| Show MEN ACCUSED OF OP STEALING FROM PROM I U S S1 EXPRESS COMPANY I x ste City la Ta Feb 10 Three men be bell ll Iff v d to have been implicated in the theft beI last night at Manila ManUa la Ia of a United Express company safe said Did to 10 o States Staten sa ates contain were arrested at that place t tin t i morning They were traced by their i J Bracks in the snow The men are John Johnkson jakson akson John J hn Stovall and Charles Hayes Hay HayAH Hay HayAl AH Al live Ii e in Manila ManUa and are well weli known Their reputations reputation heretofore have bays not noten been Jen en bad They stoutly protested their in innocence Mrs Jackson wife of John nc ne but at a ore also alo arrested Jui kon n was W B hearing she was released TheS The having been unable j in jail three thre men m n are S to furnish bond hond fixed at ut each i iNne I II I of If the money or valuables have bave haveis j I In The safe fe that was wa stolen is n recovered r re t i ic contain 2060 2600 in cash cosh and anti some 1800 In tn c draft drafts checks and various valuables valuable I While hUe the th robbery undoubtedly was de dp deliberately horse horPe and planned as al the II tely wagon were wre wt re in waiting in a It convenient spot pot t it is 8 not believed that the men n I knew they were making so rich a haul The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Paw train on which the safe was taken from Sioux City arrived at Manila tanila at SOi SU p pm m Saturday night The express safe with other articles was placed on a truck on the depot platform where it was stolen There was great excitement and no time was wan lost loat in spreading the alarm Marshal Frail hastily assembled a posse po e Snow Snowy y thick on the ground and it did not tak take long to discover the tracks of two persona person r on who evidently had been carrying e some heavy object directly from the truck as it stood on the depot platform They carried the safe a distance of about two blocks And then loaded it into a wagon wacon which had bd been left there in wait waiting waiting ing leg The wagon was driven about a II mile and a half out into the country and there ther the safe was forced open and the contents content abstracted a The men abandoned the safe and went their way on oR a new track lit It was not difficult to tl t trace tr tIen however and this morning three arrests were wert made The minorities say the shoes shoe of two of ol the men under wrest arrest fit the tracks trad in the snow I |
