The daily sentinel., 1907-08-22
THE PORTER
IS ARRESTED
Mrs. ]. N. Waldeboer, a Pretty
Salt Lake Woman, Claims
Pullman Porter Robbed Her
of S2O.OO-Sheriff Schrader
Arrests the Man


X bed Mrs. ]. NJ. Weldeboor, =
= handsome young matron of =
= Salt Lake City, of $4,000 bill =
a Thomas Bean. colored, a porter =
= on one of the standard Pull =
X mans on Rio Grande train No. =
- first section, which reached !.
4 the city this morning about =
= O'Clock en- route east. was !.
= placed under arrest by Sheriff q
\ Schrader who happened to be =
!. on the train en- route home =
= from visit to Salt Lake City =
!. and Is now lodged in the county =
= jail awaiting trial. @
Mrs. Weldeboor. who Is a refined
and attractive looking young woman,
states that she is en- route from her
home in Salt Lake City to Olathe.
Colorado for a visit with relatives.
She occupied a berth in one of the
Pullman sleepers on No. last night.
She instructed the porter. Bean. to
call her this morning in time to get
ready to leave the train at Grand
Junction as she would have to take
the Montrose line here. Forty min
utes before the train reached Grand
Junction this morning Mrs. Welde-
boer was aroused by the porter ana
she states that she repaired to the
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ther folding pocketbook in her berth
containing two $40 bills and one 50
bill. She declared that on returning
to her berth she thought she would
see If her money was safe and on
making examination found that one
of the $50 bills was missing. She
Immediately decided that the colored
porter must have taken the money
believing that he was the only per
son near her berth from the time she
left the berth to go to the toilette
room until she returned. She was
sure that all the money was in the
pocket book when she left the berth.
Every effort to locate the money in
the berth was fruitless and then Mrs.
Weldeboor openly charged that Bean
had robbed her and just before reach
ing this city she had Sheriff Schrader
put the man under arrest
On being searched the sum of
S29.45 was found on Bean but no 500
bill was in the outlay OF money. He
had a $40 bill, a $40 goli piece. a
IS gold piece and some small change
Bean stoutly declares his innocence
and declares that he was not near
the woman's berth from the moment
he aroused her until arrested. He
stated that while the lady was in the
toilette room man, occupying a
berth I'm one end of the Pullman arose
and passed the lady's berth. No other
passengers were stirring at that hour.
If Bean took the 500 bill he had II
changed Immediately after securing
It.
Bean states that his home is In
St Louis and that he has been regu-
larly employed for long time on
Pullmans between st. Louis and Los
Angeles. He is quite a likely look
ing colored man, and as do all Pull
man porters, dresses in the height of
style.
Mrs. Weldeboor remained over In
in the city today and swore out a
complaint against Bean. He will be
given a hearing before Justice John
II. Hill. Mrs. Waldeboor Is determln
ed to push the prosecution but 1t is
feared she viii have considerable
difficulty in proving the theft on ac-
count of lack of witnesses and the
fact that the missing $50 bill cannot
be located