The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-08-30
TRAMPS KILL MAN
ON TRAIN BEFORE
BRAKEMAN FALLS
Story Told By Dennis Mont.
eomery 10 Police at
Evansville.
Carl Dutsche. Of Louisville,
Thrown Off Car.
POLICE ROUND UP SUSPECTS

Evansville. Ind. Aug. 30.-rhat
an unknown man was shot and
killed on the L H. & st. l.. freight
train Saturday night by the three
tramps who hurled Brakeman Carl
Dutsche to his deth near Rahm sta
ton. between Howell and Hender-
son, is the statement OF Dennis
Montgomery, of Boonville, Ind. who
was made to leap from the moving
train at the point of a revolver a
few minutes before Dutsche was
murdered.
The murderer Of the brakeman is
still at large, although the police OF
Evansville and Henderson have
rounded up number of suspects
and are being assisted by special
agents of the L. II. & st. L. and
iother detectives.
Montgomery is held at the Evans
Vile police station, while Chief
Covey is making his investigation.
He is 16 years old. He boarded the
freight train at Howell with a young
man whom he says be doesn't know
and who had been boarding with
him at 1904 East Columbia street.
He was robbed by the three tramps
before they forced him to leap from
the train. lt
Police Have Cews.
The Evansville police believe they
may have at least one of the three
tramps who murdered the brake
man behind bars before Wednesday
morning.
A drag net has been thrown over
the city, in me belief that the men
doubled back TO Evansville after
leaving the train where they COM
mitted the murder at Henderson. All
suspicious persons are being arrested
by patrolmen and detectives and are
being sent to the stations for inves-
tigation.
AT Boonville. Ind, where a fair
lis opening Monday and where one
of the three tramps admitted to
Montgomery he had been recently.
officers are searching the crowds at
the fair grounds.
All freight trains are being
watched.
Find Bloody Club.
In the empty coal car where
Dutsche was attacked by the hoboes
a blood-stained club was found
Sunday by the Henderson police. T.
is wooden standard" from he
side of freight car
Wounds on the head Of the mur-
dered brakeman seem 70 have been
made with heavy bar, say the per-
sons who saw the body In the Hen
derson morgue.
A part of Dutsche's watch chain
was found caught on the side OF tho
freight car
Joseph 5chenk found a pair OF
socks and hat lying beside the
track near Rahm station Sunday.
The Evansville police believe they
may prove that the hoboes who
killed Dutsche we're the same who
held up, robbed and half stripped OF
Clay Stanley, OF Howell,
near Coal Mine hill, a little before
the freight train left Howell. The
robbery occurred Just at dusk. says
Stanley. The freight train left
Howell at O'Clock. Schenk says
he was robbed OF SIS and that tho
hoboes made him take of his hat,
coat, shoes and trousers.
Montgomery's Story.
Dennis Montgomery told his story
to JournalJNews reporter at police
station Monday. He said: "'p and
my partner got on the train a little
below Howell Just as we hoped
the freight we saw four other men
jump II. Three of these men were
the ones who robbed us. The other
wasn't a partner of theirs. They
robbed him and one of them shot
him.
This fourth man was a big fell
low. guess he weighed $50
pounds. He was pretty well dressed.
] think He was the first they
jumped OH. We'd just gotten a
little way out of town when one Of
the three hoboes hit the big fellow
with the end of a revolver. l and
my partner were in the next car and
so were they.
Then the three hoboes came
back and two OF them pointed guns
at us and asked us what we had. We
said we didn't have any money. They
said we were liars and made us put
our hands up. They took 81 from
me and | think they took half dol
ar from my partner.
Said "rm Murdered"
"Then they went and l saw them
crowd around the big fellow.
think they went through him." He
was standing over at one side of the