Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
HUNDREDS HUNT FOR REAL CLUE
Country for Miles Around watches
for Four Men with Sacks.

Country for Miles Around Watches
for Four Men with Sacks.
I'VE saw four men with something COW
cred up In their buggy"
This information came to police officers,
newspaper rooms and Union Pacific head
quarters from every direction Sunday, and
men on the way to the lakes with a few
large, cold bottles covered up with "gunny-
sacks were under grave suspicion In sew
eral places.
The first story came from Florence,
where four men were seen riding in a light
wagon with some mysterious looking bundle
covered III in the back OF the vehicle.
Chief Donahue would not listen to II.
During the early morning a story reached
Omaha that four men had driven through
Falls City in an automobile just at day
light, that attempt was made TO stop trem
and they displayed firearms. The sheriff
and deputy sheriff of Richardson county
and city marshal Of Falls city exploded
the story. The people of that city had
not heard OF the robbery az noon.
II. J. Taylor, beat keeper at Seymour
park saw two men fishing in the lake at
dusk Saturday evening. They had an auto
mobile. He went over to talk with them
and they moved on, using the automobile
without lighting the lamps. Later they
were seen around the lake with the ma
chine, still unliRhted.
But the story, Of Favell, employee OF the
Howard Stove Manufacturing company,
that he saw four men going south on the
road just about one mile from the scene
OF the robbery as he was walking from
the end of the West Q street car line to
his home In Ralston. looks the best OF
any of the reports received by Chief of
Police Donahue. He say 1t is more apt
to be the dope on the robbery and that
the men in the light wagon were probably
the robbers. who took a roundabout way
into South Omaha and are In that city at
present or in its outskirts, and detectives
are going over the livery stables and other
places where teams are kept which might
be used for a night ride.
long distance telephone calls 20 neigh
boring towns telegraphic COMMUNICATION
by the railroads to every station which
could be reached. have failed TO bring in
any trace OF the robbers. With Douglas,
Sarpy, Washington and Dodge counties
a net work of telephone lines, the theory
that the robbers escaped across country,
does not look as COOL as the idea that
they returned 10 Omaha or South Omaha
with their sacks Of registered mail. and In
these cities the Police are making the vigi-
liant effort OF their lives 10 trace the rob
bers OF he Overland limited.
II is made worth their while by IN,
s9O.oO0 Offered by the Union Pacific. which
means $500 for each bandit dead or alive
1t is understood the federal government.
will also pay $1,000 for each OF the robbers
Every effort is being made by the Soutl
omahs police department 10 aid in tracing
the robbers. Detective p. "A. Shields o
the South Omaha department went 10 IN
scene of the robbery with Omaha deteo
tives and railroad officers and CONTINUES
a search Of every road. hollow and gull
until a late hour last night.
Not a trace Of anything" was the re
port he made. Did not find a thread an
the descriptions are so meager that 1t VT
be hard work unless We happen to stumbi
onto something. II We had any description
! ~A might be able TO do business. as th