Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-19
DESERT WINFIELD
Detectives OF the Rock leland Road
Change Base OF the Opera
lions.
SUSPECTS ARE PEDDLERS
Party That Followed Clue South
From Muscatine Has Re-
turned.

Winfield, Iowa. Sept. 19.-Winfield is
deserted city. so far as the presence
of officials and others in pursuit of the
Rock Island train robbers is concern
ed. for all have left town, going to
Washington.
Two men who were arrested at
Brighton were not identified as the
men who were here Wednesday even
ing, but were taken to Muscatine as
suspects for another crime. The Hof1-
meyer bloodhounds were taken to the
stack Saturday and followed the trail
into town through fields and to Van
Dykes ice house, where it was lost 1t
is believed that the three men remain
ed here while the other two came up
town and secured provisions.
Five Men Drop Out of Sight.
The five men seem to have dropped
out of sight here and have not been
seen or any trace of them
found since the two men eft the stores
Wednesday night.
The opinion of the detectives and
people generally is that .hese We're the
parties who committed the robbery,
but they made their escape or they
are in hiding in some secure place.
The detectives and reporters left Sat
urday afternoon at $50 over the Bur
| lington for Washington.
Mr.. Hoffmeyer. with his hounds, left
for his home at Newton, Iowa, on the
Iowa Central. So from all appearances
the whole matter is closed here and
the robbers are at large.
Suspects Are PcddIers.
Winfield, Iowa, Sept. Henderson
and King. two spectacle peddlers, are
the men under arrest at Brighton as
train robber suspects, but he detec-
tives after a night with them in the
sweat box are convinced that they
have the wrong men.
The men will be held however. until
Engineer Durham is given chance to
say whether or not the right men are
in custody.
Anderson and King have been iden-
tilted as the two men seen in Winfield
shortly after the hOldup, who were de-
scribed as a tall man, a Jewish type
of face. and a companion, but they
are not necessarily the men who were
seen at the Metzgar strawstack by
BemiS.
Camping Outfit Changes Hands.
Muscatine. Iowa, Sept 19.-Several
of the party which started down the
river several days ago in a launch in
search of some clue to the train rob-
bers, arrived home Saturday night
from Burlington. In conversation with
one of the party it was learned that
they overlook the outfit which was en-
camped opposite this city for several
days previous to the robbery, and who
were supposed to know something
about the holdup. at a point near
Oquawka. The Muscatine party stat
ed that the camping outfit was the
same that was across the river. but
was in charge of a different set of men.
The men claimed to be selling cheap
jewelTy and wooden fans, the same as
they were doing when here. At
Oquawka they had purchased an extra
flatboat. paying SO for it.
Watch Developments.
The Muscatine party found at the
camp copies of each days issue of the
Muscatine papers. with the accounts
of the robbery and the movements of
the detectives, which showed that they
had been kept posted by someone. A
strange part of their movements is
that when the outfit passed Burling-
ton about O'Clock Saturday night, the
men in charge had changed again. 1t
is reported that the actions of this
party are being closely watched, and
some later developments may turn up.
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