The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-12-11

PALS ARRESTED;
BOOTY IS FOUND
Plum Coulee Bandit Proba-
bly, Sent About $4,000 to
St. Paul to Hide.
FLO WILLIAMS IS
SUPPOSED AGENT
Leader of Manitoba Capitol's Under
L. world Suspected-$SO0 Discovered
Hidden Under Fence in Front Of
the Desrerado's Hiding Place.

Winnipeg: Dec 1.-THE police last
night and today recovered $3.50 of
the stolen Bank of Montreal bills,
$500 under the. front fence Of the
College avenue house, where Kraf-
chenko. the desperado was caught,
and $3.50 from Flo Williams, given
by one Of Krafchenko's pals last
Thursday. That same day Flo Will
liams. who is the leader in the under
world colony here. went to st. Paul.
returning Tuesday of this week. II
is believed she hid $4,000 Of the stolen
money in that city, and the police
have detained her and two pals OF
victs, who were making preparations
to get Krafchenko to Fort Williams
this week. The police got on to II
and made them act for the police as
stool pigeons in all arrangements for
the flight of Krafchenko.
Flo Williams resided in st. Paul for
some years.
Denies Crime.
For over an hour after his arrest
yesterday. the prisoner was closely ex-
amined by Chief Elliott Of the pro-
vincial police: Chief Macpherson of
the city force, and ex-Chief McRae of
the latter force, who had been called
into consultation. Krafchenko denied
emphatically having been in Plum
Coulee on the day Of the murder, and
said that he could prove an alibi to
the effect that he was in Winnipeg
all the time. He is said to have re-
iterated the statement that he could
name the man responsible for the
act.
Krafchenko is enmeshed in a net
work Of evidence against him, from
which it seems 1t will be impossible to
escape. His very actions at the house
where he Was arrested point to his
guilt. He posed as a professor in st.
Johns college when renting his room,
and, apparently with the idea of maxi
Ing sure that he would be the only
roomer In the house. he contracted
for two other rooms for fellow teach
ers. who he said would take them. He
remained in constant hiding, accord
Ing to the. story of Mrs. Burns, only
going out for about fifteen. minutes
each day lat noon, and for, a short
securing food. Mrs. Burns stated that
she had been sent out at times to
get fruit and meat for her roomer,
for which she had received money.
Watch May Clinch Evidence.
Perhaps the strongest piece of sim
gle evidence. however. connecting
Krafchenko with the crime is that
the number on the watch found in
the automobile in which the desper-
ado escaped comedies with that of a
watch pawned In winnipeg. The
pawnbroker has positively identified
photographs of Krafchenko as the
man who pawned the watch and later
redeemed 1t.
The arrest was made as the result
of clever police strategy, and entailed
much shadowing, much surveillance
of private dwellings, and the use of
''stool-pigeons." To give details of
the methods used would expose in
dividuals who have assisted the po-
lice, and, in order to avoid this ex-
posure, discreet silence is being main
tained by all connected with the cap
ture. There is no secret made of the
fact that the aid of woman of the
underworld was invoked to bring
about the arrest, which was accom-
plished by information she gave with
regard to Bell and Rolf, two pals Of
Krafchenko.
Produce Dyck in Time.
Chief Elliott of, the provincial po-
lice said that William Dyck, the .um
Coulee livery man who drove the
bank robbers. would be produced
when necessary to give evidence or
Identification. Another prominent