The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-30
YEGGMEN'S 'PL, ANT
BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
COUNTY ATTORNEY HAS FULL
SAFEGUARDING EQUIPMENT.
Grip Supposed to Belong to One Of the
Suspects Now Held Is Discovered
Concealed in a Bale of Hay at the
Cedar Lake Ice Company's Barns.

+ Tossing heavy bales of hay about
with tn abandon OF baggagemen hand
ling trunks. Detectives. Grumpy and
Brundage discovered in one Of them
eighth ward into Lake Calhoun.
Incidentally they also found sufficient
additional safecracking equipment to
make the collection now in the hands Of
County Attorney Al j. Smith, one Of
the. finest ever assembled by any author
tiles in this country. The find thoroly
establishes the infamous character Of
the operations Of Doole, Kalmer and
Warmelin,. the men now under arrest
charged with blowing the safe at Carl
son S grocery.
Since the first arrest was made, the
county attorney has been cooperating
with the police in accommodating evil
dence. At his suggestion the detectives
Yesterday afternoon went to the barns
of the Cedar Lake Ice company, where
Doole was employed to mako q thoro
search. Bale after bale Of hay was
torn down and finally out of a recess
cut in one bale rolled a good-sized
brown valise OF alligator hide.
Base Of Supplies Discovered.
When the officers opened the grip,
they paled at their narrow escape, for
they had deliberately been throwing a
quart Of nitroglycerine about. The
grip, in short, was the safeblowers' base
se pfhed adt of csPf hS R
minating caps for exploding nitro, many
yards Of fuse, drills, taps and forcing
| screws for safe doors, brown soap made
plastic for flying cracks around the
| doors, skeleton keys, a jimmy, an electric
flash lamp and finally wicked, As
caliber revolver Of the old army model,
but clean as a whistle and dripping
with oil. 5
The county attorney and the police
expect to connect Doole definitely with
this find and when he is arraigned in
the police court tomorrow, he will face
a damning array Of evidence.
AS the records Of the suspects are
| investigated it appears more and more
that they are desperate men with the
determination and skill to open any
safe and to take human life if neces-
sary in their operations. The four re-
volvers taken from them are of 38, Al,
a. and As caliber, and are all Of the
long barreled variety. Doole has prac-
tically been identified as former con-
Wet sent to Saltwater from Glenwood
for robbery. Kalmer has an Illinois
record and Warmelin is believed to
have done time in Chicago for passing
raised bills. - =
Suspected of Ravarty Murder.
From the character of the men g
equipment and the style Of their work
it is now believed that they are the
| desperadoes who shot and killed \Spe-
cial Patrolman Ravarty, who surprised
safe blowers in a st. Paul lumber com
pany's Office about two months ago.
There were three men in that affair
and the large caliber revolvers and the
style Of drills used are significant.
County Attorney Smith had another
long conference with Warmelin this
morning. The prisoner is palpably
! anxious to save himself. Mr.. Smith
will not divulge the revelations made
to him, but said after the interview
today that for three months the life
of every patrolman in outlying dis
tricts had been in jeopardy. It is
hardly believed that they can be con
nected with the, Roggatz murder or
Second avenue S, but safe robberies
have been frequent for, the last three
months and the authorities now possess
information which may enable them tc
connect the prisoners with many Of the
robberies.
It is now believed that Warmelir
and Kalmer were arrested as they were
on their way to Parker S grocery, -Four
teenth street and Fourth avenue s, tt
make a final reconnaissance before dark
when the safe was to be blown.