Show Union Pacific Knclneers Arrested OMAHA Neb Nov 1OSpecial telegram I to TiE HERALU Whila the adjustment board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was in annual session a squad of police swooped down on them and ar rested G A Hunsen A E Brcese and the I chairman all of the Union Pacific system for alleged participation in the holdup of the Missouri Pacific exprets last week in the suburbs of tho city They were unceremoniously un-ceremoniously hustled off to jail The protestations of the prisoners had not amounted to anything and they had been abruptly choked off when they tried to tel their V stories or explain who they were but the situation assumed a different aspect when a big dele gallon of indignant engineers appeared at the police station and in language more forcible than polite demanded to know by what authority or under whose instructions Instruc-tions their comrades had been placed in custody They said that not only could they vouch for the prisoners but they could also get tho endorsement of S H H Clark general manager of the Union Pacific ays tern The railroad men did not minco matters mat-ters at all and though the chief had them in lila private oSice with the door tightly cJoscd ho was given to understand that I unless the men were at once released there I would be trouble in the vicinity of the police i po-lice station The men were released The board of adjustment of which the three arrested men are members has been in BCS ion here for the past six weeks and is composed of twenty of the most promInent prom-Inent engineers between hero and the Pa ciJic coast They told who they were and asked the detectives to go with them and tney would furnish the most convincing proof that they were just what they repre seuted themselves to be They wanted t lend for other members of the committee out the officers would not listen to it and hustlea them away to jaiL The prisoners were taken into the chiefs office tnd closely catechised and were finally ordered below whero they were carefully searched and then locked up 1 separate sells They stated that they were locomotive engineers and uiced to be allowed to explain but wer told t keep quiet After the men had been released orders were given to have their names erased from the register and all tho chiefs underlings were instructed to know nothing whatever about tho case They oven forgot that there had been any ouch parties there and were sure that no arrests had been made |