The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-11-14
BARNUM BOUND OVER.
Cars Astonishing Confession Knocks
All Underpinning From
the Defense.
The Grand Jury Meets in Helena
Next Week-What
Then?

Frlday before Commissioner Pom
eroy Ed Barnum was bound over in the
sun of $1,000 on a charge of robbing
the mails. No testimony was offered by
the defendant. p. NJ. Baum his attor-
ney made a motion to dismiss the case
IN the ground that the evidence was
not sufficient to hold his client but this
was overruled. The case therefore goes
over and will probably come before the
grand jury next week.
From it's inception to the present time
the matter has been one Of the ~strangest
known in criminal records.
On the Doth of August Mrs. Barnum
and Ed her son are brought to the city
on a charge of robbing the mails. Stolen
money is found directly in their posses
sion and they are known to have control
of the mail at the only point, in all
probability, that the robbery could have
taken place. Notwithstanding they
stourly maintain their innocence and
waving preliminary examination are
bound over and bonds easily given. The
two then return to their homes and the
public is astonished by the word pub
iished in the morning TRIBUNE that
parties educated and sustaining a
hitherto u~nimpeachable character have
been implicated in a mail robbery. The
facts adduced however induce a majority
Of tire pablo to believe them gui'ty.
Az thus so far as the public is con-
lie parties rest in statu quo for
,-~a,t-. 1I,a., nr,n .-- ',nr
star siory, e4ua'eu in romance CI,y
by those coming l3ieron. Two rarche s,
Gol, 9. T. johnson, bave seen a man in a
coulee ooeniog letters and then hiding
them ~ err a fat rock. This "cache" is
openeu aat The letters found as report
ed. Asked 10 describe the man he saw
Car RESPONDS and the description given
tallics exactly with one given by Mrs.
Carn.'m OF a certuin mysterious stranger
who. sle said, had said at her house
toe night OF TIE iirst robbery in question
and had 10 the morning given her the
81 bill wnjch was regarded as an evil
dence of guilt. Ooce more Dame Rumor
opered up and public opinion shifted to
the side of the Barnums. The story
seeus to have been brought to the city
by Car and was published on the morn
ing o. October II. On Sunday, Nov. l,
,ossip was again set agog by the news
AT ii Barnum bed heel ar ested for
the second robbery and WIS .irself the
myste"ors stranger who hal been seen
l in the cOulee.
= Here. IS ia the other sensations were
some remarkable points. Some of the
letters CiscoveG were stamped in Great
Falls Sept. 8. 1t will be remembered
1 that it was August % when the alleged
1 culpriis were bound over. If, therefore
Ed Cac1un is gully Of the second rob
: be y he must Fave gone directly home
' auG within a week after he had beer
D bounG over To- robbing the mails, have
S fOund means to commit a second rob
berry.
? And then came the hearing which
. terminated yesterday. Carr was put OF
< the stand and his most remarkable stor.
and confession was, as usual, first given tt
/ the world in the morning TRIBUNE. No
oply those who beard him but the United
g States attorney, whose witness he was
@ was astonisbed at bis tale He had confess
ed before though not nearly so fully. Par
ticularly the testimony OF himself and o
johnson as to the date was a surprise al
up to that time it had been thought tina
n it really was the Sth of September as hat
Deen previously intlui"ieu' IHe ooicho'
. looking for nothing else was prepared t
prove an alibi on that date. The who'll
8 disclosure, however, came out.
Even yet many refuse to believe TIN
t accused guilty. Carr and johnson ar
S accused of conspiracy and perjury ant
S proceedings are threatened against them
Y That the government is holding bacl
evidence is we'll known and that the de
Tense are resting easily and perfect,
confident is equally patent. In fact it il
bilities and apparent impossibilities ar
: mingled in a most unheard of fashion
Possibly the sitting which it must re,
ceive in a court of law may clear it NJ
!. and bring out what the law sometimes
: fails to do, viz-the truth.
2 n-- ru,..~ roppo