Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-20
A PRECIOUS PAIR.


| the Laclede Bank, Safely Lodged Behins
the Bars-Tiller's Swag Safe, The Othe
1 -? es
| ST. LOUIS Mo-. March a.
| Prentice Tiller, in charge of Mr.. JOSEPH
Sheppard, Assistant Manager of the United
States Express Company of Chicago, ant
Mr.. George II. Thiel, head of thu
Thiel Detective Agency, of this city, ar
rived in st. Louis this morning over the
Chicago & Alton Railroad.
Tiller, who is evidently man of re-
markable nerve, takes his arrest coolly
On the day he arrived in Milwaukee, his
| curiosity to see what kind of a descrip
ton of him the company had sent out, lee
him into the United States Express office
where he asked if there was package
| the description.
If the company had deliberately gone
to work to shield him from arrest il
could not have concocted description
better calculated to deceive the public
and police than the one it published. He
stood in the smoking-room this morning
q tall, raw-boned, gawky. country boy,
looking as if he had just left the pillow or
the wood-chopper's ak.
can employee of the Express Company
| in Chicago, who had worked by his side
for several MONTHS" said Mr.. Sheppard,
scould not identify him, and believe that
he could have escaped arrest forever in
that suit of clothes had not those Mil
waukee fellows stumbled upon him.
Beginning at the bottom, he wore a
pair of low-cut, cow-hide farm shoes,
which revealed pair of dark-blue, home
knit yarn stockings, of the "Shaker''
order. His pantaloons were of butter.
nut brown jeans, made after the ortho.
dox hoosier fashion, and they bagged at
the knees in free and graceful
manner, delightful to behold. His
| undershirt was composed OF
| red-flannel and his outershirt of that
primitive fabric known as striped hick-
DRY, ornamented with row of large
| white porcelain buttons down the front.
| He wore neither collar nor necktie. His
vest was an Misunderstanding wreck,
| which might have seen brighter days, al
| though it is doubtful. The dark sack
| coat which he wore looked trifle greasy
about the sleeves and trifie frayed about
| the buttOn-holes. 1t was evidently an ar.
ticle which was not discarded by its orig
inal owner, while there was a ray of hope
left. Outside of this he wore larger
undercoat, with tendency to wrinkle up
the back, and a tendency to hang like a
dish-rag on broom-handle down in front.
1t was once light Scotch tweed, but that
was long time ago, and when seen by
the reporter it had degenerated SO
that it would hardly be accepted
at a junk store as fitting material for the
manufacture OF brown paper pulp. But
the overcoat, an ulster, was the browning
glory of the outfit. Originally it must
have been built for a cowboy, and il
looked as if it had passed through dozen
cutting and shooting affrays. Ola dingy,
grayish color, fuzzy, frizzy and forbid.
ding, it would of itself have been suffi-
cient to back up charge of vagrancy in
a st. Louis police court.
His tOut-ensen,ble was complete dis.
guise, and as completely metamOrphoseG
the young man as if he had been subjected
to coat of tar and feathers. Around his
neck he wore a strip of red flannel, con
account of a sore throat" he said, and
his head was adorned with a shiney,
greasy, sticky-looking black cap, such as
railroad brakemen wear.
II Tiller had any accomplices he does
not propose to give them away; nor will
be tell where he left the satchel while he
was arranging his departure.
The exact amount of money found on
Tiller's person, when arrested, was 49,
594.S5 This money was partly distributed
over his clothing, some of it being sewed
into the lining. Articles of jewelry We're
also found seWed up in his clothes and
under his coat collar.
Mr.. Sheppard estimates that the total
cost of Tiller's robbery to the company
will not exceed ST., OO0-reward includ-
III Ah<,rr al L.,
a few men, and done economically. The
Pinkertons were not employed.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 14a
This afternoon Frank Fowler and
Deputy Sheriff, carrying a warrant
sworn out by Mr.. Fowler, agent for the
Fidelity and Casualty Company, entered
q carriage at the Four Courts, and were
driven to the house at 24O9 Franklin ave.
nue., where they arrested Dieterich, con-
veying him rapidly to the Four Courts,
Passing through the Railways on the
second floor, they assembled the back pair
of stairs which led to the landing on
which the door of Mrs. John Dietrichs'
apartments opened. The Deputy Sheriff
raped on the door, and was confronted
by woman, who inquired his mission.
81 am an officer, looking for Mr.. F. J.
Dietrichs.''
"Where's your authority?''
"Here's authority" said the Deputy,
pulling back his coat and showing star.
''Now, 1 want to get in here, and you'd
better stand aside," saying which the
Deputy pushed the door wide open and
walked in. The reporter and Mr.. Fowler !
followed. Passing through the room to |
the front room the party looked about. |
Lying on sofa was stout, well-dressed |
man. He rose as the party entered, and |
Mr.. Fowler said: "Well, Dietrichs, we've |
got you"
eve have enough proof against you to |
send you up for fifty years. said Mr.. |
Fowler, "and if we suffer one dollars |
worth you'll go up. What did you do |
with the money!"
Dietrichs did not open his mouth.
Finally Dietricns said: "When the time |
comes for explanation there will be diff. |
ferent light thrown on my actions"
He was taken to the Four Courts then |
and imprisoned. Dietrichs had neither |