The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-10
PEN YAWNS FOR THEN
STATES AUTHORITIES HAVE
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
THOSE PosToFF1CE RoBBERIEs

1t Is Thought They VIII Not Occur
as Frequently as They Did Some
Time Since-TriumVIrate Arrested
Soon After the DaIesburE Office
Was Entered Marked Coins
Traced to the Prisoners.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Dec. 9-(Spe-
cial(-'The United States authorities
think they have rounded up three young
men who are said to be responsible for
the robbery of the Dalesburg postoff1ce
and other offenses committed in South
Dakota of an equally serious nature. The
three men are James Riley, George Muir
ply and William Morris. They were
bound over to the district court by the
United States commissioner at Yankton
on Thursday. The United States Of
f1cials feel highly jubilant over the cap
ture OF the three men, as they are said
to belong to a notorious gang of evil
doors in the country. Riley, it is said,
is noted crook, and reward of 81, 900
hangs over his head for crimes COM
mitted in Nebraska. The triumvirate
will be tried at Deadwood in February
Jail, and Murphy will spend the interval
at Sioux Falls
The government will, without question,
be able to present a strong chain of evil
dence against the three men. On Wednes-
day, Nov. %, they obtained their dinners
at restaurant in Vermilion. That aft
ernoon they rode with a farmer some dis
lance in the direction of Dalesburg and
procured supper that evening at a farm
house only a few miles from Dalesburg.
The postoffice at that place, as is custo-
mary with country postoffices, is located
in store. The robbers first attempted
TO open the safe with a monkeywrench,
which they stole from the postmaster,
and in these efforts hammered off both
the handle and the knob of the safe
door. Not ) "eeding in opening it by
this means, they drilled a hole into the
top and inserted quantity of nitro
glycerine. The force of the explosion
bent the bottom of the safe door out
ward, but did not tear it from it's hinges,
as intended, and the robbers were I'M
able to secure the several hundred dol
lars in gold and currency which it con-
tanned, but, instead, were compelled to
be content with taking the contents of
the money drawer, which aggregated less
than $25. With the money taken were
several marked coins.
The next day-Thanksgiv day-three
strangers, since identified as the three
men now in custody of the federal au-
thorities, appeared at Centerville. During
the day they drank a great deal and
seemed to be we'll supplied with money
The robbery of the DaIesburg postoffice
being reported at CenterviTle, the three
men were arrested by the city marshal
on suspicion of having committed the
crime. For these arrests the city mar
shall will in all probability receive the
sum of $600--the customary government
reWar, each for the three men.
A search of the prisoners pockets re-
vealed the marked coins claimed by the
postmaster at DalesbuIg to have been
with the other money in the cash draw
er. Other articles, since identified as
having been stolen few nights before
from stores at VibOrg, were also found
in the possession of the three men. 1t
is thought the men are the same who
have for some time been robbing postof-
fees Throughout South Dakota, and, that,
as the result of their arrest, there will
be no further systematic robberies of
Uncle Sans postoff1ces in this part of
the NortnN est.
The next few weeks will determine to
certainty whether or not this view is
correct, for if no postoffices are entered
in the near future, it will be, reasonably
certain that the three men who have
now been run to earth are the ones
who have committed the recent numer-
Gus robberies. 1t has not yet, however,
attempted to rob the Emery postoffice
only few nights before the Dalesburg
robbery, and If they are not, another
gang of robbers is still at large.