Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-27
POLICE WERE CORRECT
Chicago Officers Solution of
Alleged Robbery of Alonzo
Bristow, Verified
eRlsToW BROTHERS IN PLOT
But the $4,000 Is Now in the Hands of
w. E. crum, the Bedford Banker, to
Whom AIonzo Bristow Owed IT
Threatened Young Ray Richards and
His Father, Who Caused Arrest.
Special to Times-Repubiican.

| Special to Republican.
Chicago. May 27.--With the arrest
yesterday at st. Joseph, Mo-, of Charles
Bristow of Bedford, Iowa the mystery
connected with the disappearance OF
the $4,000 Of which Bristow's brother
Alonzo claimed to have been robbed in
Chicago has been cleared up. The SILL
600, which 1t seems. was turned over to
Ray Richards Of ST. Joseph by Aionzo
Bristow, is now in the hands of w. f.
Crum. the Bedford banker to whom the
stockman owed 1t.
Charles Brjstow was arrested on
charges preferred by Richards and the
young mans father. They claim that
Bristow, learning that the money of
which his brother had claimed he had
been robbed was in their possession,
had demanded it of them. When they
refused to give ii to him Bristow is
said to have drawn a revolver and
threatened to shoot them unless they
complied with his request.
Bristow did not carry out his threats
and they had no effect upon young
Richards and his father. The elder
man turned the $1,000 over to law
yer and then had Bristow arrested.
The lawyer to whom the money was
intrusted sent for Crum, the banker,
and turned 1t over to him. The banker
expressed himself as satisfied and will
not prosecute the Bristows, who are to
be released.
The arrest of Charles Bristow and
the discovery Of the $1,000 bears out
the theory advanced by the Chicago
police when Alonzo Bristow claimed to
have been robbed.
Alonzo Bristow had brought batch
of horses to Chicago from Bedford,
Iowa. and had sold them at the stock
yards for $1,000. This money he had
placed in a satchel, he said, intending
to carry it back to Bedford and pay it
over to Banker Crum. who held mort
gage on his farm.
Bristow claimed he missed his train
and went to the City hotel Sixteenth
and State streets, where he sat down
In the lobby to wait until the next,
train for Bedford left. While sitting in
the lobby he claimed he had fallen
asleep and thief had cut open his
satchel and taken the money.
Bristow produced the satchel to sub
stantiate his story. The police examin-
ed the satchel and came to the conclu-
sion that 1t had been cut open from the
inside. They Immediately claimed
that Bristow had cut the 'satchel him
self and then concocted the story that
he had been robbed, in order to de-
fraud Crum, whom he hoped to infiu-
ence by the story to extend the mort
gage and enable him to use the $1,000
in the meantime.
They arrested Bristow and sent for
Crum, who came to the city and saw
his townsman. After conference
with him, however, he refused to pros
ecute him and the banker and the cat
tleman left together for Bedford, APP
parently on the best of terms.
The $1,000 was not found by the To-
cal police, and they were unable to give
the banker any clew as to where 1t had
gone They insisted, however, that
Bristow knew where it was and that he
had not been robbed.
The story told by the two Richards
the turning over OF the
money by Bristow to Ray Richards
clears up the mystery of the disappear
ance of the bills and also serves to con-
firm the Chicago policies theory.