Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-30
EXpREss OFFICE ROBBERS CAPTURED
Aud All but 5000 of the Booty Recovered.
Bad Gang Broken Up.

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THE DALLEs, ORE, October %
After two weeks unsuccessful endeav-
ors on the part of detectives and local
officers, the parties who robbed the Pa.
ciic Express Company Office in this
city Of Sl4, 900 on October II, have at
last been apDrehended and placed IN
der arrest and all but $500 of the money
recovered. Frank Klain and Otis Saw
age, young men OF respectable parent
age, living here. are 10 jail, having
made complete confession of the theft.
Many cews were followed by detec-
tives, bat all proved fruitless until
Sheriff Driver suggested that possibly
Klein and Savage, who have been liv-
ing in idleness about town and who once
belonged 10 what is known locally as the
Hawthorne gang OF desperadoeS, might
be implicated. II was reported that
the young men were separated from the
gang on account of a disagreement as
TO the plan for robbing a Union Pacific
train at point between here and Port
land. Shortly after separating Haw-
thorne and pals robbed a store
here OF lot Of guns, pistols
and ammunition and left for their rem
devious near Mt. Hood. 1t is said the
only clue To the robbers was bar OF
steel sharpened at one end and fastened
into hook at the other, was left, found
beside the empty treasure box on the
floor of the express Office, on the morn
ing Of the robbery. Following the sug
gestion of Sheriff Driver, Detective Sam
Simons, OF Portland, and Lord, of the
Surety Company of Kansas City, visited
the shop and living-room OF Klein and
Savag, which is barn in Klein'S yard.
The walls of the rooms bristled with
guns OF every description and the room
also contained an anvil and tools
for doing light blacksmith work.
Sheriff Driver, learning this, took
the steel tools to Salem Rowe,
where one Of the gang is confined In the
penitentiary. and from him learned ii
was fashioned in this shop by mem ers
OF the Hawthorne gang from drill
stolen from Union Pacific locomotive
at the time they contemplated the train
robbery. Rowe also stated that Klein,
who is by trade an expert locksmith,
possessed a key TO the express Office.
Armed with this information MIR.
Driver, accompanied by Detective
Simons, returned TO The Dalles and
caused the arrest OF Klein and Savage.
They were captured without resistance
at their room and confined in
separate apartments at the hotel, !
where District Attorney Jayne and !
Mr.. Smons attempted to gain
confession from them. They withstood |
all advances for a time. Finally Klein |
broke down and sobbingly confessed the |
whole matter, telling where the money |
was hidden. Search was instituted for |
the money and a bag containing 1855 |
10 gold was found in cesspool under
Chinese wash-house which once be
onged TO the Savage estate, two bags !
with 81, 500 in silver were found under
an old building near the Cosmopolitan
Hotel, and one bag which had contained
3, 900 in gold and from which 5000 had
been extracted was discovered buried in
Helms back yard. Savage at first
stolid silence when told of
[Iein's confession, saying he was inuo-
eat OF the crime, but when confronted
~ his pal he had nothing more to say.
Klein also confessed that they had
obbed the pOSt &c -- L--e the night
p Santember b.