Grand Forks herald., 1922-06-27
net TlGHTENS AROUND TWO Men
HELD in THIEF RIVER FALLS i'm
CONNECTION WITH BANK ROBBERY
Woman Gives Valuable In.
formation; Hotel Register.
at Bisbee Tampered With; !;
Believed Suspects Were
Not There When Michi-
: gan Crime Wa. Commit
ted. &.
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I Thief River Falls. MINI. June ~;
Sheriff Tom Oakland of Towneri
county, North Dakota, and a Burns
detective agency man are here to
Menzel. two mon arrested last week.
on suspicion of being connected with
the Michigan bank robbery and mur-f
der. With them is a woman, said to,
have been taken to Cando. N. D., by
Mccarthy and Menzel and left there
by them when they were ordered to
leave. H.. t
The woman is said to have given
the detective and the Towner county
authorities much valuable informa-
tion. According to Sheriff Oakland
and States Attorney Kehoe Of
Towner county, this woman was with
Mccarthy and Menzel when they
appeared at Cando last Tuesday.
That evening the men left, after be-
ing ordered to move on. and left the.
woman there. Thursday afternoon.
the day Of the murder, she is said to
have received a telegram from Nc
Carthy, who also is known as RED"
McGraw, advising her to come to
Thief River Falls.
case are expected momentarily.
Cando. N. D., June 26.-Startiing
developments are expected in the next
4S hours in the case arising from the
numbering of Fred Bergen and the
looting of the Lambs National Bank
at Michigan, N. D., last Thursday.
1t was revealed today that the alibi
alleged to have been claimed by two
suspects who are under arrest at Thief
River Falls, MINI, had been decided
" weakened by the fact, according to
j. j. kehoe, states attorney Of Town
er county, that dates Of the hotel reg
lister at the Columbia hotel at Bisbee,,
N. D., had been altered.
Red" Nscarthy, Cand6, n. D., and
'Jofn ss&cnzel, Wafr0ad, Mimi, tire
| nj aBree OF Pennington county, that
they had spent the night prior to and
the morning of the robbery and mur i
der IN the hotel at Bisbee. s
They said that they had registered
at the hotel early Wednesday night,
June 81, and had not checked out un-
| til about 10 a. m. Thursday morning,
June %. the sheriff said. The robbery
i, the murder occurred about 2 o'clock
| shown. however, according to Mr.. Ke-
| hoe, that the men actually registered
at the hotel the evening Of Tuesday,
June 20. instead of the following day,
and that they left the hotel on We'd
| nesday morning and went east on tho
500 Line. They were not seen again.
so far as is known, until several hours
after the robbery and murder. when
they were noticed in Thief River
Falls.
Hotel Register Altered.
The hotel register has been altered,
according to Mr.. Kehoe. so that it ap-
! pears that the men were in the hotel
during the time at which the crime
have been committed. The date of the
! page On which they were registered
| has been changed from Tuesday, June
| 20, to Wcdnesday, June 21. he said.
| The prisoners have been unable to
! give good accounting of their move
ments from the time they left Bisbee
| showed up in Thief Rtvee Falls III
| Thursday, after the crime Wes COM
| mitted.
Mr.. Kehoe said that the authorities
had ordered the men to leave Cando
on Tuesday afternoon and that the
auth critics had found a man who said
| he drove them to Bisbee on Tuesday
| evening. He said men had also been
| found who talked with the suspects
on Tuesday night at Bisbee.
! On reason why authorities are anx-
ious to discover what the men were
doing Wednesday night and early
| Thursday is that Michigan, where tho
crime was com mmitted. is only about
two hours automobile ride from Bis
| bee
e.. Woman Aids Officials.
IT was Indicated NV authorities 70.
dav third and nossiblv fourth man
! might he drawn into the case as ths
result of further inyestiration. =,
woman said to he we'll acnuairted
with one Of the nrisonera held II
! Thief River Fails rInorted to- have
! furnished authoritie. with va,,rahls
4 Information in the case. -
Althoueh authorities would give out
much Information might he reveala.,