The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-06-21
DUMAS FACES NEW
ARRESTLATE TODAY
Reported Postofice inspectors Will
Take Hand to Have Accused
Mans Bail Raised.
NEW AND SERIOUS CHARGES
Warrants Said to Have Been Sworn
Out Here Before Court Commits
sioner H. A. Simons.

Postoftice inspectors, Pinkerton
detectives and Bemidji officers con-
nected with the Dumas case are
active here today. They admit that
more warrants actually have been
issued which may be served at any
moment and they involve "men
higher up" to whom the officers
have referred so often when giving
out their Interviews since the Dumas
affair was started.
Asked as to whether DR.. Dumas
would be rearrested on more seri-
GUS charge the officers would neither
affirm nor deny, but it is believed
that he will be rearrested before the
day is over.
Postofice Men After Him.
1t is understood that the postofice
authorities wish the Mayor arrested
on charges which involve complicat-
ing crimes involving the department
and that the warrant that will be
served on the doctor will charge him
with such completely.
The warrants all have been issued
by H. A. Simons, court commissioner,
who fixed the bail in the first Dumas
charge at $4,000 and which. has
caused widespread comment as being
small if the accusations made by
Sam Fullerton, deputy state fire
marshal, and J. c. Fielding, chief of
the Pinkerton forces, are true, which
charge the doctor with completely
in blowing several postotfice safes,
bank safes and arson cases.
Cass Lake Has Many Fires.
A Cass Lake business man in Be-
midi today says that for the past
seven years there have been several
fires there which were of incendiary
origin, and that suspicion was d.
rected towards three or four lawless
characters who travelled between
Cass Lake and Deer River and Grand
Rapids.
This informant, who insisted that
his name be not divulged, asserted
that representatives of insurance
companies had worked on these sus-
picious fires.
Robbers Have a Row.
Frank Brown and Hank Smith
two old robbers, it is said, were the
men who were originally wanted by
DR.. Dumas to do the job at Puposky
but when wanted had gone and L.
Glare and Davis were picked. Sam
F. Fullerton, from the state fire
marshal's Office, asserts that LeClare
and Davis had a falling out and that
Davis came alone; and that when
DR.. Dumas came from Cass Lake
Wednesday afternoon to attend the
now famous alleged robbers meet
ing held in Larson's saloon in this
city, he told the go-between of the
row between LeClare and Davis,
whom the doctor referred to as
''Mike,' but that he was lucky in
having Mike in Bemidji and could
easily get another man to go with
Davis, who was zone of the best
safeblowers in the United States and
one of the most desperate criminals"
showing that Davis record was we'll
known to the man who has been of
late alluded to as the ring leader of
northwestern cracksmen.
Capture Seems Certain.
With the dragnet which the many
interests involved in the Dumas case
stretched over half of the United
States and through the postal
authorities into Canada, it seems inn
possible that Davis can keep in hid
ing much longer and that his capture
is almost certain.
Bean, the captured robber in Jail
here, who three years ago worked
in Bemidji as a bartender, keeps up
his nerve, despite his painful wounds.
He laughs and jokes with Sheriff
Hazen and Deputy Helmer, whom he
has known for several years. He
says that he is certain that Davis
has cotton out of this immediate
section going by way of Turtle
River and Cass Lake and that he is
probably in hiding in some of the
larger cities of the state, presumably
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