Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-05
GIRLS LETTER PLAYS PART
Envelope Found Near Scene Of Train
Robbery Bears Grigware's Name.
ALICE EVANS ON WITNESS STAND
Texas Maid, well Acquainted with
Alleged Bandit, Tells story to Jury
Express Clerks and Postal
Men on stand.

wen On sNhhus
An envelope sent to Frank Grigware from
Waco, Tex. by Miss Aice Evans and
found near the scene Of the Mud Cut mail
robbery the morning Of May q may prove
the undoing Of Grigware.
Miss Evans was on the witness stand
Thursday afternoon and identified the en-
velope as having been addressed by her in
April last to Grigware, In who she had
more thar a passing interest. Miss Evans
became acquainted with Grigware about
three years ago in Walla Walls, Ore, and
had correspondent with him more or less
since during her residence in Texas. Orig
ware had visited at the home of her step
father near Waco, remaining there several
days. She observed that he was the pos
SCISSOR OF an automatic pistol at that time,
which looked much like the one shown her
In the court room. She did not, however,
distinctly recognize the pistol holster as
the one Grigware had at her home in
Texas. She also admitted having been in
troduced to Jack Shelton in walla Walla
when her home was there, but she did
not see Shelton, whom she knew as Jack
Gordon"
She also Identified a postal card that
had been mailed to her by Grigware about
May 21 Of the present year Hrom Council
Bluffs, the mailing hour being $3.50 p. m.
Grigware had also written her from Kan
sas City and Omaha.
Girls stepfather on stand.
David Benedict, the stepfather of Miss
Evans, told of seeing an automatic pistol
in Grigware's possession while he was visit
ing at his home near Waco, which re-
sbembled the one shown him in the court
room, but he believed that the pistol that
Grigware had was a newer one than that
shown him. He was not certain about
the holster. He had never, to his knowl-
edge, seen any of the defendants except
Shelton, whom he thought he had once
seen when they lived in Walla Walla. He
wanted Grigwsre to stay with them at
his Waco home longer while Grigware was
visiting them, but Grigware insisted that
he would have to go to see the boys"
and intimated that he was going to Hot
Springs.
]. r. Deverees Of the Wells, Fargo Ex-
press company told Of having expressed
two grips to Denver on May 20 for "Bill"
Matthews addressed to ]. c. Kelly. The
two grips were sent collect. Mr.. Deverees
identified Matthews in the court room as
the man who had brought the grips to the
express office.
Pistols sent by Express.
r. ]. Bogue, shipping clerk of the Colts
Arms company of Hartford, Conn, testi-
fled to having shipped two pistols, one an
Automatic and the other a revolver, the
latter to a hardware firm in Spokane, and
the automatic to Browning Bros. company
Of ogden, Utah. The two guns were num-
bered the same as those shown in the gov
eminent exhibits and had been shipped at
different periods prior to February Of the
current year. He Identified the two guns
as having been of the make of the Colts
Arms company.
Henry Williams of Ogden, Utah, a clerk
for Browning Bros. company, testified to
having sold an automatic gun to one Of the
alleged bandits, sometime between aJnuary
10 and February % of the current year.
He identified Woods and Torgenson as two
Of the men, but was unable to positively
Identify the third. He could not state
positively to which of the men he sold
the gun.
Peter Marshall of Ralston, deputy game
warden for that locality, stated that he
saw Matthews, Torgenson and Gigware in
the timber at Ralston sitting around a
fire on the morning of May 20. He went
over and directed the men to put out the
fire as it was against the rules. Four men
were there, but under cross examination
he could positively identify only Torgen-
son and Grigware.
United States aMrshall Warner and Chief
Of Police Briggs Of South Omaha testified
as to further tests with the automatic pis-
toll and defective firing pin of the same,
that was brought out in the morning hear
ing. The tests were made during the noon
recess.
Tracing Booty of HOIdups.
One Of the principal points of evidence
in the trial of the Overland Limited train
robbery by which it is expected to con-
meet the men now in custody with the
holdup is in the transmission OF a guam
tity Of mutilated currency from the First
National bapk of Kemmerer, Wyo., by
registered mail to New York for redemp-
ton.
This money was marked and its numbers
taken by the bank and in addition to the
letter Of transmission a copy of the letter
was retained by the bank. Some of this
Identical money was found In the possess
sion Of two or the alleged bandits. Woods
and Torgenson, after their arrest the night
of May q. and was identified by Assistant
Cashier Roy A. Mason during the trial
Thursday morning.
Government Men Testify.
Postoffice inspectors L. A. Thompson of
Omaha, F, A. Grogan OF Lincoln and c. NJ
Perkins Of Washington testified as to the
recovery Of the rifled mail sacks at the
Brown Park school and their examination
Of the rifled mail, with specific reference
to the money package.
Inspector Perkins told Of being present
when the envelopes containing the effects
taken from the prisoners the night of
their arrest, were opened by Chief of
Police Briggs Of South Omaha, in the
presence OF the witness and United States
Marshal Warner. 1t was at this time that
Mr.. Perkins put his official mark upon the
money taken from the prisoners. The en-
velopes were again sealed and have since
remained in the possession of the United
States authorities. Inspector Perkins
identified several Of the bills as being part
Of the package.
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Woman Held Not Guilty.
ST PAUL. Nov. L-The jury In the case
OF Mrs. Nina Arbogast, charged with muir