Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-20
CAPTURE one 0F
FEARING ROBBERS
Man Who Admits to Have Been
Concerned in Central Depot
Burglary Caught
AT TAMA SATURDAY
Local Officers Work on the Case and
Tama Marshal Makes the Arrest
Prisoner Thought to Be One Z. 3.
Green-T urned Over to Story County
officers-Hutson Has Long Chase.

one of the men concerned i'll the
robbery of the Iowa Central depot d
Fearing, Story county, was captured
Saturday evening at Tama by Marsha
Toe Schaller and c. r. Gaunt, the lat
te,. of Eergu son. The trio whichare sup
posed to have done the work Weresee
at Ferguson Saturday, where they trieo
10 disposc Of some of the cutlery, q
portion Of the contents OF the trunk on
Louis Goette, of Milwaukee. sales
man in the employ of the John Prltz-
loft Hardware Company, who lost pc
tween $500 and $500 worth of samples
The sheriff's officers here have DeeI
doing a great deal to effect the cap
ture of the men, they having been cameo
in the case because of the hndlns OF
four knives that had been dropped
while the thieves were asserting thell
plumber, under the porch of a school
house south of Bromley. SATURDAY
word from C. II. Gaunt, at ferguson
to the sheriff's Office, Informed Sherill
Shoemaker that three men had been
there selling cutlery, and that he sur
missed that perhaps they were the mel
wanted. Sheriff Shoemaker and Depu-
Nv Hutson left at once overland for
Ferguson, but before they arrived the
men had gone. Sheriff Shoemaker re-
turned to the city but the deputy. ;c-
.companied by Mr.. Gaunt, continued on
the search, to investigate clue re-
ceived to the effect that the men had
been seen last one mile west of Pot
ter. headed toward Tama. Deputy Hut.
son took a Milwaukee freight train and
went to Tama, searching the vicinity
in company with Marshal Schaller and
Mr. Gaunt.
A "Find' in a Corn Field.
The searching party had good reason
to believe that the men had separated
and that one had come into Tama and
was in hiding in a corn field near the
Northwestern water tanks The field
was carefully searched. but the work
was hard, as it was fast growing dark.
While Schaller and Gaunt We're in tho
field and Hutson near the edge he saw,
200 yards away, man running out
OF the same field in which they had
been searching. cross the road AMI
enter another, evidently heading for the
timber beyond. He took after him,
and was able to track him for a dis
lance, but lost the trail in the dark
ness. He returned to the first field,
where Schaller and Gaunt were emerg-
ing with a small hand grip and an
oyercoat, which had been found in the
corn, With the appearance that the man
who had escaped them, had been US
ing the coat as bed and the grip as a
pillow. In the grip was found a kit
of burglars tools, a bottle of nitro glyc-
crime and a quantity of fuses.
AS it was no use to prosecute the
search further in the darkness Deputy
Sheriff Hutson returned to the city on
the first freight train he could secure,
and he had hardly arrived when a tele-
phone message from Marshal Schaller
informed him that he had made an ar
rest. Deputy Hutson went to Tama.
got the prisoner and brought him to
this city, where he was lodged in Jail
and turned over to Deputy Sheriff
Boyd of Story county, who took him to
Nevada.
Admits His Connection With Crime.
On the person of the man arrested
was found one of the knives that had
been stolen from Mr.. Goette's trunk,
an old razor and strop and B. of r. T.
working card bearing the name T. b.
Green. The man said that this was his
name. but the officers are inclined to
doubt him, as the description on the
card does not exactly tally. Again, the
card was two years old, and if carried
by it's rightful owner would have I'M
doubtedly been renewed. The prisoner
is man Of about 80 years, and was
fairly we'll dressed. In answer to a
question of how he got possession of
the stolen knife he said that hS met
two other men at Ferguson, and they
gave it to HIM
Hutson Has His Brush.
Deputy Sheriff Hutson thinks he has
the shaving brush that goes with the
razor and strop found on Green's per-
son. The brush was missing and when
the deputy asked him where it was he
said he had lost it. The deputy picked
UP small shaving brush near the
scene of the robbery. and when he in
formed Green that he had found it the
prisoner simply laughed, and said it
wasn't much of a find.
Green also practically admitted that
the grip found in the corn field belongs
to him. He said that the sheriff at
Tama had his grip, seeming to know
that it had been found
Find the Empty Trunk.
Saturday afternoon parties found the
\ SOW ~ x.l> n. 1nc
We're stolen 1t was lying in
the bed of small creek. quarter of
mile east of Gearing. All of the con-
tents had been removed with the eX-
ception of eleven razor strops.
Green Has Been Here.
Green Was seen here a week ago Sum
day. hanging about the streets in COM
pany with two other strangers. When
he was here the officers watched him
for an hour or more, but saw nothing
particularly suspicious in his actions at
that time. He carried the small grip,
in the opinion of Sheriff Shoemaker,
that was found in the corn field.
Mr.. Goethe and Claim Agent Marquis
Barr. OF the Central, went to Nevada
this morning to do whatever they could
in assisting Sheriff Boyd Mr.. Barr
will file the information against Green
as prosecuting witness for the COM
pany
1t fills the arteries with rich red blood.
makes new flesh, makes sick people
well. That's what Rocky Mountain Tea
does; So cents. Mcbride & Will Drug
Company.