Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09
SUSPECT ARRESTED
j. c. HESTER OF MouLToN TAKEN
IN CUSTODY YESTERDAY
IN oTTUMWA.
Former Wabash Brakeman Who An.
sWers Description Volunteers to Go
With chiIIicothe, Mo-, Officers In
Order to Clear Himself of Charge.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Suspected of holding up the Miiwau.
llee station at Chillicothe, Mo-, and OF
shooting Roy Sherman, the night ope-
rator, j. G. Hester, of Moulton, FOR
mer Wabash brakeman. was yesterday
afternoon arrested in this city by Otn-
Ger Clarence Sutton. Hester, who de-
clares his innocence and against whom
the evidence seems very slight, was
taken to Chillicothe voluntarily on his
own part this morning, by Special
Agent Frank Romano, of the Mllwau-
kee road, and Maurice Dorney, chief OF
police, at Chillicothe.
Hester, when seen at the city Jail
where he was confined after his ar
rest, stated that he had arrived in OF
tumwa on Burlington No. IL Thursday
morning at 2:10 o'clock. According
to his account of himself he has been
employed regularly as a brakeman on
the Wabash until last April when he
resigned. Since then he has worked
on two or three other roads. He is
member in good standing of Stausber-
ry, Mo-, lodge Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen No. 562, and carries his card
with him, along with two or three let
where he has been employed.
Well Acquainted In ChilIicothe.
Hester claims to be we'll acquainted
in Chillicothe and says that he was ir
Chillicothe and stopped at the Phillips
house about July 26 or 81 from which
place he went to Omaha,
A Daring Hold Up.
The hold up for which Hester is sus-
pected was committed about $40
o'clock Tuesday morning, August 2,
and was daring piece of work The
| Milwaukee ticket Office fronts on a
1 Main street and on either side of 1t
there is an all night restaurant Roy
Sherman, at the time Of the hold up
was sitting on a table with his back
against a window frame. His elbow
was resting on the window sash and
he was doing while he rested his
head on his hand. He was facing the
door. The first Sherman knew in the
matter hand was laid on his should
er, he was shaken and told "to hold W
his hands,"
! Sherman opened his eyes, saw a
masked man and before he had time tc
!, say anything or make move the re
which was held within foot of his
face was discharged. The ball strucl
the right cheek about one inch ou
from the end of the nose, ploughet
along the cheek bone and cut off thu
lobe of the right ear He was ordered
to open the cash drawer and he los
no time in complying with the de
mand The robber hastily took on
10 Will, 1,je, loft -,
while covering the wounded operate
the cash he backed out the door ant
} disappeared
But Little Trace.
, Since backing out of the door no del
! mite trace of the bandit has beef
found. In an empty Milwaukee DO.
car in the yards the mask worn b.
the man was found as we'll as heav.
overcoat which he wore with the col
: lar turned up. 1t has been discovere,
: that the piece of goods used for tn
I mask was torn from baby's dress a
: the Phillips hotel and that the over
/ coat was taken from the same place
. Sherman describes the man as be
f ing light complexioned, about 30 year
i of age, about five feet six inches hig
f and about 155 pounds in weight Hes
/ ter is light complexioned, about fiv
h feet high and weighs ITO pounds. H
4 carried no gun at the time of his al
J. rest.
Chief of Police Dorney and Specis
Agent Romano arrived in the city las
: night and this morning were closete
/. for an hour with Hester. At the clos
! OF the conference it was stated thu
Hester had volunteered to go back I
Chillicothe with the officers in orde
! to prove that he was not the part
I. wanted. The offer was accepted an
:. the party left for that city on the Mi
s. Waukee at 1917 o'clock