Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-18
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
DARING ARREST Of
FOUR SAFE BLOWERS
Unaided, the Officer Surprises
Gang and With Aid of Switch
Engine Prevents Escape
SHOOTS ONE OF THE NUMBER
Seven Men Blow Up and Completely
Wreck Safe of Marshall Vinegar
Company, Securing Small Sum-Two
Other Suspects Under Arrest
Wounded Man Shot Thru Body, But
Will Recover.

Wounded Man Shot Thru Body, But
Will Recover.
| In as daring a safe robbery as has
| ever been pulled off in the city, and III
one of the nerviest pursuits and cap
lures in the history of the police de-
partment, one of the craftsmen who
blew open and robebd the safe of the
Marshall Vinegar Company, corner
| Market street and Fourth avenue,
! Tuesday night, was wounded and later
captured, and five others. four at least
of whom are believed to be pals of the
| wounded man. were also arrested for
| the robbery. The safe was wrecked,
about SIG in money was stolen, but
| most of the money was later recovered
The wounded man is believed not to be
seriously injured, altho he was shot
| thru the body.
| Unaided and displaying the greatest
courage, Officer Frank Haas, who was
on duty in the depot district, came on
the men as they We're coming out OF
the vinegar works. He gave pursuit,
aided by switch engine, and later, in
the darkness and far from help, held up
and surrounded the cracksmen and
landed four Of the seven suspects in
| Jail, altho three Of them got away from
! him before the others were behind the
| Jail bars.
Boys Aid Police.
| The alarm of the explosion, which
| blew open the safe, was brought to
Officer Haas by two boys. whom he
had ordered out of town on the 1885
north bound Great Western train,
which was then standing at the station
platform. Haas told the lads to board
the head end" of the passenger, which
waa at the Fourth avenue crossing.
Just before the train was due to leave
the boys came running to Haas, and
told him they had heard an explosion.
Haas also heard it, but it sounded to
him like crash made by switching
cars in the railroad yards farther.
south.
Officer Gives Chase.
Running south on Third avenue, as
Officer Haas turned the corner east in
to Market street, he saw man under
the electric light at Fourth avenue and
Market street, evidently the lookout for
the cracksmen. He started to run east,
the officer in pursuit. AS Haas
reached the junction of Market street
and Fourth avenue he saw six men, by
the aid of the street light, run from the
Marshall Vinegar Company's building
toward the Northwestern freight house.
He opened fire and emptied his revolt
yer, but the men kept on running
Leaving them for the time being, Haas
returned to Third avenue, telephoned
for Chief Nicholson, secured more am
munition from the police station, and
went back to gle further chase.
Races on Switch Engine.
Securing the services of an Iowa
Central switch engine Haas boarded
it and was carried in few minutes
to what is known as the Beer Garden
hill" Alighting, he started back along
the Northwestern tracks. suspectinls
that he had intercepted his n IN before
they could go farther east. The yards
were black as pitch, but the officer,
moving quietly, suddenly came upon
those he had been pursuing, standing
in a group about one of their number,
who was lying on the ground. He
flashed his light on the gang, covered
them with his gun, but two of the sew
en- in the gang broke and made away
in the darkness. He held the five, all
lowing the two to go. He then learn
ed the man on the ground was wound
ed. The others attempted to make no
resistance, and, driving them ahead CT
him in the shaft of light made by his
electric lamp, and covering them with
his revolver, he herded them ahead of
him to the power plant of the Mar
shalltown Light, Power and Railway
Company. There another of the five
dashed off in the darkness. During the
trip of a quarter of a mile the wounded
man bled profusely, and frequent stops
were necessary that he might rest be-
fore proceeding The quartet was land
ed by Haas in the patrol wagon, which
had arrived, and were taken to the
county jail
Others Are Arrested.
BY this time Chief of Police Nichol-
son, Deputy Marshal Clark, Desk Ser
geant Goodale and Officer Breckel had
eached the scene and had scattered
thru the east railroad yards. Nicholson
and Clark heard one man splash thru
Linn creek. and later caught one of the
suspects near the Great Western bridge
over the same creek. Early this morn
ing Chief of Police Nicholson arrested
another of the suspects in the east
Northwestern yards. The first one Of