Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-24
YOUTHS START WEST AND ARE
ROUNDED UP AFTER RossINo
DEPOT At WESTON.
BOYS OF II AND IL YEARS
CAUGHT At UNDERWOOD
Willie srix and Dewey Woomsr Cause
Citizens to Organize Search for
desperate eandits" and Are Landed
in Jaii-Gst Lost in Woods While
Officers Search.

Council Bluffs, March 24.-To start
from home on Monday, spend week
in searching for 'job," with a circus
and end up Saturday night in county
jail across the state, after admitting
breaking and entering a railroad sta
ton and robbing the cash box, was the
career Of Willie Brix, aged II, and
Dewey Woomer, aged IA, both of Grin
nell, who were placed in the county
Jail at Council Bluffs at II o'clock last
night.
The boys have admitted every detail
of the crime, telling with resigned
air how they broke the ticket window
in the Rock Island railroad station at
Weston. eleven miles east of Council
Bluffs. Saturday noon and robbed the
till. Of over $40. They laughed and
joked as they told Of their trip on foot
across country from Weston to Under
wood, where they We're taken into Gus
tody by Mayor E, F. Arney and Con-
stable j. T. Wilson of that place about
5 o'clock in the afternoon
The robbing Of the railroad station
was accomplished while Station Agent
H. L. Hitter was at lunch between
1880 and 1890 o'clock. The boys
Garlic: II tho forenoon, having arrived
there by train from Council Bluffs early
in the day.
Posses Search for "Despsradoes."
About fifty people at Weston turned
out in the search for the bandits" and
the tracks in either direction we're COW
cred for two miles by the searchers.
The boys. however. had turned of the
railroad tracks and turned into the
woods where, according to their story,
they were lost for about two hours.
Handcars were pressed into sevice at
the station at Weston and the railroad
men travelled up and down the track
until late in the afternoon in their
search. The boys say they met the
constable, cor some other guy" from
Weston on the tramp thru the woods
but he failed to recognize them.
They finally got back to the railroad
track and continued their walk east on
the tracks until they reached Under
wood. In the meantime Officer Fagen
had been burning up the wires in all
directions with the description Of the
pair and one Of the messages had
reached the mayor and constable Of
Underwood.
Fassn Secures the Money.
After arriving at Underwood he went
to the mayors Office, where he found
the boys. After few minutes ques-
tioning the boys confessed and Fagen
took charge of the money. They had
distributed between them $76.26. OF
this amount $500 was in check made
out to the station agent at Weston. The
rest was in bills and change, a part Of
it belonging to the express company.
The boys were brought into Council
Bluffs about II o'clock by Fagen and
taken to the county Jail for safe keep
ing.
Neither Of the boys seemed to be
worrying about the outcome of their
adventure but admitted that they felt
rather ashamed. They talked freely
with newspaper reporter on the way
from the depot to the Jail and while
being searched in the Jail office.
While Brix says that his father Is in
the poultry business in Grinnell and
Dewey Woomer says he lived with his
mother, who works in glove factory.
Brix says that he is afraid Of what
will happen when pa finds OUT but
Dewey is worried for fear his mother
will grieve over his actions.