Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-11

Then you mean to say" said the
reporter, that you We're dragged in
to the matter simply because your bar
tender received the kilograms, and
the Pinkertons jumped to the con-
clusion that you We're implicated?"
1.-THE state was not able to prove
anything e,se," said Mr.. Richie and
he proceeded to haul the reporter over
the Goals for saying that 'it is whis-
pered that Mrs. Ritchie's visit might
have had something to do with Dodd's
disappearance" in the Courier early
in September Richie said it was not
right that his wife's name should be
dragged into the matter; that she had
Visited Ottumwa several times and
| had always deported herself as lady.
He said he did not care what the Cour-
Ter said about him, but to leave his
wife's name out of it.
Richie was asked if it was he that
escaped from house some years ago
disguised in his wife's clothes, after
Indian Joe Menard had been tracked
to Ritchie'S residence and captured.
Il suppose put on my wife's paint
aid powder" exclaimed Richie.
THAT is another Courier story"
He was told that it had been re-
ported that he had escaped from his
| own dwelling while the house was
surrounded by officers who had track
ed Indian Joe Menard to his (Ritchie's)
house. At that time it is said the
officers did not know that Richie was
! in the house and that he made his es-
cape in the manner indicated. Richie
| denied this and in short time left
| with his companions
! Attorney r. A. Wade.
Mr.. Wade, one of Ritchie's attor-
ncys, was in the Courier Office last
| evening and after futile efforts to
pump him as to the line the defense
would have pursued had Richie been
!, identified and they been forced into
a trial, Mr.. Wade invited the force
out to the nearest cigar store. While
there it came pat for the attorney to
relate a bit of his history.
$50 you are a reporter. Well, young
man worked at the business long be-
fore you were born-in 1858 and 1869.
guess that antedates your time,
probably" The reporter said it did
by about three years.
Il served four years in the con-
| federate army during the civil war
\ du'l IuSu WSuL DdCh Oll Cllc i
went to school at Bloomington, Illinois,
for a while and then went to Louis
vile, Kentucky, on my uppers. walk
| to work on the Louisville Courier
Journal. This was in 1858 and 1869.
/ went back to Bloomington and went
to school again where | graduated.
AFTER time | went to Chicago where
l ;n ,rt nd
have ever since eked out miserable
said the Judge, that will live to out
which gained by defending Prender-
| CAST.
The Judge also defended members
OF the notorious Shevlin gang who are
1 we'll known in Chicago and of whom
ottumwans have frequently read in
the newspapers. The Judge, as he is
/ Familiarity known, says that he has
| been unfortunate in getting this class
of business. His associates say OF
| him that he does not go after them,
/ bur on the contrary they come to him.
The Judges allusion to eking out a
miserable existence sounds funny
as it was intended, when it is consid.
cred that he has a private secretary
who travels with him.
Mr.. Wade is we'll pleased with the
state of Iowa and the city of Ottum.
wa. He says that he has never been
1 in a court where he has been treated
any more courteously than he has
here. He has nothing but words OF
| praise for the states attorneys in
the Richie case.