Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-28
SEVEN POINT OUT BANDITS
Wods ando Torgeuson Positively
Identified By Many Witnesses.
STRONG EVIDENCE AGAINST PAIR
Postal Clerks Corey and Eastman
Add Their Word to That of
Men who Testified
Tuesday.

The positive Identification of Woods and
Torgenson as the principal actors in the
Overland Limited mail robbery as given
by Engineer Meikeljohn, Firemen Prowl
and Wright, Postal clerks whitmore and
Rush was corroborated by the further iden-
tification Of the two men by Postal Clerks
william Corey and Frederick Eastman at
the trial yesterday afternoon.
Postal Clerks William G, Ryan. Arthur
j. Niles, Arthur L. Drepsrt and William
Sears were not able positively to identify
the accused men, as their positions In the
hold-up line were not such that they could
get a good look atlthe men, and they were
not disposed to swear to the identity of
the men upon the evidence OF their voices
alone
Frederick Eastman stated that he had
noticed the men closely during the hold-up
from the fact that he wished to be able to
give description of the men to the police
He was certain of his Identification Of
Woods and Torgenson, and was reason
ably certain Of his Identification of Grig-
ware as the third man.
William Sears was one Of the last men
to leave the car, and his activity in so
doing was suggested when he looked out
the car window and when one of the
bandits fired a shot through the car win
dow, the bullet passing close to his head
and striking piece of casting in the car,
breaking 1t off. This piece of casting was
introduced in evidence.
All of the postal clerks testified that
there were four men engaged in the hold
/ up, and that while they were lined up after
Whtmore and the alleged Woods went into
the car, the man in charge of them, who
has been identified as Torgenson, told
them il any harm came to that man in the
car that he would kill every one of
them.
1t was this same man who fired at -the
conductor and brakeman and who also fired
in the car window at Sears.
! With the testimony of Postal Clerk Dre-
bert the examination Of the postal clerks
closed
william T. Canada, superintendent of the
secret service for the UniA Pacific Rail
road company, followed the postal clerks.
The first word he had of the holdup was
shortly after midnight the night of May
%. After dressing he notified Captain
Mostyn and with two or three other Off
GERS went out to the scene Of the robbery
| in an automobile. They succeeded in re-
covering a part of a destroyed mail sack
and a glove near the north end OF the
fOIly-SeCOnu street NlduuCt.
He went out again Monday and found
the remains of the signal fire, at which
were some pieces OF charred newspaper
the fragments showing some of them to
have been Spokane, Wash, papers.
Another important find was a piece OF
envelope near the scene of the holdup,
bearing a Texas postmark. and addressed
to one Of the men now under arrest.
Mr.. Canada was stll on the stand when
the hour for adjournment arrived.
Mr.. Fleharty was asked IL the defendants
would be placed on the stand to testify
during the trial. Il do not know" he said
THE government will have to produce
some evidence that my client is in any
way connected with the affair first"
Judge T. c. Munger has ruled that most
witnesses for both sides must be excluded
from the court room during the trial while
any special witness is on the stand.
Exception was made In the cases OF Mr..
Grigware, the father of one of the de-
PENDANTS; United States Marshal Warner
Postoffice Inspectors Perkins, Thompson
and Grogan; Detectives William Canada
of the Union Pacific, Sheriff c. W. Dyer
Of Idaho and Deputy Sheriff Eugene May
Of Idaho.
Conductor NJ. c. Wallace Of the Overland
Limited testified briefly regarding his ex-
porienee in the holdup. He was in the
third sleeper from the forward end and
when the train stopped at Mud Cut, he
got out OF the car TO see what was up.
He was not near enough to recognize any
Of the men engaged In the holdup. MOI
could he tell whether they we're masked
or not, but thought they were.
John Criss, the brakeman on the Overland
Limited told Of his getting off the observa.