The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-23
POLITE BANDIT
is CAPTURED;
PAL IS KILLED
Earl Gilbert Dies in
Gun Battle With
Policeman.

Chicago, Dec 23.-CIyde Tim
mons, whose companion, Earl Gill
bert, was shot and killed last night
after they had kidnapped and
robbed Mrs. James J. Callahan, her
daughter and brother, confessed TO
the police today that he and his
partner had participated in several
hold-ups, including a Utah train
robbery last August and the sud
den interruption of a card party at
lawyer, last June.
The captured robber was also
known as Claude Thomas, and his
companion was sometimes known
as Carl Gilbert.
Girl Is Arrested.
Following the confession, police
took into custody Miss Mary
Roberts, 23, who is said to have
been an intimate acquaintance of
the dead robber.
Timmons told Lieutenant Paul
Duffy, of the Hyde Park police sta
ton, that his home was in Ham
mond, Ind. He said that his COM
panion had staged the card party
hold-up alone, entering the house
and calmly collecting the available
cash from the guests and also tax
ing a $500 diamond ring, which
was found in his pocket last night.
The train robbery, Timmons said,
was on an Oregon Short Line train,
on Aug. 81, when the two collected
$3.50 from passengers. Last Fri
day, the pair held up ]. F. Walsh in
Chicago, according to Timmons'
confession, robbing him of his
automobile and a $5 watch. The
automobile was later recovered
Try to Identify.
Chicago, Dec. a3.-Victims of the
Chesterfieldian bandit, who robbed
several passengers on the BaltI-
more & Ohio night f1ier on Tuesday
night, today called at the police sta
ton for the purpose of identifying
Clyde Timmons, 80, of Seattle, who
was arrested last night after his
companion, Earl Gilbert, 80, of
Omaha, had been killed by a police
man.
Timmons and Gilbert had kid
naped Mrs. James J. Callahan, wife
If the former manager of the Chi
cago American League baseball
team, her daughter Margaret, II,
and George Hardin, her brother,
just after they had stepped into al
automobile in front of their home
on the south side.
Wild Auto Chase.
Policeman William McNaughton,
leaping from the running board of
a pursuing car, Communicated ny
Callahan, killed Gilbert and forced
Timmons to surrender after a wild,
zig-Zag drive through the streets
of the south side, which ended
when the Callahan car was wreck
ed by the robbers in attempting to
turn too sharply.
Timmons was well dressed and
when taken to the station had s10O
in cash in his pockets. officers
said he resembled the bandit who
held up the B. & o. train on Tues
day night, the night he stated he
arrived in Chicago He said he met
Gilbert a year ago in San Fran
cisco, and came with him to Chi
cago from Omaha
Neither Of US had any money"
Timmons said, and Gilbert had
gun, SO we decided to hold up
somebody"
Ogden Confirms Story.
Ogden, Utah, Dec. 23. = There
were two men in the robbery of
Oregon Short Line passenger train
No. 2, on the afternoon of Aug. 81.
The train was stopped nine miles
south of Ogden by tampering with
a block signal. Then the two band
its boarded the train and proceed
ed to rob the passengers in a leis-
urely manner, leaving the train as
it entered the yards at Salt Lake
City.