Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-27
HOLDUP SUSPECTS ARE HELD
Two Messenger Boys Are Identified
by One Of the Victims.
FIFTEEN HoLDUPs IN MAY
Police Believe they Have the Lads
who Have Been TerrOrisinE the
Public Daring the Last
Month.

With the arrest Of two youths the police
think they have solved the highwaymen
menace over which the city has been sgog
I in the last month.
/ According to the police they have found
another repetition Of the case where youths
have turned messenger offices INTO head
quarters from which they ostensibly work
in the daytime and prowl the streets in
search for victims at night
W. c. McClave, 20 years old. and Roy
/ Anderson, 10 years old, were arrested In
little room in the rear OF a messenger
service office at Twelfth and Faxnam
streets, by Detectives Dunn and Fleming
The arrest came after the detectives had
made their regular daily round OF all the
hotels of the city, searching for young
men who might have come ins late. The
officers had started to search all the mes
senger offices in the city. They discovered
the two youths asleep behind some boxes
in the corner Of the room.
Roy Rentfrew. 1ll2 North Seventeenth
street, who was held up by the highway
men on Nineteenth street, near Burt, is
said by the police to have identified the
youths as the ones who robbed him.
Two others boys are being held upon
suspicion that they might be implicated in
the series Of holdups. They are William
! Grant, or Burke, and Walter Walls. These
boys were employees of the messenger com
pany in whose office the other two sus-
poets were found.
Sidney w. Smith, victim of the holdup
men, appeared al police headquarters. The
four prisoners were lined up for him TO
inspect. He could not positively identify
any one Of the youths as participating in
the robbery of the night of May IA, in
which City Attorney Rine and ]. E. Steyer.
81 North Twenty-sixth were other victims.
Fifteen holdups nave peen reported to
the police since May l. In most of them
the victims have described the act to have
been perpetrated by two youths, one of
them wearing q brown soft hat The de-
scriptions tally with that OF McClave and
Anderson. Reports Of losers by highway
men since May l are:
May EP. T. Gordon sol Hickory street.
by two boys.
May 6-Oscar Harquist. 2s53 Dodge street.
by two boys.
May IF. J. Burnley, 1Ss North Thirty
eighth avenue, by two boys.
May 7-P. HALTER, 1924 North Eighteenth
street two boys.
May SIS. H. Ross. 4ss South Twenty
sixth street, one man. wearing a brown
soft hat
May 1s-H. G. Weston. S1s Bancroft
street, one man.
May 12-Fred Early 1904 Cas- street, by
three young men.
May A-City Attorney ]. A. Rine, S. w.
| Smith, 21l South Eighteenth street. and
J. E. Steyer, 81 North Twenty-sixth street,
rounded up by three young men.
May 80. D. Wilson and Martin Lynch.
street car men. held up on car on Riverside
line. by two young men.
May ls-Charles Foster. Z1s Central
boulevard, by two young men.
May 1S-Edward M Noble, $50 North
Twenty-third street. by two young men.
May 1s-Arthur johnson. 1904 South Tenth
street, by two young men.
May pa J. Barak 21l2 Harvey street
/ by two young men.
May 2S-Roy Rentfrow, I112 North Seven
teenth street by three young men.
| May S-Joe Paul 241 Dodge street nj
Twenty-second and Dodge streets. by two
young men
The four prisoners disclaim all knov1edR.
OF the circumstances which surround them.
| Unflinchingly they faced the eyes Of thu
detectives and victims who were at police
headquarters in an effort to Identity them.
They all say they came to Omaha from
Kansas City recently.