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Show HOLDUPS: OF; -THE OVERLAND LIMITED -THOUGHT TO BE IN CUSTODY South Omaha Police Capture Three Desperate Men and Are Searching for a Man Who EscapedSuspected Men Are Elaborately Equipped for Work Discovery of Revolvers, Under Bank of River, by School Boy, Proves Their Undoing Omaha, Neb., May 2S Although it i as not possible to identify Gordon, ' ortensen and Woods, the three men rresied by the South Omaha police ist night as those who held up the iverlnnd Limited train on the Union acific railroad near the Omaha city mils last Saturday night, Chief riggs and the Omaha police believe icy have the right men. An inventory of the paraphernalia .paired is said to give evidence that ie men are suspicious characters. Gordon and Tortensen were brought Omaha and the latter pointed out to ie police the place he lived, at 324 orlh 115th street. A search was ade of his room and two suit cases i? re found. One of them belonged Woods, the third man of the trio, -s. Jerome Seibert, who runs the ..ming house at that number, said ulcnsen had ben at her place tor me time, hut that Woods carno ore last week, two or three days bore bo-re the Union Pacific hold-up oc-rred. oc-rred. Woods wore a suit of clothes bear-?. bear-?. the mark of Pickers Brothers, K16 xteenth street, Denver. Gordon re a hat evidently a year or two 1, manufactured by Rosenblatt & ., Portland Ore., block No. 7925, I lot No. 332,055. Ihe police had no opportunity Jur-: Jur-: the night to communicate with ilop Pacific officials or to make an ouipt at Identification. Chief Brlggs. wever. believes he has secured the hi men and that he will soon be !e to unearth additional evidence. is sure that Gordon and Woods e n room in Omaha, which has not been located, and search is now ng made for it. The police dragnet was put out. for fourth man who made his, escapf. ? capture of the three prisoners not made without considerable U-ulty. The first of the prisoners eee the detectives shouted to hla apanlons to "beat It; here conies police." All four started to run h the officers in pursuit. One was pped by a detf:tlve near whero he s discovered, and the other two fnto the arms of another officer I were forced to surrender at the nl of a revolver. The fourth man aped to the Missouri river bottoms. The eianorate equipment of this ig is evidence sufficient to indl-they indl-they are desperate men." de-red de-red Chief Brlggs, "I have never n a better layout In my exper-ce. exper-ce. There can be no doubt these a have pulled off some good jobs, I I believe further developments 1 t.how that they are the men wo looking for." he discovery' of the revolvers was le by a pupil of Brown Park school, i was playing in the vicinity. The lie, where the guns were hidden, under a bank overlooking the Rouri river. Tho boy took the re-c re-c r to hit. teacher, Mrs. Nora Free-i, Free-i, who Eotlflcd the police, Detec-s Detec-s kept watch of the place, bellev-thc bellev-thc owners would return for their 1 ern. he place where the guns were id is about three miles from the ie of the hold-up. Further search be made today in the hope of lng the missing mall pouches, he police of South Omaha and tha have heen busy today follow-every follow-every clew that promised to fur-e fur-e identification of the men arrest-last, arrest-last, night on suspicion of being Union Pacific train robbers, but material progress had been made o noon. The belief that tho right have been caught is still strong, Ihe link connecting them with the -;, masks and other evidences of t, is missing. ie men today deny being acquaint- ith each other, but, in the belong-of belong-of one of them, was found a tograph of all threQ together with oman, seated in an automobile, re Is nothing to show where the ure was made. |