St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-24

Tere put to work on that case. Last Monda,
became evident that Harris and Comstocs
fere the men who had done that job. March, q
= Hayne, Col. Vests attorney, had charge CT
he case. AS stated in the GLOBE Yesterday
: was learned that an effort was bein
11aqe to get Harris out on bail. A womal
who lives in the house of III fame run b.
Lottie Layton, in ST. Paul, was the movir
pirit in the undertaking. Hayne made ar
:angements to see that Harris was not re
leased. sAnd this is where the negligence a
nc court officer comes in. Nj. nayne swor,
ut the warrant for the arrest of HsI
rs on the charge of grand larceny j;
ne first degree-the morning theft a
he West previously spoken of-at 2:30 Tues
lay afternoon. TO be sure that there woulu
would be no hitch, he secured an order from
he county attorney for the serving of the
4arrant at the county Jail and put il in tbs
lands of Clerk Altnow, of the municipal
court, with the. warrant. The warrant wa
turned over TO the court sergeant, and he de
allied Officer Erlichman TO make service. Er
lehman received the warrant before O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon About 4:30 Mr. Hayne
20 reaSsure himself that there would be no
lelay in serving the warrant. telephoned the
clerk of the municipal court. asking If the
warrant had been served. He was told tina.
the officer had been sent TO serve it.
But the warrant never was served. At 63r
Harris was free man and had left the city
NO one knows where he is>pow. 1t is almost
a certainty that he will never come back
FOR long time has been allowed 10 slip away
There is good deal of doubt as TO the value
of the bond was raised. 1t was signed by ID.
". Shepard and L. I. Heyman. Neither of
these men are known in MINNEAPOLIS. Their
names co not figure in the directory. They
may be from ST. Paul. No one in Minneapo
lis knows anything about them. Judge Ell
liotI accepted the bond, so il is probable that
1t is all right But the payment of this sec
will not make up for the loss of big thief
who was almost certain TO receive a long
term in the penitentiar7, where he belongs
Supt. Henderson Investigated the case of
court Officer Erlichman yesterday. Erlich-
man does not seem to have made an inten-
tional mistake. He offers as all excuse that
be had some private business TO attend to.
and that he thought he would have time TO
look after that before serving the warrant.
lie claims that he was at the sheriff's office
at the court house at 4 :45. The people
at that time. and that had Erlichman been
there at the time stated he could have served
the warrant. Anyhow, the warrant was not
served. ErliChman and the men in the
sheritfs Office must settle that among them
selves Mayor Winston has not yet taken
action on ETlichman'S case. 1t is not prob
able that Erlichman' excuse will answer. Ii
was his business to serve that warrant before
he did anything else. He had ample time 10
do it,
There is another feature of the case tina
has queer look. 1t is said that the jailor
never reported 10 any one the fact that Har-
ris had been released. No one knew any
thing about it until yesterday morning. A
man from the shcriffs Office was in police
headquarters Tuesday night and told Capt.
Helm that both of the thieves were all right
III Jail. There Will be q full investigation
into all the features Of the case. There
seems 10 be need of one.