Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-12
NEN EVIDENCE FOUND
Three Men Believed TO Have
Been Implicated in Rob-
son Case.
Detectives Submit Evidence That
Seems to Warrant Action
by State.
Sioux City's Great Murder Mys-
terry May Yet Be
Solved.
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'fSeyion Vas eSoneFaeea OF me 8c1i''s q
numbering John r. Robson, a new thso- |
nv has been developed.
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of evidence which incriminates a con-
Wet in the Illinois penitentiary at Joli-
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iciiaeis sMara, t'ls root silhe, WHO y
now dead. having been shot BY a Chi
cage police officer, and John Fisher, a
crook. all three of whom are Known To-
have been ii. Sioux City at the time of
the crime, ard who have been traced
almost to the door of the Robson office
VINO are known to have sat beneath the
tiestle work to which the bloodhound.
tracked the nurdererss on the day that
Robson was discovered and who are
known to have left Sioux City or an
early morning train for Omaha. Ii IS
Believed from the evidence that either
Ward or Burns struck the fatal blows
and probably Ward. who is now dead.
Mike Ward and Thomas I3urrss. or
Jordan as he is known in Chicago. are
crooks who have been in jails and PEN
Sitentiafies repeatedly, and are known
by the police of nearly every City in the
country. When they We're here their
regulations ere not known and they
were released from custody with in-8
Hstructions TO get cut OF town. being
charged With tramp vagrancy on gen
8eral principles.
John >. Thatcher manager of the.
fdawkeye Detective Agency in this city
Recently presented 70 County Attorney
Whitney all the evidence he has secured
in months of persistent and careful
york. Mr. Thatcher repeated his story
OF the evidence there Is against Burns,
Ward and Fisher as follows
When John Conway and Robert
Raymond We're arrested for the hold -up
OF the Horseshoe restaurant on Fourth
street II was found that they roomed
oyer Charley McCiuire's saloon on Leach
street With three OIL her men. who We're
found 70 be Thomas Burns, John Fisher
and Mike Ward. There seemed 10 be
30 reason for holding them except on
the general charge of tramp vagrancy.
Two days before the murder Burns and
Ward We're ordered out of town. They
did not go at once The case against
Fisher was not easily dismissed, for a
tracking, house man told the police that
he was a bad man, one of the worst.
A pearl handled revolver which was
found in the gang room was his.
\ Burns and Ward We're asked to appear
1 on Dec. 80 assavitnesses in Fishers case.
While Raymond and Conway We're
lin the county jail, awaiting a hearing
for the restaurant robbery, they We're
overheard by a man now in the Anarno-
$50 state prison 10 say: / wonder why
ithey don't crack Robsonss safe Ii
seems that tfe safe was on the list
(which the gang had prepared I learned
THAT it was 1t is queer tnaf they
Thought of trying il, for the safe was
Kept unlocked and placarded This safe
lis unlocked.
When the gang came here and began
operations they had mapped out quite
a campaign. They carried cut the brew
lery job to some extent and turned a
trick at the Horseshoe restaurant and
got into trouble by it. On that night
THAT the Robson assault that proved
fatal. took place, they left Charlie Me
Cures place at about 6 O'clock in the
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