Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-26
POSTOFFICE ROBBERS CAUGHT
Three Men Who Raided the Boulder ofio
Are Now in Custody.
ALL ARE UNDER INDICTMENT AT DENVER
George Bomboy and Kid Mason, with
Two Women, Are Taken In by
United States Deputies and
City Detectives.

Deputies Pearsall and Barber of the
United States marshal's office, aided by De-
tectives Keysor and Sullivan of the city
force, have succeeded in landing George
Bomboy and Otto Noffke, atlas Kid Mason,
two postofice robbers. in Jail.
On the night of April IL the postofiice at
Boulder, Colo, was broken into and robbed
of cash. stamps and other property Of the
value of $3.50. 1t was known that three men
were implicated in the robbery and that
they were Denver crooks. Suspicion rested
upon the two men now in Jail and George
Rogers, who was arrested here some weeks
ago and taken back to Denver.
The officials at Denver sent notices all
over the country, giving details of the crime
and description of the three men supposed
to be impl plcated. Immediately after the
robbery Rogers came to Omaha. where he
was soon arrested. Soon after this the 9TH
ers came. and Deputy Pearsall started out
to apprehend them. Nightly he visited the
saloons in the tenderoin district the dives
and music halls, but was unable to get any
trace of them until one day last week, when
he ascertained that Bomboy and Mason, with
a couple of women who came with them
from Denver, were roomng in. small cot
tage in the eastern portion of the city.
After securing this information he called
Deputy Barber and the city detectives to his
assistance, and watch was set over the
house, only to learn that the game had
been flushed.
About this time Pearsall ascertained that
all of the parties had departed for Kansas
City, and preparations were made to go
there and locate them. Last Monday, how
ever, the officers received information that
Kid Mason and his woman had returned.
That night their house was shadowed and
about midnight it was pulled. Mason and
the woman we're taken to the city Jail, where
they told the story of having gone to Kan
sas City with BombOy and his woman, re-
naming couple OF days and returning.
They described the house where they stopped
and informed the officials of many OF the
facts connected with the robbery. Armed
with this information the officers started
for Kansas City, taking Bomboy's woman
along to point out the location of the house.
They reached there early Wednesday morn
ing and as soon as it was light enough to
see, directed by the woman. they went to
the premises described and arrested Bonn
boy. Thursday the party arrived here,
and after a short rest the women were es-
corted to the office of the United States at
torney, where they made a clean breast OF
all OF the facts connected with the robbery
so far as they knew,
All OF the parties will be taken to Den
yer, where the three men have already been
indicted by the United States grand jury.
Late yesterday afternoon Mason was taken
before United States Commissioner Ander-
son, where he waived examination and ex-
pressed a willingness to return TO Denver.
Notwithstanding this Judge Munger will
issue an order of transfer and the accused
will be taken west by Deputy Pearsall
within a day or two.