DESPERATE MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 163, 12 July 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

DESPERATE MEN.

The Work ov a Band of Whiteoaps,

This city, says a Findlay despatch to the New York paper, was greatly excited to-day over the sudden and mysterious deatli of Henry Sfcrickler, a detective, who, at the January term of court, succeeded in having indictments found against eight prominent and well-known citizens as print cipals in the eelobrated Oman robberywhich occurred on the nighb of February, 1890, and the subsequent death by poison of a detective who traced the crime to

them

This was one of the boldest and most sensational crimes that ever occurred in Ohio. About 9 o'clock on bhe nighb mentioned, Wesley Oman and his family, consisting of bis father, brother, his wife and children, were sitting around the fire in their farmhouse when, without a note of warning, tho sitting-room door was broken in, and eight men with white maske on their faces rushed upon the family. Wesley Oman yelled, 'Tho White Caps!' ' Yes, , answered the leader, •we are White Caps ;' and before any resistance could bo made all were securely bound and gagged. A demand was then made for $2,000 which Oman was known to have received a day or two before from the sale of some land. Oman assured the White Caps thab the money was in a bank in Findlay, but this was nob believed, and in order to make him disclose its hiding: place his fou-r----year-old eon was seized and, held ,over ,an open fire until his screams of agony could have been heard a mile away. Again and again the father begged thab the child be spared, as the money waa not in tho house. A thorough search was made ,by some of the robbers, and with this they took their departure. Oman employed John R. Lowe, a wellknown detective from Toledo, to look up bhe case, which ho procoeded to do, and was about to cause the arrest of eight prominent citizens of the county, when he was suddenly taken ill and brought to the Humphrey House in this city, where he shortly afterward died in greab agony. He was poisoned. Hi 3 note books and effects disappeared during his ehort illness, and with them all the evidence he had secured against those suspected of the robbery. Oman then placed the matter in the hands of Henry Strickler, the young man whose sudden death has caused such a sudden sensation. Strickler followed the same lines Lowe had pursued, and accumulated evidence to secure the indictment of Henry Kitaler, Jerome Kibler, George Morgan, Levi Fox, Alberb Decker, John Long, «Tuck ' Hughes and Charles Bates, all well-to-do citizens. All were arrested and immediately gave bonds for their appearance or. the 19th of this mpnth. Iα the meantime Strickler was repeatedly warned to leave the States. A few days ago he became ill much in the way as did his psedeccssor, Lowe, and this morning died.