Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
Postoffice Authorities Make No Esti-
mate as to Values.
CHEF PERKINS HERE FROM EAST
Head of Government Service Happens
to Be Going West.
CALLS SPECIAL FORCE TO WORK
Indefinite Clues Are Received 20
Three Men who May Have Been
in the Quartet that
Robbed the Mail.

Meager clues all tending to show the
men who robbed the mail car of the Union
Pacific Overland Limited the boundary
| line between Omaha and South Omaha at
II 80 Saturday night are in the city of
Omaha have been found by Omaha police
and railroad detectives.
These officers believe the train robbers
are in Omaha, and that perhaps at their
leisure they sorted the seven sacks of reg
/ istered mail taken from the car while in
hiding Sunday: w. T. Canada, chief of
Union Pacific special agents; ]. b. Viz
gard his assistant; Chief of Detectives
John H. Savage of the Omaha department,
Chief OF Postoffice Inspectors Perkins
from Washington and United States Mar
shall William p. Warner.
A greasy gauntlet glove, such as is used
around automobiles, was found in the mail
sack cut open by the robbers and picked
up by Captain Mostyn; the remark OF the
bandit that the seven sacks was about all
that could be carried I'm "the auto" and
! the fact that the robbers made such a
| quick getaway, though pursued by fast
| police automobile. all strengthen the be-
lief of railroad officials that an auto
mobile was used in accomplishing the
holdup and eluding the officers.
On Trail of Chauffeur.
| with this theory in mihd Union Pacific
special agents are seeking to find a young
man who has been known TO run his auto
mobile to assist in crooked work at least
once The man sought will be asked
where he was Saturday night and his
movements traced. as not great while
ago he assisted two persons who had
robbed an old man in getting away from the
police
| "A description given by one OF the postal
clerks of one Of the robbers as a young
man, small of stature with a very white
face, from what could be seen OF II, who
acted very nervous. rather fits the descrip
ton of the young automobile driver whose
movements are. being traced. The young
man has Council Bluffs gambling house
gether good reputation.
The amount of the loss is not known and
will not be for several days.
1t so happened that Chief Inspector
Perkins of Washington was passing
through Omaha on his way to Spokane 20
look into the robbery Of the Northern Pa
cific mai car when the robbery happened
in Omaha. This coincidence has greatly
aided the federal authorities in starting the
search for the robbers. The Kansas City
headquarters of the postoffice inspectors
was at once notified and a detail of post
office inspectors arrived Sunday and
at work on the Overland Limited robbery,
Careful Selection of spot.
That the ground was gone over and the
spot selected for holding up the train
by old hands at the business
aided by at least one local man as a driver,
is the theory of the police.
On the curve in the deep cut OF the
Lane cutoff In a neighborhood not far
removed from where Pat Grove success
fully held young Edward Cudahy for ran
SON. one or more of the robbers placed a
signal fire shortly before the train was
due. This little blaze the bandits on the
engine tender saw when the location
selected was reached. AT that moment and
amid the surroundings favorable for a
train robbery. the enginemen were made
to stop the train at the point OF heavy
guns and the work OF the robbers was
done with great precision and with a do
1t now" determination.
'HOld-up near Omaha astonshed police
officers and citizens Sunday morning but
when they looked at the map and il be-
came "hold-up in Omaha" the astonlsh-
ment grew. The train actually stopped
Just west Of Fcrty-fourth street. which Is
the boundry line of Omaha and South
Omaha. Here the mail car was robbed
and the stolen registered mail carried by
the mail clerks under command OF the rob-
hers, into South Omaha. The mail sack
and top OF another sack were found just
across the line in South Omaha
This has added 10 the determination of
the Omaha officers who are in 10 trace
the robbers If II be POSSIBLE.
say Men Are I'm Town.
THE hold-up men are within three miles
OF the scene Of the robbery" said Chief
of Detectives John II. Savage OF the police
department
we are working on the theory that the
robbers have a rendezvous in or near
South Omaha or Omaha. The police force
is armed with all we have In the way OF