Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1909, Page 2

| | of us and that Gordon was behind us. How M Clerks Ae G. 3. Whitmore testified to the stop be- | iIng made about a mile and & half east of | Beymour. He said: “At first I thought ft | was & wreck, but soon found out that we were in a holdup. We were all ordered to get out of the car. One of the men sald Rid fellows be good, you won't be hurt.' T answered, ‘We'll be good, all right’ The leader then sald, ‘That's all right, | that's what 1 like to hear.' He then ordered | me to climb back into the car and get out a special shipment. I told him I knew of | no epectal shipment, but he commanded | that I should call out the pouches, and “‘ Bell. Doug, 618—BOTH 'FPHONES REACK ALL DEPTS.—Ind. A-1941 When the Clouds Leak You won’t mind the rain at all, provided you are un- der one of our rainproof umbrellas. if There’s a Woman in Omaha Who has never been in Kilpatrick’s Store we trust that this ad will catch her eye The simple announcement of *‘a sale” is sufficient to attract those who are regular patrons, for they know that “Kilpatrick's sales are so different.” Different in the quality of the merchandise—Different in the quantity of- fered—Different in the vast assortments—Different in the delightful com- pany met---arid so different in the remarkable values always given. The June Undermuslin Sale is now in full blast, and never before were all the conditions so satisfactory. On Thursday will be offered Cambric Skirts, deep wide ruffle of lace insertion and edging, also embroidery flounce—$2.25 real value—at Kilpatricks Thursday $1.45. A Cambric Skirt, underlay of India linon, deep flounce of Val. lace insertion and edging, also several styles of embroidery worth up to $4.00—at Kilpatrick’s you We are headquarters for the reliable Kinds. At $1.00 Each—26 and 28-inch black union taffeta silk umbrellas, with taped edge and fine polished hard wood bandles At $1.50 Each—26 and 28-inch black plece dyed taffeta silk um- brelis, with taped edge and Maitese ebony handies, At-#2.00 and $2.50 Each—26 and 28-inch black taffeta sfik um- ¥/ pen he stepped around me and picked up braflas, tine line of either plain or fancy handles. Best of para- [ |two small pouches, and threw them on gon. frames. | the plle.’ He then went down the lensth i " | of . the and seeing our hand bass A:mll.l‘io n;d ]‘ILIH Each—Children's 18, 20, 22 and 24:nch black | wanted to know what was in them. I told ool umbrellas. Choose from either plain or fancy handles. | were simply our working clothes UthbreMa Department, Main Entrance, a step to the left. car | him they | and there was nothing of any_ valué in them. This seemed to satisfy him, but he kept his pistol in his hand all the time. He then commanded me to pick up the pouches and throw them out of the car. I then jumped out,” he following, and then he insisted that I should help carry the pouches down the track. 1 remonstrated a little, telling him I had only recently recovered from @a broken leg and was Jame, but he couldn't take any excuses, 80 T helped to earry the sacks. I recognize the voice, walk and general appearance of the man as the prisoner Woods. I am very sure that he is the same man who took the leadership and was in the car with me. He has a peculiar walk and 1 recognized that in the car, and also when price at Kilpatrick’s Thursday, 29c. And every yard of the very best imported French Challis, worth up to 8be, at Kilpatrick’s 29¢ yard. Rare picking at the Hosiery Section—Cleaning up all this season’s importations of fine lisle, lace, plain black and indeed all the popular tints and faney weaves (hefr-he ardered me to get down off the | north door of the car, when he was en@ipe, taking hold of my left arm as I |greeted by a shot and an order to jump. Qid40. 