The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-09
POLICE BELIEVE
THEY HAVE THE
TRAIN ROBBER
The Man Was Spending Hands
Full of of Pennies in he
Saloons
ANSWERS THE DESCRIPTION
OF THE AARR0WS BANDIT
Nearly Killed the Policeman Who
Made the Arrest, But When He Was
Overpowered by Superior Numbers,
He Became DOcile and Sullen.

VNCApVWcIcu uy SuptElOF NuMDeFSs
He Became Docile and Sullen.
Pittsburg, Sept. 9.-Securely locked
behind the bars in the city hail, police
firmly believe, is the bandit who held
up alone the Pittsburg and Northern
express Tuesday of last week in
LeWistown Narrows. and for whom
two hundred detectives and half a
score of bloodhounds have been
searching ever since the morning of
the robbery
Captured after struggle with Po-
liceman Myers at the corner of Third
and Christian streets early this morn
ing by squad of reserve policemen
from the Second and Christian streets
station house, only a few feet away,
the suspect after his arrest refused to
say word in answer to hours of
questioning by detectives.
Myers, at the corner of Third and
Christian streets, met man with a
slouch hat who answered the descrip-
ton of the man who had been buying
drinks with Lincoln pennies.
Shouts for Help.
"You are arrested" Myters told
him. placing hand on his shoulder.
Without word the man turned
around and struck the policeman a
blow in the face, following the blow
up with several more. Shouting for
help. Myers vainly attempted to draw
his club with one hand while he held
his prisoner with the other.
! A1thouph hadlv nuniShod tho no.
liceman managed to hold on until his
cries brought dozen policeman run
ming from the station house block
away. When he saw that further re-
sistance was useless, the suspect
stopped fighting, and sullenly permit,
ted himself to be led away. He was
at once sent to the city hail.
When searched in the rool-room,
pockets full of Lincoln pennies were
found on him. The bandit who robbed
the Pittsburg and Northern, the rail-
road authorities say, escaped with a
total haul of $50 in Lincoln pennies,
leaving behind him on the hillside
thousands of dollars in gold bullion,
and leaving in the rified express car
half a million dollars in bank notes.
Police Confident.
| The police refuse to say how many
Lincoln pennies were found in the
prisoners pockets, but Detective Har-
bridge said today:
81 am confident that in the arrest
of this fellow who calls himself Cor
dala we have the man we want"
Practically no testimony was taken
at the hearing. Detective Harbridge
merely told Magistrate Scott that he
believed the prisoner to be the train
robber, and the prisoner, when asked
to make a statement, refused to open
his mouth.
"I'll hold you without bail to await
further development" said the magis-
trate, after he warned the prisoner
that he was suspected of being the
escaped bandit, and that he must clear
himself promptly if possible of the
charge.
The suspect gave his name as Jo-
seph Gordala, said he was % years
old, and that he comes from St. Louis.
Then he relapsed into silence and
refused absolutely to say word about
the hundreds of Lincoln pennies
found in the pockets of his clothes.
Magistrate Scott, at the request of
Detective Harbridge, who has been
handling the local end of the express
train robbery, held Gordala without
bail.
Policeman Beaten.
During the struggle with Policeman
Myers, Gordala beat him so badly that
the policeman was forced to go to the
Pennsylvania hospital for treatment,
and was unable to appear at the hear
ing this morning. Only the nearness
of the station house prevented the
suspect from making his escape after
Myers told him he was under arrest.
Lincoln pennies handed over bars
on Second street in payment for
drinks last last night attracted the
attention of saloonkeepers, who no
ticed that the man resembled the
printed descriptions of the escaped
bandit, and called up the police sta
ton and told of their suspicion. Po-
liceman Myers was told to find the
suspect and arrest him.
To the oft-repeated question by de-
tectives Where did you get the Lin
coin penines?" the. prisoner has re-
turned no answer. This evidence is
regarded as unusually strong, for Lin
coin pennies have not been issued in
such lots that it has been possible for
one man to secure large consignments
of them. How many pennies the pris-
oner had, however, is known only to
the detectives. They admit that his
pockets were filled.
The third degree awaits Gordala,
and when the news of the arrest
reaches the army Of man-hunters,
near Lewistown, If their present trail
proves elusive, some Of the leaders of
the detectives Of the Pennsylvania
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