The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-07-28
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EVERY AVAILABLE SPACE IN THE BUILDINGS
They followed him to Topeka and thel
to Kansas City.
Tracked Him Through Women

to Kansas City.
Tracked Him Through Women
For the last few days every lodging
house in Kansas City formerly used
by Savage has been watched night
and day. Every women with whom
he had associated was tracked hour
by hour. Ultimately the detectives
won. Savage was said to have been
seen with a woman after midnight
last night and to have gone to an old
resort in East Twenty-first street
Fearing that an attempt to catch him
in the night might result in escape,
it was decided to wait until daylight.
At 6 o'clock therefore. these inspec-
tors posted themselves at the house:
George A. Leonard, J. c. Lindland. R.
S. Brauer and E. A. Mcbride, chief
clerk in the inspectors office here.
Two of them entered and arrested Saw
age in bed.
The prisoner was taken to the fed
eral building and questioned. He is
SO we'll known to the inspectors and
has already been so thoroughly identi-
fled by the scar on the bridge of his
nose, which he always TRIES to COW
er with his cap brim. that w. ]. Wick
cry. chief inspector says there is no
possibility of mistake having been
made.
Will They Find the Money?
Everywhere he went" Mr.. vickerv
said this morning, "he kept that cap
down on his nose. ell probably has
been in ten or fifteen cities since the
robbery. He talks freely enough
but whether he will try to keep the
money hidden as did the Seattle thief.
is the question. | believe We'll find
it, He has spent some of it, of co1rse
but he has enough hidden to suit his
ideas of wealth. He had only S13 in
his pocket when arrested.
1t is interesting to note that Savage
has been arrested just two days be-
fore the year was up since he was re-
leased from the federal prison On
McNeill's island. Savaga's snecialty
always has been postoffice 'obberies.
He was once employed as an eleva-
tor operator in the postoffice at Salt
Lake City and in that way got his
start by stealing pouch. His habits
and associates have, indirectly. re-
suited in his capture. The women
quarreled, as might be expected. and
IN tnlS way ne was traced.
The registered sack for which gov
ernment secret service men have
been searching for weeks, came into
Kansas City the night of June from
Los Angeles. With others it was TAX
en- to transfer car on a spur track,
near the depot, which has been used
for that purpose since the registray
transfer shed burned a few months
ago. A clerk in that car receipted for
it. The car was unusually crowded
that night because of the receipt of
twenty-five cases of stamped enve-
lopes in transit. This caused the pill
ing of pouches nearer the door than
was customary.
How the Pouch Was Stolen
Even when the Los Angeles pouch
was missed, an hour later, it was be-
lieved that it might have been put on
any one of several trains that had de-
parted while it was in process OF
transferring. Immediate inquiry by
telegraph soon developed that the
sack had not been sent astray and
that probably it had been stolen at the
depot. For time 1t was suspected
that it had been taken by a clerk with
la W lul dSCCoo W luc CdI.
The night was particularly warm
and the doors of the transfer car were
wide open. In the shadows that al
ways darken that part of the depot
a negro stood watching the mail men
work A Rock Island train, east
bound, was on the next track. Just
as it moved slowly away the negro
seized a sack, ran around in front of
the locomotive and climbed aboard
the front platform, the blind bag
gage" next the tender. He found
two white men there. young fellows
in hard luck who were beating their
way out of town. Doubtless the negro
was frightened. Without staying
moment to talk, he crept out over the
coupling and up to the tended and at
his request the white men handed him
the sack of helped him with it.
Threw Sack and Jumped
Two or three miles out from the
city the train stopped to pick up
Pullman sleeper. While it was stand
ing, the engineer saw the negro drag
ging something to the roof of the first
car. Also he saw the two white men
crouching on the front platform. The
engineer cried to the negro to get off
the car and he obeyed, first throwing
the sack as far out as he could. Then
he jumped and although it was rath-
er long distance, he was up almost
instantly and started to run.
By this time the engineer believed
the negro was too eager to get away.
So he threw a piece of coal at him,
hit hi>s and knocked him oves~in the
>eds. But negro heads are not east
ly broken. The negro was up again
in moment and disappeared, taking
the pouch with him.
The circumstance was reported to
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