1 asked him to let me get back on| “After the bandits had lined us all up| the.engine to turn the water off, as it|they assured us they were all good feilows wold, flood the fire. He sald I might 40 |and did not want to hurt any of us unless s0, BYL kept me covered with his gun, and | the althgligh he told meé not to put any coal | in tifé furnace 1 did succeed in getting three 1 shovelfuls in | wo Others Covered. I'ivemah Rby Prawl and Dave Wright, another ‘engineér %ho was on the ~ngine with me had in the meanwhile, been cov- cred by 'heigther two men and they, 0o, were down off’the engine with their hands » | “The bandits woré long rain coats, with | polka dot hapdkerchiefs for masks and , slouch hats. “VAfter the train had stopped and 1 got down again they matclied us down to the mail car and the | man covering me ordered me to knock on | the mall car door and tell the boys inside | to come out 1 “One of the d5,rs was partly open, but a | cletk slid” it shut and then the bandits ordered him to open the door and ‘get down out of there’ He did so and then the other_door was opened and the clerks, soven of them, were told to get down and all of us were lined up with our backs to the car. One of the bandits called for Whitmore to get back In the car and throw out the mall sacks. After this was done two or three of the clerks were told to take hold of the sacks and carry them down the track ahead of the engine. The had to, but they wanted to get Uncle Sam's money,” sald Mr. Rush. “When we were all lined up with our hands in the alr one of the robbers ordered Whitmore to go Into the car with him and sort out the reglstered sacks. While they | | were in the car the bandit who was guard- Ing us said, ‘If that man gets hurt Inside that car I am going to.ghoot every one of you fellows. We assured him he was not apt to get hurt.” Mr. Rush identifiéd the three alleged bandits as having the same general appear- | ance as the men who held up the train He identified the registered pouches by their numbers and also identified a pack- age in one of the pouches as a package for which he had receipted at Lexington und which he had put in one of the pouches. Good Stories of Children. « The evidence of the afternoon was that of the Brown Park school chfldren who discovered the cache of the robbers near that bullding and which resuited In the capture of Wood, Gordon and Torgensen. Harold Whittaker, aged 8 vyears, and John Potach, aged 9 years, who found the | flash lghts and overalls, told their storles very intelligently. Whittaker was particu- uarly bright in his answers, merely reply- ing “yes" and “no" as different questions man covering me, told me to help carry the mail sacks for, said he, you get a big- ger salary than I do and ean afford it. I carried the sack all right.”” “The bandits di@ not do much talking. One of them sald, “We don't want to hurt any of you. We are pretty good fellows, but are in a bad job. Prawl Repeats the Story. Prawl was the second witness and told practically the same story as did the first Witness, except that he sald the first knowledge he had of anything wrong wa when one of the bandits grabbed him by the collar and shoved a pistol in his face and commanded him to hold up his hands. “I thought it was a joke at first,” said (he witness, “and, couldn't see the man very well as I had just been putting coal into the firebox and was somewhat blinded b the MAML.’ 1 did not have to carry any ofithe mail sacks.” Both Mikeljohn and Prawl recognized Torgensen and Woods as the two men Who held them covered with pistols, by thelr volces and general size and ap- pearance, Harold M. Wright, the engineer who was with Mikeljohn and Prawl and who had * deadheaded down from Columbus, told a "similar atory. He recognized Torgensen by his eyeés and volce. Attorney Macfarland did not undertake a very, severe cross-examination, his evident * Interition being tc get at the meaf of the line of prosecution to be brought out by the goverriment. The examination of the witnesses = was conducted by —United Btates Disttict Attorney Goss on behalf of the government. No, He Didw't Do That. _ "You did not take the gun away from “the bandit to examine it, you are only judsing by e general appearance?’ That was the facetious question put to M. C, Rush, mall clerk on the Overland the night of the holdup, by Attorney Mactar- land.. Rush had testified that the gun one of the bandits had was an automatic. At the close of the morning session Mr. Rush testified to the happenings the night of the holdup. He said that when the emergency brakes were applied to the train he looked ‘out the south door, but as he could see nothing he looked out of the -girls’ wash dresses in re- hingly new styles and colors —there’s ‘‘snap’’ to every one of these dresses; there’s shape to fres were put to him. Nor were the little fel- lows disconcerted in the slightest by the cross examination. Both boys were 100 | young to be sworn, but their stories were so plain and truthful that carried conviction with them at once. The accused men watched the children closely during all thelr testimony, particu- larly the evidence of John Perrina, aged 13 years; Anton Patch, aged 14, and Joe Tesnchlidek, who saw the three men prowling about the school house Thursday evening aftor the pistols and flash lights of the bandits had been discovered by the other boys. Hach testified to the fact that they saw Wood beckoning to the three men to come on, and the actions of the men were such as.to attract the atten- tion of the boys. They all three identified the three men, although it was after § o'clock when they saw théem Thursday night and sent word to the police that the men were hanging about there. Boys Tell of Fi John Krowlak, aged 12 years, the boy who made the first find| of the strap and plstols under the telegraph pole, told of his find and that he had taken the articles to the home of his grandmother a short distance away, He made the find about noon, and immediately told the principal of the scool, Miss Hayes, about it. John Swoboda, aged 14, told of his find- ing one of the guns, burled under about four inches of dirt, and how he took it to Janitor Bents. June Corey, mall they clerk, was |the first witness in the afternoon. He said: ‘“There were eight clerks in the car. Rush wi the first ran at the door and he called back ‘this is a hold-up, fellows,’ and just then some .one from the outside called out, ‘Come out of that, you fellows, and hurry There was some shooting outside. We jumped down and sere told to I up, and were searched and were ask: where -the mail ¢lerk -was. 1. told them we were all mail clerks. They thén set us to work carrying pouches after they had been thrown out of the ¢an Just then & man came round in frant of the engine and began shooting at the hegdlight. He shot four or five times. While we were lined up one man stood behind us and be- tween us and the car. I think it was Torgensen and Wood who stood In front he was in the court room here Saturday. Yes, he is the same man.'" Woods Looks Worrled. Wood watched Whitmore very . closely while he was testifying and secmed to be worrfed over the positive identification stated by Whitmore. Other wisnesses of the afternoon were John Vavre, and A. R. Bentz, janitors of the Brown Park sehool, who testitied to seeing Woow and Torgensen prowling about the school house Friday and Sunday. At one time they saw three men, Gordon being one of them. This was on Friday May 21. They steps at the south side of the school house. The remainder of their gchool house attie. Officer® Turnquest, | Jast Thursday night about 11 o'clock. ther arrested near told the officers about of their reasons for being in that vicinity, having just taken some girle home. sald he had escorted a married woman, named Mre. Olson, home. not glve the names of their women friends. Frank Kudona, aged 19, told of his find- the school house. They al evening about 4 o'clock. They were buried where the other articles were found. The last witness of the afternoon was Postoffice Inspector Loren A. Thompson the mall sacks from the school house. The government then rested. Defense Offers Nothing. Attorney McFarland held a short con- ference with the three accused men and declded to put neither of them on the stand, stating that the defense had no evidence to offer just at this time. Mr. McFarland said to the court: “It does not appear that either of these men have been sutficiently identified to connect them with this crime. 