The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-05-29
ARREST TRIO Of
TRAIN ROBBERS
OMAHA POLICE AND SECRET
AGENTS RUN DOWN ALL
BUT ONE OF GANG.
FOUND s RIFLD BAGS
In Attic CT School House-Contents
OF Value Removed and Letter5
! Replaced - Division or
+. Reward Puzzle.

Omaha, Neb, May 28.-ifgeVelop
ments today in the running down ot
the men who last Saturday l'ght he ,
up and robbed the Overland Limite.
tram on the Union Pacific II a
Omaha, bad tn ir climax in tue liz
coyery in the attic of the Brown ark
school house in South Omaha If si'
larae and two small registered mai
pouches, the contents OF which had
been rihel.
Following the arrest last night in
the vicinity of the scnooI house OF
three suspects as they were ab
preaching a point where they had
hidden reyolyers and other materia'
a big detail of secret service men,
private and city detectives today
searched the locality for further eyi-
dence A teacher in the Brown Palk
school noticed ladder used tor
reaC ching the attic of the building had
been displaced The jan:tors were
called AMI crawled into the attic,
where they found eight registered
mail sacks, two rain coats, a ;ong top
coat and pair OF oyeralls.
Examination of the cuu-elis OF the
packages showed that every letter
and package had been torn open, the
contents of value removed and the
letters stuck back into the envelopes
There is eyerr Indication that the
robbers took the mali pouches to a
retreat near the school Saturday
night. They secured entrance
through a basement wmdow, went up
the stairway aad into the attic where
-t.hssss~SuaEe aGofsllra-, Ia examining thR
contents of the pouches al their
leisure.
The postoffice authorities AMI rail-
road officials are fully convinced that
in the arrest of Woods. Gordon a2d
Torgensen, last night, they have se'
cured the right men. The only re-
Pret is that the fourth man should
have escaped.
4 search of Torgensen'S room or
Fifteenth street today revealed a
photograph of the the Glrec men UNI
der arrest and another man and a
woman. taken at a Denver photo
graph gallery.
Gordon's room was not found.
Woods was at FIRST Incuned to be
talkatiye but carefully avoided say
ing anything which would incriminate
himself Later. however he refused
to talk at all.
The Union Pacific railroad offered
reward of $1,000 each for the rob
hers the night of the hold mp, and it
is a matter Of Interesting speculation
as 10 how the reward will he awarde
in the event that tho men under ar
rest are convicted Three small boys
noEe of them over eight years. were
the first to give the police a clue
which lei to the arrests OF las night.
Chief Briggs and two detectives
made the capture and would snare In
the reward A nunDer % other per
sons have been directly connected
with the case in the way of assist
ing the authorities in securing evi-
dence against the men.
An extended search is now beng
made for the iewclry AMI other val
uable articles taken from the regis
tered packages The police believe
that If Gordon's room is located they
win be able 30 fiud some OF these
Valuables. and are making a persist
ent search of all the rooming houses
in Omaha aud vicinity
The postoifice authorities consider
last nights arrests the most import
ant made in years. an nave con
graduated Chief of Police Briggs on
his work in the case.