry, cashier.
Due other national banks 1,513.09
Individual depos- its 109,987.05
fund 2,000.00
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Homer Kirtley, president.
C. E. Vadnais, vice-president.
J. H. Cusick, cashier.
Lucy McMillen, assistant cashier.
Directors : Homer Kirtley, J. A. McMillen, W. E. Hud- son, C. E. Vadnais, Albert Rockhold, A. T. Rockhold, L. F. Hudgins, A. S. Ireland and J. H. Cusick.
THE BANK OF BEDFORD, BEDFORD, MISSOURI
Resources.
Loans and dis-
counts ..
$18,995.30
Loans (real es-
Total $31,410.96
tate) 500.00
Overdrafts 163.82
Liabilities.
Banking house. . . 1,238.49
Capital
$10,000.00
Furniture and fix-
Deposits
21,410.96
tures 801.00
Expense
220.53
Total
.$31,410.96
H. Held, president.
J. P. Alexander, vice-president.
B. B. Alexander, cashier.
Directors : H. Held, F. M. Patterson, J. P. Alexander, A. M. Shelton, J. V. Jagger, N. G. Silvey and C. S. Mitchell.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, LUDLOW, MISSOURI
Resources.
Liabilities.
Loans and dis-
Capital stock. $25,000.00
counts $45,412.87
Surplus 5,000.00
Overdrafts 745.79
Undivided profits . 4,032.92
U. S. bonds. 25,000.00
Circulation 25,000.00
Individual depos-
Bank bldg. F and F. 5,400.00
its 36,063.73
Other real estate .. 3,000.00
5 per cent R. fund.
1,250.00
Total $95,096.65
Cash and sight ex-
change . 14,287.99
Total
$95,096.65
Cash and sight ex- change 9,491.82
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Scott Miller, president. Perry Borders, vice-president. D. J. Ballantyne, cashier. Joe Borders, assistant cashier.
Directors : J. A. Heare, Scott Miller, D. R. Lewis, Perry Borders, W. S. Snider, Geo. A. Culling and J. S. Borders.
FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK, WHEELING, MISSOURI
Resources.
Liabilities.
Loans . $66,894.46 Capital . .$10,000.00
Overdrafts 424.94 Surplus and profits. 11,304.42
Bkg. house. 1,000.00 Deposits 75,354.61
Cash and ex-
change 30,839.63
Total $99,159.03
Total $99, 159.03
H. S. Smiley, president.
R. A. Tharp, cashier.
BANK OF UTICA, UTICA, MISSOURI
Resources.
Loans and dis-
counts, good on
personal or col- lateral
$ 9,529.09
Loans (real es-
tate) . 2,175.00
Overdrafts 375.01
Real estate (Bkg.
H.) 1,500.00
Furniture and fix-
tures
1,000.00
Due from other
banks and bank-
ers subject to check 13,437.40
Cash items 352.75
Currency 458.00
Specie
148.87
Expense
52.48
Total $29,028.57
Liabilities.
Capital stock,
paid
$10,000.00
Undivided profits.
983.53
Individual deposits subject to check 17,940.54 Cashier checks. 104.50
Total $29,028.57
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J. Cady, president.
W. G. Kent, vice-president and cashier. Lee D. Cady, assistant cashier. No directors.
PEOPLES EXCHANGE BANK, STURGES, MISSOURI
Resources.
Liabilities.
Loans $48,402.48
Capital stock.
$10,000.00
Overdrafts 1,380.47
Surplus fund. 2,500.00
Banking house . . 1,600.00
Undivided profits. 3,511.19
Furniture and fix-
Deposits 58,715.95
tures 900.00
Due from banks. . 15,832.95
Cash and ex-
change
5,242.49
Expenses paid. 1,368.75
Total .$74,727.14
C. N. Boorn, president.
J. K. Steen, vice-president. W. M. Beal, cashier.
U. S. Allbritain, assistant cashier.
Directors : C. N. Boorn, C. B. Williams, J. K. Steen, L. A. Martin, H. Metzner, J. D. Beal, R. R. Mckenzie, Julian Thompson and Chas. Kappus.
THE PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK, CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI
Resources.
Loans and dis-
counts $352,995.91
Overdrafts 2,246.40
Furniture and fix-
Deposits
388,303.82
tures 5,000.00
Cash and due
from banks ... 111,350.18
Liabilities. Capital stock .... $ 50,000.00
Surplus and undi-
vided profits .. . 33,288.67
Total $471,592.49
Total $471,592.49
Total $74,727.14
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W. H. Ellett, president. F. B. Brady, vice-president. A. M. Ellett, cashier.
Directors: P. F. Romeiser, F. B. Brady, C. H. Grace, W. R. Simpson, B. Minteer and W. H. Ellett.
FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK, CHULA, MISSOURI
Resources.
