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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1920)
J 1 7 1 : .- ,. ,; -. THE BEE: I OMAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1920 pated in 1 wen pllnn said, Negro Claims He Partici BluffeHoldup Man Under Arrest in Chicago fells Weird Tale of His Part in Recent ; Rfail v - Train Robbery. V Chidago, Dec 15, Edward Valen tine, ' negro, arrested jiere several days ago at the request of Kokorfco, Ind., nolicc. foid authorities today that he had participated in the re cent railway mail robbery at Coun cil Bluffs, according to the Daily xws. "" Valentine was arrested In connec tion with the robbery in the Indiana city, but when police searched his trunks they found more thanv$l, 000 in checks and money orders and several hundred unopened registered letters. Valentine admitted robbing ' masl cars at Kokomo, St. Louis, Mp and Sycamore and West Chicago, I Admits Bluffs Holdup. : !n his alleged confession of "par ticipation in the Council Bluffs rob ' beyy, Valentine is reported to have said that the robbers obtained ( S9,SOO,000 in cash and securities, ' $900,000 of the amount being cash. Kine men and one weman, he is said to have told police, participated. "Ijmet one of the gang in Cleveland en the robbery i was being nned," he is reported to have The man who talked to me wis a railway mail clerk, who had lcfen studying the situation at the Union Facific transfer, between ' Ofnaha and Council Bluffs, for some tiite. He had it all figured out that thjtre was nothing to stop anyone w o wantsd to make a haul on a tr ijscontinental train. - -(Met Gang in Des Moines, "He convinced me and 1 went with hi ii to Dcs Moines, where we picked 415 Ihe rest of the gang. There were ni te men in it, including three in ?roes, and also one woman. The gi 1, whose name I don't know, al V ys traveled with a man named T ernton. " 'We were all assigned to parti ' ct ar jobs and went on to Omaha. T woman and Thornton' were giVen the work of. following the train in an automobile and picking nij:the mail sacks as they were damped from the coach, but it was tli woman who really drove the j'Six of the gang were employes off the Chicago, Burlington & Qijncy railroad. That made it easy iot 1 those of us who had been as- signed to boardiqe the train at the - transfer. The mail car was switched tq!; , a Chicago, Burlington , ..jfc Qnlncy train just after it had crossed the. river from Omaha. Between ' thV transfer and the Council Bluffs deot is about a mile of switch yards, ditches and swamps. t Woman in Motor Car. ; j. TThe girl and Thornton had to 'follow down the railroad track be caise there was no road. .In the mBe between the transfer and the stition we .dumped off the pouches. ' ?The others dropped off the train there, but I swung aboard the rear of the train and went into the wash ' room. I stayed there until we got out of Council Bluffs and then went into the, chair car and stayed there until we got to Des Moines. We met again in Des Moines and di vided the loot, and I' came tn to "I Chicago." "f fl f Valentine" was turned dver.3o.fed- , , er4l authorities. The registered maif fotjnd in his trunks is said to have, been'part of the loot in a $75,000 - mail robbery at Kokomo last Fri day night. ' t ; ; Glenn Denies Story. fcostoffice Inspector C. H. Glenn) r r -i tii a- l : I 1 Oiouncu Diuus, wnu orgauiicu uiu le the federal officials in the inves tigation of mjljl -car -robbery m Council Bluffs November 13, when shown the.,st6ry!irom Chicago, said: . "It's all news to me and I do not credit Jt whatever. If it is true that registered letters were found negro s possession lit wou that he had some connection mail robbery, but I am certain he waa not mixed up in' the Council Bluffs robbery, We cleared that up to our entire satisfaction.. Plattsmouth Gty Council Refuses to A . Pay Lighting Bill jrtMSiChy Lights Lure ion with at J O Hubby From Bride In Grand Island Plattsmouth, Neb.,' Dec. 15. (Special.) Ascribing its action to the recent decision handed down by Judge Button at Fremont in a case involving ine raising or puunc util ity rates by ordinance wherein the mayor .casts the deciding vote, the claims committee of the city council has held up payment of the current month's bill for street lightimr here the Nebraska Gas and Electric to company, peqdimjf further action. The council was deadlocked on this matter a few weeks ago, and Mayor Schneider, after taking the matter under consideration, cast the deciding vote for the increased con tract at a later meeting. Manager Kuykendall was present at the meeting la night and threatened to close the plant hart unless the higher rates are forthcoming. He was warned by Mayor Schneider that now is the best time for a showdown and that people could burn kerosene lamps aid can dles if necessary. Despairing tof ob taining favorable action in the mat- Mer of consumers' rates through tne council, the company recently, on its own initiative, raised gas rates to $2.35 and electricity rates to 15 cents a killowatt. So far it has. met with no opposition in collecting the new schedule The sewing machine industry is centered largely in Indiana and Illi nois. . . . . . " Little-Wife Comes to Omaha And Has Him Arrested "Wish I Had a Big Brother To Thrash Him." "I'm sorry I haven't a big, husky brother to administer a lesson to Edward and bring him ,' to . his senses." . .