Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2017 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Rachel Fuller for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Bessemer Herald February 23, 1901 RODERBAUGH FOUND GUILTY Took the Jury Three Minutes to Find a Verdict in the Robbery Case. The case of STANLEY J. RODERBAUGH, night of the robbery, and MR. BROWN charged with robbing the safe of Lee recognized the two men as having & Tennyson, at Ironwood, on January been passengers on his train from 15, came up for hearing in the cir- Thomaston to Sidnaw on the night cuit court on Wednesday of this week in question. The two men, after and nearly the whole forenoon was committing the robbery, it seems, spent in drawing a jury. S. S. must have walked from Ironwood to COOPER handled the case for the peo- Thomaston, passing through this ple, assisted by C. E. MILLER, of city en route, and took the night Ironwood, while H. M. NORRIS, was train at Thomaston for Sidnaw, employed by the county to defend the where MANNING was arrested by prisoner. The first witness called Deputy Sheriff JOHNSON, of Houghton was LARS TENNYSON, of Ironwood, who county, who had received a telegram testified that RODERBAUGH and a com- from Sheriff JEFFREY to be on the panion, RICHARD MANNING, entered his lookout for the robbers. RODERBAUGH place of business at about fifteen was arrested at Pori, a small sta- minutes past six o'clock on the tion on the St. Paul road, after- night of the robbery and at the ward by Sheriff JEFFREY, who brought point of revolvers compelled him the two back and landed them in jail to remain quiet while they took here. The charge against RODERBAUGH what money was in the safe and cash is robbery and an intent to do great register, amounting to $138.10. bodily harm if resistance were of- MR. TENNYSON identified the prison- fered. It took the jury in the case er as one of the men who had robbed just three minutes to find him guil- his safe. FRED BOARS, employed by ty when the case was given to them. Ullman & Co., at Ironwood, testi- RODERBAUGH is an escaped convict fied that he saw MANNING at Iron- from the South Dakota penitentiary, wood on the morning of Jan. 15, where he is wanted to serve a and MISS HULDA BLICKARD, who en- sentance of six years for postoffice tered the meat market of Lee & robbery, for which he was shot in Tennyson while the men were engaged the arm in order to capture him. He in taking the money from the cash is 23 years old and small in stature, register recognized both men as the but without doubt the toughest crimi- same she had seen in the market on nal that has been imprisoned in the the night of the robbery. Switchman Gogebic county jail since robber SAUR, in the employ of the C. & N. HOLZHAY was imprisoned here. The W., testified that he saw two men maxiumum sentence for the crime who he believed to have been ROD- which he has been convicted of here ERBAUGH and his companion at Semens is a life imprisonment. on the night of the robbery. N. B. BROWN, conductor on the D. S. S. & A., and EARL CAMPBELL, operator at Thomaston, were both called to give testimony. MR. CAMPBELL testi- fied that he sold the men tickets from Thomaston to Sidnaw on the ====================================================================================