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Show TRAIN RODS! IfflES MESSm 1IEAR1..G; : m BE TIHH CBTofl Delbert Smith, Accused of Murder, Who Wat . Arretted Here, Withe to Return to Minnesota and "Hare It Orer WithHi Remanded to Cut-tody Cut-tody to Await Remoral ' I UlU U B aa4 of patting tha fovgramant to tha tronbli 1 of bringing witaasaaa from Miaaaaota to felt LarV' said Dalbart Smith, youthful mnrdsrar tad tria robber, whoa arv ralgnad today bafora U. S. OommUtioner Hanry V. Vaa Fait. 1 wtll walva pralimlaary baartng tad want to fo back to KlnnaaoU for trltl tad bat It ortr with." Jadga Vaa Fait explained to the prisoner what it meant to walTt his haartng aad flzod hit boad at 125,000 mndor tha ear-tainty ear-tainty that Smith would sot bo able to farnlsh rach boad. u. t. District Attorney Into Blair Ivans twunodlatolj prepared pre-pared a complaint ta romoral to bo Wed la tho U. S. district wort. It waa expected that Judxe Tillman D. Johaaoa would make aa ordor laU today diroeUd to United States Marahal Aqnila ITobokat U tako Smith back to MIbbomU for trial PoetofTloe Inspectors K. L. Jackson aad George H. Drake, who captured Smith at tho pottoffloo yesterday afternoon, announoed that tho waro returning homo tomorrow. Tho marshal will pre-paro pre-paro to follow thorn with tho priaoaar within tho aazt two or thrao day. Tho prisoner will bo hold to tha fadaral grand Jury ia Minnesota aad aadar hla ooafaaaooa will get a tentenoe of twenty-five twenty-five year. To Insure that ho goto a Ufa aonUnoo for tho killing of tho railway men olork aad tho thaft of 150,000, moat of which tut baoa recovered, aa ladiotmoat la tho lUto oourt will bo hold ovtr hla boad, tha laapootora said. - Tho priaoaar waa cajra aad Baooaoaniad today whaa ho facod tho oourt. Ha eecmed reslgnad to anything tha law might do to him aad of farad no objoctioa to a apoady trip to tho peniten-tlary. peniten-tlary. following hla appaaraaoo' boforo tho oomnjlssior.tr, ha waa again oloaatod with tha Inapoctora who aoak further Information concerning tba prlaonara bald at St Pan, who aro aaid to bo im-plioatod im-plioatod la tha crime. nap of Ashland, Wle, a elalsr of Mra. Hendricks snd Mrs. Kllaabeth Anderson, Ander-son, a daughter of Mr. W Id mar. Mmlth yaalerday denied that Hendrlck had assisted him In lbs plot. . , OP 0000 FAMILY. Pmlth haa bees traveling all over tha Weal sine tha murder and said ha pent 1 1 too of tho money, tho balance being In his apartment m ML Paul. Ha haa beon In Mall Laka for a week, but only had M oenla on him when arrested. ar-rested. Ths boy claim to bs only II,. but ths officer asy h la Is. H coma of a good family, hla mother Mrs K Ve Mmlth. living at Naahwauk. Minn. Mmlth served In th navy and deserted twice. Hs haa long boon knowa aa ths "black sheep- of th family. -It la a trrtbl feeling to know thai omon Is apt to grab you st any moment, " ha aaJd yesterday. "1 waa constantly In fear. I fired at that man without thinking. I road of hi death two day later. I wss sorry. I did Dot Intend to do 11" Mmlth wsa arraigned today before U. H. Commissioner Van I'elt snd will make no fight agsinat being taken back to Minnesota. whr h fsoos a I If sentence, ss there Is do capital puniahment in thst a lata. "There was a woman at ths bottom of It oil, and I don't ears what happen to ma." said Dslbert Mmlth. sitae J. P. Mommors of Ml. psuU Minn., youthful slayer and mail robbor who wss arrested ar-rested y rarer day In ths Malt Laks post-office. post-office. Mmlth wss walking to th ounty tail wearing handcuff and sorted by Chief iMpuly I'nlted Mtatea Marahal Mam iMrrily and newspaper men. - guea I'm In for It all rliht. but Tm glad It's all over. U don't matter what becomes of m Mmlth. whs ta only a boy, ta year of ago, alight of build and a natty d cesser, wearing a pleaaant mll and howlng evidence of good breeding. I charged with killing X. K. Mtrong. a railroad mall clerk on th Northern Paririo near Mt I'aul on th nisht of February II n a manner described aa on of ths most brutal kllllnsa In the crime annate of Minnesota, lis bound two other clerks In th car and escaped with IfcO.OO In currency, dropping from th train on ths outskirts of Ih city. H waa traced to Malt Lak by Post-offlcs Post-offlcs inspectors Ueorg H. Drsk and K. L. Jackson of Mt. Paul and wa caught In th poetoffloe lobby. 0UNS AT BACK. Th arreat caused considerable excitement ex-citement among th afternoon crowd of poatoffloo patrona, who thousht a holdup wa being stated. Th officer approached tha unsuspecting man from ths rear and had guna at his back bofor bo-for he wsa ahls lo make a move. Il submitted at ones, saying -Don't shoot, I'll glv up." II later mads a complete com-plete confession to ths officers of hla part In ths crlms. Th story of th rrlm becsn with lha night of February 17. when Mmlth boarded th eastbound mall train on ths Northern I'aclflo at Mt. Cloud, Minn, Iwenty-flv mile weal of Mt. I'aul. II presented a permit, later found to bs forsed. which allowed him to rid on hi explanation that he waa learning to become a mall Clark. He went through that night and repeated ths performance tbo following night, presenting another forged permit. SHOOTS CLERK. As th train n eared Mt. Paul h pulled a gun on th ether thre men In th car and ordered them to throw up thalr hands They at first thought It a joke, but Harry Chrlatenaen and Clare Brown obeyed th command, while Mtrong reached for a postal tamper and attempted to throw It at Mmlth. Mmlth fired thre shots, all of which took effect and Mtrong fell lo ths floor while ths train apeeded through tho night at sixty mile an hour. Chrlatenaen ws then ordered to bind ths handa and lega of Mtrong and I Brown with baling wire and lo cover! their bodies with mail sacks lis was I then ordered Into a closet at tha snd ! of the csr snd th door locked. I RIPLES MAIL. ' ' I Mmlth rifled th registered mall' sack snd left the train aa It slowed I down In the Mt. Paul cuhurba, carrying carry-ing with him 151. 000 In money In a! little strong bos he found In tha car. j Thla ha hid In a lumber yard and Uteri removed It to his apartmsnt, where bs1 waa living with Mrs (iraea MacDon- aid, ft year of ,age, a divorce. . Mrs.' MaclMinald, who ia a daughter of I'at- I rick Hendricks, a mall clerk of Minn-1 apolla, la held by the polios In con-j necllon with the crime!. ss well ss Mr., and Mr. Hendricks, Mrs. Mary Wld- |