The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-08-05
Federal Officers In Chicago
Suspects Round Up
ARRESTS ARE BOOKED
institutions Looted of More
Than $500, 900; Twenty-six
Men Sought
Associated Press pisnatch.l


Chicago, August 2.-Bonds Of
the Sinclair Oil company which
recently disappeared In New
York and securities missing since
the Toledo and Dearborn station,
Chicago mall robberies, were
found today among the effects of
the Central Securities company,
whose leaders, John w. Worth.
inston and Owen 7. Evans, were
ing to announcement Of federal
officials. Based upon these dis
coveries additional Indictments
against the men were asked by
John v. cilnnln, assistant United
States district attorney. Federal
investigators expect this will clear
up mail robberles totalilna more
than five and half million dol
lars.
Chicago. August Federal Of
ficials said today that the round up
of the twenty six persons named
with John w. Worthington and Owen
T. Evans in charge relating to mail
robberAes totalling more than $500
900, was being pushed. They de-
clined, however, to announce wheth
er more arrests had been made.
Worthington, who has figured in
several previous sensational cases,
and Evans a former bank examiner,
trail Securities company of which
they were president and vice presi-
dent. The district attorneys office
indicated this concern was believed
to be the medium through which
stocks and bonds taken In the big
mail robberies of recent months, had
been sold.
List Of Robberies Carried Out
The federal officials gave out a
list of the principal robberies which
they asserted were carried GU. by
seeking to break up. The list in
s1,OOO,OOO stolen at Toledo. Feb
ruary II, 1921.
100000 at Pullman, ILL.,, August
20, 1920.
ss50,0oo at Dearborn street sta
ton, Chicago, April 6, 1921.
$4,000 at Chicago Avenue Postal
Station in Chicago. March 4, 1921;
$4,000 20 at io,l Mount Vernon. ILL.,,
100000 at Toccoa. Ca, September
$s.5OO,Ooo at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
November II, 1920.
$4,000 at 1.1 Minneapolis. Mimi. De.
$4,000 at CentervilIe. Ia. March
1t was also announced that the re-
worth of Sinclair Oil stock In New
York might be connected up with
the organization.
Waukegan, ILL.,, August 2.-John w.
Worthington, arrested in Chicago last
night by John ]. Doyle, deputy Unit
sion Of altered or forged government
notes. denied the charges here today.
Fade a away boy, fade a away ni he
are bum. They have nothing on me-"
Worthington was taken from the
Lake county jail where he spent the
night, by ohm j. Doyle, deputy Unit
ed States marshal They had intend
ed to catch the six o'clock train for
Chicago, but missed because after
leaving the Jail Worthington discov-
cred that he had left his false teeth
in his cell. y
Chicago, August 26.-In several of
these cases. notably the Council
Bluffs and Mt. Vernon robberies. ac-
tual participants have been convict
ed and sent to penitentiaries. In the
case of the Pullman robbery Big
Tim Murphy, a Chicago union labor
leader, and Vincent Cosznano a
close associate of Murphy, are under
arrest.
The present indictments were re-
turned secretly and their existence
did not become known until Worth
ington and Evans were arrested yes
terday. The development resulted
from four months of steady work by
men under direction of Patrick j.
Roche, a special internal revenue in
telligence agent. They checked every
mail robbery and bank loss for the
last five year but because Of the
many ramifications 1t is expected
that several months will elapse be-
fore the cases can be brought to trial.
ass, French The Connecting Link
1t was indicated today that the
connecting link which put the in
vestigators on the trail Of Worthing-
ton and Evans was the arrest Of
Charles w. French in October, 1919.
French was charged with operating
a clearing house for bogus securities
and it was alleged that many of his
dealings were with Worthington and
Evons