The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
Il MOB1NOT HOLD.UP MENEB
Montana sleuths Insisted That Min
neapolis Hunters Had Robbed
a Train.
Now the Brothers Jackson Have
Brought Suit for False
Arrest.

Because they We're arrested on the
charge of being train robbers Arthur
and Dwight e. Jackson of Minneapolis
have brought suit against the North
;ern, Pacific road, The case is due to
be called in Judge Elliott's courtroom
tomorrow.
The Jackson boys spent the sum
mer of 1902 encamped on Lake Pend
5d'Oreille in KOotenai county, Idaho,
where hunting and hshingare good. On
the night of Aug. rs Northern Pa
cifc passenger train was held up near
Sand Point and about half mile
from their camp.
The Northern Pacific engaged for
the case detective named C. M. Della
meter, who promptly arrested the two
Minneapolis youths on suspicion Of
being members of the band of three
which did the holdup work.
Delameter proposed to make his
case largely upon the alleged similar
ity existing between some empty shot
gun shells found near the scene of
the holdup and the shells in use by
the young hunters.
At the time of the holdup, 10
o'clock, Arthur Jackson was in the
hotel at Sand Point, where he spent
the night, and his brother was in the
cabin owned by George Jones, a
rancher upon whose land the boys
tective arrested the suspects that
night, one in town and the other in
the cabin, and kept them under SUR
veillance in the cabin for several
hours. The young men would have
been Jailed had the detective received
the sympathetic support of Town
Marshal Harry Sawyer or Deputy
Sheriff B. F. Bourn of Sand Point, but
neither of these officers would be per-
sonally responsible for the appearance
| of the suspects.
At the time Of the holdup two boys
Louis Foster and James Lee were
stealing a ride In the locomotive ten
der and saw two of the robbers come
over the coal after the engineer ant
the detective offered them money i
they would identify the hunters al
/ the men who came over the tender
They refused this alleged offer.
The supposed similarity in the she'll
found near the scene of the holdul
and in the hunters tent existed in tn
fact that they all showed a. tendenc.
on the part of the "plugger" of tn
gun to hit on the side of the cap.
+ The detectives case was not re
garded as strong enough to hold tn
Minneapolis boys on, and they Wer
Ireleased the next day.
They are not satisfied with this, how
II ever. -1NC1IlCIs &WsOu1u4 IllSy dCCCpI III
!. offer of the railroad to settle the cas-
for 500, and they have spent thi
summer in the same region gather
ing testimony for the case, which
set for tomorrow.
Many of the witnesses in the cas-
are now in Minneapolis, and fror
those who are not here deposition
have been secured. Some Of the wit
! nesses have been called, or will b
called by both sides. The case is mad
the more interesting because tn
plaintiff will attempt to prove tha
while he was under arrest Jack
Newton, son Of Claim Agent Newto
of the Northern Pacific, broke int
their tent I'M HsearcliNof evidence.
: This is equivalent ITO Burglary and
,, looked upon rather seriously in tn
l west.
'We might have looked upon tn
whole matter as a. joke" said Arthu
Jackson this morning. But tn
) odium of such a thing hangs on to
: long and we would rather have tn
= courts say something about it,
Both young men finished at tn
l ! Douglas school and went to Centr'
e. shigh: They are officers In the AZ
Y vance Manufacturing company, an
5 sons of Elbridge D. Jackson, an a
torney, with whom they live at FL
, Aldrich avenue s..