Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-14
CAR MEN IDENTIFY A PAIR
Conductor and NOtOrman Held Up Sure Of
Suspects Arrested.
pIwO OF FIVE BOY BANDITS CAUGHT
barney Dornn aud Joe Trattner
Are in the rolls on the
Charge of Holding Up
street Car.

Barney Doran Of S3T7 South Seventeenth
street and Joe Trattner of 12gs South
Twelfth street; two OF the five boy
bandits" arrested in Omaha last fall on
I~cHe evening when an alleged plot to blow
Aup the Harney street car barn was 70 have
SSeen executed, have been arrested 10y De-
tectives Mitchell and Davis and are booked
at the city jail suspicious characters
Thursday morning Conductor William
Mathigon and Motorman Edward Leitch
u the Council Bluffs line called at the
police station and identified Doran and
Trattner as the two highwaynen who held
up the two ours near the Omaha Gun club
grounds on the evening Of July q The
street car men are positive In their identi-
ncation. Immediately after the identifica-
tion Sheriff Canning of Pottawattamie
county took the prisoners to Council Bluffs
The young men agreed to go without
requisition papers
About $50 and two watches we're taken
from the street car men. A reward of $500
was offered for the arrest and conviction
Of the robbers.
Doran was arrested In Rivervlew park,
the scene Of many OF the holdyps COM
mittcd last year and for which the boy
bandits made confession. In Dorans room
detectives found y black mask with eye
holes, such as Is used by burglars and
highway men.
Since their arrest last fall Doran and
Trattner have been out on bonds, pending
their trials IN the district court. They were
both bound over from the police court on
a number of robbery charges. Their former
companions, Harry Madison and Roy Case,
are also out on bonds These four young
men, with sloppy" Smith. who was dis
charged for want OF evidence, make up
series OF depredations.
Charged with Robbery.
An information charging Doran and Trait
ner with robbery was filed last evening by
Deputy Sheriff woolman In the court of
Justice Field, but the time for holding
the preliminary hearing of the two mon
has not been set. In the information II is
; charged that Doran and Trattner held ur
and robbed w. A. Matheson, the motor
n conductor OF 1870 consisting of two 81
gold pieces, one IS bill, one silver dollar and
S2120 in small change.
What evidence the authorities have tc
connect the two men under arrest with
the motor holdup Is not being given out
at present by Sheriff Canning or his dep
uties. 1t is known that the woman whom
young Doran married In this city June 1.
has been doing some talking, but Deputy
u
she had given him any information which
led to the arrest Of the two men. The
story that Mrs. Doran had come to him
Monday with a story that her husband
had told her that he and Trattner had
held up the two motor cars and had giver
her portion of the stolen money, Deputy
Woolman said was wholly without founda.
tion
Mrs. Dorap called at Sheriff Canning:
once yesterday afternoon and asked per.
mission to see and talk with her husband
In the county Jail This permission wa;
granted conditional on Jailer Gallup beine
present during the interview. To Sherin
Canning Mrs Doran insisted that her hus
band was innocent of the holdup of the
motor cars "TIe had nothing more to dc
with 1t than a new born baby, and l car
prove 1t. l can and will prove an alb
for him. she said.
Young Doran came to this city June II
and was issued a marriage license to MARI!
Flora B. Smith, whose residence at tn,
time was given by Doran as Brennanshlre
Scotland. on June u they were married
by Justice Field at his Office, the woman
giving her age as 81 and the young man Al
p. To Justice Field the woman gave heI
residence as Omaha.
Drops Significant Remark.
Last Tuesday Mrs Doran called at tn,
Office of the clerk OF the district court anC
TO Deputy Clerk Hardesty she said tina
young Doran's mother was giving he
trouble, as she had threatened TO taxi
..Nteps TO have the marriage annulled OF
be grounds that her son was not quit,
y years of age and she was opposed Z