Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-09-20
ARRESTED AT MARQUETTE.
All the Booty Secured by the Mineral Range
Robbers Has Been ReCOVepad

R0DD6PS has Been recovered.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept. 18.-An i'm
portant arrest in connection with
the express robbery at Hancock
was made by the local police
last night when George Kliberty
was taken into custody upon Geographic
request from the sheriff of Houghton
County. This arrest has led to the ap-
prehension of seven others here and the
recovery Of large portion of the booty.
Klibertv is locomotive fireman by
occupation but lost his job when a
general reduction was made in
the operating force of the
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
Railway a month ago, and since
then has been intimately associated
with Butler, King, Chettew and hard
characters alleged to be implicated in
the robbery. He was known to have
been in company with Butler
at Hancoc k shortly before the robbery,
but could not be located until yester-
day. 1t was lear ned by officers that he
was at his home here when the order
for his arrest Immediately followed.
Early this morning he was placed
aboard the Houghton passenger
rain handcuffed to an officer,
and in a state of great excitement. Be-
fore the train had gone half a dozen
blocks Kliberty made a clean breast of
the whole affair to the officer. The
train was promptly stopped and the Of
fcer at once placed his prisoner in the
Marquette jail, and Sheriff Dunn of
HOughtOn was notified of the confession.
Press representatives are denied ac-
cess to Kliberty but enough has leaked
out to warrant the statement that he re-
vealed the entire plot and the part
taken by each actor. Kliberty, from
his training as q locomotive fireman,
was selected to cover the engineer and
fireman of the express train while the
rest of the gang looted the safe of its
contents King, the athlete, procured
a sledge, according to the confession,
and welded it with such effective
force against the door of the car.
ChetteW and Butler rifed the safe
while KehOe and others hurried away
with the plumber. The entire plot was
Matched here, and in consequence of
Kliberty's confession the police
have arrested John and Michael
Shea, saloOn-keepers; Moses Longtime,
brakeman on passenger train; Tom
Winter, baggageman; d. W. Hogan,
express messenger on the Mineral
Range train; Ed Hogan, bartender,
| and Wesley Shoup, a hack driver.
Officers remain very reticent regard
ing the arrests made but have admitted
that they now have all the men they
want. They are convinced that they
have in custody all who were
directly or indirectly implicated in the
robbery. They refuse to state how
much money has been recovered or
where it was found, but a report is cur
rent that the amount is $14, 900 and that
it was found in Lake Street saloon in
this city. Prosecuting Attorney Young,
of Marquette County, is now here and
is arranging for the preliminary exam
ination of the Sheas, Hogans, Longtime,
Shoup, Laliberty and Winters.
William Pinkerton, accompanied by
a corps Of his detectives and Supt.
Antisdel, of the American Express
Company, are now here. Their mis-
sion is to ascertain the whereabouts Of
the remainder of the stolen funds. Rob-
ert Cummings, Duluth, South Shore q
Atlantic baggageman is under arrest. and
his personal baggage has been seized by
the police, who will not state Whether
any funds have been found in it.
Sheriff Dunn, of Houghton, is highly
complimented on all sides for the
prompt and thorough measures takenby
him to prevent the escape Of the rob-
bers and secure their Identification.
Within two honrs after the robbery he
had twenty-five special deputies guard
ing all points of exit from Houghton
County.