Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26
FORCE ON The TRAIL
Three More Postal Inspectors Join
Search for Bandits.
RENTED FLAT AND AUTO A CLUE
strange Conduct of Transient Ten
ants EHcttes fnterest-PoIice
Civ out No Clues, ~
They Have Any.

Three additional postoffice inspectors. ar
rived IN Omaha Tuesday morning to go to
work on the registered mail robbery. They
are Hal b. Mosby of Washington and In
spectors Patterson and Smith OF st. Louis.
What is regarded by the postoffice in
spectors as an important clue developed
Tuesday morning in which a hurriedly
rented house on Twenty-fifth avenue and
an automobile figure prominently.
The premises in question the immediate
location of which the officials decline to
make public, were rented about two weeks
ago. The parties moved in hurriedly, re-
manned there about a week and moved out
again. Last Saturday the premises were
rented again, the parties occupying merely
the upper floor of the flat. About 10 O'Clock
Saturday night an automobile drove lei
surely up in front OF the house. only the
driver being in Il at the time. The auto
remained in front of the mouse for about
half an hour and then drove away. going
southwark. II was a medium-size touring
car.
Shortly after l O'Clock Sunday morning
this same auto appeared again in front Of
the flat. but the parties observing it did
not notice again anyone in the auto. It
was then faced toward the north. with the
auto light burning. The auto remained in
front of the house until after the parties
observing 1t had reti: ed, It was heard to
move away some little time afterward, GO
ing nerthward.
The premises occupied by the parties who
rented them Saturday are now vacant.
Up in the Air.
I'VE are up in the air in the train rob-
berry, so far as tangible clues that have so
far brought any developments are con
cerned.' said Chief of Detectives John II.
Savage and Police Captain Henry w.
Dunn Tuesday noon.
our latest clue, about the Iowa automo-
bile, fell through this morning, when we
got into telephone communication with
the town marshal OF Stanton and with the
owner of the machine. All the other clues
and theories we have had, including the
express wagon going south after the
holdup, the men boarding the train at Free
ment. the party of suspects in the vicinity
a week before the holdup, the finding of
the mutilated letters on the bottom land
southeast of the city and others have led
us nowhere.
I'VE are still. up against catching the
bandits and getting back the mail, and
from present indications there is not a sim
gle clue that is going to lead us TO our OBJ
1ect. Inc best one we ndO' dCCOIulnB u
our opinion, was the Iowa auto, and it has
turned out to have been the car used by
a party Of business men for a Sunday
pleasure trip to Council Bluffs and back.
on their return they lost their way in the
evening and ended up at Henderson. from
which town they took trains to nearby
stations where they lived"
Kept Mt the Garage.
II has been discovered that instead Of
putting up lat a Council Bluffs garage at
1 a. m. Sunday. as reported to the Omaha
police. the machine was kept at the gar
age for a short time Sunday noon, after
which it was started back toward Stanton
by the owner. Albert Lawson, a farmer
living near Stanton.
The fact that two Of the train robbers
were thought by the few people who saw
them, masked and closely disguised, to be
young, and that the two men who held
up and robbed Conductor A. Deane and
Motorman c. o. Haskins on their street car
at Tenth and Valley streets Friday morn
ing, are also reported by the car crew
as looking young, are all that supports the
theory that the street car thugs partici-
pated in the mail robbery.
In both cases the men were masked
and nothing could be seen of anything but
their outer clothes and the manner and
voice employed. The police say the street
car holdup men might have participated
in the train hpldup.
sheriff Picks Up False scent.
Sheriff Bradley is also shy on clues. Some
woman out at Florence ~telephoned in Tues
day morning that a man was providing
around her place and acting queer"
This is no time to act queer" shouted
the doughty sheriff, as he jumped into his
big rubber boots and buckled on his rain
coat and lit out for the station seven miles
to the north where the Mormons planted
their tree. I'll see how people take liber-
ties with me and act queer"
From the best of the sheriff's knowl-
edge the man was trying to locate the hen
roost.