The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-11
STRONG BOX CONTAINING $4,000
DISAPPEARS FROM A DEPOT
PLATFORM IN IOWA
WAS MISSED VERY QUICKLY
TRACKS IN THE SNOW INDICATED
THE DIRECTION IN WHICH
1T WAS TAKEN
THREE MEN ARE ROUNDED UP
Suspicion Points Strongly to Them.
but No Trace of the
Safes Contents Is
Found.

oioUA CITY, To-, Feb. 1O-Prompt and
active work by the authorities at Ma
ma, 1o.I today resulted in the arrast oP
three men who are suspected of bavint-
neen Implicated in the theft of a United
states express safe, said to have con-
The Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. PsuI
train, on which the safe was taken from
Sioux City, arrived at Manila at sos
p m. Saturday night. The Omaha train
was late and James Surtevaat. of
sioux City, the express messeng r. d;d
not hurry unloading the goods AMI
packages from his car. The express
sa1e' with other articles, was unIoadei
and placed on truck on the deDot nIat-
form, and then Sturtevant and the bag
gageman went to the other end of the
pattern to get another truckload. When
SLurteVant returned he noticed that the
articles on the truck were disarranged
ana glance showed that the iron box
was gone.
There was great excitement and no
tline @ was lost In spreading the alarm.
CITY Marshal Ferrell hastily assembled
a posse and vigorous work was begun.
Snow lay thick upon the ground. and it
dld not take long to discover the tracks
OF Two persons who evidently had been
carrying some heavy object directly from
the truck, as it stood upon the depot
platform.
They carried the safe a distance OF
about two blocks and en- loaded it into
a wagon, which had been left there In
waiting. The wagon was driven about
mile and a half out into the country
and there the safe was forced open and
the contents were distracted. The men
there abandoned the safe and went their
way on a new track.
EASILY TRACED.
1t was not difficult to trace them, how
ever, and this morning three arrests
were made. Their names are John Jack
sen, John Stovall and Charles H4yes.
All are men who live at Manila and are
we'll known Their regulations here o.
fore have not been bad. They stoutIy
protest their innocence, but the authori-
ties believe the evidence against at
feast two Of them will prove concIn-
siYe.
The safe which was stolen contained
i'll the neighborhood of $4,000. Twelve
thousand dollars was in cash and the
remainder in drafts, checks and various
valuabIes.
While the robbery undoubtedly was de-
Eherately planned. as the horse and
wagon were in waiting at convenient
spot, 1T is not believed that the men
knew they were making so rich a haul.
They had no means of knowing the con-
tents of the safe, only that it was used
for carrying valuables. They found an
unusually favorable opportunity when
Sturtevant left the safe on the truck.
and had it not been for the tell ale
tracks in the snow it is not likely that
the arrests would have been made so
promptly.
Jackson, StovaI and Hayes have been
in the habit of hanging about the depot
a train time but that was not considered
significant, as it is the custom of a
number of townspeople at Manila.
Mrs. Jackson, wife of John Jackson,
was also arrested, but at a preliminary
hearing held this evening she was re-
leased. The examination will be con-
tinued tomorrow. The three prisoners
are in Jail, having been unable to fur
nish bonds of $4,000 each.
The authorities say the Shoes of two
of the men exactly fit the tracks in the
SHOW at the depot where the safe was
carried.