1 think that an affair of this kind, which has been so skillfully car- ried out, has been worked by shrewder men than my clients. I do not think there has been any evidence introduced showing that these men are the probable gullty parties and shall move their discharge.” Commissioner Anderson did not agree with Mr. McFarland, and the three men wern consequently held to the federal grand jury in the sam of $25,000 each. ROOM OF FOURTH MAN FOUND Rented by Gordon and Him on Day After Train Robbery. Though the fourth Overland. Limited train robber 1= still at large, his room has been definitely located. Tt Is at 518 South Sixteenth street. Gor don and the fourth man rented the room from the landlady, Mrs. Sinhold, the Mon- day following the robbery, and the fourth man visited the room as late ae the day after his three confederates were arrested. Police Captain Mostyn, who was the head of the night shift until Tugsday, located the rdom Saturday night and has been condueting the investigation so far as it concerns the rogm. He found Gordon grip and some of his clothes, but was un- able to locate any of the “swag” taken from the mall pouches. A description of the fourth bandit was secured frqm Mrs. Sinhold and other boarders at the house. Tt agrees quite them; they fit as modern girls would have them fit; all trimmed in a ‘manner that betokens !nuch regard for fashion’s dictates, :Nerver yqtjn! bm:aha had such a show of clever “;vuh" dresses. GIBLS' WASH DRESSES. The ultra stylish “Buster wa-a17 Douglas Street Omaha IRLS' WASK DRES! up with fanoy side trims, with soutsche piping. The skirts are box pleated, and the refresh- ing new patterns, breezy, summery checks and the like, in ginghams ang percales, Made with pleated fanoy yokes, fancy in pink, blue or green check skirts, 3 or full length sleeve; pipings aad pearl buttons. The lne 4nch nobby new jumper styles in in stses 8, 10 and 12 .... In pink and green Fremeh gingham. plain pink, with soutache braid and hand tons. Skirts full pleated snd the dresses are perfect in fit—a perfection rarely reached. Sizes 10 sizes 8, 10, 12 and M, at Brown" dress shown in cut heréwith is hes or dark biue linen. With contrasty polka dosted Duteh collars, cuffs, belt and skirt trimming. Ome of the “lvest” dresses we've ever shown. In wised 10, THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S OWN STORE = of smart, new peroal appesrance. Sises 3, 10, 12, 14. | Huge , made braid and tmpart a ludes some Do 0| © | en made but- Co range 10, re in buff 5.00 Pictorial Review Pat- terns Here Only. 12 @ . w the men sitting on the evidence related to the discovery of the mail sacks in the Elsderfer and Ma- whinney of the South Omaha police force testified as to the arrest of the three men Nel- ©of the three men were armed when the same story | Wood The others did ng the automatic gun and a handkerchief of a blue and polka dot pattern Thursday about four inches under the ground, near His testimony related to the recovery of Thursday, $2.95. The Combinations ar cial call just now. e the garments that have espe- If you are having a modish dress made, the designer will probably suggest this new style of garment. You’ll like dress style. $1.50 and $1.00. thro’ the vast stock of un _storein full keeping. them too for they are mighty comfortable ladies say—and. just right for the present Corset cover and drawers in one piece, or corset_cover and skirt on Thursday at Kilpatrick’s, for There is still fair picking in the corsets which sold at $1.00 and $1.50—Thursday at Kilpatrick’s for 49ec. These few items indicate what you may expect all dermuslins. There will: be bargains elsewhere throughout the . For instance at Dress Goods Counter—40 pieces of a mixed line of mohairs, hair lines, fancies and plain, all eolors—38 to 44 inches wide—sold up-to 65¢c. All at one well with other, description secured, and the officers think there will be no diffi- culty in_ connecting. Gordon's. roommate with the holdup, when he is captured. That the two frain robbers still at large, will ngt be aryested in Omaha, is conti- dently asserted, by Ghief Donahue, who thinks they haye left here, Gaondon.,, Tongsasen. and. Woods had, sthe, beginning of,ghelx prelfminary hearing be- fore Compiasioger Anderson today. Million of Steel on Paris Bourse Morgan Has' Arranged to List Stock Through New York Syndi- cate. | | PARIS, June 2.