Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-06-22
EXECUTIVE RELEASED ON $4,000
BAIL AFTER EXAMINATIONS
HEARING SET FOR JUNE
% IN BEMIDJI.
ACCUSED OF COMPLETELY
IN ARSON AND ROBBERY
Accused As Leader Of Gang of Desper
ADDE'S Who Are Wanted for Many
Crimes in Northern Minnesota.
Has Borne an Excellent
Reputation Heretofore.

Bemidji, Minn.-Dr. D. T. Dumas,
held up by Pinkerton detectives as
''the king of American crooks" ar
rested at Hibbing and brought here
as the result of trap laid for two
Of his alleged confederates who were
shot and seriously wounded as they
were about to blow the postoftice safe
! at Puposky, is free to continue his
! duties as mayor of Cass Lake.
DR.. Dumas was arraigned here be.
fore Court Commissioner Simons and
after brief examination was held on
bonds of $4,000, which were furnished
by two Cass Lake merchants and sa'
loonkeeper of that place, and Dumas
was turned loose. He has employed
former District Judge Marshall A.
Spooner and A. A. Andrews of this
city as his attorneys. Judge Spooner
is the lawyer who succeeded in hav-
Ing the Indian Treaty lid removed from
this part of the state under which
"Pussyfoot" johnson had closed all sa-
looms. Dumas hearing was set for
June % before Commissioner Simons
here.
DR.. Dumas expressed extreme indig:
nation at having been made the tar
get of such sensational charges and
aside from a general denial of guilt re.
fuses to comment.
indignation Called Sham.
CDR. Dumas indignation appears
like sham to us, with all the evil
dence we have at our command" is
the only comment of Superintendent
Fielding in charge of the Pinkerton
men here.
The Office of DR.. Dumas at Cass Lake
was searched on the authority of a
search warrant issued by Judge Ives
Of that place to- Deputy Sheriff Matt
Kennedy. The detectives declare that
| papers were found furnishing addition
al discriminating evidence.
| Superintendent S. T. Fielding, of the
st. Paul Pinkerton branch, Assistant
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 found
six sticks of dynamite and four dyna.
mite caps. DR.. Dumas, at liberty on
bail, who fastened from the home Of
patient, to give up the combination
Of the safe, 50 that an expert who had
arrived from st. Paul would not have
to blow it, joked at the discovery.
"The worst is yet to come" was his
comment.
Pinkerton detectives have steno.
graphic report of what they claim to
be the exact conversation taken by a
Pinkerton stenographer of plans given
the two robbers in the John Larson
saloon here by Mayor Dumas of the
Puposky robbery. While Dumas was
telling his ieutenants what to do, a
detective, it is claimed, was concealed
within hearing distance, taking notes,
other witnesses are said to have been
present.
It is said that there were not less
than four eye witnesses to the con.
ference in the John Larson saloon here
between Dumas and his alleged pals.
It had been arranged, according to
| the detectives story, that after the
robbery the robbers were to take the
stamps and money from the postof1ice
In a valise to the nearest point on the
Minneapolis & International railroad,
! Turtle River, 10 miles north of Be.
midi; that they were to proceed to
Cass Lake on the Great Northern, and
that they were to be met in Cass Lake
by DR.. Dumas, to whom they were to
give the stamps and other booty and
10 receive in return $500.
DR.. Dumas, graduate Of the Univers.
sity of Minnesota and the son of q
wealthy citizen of Minneapolis who.
like thunderbolt out of clear sky
has become a man of mystery, an in
ventor of a particularly deadly explo
sive liquid obtained by dynamite, and
who must answer charges of crimes
covering incendiarism, insurance swim
dies and above all the cleverest con
ceived safe crackings with which the
police have had to contend with fol
long time, declares he has no inten
ton of resigning his position as CHIEF
executive Of Cass Lake.
Looks for Indication.
He believes hts home people are
with him, and that he will be vindi
Gated. In the meantime that part Of
this thrilling narrative, involving thu
alleged duplicity Of prominent man
which relates to the dramatic events
Of the attempted robbery at Puposky
alleged to have been planned by May
o. Dumas, more in the spirit Of re
| ysuse against the postmaster ana
matchant, said to DO an old enemy
4fhan for lust Of money, is not with
cut It's graphic incidents.
1 Bean, one Of the robbers caught II
ne act BY Detective Fielding and Sher
! ~ j.. Haxen as the result Of informa
] tn furnished by Assistant State Fir.