Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-01-13
BANK ROBBERSARE
CAPTURED ATLAST
TWO WHO STOLE $25O,OOO.O0
FROM new WESTMINSTER,
B. C, BANKERS.
Long Chase Through the United States
Ends in Capture-Pursuit Was Quiet
Hoffman, Alias Dean, Arrested at
Los Angeles, Has Spokane Expert
ence Extracting Nitro Glycerine.


Los Angeles.-Charles Hoffman, alias
Charles D, Dean, alias G. W. Howard,
was arrested here yesterday by detec-
tives, charged by them with being di-
rectly connected with the robbery of
the Bank of Montreal at New West
Minister, B. c., September Is, 1911, of
s2s5,OOO. When arrested, Hoffman had
$1,000 cash ON his person.
Hoffman, since the blowing of the
bank of New Westminster, had been
trailed all over the United States. He
finally reached San Diego, Cal, and
from there came to Los Angeles. Hoff
man, or Dean, is credited with long
criminal career and has served time, it
is asserted, in the saltwater (Minn.)
prison for robbing a Great Northern
railroad train near Carlisle, Mimi, on
the night of May 20, 1899.
''The arrest of Hoffman was not made
public sooner,' an operative of the
agency said tonight, because OF the
request of the Canadian authorities that
it be kept secret until other arrests
could be made in the east. -"
Tonight the detective agency gave
out signed statement showing the
work of their men in following Hoff-
man. CAN of the loot, the statement
said "could not be carried away by
the robbers, as it consisted mainly of
currency. So in their hurry they each
ed some of it under a sidewalk and
some under bridge near New West
minister, where later this money was
recovered.
Man Hunt Is Quiet.
''The man hunt at once simmered
down to a still search. The agency
at Seattle by the use of their rogues
gallery, finally succeeded in having
three of the burglars identified by per
sons at New Westminster who had seen
strange men near the bank. From the
tracing of known associates of these
men it was made possible to eliminate
considerable territory and finally our
work was confined to the Pacific coast
and to a few of the larger cities in the
east. From New York, where we hit
a trail, we followed Hoffman to Buff
falo, to Chicago, to Philadelphia, then
back to San Francisco. From there we
trailed him to Los Angeles, Portland,
Seattle, Tacoma and thence to San
Diego, where for the first time our men
came upon him face to face. Ascer-
tanning that he was about to leave for
Los Angeles, we notified the police
there and followed Hoffman. AS soon
as he arrived he was arrested, and is
now in Jail.
Experience in Spokane.
Hoffman, or Dean, has long Grim
inal career. He was arrested Novem-
Der II, 1898, with Link Taylor, j. b.
Edwards, J. C. Hall, w. C. Ross and
Homer J. Minot, alias Albert Addison,
at Moorhead, Mimi, for the robbery of
Great Northern train No. 3, the night
previous, near Carlisle, and on May 20,
1898. was convicted and sentenced to
1917 years in the state penitentiary at
saltwater. In 1906 he was pardoned.
After year, on November IL, 1907, he
was arrested with Al Addison and A. S.
Grant, alias Graham, after having ex-
perienced an explosion of dynamite
while they were extracting nitro glycer-
inc at Natatorium park, Spokane,
Grant, whose true name was Raddigan,
was killed by this explosion. >"
The agency says that so far as they
know there was no woman connected
with the robbery and that none of the
operative had arrested any woman in
connection with the case.
Another Arrest in New York.
John Mcnamara, under arrest at New
York for the most daring of bank rob
berries in the history of American
crime, at New Westminster, B. c., has
been practically identified as Albert
Addison, alias II. S. Minot, who was
injured November II, 1907, in Spokane
in an accidental explosion of dynamite
Frank Holloway, 80 years old, who
is also known under different names
confessed to the police at Chicago
Wednesday that he was concerned il
two bank robberies, one at Panama
and one at New Westminster, B. c., il
which $45O,00O was stolen. He als'
said he was wanted for two murders
and for many robberies in Oklahoma.