The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-02
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Deputy Sheriff Kindelberger Res
turnsifrom Louisville.
BROUGHT EAPY84Tl WIlEELlNG.
AND HIS PRELIMINARY HEARING
WILL PROBABLY Be HELD TO-
DAY-HEis BELIEVED TO BE A
RECENT EUROPEAN 1aIpoRTA-
TON AND Is SAID TO BE ONE
OF THE sMoorHEsT IN HIS
LINE IN THIS COUNTRY.

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Deputy Sheriff John W. Klndelberger
arrived home from Louisville yesterday
morning on the 5 o'clock Baltimore s.
Ohio train, having In charge sigmund
Kapy, charged with giving Z. b. Car
ney, proprietor OF the Hotel Windsor. a
bad check in payment OF an Indebted
ness. Kapy was placed in the county
jaR. He has engaged Colonel Arnett
TO act as his counsel, and there will
probably be q preliminary hearing be-
fore Justice to-day, that will probably
result In the prisoner being held to
await the action OF the criminal cour.
grand jury, which will be empanelled
Monday. e
Deputy Kindelberger says he was
treated with great courtesy by the
Louisville authorities. It was general
~ believed that he went to Louisville
armed with requistlon papers issued
by Governor Atkinson. AS a matter OF
fact the requlsltlon papers were to have
been mailed to Kindelberser ct Louis
Vile, and they did not arrive.
Upon his arrival in the Kentucky me.
tropolls, Deputy Klndtiperger went to
chlefofPolice Hagersotlice. and was re-
'ferred to the chief OF detectives, who de-
tailed Detective Armstrong on the case,
Klrdelberger was informed that the ST.
Louis people were very anxious to get
n MI
from that city arrived in Louisville
shortly after klndelberger. Detective
Armstrong Informed the Judge OF the
city court that Klndelberger was first
on the scene and was entitled TO get
the man. kapy was asked II, he would
so to Wheeling without requ!sition pa
pe.s and assented. Thereupon he was
handed over to the Wheeling officer,
who lost no time in starting for home.
The Louisville people believe that
Kapy is u most important capture.
They think he Is q noted European
crook, who has not been in this coun-
try very long, but his record in this
line OF business Is said to be q brilliant
one.
Says the Louisville courier-Journal:
Deputy Sheriff Kindelberger, Of
Wheeling. W. Va. arrived in. the city
last night offer Sigmund Kapy, the
high roller. who was arrested Friday
night 1.-THE Gait house by Detectives
Armstrong and Plamp on the charge OF
forgery. It is said that kapy Is one Of
the smoothest forgers in the country.
Kapy is known under the aliases OF
George D. La Tour and Charles Burckel.
He dresses elegantly, wears diamonds,
smokes fine cigars and spends money
freely. EH4 80
Deputy .Kindelberger said: "Kapy Is
notorious forger and Is one Of the
siickest in the business. He Is wanted
In almost every city In the west. He
always stops at the SWEETEST hotels. He
was in St. Louis not long ago and reg
istered at the Southern. He gave the
clerk q forged check on n big Chicago
firm and then skipped out. He then
went TO Toledo and put UP at the finest
hotel there. Re got rid Of two checks
purportlng to be signed by Walters &
Co., of Cleveland. Both were forgeries.
He then dropped into Wheeling and
registered at the Windsor. He remain
ed In Wheeling O week and forged the
Co., for $50 and skipped out for LOUIS
Vile. In the meantime. the Hotel
Keepers Association had been notified
OF Kapy's operations. Descriptions Of
him were sent out to all the police de-
partments."
The day Kapy arrived in the city
Capt Sullivan received q description Of
him from the Hotel Keepers Associa-
ton. He evidently intended TO beat the
Gait house. Kapy claims Kansas City
as his home. He gave an exhibition Of
his art last night in Chief Sulllvan's Of
fee. He wrote his name in dozen dif-
ferent ways. and showed how easy It
was to forge. Different detectives wrote
their names and he proceeded to make
foc SMILES OF the signatures,