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Peached On His Pals

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
September
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Calumet, Sept. 23.- Jack King, John Butler. George La Liberty and the two Hogan brothers were arraigned before Justice Finn Wednesday for a hearing in the expresa robbery case. La Liberty was the principal witness on the stand. He made a clean confession of the whole transaction. He first told the story of the robbery; said that he was taken to the place of the robbery, near Boston Station, on the 14th inst.. tne night before, and slept all night in a barn. King and Butler drove out the next morning with a horse, arriving there a few minutes before the train was due. They put on their masks and flagged the train. He run the engine. while King and Butler entered the expresscar. The two men came out of the car and jumped off, when he followed them. The inoney was in a bag, and was taken to his boarding house by himself and King, where it was put in a trunk and taken to the railway station 'and checked.to Marquetce; Butler, who had then arrived at the boarding house, taking the key. The exainination of Eil and D. W. Hogan was continued during the afternoon. La Liberty swore that they were in the plot: in fact, it was first concocted by Ed Hogan, and he (La Liberty) was let into the schenie as the proper man take care of the engineer. La Liberty said that Ed Hogan was with him when the trunk was taken to his house, and they opened it, but did not know that the money had been taken out. King, Butler and the two Hogans were bound over to the circuit court with bonds fixed at 10,000.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News