Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-23
LAST OF ELDON GANG
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900 in cold cash. With their spolls
the four. including Dodd, drove back
to Ottumwa and went Immediately to
the home of Dodd, located on Finley
avenue, between Ward and Willard
streets. In the cellar' they were safe
from detection. Dod6'S wife being out
of town and no one in the neighbour
hood being aware of their existence
until months afterward when the con-
fession of Stevens and Dodd was made
public There they divided the money
and there they remained hidden until
the night of Febrla 2, when the
three Chicogans de parted for their
homes.
Stevens Confesses.
Pinkertons were put on the case and
they suspected the marshal. He was
arrested and brought to OttumWa, but
refused to admit that he knew any
thing of the robbery. Finally, after
several weeks imprisonment, he was
induced to make a confession to n. +.
Adler. NOW publisher of the Davenport
Times and then u reporter on the
Courier. This confe ssion sent Stevens
to the penitentiary and indirectly re-
suited in the arrest of the other men
accused of completely in the crime he
planned
Dodd Turns State Evidence.
Dodd was arrested soon afterward
and agreed to turn states evidence and
make a clean breas. of the whole af-
fair if he would be allowed to go free.
The indictments were returned by the
Wapello county g'and jury May 10,
1897, against Doo1, Richie. Durkin,
Stevens. Hamilton, Murray and a man
named d. Cameron 1t was after
wards shown that Cameron was drop
ped by the gang before the robbery
took place and althe he is said to have
been connected with the plan at first he
WAS rot concerned in the actual rob-
berry.
Murray Is Caught.
Buck" Murray was the first of the
Chicagoans to fall into the net spread
all over the country by the Pinkertons.
He was arrested at Burlington, VT. and
was brought to Ottumwa by Thomas
Sto1ghll, then 81 eriff of Wapello
county. He pleaded not guilty but
Doad's evidence convicted him. He
was sentenced on September II. 1897.
to nine years imprisonment at Fort
madison. Stevens was sentenced the
following day to three years imprison-
ment, served his time and is now at
liberty.
Fight For Two Men.
Rnhay.t wac orrasta5 in
loon in New York city in 1898 and was
brought to ottumv,a by Frank Suits.
then sheriff. In Chicago Durkin was
allowed to confer With the Pinkertons
and in consideration of his telling them
of the crime and several other deals in
which he was concerned he was given
a short sentence after having been
convicted here. He got three years
and a half, but was afterward re-
leased. Ritchie was arrested in his
own saloon in Baltimore in 1900 and
brought here by Sheriff SHUTS. A
hard fight was ma lie by the sheriff for
acquisitions both for Durkin and
Ritchie but the Iowan finally won in
both cases.
Dodd Weakens.
When Richie was arraigned before
the Wapello county district court Dodd
weakened for the first time 1t is
believed that he was threatened with
death if he testified against Ritchie
AT any rate he ca mly told the jury in
the case that he had never seen Richie
before and that the man was not con-
nected in any way with the robbery
of the Bradley bank. Nothing was left
for the officers but to allow Richie
his freedom. Thirty minutes after he
left the court house a free man he and
Dodd We're talking and drinking in
local saloon, chummy as old friends.
Dodd had weakened.
Hamilton Shown Mercy.
Justice was tempered with mercy in
the case of Jesse Hamilton, the bar
tender who acted as "go-between''
for Durkin and Dodd. He was tried
and convicted OF. June s, 1897. The
counrt imposed g. sentence of eighteen
but four days later a petition
was presented to the judge bearing
the names of almost every lawyer in
Wapello county and asking that the
sentence be set aside. Hamilton was
freed.
Menard Long at Liberty.
Indian joe" the man arrested in
Chicago today, is; the last of the gang
to be detected. Hundreds on hun
dreds of dollars have been spent in eff
forts to locate him, but he has avoided
the officers since the day he made his