Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
Nebraska
SHARPERS PICKED UP
Separate Man from His Money on a
Rock Island Train.
THREE MEN ARE UNDER ARREST
Railroad Detective Gets One and
MSrshsI at Greenwood NRbs the
other Two when They
jump on Train.
orrom a starr Correspondent.1

From a Starr Correspondent
LINCOLN. March Observation-Disclosures
Sheriff James Dawson returned to Lincoln
Thursday morning from Greenwood with
two men who are held on the charge of
working a confidence game upon a passen.
scr of a Rock Island train. The complaint
against them is that they skiIlfully sepa-
rated a tenderfoot from his roll. amount
ing to t3O. in a card game. The third con-
fideuce man, who made up the fourth man
in the card game. is now held in Fsirbury
and will be brought to Lincoln later.
The men now held in the county jail
have all the earmsrks of being smooth
individuals. They are both young and we'll
dressed and ready takers. The other mem
Der Of the trio is the funeral director
Of the combination He is called Judge
He wears a long beard and has an air Of
conservatism and gravity about him that
q supposed to inspire confidence. The name
" this individual has not yet been learned.
The others gave their names as william
g. Mayer and j. c. Burton.
Railroad Prosecutes Case.
The complaint against them is made by
Special Agent Frantz OF the Rock Island.
The complaint against the men was made
10 the railroad men shortly before the
train reached Prairie Home. Finding that
the railroad authorities were inclined to
AXE up the charge, they tried to get away
lust as the train was approaching Prairie
Home. Two OF them got off the train. but
the third was caught He was carried on to
Fairbury before he was taken off and
turned over to the peace authorities. The
Two men who succeeded in getting off the
Train hired q livery team and drove TO
GREENWOOD, where they were preparing to
a a train for Lincoln. Local authorities
peheVe mat they are members Of an or
ganized gang. Late Wednesday might the
ottlcer at Greenwood, who had arrested
the two men and was holding them there.
received a telephone call that purported to
come from a Rock Island detective at
Omaha, telling him to release his prisoners
as the railroad authorities had decided not
TO prosecute.
Henry Leavitt, an Omaha attorney. was
going in on the Rock Island from Omaha
yesterday afternoon, when a few miles
out of Omaha a man suggested a game of
whist to him. Leavltt replied that he did
not play bridge and refused to be drawn
into the game. Three other fellows con-
sented to the game, however, and they went
TO the smoking car and began to play. A
snort time after this, while the train was
stu two stations out OF Lincoln, a man
ran TO the back platform and Just as the
rain was gathering speed after pulling
out from the station dropped off an6
started toward the town on a run. A feu
seconds later a second man, 1t later de.
velo2ed that he was a detective, spranr
from the platform and started after the
first fellow.
Omaha Boy Heads Freshmen.
Asn'd a big uproar, Rowland Thomas joi
omaha' a member oGsthe Phi Gamma Delta
paternity was proclaimed president of the
freshmen class Tuesday. securing the neces.
sary majority on the first ballot over hi,
other two opponents. Charles Landers OF
norfolk and A. l.. Beck of Cheyenne. Tn,
vote stood; Thomas, 157; Landers. 81; Beck
is. ThomaF surprised almost every one II
the class by unexpected strength anon,
the barb. 1t was known that he woult
poll almost the entire fraternity vote Will,
10 was expected that Landers and Becl
would divide the barb vote between them
An election on the first ballot was bardI,
expected.
The meeting was a noisy one preside,
over by President Kerspacker of Gran,
Island. Nominations were called for arte
considerable jockeying.