The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-11-20

Was George Young, the man who
confessed that ne was one Of the ban
dts. who participated in the sensa- =
tional holdup OF the North Coast
limited near Buffalo, July 10, 1911,
and who was sentenced to servo fif-
teen years in the state penitentiary by
Judge Pollock, really one of the rob-
bers?
This is the question over which,
what promises to be a highly sensa-
tional trial, was started in st. Paul
yesterday. The railroad company
claims that he was not one of the
real robbers, that his arrest was the
result of a frame-up and on those
grounds they hold the police officers
of Neenah, Wis, are not entitled to a
reward of $4,000.
North Dakota people will remember
the sensational robbery in which a
Fargo engineer, S. P. Olson, was shot
and badly wounded. 1t was one OF
the most sensational robberies ever
pulled off in the country and the rob-
bers made &. clean getaway.
some months afterward Fargo Of
hctais were notified that one Of the
bandits had confessed to the Neenah.
Wis, police that he was one of the
bandits. Sheriff Boyle went down and
got the man. He pleaded guilty be-
fore Judge Pollock and was sent up
for fifteen years.
TIE Trial in St. Paul.
The Minneapolis Journal has the
following account OF the trial which
was started in st. Paul yesterday:
In Ramsey county district court the
northern Pacific railroad today started
10 Try 10 prove that man who con
tessed participating in the robbery OF
the company's North Coast Limited
tram near Buffalo, n. D., July 19. 1911
VINO pleaded guilty to train robbery
and is now serving a fifteen-year. sen.
tehce IN the state prison at Bismarck
N d., is innocent of the crime. The
man, VINO now claims he is SERVING
time Tor a crime he never committed
! is George Young. also known as PA
| GROVE, criminal whose reputation Is
known TO police all over the countr.,
| ana VINO is wanted by the Illinois au,
| thorltles for breaking his parole from
the state prison at Joliet, Ill
I Opposing the efforts OF the railroaC
I company to SHOW Young innocent 0
lne crime ne confessed, is Henry Burr
| police officer of Neenah Wis who ar.
rested Young in Neenah, IN Sept. 1911
who obtained Young's confession anC
| who claims reward of $2,500 Offered
| by the company. If Young is guilt,
| Burr is entitled to the reward. If h,
| is innocent and his conviction was OBJ
tanned, as the company asserts. by Z
frame up" with the Neenah police
the company will not be compelled Il
! pay the reward. The question will b,
placed before a Ramsey county jury L
decide.
Now Says He Is Innocent.
| In many ways the case is one of tn,
most unusual in the history of Mime
sofa courts and aside from its interest
ing legal phases it involves the stor,
Of one Of the boldest train robberies @
recent years in the northwest. On It
outcome may depend whether Georg
Young stays in the state prison at Bis
marck for fourteen more years. Youn;
himself now says that he is innocen
of the train robbery and his testimony
given in a deposition taken behind tn
prison walls, will be an important par
of the st. Paul case.
The Robbery.
North Coast Limited, No 2, east
| bound, of the Northern Pacific wa
held up by train robbers near Buffalo
N. D., at midnight, July 10, 1911
Three masked men went through tn
train, robbing the passengers. The