Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-14
Jail at Manchester Where
Two Masonville Bank Rob.
bers Are Confined
Closely Guarded
NO VIOLENCE SHOWN;
WGlLENCEIS RELAXED
Sheriff Feared Repetition Of
Charles City Lynching-
Waterloo Mayor
Calls Out Troops

Des Moines, March 1.-THE
state militia at Manchester to as
sist in locating robbers who blew
open the safe Of the Masonville
bank is deployed in the vicinity Of
the town today. ALI roads leading
to and from Manchester we're
patrolled by troops.
Guards were removed from
around the Jail. where tide two
prisoners were confined, as mob
violence is no longer feared. The
sheriff stated today that he had
the situation we'll in hand.
Troops Guard the Jail.
Manchester, March 12.-Fearing
that he and his deputies would not
be able to protect Hanson and Hen
derson, the men charged with having
blown open the Farmers bank of
Masonville last week, Sheriff Henne-
sey last night suddenly called out
Company D of the Fifty-third Iowa
National Guard, and stationed the
men around the Jail, gave Captain
Harry Uttley orders to have his men
"shoot if necessary" Fearing repe'
tition of the mob rule in Charles City
last January, the local sheriff deter.
mined to take no chances. Popular
feeling against the bank robbers was
the elimination of an exciting day
here and the direct and immediate
consequence of the BUSTING Of the
grand jury expected to indict the meI
when Judge Plat discovered the lille
gal manner in which it had beer
drawn.
The grand and petit juries were dis.
missed for exactly the same cause as
in Polk county, and all appeal to Sen.
long distance phone was answered by
him to the effect that nothing could bt
done until the supreme court rules OF
the test case before it.
| Court convened here for the March
term and it was expected that thu
grand jury would at once return in
dictments against Hanson and Hen.
derson, the Dubuquers charged Will
having perpetrated the bank robber.
at Masonville last week. They hav
not had preliminary hearing AM
have been held simply upon informa
tions. 1t is now believed that thei
attorneys will apply for d writ of ha
beas corpus.
The knocking out of the juries cam
about as the result of a point raise
in a civil case by Herrick and Bouge
Of Monticello. They showed that j.
one township forty-five out of 10
| judges and clerks Of election had plac
ed their own names on the jury list
fifteen on the grand jury and thirty o
the trial jury list
Waterloo May Call Troops.
Waterloo, March 12.-That an ap
peal for the state militia may be mad
on Governor Cummins in the Waterlo
street car strike trouble is not i'm
i probable. Mayor ]. r. Rector de
/ clares that protection will be afforde
i the cars and people at all hazards, an
that if the present force of police
men is not sufficient to run the car!
he will see that sufficient help is adde
to keep the service moving.
i This statement came last night fol
lowing a meeting of the city council
when the demand was made that tn
traction company run more cars a
night than they have been putting OF
/ Only one car was sent out last nigf
4 and that was hardly worth the powe
} used to operate it, as the people refus
ed to patronize it.