The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-28
Gone, But Not Forgotten.


Messrs. Chase and Campbell, the
noted icon" men, are no longer in La
Sale county. and because of this the
sheriffs of Kendall and DeKalb coun-
ties, Messrs Alderman and HOlcomb,
Tuesday morning were very mad.
They were not SO mad when they left
Ottawa perhaps as they were when
they arrived, for the very simple reason
that they understood the situation
better, having received a few
pointers"
Sheriff MorriSSey was the centre Of
attack when the foreign sheritfs ar
rived, but in pretty vigorous language
he gave them to understand that they
could not fail to do what they might
have done toward the retention Of
Chase and Campbell and then blame
him for what they had left undOne.
Some days since Morrissey, having
heard it limited that the friends of his
prisoners were about to give bail for
them, wrote to DeKalb and Kendall
counties, notifying these sherifls to be
on the lookout, as bail would surely
be given, and to prepare themselves to
arrest the men if they were wanted.
TO this notice no attention was paid,
and to give them further notice, he at
once telegraphed to Dekalb and Ken
dali when bail was being given on
Monday. Several hours elapsed before
he received reply, and then it was a
telegram to arrest. Immediately, in
company with Deputy Reed, he went
to La Sale, where Chase and Camp
bell had gone at 1907. Arriving there
at = o'clock in the morning, thorough
search of the city was made, but the
men had taken a train west and were
out of his reach.
When the DeKalb man stormed
about in Sheriff MOrrissey's office that
morning he was informed that he
might have had his men if he had dis
played half the vigilance before Mon
day that he was displaying on Tues
day, and as for the prosecuting wit
ness from Dekalb, who was ac-
quainted with the men to the tune of
$4,000, the sheriff said he would be in
better shape to make wry faces If he
had spent less time dickering with the
friends of these men to get a settle
ment: and in this connection, by the
way, it was developed that the old
was taken from him.
Whether or not these men could
have been legally arrested by either of
the sheritfs from Kendall or Dckalb.
or by Sheriff Morrissey, is a disputed
question. We understand that Judge
Blanchard and Judge Snyder both
hold that they could not, for the
reason that having been brought into
Illinois upon requiSitiOn upon the
governor of Indiana based upon a com
plant sworn out upon state OF facts
made by one complaining witness, be
arrested when once here upon an
entirely different state Of facts sworn
to by entirely different complaining
witnesses, at least until they had had
time to return to the state from
whence brought. In support of this,
a recent decision Of the United States
Federal Court in Virginia and the
Supreme Court of New York is cited,
as well as the recent action of Gov.
Hill Of that state in a similar case
that came before him.
The prosecution in the Gleim case,
we understand. do not hold that these
men could be legally arrested by the
foreign sheritfs who were yesterday in
Ottawa.
Under this condition Of uncertainty
Sheriff Morrissey declined to take the
responsibility of voluntarily arresting
these men and therefore gave the
notices heretofore mentioned
The bail given by Chase and Camp
bell is so large that it is not likely
that it will be forfeited, and if the
Kendall and DeKalb officers really
want Chase and Campbell, all they
need do is to be on hand when they