The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-09-19
TRAIN NROBBERSCAUGHT
The Men Who Stole Seventy Thou
sand Dollars in Custody.
RAILRoADERs WERE IN THE PLOT.

The Express Messenger who Was "Forced"
to Give Up the Money Believed to Have
Been the Rlngieader of the Gang-OveY
$4,000 of tho Stolen Money Recovered.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept. 19-Practi-
cally all the men who had anything to do
with the robbery of the Mineral Range ex-
press last Friday of $4,000 are in Jail or
under espionage, and up to date S44, 600 of
their booty has been recovered. Yesterday
George Liberte, n former fireman on the
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic road,
was arrested here by the police on the tele-
graphic order of the sheriff of Houghton
couI'", and made a clean breast Of the
whte affair. The other men under arrest
are ~ >. Cannon, of Hancock, a young
man OF good family, whose trunk was used
to carry away the money; John King, an
athlete; Chellew, saloon keeper Of Neg
aunee; Michael and John Shea, saloonists
here; Tom Winters, baggageman; d. W.
Hogan, the messenger on the robbed car;
ED Hogan, saloonist; W. Schlope, hack
driver, and - Butler, an habitue of
Chellew's place
Liberte, in his confession, gave de-
tailed account Of where the trunk was left
along the line of the Mineral Range road,
and Il special train aud some officers were
sent after it. They found the trunk, and
on its arrival at the Houghton National
bank it was opened and found empty. On
Liberties information S14, 900 was recovered
by the officers, it is claimed, at Shea
Brothers saloon, while S3O,0 ,000 was found
in his possession The empty condition Of
the trunk is accounted for by the sugges-
tion that the money was stolen the second
time, last from the robbers themselves,
and Messenger Hogan's brother is being
looked for in connection with this latest
episode. Ii is now proposed to rearrest
Jack kehoe, who was released Friday be-
cause 1t seemed evident that he had moth
ing to do with it. 1t has since leaked out
that he purchased the cloth of which the
masks were made.
There is good reason to suspect that the
remainder Of the money is concealed in a
cellar near the Marquette depot, and three
places are being watched, as Liberte said
that the money would be found In one
of the three places. The officials of the
South Shore believe that of the money
they have not yet recovered no more than
5000 will be entirely lost.
The ease against the robbers was worked
up from a clew furnished by the engineer
OF the train. The man who covered him
ing on showed familiarity with the
working Of the engine aud proved that one
of the robbers at least was nm old railroad
man. The engineer was unable to see the
mans features for the mask which COW
cred it, but recognized the mans voice and
in his report stated that he was sure the
man had formerly been employed on tho
road. Suspicion at once fell on Liberte.
and his arrest and confession followed.
According to Liberties story the express
messenger was one of, if not the ring
leader of the plot. 1t is believed that he
furnished the information as to the train
the money was on, and pointed out the
place where it could best be tagged and
robbed. He made pretense at resistance
to deceive the rest of the train crew, but
gave up the money willingly. Liberte
stated that after the money was taken
from the car it was put into trunk and
checked as baggage from Houghton to
Marquette. The baggagemaster at Mar
quette, while not originally in the plot,
knew OF the contents of the trunk very
shortly after its arrival, and in this way
made party to the crime.