Loans and discounts
undoubtedly good
on personal or
collat $64,054.42
net 1,194.87
Loans (real estate). 000.00
Due to banks and
Overdrafts 5,284.15 bankers, subject to check 000.00
Bonds and stocks. 000.00
Real estate (Bkg.
H.) 1,600.00
Individual deposits subject to check .. 47,522.72
Other real estate ..
000.00
Time certificates of deposits 15,671.00
tures
1,000.00
Due from other
Total $82,388.59
banks and bank-
ers, subject to
check 7,216.54
Cash items
1,014.87
Currency
1,259.00
Specie
959.61
Total $82,388.59
Z. T. Hooker, president.
A. Davenport, vice-president. F. V. Ross, Cashier.
Directors: Z. T. Hooker, A. Davenport, O. L. Casebeer, W. R. May, R. D. Hurst, H. T. Phillips, I. W. Transue, O. C. Bushong and J. E. Hill.
Furniture and fix-
Liabilities Capital stock, paid.$15,000.00 Surplus fund. . 3,000.00 Undivided profits,
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THE BANK OF CHILLICOTHE, CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI
Resources.
Liabilities.
Loans and dis-
Capital $ 50,000.00
counts . . . $150,688.84
Surplus 3,109.91
Loans (real es-
Profits
3,406.67
tate) 16,088.75
Deposits
137,235.62
Overdrafts 284.80
Bills payable
10,000.00
Banking house and real estate. 12,422.30
Total $203,752.20
Furniture and fix-
tures 900.00
Cash and sight ex-
change 23,367.51
Total $203,752.20
W. W. Edgerton, president. R. F. McNally, cashier.
J. C. Minteer, vice-president. J. M. Dunn, asst. cashier.
Directors: H. A. Tompkins, R. L. Isherwood, F. C. Tompkins, A. McVey, A. M. Shelton, G. A. Smith and R. V. Ducey.
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI
Resources.
Liabilities.
Loans $545,676.10
Capital stock. ... $ 100,000.00
U. S. bonds.
101,000.00 Surplus and prof- its 37,392.55
Bank building 33,000.00
Cash and ex-
change 149,238.17
Total $828,914.27
Total $828,914.27
H. A. Tompkins, president.
R. L. Isherwood, vice-president.
F. C. Tompkins, cashier.
Directors: W. W. Edgerton, C. F. Adams, M. R. Jen- kins, Jos. C. Minteer, I. M. Timbrook, W. T. Ford and R. F. McNally.
Circulation (bank
notes)
100,000.00
Deposits
591,521.72
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK, CHILLICOTHE, MISSOURI
Resources.
Liabilities.
Loans and dis-
counts $378,111.52
U. S. bonds 100,000.00
Overdrafts
2,302.62
Real estate
32,737.65
Cash and sight ex-
change
90,580.82
Total
$603,732.61
Total
$603,732.61
T. C. Beasley, president.
John T. Milbank, vice-president.
J. D. Brookshier, cashier.
K. M. Blanchard, asst. cashier.
RECAPITULATION
The following is the condensed statement of all the banks in Livingston county for the call of November 26, 1912:
Resources.
Loans $2,1 10,522.66
Overdrafts 29,787.35
United States bonds 267,200.00
Real estate and fixtures.
115,114.44
Cash on hand.
133,640.00
On deposit with other banks 463,132.87
Five per cent fund 13,250.00
Total
$3,132,647.32
Liabilities.
Capital stock $ 477,500.00
Surplus
145,809.91
Undivided profits 56,823.26
Circulation (National banks) 265,000.00
Bills payable 16,500.00
Deposits
2, 171,014.15
Total
$3, 132,647.32
Capital stock . . . . $100,000.00 Surplus and undi-
vided profits 42,747.68
Circulation 100,000.00
Dividends unpaid 3,960.00
Deposits
357,024.93
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When the first summarized statement of this kind was prepared on April 30, 1902, the local papers featured the fact that the deposits of the county were $1,010,000.00. The fact the million mark had been reached was noteworthy. It is interesting to note that in the ten years that have intervened those deposits have more than doubled. The capital stock has also doubled and the item of surplus and profits has more than trebled. A proportionate increase is seen in all the other items except overdrafts which have been held down in a most commendable manner.
There are now fifteen banks in the county, four national and eleven state, and the increase in deposits alone since Feb- ruary 1909 has been $333,000.00 The loans show a corre- sponding increase during the same period. There are few counties with the banking facilities of Livingston and there are certainly very few where the per capita deposit is over $90.00, as is the case with us.
THE PEOPLES' BANK ROBBERY
From the present president of the Peoples' Bank of Chilli- cothe, Mr W. H. Ellett, and some additional data from the county's history published by the O. P. Williams Company, the attempted robbery as it actually occurred on the night of the 21st of June, 1873, is herewith given. It was about the hour of eleven o'clock on the date named when four men ap- proached the home of Sidney McWilliams, in the outskirts of the town and attempted to kidnap the president for the pur- pose of getting possession of the keys to the bank. Mr. Mc- Williams, however, was prepared to give the would-be "yeg- gers" a warm reception. A brisk fusillade of bullets was opened by several friends of the president, who had been fore- warned of the attempt on the bank, the robbers returning the fire on the inmates of the house.
