Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-06-03
Testimany and Identification Causes
Commission to Hold Men on Bonds.
JURY CONvENEs NEXT WEEK
People Throng Federal Court Room
Where Hearing is Held.
BOYS WHO GAVE TIP ARE THERE
These Youngsters, Together with
Eneinemen and Mail Clerks
Furnish Evidence Against
Three Men.


Federal grand jury called TO convene
june to investigate men charged with
Overland Limited robbery;
Carl Anderson, Hubbard.
Swan +. Atkinson, st. Edwards.
Pearl w. Barker, Ponca.
Seth p. Barnes, Homer.
Carl Benson, 202 North Eighteenth.
s. 8. Caldwell, aos south sixtsenth.
.. II. Christie l7l4 Mandsrson.
Q, g, Crowen, jr, Blair,
Hans Elliott, Columbus.
sylvester Emley, wisner.
John Harty, Hubbard.
Thomas II. Hunter, Valley.
~. ]. johnson, Ames.
Edward G. Kinzei, wisner.
M, 8. Mansfield, WinnebaRo,
Milton Nye, wisner.
Prank Osborne, Harrington.
Fstsr 4. Roger, 4lla north Twenty
Alex Ross, Soribner.
Charles n Smith, Schuyler.
Mewton thompson, Goa South sixteenth
William spillmRn, West Point.
Arraigned before United States Commits
sioner Anderson; Identified by half a dozen
men seen at Overland holdup or Brown
Park school. where mail sacks were found;
probable cause" established and grand
jury OF twenty-three from the Omaha o.
vision summoned to report June 70 In
vestigate w. d. Woods, James Gordon and
Fred Torgensen, the men charged with the
robbery of the Union Pacific overland
limited near Omaha, May o.
These were the events in the lives Of the
three alleged bandits Wednesday. At .he
conclusion of n days hearing, Commits
sloner Anderson said: II think there Is
sufficient probable cause to bind the ac-
oused over to the federal grand jury and
will fix the bond of each at $25 Oo0'
The men could not give bonds.
In the office of United States Marshal
Warner deputies were already at work
that they might be ready to summon a
grand jury in the event the men were held
| by Commissioner Anderson. BY working
late the United states marshaPs office
summoned the jury Of twenty-three men
who will investigate Woods, Gordon and
Torgensen.
1t is the first jury OF the kind that has
been called in Omaha and is authorized
under a new provision which makes IL
possible to call such jury for a division
at any time to act on matters pertaining
to the district in which the jury is called
These summoned for the jury are from
the eleven counties composing the Omaha
division
Not in several years have the federal
court rooms contained such a crowd as
was gathered in court room No. wednes-
day morning when the preliminary hear
ings of the men charged with train robbery
began
Many Omcers Present.
Many women were among the spectators
and among the more prominent of citizens
of all classes present In the court room
were Vice President Mohler and General
Superintendent Park of the Union Pacific
Railroad company and w. A. Pinkerton Of
Chicago the head of the Pinkerton deteo-
tive agency
Among the exhibits attracting general at
tention were the nine mutilated mail sacks
and the pistols used by the robbers In
the holdup.
The hearing was held before United
States Commissioner Anderson. The pris-
oners were brought up from the county
jail by Deputy United States Marshals
Logan Sammons. John A. Sides and Joseph
Proctor. They were held I'm the private
office of United States Marshal Warner
until the hearing was opened, when Gordon
was taken into the court room by Deputy
Marshal Proctor Woods by Deputy Mar
shall Sides and Torgensen by Deputy Mar
shal Sammons.
Woods Is Cool Boy.
The prisoners were seated in the front
row OF the jury box between the deputies
and were naturally the cynosure OF all
|
most composed Of all. Gordon still main
tains his haggard look and Torgensen looks
on the proceedings with stoical interest
The six boys who discovered the arms
: Of the bandits near the Brown Park school
house. and are given the credit for the
: final apprehension OF the bandits, were in
the court room accompanied by their par
ents and attracted universal attention and
all seemed proud of their distinction. The
boys are very modest and take especial
pride in the summons handed each OF them
as witnesses.
J. NJ Macfarland appeared as attorney
for the accused men. The proceedings be
gan with but little preliminary form. The
first witness was Engineer ID. w. MiRel-
john, who was the first man TO receive
the attention Of the robbers in the hold-up.
His story is practically a repetition OF
the story told by him hitherto ana al
ready appearing in print.
Tells the story of HOIduD.
, The first knowledge 1 had OF any
trouble" said he. was when the two
men crawled over the tank and one OF
them covered me with an automatic gun,
a directing me 10 hold up my hands. ! did
not know what 10 make of It at first but
soon saw that they meant business and
up went my hands. He ordered me to stop
, the train and just started to DO So when
" he told me not yet, but that he would tell
me when to stop; and wanted US to stop
at the mouth OF Mud Cut,
They first appeared over the tank at
d about Seymour. about a mile and a half
J. from Mud Cut.
u The bandit PRESSED the pistol against
my cheek and said This is holdup. We
= don't want to hurt you nor Kill anybody
r unless we have to-
q we were then going at the rate OF about
{ twenty-five miles hour / noticed q
light ahead. which at first / took 10 be
the oil headlight OF possibly a freight en-
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