The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-12
ANDERSON IS GUILTY
Convicted Yesterday in JUS
tice Walkers Court.
ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY
Van VaIkenburg and Ander-
son Stole Chickens.

One week ago today Detectives Cairns
and Carroll arrested four chicken thieves.
They were Charles Van Valkenburg, Rar-
vey Anderson, Tom Diffenderfer and Al
Calvin. Last night Tom Diffenderfer and
Al Calvin were given their liberty with
the understanding that they were not
| only to leave Wichita but the state of
Kansas as well. The officers, while they
had absolute proof that they committed
petty larceny, came TO the conclusion
that it would be better 10 have them
leave here than TO send them up 10 the
| county jail to be fed at the expense of
the county for seven or eight months.
Should either of them ever come back
there will still be a charge standing
against them and they can be re-arrest-
ed. These are the two men who were
written up in last Sundays Eagle as hav-
ing stolen seventy-one chickens on Friday
night.
On the same evening that Calvin and
Diffenderfer made a raid on the Sedg-
wick county farmers hen roosts Charley
Van Valkenburg and Harvey Anderson
turned and sold the results of their ne
farious nights work for $3.50 The lat
ter two thieves were up for hearing
yesterday before Judge Walker. Ander-
son was convicted but the case against
Van Valkenburg was dismissed. Both Of
them were Immediately rearrested on the
charge of burglary and grand larceny
the charge being preferred by Mr.. Julie
Johnson and G. z. Morris of Valley Cen
ter. The case is to come up this morning
before Judge Enoch but will be continued
until all of the witnesses are able to come
here and testify.
Mr.. George Davis, living near Valley
Center. was the principal witness in the
case yesterday wherein Anderson was
convicted. Anderson was the man who
sold the poultry to the Kansas Produce
company. He was always paid by the
company with a check. Anderson gave
the name of G. P. Sims and it was in
that name that the checks were made
payable to. On the day before they were
arrested Anderson and Van Valkenburg
had made a trip to the country and had
on Friday sold to the same company poul-
try to the amount of $40.
1t was brought out in the trial yester-
day afternoon that Anderson and Van
Valkenburg on Friday night, Feb. 4, while
robbing the chicken house of George Da-
Wis at Valley Center had torn off several
laths TO his chicken house in order to
gain an entrance. The same night when
they visited Mr.. julie Johnson's place,
they broke in the door to his hennery. At
George Morrison's they removed or broke
in the window to his poultry house. They
also stole several fowls from Mr. George
Barrett. From Mr.. @. A. Clark they stole
both chickens and ducks. On their re-
turn home they stopped at the home of
Charles Gilchrist. where they attempted
to make a raid but were chased off. In
their fight they dropped a sack with sew
eral chickens in ii.
On Saturday night after the four men
were arrested Van Valkenburg's wife.
who is Z. sister Of Anderson, accompanied
by a young woman living on Wichita
street with Anderson's brother, a youth
OF Is. went out TO the house where Ander-
son and Van Valkenburg lived, on Ninth
street, just beyond College Hill. The COW
cred wagon the men had used on the
night previous was standing in the yard
and in order that the wagon could not be
described and introduced as evidence the
three tore the canvas covering off and
burnt it up. The officers claim that both
Anderson and Van Valkenburg are sched-
uled for term in the penitentiary as
they have plenty Of evidence to convict
them.