~One million shares con- | stitutes the amount of United States Steel | common with the syndicate formed by Morgan, Harjes & Co., of Paris, in con- junction with J. P. Morgan & Co., of New York, has arranged to list on. the bourse here. The syndicate will deposit with a trust eompany of New York, the name of which has”not been disclosed, this amount of stock, against which the trust compagh will issue Its own ocertifi- cates of deposit in such form as will mest the requirements: of the French fiscal authorities and-the rules of the French atock exchange. The certificates will be exchangeable on demand for stock and vice versa, and the | dividends will be paid by Morgan, Harjes | & Co., the Creait Lyonnaise, the Comptoir | Nationale O'Eséompte and the Scolete Generale. The formula found by the Morgans for the Introduction of steel shares on the | Paris bourse sblves the riddle for other | American securities and is expected to be | the percusor of a reguiar American in- | vasion. Swell Gowns Are Sold at Auction | Government Offers Finery Seized by Customs Officials Before Crowd of Women, NEW YORK, June %—A novel sale of women's gowns, all of the latest Parisian cut, was begun here today, with the gov- ernment of the United States in the role of salesman. The accumulation is finery | which was #eing smuggled into the coun- | try and wa selzed by customs Inspectors in March and April, and is estimated to be Worth $50,000. “The sale was at auctiof and brought oiit a lafge ettendance of women. NEW CABINET AT MELBOURNE Alfred Deakin Succeeds Fisher as Premicr and Forms New Mintstry. MELBOURNEs June 2.—Prémier Fisher, | having resigned office because of his de feat in Parllament, Alfred K Deakin has fofmed a paw cabinet as follows Premier, Alfred Deakin; Minister of De- | fense, Joseph Cook; Treasurer, Sir J. For- rest; Attorney General, Mr. Glinn; Post- | master General, Sir John Quick; Minister of Trade and Customs, Sir R. W. Best Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Fuller; Min- ister of External Affairs, Mr. Groom. Head of Hibernians Back, NEW RK, June 2-—Mutthew Cum national president of the Anclent | Order ' of Hibernians, and Rev. Philip H O'Donnell, state chapiain of Massachusetss, been abroad endeavoring 1o all the Hibernian organiza- {tions into an International body, arrived today ou the steamer Caronla from Liver- | pool. Mr. Cummings raid thelr work on | the whole had been successful. | | eitte ATwo Roads Have Valuation Raised by State Board Burlington Increased $1,125 and Northwestern $1,500 a Mile— Missouri Pacific Reduced. (From a Staff Correspondent. LINCOLN, Neb., June 2.—(Specfal Tele- gram.)—The Stae Board of Assessment this morning fixed the valuation of the Burlington system at $119,299,500, or $42,000 a mile, an increase of §1,125 a mile. The Northwestern was valued at §35,000 a mile, an increase of $1.600 a mile. The Union Pa- wes vAlued the same as last year except on the Central’ City branch, which was increased $1,600 & mile. cific this road’'s assessment creased 12,000,000, The Missourl Pacific was reduced $3,000 a mile, or from $57,200 to $35,200 « mlle. All the other roads Were left as asssessed 1ast year. The Burlington will be divided according to the lines which compose the sysiem. The figures were arrived at after the board had jockeyed around practically all the mopning. Coal Vein Found in City of Boone will be i(n- Promoters Assert They Have Evi- dence of One of Largest Fields in State. BOONE, Ia., June 2.—(Speclal Telegram.) —What its promoters assert will prove to be the biggeat coal field In Towa was dis- covered {nsidé the city limits here extend- ing northward from the Fifth ward. Eight holes have been drilled by the Boone Block Coal company and are said to show the finést quality of coal in a vein nearly four feet thick about %50 feet down. A shaft will be sunk at once and a lease has been made for 300 acres of ground. Gate Company to Marshalltewn. MARSHALLTOWN, Ia., June 2.