The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-18
SPEEDY ARRESTS
A PROBABILITY
POLICE HAVE VALUABLE INFOR-
NATION IN MUELLER CASE.
Strong Evidence Points to Guilt of the
Trio Under Suspicion Known to
Have Been Associated in Criminal
Operations in the Past-Informatio
Came in Part from st. Paul.

: Arrests within twentyfour hours
up case of Wednesday night. The po-
lice, 1t is thought, not only know the
identity Of the three bandits, but have
strong evidence against them. The sus-
pected men are said to live in South
Minneapolis. The officers have visit
them. @
The first clue to the identity of the
thugs came to Superintendent Doyle
shortly after the holdup Officers have
watched the home of a suspect careful
~, but the man has not returned.
While the officials had great confidence
in the reliability Of the tip, they did
not abandon other clues.
This morning the desired information
was secured. It came from St. Paul,
and was that the man under suspicion
had been connected with other crimes
in which he was associated with two
men who also live in South Minneapolis.
What made the clue all the more i'm
portant was the information that while
the man under suspicion is about 5 feet
Z inches tall, the other two answer the
description given by DR.. Mueller and
the persons at his home. One Of the
suspects is about 6 feet tall and rather
slender, while the second is about tie
size of the first man. This trio answers
in every way the descriptions Of the
men as given by DR.. Mueller.
When the clue was received at police
headquarters Superintendent Doyle con-
suited with a man in South Minneapolis,
who is said to know all three Of the sus-
poets, but the outcome is unknown. It
is significant, however, that. Detective
and that all three men are known in
that city, the 'Etall man, it is said,
having been ordered out of that city
because Of his bad reputation.
Police Non Committal.
While the police are non committal
it was admitted that important develop
ments are imminent That the trio I'M
der suspicion have bad regulations is
known, and that they worked together
on "crooked deals - in the past is also
known.
The police have done great deal Of
unnecessary work because various per-
sons thought they had clues. So far, ma
fewer thah eve men IN haye 6Geh con-
fecesd %n T 1e a %erS the hree men
who actually committed the crime; a
young man who telephoned somebody
from Felix Deville's saloon 1O17 Main
street NE, near DR.. Mueller s office, and
a man seen skulking in the shadows on
Franklin avenue near DR.. Mueller 8 resi-
dence after the hold7up.
The police do not place much conf
dence in the story that the man who
telephoned from Deville's saloon was
says that man came zinto the saloon
about 10 o'clock on .ttssaa, night of the
holdup and talkel. over the telephone.
He used the phone ,a& least five min
utes, but the saloon man is not certain
that this was before 10 O'Clock. 4
Notwithstanding: this, DR.. Mueller
Things he saw such a. man standing in
the Germania drug store, just beneath
The man does not tally W with TIT the EIDE de-
his telephone, but Or. Mueller s srecol-
lection Of him is rather hazy.
Henry Milne, clerk in the drug
store, present when DR.. Mueller left,
remembers only one man in the store
at that time and he had come for a
physician. He was waiting while MIR.
it was about that time that DR.. Mueller
came down the stairs. ,.
The police are uncertain as to the man
seen In the shadows on.Franklin avenue,
near the Mueller residence. The band
it's had gone at that time, and it is
doubtful If this man would have re-
manned in the vicinity if he was asso-
ciated with them. There is no doubt
that the man was there, as E. c.. CARR
CUES, 1912 Stevens avenue, tried to
speak to him but when he approached,
the stranger disappeared between the
buildings.
G. J. johnson, a saloonkeeper at 105
Washington avenue, has notified the
police that three men answering the de-
scriptions Of the robbers, hung about
his saloon for three weeks prior to the
holdup, but have not been since. John
son says tn emen were strangers to him
and appeared to know no one in the
saloon.
Emil Roggatz, the wounded coach
man, passed comfortable night at the
Swedish hospital, and the surgeons are
more hopeful Of his recovery. DR.. F.
A. Dunsmoor says he considers Rog
gartz s condition as favorable, and that
1A-s1