The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-20
Arrived There on Train
That Left Moorhead Be
fore Shooting Occurred
BRING VICTIMS TO
AID IN THE CHASE
Sheffield's Own Weapon
Missing, Mysterious
Feature Of Case
sHEFFIELD's GUN
Musings MYSTERY
ENTERa THE CASE

ENTERS THE CASE
IL developed today that the gun
used by George Sheffield We'd
nesday merninp was not his osvn,
but belonged 90 Night Baggage
man Rhea. What became Of Mr..
Sheffield's gun is a mystery. He
- always kept il loaded and within
reach when he was on duty. Had
his revolver been at hand there
would undoubtedly have been q
different story for Mr.. Shefsield
was q crack shot both with pistol
and shot gun.
Search was made at the Shelf
field home today for the missing
uun, but no trace OF ID could be
found. II was not in the station
and why the other unloaded gun
was in it's place is question
that the officers have not yet
solved.
Two men Jailed at Fergus Falls,
MINI, suspected Of implication in
the murder of George Sheffield in
Moorhead early "Wednesday morn
ing had no part in that crime.
The men arrived in Fergus Fails
on train that departed from Moor
head twenty minutes before the
holdup and murder In the Great
Northern station in Moorhead.
The police are without information
as to the whereabouts or the identity
of the murderer-robbers. This
despite the fact that authorities Of
Fargo and Moorhead, Cass county
and Clay county, have been aided by
q corps of. special agents u the
Great Northern, under the direction
OF M. ]. Lins and III. L. Harmaan,
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working constantly since the tragedy.
Attempts to Identity the two sus-
poets at Fergus Falls resulted in
statements by three OF the robber
victims to the effect that the men
looked like the robbers, but they
were not positive.
The fact, howeveF. that the men
landed in Fergus Falls on a train
leaving Moorhead prior to the time
OF the robbery and murder, caused
officials here to abandon the theory
that they had any part in the af-
fair.
The two passengers, victims Of the
holdup men when Sheffield was slain,
who left Moorhead on Great North
ern train No. after the holdup,
yesterday by Chief Special Agent M.
]. Lins of the Great Northern, who
met them at st. Paul upon the ar
rival OF the train. They said the
men held at Fergus Falls were about
the same size as the bandits who
held them up at Moorhead. These
men, Martin Lybeck, Dallas, Wis,
and Oscar Pangan, Eau Claire, Wis,
will come to Moorhead this afternoon
and will remain here to help identify
any suspects who may be arrest
ed.
r. E. Lesser, the operator. and M.
II. Rhea, night baggageman. who
were also held up, returned this
morning from Fergus Falls where
they looked over the two suspects
strong resemblance but they were
bandits.
Held on Minor Charge.
The Fergus Falls suspects, who
gave the names George Smith and
w. T. Murphy are in the Otter Tail
county jail, and viii be held, on a
charge Of resisting arrest, by Sheriff
!. s. Billings.
No. so, on the Great Northern,
from which the suspects were taken
1t Fergus Falls, left Moorhead at
1880 o'clock, while the robbery and
murder occurred between los and
:15 o'clock.
The train was delayed 2s minutes
II Barnesvi1le, but officials do not
.hink that the robbers could possibly
nave made it, even in speedy auto
because Of slippery
roads, and, secondly, the fact that
he delay in the train at GAINESVILLE
sould not have been calculated by
he bandits.
All Of the men at work on the case
ire of the opinion that these men
,ould not have caught No. 80 at ]
3arnesville.
Several Suspects.
Several suspects have been given
he "once over" and the officers have
number of other men under /
Several Of the secret /
ervice men OF the Great Northern /
re working on the case under direo-
ion OF Special Agent H. ]. Harmon
Who arrived in Moorhead last night. |
III OF the officers Of the two cities
re working on the case and every 1
move on the part of suspected men
] CLOSELY watched