Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
ARREST OF TRAIN ROBBERS.
SUPPOSED To be Cummings al

Supposed To be Cummings and HIS Pals.
CHICAGO, December 25.-Two local pa
pers publish this morning an account OF
the arrest here yesterday OF Jim Cum
mings. who has long been generally believed
to be the leading perpetrator OF the st.
Louis and San Francisco express robbery
last October, and two of his accomplices.
According to the account referred TO the
men were arrested in a house OF questiona-
BILE repute, and upwards OF 100000 in
money CAPTURED with them. The men are
said to have been Swallowed for some time
On account oil their lavish display Of
money
AND STAGGERING GAIT
and appearance. which warranted the as
sumption that they were railway brake
men, The Inter-O Ocean will say tomorrow
morning that these accounts have no foun'
dation, in fact, except that three men were
arrested for the small ~offense, neither OF
whom was Jim Cummings, nor was in any
way connected with the express robbery
The finding of the money is also denied.
Up to a late hour the Information from
Detective Sources was OF a meagre ma allure
Init conveyed the impression that the
officers believed themselves to have
CAPTURED THE TRAIN
The trio are still in close custody here ana
naners publishing reports OF the arrest
maintain stoutly that the statements
oven are correct. Their authority is
Stated by them to be equivalent to direct
information from off GERS making the arrest
r. ia now reported from sources y
ble for first accounts that the amount o.
money captured on the robbers is $5,Ooo
| and not $50, 900 as first stated.
The latest assertions concerning the
case are to the effect that the men
themselves were not shaoo"eu
their whereabouts being oa'
A NOTORIOUS WOMAN
uho w.s intimate with the suspected Cum,
n,;nos was traced here from st. LOUIS ano
hos for ten DAYS been kept under constant
~esnionase in this city. This plan was re
warded bv the appearance OF Cumming
end his comrades. The man Cummings II
sa;d tn he not the noted desperate bearing
that name, but another whose career haI
attracted less attention. Alithe ar,s knoM.
to Detectives were in use throughout VI:
night and during Christmas morning az.
afternoon to force one or anUCnei ht - :,
/ fhroQ IN T6VStLl UuClB oOSASNS IT,
Confidently asserted in some quarters ina.
frnm ono of the robbers has at last oee'
extorted a full confession.
vaearies of an Insane MAN.
New YORK, December 25.-Abner na ~
Mooourn. of South Hanover, Mass wa va,
~on%m;tted in the police court Qua ~
insanity to the care Of the commlssaon the,
, ms ,it;ss and corrections: He claims e tina
S;mnson ed Stiles, OF Texas NOE H oT'
0nofOOO in trust for him. which Lat nno;s
ur;est is irving to get from him; ne reg teg.s
ttarcd ct the Fifth Avenue Hotel on iu' X
Jav. He is a fue looking man aoe Gu ~ -
ua q 70 old. and had in his possession s sa,t !,
~ cash. ON Friday he locked nim asea +h'
h;s room. and it was necessary 10 n rpru w
ms onen. He registered az hon w
p Ro;ne. The Italic "B," he said, was a rus
! be1 Lesn his enemies from getting bis MONEY y;
u ordered his meals to be gwen ~ tran
t he orae and took them through the tran ah
rooms snd threw a $40 bill out TO 'i !,
s "n;ter' It is thought he was 1orm oad Sa'
the .i furniture business in Chicago ,a a' he inn
S Sne crazy on religion. At tunes lie
oe;ned himself to the Messiah.