St. Paul daily globe., 1893-08-17
HELD HIM IN $4,000.
TIE ALLEGED BANK R08BER WILL
LNGER IN PRISON.
TRIAL SET Eos, NEXT WEEK.

| Lawyer Erwin MAX cS Il Il fuftIcsS
Demand for Production of the
Prisoners Possessions De-
tectiyes Will Give, Him Lit
tie List-Lares Fails to IndeG-
tify Howard as the Thief.
James Howard, arrested by Detectives
| MeGuiggail and McFetridge as one of
| the parties concerned in the. s., 600 bank
| robbery Monday. an account OF which
appeared in the GEoBE yesterday, was
/ arraigned in the police court Yesterday
| afternoon. Howard. who is dapptr
| little EngliSiman. neatly dressed. did
not appear to be at all disconnected. aud
| talked to his attorney, w. w. Erwin, i'll
q confidential way white the attorney
was peruslng the complaint.
Ihe complaint charges Howard With
| having stolen from an empsoye OF the
| Merchants National bank the sum of
$1,000 in gold, and is signed by tile
cashier Of the bank. +. 4. Seymour.
When the case had been called Mr..
Erwin inquired of the court the names
of the officers who had made the arrest.
| There was some heSitaney on the part
of the police officials to the giving out
of the names of the ofncerS, but finally
| Chief of Detectives MeGfnn stated the
arrest WAS made by Detectives Nc
Guiggan and MeEetridge.
Mr. Erwin, looking around the court
room. said he did not see the officers
present. but would ask the court to have
produced the property taken from the
prisoner at the time of his arrest, and
from his room. There was no authority
of law, Mr.. Erwin said, which would
allow property taken from prisoner to
remain Ia the possession of any one eX-
cept all officer of the court. and for
this reason he asked that it be produced
in court.
Judge rWot1y said if the property was
in the possession of the county attorney
it would be all right.
Erwin Suspicious
Mr.. Erwin said he had known coins to
be marked, and paper money torn, in
cases where Identification was desired
for future occasions. The law plainly
said properly taken from a prisoner
should be In the possession OF the court,
and he was OF the opinion that it would
be in better bands if held by the court
instead of in the possession of men who
might lee acting for reward.
Assistant County Attorney DOnnelly
said the money and property were now
in the hands of the chief of police, but
there was no objection TO the counsel
for the prisoner examining it at any
time.
Mr.. Erwin insisted on the PROPERTY
being produced, but finally agreed that
a iCt Of rI;t nd
given him il would answer the purpose.
This point having been settled. MIR.
Erwin said they would waive the read
ing of the complaint, plead not guilty,
and were ready for the preliminary eX-
amInatiou.
State Wants Witnesses.
Mr.. Donnelfy said the state was not
ready and asked for continuance of
| teudays. His reason for the continu-
ance were that the testimony was not
ready and Witnesses are out of the state.
The statutes provided they should have
reasonable time, and ten days was not
unreasonable. The court then decided
to adjourn the hearing to Aug. "a.
Mr.. Erwin, when the question of bail
was raised asked that the bail be fixed
on the proof in the case and not on the
charge. If the arrest and continuance
was for the purpose of allowing a fish
Ing excursion Tor evidence to be made.
the bail should be light.
The court heStated moment and
then said the bail would be $4,000. MIR.
Erwin announced that under the cir
cunstances the prisoner would not give
bail. .e
Renaldo Lares, the Merchants bank
messenger from whom the money was
taken. was present in the court room
q of nd A fft,r
the case had Detn disposed of. Lares
| told GLOBE reporter that Howard was
/ not the man who took the bag of gold.
Asked if he reSembled the man who
barred his passage i'll the door of the
bank, Lares wonld not say, seeming by
his actions to have been advised to say
nothing on that poiat.
Howard was visited at the Jail last
evening, but he declined to talk.
He talks with a marked English accent
and seems to be an intelligent fellow.
His description taliieS to that given of
him III the GLOBE Yesterday tea nicely.
Ga, the Trail of Three
| The police and detectives say they
| have the three remaining men located,
| but it Will be day or so before they
are in custody. The parties at the
house OIL Canada street where Howard
roOmed say that he had been there
! about ten days and during that time he
| is Known to have had friends living
| within few blocks of the place. The
| three men who have not yet been capt
ured left their stopping place Monday
afternoon about an hour after the rob-
beTy occurred. The man with whom
they boarded notified Patrolman Perro
that the men seemed to be very much
| excited and were in hurry to leave the
| pItV This information WAS tnlanhOppN
TO headquarters. but by the time the
| detectives arrived the thieves had gone.
Cher of Detectives McGinn said yes
! teFddy that there was no doubt but the
| three thieves who left their boarding
house in lower town suddenly Monday
afternoon had left the city. Just what
| direction they had taken was not
known, but the authorities at Omaha,
Kansas City and Chicago had been wired
TO look out for the men and their bag
gage. 1t was possible, the officer said,
that the men had sent their baggage on
| one train and taken another. The
| keeper OF the house where they staid
| has given a good description OF the
| baggage carried by the thieves, and the
officials in all tile large cities has been
sent description of the luggage.
Shaw, with whom Howard roomed. says
he and the other members of the gang
| spent porIioH ol tneir tiule 1or tne
past two weeks at the saloon OH East
Seventh street, at which he was
employed, and, being shown the photo
graphs of the four men taken in Mime
apolIs last week, identified them all.
Howard. he says, was at the saloon
Monday with woman aud had dinner
there. Heis not certain as to the exact
time the couple arrived, but thinks it
was about noon.
The finding of the $500 in gold on the
person of Howard and his connection
with the gang. the detectives say, makes
it certain that he was concerned in the
robbery. The Pinkert0n superintendent
claims that Howard was not in the bank
| but acted as one of the outside men.