Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-08
Chicago Detectives Arrest a
Gang Who Might Be MUIR
derers Wanted
FIGHT WITH DESPERATE MEN
Redmond Is Notorious and Danger
Gus Man-Was Hiding in Cheap Flat
But Had Barrels of Small Money to
spend-seemed to Have Great Inter
est in Car Barn Murder Mystery.

Chicago Sept. S.-James Redmond,
| known TO the police as one of the mos.
desperate outlaws in the country. is In
Ia cell at the Harrison street police
station, and strong circumstantial evil
lence is accommodating to show that ne
| took part in the murderous raid on
| the Sixty First street Office of the Chi
| cago City railway Aug. so. In another
cell is Arthur Tibbets, an ex-con-
vict.
| The two men, with two women COM
9anions, We're arrested Sunday evening
| 1t 604 Forty Seventh street Tibhats
| passed as landlord of the premises.
! Since the early morning robbery ~.
| murder the four, with two other mel
| who escaped arrest, have kept hidden Il
he upper flat of the dilapidated build
ng. Ii is on the flats back of tht
| stock yards, and in an obscure part Of
| The city. The occupants OF the lower
| Hat and a few congenial friends
| AZ eonyiets and thieves-were the only
1nes who saw the interior of the lib
oets fiat
| The crimes of Pat Grove and othe,
| .esperadoes are said to pale into i'm
signitieance beside some of the deed:
| Il which Redmond is accused. For
| My one has he been arrested. This
sas the murder OF Miss Emma Schun-
| ackel. who was coolly shot down by q
| obber in her little candy store in Kan
| ,as City on Dec. S. 1897.
| For a week past neither Redmond,
| Tibbets, nor any Of their companions
| 7ave left the fiat. a small boy was sent
| for liquor to the neighboring saloons,
| IN the days since the robbery Red
,nond is said to have spent more than
1850. One day he sat on the rear porch
| u his fiat and fingered a magazine gun
of the style with which the murders
were committed. On Tuesday ne dis
played $780, all in bills of small de
nomination. Three times each day he
sent for the newspapers and FOLLOWED
| the progress of the police in their
efforts TO capture the desperadoes.
Redmond was either mixed up il:
| the car barns robbery or in another
| Job of which we do not know" said
chief O'Nell. He proves no alibi
nor can he account for any of the sus-
| picious circumstances against him"
| The man is one of the coolest prison.
ers that have ever been subjected to the
cross examination of police officials. He
admits nothing in regard to the robbery
and persists that his name Is William
O'Neil.
His arrest, and the rounding up OF
! the gang, was the result of q sleepless
night OF work by the detectives. and
escape of the other two suspected men
| was solely because they did not return
to their den Sunday night. Detective
| Sergeant James l.. Mooney secured the
Tip" which located Redmond. and had
charge of the force or detectives that
made the arrest
Late Sunday morning an ex-convict
whom Sergeant Mooney met on State
street told him of Redmond's suspicious
actions, and told how the gang remain
| ed hidden thru the day behind drawn
curtains in their fiat. By O'clock the
! plans for the arrest had been perfected,
and the entire detective force OF the
Harrison street station had been called
| into the station.
| AS soon as it was dusk Detective
Sergeants Mooney and Duffy. with De-
tectives Kane, Collins, Sheehan and o.
Conner surrounded the house at Wright
and Forty Seventh streets. Redmond
and Tibbsts were sitting on the rear
porch.
Hello, Jim!" exclaimed Tibbets to
| Mooney, as with Detective Sheehan he
appeared at the top of the stairs. The
two men had known each other as boys.
Who's your friend?" inquired Moon
ey. referring to Redmond.
II don't know, he's" began lib
bets, as the detective sprang forward.
There was q scufiie. Redmond was
knocked senseless as he reached for a
razor, and the two men came to the
assistance of Tibbets. The woman who
passed as Tihbets' wife attempted to
brain Detective Sheehan with a long
iron spike and was caught by Detective
Mooney.
The house was searched and between
s40o and $500 in money found. The
fight had aroused the entire neighbour
hood. Detectives watched the house,
but the two men who were away We're
warned and they did not return.
In the neighborhood Tibbets and one
of the women had gone under the name
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stevens. She
is the widow of man panfed Coleman,
who committed suicide ten years ago.
The husbandsof the other woman is one
of the escaped men.