—(Spe- clal)—The Richmond Bafety Gate company of Richmond, Ind., a manufacturing cor- poration with a capital of $10,000, is to be moved to Marshalltown and will become a branch industry of the A. . Shorthl company, which has a branch office in Omaha. C. R. Bpeers, president Shorthill company, has closed negotiations for the controlling interest of the Richmond corporation. C. E. Colby, who has been in the sales department of the company, will become sales manager of the branch. A factory bullding will be eregted near the plant of the A. E. Shorthill dompany. The Richmond company manufactures the pat- entéd Richmond safety elevator gates, au- tomatic trap elevator doors and fireproof warehouse doors and shutters. Ensign Keppler Weds. IOWA CITY, Ia., June 2—(Special )—En- slgn Chester H. J. Keppler, son of fermer Alderman H. J. Keppler, was married May 2 In Boston- to Miss Mildred Fenne. The wedding came as & surprise to his lowa City friends. He was a graduate of the University of Tows. The Paxton Cafe rALPH KITCHEN, FROP. “The Fopular Oafe of Omaha” Prompt service, reasonable prices, orhc!vlpwlnlmfl:h are the ':’mu" half portions at the ts popularity. By ordering “Paxton" you get more variety withoul adding to_the cost. “Mest Wour Friends st the Paztes® With the new property of the Union Pa- of the | ‘aroline | worth 50c a pair, continued at for 29¢ a pair. Kilpatrick’s Thursday $15.00 robes, semi-made, filmy mercerized mull—St. Gall embroidery, white and pastel shades, scarcely an) thing necessar) day at Kilpatrick’s $7.50 each. to make them ready to wear—on Thurs- 'Basement—27-inch printed madras, on Thursday at Kilpatrick’s at 5¢ yard. English Tissues Woven—a Thursday at Kilpatrick’s, 16V4e popular 25¢ fabric—on yard. Values in White Goods, such as have never before been offered —on Thursday at K Remnants by the score at ha ilpatrick's. If former prices. A line of white goods which sold at 121%4c and 15¢, on Thurs- day at Kilpatrick’s at 5c yard. And a wealth of choice things for waists and suits, formerly 25¢ and 35¢, on Thureday at Kilpatrick’s for 27c a yard. If you are interested in any man--Please tell him therell be a shirt sale at Kilpatrick’s on Saturday. If he can’t come, come for him. Thomas Kilpatrick @ Co. Money t On residence or husiness propert! No commissions charged. All 'loans are lars of prineipal may be repaid at interest at oncé on the amount so repaid. The Com 3 ‘unds on hand. repayatle In monthly insi ny time without notice, thereby stopping o Loan o, No 4 y in closing loans. !iments, or one hundred dol- servative Savings & Loan Assn., 1614 Marney S¢., Omahs, Neb. Paul W, Xuhns, Secy. Fhones: Doug. 1608) Iad, A-1506. Tntines TBa 7 e di Ree Shar | bert (Inc.) Present MARY MANNERING 1n The Independent Miss Gower. Hvenings $3.00 to 50c. Mat. §1, 750 and 500 ” suspay, ¢ AT R Burwood’s Owa “Distinctive’ MOVING PICTURES AND _$5,000 FEATURY Ontiaren, so. Aduits, 106 A S A SO e BOYD'S THEATER “AIR DOME A AR HILLMAN STOCK €O, ~IN— “For His Mother's Honor" Admis s Coneert, at the ORPHEUM THEATER Tuesday, Bvening June 8th. Reeeryed seats go on sale next Satur- gay moening at 10 o'clock, Prices, $1.60 . T8¢, §0c and 25c. Joseph Gi ¢ the piano. PR-C2AR o TWENTIETH .CENTURY FAHME; The Beat Farm Paper in the West. Ome Dollar a Year. HOTELS AND CAFES. 18 & popular cafe. KNOW WHY? PRICES-—~REASONABLE, SERVICE—HIGH CLASS. WAITERS—WHITE CUISINE—FINEST. Summer Conneoting Omaha, Mond The Only Big Three Ring Oircus Not MILLION DO! tents AMUSEMENT ay._ June 7 In The Circus Trust, And The Only Circus In The World Having Trained Wild Animals, TEE MIG! MONARCR OF TEN HAGENBECK AND GREAT WALLACE COMBINED SHOWS 1,000 PROPLE! The Most o Only Circus in the World Hav- 800 o»-m:n Show on Earth ing Trained Wild Animals! Every Oircus Act a Feature! lveg_ Animal Act a Marvel! i et 200 Arenic Ohampion: 40 Acro) Ae: 76 Musicians, it W, 900 'Wild Antmals, 400 Finest Norses. THE DREAMLAND OF TENTED SHOWS ITAGES! 3 RINGS! EUG L @) > - LLAR STREET PARADE AT 10 A. M. 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