Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-04
BANDITS PLAN DEED WELL
More Evidence Shows How Men
Looked Over Ground.
REAL ESTATE MANS LITTLE DEAL
w. H. CrRry BndeavOred to Sell
Land TO Train Robber when He
Found Them in Vicinity
of Place.

A varied grist Of testimony was pro-
duced yesterday afternoon in federal court
showing the alleged train bandits were
seen In the vicinity of the Lane cutoff
three or four days preceding the robbery
of the Overland Limited. May %.
l THE testimony indicated they were get
tf'g the lay Of the ground, and again
demonstrated the careful planning for
the robbery. with every possible avenue
for escape left open. This accounts for
the complete loss OF trace Of the bandits
after the robbery until their plumber was
found several days after, near and in the
Brown Park school house, nearly four
miles distant from the scenes Of the rob-
berry.
W. II. Crazy, a real estate man who was
interested in the disposition Of certain
property near the Forty-second street
viaduot, stated that Wednesday preceding
the robbery he had seen four or five men
resting under a tree in that locality, and
presuming that they were looking for
property investments there, went over and
talked with the men. Three of the men
he identified as Grigware, Torgenson and
Woods.
other witnesses who had seen at least
two of the men in the same locality were
A. j. Hunt, who lived near the Lane cut
off; Emil Plfaum, who worked at the
Hart elevator near Mud Cut: Mrs. Anna
Fody. who at the time lived near the
Forty-second street viaduct. All Of these
parties saw two OF the accused men a
day or two preceding the robbery.
John Houser OF Fremont testified to hav-
ing se4RsWQodsjn,his store on May %. He
came there to buy maps of Nebraska and
South Dakota.
More aud More evidence Adduced.
Jailer William McCrath OF South Omaha
told of searching Woods the night of his
arrest and Of being present at the search
ing OF Grigware and Torgenson. and said
he had put the articles taken from them
into envelopes and locked them up. He was
present when these envelopes were after
wards opened by Postoffice Inspectors
Thompson and Perkins and Chief Of Police
Briggs, and saw all the articles returned
to the respective envelopes.
Other evidence was introduced showing
where Torgenson roomed on North Fiji
teenth street, and from a waitress in the
Uneedas restaurant. where all of the men
under arrest took their meals occasionally
prior to their arrest.
Roy A. Mason, assistant cashier OF the
First National bank of Kemmerer, Wyo.
Identified two registered envelopes that had
been recovered from the stolen mail sacks
III hllINANu pg Ills VII aNNbih'
paRying letters of transmittal, one of which
contained Ss4 in mutilated currency, and the
other a number Of mining share certificates
, These he had registered and mailed to New
York May p. But $50 of this mutilated cur
rency had been recovered and restored tC
his bank, The certificates were all re.
covered,
Matthews Real General.
That Bill Matthews. alias @. c. Marvin
is a consummate general and an almos
f~aultless organizer was demonstrated at thu
morning session.
After the arrest Of Woods, Torgenson and
Grigware the night of May q and the pre-
cipltate flight Of Shelton from his room ii
the Sinhold .rooming house on South Six
teenth street the following morning h
went to the rooms occupied by Matthew
at 1914 Dodge street and was there shielded
by Matthews until late that evening, wheI
he was furnished money by Matthews 70
his further flight
Mathews then remained until saturda!
morning. took his two grips and deliber
ately walked away after finding that h,
could be of no more service to his partner
who were then in Jail charged with tn
robbery. and disappeared from Omaha unit
he was brought here from Bull, Idaho.
II was Mathews loyalty to. shelton tina
worked his undoing. Up 20 July Z Mat
thews had not figured in the hold-up cas-
at all. 1t was fairly well known tina
there was a fifth man in the hold-uI
but PinkertOns, government officials an
the best sleuths in the country were com
pletely at sea to locate or get the slightes
clue to the fifth man.
on July Z, after Shelton had been brough