Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-06

BURLINGTON ROAD BACK OF IT
Attorney Thomas Says Mcmillan Told
shereIiffe to Get Out Of the State as
Quick as God Would Let Him-Den-
nison Dragged That His Case Would
Never Como to Trial.
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Logan. Oct. 6.-The attempt to arr
rest Shercliffe and get him out of the
way Of the Dennison trial at Omaha
has failed by the fact that Attorney
E. r. Thomas. Of Omaha, in charge
Of the Dennison prosecution, was pres
ent to secure his release on habeas
corpus proceedings. The court re-
,, leased Shercliffe on the ground that
the Fairfield crime committed four
teen years ago was too old. under
the Iowa statutes, for trial to be be-
gun now. Shercliffs will stay at Lo-
gan under the protection OF the Har.
rison couaty officers.
Attorney Thomas. when asked who
was behind this arrest by the Fair
Burlington road are behind 1t. The
sheriff at Fairfield and the county at
torney both told me. that the BurllnS-
ton road had requested the arrest De-
cause it was this roads agent tnal
Sherciffe is supposed 10 have robbed
but | explained to them the Burning
ton roads political interest In the
Dennison case, and ! think they saw
the situation differently
..When l was at Burlington = cOntin-
ueu MI. Thomas, with Shercliffe, on
ne way from the penitentiary, McMii-s
4..n met us and drawing Shercliffe to
one side, advised him to Get out OF
the state as quick as God will let YOU,
telling Shercliffe then that we were
back of his arrest Shercliffe now
sees things rightly. Tom Dennison
said in an Omaha saloon Monday that
his case could never be brought 10
trial because this arrest by the Fair
field officers would remove The only
witness we relied upon ! am con-8
yineed that the Fairfield officers were
acting in good faith but that McMil-
Ian and the Burlington road are back
Of the arrest, in order to help Denni-
SON."
frank Shercliffe was arrested at Lo-
gan Yesterday by Sheriff Barnes OF
Jefferson county, on the indictment
returned In 1900 charging Shercliffe
with the robbery of the Lockridge de-
not. Attorney Thomas of the Oma-
ha Civic Federation, under whose pro-
lection .shercliffe has been since MS
release from the Fort Madison prison.
at once began habeas corpus proceed
| ines to secure Shercliffe's release
The jefferson county authorities no.
tilted Warden Jones, before Sner-
| cIiffe,s release. that they would be. az
the prison gate to arrest him when ne
walked out, on the Lockbridge indict-
| ment. When the time came tnero
ware not there, claiming to have loN
| the papers.
Lockbridge is located in the eastern
! nart of Jefferson county. on the Chi
caeo. Burlington & Quincy railroad.
IT was robbed March 20, 1890.
Frank shercljffe started on his life
! ne crime in Missouri, where his fans
ilv lived. HIS mother and his Step
father resided at Coinsville where No
was caught in the robbery Of the wa
hash depot at Plattsburg. Mo-. In Oc-
tober 1889.
He did time for this time in JAN.
| but. with William Clark and Charies
! Pullman, broke out. Clark never was
! heard CT again.
In the following March the station
agent at Lockbridge in Jefferson coun-
| ty was held up by two men and robbed
Of his watch and money in the depot.
! The booty was found in the lumber
ward at Ottumwa. Two officers dress
ed as hoboes loafed around the yarc
without molesting the booty until tns
| claimants appeared to get 1t. Tnes
were arrested and proved to be Sher-
cliffe and Pullman.
| Then they were indicted in Jefferson
county for this crime. The sherln
feared another escape. and took them
| TO the Mount Pleasant jail for safe
keeping.
One day. Pullman pretended to be
seized witt, fainting fit. Shercline
called loudly for water for him. The
taller hastened to procure the fluid.
| shercliffe siezed the pail as II to throw
| the water over Pullman. but, instead.
| doused the taller. He WAS so blinded
| and confused by the totally unexpected
| and ingenious assault that Sherclinc
| and Pullman had disappeared before
| ne recovered from his sputtering COM
| fusior.
Pullman was caught and taken to
| Fairfield. Shercliffe was not again
! ,7aar7 of until his arrest for the Poi-
+! ock robbery at California Junction.
h,t few days before Pullman's trial
/ se-,eone broke into the Fairfield jail
/ aud released Pullman. who was never
/ again seen-
! when Sherclirfe was paroled In 1901.
| after the service Of about ten years
| for the Pollock robbery. no effort was
| made by the Jefferson county authorf-
| ties to nnolest him on account OF ths
| old Indictment at Fairfield.
LINCOLN. Neb.. Oct 6.-Tcm Denni-
sons hearing before the supreme court
| Of Nebraska is scheduled for next SAT-
urday. October s.
| Arrangements have already been
completed to accept bail, and Dennsson
| is prepared to furnish it. II viii -.
lonire $4,000 bond to secure his ro-
lsase and he will sasiiy furnish II y