The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-13

watch were found in his pockets
When asked who brought him to the
stack he refused to answer. Il know
only about myself, he said. When
have found the straw stack IN his
blinded condition, he said. Il wash
SO blind them
Arthur was well dressed, but wore
no hat He said he had lost his head
gear in the bank. Over his head was
a white silk handkerchief. He an
swers fairly we'll the description of
Mel Joel, who escaped from. the Kan
sas penitentiary some time ago. He
refuses to talk further than to ask an
officer to roll a cigarette for him, for
which he furnished the tobacco.
1t is believed that the gang scatter
ed after reaching Caldwell It is pos
sible that the man captured, together
with one or two companions, left the
handcar before reaching Caldwell. A
telephone message from near Corbin
informed Deputy Sheriff Lingenfelter,
after his arrival with the prisoner, that
two men, believed to be members of
the party, were hiding in the under
brush within two miles of that station
The captured robber was taken to
Wellington. Another suspect was ar
rested at Hunnewen in the afternoon.
He is being kept there under guard.
He was sweated and his answers
strength ened the suspicious of the
officers.
F. w. Stevens. a Wichita detective.
is here working on the case with his
bloodhounds- The dogs took the tran
bers got into the bank, followed 1t
down an alley then to the railroad
where the gang is known to have
taken a handcar. From there the
robbers came to Caldwell. They ar
rived at 3:15 o'clock, two hours after
the first explosion was heard in Hun
newell.
he6n
notified and were waiting for them
where the Kansas & Southwestern rail-
way crosses the Rock Island and Santa
Fe roads. The track is down grade at
watcher like a fash. Several shots
were fired by the officers, but the rob
bers made no attempt to answer Han
a mile further west the handcaT vas
stevens hound took the scent at the car
followed the trail west about 40 rods,
then up through part o. the residence
district in a circle and struck a creek
near the Rock Island depot Here blood
was found in a tramp's camp In the
Same places were pieces of an under
shirt which evidently had oeen torn
into strips and used as bandages.
From there the trail led to water
tank on the Rock Island railway, where
the dog was taken off. The officers
working on the case believe there were
four or five in the party
A hat was IOuDo IN TIE pdHh anu an
other was found along the railroad
where the Caldwell officers shot at the
robbers. Bloody handkerchiefs were
found on the handcar and the floor
of the car was blood stained. No mon
ey was taken from the bank. probably
because the crowd became too large
for the watchers to keep back before
the booty could be gathered up. The
door of the vault was almost blown
off. A slight wrench with a crowbar
caused it to fall. The robbers kept the
Hunnewell crowd off until they got
around the corner of the building Mem
bers of the crowd heard one of them
say: I'm killed; I can't go any fur
Their" His companions picked him up
and carried him to the handcar- he
was injured. however before the gang
left the building. as is shown by DIS
tinct trail of blood leading from inc
safe to the window, through which the
robbers escaped.