Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-25
REWARD FOR ROBBERS.

tiles To Natch hOobeEes
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REWARD FOR ROBBERS.
Union Pacific offers $4,000, $4,000 for
the apprehension OF each bandit.
Government offers $4,000, $1,000 foi
each man.
LOSSES REIMBURSED.
Section 40 OF the United States Postal
Service Guide makes this provisions In
case of loss the sender or owner OF regis
tered erticle prepaid at the letter rate of
postage, mailed at ana addressed to u
United States postoffioe, is indemnified
for it's value up TO s2s.
Robbng a train at Lane Cutoff at Il 20
p. m. Saturday doing business somewhere
in Omaha at 1875 (fifteen minutes later)
before officials could be notified OF the
Overland robbery, thus framing an alibi
because of the advantages OF using an
automobile, seems to be the time schedule
OF the train robbers.
After a careful search of the neighbor-
hood where the robbery occurred Saturday
night, going over every foot OF the ground
for hundreds of yards around, w T.
Canada, special agent of the Union Pacific
rsnroad, said:
Forty times as easy to trace a team as
an automobile. l am satisfied no team
was tied near where the robbery was COM
mitted. We have always found tracks Of
a team, the backing. the paving and tracks
of horses tied, even for few minutes al
ways helps in starting train robbery
case. The tracing OF a team that was out
during the night, getting a line on four
men in a wagon, is much easier tnan
fitting automobile.
This is what we have to deal with: No
tracks of any kind either of team or suto-
mobile. The mail sacks were not carried
in bulk without some sort of a vehicle and
not carried very far in that. An automo-
bile practically covers it's own tracks, does
not paw up the earth nor leave the traces
| of the wagon"
Another Chauffeur in II.
| Thus the Union Pacific officials credit the
automobile theory and the South Omaha
! police suggest another chauffeur besides
the being investigated by the railway
officials. who has run his machine to aid
crooks
South Omaha police state positively they
! have traces of an automobile which was
rum ont on the Forty-second street bridge
at dusk Saturday night They believe IL
might have gone there early because the
! Overland Limited recently changed time
and was due later than might have been
anticipated.
The South Omaha police have all OF their
nineteen men at work and at o'clock
Monday afternoon expressed the belief that
the robbers were not in South Omaha, but
they had used an automobile, secured tho
registered mail and were In Omaha coming
| by the good road furnished by Center street
and Forty-second street into the city at
clip which would put them safely into the
heart of the city, where they could go and
transact business with some house and
thus establish an alibi In the event OF cap
ture by being in the city within few min
utes after the robbery and able to produce
men who knew they were present m the
city.
Not n ROseate Future.
With the federal government, the Union
Pacific railroad, the sheriff and police de-
partments looking for the robbers they face
the additional fact that no man who par
tcipated in any Union Pacific railroad rob-
berry is now alive or outside the peniten-
tary.
This also faces the robbers: If any one
OF them ever worked for the federal gov
eminent his record is kept up almost daily
and II he held a trusted position where he
would know about registered mail the in
spectors know what he is doing daily.
The successful removal of two sacks of
registered mail from mail wagon between
the Omaha postoffice and Union station
last winter and the fact that not a trace
Of the sacks was ever found leads postal
authorities to believe local talent is suffi-
ciently ingenious to have pulled off both
robberies.
What the robbers secured is still an un-
certainty. 1t is limited that they might
have been after the Washington sacks,
being forwarded 10 the Treasury depart
ment, but valuable papers going to depart
ments of the government
Five Pinkertons Here.
10 detachment OF five Pinkerton men ar
rived in Omaha from Chicago Monday fore
noon and went on the case at once. These
men will work independently Of the post
office inspectors Postoffice Inspector c.
NJ. Perkins of Chicago will have charge of
the work here and will be assisted by four
special men from Washington. who are
regarded among the best men in the gov
ernmeut service. Two Of these are already
here and the others will arrive In Omaha
Monday evening.
! H. +. Randall and II. S. Grogan post
] office inspectors from Lincoln, are among
the new arrivals in Omaha to work on the
hold-up of the Union Pacific mail train
Nothing new has developed at federal head
quarters relative to the robbery, and the
officials are very reticent regarding their
plans.
None Of the federal officers credit the
theory that the Great Northern train rob-
bers have had anything to DO with the
Omaha affair. Neither are they disposed
to advance any theories regarding the OBJ
2 ject OF the robbery, other than that II was
2 plain hold-up for the purpose Of obtain,
D ing valrstles from the registered pouches
No Great value In Reno Sack.
B The portion Of the Reno, New, pouch
q that was recovered, shows that It was
) destined 10 the Northwestern terminal In
e Chicago. This pouch was made up at
Reno and could not have obtained any
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