The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-07
'ROBBER QUARTET
GIVE UP STORIES
TELL POLICE WHOLE RECORD OF
WRONG DoINGs.
Two Have Been Holding UP Saloons
and Pedestrians, Accounting for Sew
eral Recent Exploits Other Pair
Came Fresh from Postofdce Robbery
in North Dakota,

Unable to bear up under the terrible
ordeal of the sweatbox, Robert Day,
Arthur klnyon, John Bell and Glenn
Waldorf, who were arrested Wednesday,
have completely broken down. Their
confessions clear up many of the rob-
berries since the beginning OF the year.
worked in pairs Independently. Day
and Kinyon were the first to break
down, and realizing that full confession
might gain them shorter sentence,
they have told Of all their work.
Their first piece of work was the
holding up Of the saloon at III Main
Shortly before Midnight s during sg SPRING
snowstorm and commanded the bar
tender to turn his face to the wall while
they went thru the till. They then
ran out the back way and disappeared.
About two weeks later they held up a
saloon at 700 Marshall street and OBJ
tanned about 500.
held up a farmer on the Columbia
Heights road, obtaining $15, and that on
July 3, two days before they were ar
rested, they held up Christ Christianson
and Albert Gustafson while they were
going, to work late Monday night. It
was these two jobs that gave the police
the clue enabling them to round up the
quartet. Tuesday night they held up
p. G. Copeland at Camden Place and
| obtained small amount Of money. Both
Day and Kinyon declare they will plead
guilty to any one Of these charges and
have already signed the confessions.
Robbed s. D. Postoffice.
Waldorf and Bell, the other two found
in the rooming house Wednesday night,
have been in Minneapolis but short
time, coming from Loomis, s. D., where
they held up the postmaster and OBJ
tanned 800 in cash and $12O in stamps.
The men claim Cherokee, Iowa, as their
home and they have also made COM
no work here. They told the details Of
the Loomis robbery and when Superin-
tendent Doyle sent telegram to the
/ Loomis police today they went to the
home Of Bells father, who lives near
there, and found the stolen stamps and
a, part Of the money. It was in small
change and had to be left behind be.
cause Of the bulkiness.
After their confession to the police
they were taken before the government
postal officers, Fosness and Simmons, tc
whom they repeated their story. They
will be taken back to Dakota and tried
in the federal court -,
i The effective work of the police in
the last week in arresting criminals OF
4 reputation has about cleared up the list
= Of big robberies. When the last gang
was arrested the evidence against then
was mostly circumstantial and for &
time It was thought that they would
have to be set free, but by combined
! effort the detective confronted then
with damaging evidence and they ad
mitted their guilt. 5..aS - :
Day and Kinyon will probably be ar
raigned tomorrow on charge Of high
way robbery. An effort is also being
made to connect these men with tn!
altho Kinyon was once before. brought
to headquarters and made toatell Of hi
doings on that, night Both men main
tain that they had nothing to. do will
the murder. s3sf T ks%ssS,ss