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Chicago, July 5.
– The pursuit of the robbers who held up the Omaha and Denver
express on the Rock Island Road Thursday, near Dupont, narrowed down
this afternoon to a search for two young men, believed to be
experienced criminals, who lived in an Englewood rooming house for
two weeks before the robbery.
A man who said he
was well acquainted with the suspects during the stay in Englewood
furnished the information to the Rock Island detectives. The
suspects, he said, had not been seen there since Thursday afternoon.
Their descriptions correspond to the particulars given by the
members of the train crew.
In connection
with the new clue the new clue the names of George Parker, alias
“Butch” Cassidy, and Harry Longbaugh are mentioned. Parker is
also known as George Cassidy, Harry Alonzo, and Ingerfield.
According to the police he served time as bank robber, train robber,
cattle and horse thief, and his description is similar to that given
of one of the men who robbed the Rock Island Train.
Detectives,
villagers, and farmers are scouring the country near the Moss farm,
outside of Tinley Park, where two suspicious strangers asked for
food. The proprietor of a hotel at Tinley Park reports seeing the
same men who called on Moss. They carried packages similar to those
taken from the express car. They said they had been picking
mushrooms. After eating luncheon they disappeared. There is a cordon
of watchers about the entire locality, and the suspected men may be
taken to-night. |