-: ' . . L. It was Mrs. Edward Olson of Grand Island." She just had caused the arrest qf her husband onxcharg cs of wife abaundonment. They were wedded three months ago, and after but a month Edward made his way to Omaha to seek his fortune. ' . He urged his little bride to save all her pennies as he was going to do, and he would return for her. Does Washing. v ; "She. took a position with thtf-Un-ion Pacific as clerk and did wash ing nights tcj make more money. ' , Weeks passed ' and she beard no word from her husband. Nor did she receive any money. She wrote many letters asking - of .the life in Omaha, and finally wrote to tell Edward she needed him. Then, she declares, her husband wrote his answer: "I'll never come back to you." y v Reaches' Omaha. . . fShc reached Omaha yesterday arid tnM tipr tnrV tn Sheriff Mile Ptarlr pwho sent for Edward, working at Fairmont creamery, Twelfth and Jones streets. City ways, bright- - lights, : and pretty women caused Edward, she believes, to squander the money he was earning and .to fail to save the funds he had promised. The little wife will let the law take its course, she . said, unless Edward gives her proof he intends to mend his ways and do the right Farm Near Nebraska City 1 Sell for $340 an Acre Nebraska City, Neb.. Dec. 15. (Special.) The 160-acre farm of Henry Wells, five miles southwest of Nebraska City, was sold for $54, 000 or $340 an acre. This is the biggest land transaction in . this county for several months. ... Twen ty'two years ago (this farm was val ued at $8,000. I, . .. v' . Nebraska Cliy W oman Hurt When Caught in Wringer Nebraska City, Neb Dec 15. (Special.) Mrs. Henry Marunda was seriously injured when her arm was drawn into the wringer of an electric washing machine which she was operating. Before she could release herself- her arm had been drawn into, thewringer to the el bow. ' : Red Necktie Valued at $1 Costs Columbus Womten $5 Columbus, Neb., Dec. 15. (Spei cial.) Mrs. Grace Dickson was fined $5 and costs in police court on the charge vof taking one red necktie pf the vtlue of $1 from the Hansen variety store. $he pleaded guilty. ' - ' Nebraska Rail Rate Case Comes Up in Washington State Commissions Guided in Refusal to Grant Increase by Transportation Guarantee ' Act, Representatives Say. Washiagton, D! C, Dec. 15. Counsellor seven. state utilities com missions which have refused to raise intrastate rates tca level with those recently put into -effect in inter state traffic told the' Interstate Commerce- commission yesterday that the commissions had been guided in their decisions solely by the trans portation act guarantee of a 6 per cent return to the carriers. ' The commission today completed the cases of Illinois, Florida and started, on the Nebraska case. ' . ;' -' Railroad representatives called -the. attention' of the commission to the geographical location of the states refusing the raise, declaring that - a continuance of the present situation would; result in adjoining states adopting the same attitude ht .order to compete with neighboring states. Bruce Scott, opening the Nebras ka case, for the railroads, declared ihe present intrastate rates had tended to stifle competition in that tate. while H. A. Scandrell. also 'representing the carriers, called the attention of the commission to a Ne braska law, which prevents the state commission -granting an increase in passenger ' fares, but permits in creases in Pullman, milk, cream and excess baggage charges. The commission was told by the two railway representatives that the Z5 ner cent increase allowed bv He- braska in freight rates in intrastate traffic had cost .the carriers $1.Z53, 770 as compared with the return which world; have been permitted under the 35 per cent increase in in terstate rates." Assistant Attorney General L. E. Masters of Nebraska, appearing for the state commission, declared that Nebraska had been guided solely by the transportation act in fixing both passenger and freight rates. He said the state commission ' had used tht ame set of figures as the Interstate Commerce commission. These, he said, had shown that a freight rate increase of 25 per cent was sufficient, whereas ' the interstate increase amounted to 35 per cent. 'Kjckoff Meeting of Farm Bureau Drive Is Success ' Weeping "Water Neb., Dec. 15. 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