Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-06-26
4eputy Fullerton Talks Of
Case Against Minnesota
Mayor
Believes CaSS Lake Executive
Only Go-betWee0 for
YeggS
Reports Of Sensational Arrests
TO Follow Exaggerated

TO Follow Exaggerated
DULUTH, Mimi, June 26.-"Mayo
Dumas was only a tool" said Stat
Fire Marshal Sam F. Fullerton, thi
morning. HE never was the cats
paw of other men far smarter an
cleverer than himself, as the yegg
were the tools which he employed il
turn. He was cog in the intricat
criminal machine, which we are nov
trying to uncover"
us it a fact, Mr.. Fullerton" aske<
the interviewer who saw him at tn
ST. Louis hotel, this morning before h
left to take the 8:45 train to Bemidj
that as many sensational arrests are
about to be made as the Bemidji cor
respondents would lead the public t.
believer"
Il should say that these reports
have been exaggerated. We certainly
expect to make further arrests but
probably not nearly so many as the
reports indicate"
Only Northern Men.
will they involve other men in Du'
luth or the Twin Cities?" he was ask
ed further.
LAS far as can state at present,
upper part of the state" was the sub.
stance of his answer.
State Fire Marshal C. f. Keller was
questioned briefly along the same
lines. He said that they wished to
proceed carefully, and that the Off
Gals would not make any arrests un.
til they were convinced beyond reas-
enable doubt of the guilt of the person
suspected. He did not accompany
Mr.. Fullerton to Bemidji this morning
stating that he expected to remain in
Duluth at least the remainder of the
day.
He asserted that no Duluth men as
far as he was aware, were connected
with the Cass Lake gang, nor had any
one here hired any of them to set fire
to their places. He said he looked
for some possible developments in
this city, but did not give their ma
ture. He thought it unlikely that
I'aNis, the escaped bandit was in Du
luth but was satisfied in his own mind
that he is in hiding not great dis.
lance from Bemidji or Cass Lake.
Smyth Of Puposky.
The story of the connection of r. T.
Smyth of Puposky with the case
which has stirred several states, and
electrified the police of the entire
country is interesting. While Pink
erton's men have been talking col.
umns day after day, he has main
tanned steadfast silence, except to
declare that when the tangle was un-
raveled he would be found to be in
the right position. and that his con.
nection would be satisfactorily ex.
planned
But he has made no explanation
himself, although he played a stellar
role and might be classified as the
leading man in the criminal drama
which has been staged in northern
Minnesota. The detectives and the
state officials have been more in the
limelight, but he was 1.-THE man be-
hind the guns" getting to the real
facts in the case.
Tipped the Lid.
1t was Mr.. Smyth who tipped the
lid from the alleged pot of corruption
which has been opened in northern
MnnesOtaE giving the country the
most sensational police case of the
year.
Acting upon his own initiative, BRAY
ing what he believed to be the boldest
most INSCRIPTIONS and cleverest gang
nj
mercial tirebugs that ever infested the
Northwest. he tipped off" the author
tiles to what was going on and was
the guiding spirit which made posi-
BILE the arrest of DR.. D. F.. Dumas of
Cass Lake and started the sweeping
investigation now under way by the
state officials, who promise further
sensations involving men higher up"
Still Lack Evidence.
Young Smyth was largely responsi
BILE for the evidence which has been
gathered against the mayor of Cass
Lake. who has been widely advertised
as "ringleader of the crooks trust"
Except for the cases which the off.
Gals have against the yeggmen who
were trapped while blowing the safe
in the Smyth building at Puposky,
several miles north of Bemidji. it is
not thought that sufficient incriminat-
ing evidence has been obtained to
warrant the arrests of any one as
yet higher up"
The authorities are working on the
positive information which they have
at hand in the hope that they will
eventually be able to bring these 9TH
ers to the bar of justice. This infor-
nation is sufficient to justify the be-
lief that this part of the state has
long been made the headquarters Of
a gang which has been blowing MI.
merous safes and setting many fires,
the origin of which have been mys-