Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-04
Men Who Stole the Fay Dia-
monds at Clinton Run to
Earth
LYONS PRISONER coNFEssEs
Thru Efforts of the Clinton and Council
Bluffs Police One of the Worst Gang
of Thieves In the County May be
Brought to Justice-other Iowa
News.
Special to Times Republican.

SpeClal 10
Clinton, May 4.-By the confession OF
George h. Burrier. who is under arres;
here for completely in the big diamond
robbery last November, when C. A. Fay.
of the Advertiser. was robbed of $1,000
worth of gems, it is probable one of the
worst gangs of thieves will be broken
up. The result will be due largely to
the clever work of the police of this
city and Council Bluffs. Already three
men are in Jail and the officers are hot
on the trail of others. l.. E. Fay, broth
err Of c.. A. Fay, has been in Omaha for
several days working on the case and
is now In Des Moines looking into some
matters connected with the case there.
Rurrier, who was arrested for the rob-
berry of three houses in Lyons, made i
full confession of the Lyons job and
made several illusions which led the
officers to believe that ne knew some
thing about the Fay diamond burglary.
After a severe cross-questioning he
finally confessed that he knew who did
the job, and finally said that he got
part of the swag when the dizzy was
made. He said hat w. c. Rodgers. who
is known as the Omaha Kid" alias
Parsons, and who is now under ar
rest at Council Bluffs on charge of u
der, of a saloon keeper named Forney
a few weeks ago.. was the man who
did the Fay job. He refused to change
his statement in the least. The confess
sion was made on the 2Sth of April.
In connection with the deal Burrier
implicated Daniel Murphy, who has
been working for several years as a de-
livery clerk in his brothers grocery IN
Clinton. Murphy is accused OF piping
off the deals which nave been pulled off
in Clinton In recent years. Murphy,
in delivering groceries. 1t is claimed.
was enabled to get the lay of the land
at many of the good residences in Clin-
ton and when he had a job on hand
would furnish the gang with a map OF
the premises, with details of informa-
ton by mail. Then the gang would
show up in Clinton and in a day or two
would pull off the job. Murphy was
arrested by Clinton officers last Thurs
day and was released on a bond of ST.
500 furnished by his brother John. Tha
Clinton officers say that they AVE sur
icient evidence to convice Murphy even
without the Burrier confession. Ihey
are able to prove that he has broughe
the crooks to Clinton and harbored
in his ROOM, and have ipdispua-
able evidence that he harbored the gang
which worked the Fay diamond ROB
berry. Burrier, who comes OF a good
family OF Pennington, Iowa, has been
an acquaintance of Murphy's since his
boyhood days. He has served time In
three different penitentiaries. He. was
in Murphy's room for the Ly-
lob, and his and other evidence
make things look exceedingly black
for Murphy.
Fay has dug up some information
which will put some prominent people
of Des Moines and Omaha in a pa
position if they ever com to light. He
says that at Omaha he was refused the
assistance by the chief of police, who
him to drop the matter. MT
Fay had found out that his brothers
were in Omaha, and he says
Tom Denison, the notorious gam
bier and political crook knows where
they are. He says that he found lndls-
putable evidence that Denlson controls
the actions of the chief of police, n
that without Denison's sanction, the
chief will do nothing. He says that
every diamond thief whom he has In
tervicwed in the different prisons has
told him to go to Denison. as he woul
tell him where the stones were. In
working up The diamond case he drop
ped onto some evidence regarding the
pardon of a certain we'll known crook
q year or two ago, which Will make
some very interesting reading II 1t
should happen to get into print.