The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-27
Chicago Police Round
Up Part of Gang

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finding Of $4,000 Of the stolen
money.
job Carefully Planned
j. No robbery in police records was
more carefully planned or executed
than this. O'Connor said. The plot
ting, execution and escape were re-
constructed By detectives this way:
/ The first step was TO obtain infor-
nation as 10 how and when the
money would be shipped. This was
followed b. daily trips over the
Grand Trunk TO Evergreen Park by
one OF the plot.ers - Donovan, the
police say. Thus the plotters IA
miliarized themselves with the rou.
tire CT the train crew.
A toy train, having the same num-
Der OF cars as the train that was to
DC robbed, was used By members Of
he gang TO perfect every detail.
With the aid Of the toy train each
man was drilled in TIE part he would
take in the hoidup.
On Saturday morning the train
left Chicago with the consignment
Of $4,000 by two Chicago banks
for two banks in Harvey. Among
the passengers. according to the po-
lice reconstruction Of the robbery,
was Donovan. II was Donovan, they
say, who pulled the emergency cord
which brought the train to a stop.
So fores;gkted were the robbers
that they had planted a cache of d.
Mantle under tie platform Of the
lonely ST. Maria station in Ever
green PARK, 70 be used Il the explo-
s!ves carried By the men proved in
adequate for blowing open the mail
car door and safe. The cache was
found last night By members Of tie
oovnb squad.
Loot Divided Immediately
The division Of the loot took place
shortly after the robbery, according
70 information the police got in the
Saturday night ard Sunday Ques.
t.oning Of % men and women under
arrest. There were seven shares Of
$1,000 each. The extra 1000. the
Donovan and Cleaver confessions
were understood to have explained,
was Sc. aside as legal fund.
The quick work Of the police in
solving the crime was attributed
partly to the crime prevention bu-
reau, secret department Of police
working urde- cover and seeking to
learn oi impending crimes. A tip
that Cleaver had been heard 70 say
he vas planning big job" led to
the tapping Of telephone wires lead
ing 10 his residence.
!. was from constantly listening
IN 70 conversations over the~C leaver
line that police 60. the names Of
several persons who, the talk in
dieased, were in" on the big job"
TIE wire tappers learned that the
robbery was to take place after the
train reached Harvey. In anticipa-
ton Of j. there were Chicago detec-
tive squads concentrated in the
suburb.
Plans Changed Slightly
A change IN plans. police said,
was made at a meeting Of the plot
ters at the Cleaver home. Thus,
while the actual robbery caught Of
ficers unprepa-ed, the information
obtained by the crime prevention bu-
reau before its commission gave
them leads which made solution
prompt.
Important information was re.
ceived trora Donoyan's wife.
He was in on IT," she told Off
GERS. HE was in the robbery at the
same place in 1925 when they get
s135,000. From that he brough.
home 500, and l put it in the bank. :
She said that when her husband
came home Saturday night she asked
him where he had been. He told
her, she said, that he had been ,oo.
bling train.
When she asked him where TIE
money was. she said he answered
that he had left il 1t the home Of z
lawyer in Beverly Hills. He ex-
planned that he was AFRAID Of Be-
ing held up" she added.
Some OF the 25 arrested have beer
released as police questioning led u
the conviction that they were 70.
involved. Two others, whose names
police withheld. are being scrot.