Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-11
TREYNoR SALOON KEEPER SAID
ia HAVE ADMITTED BANK
ROBBERY.
GIRL IDENTIFIES HIM
Miss Frances Flood, Who Was In the
Bank When the Robber Entered,
Says She Recognized karrer-EvI.
dence OF Bloodhounds ls Conclusive.

Council Bluffs, Oct. 10.-Sheriff Can.
ming gave out statement last night
that Saloonkeeper Karl Karrer has
made partial confession to him of
the Treynor bank robbery. Acting on
this confession, the sheriff says that
he has recovered nearly third of the
stolen money at the Karrer home in
Treynor, where Karrer was tracked by
bloodhounds and arrested Friday
night. The officer also claims that he
will recover the remainder of the
$500 taken by the bandit.
When Karrer was interviewed in his
cell by a reporter he would neither
admit nor deny that he had made such
confession to the sheriff. He ac-
knowledged, however, that he had
placed large sum Of money in the
sheriff's hands to help reimburse the
Treynor bank for the loss. When
questioned as to why he gave up this
money If he was not implicated in the
robbery, Karrer's only reply was, 81
guess man has a right to do what
ever he wants to with his own mon
ey." Further than that. he would say
nothing of the robbery, but promised
to make statement soon.
N''S iNoL SuSHSCGCOs
The officers do not now believe that
karrer's wife had anything to do with
the robbery. She did not visit him at
the jail here, but Miss Rose olderog,
OF Treynor, spent several hours in his
cell. 1t was at the Olderog home
where Karrer is said to have remained
in hiding the night after the robbery.
No other arrests have been made in
nrf{nr, ruyitt
nor mas any formal charge been placed
against Karrer, he being held al pres.
ent on an indictment for bootlegging.
Girl Identifies Prisoner.
Miss Frances Floods identification
is more complete than at first suppos-
ed. Not only does she claim to have
recognized Karrer's voice, but when
the robber first came into the bank
and pointed the gun at her. she says
she thought it was Karrer in disguise,
trying to scare her Miss Flood de-
clares that the whiskers on the mans
face were false and that she saw the
wax which held them She also claims
to have discerned facial characteristics
that belong to Karrer, and says that
she cannot be mistaken on this point.
Half a dozen people at Quick and
Treynor are also said to have declared
that Karrer was the man with the
black mustache and goatee.
Dogs Good Work.
The evidence furnished by the
bloodhounds used in the pursuit of Fri
day night is said to be Of the most di
| rect character. They were brought
here from Beatrice Neb, by son o
| their owner. DR.. Fulton, who did no
know anything about the robbery OF
who was suspected Of it. At the farm
of Michael Fox, three and quarter
miles northwest of Treynor, the dog.
were put on the scent where the team
and buggy were abandoned presum
ably by the robber and they followed
it without deviation straight to Kar
rer's house in town. The last part O
the hunt took place in pouring rain
which would have destroyed the seen
in half an hours time.
Hounds Go to karrer Home.
At intervals along the way, Lantern
light revealed the footprints of mar
in the soft earth of the cornfielt
through which the robber took flight
On striking the road, the animals helc
the trail until 1t led them into Trey
ror. They went first to the house O.
August Olderog and from there tt
karrer's residence block away l
was learned afterward that Karre
had been in Olderog's house until Fri
Cay evening when he returned to hi.
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