The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-08-27
A CLEVER CAPTURE.
Undersherif Harkins Does Good Job and
Adds Laurels to His Fame.

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Miller is back. He has lost his lux
uriant mustache and he has acquired
an ample supply of notoriety, otherwise
he has not changed since he started on
his summer vacation. There is a gen
eral impression abroad that he was
captured after a long and extended
search and that it took the whole police
force to accomplish it. The hunt was
difficult enough, but the capture is due
to the untiring effort and shrewd-
ness of Under Sheriff Harkins. A
Chicago detective was on hand when
the prisoner was taken, but the entire
credit is due to the great and only
g Mike" 1t was he who first located
Miller and when the quarry gave the
Chicago officers the slip, it was Har-
kins who planned the trap by which
Miller was finally taken. When Har-
kins went to Chicago Monday morning
he had a list of resorts in his possession
which he had obtained by information
cleverly drawn from the man Sackett.
Harkins had his man located Mon
day night in house on the west
side, but Detective Elliott, of Chicago,
persuaded him that he would be recog-
nized by the crook if he did the shad-
owing himself and the house was
therefore watched by Chicago officers.
One detective was stationed atthe front
of the house and one at the back But
in some manner Miller gave them the
slip. This necessitated a change of
plans. Harkins soon found a young
woman who knew Miller and who was
induced by promise Of a share Of the
reward to write decoy letter to him.
The under sheriff has the letter in his
possession and it is model in its way
Beginning, the girl processes sympathy
for her unfortunate friend, and, as she
expresses it, offers " to help him out of
bad scrape with money, it he will call
at the house where she is staying
Miller fell into the trap as a drowning
man catches at a straw. He appeared
Tuesday night at the resort and asked
for the girl, who, as may be supposed,
was frightened out of her wits now that
the time of capture was at hand. Mil
Ter, unconscious of danger, stood in the
hallway. which was dark, and as Har-
kins stepped from his place of conceal
ment he could just see his man stand
ing in corner by the reflection Of
light thrown over transom. With the
remark, Guess you've been out long
enough, !" he laid his hand on Miller's
shoulder, who, acting as one dazed,
wilted and made no resistance. De-
tective D. Roach, of the Chicago de-
tective station, had appeared few
minutes before and was therefore en-
titled to share of the reward, but the
entire credit of the capture is due to
Harkins, and to him alone.
When the girl wrote the decoy letter
she did not know where to address it
and so she directed it in the cale of a
friend on the north side. The friend
accompanied Miller to his ensnarement,
waiting on the back step while the
business was being done in the interior.
Two hours later, when his companion
was reposing in cell in the police sta
ton, the companion was sitting on the
steps still waiting.
Nothing new concerning the manner
of escape was learned from the
returned crook, inasmuch as the sheriff
was already pretty thoroughly satisfied
as to where the blame lies. 1t has
been pretty thoroughly ascertained that
the tools with which the locks were
sawed were passed through the double
bars of the windows. Miller has ac-
knowledged that he passed through
two letters addressed to Sackett Tues
day morning, the day the break out
was effected.