Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1911 — MAYOR IS IMPLICATED [ARTICLE]

MAYOR IS IMPLICATED

Alleged that Minnesota Official Is Safe Blower. Testimony of Wounded Postoffice Robber Connects Respected Citizen with Crime. Bemidji, Minn., June 30. —Martin Behan, who was arrested after being wounded during the fight at Puposky June 16, when an attempt was made to lob the postoffice, testified in the hearing here of Dr. D E Dumas, mayor of Cass Lake. who is charged with being at the head of the gang of safe blowers, that Dumas. Behan and Mike Davis planned the robbery in a Bemid i saloon. Behan testified that he. Dr. Dumas, Davis and R. E. Symth, owner of the Puposky postoffice building, met June 14 at Betnidji. Smyth, according to Behan, asked Davis if h'e would burn the buiiding at Puposky and Davis said he would do the job if there was enough money in it To this Dumas is alleged to have replied that there would be enough money. z Both Dr. Dumas and Smyth spoke of blowing the safe and taking money, stamps and papers to Dumas after the building had been burned, according to the witness. Behan also identified a large revolver which he said Dumas had given Davis. Mayor Dumas was held to the grand jury under SIO,OOO bonds.