Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-02
". A. PINKERTON ON TIE JOB
Big Chief Comes to Take Hand in
I Train Robber Case.
FIVE IN HoLDUP THEORY NOW
Discovery of Additional Lodging
Places of Bandits Leads to the
Relief by Chief of PO-
lice Donahue.

The arrival of William A Pinkerton of
Chicago head of the detective agency that
bears his name, and the discovery by Chief
of Police Donahue that five men partici-
pated in the Overland Limited holdup and
two more lodging places of the bandits are
the latest points of interest in the robbery
story
Mr. Pinkerton came to take a hand in
the case, but declines to talk for publica-
ton. He will remain until the hearing of
the bandits before United States Commits
sioner Anderson at federal building
today. Unless the accused men waive
examination the preliminaries will continue
for a couple Of days, probably, as there
are many witnesses to be heard. Among
these witnesses are several who say they
will be able to identify the trio as men who
committed other crimes besides the rob-
berry of the Union Pacific train.
Chief Donahue says the authorities have
been working on the case since Sunday
with the idea that five msn robbed the
train.
Saturday morning. 1t is said. the lodging
house where the suspect Gordon roomed,
was located and placed under strict watch.
Sunday another room was found and con-
nected with the holdup gang.
No arrests have heen made, as the men
still at liberty are cleverly eluding the
officers The latter venture no statement
as to the men being in Omaha. They only
hint that with all the notoriety the case
has been given, the closeness with which
every clue and theory has been watched
by the officers and the chances already
afforded for escape from the vicinity, the
bandits would be foolish to remain here.
More Rooms, More Men.
1t is understood that only after the third
room had been found was it concluded that
a fifth man was In the case. When the
second room was located, Gordon was es-
tablished as the former occupant, and the
authorities say that they can now connect
him with the case.
Then appeared that the fourth man,
who was supposed to have roomed with
Gordon, had also roomed part of the time
with fifth man at another room, other
than the one at the Seibert house. S24
North Fifteenth street and the second
room, whose location the police will not
divulge. Investigation proved that fifth
man had occupied the third room In ques-
tion and had been connected with the train
robbery.
Still another person has identified
Woods, one of the holdup suspects, as
having been in Fremont the day of the
train robbery. F. W. Hauser, grocer
and general merchandise dealer of FIRE.
mont, was In Omaha Tuesday and identi-
fled Woods as man who was in his store
on the forenoon OF the Saturday the BAN
dts held up the Overland Limited.
Woods bought several maps OF Canada
and the northern part of the United
States and talked with Hauser for a short
time, joking in his usual manner. Woods
manner was one of the chief points of
Hauser's Identification Tuesday, as he evil
IDENTIFY is always joking and laughing.
With Hauser's Identification of Woods
and also that of the Fremont boy, Roy Nc
Dermott, who identified the supposed leader
OF the suspects Monday it is certain that
the prisoners were in Fremont for the half
day preceding the holdup and that they
took part in it is proved by their identifi-
cation by the mail clerks, all of whom have
now done so.
The identifications by the Fremont peo-