The San Francisco call., 1913-11-20
Old CLOTHES
Of BANDIT
FOUND
Discarded Garments Found
May Serve to Identity
Train Robber

A soiled pair of overalls, a blue
Jumper and new brown slouch hai
may be the undoing of the bandii
who rified the mailcar of the Shore
Line Limited Monday night.
: In the wearing apparel discarded
by the outlaw before he jumped from
the train at the portal of tunnel No ]
Postal Inspector F. NJ. Roberts thinks
the key lies to the identity of the mar
who is worth s2.500 reward.
BANDIT WAS BIG MAN
The garments were brought to In
spector Leonard by Roberts this morn
ing, and an examination showed that
the wearer is a man more than six
feet in height. and of powerful build
S.There is not the slightest doubt, .
says Roberts, that these clothes be-
long to the man who robbed the Shore
Line Limited Monday night. The rob-
Der wore this outfit and threw it away
just before he left the train.
The clerk who sold these clothes
has a god chance TO get the S2,500
reward now offered by the govern
ment and railroad company. A clerk
should have no difficulty in remem-
bering the sale of these garments.
since the man who bought them was
evidently well dressed and different
from the ordinary man who buys
working clothes
The robber was a large man and
weighed approximately 100 pounds,
and was more than six feet in height.
He wore Il hat. He took pains TO
cut off the price mark and the union
label on the outside of the jumper,
but overlooked the smaller labels on
the inside of the pockets.
The label on the jumper bears the
factory number, 9,4S9.970, and that on
the trousers, 3.S01,027 From these
we should be able to trace where the
certain the name of the retailer that
sold them.
GARMENTS MADE HERE
The garments were made by To-
cal manufactures. which will simplify
the search for the retailer"
Although the robber was a large
man he wore only No. shoe, ac-
cording to the description furnished
by the mail clerk. Coltons who states
that the shoes were old and had been
half soIed recently. kneeling on the
floor. Cotton had an opportunity to
.smake a close inspection of the rob-
hers feet and was struck by their
small size.
City Postofice Inspector James
O'Donneh discovered number of
light hairs on the inside of the brown
hat, which gives the first clew as to
the color of the hair Of the robber.
The inspectors can not understand
the motive of the man in kicking the
mail from the car. O'Connen states
that more than $4,000 worth of
checks have been found along the
right of way between San Jose and
San Francisco.
Edward A. Fiske was returned to
his home in San Mateo. freed of sus-
picion.
Fiske came to San Francisco at 2
o'clock this afternoon and went into
conference with his attorney, Louis
Ward, to decide whether any action
shall be taken to seek redress for the
imprisonment of F'iske
After 80 hours spent in detinue
Fiske was released at o'clock last
evening and went to his bungalow on
the county road near Burlingame.
THINK HE'LL WRITE BOOK
7 think I'll write a book entitled,
Ny Experiences in Prison as the
Great Train Robber Suspect" laughed
Fiske. who was lighthearted as a
lark as he walked down Kearny
street
When Chief White told me / could
go home. that I was wanted no longer,
1 felt like yelling at the top OF my
voice.
I knew I was innocent and that
they could not prove anything against
me. but I felt cowed nevertheless.
Their cross questions and my sur
roundings embarrassed me. The city
prison is no tapestry room at any
time, neither are ones companions
such that a person would take a
fancy to-
when the detectives arrested me
and took me to the railroad detective
bureau in the Flood building / did not
know what l had been arrested for.
The officers refused to tell me and /
was inclined to take the matter as a
joke, thinking i would be released as
soon as they learned who | was.
4 can imag gine the serious position
a person would have been placed in
that was a stranger in this city with
out friends and be charged with
crime He wouk have little or no
chance and would no doubt suffer
greatly.
FORTUNATE IN HAVING FRIENDS
Fortunately for me I had many
friends who helped me.
Through my many friends who
visited the prison / was kept informed
concerning my wife. She is dandy
little woman and true blue She
would have liked to visit me at the
prison, but this ! would not permit.
Sure enough at o'clock I was
taken from my cell to the chiefs Of
fee and given my just liberty
When Conductor Harris c. Watson
of the California Mail faltered in his
Identification of Fiske as the bandit
before the district attorney at Mar
tinez yesterday, Patrick J. Kindelon,
chief special agent for the Southern
Pacific company, began to arrange
for the release of Fiske.
The Contra Costa officials definitelx
refused a warrant because there was
no positive evidence against FIske.