The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-31
CHIEF HAYSkNEW HIM
Lee Calm Given a Bad Name
at Kansas City.
WOMAN WITH ALIASES
Said to Have Prepared the
Way for BurgIaries.

Since the sensational arrest OF the al
legged burglars. Lee Calm, the well-known
St Joseph travelling man. and his pal, H
Harris, alias Hartley, in this city last
week. it has become evident to the minds
Of the officers here that they are two of
the shrewdest thieves that have ever
worked in this section of the country. It
now transpires that Chief John Hayes OF
the Kansas City, No, police force, de-
clares that Lee Calm and Harris, his
partner, who were in Jail here, have been
doing considerable crooked work around
the country and that the police Of several
western cities have been looking for
them. As soon as Hayes heard of the
arrest of Calm ne telegraphed 70 Detect
i've Sutton at St. Joseph to bring Calm
back by the way of Kansas City, as he
would like to get look at him.
Hayes has a national reputation as one
Of the cleverest thief takers in the coun-
try, and it is said that upon seeing Calm
last Thursday he Immediately declared
that he was one of the much wanted pair.
It was reported at St. Joseph ana Kan
sas City that the woman in the case had
also been captured and was in jail here,
and this led to search for her previous
record. The report about the woman,
however, is erroneous, as the woman who
was first discovered with Harris and
Calm was not arrested. Harris wife, 1t
is said, IS here in the city and is reported
to be very i'll, but she is not the cele-
brated ''crookess" who the Kansas City
and st. Joseph police allege has been OPP
Grating with Calm and Harris. This wo-
man would perhaps be worth reward If
she could be apprehended. Her name is
Rosa Klein and she is a notorious east
ern crook. her line being anything from
dip" or pickpocket, to a badger"
worker. She was arrested in Salina, Kan,
and was working in a hotel as a dining
room girl and was attired in a servants
garments.
She was evidently getting ready to do
some fingered work on her own ac-
count or else has new partner, and the
latter is probably the case, as the wo-
man, VINO Is gOOu IOOhIIlS NlSOiS"
about 3S years of age, has never been
known to work single handed.
Her particular line is to engage herself
to a family either as nurse, governess
or maid, and while thus employed she
would ascertain the location Of the valu-
ables belonging to the family, and at
the proper time would tip the information
to her male confederate. Then when the
occasion presented itself The house would
be robbed The woman would remain in
the employ OF the family until several
weeks after the robbery. when she would
quit and go elsewhere.
She is known by the names Of Rosa
Klein, Helene Meyer, Katheryn Fleisch-
man and several other aliases.
Calm has several friends in wichita
who declared that he was not guilty of
the charge preferred against him and at
first called the affair police persecution, ."
but they have begun to believe that De-
tective Sutton knew what he was talk
ing about when he said that Calm was
guilty, even though there was not par
ticle of evidence on which Calm could
have been convicted at the time.