Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-28
Officers at Davenport Picking
Up Various Clews to Train
Robbers
FINDING OF THE STOLEN RIG
Some Conclusions Arrived at as to the
Direction the Hold Up Men Took
After Abandoning the Team in the
Big Woods Near the Nieble Home
Seen at Leciaire.
Special to Times-RepublIcan.


Davenport, Nov. 2S.-Sheriff Near
thur is still out on the trail of the train
robbers and has not been heard from
since yesterday. Some of the detec-
| tives are working on clues in the city
and have been busy prying around and
asking wise questions. Others are
scattered about turnout the country.
No new clues have been discovered
altho many farmers and others in out
Lying towns claim to have seen the
men before the robbery
1t is now proven beyond doubt
that the robbers drove the team into
the woods, where it was found the
morning after the hold up occurred.
In order to get in the woods where
the team was found the team and
wagon had to pass thru the yard Of
John Nebbel, the man from whom the
boat was stolen.
Saturday morning, few minutes be-
fore O'clock, Nebbel says he heard
wagon drive thru the yard and
heard the men talking as they went
by the house. A short distance be-
yond the barn is gate and here the
robbers stopped and opened this before
they could pass into the pasture. They
then drove down lane that extends
quarter of a mile or more into the
woods. After this they followed
winding track between the trees AMI
the place where the rig was located
was about three-quarters of mile
from the home of Mr.. Nebbel. The
tracks where the wagon went were no
ticed by the family the next morning
and We're not more than two rods from
the corner OF the house, where some
OF the family were sleeping.
Ed Butherow, section man on the
b., C. r. & N, first saw the team Sat-
urday morning, but he had not heard
of the robbery and that it was
trappers. He reported the discovery
to the station agent and he in turn
informed the detectives.
From the Indications Of the groun1
|around the wagon and the manner in
which the halters were left it would
Indicate that the bandits first unhar-
messed the horses and tied them
ito the wagon with the idea of using
them again after they had rested. At
ter this, however, they must have
changed their minds and turned them
loose. The two halters We're found
tied to the rear end of the rig and a
quantity of hay had been placed there
but the ground, around the wagon,
which was of sandy nature plainly
indicated that the horses had not
turned loose.
The report that another rig was
stolen has turned out to be untrue as
the horse and buggy in question has
been located. 1t seems that this was
left some place by it's owner, which
started the rumor that it had been
taken.
The jewelry, which was reported
found, has been again verified by the
detectives, however, and plainly indi-
Gates that the robbers passed a short
distance from Big Rock.
Frank Kitchen, who resides In lie
Claire, says that he saw the bandits
in that town the day before the hold
up occurred and he can describe them
to q "T. Z" He says there were five
men there all wearing long black coats
and they were men who would attract
ones attention at once, as they were
Jail stern determined looking men, who
looked as If they were capable of any
thing. He says that the reason he
noticed them so particularly was that
he thought they were in the town for
no good cause and suspicioned at the
time that they might be there to rob
Some Stora