The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-06-19

few hundred dollars hab been in
sured for thousands of dollars and In
some instances by Bemidji companies.
Say He Was Close to Convict.
Of Dumas connection with Frank
Hunter, sent up from Grand Rapids,
Dumas is said to have been his closest
friend in the hour of need. Hunters
downfall came when he took off his
coat to engage in saloon fight. An
officer saw that the inside of the
coat contained a complete safe rob-
ber's outfit and such as is known as
a "yegg's cloak" AS soon as Hunter
was arrested, he requested that DR..
Dumas be notified and the doctor is
said to have taken up the work of
obtaining an attorney for Hunter.
He went to Grand Rapids and then
came to Bemidji to employ an attor-
ney. In the meantime, Hunter
yielded to efforts to plead guilty and
was taken before Judge Stanton of
this city who sent him to Saltwater
for seven years and it is there that
he Is to be interviewed by Detective
Fielding and Sam Fullerton, Mr..
Fullerton leaving Bemidji this eve
ming. Mr.. Fielding and Sheriff Haz-,
en- went to Hibbing this morning
where they took charge Of the prop
erty found on DR.. Dumas when he
was arrested in that city Saturday.
Mr.. Fielding proceeds from there to
Saltwater.
Said He Had Jury Fixed.
When DR.. Dumas was told that
Hunter had pleaded guilty, he is said
to have become enraged, throwing
his hat to the floor and stamping on
it, exclaiming:
"The crazy fool! And I had it all
fixed so that the jury would be hung
up high and dry" ,-...
Pinkertons assert that one of their
own men made report of the plans
unfolded by Dr.. Dumas in the John
Larson saloon on Third street in
this city for the Puposky robbery
and that they have four witnesses to
the concoction of this plot which
was made irf the rear of the Larson
saloon, they say, and which was at
tended by Bean, the man now under
arrest, and Mike Davis, the robber
who got away.
Shevlin Fuse Was Wet.
DR.. Dumas is said to have chided
Davis for his failure to blow open
the safe in the bank at Shevlin.
Davis replied that "she would have
cracked all right but the fuse was
wet"
swell, damn you, don't have any
wet fuse at Puposky," DR.. Dumas is
reported to have replied.
DR.. Dumas continues to discharge
his official duties as mayor of Cass
Lake and has several patients to
whom he devotes his personal ef-
forts, and despite the crushing
bolts of evidence which con-
tinues to break loose in almost an
lncessant chain, he appears composed
and says everything will come out
all right.
At o'clock last evening, Detec-
tive Fielding, Sam Fullerton and
other detectives and officers, opened
DR.. Dumas safe, in his presence, at
his office in Cass Lake and found nine
sticks of dynamite and four dyna-
mite caps.
The opening of the safe was pre-
coded by an unsuccessful chase by
detectives through the woods near
Puposky after "Mike" Davis. Deputy
Sheriff Helmer assisted in the chase.
The opening of the Dumas safe
was also witnessed by Frank Yeager,
safe expert from St. Paul, Matt Ken
nedy, deputy sheriff of Cass Lake,
who worked the combination and
County Attorney Richard Funck, al
20 of Cass Lake:
When Detective Fielding and Mr..
Fullerton informed DR.. Dumas that
he safe was to be opened by the ex-
pert, Dumas said:
"You needn't go to that trouble.
I'll give you the combination
He made good on his proposal and
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