Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-02-14
lrEr TaAoEs III THE SNOW.
safe Cnnt.ia:ns r. Il it...as"ni Deilass
S,oien from. "a Truck st -
Railway station.

Sioux City. ia. Feb. n.-Prompt
and active work by the authorities at
Manila. Ia. resulted in the arrest OF
three men m1o arc accused of having
heen ~inptieas,d in the theft of d
United s atss express safe, said TO
have contained $4,000. The Chicago, |
Milwaukee & ST. Paul train. on which
the ga e wa taken from Sioux City,
arrived at Manila at SOS P. m. Sat
urdav night. The Omaha train was
late ard james SturteNant of Sioux
CITY, tie express messenger, did not
hurry in unloading the goods and
| packages from his car. The express
! safe, with other articles, was unloaded
and placed on a truck on the depot
| platform, and then Sturtevant and
the baggagemar; went to the other
end of the platform to get another
truck load.
When SturtcNaEI returned he no
ticed that the articles on the truck
were disarTaneed, and a glance
showed that the iron box was N
There was great excitement and no
time was irsr III spreading the alarm.
City Marshal Farrell hastily assem-
bled a DO sse and vigorous work was
h.eoun. Srow lay thick on the ground,
and it id not take a long time to
ind the tracks of two persons, who
evidentlr had been carrying some
heavy object directly from the truck
as it. saood on the depot platform.
They carried the safe a distance OF
about svo blocks, and then loaded it
into q, wagon, which had been left
there IN waiting. The wagon was
driver. about a mile and a half out
into the country. There the safe was
forced open and the contents alb
stracted. The men there abandoned
the safe ana went their way on
a new track. 1t was not difficult to
trace them, however, and this morn
? ING three arrests were made. The men
arrested are John Jackson, John Sto-
a vail and Charles Hayes. All are men
= VIII live at Manila, and are Wei
5 known. Their regulations heretofore
3 nave not DS0h IItd my HhOoNAJ -
test heir innocence, but the authors
ties believe the evidence against a
least. two of them will prove conciu
+ sive.
t The safe which was stolen con
I tanned in the 1eighborhood OF $4o,ooe
: Twelve thousand dollars was in cas-
and the remainder in drafts, check
= and various valuables.
- While the robbery was undoubtedi
IS deliberately planned, as the horse an
wagon were in waiting in a conVenlen
spot. it is not believed that the me
knew they were making so rich a a
d They had no means of knowing tn
l. contents of the safe only that it wa
n used for carrying ~valuables. The
" found an unusually favorable oppo1
S, tunity when Sturtevant left the sal
IS on the truck and had it not been &c
+ the t~elltale tracks in the snow, 1t
not likely the arrests would nave bee
made so promptly.
N Stovail and Hayes hay
~ oeen in the habit of hanging about tt
b. depot at train time, but that was NJ
considered significant, as it is the GU
oi tom of a number of townspeople
Manila.
nd Mrs. jackson, the wife of John jae
ed son. also was arrested, but at a pr
n liminary hearing held last evening 81
was released. The examination w
p, be continued to-day. The three pr
OF oners are in jail, having been unab
no to furnish bonds OF $4,000 each.
nj. The authorities say the shoes OF tH
* of the men exactly fit the tracks
IN, the snow at the depot where the sa
le was carried off. None of the.money
bles has been recovered.