The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-01
noNKEY1Nc WITH The Buzz saw.
Charles Wilson Pracri ing The Arts Of Rev
enue Collect ,r in Advance.

"Where are you going'" That was th
quest ion Chief of Police Burrows put I
one, Charles Wilson at the window of tn
postoffice yesterday while the latter va
taking a registered letter from the deli,
cry clark.
Il am going up town." was the reply
4 Indeed you are not" said the chief
You are going with me to the bastiie
And the chief yanked him in that direc
ton.
The cause of the arrest IS RS follows:
A few days ago Robert McCanse, inter
nal revenue collector for this district re
ceived a letter from Mr.. Hepsley of Medi
cine Lodge, inclosing the following lette
and asking what it meant.
PRATT, Nov %, 1892
| Mr. HEPsLEY, SIR have been in you
town of late and find that you were in tn
habit of selling liquor and aiding other
in selliug. have sueiciect evidence and
/ will say to you, sir, to save yourself from
the United States government, send t,
| Wichita So 50. and receive your license VI
| to May If you fail TO comply within
three days from the time you receive thi:
notice l will be after you. Send you
SIC. 80 by postal order 70. John L. Martin
I w iCuiLd hdu-
! Robert McCanse knew that it meant
something rotten. and he accordingly laiC
| a trap for the writer. by writing him 9
| registered letter. Yesterday morning be
called for the letter. and while he was ex
| planning to the clerk that he was the man
to whom it was addressed, Postmaster
Jewett sent for Chief Burrows, with the
above result.
Later in the evening Mr.. McCanse re.
ceived another letter which read. as fol.
lows:
PRATT, Nov. Is. 92.
Nr. Rube Lake. Coats. Kan.
SIR:-I Was at your place of late looking
after offenders OF the United States laws.
Mr.. RUDE Lake, sir, l will say to you
IL you want to save trouble
send $125 and receive your license up to
May LIST; send me your order Tor yonr
license and $12 80 within three days from
the time you receive this note or will be
after you. Send by postal order to John
l.. Martin, Wichita. CHARLES MEYER.
Dep. United States Marshal, Wichita.
From the above Mr.. McCanse has con-
cluded that Wilson or Martin or what
ever his real name is. is making a whole
sale business of it in this line. From
documents taken from him by Chief Bur-
rows it is evident that his name is Charles
Wilson. He is rather bright looking
fellow and if he appeared in person before
the parties to whom he wrote he would
fare better perhaps. The letters he
wrote were such as to arouse
suspicion. They were pooly written
in small scraps of paper and had nothing
about them to make people believe that
they were written by agents OF this great
government. In conversation with Chief
Burrows he acknowledged that he was try
ing to collect money but swore by all that
is good and holy that he intended to turn
the money over to Mr. McCanse upon re-
ceivin2 it; that he knew the government
was being swindled and that he took it
upon himself to rectify the frauds, OF
course such an absurd statement would
not wash with Mr.. McCanse particularly
in view of Wilson's admission that he
served term in the Nsosha county Jail for
obtaining money under false pretense
Some wag suggested that he is a candidate
for the position of internal revenue col
lector under Cleveland and that he is only
practicing the art of collecting revenue so
as to have his hand in when Bob Nee anse
will be fired. He is liable to serve his
country duri ng Mr.. Cleveland's admins
tratiou, in the penitentiary, instead OF in
the internal revenue Office.