The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-07-03
Accuses Them of Being Of Lower Ele-
ment and That Crooked Tactics
May Be Expected.
TAKES A FLING AT BEMIDJI
Declares There Were 100 Crooks
Here on Day of Puposky Rob
berry Conference

None of the principals from out of
town in the Dumas-Puposky affair
are in Bemidji today, detectives and
state officials having gone to St. Paul
where they will remain over the
Fourth
Following the arrival of these men
in St. Paul the lid" was put on ad-
vance publicity from state officials
working on the case.
Following a conference between
Attorney General Simpson, Assistant
Attorney General Alexander James,
State Fire Marshal c. E. Keller and
Assistant State Fire Marshal Sam
Fullerton, Mr.. Keller announced:
The attorney general has request
ed that nothing be said as to the re-
suits
Attempts to Shift the Blame.
O. O. Rindal, St. Paul Pinkerton
manager, after a conference with
Mr.. Fielding, said:
81 am sorry some Of the telegraph
ic reports have seemed to give ad-
inf
us. We have promised nothing in
advance further than to predict that
something would be found in DR.. Du-
mas safe when it was opened. We
were justified in that prediction"
Mr. Fullerton admitted this morn
ing that the statement of R. E.
Smyth, owner of the store at Pu-
posky, as given out by Postoffice In
spector Ormsby, was the big noise'
the prosecution was holding in re-
serve. Mr. Ormsby went over this
new evidence with Postoffice Inspec-
tor in Charge Rush D. Simmons. J..
M. Dickey, assistant United States
district attorney, say there is moth
ing to announce as to possible feder-
al prosecutions.
100 Crooks Here, Says Ormsby.
Postoffice Inspector H. F. Ormsby,
who quit the service Saturday, said
Dumas friends are working hard
to Great sentiment in favor of Du-
mas, and so is his baseball team. So
is the lower element. Reports have
been sent out that Dumas is popular
in his own town-that Cass Lake is
standing up for him. That is true
only of the lower element"
Mr.. Ormsby was asked if he
thought Dumas would be convicted.
That's another question: he said.
81 have no doubt that the grand jury
will indict him; with the grand jury
the saloonkeepers would have to buy
up too many of them. If he comes tC
trial in Cass county, though, he won't
be convicted The saloon men will
have things fixed and will buy up
every man if necessary. They are
standing together on this thing. The
chief of police of Hibbing told me he
made the rounds of the saloons of
Bemidji on Wednesday night, the
night of the conference in the Lar
son saloon, and that he was con-
vinced there were one hundred
crooks in town. He mentioned six
or seven of them"
The Cass Lake Times, Mayor Du-
mas home paper, has this to say:
Home Paper Reserves Judgment.
We do not care to discuss the sit
uation in regard to the case against
time is not ripe for an intelligent
opinion and too much has been said
and published about the case, much
of it too sensational to be fairly con-
sidered and from the proceedings sc
far it would seem that the authori.
ties were out for manufacturing
public sympathy rather than for the
detection of crime. Our people are
patient and willing to submit to any
decision in the case that is based up.