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Show THE ROBBERY CASE Langlev and Robinson Held foi 'Trial in $4,000 earh- Tnere can now be little doubt thai McLaughlin was robbed of f-,000 on Wednesday evening. He was known to have the money, and he is minus that amount now; and he spent ed-nesday ed-nesday -afternoon in company with men who would not hesitate at handling hand-ling another man's funds. The trick was a bold and desperate one well planned and executed with the skill of experts in the thieving business. It was exceedingly silly on the part oi McLaughlin to carry so large a sum of money about the city, and it was doubly eo for him to get arunk under the circumstances. The lesson has been a severe one to him, as in all probability he will never recover a cent of tho money which he lost. The preliminary examination ot the accused parties was held before Justice Pyper yesterday afternoon. Besides the "cappers." Langley and Robinson, Joseph Morgan was arrested arrest-ed on suspicion ol being the bogus police judie who required McLaughlin McLaugh-lin to deposit the money as bail; but there being no evidence against Mor-. Mor-. gan a motion for his discharge was granted at tlio commence- metit of the investigation. Mr. ; H. A. Reed appeared as counsel for the accused and Judge Snow pros-: pros-: ecu ted. Several witnesses were ex-! ex-! amineJ, and although none of them : could testify directly to Langley and Robinson being the robbers, yet the evidence connected them closely with the afl.vir. They had boua with McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin iiiost of the afternoon, were in and outof saiooas with him, walking walk-ing on the streets in his company, and in fact kept him closely shadowed. shadow-ed. " At one time they led him into a gambling nm where he lost a few dollars. McLaughlin was not positive posi-tive the accused were present when thg money was extorted from him, but after that occurrence they were again seen in his company- - McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin was too much under the influence in-fluence of liquor to take many accurate accu-rate notes of the occurronce,, but ho thinks that ho could idctttify.lho bogus judge and policeman. There is one significant fact connected con-nected with the affair which should be inquired into by the author- j ities : Some of the parties whom it is thought know some-j thing concerning 'he robbery, and who were subpeenued as witnesses, I did not appear at -tho examination,! and could not be found at any of their frequented hauuts, ft may or j may not be that these parties have , been tampered with, but they ahould be discovered and made to explain J why they were not present yesterday. Justice Pyper thought the evidence was sufficiently strong against Lang-1 ley and Robinson to warrant him in : binding them evpr to the Third District Dis-trict Court for trial, which he did, firing the bail of each at $4,000. The, prosecuting witness, Mr. McLaugh- lin, was also placed under $1,000 to j appear before the grand jury and : give his evidence. 1 The defendants were again committed to jail. It ii understood an attempt will be made to-day to have the prisoners released on a writ of h-jbeas rorpt:, but it is scarcely probable that they will be set at liberty .before the grand jury has investigated the matter. |