The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-07-25
TRIO OF ALLEGED
BAD men NABBED
SAID TO HAVE WON $50 FROM A
DETECTIVE ON NJ. p. TRAIN YES
TERDAY AND THEN STOLE SO.
EACH ARRESTED IN DIFFER
EMIT TOWN.

Three we'll dressed men, alleged
swindlers and card sharps were
brought to Moorhead police headquar-
ters this morning. by different city
marshals down the lire. and they have
been locked up pending preliminary
hearing later in the day.
The prisoners gave their names as
James w. Anderson, Harry w. Rob-
erts and G, w. Bell Money in gold.
silver and bills, amounting N all TO
1871, was taken from the trio. Also
from Bell was taken a lady's gold
watch, chain and locket. The inner
case OF the watch was engraved with
the initials H. 70, s., Sept. 10, 1891 and
efforts had been made to erase the let
ters and the date.
The men were arrested on the east
bound Northern Pacific flyer between
Manitoba Junction and Staples, one at
Detroit, one at Perham and one at
Staples at the instance of j. r. Nor
ris, deputy sheriff of st. Louis coun-
ty and connected with the Thiel de-
tective agency, who had been playing
cards with the men and had lost about
$40, including $40 bill. Morris al
leges that the latter bill was stolen
from him.
1t appears that Morris, Anderson,
Roberts and Bell were passengers out
of Fargo or Moorhead, yesterday aft
ernoon on the Staples local. No. 81.
A game of cards was suggested and
Deputy Sheriff Morris was invited
to join. Whist was the game proposed,
but the trio OF prisoners claimed ig-
norance of that game so poker was
agreed to. The game progressed mer-
rily until a point where Mr.. Morris
held a hand on which he bet $40 and
threw down a bill Of that denomina-
ton, difference of opinion arose with
the result that one of the players
against Mr.. Morris grabbed all before
him, including the $40 bill the status
of which had not been determined to
which Morris protested.
BY this time the local train had
reached Manitoba Junction at which
point the three alleged swindlers and
Mr.. Morris left the local and enter
ed a car on the waiting Winnipeg
flyer, No. IA, their destinations being
the cities.
II SHOULD De SlalcO LidL MI. MOTIFS
the deputy from Duluth had lost about
$50 with the men besides the $40 bin
which was the cause of breaking up
the game Mr.. Morris got busy to
secure the arrest of the men whom
he had sized up as gang of train
sharps. He sent message to Detroit
asking the police there to be ready to
make an arrest on the train. After
leaving Manitoba Junction the trio of
alleged swindlers parted company and
distributed themselves In different
places on the train, so deity that they
eluded the police at Detroit when the
train was searched there, except Har-
ry w. Roberts who was pointed out to
the police by the conductor and he was
taken from the train by Bert Glenn
ent, depot policeman at Detroit.
Not to be foiled. Deputy Sheriff
Morris kept the wires hot and II. r
Hollet, the marshal at Perham, board
ed the train at that point and sue
ceeded in landing G, w. Bell, who was
having a gay time with the million
aire in the observation car, and he was
taken off and held there as per in
structions from Mr.. Morris.
Anderson, the third Of the trio, was
still missing, but he was nabbed at
Staples by a policeman and Ed
Kuhns, Northern Pacific detective on
the Minnesota and ST. Paul division
with headquarters at Staples.
The arrested men were held at the
different points until this morning,
when they were brought to Moorhead
on the west bound Staples local. Ar
irving In the city in the custody OF
the several policemen, the prisoners
were taken to police headquarters.
where they were searched by Chief of
Police O'Laugh1in.
Deputy Sheriff Morris of Duluth
came In with the party and after
conference with County Attorney
Johnson he made formal complaint
against the men of gambling on
public conveyance, and preliminary
hearing was fixed before Justice Tor
son this afternoon.
The preliminary hearing of the trio
OF prisoners has been adjourned until
tomorrow, at the request of Mr.. Nc
Fetridge, chief Of the Northern Pacific
detective department, who desires to
see the men himself with view of es-
tablishing any possible connection with
the holding up of the North Coast linn
tied tram few days ago at Buffalo.
The men under arrest claim that they
can prove that they had nothing to do
with the latter job, that they were in
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