The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-05
Rock Island Operator Not Per-
mitted to Leave.
No Warrant for His Arrest
Sworn Out.
SLEEPS AT THE JAIL.
Accompanied by Unders heriff on
Trips About Alma.
Davenport Banker Was Not
Killed in Wreck.

John Lynes, the Volland operator who
is held by the Rock Island officials to
be responsible for the headon collision
between trains 90 and 80 Wednesday
morning, is being held in custody by an
undersheriff at Alma, although papers
making complaint. and the warrant for
his arrest have not yet been made out.
Lynes makes no effort to leave Alma
because he understands that if he en-
tertained such motives warrant for his
arrest would be sworn out and he would
then be confined to jail. Asst is he has
comparative freedom, not being com
PEELED to remain locked up. He is all
lowed considera BILE latitude in his
movements although he is at all times
accompanied by an undersheriff and
sleeps at the Jail. He will be held at
least till after the inquest.
None of the surviving members of the
party of Mexican laborers in the ILL
fater smoking car have returned to
Alma to look after the remains of the
other members of the party.
The Mexican consul at Kansas City
who announced his intention of interest
ing himself in the matter has not put
in an appearance at Alma, and all that
is left of the bodies of Is Nexicans, in
many instances only charred bones and
empty building at that place. The in
quest will be held Monday at I O'Clock.
John Sayre, who was identified by his
borther and also his business partner
from New London. Mo-, had q consid-
cradle amount of money on his person,
which he intended using in buying land
in western Kansas when he found some
thing to suit his fancy
He was identified by a peculiar physi-
cal deformity of the chest and by GER
tain characteristics of the feet. His
cident thereby preventing an Identified
ton from his facial features.
A considerable sum of money has been
recovered that belonged to the dead
AHeNr 1oI h. E-xyf
cans had sums ranging from $50 to $500
or possibly $500 on his person.
1t is we'll known fact that almost
without exception Mexican laborers in
the United States never deposit their
earnings in banks. They prefer to keep
it tied in bags whica they attach to
belts to strap about their body;
Doubtless .eonsidera1Afe of stlleir mon-
never be recovered
Il. was not julius Burmeister. CASH
Ter of the National Bank of Davenport, i
Ia who was killed in the recent Rock
ports confused the name of the Iowa
banker with that of Ben Baum ister.
who is the missing man believed to
have been incinera tie XII The smoking
car where the loss of life was so great.
ben Baumeister was formerly
Rock Island railroad employee at Da-
and he was going west to see
the country. &
Banker Burmeister put in a busy
day reading the kilograms of condo
lence sent his family under the inn
preston that he was dead.
The Des Moines Capital says:
J. H. Osgood of Mitchellville left
Des Moines on Tuesday evening for
Kan, expecting to go from
there into Oklahoma and thence for a
tour of the southwest. He is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Osgood of
His sister. Miss Della Os-
good, is a matron at the Polk county
poor farm.
E The relatives at Mitchellville had |
heard nothing this morning of Mr.. Os- |
goods death. They feared he might |
be in the wreck but had had no word 4