A few days before the attempted robbery, a young man named J. W. Brunk, who had been in the employ of Rambo and lived in his neighborhood, came to Sid McWilliams' house and told him that Rambo and certain others, who were
THE HI. & ST. JOE AND WABASH UNION STATION. BURNED THE NIGHT OF THE ATTEMPTED ROBBERY OF THE MOWILLIAMS BANK
DRUGS & PAINTS.
BROWNING HOUSE.
ION
OLD BROWNING HOUSE, DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1889
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named, had formed a conspiracy to rob the bank and that the time fixed upon to do so was the next evening. Brunk said that he himself was included by Rambo in the party that was to engage in the robbery, and he gave all of the particulars of the plan. He said that Rambo was to come up to the house of an acquaintance near town, apparently on a social call as he was to bring his wife with him. This was for the purpose of proving an alibi after the deed was done. At a certain hour in the night he was to come up to town, meet his confederates, accomplish the robbery, and return to his friend's house in good time before morning.
Rambo did come up at the time stated by Brunk; but some accidental circumstance prevented the carrying out of his plan that night so the matter was postponed.
Brunk again posted Sid McWilliams in regard to the time of the postponement and the change of plans for that occa- sion; and everything happened as he indicated, except that something again caused Rambo to postpone the time.
Sid McWilliams, after full consultation with a few trusty friends, planned his mode of meeting the emergency. He had learned from Brunk that Rambo and his three confeder- ates, namely, Jim Manso, George Munro and Brunk himself were to go out to the McWilliams' house a short time before midnight; that one of them was to rap at the door, inquire for McWilliams, ask for an interview on business, and when he came to the door, seize him, menace him with weap- ons, disarm him if armed, and take him and his father-in- law, Mr. J. H. Ware, prisoners; that Rambo was then to take McWilliams and Ware, securely bound, down to a se- cluded part of town, while Mrs. Ware and daughter, Mrs. McWilliams, should proceed to the bank with the other three men and bring the money from the vaults; the inducement for them to do so being that in case they did not come with the money or in case they made an alarm in town, McWilliams and Ware would be shot by Rambo.
Seven men were stationed at McWilliams' house, well armed, namely: Joseph Cooper, cashier of the People's bank ; Wm. B. Leach, assistant cashier; W. H. Gaunt; Ben Grant; Vol. I-20
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J. H. Ware; Sid McWilliams and a colored man who was in the McWilliams' employ at the time. Other citizens were stationed in the vicinity.
The plan was, that when the robbers came McWilliams was to appear at an upper window and hold parley with them. Meanwhile the blinds of a window on the first lower floor were to be opened from within, and Brunk was to enter by mounting a box outside for the purpose. Then circumstances were to govern the further procedure.
A few minutes past eleven o'clock the four men came, and Brunk acted as spokesman. Rambo was thoroughly dis- guised; he had on a gun coat; an old piece of coarse tow cloth was tied about his neck; he wore a dark colored slouch hat, instead of the light straw hat which he had worn during the day; his face was blackened with common blacking; and besides all this he had a dark veil drawn over his face. His accomplices said that he tried every way to avoid going with them to the house; but they insisted that he should do so, and finally he reluctantly consented. When he did go, he skulked under the portico, so as to be out of the sight of Mc- Williams, although the night was dark and he could not have been detected through his disguise.
When McWilliams appeared at the window in answer to the summons of Brunk, the other three men outside moved off a short distance, but Brunk came up to the lower window which he had previously selected as the one he was to enter ; the window blinds were thrown open and he hastily entered. Immediately upon his entering firing began. The first shots were from the inside. The robbers, however, returned the fire, and Manso and Munro fled, but Rambo was shot down dead, three balls at least having entered his side near the arm, and another in the upper and back part of the head.
When the firing began, the other parties who were sta- tioned at convenient points with horses, rode hastily up to- ward the scene of action, and by some mistake were fired upon by those who had been defending the house. Fortu- nately, the mistake was discovered before anybody was ser-
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HISTORY OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY
iously hurt, although one man, Hon. W. A. Jacobs, got a slight bullet wound in his foot.
Before morning a large number of the citizens of Chilli- cothe were apprised of the event that had occurred, and an- other posse of competent men went in search of the two robbers that had escaped. Munro was found at home in bed, his home being about four or five miles south of Chillicothe, and he was arrested and brought to town, and was of course lodged in jail. He confessed of having been engaged in the attempted robbery, and gave an account of it, which substantially con- firmed the statements of Brunk.
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