Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1905 — TREY GET PIT CROWE [ARTICLE]

TREY GET PIT CROWE

Man Who Has Defied the Sleuths for Years Is Finally Run to Earth. -v NO DOUBT OF THE IDENTITY Admits He Is the Man Wanted—Cudahy Ready and Anxious to Prosecute Train Held Up in Washington. Butte, Mont., Oct. 4.—-The man under arrest here has been positively identified as Pat Crowe. The identification was made by a man whose name is withheld by the police, but who is said to have worked with Crowe in the stock yards at South Omaha. The prisoner admits that he is Crowe, and says he is anxious to return to Nebraska to clear himself, saying that there Is no law under which he can be prosecuted. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 4. Governor Mickey has issued a requisition on the governor of Montana for the return of Pat Crowe, under arrest at Butte, Mont. The charge on which the requisition was issued was the shooting and wounding of an Omaha policeman. The papers were placed in the hands of City Detective Heitseld, of Omaha, who lias left for Butte. Cudahy Anxious to Prosecute. Omaha, Oet. 4. Steps have been taken to bring Pat Crowe to Omaha immediately and the chief of police of Butte, Mont., has been asked to hold him until Nebraska officers can reach there. Chief Donahue caused to be filed in the district court an information against Crowe, charging him with shooting with intent to kill Officer Jackson two weeks ago. He will be returned on this charge. Edward E. Cudahy states that he is as anxious as ever to prosecute Crowe. Wanted the Chief a Guard. The original information filed against Crowe in the district court, charging him with highway robbery in having forced Edward A. Cudahy to pay $25,000 ransom for his son’s return, will be used against the prisoner, although he is being returned to Nebraska on a charge of shooting Officer Jackson. Through the chief of police of Butte Crowe requested that Chief Donahue himself go to Butte to bring the fugitive hack to Omaha, but this Chief Donahue declined to do. THEY GOT LITTLE MONEY Thugs Who Held Up a Great Northern Train, hut They Escape. St. Paul, Oct. 4.—General Manager D. S. Elliott, of the Great Northern Express company, says of the hold-up of the overland passenger train near Seattle: “Our train was held up by masked men between Motum and Richmond Beach, about ton miles north of Seattle on the shore of Puget sound. “Two men evidently got on the front of the mail car at a railroad crossing stop and soon after went into the cab of the engine, held up the engineer and fireman, requiring the engineer to stop the train at a given point, where they were met by probably three others, who joined the party and forced the engineer and fireman at the points of revolvers to require the express messenger to open the car door. The messenger was then forced to leave his car. “Some of the robbers got into the car and wrecked the safe hy the use of dynamite, using three charges. Such of the contents of the safe as were not damagAl by the explosion were taken by the robbers, who, it is supposed, had a boat handy to carry them away. There was very little money taken, being all small remittances and amounting to less than SI,OOO. The passengers were not molested, no one was hurt, and no damage done to the baggage.’