The morning call., 1894-10-29
CAUGHT AT LAST.
Express Robbers Landed
: in Jail.
TAKE A FULL CONFESSION
And Tell Where the Money Is
Hidden.
TAKE A FULL CONFESSION
CAPTURED WITHOUT RESISTANCE
Culprits Were Two Young Men Who
Once Belonged to a Gang
of Thieves.

The DALLEs, Ore, Oct. 2S.-After two
of detectives and local officers, the parties
who robbed the Pacific Express Company
In this city OF $4,000 on October 13 have at
last been apprenended and placed under
arrest, and all but $500 Of the money recov-
cred. Frank Klein and Otis Savage. young
men Of respectable parentage living here,
are In Jail, having made a complete con-
fession of the theft.
Many clews were followed by the detec-
tives. but all proved fruitless until Sheriff
Driver suggested that possibly Klein and
Savage, who have been living in idleness
about town and who once belonged to what
is known locally as the Hawthorne gang
OF desperadoes, might be i'm Heated.
1t was known that these two young men
were separated from the gang on account
OF disagreement as to The plan for rob-
Ding Union Pacific train at point be-
tween here and Portland. Shortly after
separating Hawthorne and his pals robbed
Mays 81 Crows store here Of lot ot guns.
pistols and ammunition and left for their
rendezvous near Mount Hood.
1t is said that the only clew to the rob-
bers was bar OF steel sharpened at one
end and fashioned into hook at the
other, which was found beside the empty
treasure box on the floor of the express of
fee on the morning of the robbery.
Following the suggestion of Sheriff T.
j. Driver. Detective Sam Simmons Of
Portland aud LORD of the Surety Com
pany of Kansas City visited the shop and
iiving-room of Klein aud Savage, which is
q har in irSc a.
room bristled with guns of every de-
scription, and the room also contained an
anvil and tools for doing light blacksmith
work
Sheriff Driver, learning thia. took the
steel tool to Salem, where Rowe, one of
the gang, is confined in the penitsntiary,
aud from him learned that it was
fashioned in this shop by members of the
Hawthorne gang from drill stolen from
a Union Pacific locomotive at the time
they contem plated train robbery.
Rowe also stated that Klein, who is by
trade an expert locksmith. possessed key
TO the express Office. Armed with this in
formation, Mr.. Driver, accompanied by
Detective Simmons, returned to the Dalles
late last night and caused the arrest OF
Klein and Savage.
They were captured without resistance
at their room and confined for the night IN
separate apartments at the hotel, where
District Attorney Jayne and Mr.. Simmons
attempted 10 gain eonfeS sion from them.
They withstood ali advances until this
morning. when Klein broke down and,
sobbing, confessed the whole matter, tell
ing where the money was hidden.
Search was instituted for the mnnev aud
bag containing $3.50 in gold was found
in a cesspool under a China wash house
which once belonged to the Savage estate,
two bags with $500 in silver were found
under an old building near the Cosmopol-
itan Hotel and one bag which had con-
tanned $4,000 In gold. and from which 5000
had been extracted. was discovered buried
in Klein's back yard.
Savage at fr.t maintained stold silence
when told of KIein's confession, saying he
was innocent of the crime, but when con-
fronied BY his pal he had nothing more to
say. Klein also confessed that they had
robbed the Postoffice here on the night of
September 6. These arrests break up one
oi the worst gangs of robbers in this sec
ton, and relieves the express agent, Hill,
of the odium which suspicion cast upon
him when dispatches enormously stated
he had been arrested for comm thing the
deed