The police were at once led by the sheriff to an empty store where were
lying the inanimate and ghastly forms of the two bandits who had been shot
down by the intrepid Northfield citizens. One was found to be six feet
four and a half inches in height; his body exhibited a splendid physical
development, with arms and limbs of thewy muscles and skin as fair and
soft as a lady’s; his face was of rather an elongated oval with sharply
cut features; high cheek bones, well arched brow and deep-set blue eyes.
His hair was a very dark, reddish auburn, inclined to curl. He wore no
hair on his face, but was closely shaved, and did not appear to be more
than 23 or 25 years of age. He was clothed in a new suit of black clothes,
worth about $25 or $30, a new colored shirt and good boots. The ball which
brought him down entered about three inches, in a line with the left
nipple and toward the center of the chest and completely riddling the man,
passed out on the same side beneath the shoulder blade. On his person was
found the card of the Nicollet House livery stable, St. Peter, on which is
printed the distances of the principal cities in this part of the State.
He had also on him an advertisement of Hall’s safes cut from a local
paper. His pockets were well filled with cartridges, and he had round his
waist, beneath his coat, a cartridge belt. There has been some dispute as
to the identity of the man, but it is now pretty well settled that he is
Bill Chadwell _alias_ Bill Styles.