The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-12-16
ELUDED THE POLICE.
Burglar Who Shot Rev. ard Mrs.
Cheney Escaped from
Racine.

Racine. Wis, Dec. Ill Special. In
all probability the man who shot Rev.
and Mrs. David b. Cheney escaped from
the city by running south, but whether he
was Il partner of Henry L. Corbett of
Milwaukee, in Jail on the charge of va
grancy, is question puzzling the police,
although Mrs. Cheney states that from
a picture shown her that he is the man
she talked TO at the back door Il few mo-
mentS before the shooting COrbctt says
that he might have been at the rear door
of the Cheney home for the reason that
he called at many residences that day,
but not being acquainted with the loca-
tions of the town he cannot say where
he was at that time.
The burglar who did the shooting. ac
cording to reports to the police. was seen
at Berryville less than two hours after
the shooting. He was lying in the grass
beside the road very tired and carefully
watching people who approached. When
he observed an officer coming III a buggy
with Il star and brass buttons on his
coat, he crawlcd behind a summer house
and kept out of sight until the officer
went by and then ran and leaped over
the lake bank The officer went out of
sight and the man came up from the lake
and cut across the fields to the west
People at Berryyile and vicinity posi-
every particular the description of the
burglar sent out and are positive it was
the right man. y number of prominent
citizens say the same thing.
Farmers and others near Berryville say
that if they had known of the crime they
would have turned out and captured the
burglar, but only a few of them knew of
the tragedy until after the evening pa
perS arrived.
The story ;hat there was two men
interested in the robbery is doubted by
many and the presence of Corhett at the
rear door of the Cheney house is consid-
cred as a strange coincidence.
George Dardis, the man who pro
claimed that he did the shooting, i'll Il
saloon yesterday. was drunk at the time
and had nothing to do with the affair.
Rev. and Mrs. Cheney are getting on
exccllcntly and will both recover. OF
the dozen different stories told about the
Cheney to ". NJ. Lewis, is that when
she first saw the thief in the room he
was going through bureau drawers and
she imagined ii was her husband, hut
upon entering the room discovered the
mistake The man raised the gun and
said Not word She called and
the thief fired hut the bullet went
wide and lodged in the wall,
attempted to pinon his arms, but he
reached back and shot Mr.. Cheney in
the abdomen and he fell. The thief
leaned over and holding the gun close
to Mr. Cheneys breast again fired. Mr..
Cheney again rose and grappled with him
and both fell downstairs and the thief
got up and ran for the front door. BY
this time Mrs. Cheney was almost down
stairs. when the thief turned and pointing
the revolver at her fired and the shot
struck her in the neck, and he then
opened the door and disappeared.
Sheriff Rein has gone TO Jefferson to
look at two suspects, Chief of Police
Johnson is chasing clues at Kcnosha and
other officers are working here.
4 suspect was brought in from West
ern Union junction, but he was too
drunk to remember his own name. A
card on his person showed that on the
day Of the shooting he was at work in
Milwaukee and his name is johnson.
1t begins to look as if the right man
has made good his escape and will not
bc captured for many month and per
hans never