The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-09-09
Capture OF
Pay Bandits
Is Promised
Two Men Now Held in Day.
light Holdup; Loss Gov.
cred by Insurance,
Says Howell.
Police Have New Theory

Police Have New Theory
Abandoning the theory that Roy
Emerson and Charles Matsen. held
for investigation in connection with
the $4,000 pay roll hold up Of Met
ropolitan Utilities district pay car on
North Thirtieth street Saturday noon
are directly Implicated in the crime,
police detectives predicted Saturday
night that the two bandits responsible
would be captured by daylight Sun
day morning.
Every member of the detective de-
partment was at work on the case.
Even Chief of Police Dillon and Po-
lice Inspector Jack Pszanowski were
called in to aid the searchers.
Latest Theory.
Latest theory on which police are
working is that the men who accom-
plished the robbery, by driving up be-
l>Se the pay car in which e. A. Be-
noi,1.,., and A. c. Rosborough, Met
ropolitan Utilities district employees
were riding, and carrying off the
$4,000 in currency in a travelling bag
from the tonneau of the car, at the
point OF al shotgun, were informed
that the two men who regularly carry
the money were away, and that Pa
trolmen Frank Murphy, who custom.
arily rides in the pay roll car, was on
his vacation.
Police Saturday night were seeking
to uncover the source Of this informa-
ton. in an effort to trace the identity
Of the two bandits.
No Trace.
Since the bandit car turned back
toward town and sped away following
the holdup, before the two occupants
Of the pay car could even get the
license number, no trace of the car
or its occupants have been found,
although police and sheriffs in all
surrounding towns We're notified.
A. C. Anderson. acting chief of de.
tectives. gave 1t as his opinion that
the powerful car in which the bandits
escaped. bearing Douglas county Il.
cense plates, was the property of one
of them, but that the license plates
had been stolen.
Figures Correspond.
The plates which the car carried
are believed to belong to William
Moore, 7201 North Forty-second
street. who reported the theft Of the
license plates from his car parked at
Fifteenth and Davenport streets last
night. The first three figures Of his
license, 1-24977, correspond with the
first three figures OF the license on
the bandit car as reported to police
by Steve Andrews, a witness Of the
holdup.
Benolken and Rosborough, occu,
pants of the pay car, were unable to
Identify Emerson and Matsen as the
two men who held them up. Constant
grilling by detectives failed to elicit
any damaging admission from either
man.
Boast Discredited.
II didn't do 1t, but could tell who
did," Emerson is reported to have
told his interlocutors. Police. how.
ever, discredit his statement.
The two men maintain that they
Mtlil " GoiAlttilbI anu ANlOilOiao
streets, from where they called the
taxi in which they later were arrest.
ed by Patrolman Ben Danbaum at
the point of a gun, in connection with
business deap' involving the pur.
chase of a quantity of whisky.
or Duty.
Willis Barger. assistant general
manager of the Metropolitan Utilities
district, said following the holdup that
the pay roll frequently was taken to
the filter plant without a police
guard.
The money usually was in charge
Of Mike Mangold, an employe of the
district, he said. but Mangold was off
luty Saturday.
The United States Fidelity and
Guaranty Insurance company carried
policies on about $4,000 of the amount
= stolen, it was learned. and the insur.
ance company has detectives at work
n conjunction with police.
Police Commissioner Dan Butler de.
clared that detectives working on the
case are virtually certain of the
IDENTITY Of the men responsible, and
that unless they have left Omaha
they win be under arrest before morn.
ms.
Senator n. p. Howell, general man.
lger OF the Metropolitan Utilities dis
trict, stated that the money stolen
Yesterday from the paycar OF his de.
partment is fully covered by insur.
ance.
To Cash Checks.
Rosborough, assistant purchasing
agent OF the Metropolitan Utilities
district, stated that the money was
intended to be used In cashing checks
of about 400 workmen.
I'VE take the money out to the
men as a matter of convenience and
cash the checks already issued to
fhem," Mr.. Rosborough explained.
There was something more than
$4,000 Of loot. We were unable to
take the money out again to the
men,"
The men at Florence whose checks
we're to have been cashed are work.
ing at the filter plant, at the new
pumps being Installed and on the new
roof being placed over the boiler
house.