The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-11-17
Five Men Thought to Have
Been Randolph Raiders
PICKED UP IN HOTEL
Detective Overheard Converse
ton in Saloon and He Acted
Accordingly

| Phiiip MaSher.
Lyman Carver, also known as
George C. Monroe.
Ed Wallace, who said he was re-
leased from Saltwater penitentiary
October 8, after serving a term for
grand larceny.
Thomas Burns.
James Clark, who said he lived at
La Crosse, Wis.,, and was a waiter on
a Mississippi river steamboat.
These are the five armed men who
were trapped in a hotel room in the
Gateway district, Minneapolis, by
police officers and detectives yester-
day, the story of which was published
in last evenings Free Press. They
were suspected of having had some
connection with the blowing of the
safe door in an attempt to rob the
State bank at Randolph, MINI.
The capture was dramatic, three
policemen forcing their way into the
room and covering the five suspects
with drawn pistols.
The prisoners denied knowledge of
the robbery attempt, although the
police received information they
were the same men who had been
followed since shortly after the
robbery by a special agent of the
Minneapolis Bankers association.
This special agent was occupying a
room in the same hotel in which the
arrest was made
The capture was the result of
conversation heard in a Washington
avenue saloon last night by Detective
John Stavlo. What Stavlo heard led
him to believe that two men who
might be members of the Randolph
band had room at the Hennepin
hotel, 204 Hennepin avenue. Police
headquarters were notified.
Police Were On Guard.
Captain Andrew Grumpy, Sergeant
Michael Lawrence and Detective
Stavlo went to the hotel, concealed
themselves and waited for the ar
rival of the two men. The wait was
a long one. 1t was not until early
yesterday that the two suspects APP
peared. They entered the watched
room and closed the door.
The three watchers tiptoed up to
the room. Captain Grumpy raped
lightly The door was opened u mere
crack from within.
Charge With Drawn Guns.
Without hesitation the. three po-
licemen threw themselves against
the door and forced it open. With
drawn pistols they charged into the
room.
Hands up!'' ordered Grumpy.
Instead of the two men the police
men had expected to find, there were
five in. the room.
All. FIVE instantly raised their
hands, though all, according to
Grumpy, were armed with pistols.
Wallace admitted without hesita-
ton that he had been released from
the penitentiary recently.
"You fellows won't let poor devil
Alone" he complained.
| He denied knowledge of the Ran
dalph attack. So did his four COM
rades All were locked up at police
headquarters.
Attempted Identification.
Meanwhile Peter F. circuit, the
! Randolph citizen who exchanged half
dozen shots with the bank robbers
early November 4, Charles Enos, vii
| lage marshal at Randolph, and other
citizens who saw the bandits were
asked to come to Minneapolis. to- see
if they could identify any of the
prisoners.
| So far as known, there were but
three men in the Randolph robbery
attempt. Orcutt is known to have
two of the trio.
No wounds were found on the five
iprisoners arrested in Minneapolis
today, but the police asserted that
wounds made by scattering duck
shot, with which Orcutt's weapon
was charged, could have healed
since November 4, if given proper
treatment.
Suspects Deny the Charge.
Detectives questioned the prison.
ers for two hours, but said they had
been unable to get word out of
them that would be of assistance in
tracing their movements. The police
expected the Randolph delegation
late today. 1t was said that if these
men are not able to identify them,
the prisoners will be held until the
return from Sioux City of Charles
D. Brown, chief detective for the
Minnesota Bankers association, who,
/, it is believed, may help in the case.
Unless the Randolph people who
saw the robbers can identify some Of
the Minneapolis prisoners, the police
will be left with little or no evidence
connecting the quintet with the bank
raid, detectives. admitted.
The men had been living at the
Hennepin hotel virtually continuous
ly since October 81, occupying four
adjoining rooms. They paid 50 day
for the four rooms usually paying each
day. Employees of the hotel said the
five men were well behaved guests.
4 They said Burnes remained in the
rooms practically all the time, seldom
going out with the others.
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