The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-09-19
TRAIN ROBBERS CAUGHT
The Men Who Stole Seventy Thou
sand Dollars in Custody,
RAILROADBRs WERE IN THE PLOT.

The Express Messenger who Was "Forced"
to Give Up the Money Believed to Have
Been the Ringleader Of the Gnug-Over
$40, 600 Of the stolou 55rnoy Recovered.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept. l9.-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 $4,000 Of
their booty has been recovered. Yesterday
George Liberte, q 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
county, and made a clean breast of the
whole affair The other men under arrest
are A. S. Cannon, Of Hancock, a young
man Of good family, whose trunk was used
to carry away the money; John King, an
athlete; Chelew, a 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, back
driver, and - Butler, an habitue of
Chellew's place
/ Liberte In his confession, gave a de-
| tailed account of where the trunk was left
along the line of the Mineral Range road,
and a special train and some officers were
sent after it, They found the trunk, and
on it's arrival at the HOughton National
| bank it was opened and found empty. On
| Liberties information 6l4, 600 was recovered
! by the officers, it is claimed, at Shea
| Brothers saloon, while $4,000 was found
| in his possession. The empty condition oi
the trunk is accounted for by the sugges-
tion that the money was stolen the second
time, last from the robbers themselves
and Messenger Hogans brother is being
looked for in connection with this latest
| episode. II is now proposed to rearrcst
Jack Kehoe, who was released Friday be
cause it seemed evident that he had uoth
ing to do with it. 1t has since lealed on
that he purchased the cloth of which TIN
masks were made.
There is good reason TO suspect that tn
remainder of the money is concealed in
cellar near the Marquette depot, and thre
places are being watched, as Liberte sal
that the money would be found in or
Of the three places. The officials Of tn
South Shore believe that of the none
they have not yet recovered no more tina
$1,000 will be entirely lost.
The case against the robbers was workC
up from a clew furnished by the engine,
oil Jn6 tldIn Inc man WlIO covered hi
with a revolver while the robbery was Y
ing on showed a familiarity with t
working Of the engine and proved that o
of the robbers at least vas an old railro
man. Tho engineer was unable to see t
mans features for the mask which &C
cred it, but recognized the mans voice al
in his report stated that he was sure t
man had formerly been employed on t
road. Suspicion at once fell on Liber
and his arrest and confession followed.
According to Liberties story the eXpr,
messenger WIS one of, If not the ri1
leader Of the plot. 1t is believed that
furnished the. information as to the trf
the money was on, and pointed out {
place where IL could best be tagged a
robbed. He made a pretense at resistaI
to deceive the rest of the train crew, /
gCve up the money willingly Libe
stated that after the money was tax
from the car it was put into a trunk a
checked as baggage from Houghton
Marquette The baggagemaster at Nj
Quette, while not originally in the pl
knew Of the contents Of the trunk We
shortly after its arrival, and in this W
made party to the crime.