The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-09
WHAT BECAME OF
DARE'S FRIEND?
Companion Of Man Shot by Thugs
on Freight Car Last Night
is Missing.
May Have Been Murdered Also
stowaways Tell How Train
Was Held Up.

What has become Of the young man
who was with Leonard G. Dare, who
was killed on top of a freight car
near North Town Junction last night?
This is question Coroner u. G.
Williams and the police are trying to
answer. From the tales of men who
were on the train from North Dakota
and who saw Dare at various times,
they have learned that a friend was
travelling with the young man and
before the hold-up. since then Anothing
has been seen of Dare's friend. AS
several shots We're fired, while only
one took effect on Dare's body, the
officers fear that his partner was
killed and that he rolled from the
roof of the car to the ground. A
search Is being made for the body.
George Bennett Of Chicago came to
police headquarters this morning and
said that he had been held up by the
men who killed Dare and that he lost
Sc. He was riding on the train and
saw five men board the train at Elk
River. They rode on top Of the cars
went to the car In which Bennett was
riding, and, pointing a revolver thru
the ice hole in the top of the car,
commanded him to climb to the roof.
He lost no time in complying, and
while one Of the men kept him COW
cred, another went thru his pockets.
The other three stood by and Tested.
The robbers then ordered him to
climb back into the car, while another
stowaway was brought out and
robbed. ". @~< #sy s
Married Man Gets OF Easy.
In this way they worked" the car.
Then, after warning the men to keep
inside, they went to the next car.
where they found Edward Mcfarland
Of Tucson, Ariz., and G. G. Burcham
to the roof and robbed. Burcham
lost 80 cents and a gold watch:
How does it happen that you are
coming from Dakota and yet have
only 90 cents?" asked one Of the men.
We'll. I sent the money home to my
wife and children" replied the victim.
7 have the receipts in my pocket, as
we'll as the picture Of my children"
| IF he is a married man." put In a
second bandit, give him back his
money" and the valuables were
handed back. s.s.5 &sgES.3@. t,i.s.:>..
While one Of the bandits was hold
ing a gun at McFarIand's head, his
mask slipped off and revealed boyish
face, evidently that of a man not more
than 20 years old. Mcfarland
smiled.
What are you laughing at?" asked
the robber. -. Mi. = !. j
"You ought to have fixed that be.
fore you came up" said Mcfarland. /
| You shut your mouth and get back
down in that car, Or I'll blow the tor
of your head off, said the robber, CIV.
ing his revolver flourish. =.
Here is cents that you missed
said Mcfarland as he turned to clint
down into the car. THAT makes 81
cents in ALL
| Mol or1o
back, while the robbers proceeded tt
the next car, son which Dare and l1is
4 partner were riding. They were gone
but minute or two when shouts anl
several pistol shots were heard. A
little later the five men dropped from
the moving train, which after goine
two miles further, stopped at NORTH
Town Junction. - \. =: ~. =
Dare Found Dying on Roof of Car
At North Town Junction a brake.
man went to investigate and found g
man lying face downward on top o.
the car. He was still alive and thu
car was set out, while switch engine
| was sent to the scene and the police
notified. The car was brought to thu
city, where it was met by the NORTH
Side patrol wagon and the man wa.
hurried to the city hospital.
At the hospital it was found tina
the man had been shot, the bulle
taking effect between the eyes, Will,
his skull was fractured by, heav,
blow. The surgeons saw they coull
do nothing for him and, shortly afte,
midnight, he died. -. Z ..-@
A search thru his effects showed
that he was Leonard G. Dare of Walk
erton, Ind, and that he had quit worl
on the South Cooper ranch near Coo
perton, N. D., Sept 20, and was evi
IDENTIFY on his way home. HI
had 95 cents in cash on his person
and gold watch which had the nam
George H. Filing engraved in tn
case. The watch also contained TIN
photograph of a young woman and OF
the back Of this was written, Bridge
Maloney." A memorandum book, ii
which was kept the time he worke,
on. the ranch, showed that when h
quit work, Sept. 20, he must have ha,
$40 due him. None of this none
was found, altho a draft on New Yorl
for $65 and an express receipt for
bundle of clothing, was found in hi
pocketbook. rae
From papers found in the dea.
mans pockets it was learned that h
passed thru this city on his way t
Dakota late in July and on July 8
secured employment thru local EN-