The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-03-12
YEGG SUSPECTS
PICKED UP HERE
BOYS SEE MEN CACHE OUTFIT
MAY CONNECT UP WITH I'M
PORTANT ROBBERIES

Two men, one of whom gives his
name as James Mcdonald and the
other as Dan Sullivan, and both ap-
parently seasoned crooks, are held in
the Latah county Jail on a vagrancy
charge until further investigation can
be made. The men were arrested
about five o'clock Sunday evening on
the strength of a report given Prose-
cutting Attorney Frank L.. Moore by
two boys, Alvin Hall and Jack Estes,
that they had watched the men hide
some articles under the old Interior
Warehouse company building on the
O.-W. r. & NJ, and had then investi-
gated and found a fairly complete
yegg outfit The outfit was turned
over to the prosecuting attorney by
the boys, and was found to consist
of a bottle of nitro-glycerine, or
''soup," made by melting stick dyna-
mite a tin box with fuse and dyna-
mite caps and soap and cotton.
The arrests were made by Chief of
Police S. T. Silvey and Constable
Charles Summerfield. The men gave
the above names, which the officers
believe to be fictitious and first stat
ed that they had come in from Spo-
kane, but later said they came from
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any questions and were lodged in
emily about so years old and Nc
Donald about 35. A third man, well,
dressed, was seen with the men, but
disappeared before the arrest was
made. The local officers are of the
opinion that the men had something
to do with number of recent rob-
berries, one at the Lapwai Indian
agency, one at Asotin and the bank
robbery at Fairfield last week.
The boys who detected the men
state that the one who hid the outfit
removed his rubbers while some 80
yards from the warehouse and car
ried them with him, putting them on
again after getting some distance
away from the cache. The men then
came up on Main street and were
begging money from individuals when
they were arrested.
Federal Man on Job
Russell Bryan, a secret service man
in the employ of the federal govern
ment who has been Investigating the
robbery at the Lapwai Indian agency,
Joel Hinman of Spokane, special de-
tective for the Northern Pacific Rail-
way company, and Charles Munroe,
deputy sheriff of Nez Perce county,
came to Moscow Monday morning to
size up the two prisoners. Deputy
Sheriff Munroe took the finger prints
of the two men, who objected strenu-
ous1y to this procedure.
1t is the opinion of Hinman that
the men can be connected up with
a number of recent robberies. The
fellow who gives his name as Sulii-
van, he believes, was connected with
a robbery at Opportunity, near Spo-
kane, a year ago. The appearance
and actions of the men, coupled with
the yegg outfit, convinces the officers
that the men have a long record of
crime 1t is the opinion of the local
men that they had intended to take
their outfit after nightfall Sunday
and drop into one of the smaller
towns down the n. P. line and pull
off a job.
Bryan. the federal secret service
man. informed the local officers that
the bottle of nitro-g -glycerine contain
ed enough of the explosive to de-
molish the largest building in Mos
COW, and advised that it be done away
with at once, and instructed Deputy
Sheriff Morgareidge to dispose of it
by taking it to the creek and holding
it under water while the cork was re-
moved, allowing the fluid to run into
the water The bottle was carried
around by young Estes and young
Hall for almost an hour and was
then examined by Prosecuting Attor-
ney Moore at his office. The experts
state that it was only a matter of
luck that if was not exploded.
The Star-Mirror is asked to state,
for the benefit of other boys who
may have a similar experience, that
hey should call on older heads be-
fore handling anything which might
De an explosive.