River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-06-22
Or. A. r. DUMAS, MAYOR OF CASS
LAKE, ARRESTED AND DE-
cLARED THE RINGLEAD-
Err OF GANG.
ONE R0BBER Is CAUGHT;
ANOTHER ONE ESCAPED
Deputy Sam Fullerton, of State Fire
MarshaPs Office, and Pinkerton
Men Claim to Have Proofs of
Conspiracy to Commit
Robbery and Arson.

mayor of Cass Lake, was arraigned
here before Court Commissioner Hi
ram A. Simons on a charge of attempt
ing to commit arson and burglary. He
was held OIL $4,000 bail for his appear
ance in court juno %. Friends in
Cass Lake went on his bond and he
was given his liberty and spent the
night in Bemidji.
Dumas alraignment follows gun
fight with two craftsmen at Puposky
early Saturday morning. For two
months the agents from the state fire
marshal's office have been working in
an effort to trace to earth an organized
gang of criminals who have been car
rying on a wholesale campaign of ar
son and robbery. F. A. Smith, a Pu-
posky storekeeper, acting as a stool
for the fire marshal, told the authori-
ties that he had paid $500 to DR.. Du-
mas with the understanding that his
store at Puposky would be burned
Smith had previously reported that
he had seen explosives and burglars
tools in DR.. Dumas office.
Gun Fight at Puposky.
Fullerton with Sheriff Hazen and a
posse from Beltrami county surround
ed the Puposky store. Two men ap
peared on the scene at midnight and
entered the store. They were ordered
to surrender and fed.
In tn gun fight that followed one
Martin pnhon UnIInd0d and
captured; another, said to be Mike
Davis, wellknown crack, escaped, al
though he was wounded.
Through his attorneys, Judge Mar.
shall A. Spooner and A. A. Andrews
of Bemidji, DR.. Dumas waived the
reading of the complaints and asked
that bonds be fixed for his appearance
at formal examination later.
S. F. Fullerton insisted that bail be
fixed at $4,000, but Judge Simons
stating that a return had been made
only on one of the complaints, said
$4,000 would be sufficient bail for his
appearance.
The bond of $4,000 was finally &C
copied with Albert Marshik, Henry
Mullen, and G. M. Johnson as sureties
Marshik is a saloonkeeper at Cass
Lake, Mullen is a hardware dealer and
G. M. Johnson is the head of big mer
camille company at Cass Lake.
Both complaints against Mr.. Dumas
are sworn to by Samuel F. Fullerton
and it was in this name that a return
was made They charge in the brief
est language without any detail the
statutory complaint for burglary anC
attempt at arson.
A strong part Of the case agains
Dumas is the statement of stools
for the state authorities that they
have seen explosives and cracksmen's
tools in DR.. Dumas safe.
DR.. Dumas desk was ransackeC
by the detectives and Deputy Fire
Marshal S. F. Fullerton. Mr.. Fuller
ton said that papers were found indi
eating that there was close connection
between DR.. Dumas and D. A. Hunter
who was sent to the state prison fol
seven years from Grand Rapids {
month ago. Dumas is said to have
visited Hunter at Grand Rapids after
his arrest.
Superintendent S. T. Fielding, of thu
st. Paul Pinkerton branch, Assistan
State Fire Marshal Sam Fullerton
and other detectives and officers, open
ed DR.. Dumas safe, in his presence
at his office in Cass Lake and fount
six sticks of dynamite and four dyna
mite caps. DR.. Dumas, at liberty OF
bail, who fastened from the home o
a patient, to give up the combination
of the safe, so that an expert who hat
arrived from st. Paul would not hav,
to blow it, joked at the discovery.
"The worst is yet to come" was hi
comment.
State off~ials believe that the north
ern Minnesota exposures and arrests
will put an end to organized arson ant
robbery in the state of Minnesota. II
the arrests at Cass Lake they believ,
| that the fire marShaPS department ha.
finally placed it's hand on the centra
link in a chain of crime which rs
spread throughout tie entire state AM
| has extended to Wisconsin.
Since its creation ia 1905. the fir,
marshars department has realized tina
an organized gang has been operatio:
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