Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-06-28
OR. a. T. DUMAS, MAYOR OF, cAss.
LAKE, ARRESTED AND De.
cLARED THE RINGLEAD.
Err OF GANG.
ONE RoBBER IS CAUGHT;
ANOTHER ONE ESCAPED
Deputy Sam Fullerton, Of State Fire
MarsEaI's Office, and Pinkerton
Men Claim to Have Proofs OF
Conspiracy to Commit
Robbery and Arson.

bemld5t, Mtnn.-Dr. D. r. Dumas,
mayor Of Cass Lake, was arraigned
mere before Court Commissioner Hi.
ram A. Simons on a charge of attempt.
Ing to commit arson and burglary. He
was held Oh $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 q gun
night with two craftsmen at Puposky
early Saturday morning. For two
months the agents from the state fire
marshaps Office have been working in
an effort to trace to earth an organized
gang OF criminals who have been car.
rylng on q 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
ne mad seen explosives and burglars
IOOlS III LIT. dumas office.
Gun Fight at Puposky. 8,
Fullerton with Sheriff Hazen and a
posse from Beltrami county surround.
ed the Puposky store. Two men an.
peared on the scene at midnight and
entered the store. They were ordered
to surrender and fled.
In tn gun fight that followed one
man. Martin Behan, was wounded and
captured; another, said to be Mike
Davis, a wellknown crack, escaped, al
though he was wounded.
Through his attorneys, Judge Mar.
shall A. Spooner and A. A. Andrews,
OF Bemidjt. DR.. Dumas waived the
reading Of the complaints and asked
that bonds be fixed for his appearance
at a 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.
cepted with Albert Marshik, Henry
Mullen, and c. M. johnson as sureties.
Marshik Is a saloonkeeper at Cass
Lake, Mullen is hardware dealer and
c. 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
They are directed against John Doe
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 and
attempt at arson.
A strong part of the case against
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 ransackeG
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 8
month ago. Dumas is said to have
visited Hunter at Grand Rapids after
his arrest. . -.-.-.-
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 foun6
six sticks of dynamite and four dyna
mite caps. DR.. Dumas, at liberty or
bail, who, fastened from the home Of
q patient, to give up the combination
Of the safe, so that an expert who hal
arrived from St. Paul would not have
to blow it, joked at the discovery.
"The worst is yet to come" was hi.
comment.
State officials believe that the north
ern Minnesota exposures and arrests
will put an end to organized arson and
robbery In the state of Minnesota. In
the arrests at Cass Lake they believe
that the fire marshal's department has
finally placed it's hand on the central
link in chain of crime which has
spread throughout the entire state and
has extended to Wisconsin.
Since its creation in 1905. the fire
marshals department has realized thai
an organized gang has been operating
COMMENCEMENT At BELolT.