Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1911 — DANGEROUS GANG NOW ROUNDED UP [ARTICLE]

DANGEROUS GANG NOW ROUNDED UP

Arrest of Thorsen Leaves Only Two Still at Large. WANTED FOR POSTOFFIGE JOB St. Louis People Tip Chicago Police, Who Gather in Ex-Con-vict—Two Suspects in St. Louis Jail. St. Louis, April 28. —One of the most dangerous gangs of bandits operating in America has been rounded up, with two exceptions, by the arrest of Martin Thorsen, an ex-convict, in Chicago, following a tip from postoffice inspectors here. * At the time Thoresen was arrested in Chicago charged with being one of five bandits who raided the jewelry store of Edward Alberti & Son there, he was under indictment, made public by the federal grand jury here as one of five bandits who robbed the Bremen avenue poFtnffice in St. Louis March 12, 1911, and engaged in a running duel with police- j men. The St. Louis police learned Thorsen was in Chicago. They could not learn his address, but learned that the diamond robbery in question was contemplated. They tinned off tbo Chicago office and sent photographs of Thorsen, whose alias is Martin O’Hara. Thorsen is said by the postoffice inspectors to have planned the Chicago robbery to aid two suspects who have also been indicted for the Bremen avenue robbery and who are now in St. Louis jail A connection is also alleged between the robbery and the

recent St. Louis city jail breaking plot, thwarted by Jailer Wolf. The men in the St. Louis city jail are Thomas L. O’Neill, alias William •Rastus, and James Tuohey, ali&s James Sheridan. Both were indicted with Thorsen by the federal grand jury here Wednesday. Two other men whose names are withheld are also indicted. O’Neill was arrested by the police at the time of the robbery. Sheridan was arrested by postoffice inspectors the following day. Another man named Thomas C. Parker was subsequently arrested in Chicago, but was not indicted and will be released.