The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-08
HE DODGED The MOB NOT HOID.UP Mem
Montana Sleuths Insisted That Min
neapolis Hunters Had Robbed
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
d'Oreille in Kootenai county, Idaho,
where hunting and fshingare good. On
the night of Aug. rs a Northern Pa
cific passenger train was held up near
Sand Point and about half a. mile
from their camp.
The Northern Pacific engaged for
the case detective named G. NJ. Dela-
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, q
rancher upon whose land the boys
were encamped. The enterprising de-
/ tective arrested the suspects that
night, one in town and the other in
the cabin, and kept them under sur.
VIGILANCE in the cabin for seYera
hours. The young men would have
/ been Jailed had the detective received
the sympathetic support of ToWr
) Marshal Harry Sawyer or Deputy
Sheriff B. F. Bourn of Sand Point, bu
l 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 wer'
stealing ride in the locomotive ten
der and saw two of the robbers com
over the coal after the engineer an
fremen. They afterward stated tina
the detective offered them money
they would identify the hunters
the men who came over the tender
They refused this alleged offer.
The supposed similarity in the shell
= found near the scene Of the holdu
! and in the hunters tent existed in tn
: fact that they all showed a. tendenc
: on the part of the "plugger" of tn
K gun to hit on the side Of the cap.
e The detectives case was not re
f garded as strong enough to hold til
e Minneapolis boys on, and they WEI
: released the next, day.
= They are not satisfied with this, how
: ever. Neither would they accept II
: offer of the railroad to settle the Cas-
5, for 500, and they have. spent tn
Is summer in the same region gathe
3. ing testimony for the case, which
l. set for tomorrow.
= Many of the witnesses in the ca
e are now in Minneapolis, and fro
n those who are not here deposition
re. have been secured. Some of the wi
IL nesses have been called, or will
le called by both sides. The case is mat
lie the more interesting because Il
IN plaintiff will attempt to prove tn
= while he was under arrest Jacl
ID Newton, son of Claim Agent Newtt
8 Of the Northern Pacific, broke in
e their tent I'm asearclissef evidence
t. This is equiVa1entfto burglary and.
a. looked upon rather seriously lin II
~ west. .
te s'We might have looked upon t
a whole matter as af joke, said Arth
in Jackson this morning. But T
is odium of such a thing hangs on t
s. long and we would rather have t
he courts say something about it.
=, Both young men finished at t
III Douglas school and went to Cent?
be- ahigh. They are officers In the A
oy vance Manufacturing company, a
MS sons of Elbridge D. Jackson, an
or torney, with whom they live at Il
~ Aldrich avenue s.