The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-08

Albert Julien is Held on Suspicion of
4 Being Train Robber But has
i a Good
4 AIIbi.
POLICE ARE BAFFLED
Pair Of Hobo stereotypcrs VIII
Probably be Released for the
Want of Sufficient
Proof.

ST. LOUIS, Sept s.-The positive
statement made by George Bress-
man that Albert Julien, the
lstereotyper who is being held by the
police charged with having shot and
killed ]. M. Wine, flagman on the Chi
lcago, Burlington and Quincy Pacific
slcoast express train Tuesday night and
lrobbing three passengers, spent the
might in his saloon at z02I Clark ave-
lnue, with the exception OF one period
Iof fifteen to twenty minutes, has serv-
led TO partially establish an alibi,
(which was claimed by Julien when
a 1he was arrested early yesterday morn
ting Bressmer told the police yester-
lday that Julien was In his place the
whole night. with the exception Of
fhis time, which is not enough to al
(ow him to do the murder and the
Robbery of which he is charged.
Police investigation c. the killing
end robbery was at a standstlll last
/ bight awaiting the coming Of Thomas
FL Eriffen, electrician on the train. Tele-
Grams were sent along the line yes
! terday and last night word was re-
B lceived that he will arrive in ST. Louis
4 lst 7.19 this morning with Conductor
Thomas Brady, who was In charge of
) THE train.
II Pending his arrival the police are
d still holding Julien and Emil Freund.
n No satisfactory Identification OF
y Julien has been made. n Griffen does
1 baf1t positively identify hfsss as the
Il criminal, Julien will probably be re-
III heased. Griffen had more opportunity
4 Ito observe the actions Of the robber
#than any one else, and heard his
#lvoice a number of times as he was
e ordered by the bandit to search the
81 sssleTecfs OF the passengers for money.
III Frennd was arrested at a. m. yes
III ferday by Patrolman Thomas Spillane
E. pf the Central district in q doorway
pn Walnut street near Twentieth. only
l.h block from union station. Julien
" WAS picked up by Officers Beckett and
Il Fisher of the Central district at 8
# m. Yesterday as he was attempting
Il 70 ship out as a workman in Michael's S
ssSS labor Agency, near Ninth and Pine
Il streets.
sf When arrested he asked If the
# charge on which he was held was ser
\ fous He explained yesterday that he
III Pad not seen his companion, Freund,
Fince IL O'clock Tuesday night and
q Thought perhaps he had been killed
lPr injured in some way
a8 Julien was made to dress as the
9 bandit was described, an- confronted
iHI WITH the porter, who declared he
\, could not identify him unless he heard
''ssE mis- voice. In trembling voice re-
.GPeated after Capt. Swartz the sentence
bandit was reported TO have said
III 70 the porter, Put out that light
..Hsb and the negro declared the voice was
ISthe same.
f8 ouiien says he spent the evening In
lofessmer's saloon, and only left there
EoI hIteen or twenty minutes in an
Enott TO catch q train to Chicago. This
ps substantially corroborated by Bress.
T8 Enef who says that Julien remained
kn the saloon the greater part of the
pour during which the bandit Is sup.
e'oseo 70 cave boarded the train, rid.
Il#Gen mile or more and disappeared
I'M riieeen special officers In the EN-.
sR Pioy OF the Terminal Railroad Associa.
ssis tion have been working on the case
I5 pontlnnonsly since the crime was
fommitted, and have found nothing
s#p1 either the blue silk handkerchief
Rorn by the bandit or any weapons
Pr money thrown near tae right OF
N Fay
III me body of Wine. the flagman, was
tound by G. NJ Barber special agent
slE p the Terminal Railroad Association
Tho started from the union station
F. search the tracks taken by the ex
press as soon as the robbery was re
ported to the Terminal Company's OF
pces in the station building.
E The bandit was described as wear
ing a Derby bat. The special officers
ERp the Terminal Company found Der
4 py nat IN an alley near the viaduct al
Iarr street yesterday, which they
mink was thrown from the train b,
|fsae robber. The band aad been torn
|5 III. The band also was found. TIE
XII at was tried on Julien. but did not
Nf II him- 1t was two sizes too large.
ilE Griffin Identifies.
Es inomas Griffin, electrician for the
arlington train, declared positively
y rs morning that Albert Julien was
Il e man