People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — CONFESSED. [ARTICLE]

CONFESSED.

Flrena* La ÜbcnJ* “»« Story of the Mineral Range Train B®W>«ry-Mo*t of the Gang Captured ana the Stolen Money Recovered. ' Calumet, Mich., Sept. 19.—G e&fe La Liberty, a locomotive fireman lately discharged from the Duluth, Sou til Shore & Atlantic railway, has been arrested, supposed to be the man who handled the throttle on Engineer Shuler’s engine at the time of the tram robbery Fridav. He is to have made a confession implicating King and his companions, and also Express Messenger Hogan. La Liberty told the officers that the money was contained in a trunk which he shipped from Houghton to Marquette Saturday morning. The trunk was found by the officers, but the money was not there. The officers now feel that they have the right men and made no mistake in holding King and his companions. D. W. Hogan, the express messenger, was arrested at 1 o’clock Sunday night at his boarding house in this city. La Liberty’s confession shows that he covered the engineer and fireman while the others looted the train. King smashed the express car door with a sledgehammer; Chellow and Butler rifled the safe and the rest carried away the plunder. He implicated Express Messenger D. W. Hogan, of tfie Mineral Range train, which was robbed, whose arrest followed at Hancock.

Then followed a detailed account of where the trunk was left along the lino of the Mineral Range road, and a special train and some officers Were sent after it. They found the trunk, and on its arrival at the Houghton national bank it was opened and found empty. On La Liberty’s information $14,000 was recovered by the officers, it is claimed. The empty condition of the trunk is accounted for by the suggestion that the money was stolen a second time from the robbers themselves. The men now under arrest ares A. S. Cannon, of Hancock, a youngs man of good family, whose trunk was used to carry away the money: John Ling, an athlete; Chellew, a saloonkeeper, of Negaunee: Michael and John Shea, saloonlsts here: Tom Winters, baggageman: Moses Lojgtln, brakeman on tbs train robbed; D. W. Hogan, the messenger ot* the robbed car; Ed Hogan, saloonist; W. Shoup, hack driver, and a man named Butler, an habitue of Chellew’s place.