Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-28
ROSE is IDENTIFIED
Davenport Men Able to Identify Him
AS One of the Men Who Bought
Whisky at Saloon, the Bottle Being
Wrapped in Paper Found After Hold
up.
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Davenport, Oct. 27.-Herman Winck-
Ter and John Barofslxy, the two men
who went to ST. Louis Tuesday night
to Identify the dead train robbers who
were killed in the Pine street revolver
fight, as the men who were In this
city the night of September IL and
purchased four bottles OF whisky III
the Schroeder saloon at 321 West Sec
ond street, returned from the worlds
fair city this morning.
They identified AL Rose as the man
who purchased the WHISKY the night
before the Let's robbery and thereby
succeeded In establishing the fact that
the st. Louis gang was the one which
carried out the famous Whisky Hol-
low holdup Of train No. IL on the Rock
Island.
Rose was killed in the pistol fight IN
the Pine street house at st. Louis FRI
day afternoon, but the Davenport men
were shown his body and recognized
him at once as the man they had seen
in the Schroeder saloon the night OF
September IL.
The manner in which this identifica-
ton was made possible was the result
Of train of facts, the following up OF
which would have done credit to Sher-
lock Holmes. The night Of the rob
berry lone man entered the saloon OF
Henry Schroeder and purchased -four
bottles of whisky which he wrapped
up in a German newspaper, he had
procured from the barkeeper. This
paper bore the name and address OF
Henry Schroeder and the fragment
bearing the address was found after
the robbery in the cab of the engine
which the robbers had cut Off from the
train and used in their escape.
Winckler and Barofsky were both In
the saloon at the time the man pur-
chased the whisky and lit needed only
their identification Of the man to prove
that Morris confession had been
straight, and that the st. Louis gang
really did commit the Whisky Hollow
holdup. Barofsky and Winckler were
sent to st. Louis by the detectives
working on the case and will make
another trip to st. Louis in the near
future to give further evidence In the
case.
Was Davenport Woman.
A number of Davenport people who
have seen the pictures Of the woman
who claims to be the wife of Rose,
the dead robber, say that she is no
other than a woman who was in Dav-
EXPORT about a year ago and became
notorious thru number OF es-
capades in which she was mixed up.
The woman went by the name of
Babe" Armstrong and Babe" Rose
and she was associated with a man
named Dug" Evans. About a year
ago the pair was arrested at Washing
ton, Iowa, on the charge of stealing
COW. The manner in which the theft
was carried out was so peculiar as to
attract the attention of the press
turnout the country.
The woman was said to have been
bathing in the creek and Evans made
way with the cow while the boys set
to watch the bovine were peeping
surreptiously at the woman engaged in
taking BATH The Rose woman also
got herself into trouble by driving out
of the state with a team of horses on
which she had given q chattel mort
gage and only escaped criminal pros
ecution by the narrowest margin.