The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-17
RASCALITY.
Sharp Silvis has T. J. Davis, Of Carbon
Cliff, Arrested for Forgery.
The Counterfeit.
ing Case.
CHARGED WITH FORGERY.

Last evening Sheriff Retcker returned
from the upper end of the county with T
j. Davis, whom Deputy Sheriff Sharp
Silvis charges with forgery. The facts
in the case, and which led to Davis ar
rest are these; The last of the week Mr.
president of the Argillo works at Carbon
Cliff, enclosing the following document,
as he called it:
The business of the cort keeps me here,
hnt you can trust Bill Carey; keep still,
and we will give Mylo Lee hell, you bet
SHARP SILvIs.
Upon receiving the above the genial
| deputy was at first nonplusscd; he had
| written no such note and could not ina CINE
what it meant. He had always been the
best of friends with Milo Lee, and would
not think of doing him an injury even if
his relations with him had not been
| friendly. Finally a thought struck him
| the letter had been written by some one
who sought to do him (Silvis) injury, but
who could have done such thing? Sharp
set his detective faculties to play upon the
case, and by noon on the day he received
the lcttcr-which was Friday-he had
gathered sufficient evidence to satisfy him
self that T. J. Davis was the man. Hence
the arrest by Sheriff Reticker as stated
Mr.. Silvis and Mr.. Lee have for
years been closely associated through
the relations of their respective
business in the upper end" Mr..
Lee buys immense quantities of coal
from the Silvis mines and the result is
something like $1,000 passes between
them every month. The letter was re-
ccived by Mr.. Lee on the 18th and bore
the post mark of Barstow, 18th inst.
| Had Mr.. Lee not known Sivis as well as
he did the letter would have fulfilled its
intended mission and created an antip-
athy between the two gentlemen, besides
running their business relations.
The case is in preliminary hearing be-
fore Justice Bennett this afternoon, Judge
Wilkinson and States Attorney Entrikin
appearing for the prosecution, and
Sweeney Il Walker for the defense. lie
was held in the sum Of Fl, 300,
TIE CoUNrERFEIrlNG CASE.
The Countcrfeiting case, in which Will
bur +. Norris and George Hakes are
the principals, has been the sub
ject of general talk since the facts
in the case were made pubic. Nor
ris is at Jail in Davenport, having failed
to furnish bond OF SO, 900 in which he
WAS held last evening by Commissioner
White TO answer TO the charge OF passing
counterfeit money, IN the United States
court. lIakcs Is still at large and no eff
fort seems to be made to capture him +.
When spoken to upon the subject this
morning, Marshal Eckhart said he did
not feel like spending any money in that
direction i:Aout assurance that he would
be refunded for any personal outlay he
may make. The city, he SAID, would not
pay for the arres' and il he went to any
expense in eifectinS the arrest, it would
be money out of pocket. The announce
mcnt that the city would not defray any
costs in case like this will doubtless be
a surprise to the public, but it seems
to be none the less true. Although lIakes
has committed crime against the gov
every effort to assist in bringing him to
| justice. The opinion prevails that he is
not far away, and that it would cost but
n trtle to get him within the clutches of
the law, while others are of the opinion
that he lett for the east on the cannon
ball train Sunday morning, and is now
safely over the Canadian line. 1t was ass
serted this morning that he had been
seen yesterday morning, and one man
claimed that he came IN from Peoria last
evening, and left the train in the lower
end of town, These, however, are prob-
ably only idle rumors.
| Hon. Pat O'Mara has been engaged as
counsel for w. F. Norris, and he hopes
to raise bonds to get Norris out of Jail
He got his bail reduced to $4,000.
This morning Deputy U. s. Marshal
Susenmeihl, of Davenport, came over
having been furnished clue by Chief
Kcssler, of the Davenport police, to
Hakes' whereabouts, and he start
ed out into the country in
company with Marshal Eckhart.
The probabilities are that Hakes will be
safe behind the prison bars before the go
ing down of today's SUM-