The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-19

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| for an interview between him and Ed
wards. Unknown to both of them he
| had cut a hole in the floor over the
room in which they were to meet and
covered the opening with piece of
cheesecloth. The arrangement was
such that he could hear every single
whisper of their conversation, and he
and another witness listened at this
| hole. ..-.
Edwards accused the hveryman OF
knowing that the Missouri men were
the real holdup artists, and the latter
cheerfully admitted it, but did not show
any inclination to go on the witness
stand and advised Edwards to keep
quiet.
Edwards Story. ---
After this interview, Mr.. Billings
questioned Edwards alone, and found
out just how much he knew. He had
been running a gambling establishment,
and. the Missouri men had asked nm IN
had at first agreed to do so, but his
nerve failed, and he told them to count
him out Instead of joining in this rob
berry, he Joined the Thayer gang, which
was at that time planning some bank
robberies, and he and Ross went on
ahead to Michigan City, N. D., to look
into the ACCESSIBILITY Of cracking safe
would involve too much risk, and were
returning to rejoin Thayer and his
companions, who were to meet them in
Moorhead and receive their report,
when the Missouri men pulled off the
train robbery.
EDO you think the Thayer crowd
would have been going about, fairly
glycerin, if they had known that a train
had been robbed thirty miles away Il
few hours before?' asked Edwards,
and the inquiry is certainly pertinent.
Yet the fact that they had such an out
fit was one of the main points in secur-
ing the verdict Of guilty. The entire
outfit was spread out on a table, which
was kept before the jury thruout the
trial.
Liveryman sweated.
Having learned this much from Ed
wards, Sheriff Billings turned his atten
t ton to the Wahpeton livery!m1an. This
> Missouri men had hung about his barn
had hired livery rigs from him, ant
had finally got him into their confidence
to such an extent that he was in nc
, position to give them away. The sheriff
= was able to use some pretty strong argu
, ments, however, and as the Missouri
= men We're by this time under arrest u
g clean breast Of the part he had playe,
- in the affair.
E The day before the robbery, Gar,
- had hired him to take him across tn
country to the Carlisle neighborhoot
y and pretended he thought of buying
81 some cattle; They had just crossed tn
|, horses fell dead, and farmer had t.
be hired, to- bury it, This fact was, o
: course. easily substantiated. Gary lef
- the liveryman there, and went down tn
~ track a short distance when he me
- Evans and HowaFdsWho had been lyin
4 in some brush near the road. The; thrc
u conferred, and looked over the 5situs
! ton. Then Gary feioined the livery
=, man, and told him to go back and &C
y another horse, and to come to Carlisl
- the following day. - = rs>~
~ He did as directed;5an found Gar
and his companions again on han(
Gary left the other,two men, and tot
- the llveryman to drive out short di
: lance as he had Something to. tell hin
, Il, Reaching a turn in the road, he toI
ie him to stop. -, ~.
u Gary Reveals Plot.
~ 'This is far enough,'' he bega
At land now. l want to tell you what "
a. are planning. We have sized youZu
i as man Of nerve. There is no we
g low IN you and you are the kind
IN man we want. WeEare going to 'razo(
81 the, Great Northern flyer here tonigh
I'd and we want you to be on hand aftt
~ the. job is over to drive us to Brec]
50 enrldge. There will be money to bun
ht comes in our way tonight here |
81 Significantly this will be the end
~. them. If one Of us is wounded, he 90
II into the firebox of the engine, and the
a Will be no Identification. We want W
20 on hand at s 'clock without fail. Wa
a. t mere :-polntlng to a clump Of brus
o., The liveryman went on to relate tn
de after this conversation, he drove to Il
NJ, home of a relative. He did not kno
en- Just what to do, but finally, late in Il
ra evening decided to leave them to- the
rate, and drove on alone to Brecke
as ridge. He broke the pole of his bugs
az when almost there, and this incide
AS save him happy excuse; he could tt
80 them he had had a breakdown a,
lo could not reach the scene on time.
~ After the holdup the three men, fin
m ing that the team was not on hand
- expected, started to walk across +
Mt country, but being uncertain as to t
,oI shortest road, it is presumed thew lc
a &C. their way from time to time, and tn
~ morning began to break before tn
or or reached that city. - -
of ro,na i, e4,.,,.r4,
ng =
in With the breaking of daylight tn
as buried themselves in strawstack :
zen the farm of a man named Volkner, W
lily went to the stack about 10 O'Clock a
accidentally stuck pitchfork il
the leg of one of them. They explain
to the astonished farmer that they b
ms been drinking heavily and had We
his dered away from the road and Ia
Ice down in the stack. They asked viii
the was the nearest way to Breckenrid,
i'm and started in the direction indicat,
ern Mr.. Volkner was very much surpris,
nd but as he was living in the country
INC had not heard anything about the r,
ere bery-ln fact, he knew nothing abe
ere 1t until some time afterwards. and ct
i'm sequently suspected nothing.
The three did not dare to 90 on ii
rho Breckenridge during the day, but
~, pear to have again concealed themsel,
lev until nightfall. when they j caution
rev made their way to the livery barn .
ans told the liveryman to get them sor
div thing TO eat. He obeyed, and as he
ter tered the barn where the three n
on We're concealed, he. heard the shs
; to cilch, CLICK, OF reviewers.
raj VINO Sc Ihefe, asked one OF
for robbers in low, deep voice.
eat The liveryman was too much asst
ris- ished to say anything more than 81
me. - One of the men drew the 81
lies of a dark lantern he was carrying, a
the the other two stood with cooked we