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Show MADISON BOUND OH HEAVY BAIL EXACTED Man Accused of Boxcar Breaking Goes to Jail in Default. Albert A. Madison, who was arrested several days ago with four others on the charge of having broken open a freight car on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, containing an interstate inter-state shipment of whisky billed from Knoxville, Ky., to .San Francisco, and taking therefrom three barrels of the liquor, was placed under $8000 bond r ru;i , b ' nited Stal es Pommis-sioncr Pommis-sioncr Henry V. Van Pelt, and in default de-fault of bail was committed to the county jail. YV. B. Holt, one of the quintette under un-der arrest, was admitted to bail in the sum of $1000 last Thursday by Mr. Van Pelt, and the bond of "E. Connelly was fixed at a similar figure. Holt is a taxicab driver and Connelly is .believed to be a railway employee. The higher bond of Madison was opposed by counsel coun-sel for the defendant when the matter was argued yesterday, but it was maintained main-tained by Isaac Blair Evans, assistant United States district attorney, that the offense of Madison, and some of the others of the defendants, was greater than that of Holt and Connolly for the reason that they were in the position of "disposer" of the goods and would reap a greater degree of profit from the alleged theft, andtvas one of the leaders in the conspiracy. The hearing of all of the defendants has been set for May 21 before Commissioner Com-missioner Aan Pelt. David FaJkenberry, a Western Pacific brakeman, who was not present at the time of arraignment of the other defendants last Thursday, is now on his way from San Francisco in charge of George Birdsall of the local office of the department of justice. |