Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-06
DESTRUCTIVE CROOKS
Two Mem Arrested For Wholesale
Thievery on Northwestern
Freight Trains.
Break Into Six Cars Between This
City and State Center and
Spoil Goods.
Company Estimates It's Loss at
Company Estimates It's Loss al
$1,5OO-The Men Confess and
Are Taken to lama.

{ Detectives Frank Mullady and Peter
Valley. of the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway Company, and Deputy Sheriff
Wildman went to State Center Thurs
day evening to secure two men sus-
pected of the wholesale robbery of
freight cars on the Northwestern line.
Their trip was Highly successful ant
they secured a confession from the two
men. While the amount of goods ac-
tually taken was only ABOUT SIS worth,
the damage caused by their work will
be about $500.
One week ago the Northwestern had
zone of its merchandise cars broken into
while 1t was in transit. The companys
detectives thought the crime was COM
mitted here, but later developments
showed that the crime was committed
at Tama. At that time new trunk
4 was stolen from the car. and all the
boxes of merchandise were broken open
and goods to the value of SIS taken.
The trunk was left at one of the board
ling camps at Quarry by two men,
| u
/ Thursday Detectives Mullady and
Valley, of the Northwestern, were in
the city. and while they were here word
| was sent to the sheriff's office that
early that morning several cars on
/ a west bound train had been broken
Iopen near this city. The sheriff's Off
GERS sent word to the marshal at State
Center to intercept the train and search
a.
the finding of two men in one of the
Gears on which the seal had been broken.
i The men We're landed in jail at State
/ Center, the sheriff's office was notified,
and in turn the matter was reported to
the Northwestern detectives, with the
result as indicated above.
Six cars had been entered and every
box of goods in the cars had been brok-
4 en- open and the goods We're piled on
i the floors and scattered all about. AT
4 ter the officers arrived at State Center
the suspects We're put in the sweat box
and finally confessed that they commit
ted the robbery OF a week ago and had
broken into the cars Thursday morn
ling. They claimed they had removed
nothing from the six cars except two
bottles of wine. They said they entered
j the cars while the train was in motion
swinging themselves to each car. The
work was done before daylight, so they
We're unobserved by the trainmen.
4 Much of the goods was spoiled an6
so badly mixed tina it was difficult t.
determine in which boxes it belonged
, and to whom consigned. The company
I officials say that if Delivers. most o
the goods would be refused. and thai
the company would be out in thu
neighborhood of $500. The detective:
concluded better case could be mad.
against the culprits than. here, ant
they took the men to Tama. where the
first cars We're broken into. The two
men under arrest had been working fol
a short time on the double track ex
tension east of this city One of the
men gave his name as Linn, but tn,
name of his companion was not learned
The cars We're taken on to Boone ant
sidetracked. but what disposition vii
be made of the goods is not known