Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-06-23
EXECUTIVE RELEASED ON $1,000
BAIL AFTER EXAMINATION
HEARING SET FOR JUNE
% IN 6EMlDJi.
ACCUSED OF COMPLETELY
IN ARooA AND RODooot
Accused As Leader Of Gang OF Desper'
ADDE'S Who Are Wanted tor Many
Grimes In Northern Minnesota.
HAS Borne an Excellent
Reputation Heretofore.

held up by Pinkerton detectives az
"the king Of American crooks ar
rested at Hibbing and brought mere
40 the result of trap laid for two
of his alleged confederates who were
.tot and seriously wounded as they
were about to blow the postofhce saie
at Puposky, is free to continue MS
duties as mayor of Cass Lake.
Dr Dumas was arraigned here be-
fore Court Commissioner Simons and
after brief examination was held on
bonds of $4,000, which were furnished
NV two Cass Lake merchants and sa'
loonkeeper of that place, and Dumas
was turned loose. He has employed
former District Judge Marshall A.
Snooner and A. A. Andrews OF this
city as his attorneys. Judge Spooner
ia the lawyer who succeeded In hav-
Ing the Indian Treaty lid removed from
this part of the state under which
"Pussyfoot" johnson had closed all sa'
looms. Dumas hearing was set LOT
Juno % before Commissioner Simons
here.
DR.. Dumas expressed extreme indlS-
nation at having been made the tar
cot Of such sensational charges and
pside from a general denial OF guilt re-
fuses to comment.
Indignation Called Sham.
"Dr. Dumas indignation appears
ike a sham to US, with all the evil
dence we have at our command Is
the only comment of Superintendent
Fielding in charge of the Pinkerton
men here.
The Office of DR.. Dumas at Cass Lake
was searched on the authority OF a
search warrant issued by Judge Ives
of that place to Deputy Sheriff Matt
Kennedy. The detectives declare that
papers were found furnishing addition
al discriminating evidence.
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 found
six sticks of dynamite and four dyna.
mite caps. DR.. Dumas, at liberty on
bail, who fastened from the home OF
patient, to give up the combination
of the safe, 80 that an expert who had
arrived from ST. Paul would not have
to blow it, joked at the discovery.
1.-THE worst 10 yet TO GOMEZ was HE
comment.
Pinkerton detectives have steno.
graphic report of what they claim to
be the exact conversation taken by q
Pinkerton stenographer Of plans given
the two robbers in the John Larson
saloon here by Mayor Dumas of the
Puposky robbery. While Dumas was
telling his lieutenants what to do, q
detective, it is claimed, was concealed
within hearing distance, taking notes.
other witnesses are said to have been
present.
1t is said that there were not less
than four eye witnesses to the con-
ference in the John Larson saloon here
between Dumas and his alleged pals.
1t had been arranged, according to
the detectives story, that after the
robbery the robbers were to take the
stamps and money from the postoffice
in valise to the nearest point on the
Minneapolis & International railroad.
Turtle River, 10 miles north of Be-
midi; that they were to proceed to
Cass Lake on the Great Northern, and
that they were to be met in Cass Lake
by Dr. Dumas, to whom they were to
give the stamps and other booty and
to receive in return $500.
DR.. Dumas. graduate of the Univers-
sity of Minnesota and the son of q
wealthy citizen of Minneapolis who.
like q thunderbolt out of clear sky
has become man of mystery, an In.
ventor of a particularly deadly explo-
sive liquid obtained by dynamite, and
who must answer charges of crimes
! covering incendiarism, insurance swim.
dies and above all the cleverest con.
ceived safe crackings with which the
police have had to contend with for
q long time, declares he has no inten.
ton of resigning his position as chief
executive of Cass Lake.
Looks for Vindication.
He believes his home people are
with him, and that he will be vindi.
Gated. In the meantime that part OF
this thrilling narrative, involving the
alleged duplicity of prominent man,
which relates to the dramatic events
Of the attempted robbery at Puposky,
alleged to have been planned by May.
or Dumas, more in the spirit OF re.
venge against the postmaster and
merchant, said to be an old enemy,
than for lust of money, is not with.
out its graphic incidents.
Bean, one of the robbers caught in
the act by Detective Fielding and Sher
III F. Hazen as the result of informa
ton furnished by Assistant State Fin
Marshal Sam Fullerton, is in the Bel.
trami county jail suffering from pain.
! ful but not serious gunshot wounds re.