The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-02-22
REQU|s|T|oN
For Mrs. Alice Wagner
Will be Issued.
BY GOVERNOR OF OHIO
Fire Marshal Discusses the
Frank ErtIe Case With News.
Democrat Re.
porter.

Deputy Fire Marshals Hollenbeck
and Hart were in consultation at Pros
ecutor Days Office Wednesday after
noon over the case of Alice Wagner.
who is accused of arson. Mayor ]. H.
Robertson was also called into the con.
ference. The warrant for Alice's arrest
was sworn out before his honor. but
when Marshal Reinhart went to Wheel.
ing after her, as has been stated in
the News-Democrat, she stood upon her
interstate rights and refused to come
into state of Ohio without requisition
papers were taken out. There was
nothing submissive about Alice. She
wasn't pining to be taken into custody
and the marshal had to return without
his prisoner.
The object of the conference at the
prosecutors Office was to devise plans
for bringing the accused within the
jurisdiction Of Ohio courts, and it was
determined that q new warrant will be
sworn out before Justice Bowman, and
with this as a foundation requisition
papers will be asked of Governor Nash.
The governor Is not authorized to issue
such papers on affidavits sworn out
before any but state officials. The
mayors authority comes only from the
municipality, while the commission of
the justice is from the governor.
Backed by the requisition papers, If
the governor of West Virginia will rec
ognize them, another effort will be
made to get charge of the woman, and
If successful she will be brought to
Canton for trial.
1t is not claimed that she set fire to
a building to get insurance money, nor
that she was instrumental in burning
a building, but it Is alleged that out of
a spirit of revenge she set fire to a
lot of clothing belonging to some girls
who worked at the Miller hotel in Mas
sillon, and started fire that might
have destroyed the hotel and contig-
uous property.
A News-Democrat reporter saw Dep.
uty Fire Marshal Hollenbeck at the
Office Wednesday after
noon and was given the facts as above
stated.
AS to the Frank Ertle case, Mr.
Hollenbeck said:
I'VE have an abundance of testimony
against Ertle. You possibly heard of
the case at the time. Frank Ertle was
accused of not only trying to burn his
house, but his wife, as well. The wife
relates, and we have her affidavit to
support the statement, that her hus-
band saturated the room and the bed
ding with some infiammable stuff and
set fire to 1t. She even claims to have
seen him throw match into the room.
The fire was extinguished before much
damage was done. 1t is alleged that
Mrs. Ertle refused to go down a ladder
which the husband was holding, after
she got out on the roof of the burning
building, and that neighbors heard her
say that he had tried to burn her up
and she would not let him break her
neck on that ladder. After neighbors
came she descended the ladder.
"The wife alleges that on two pre-
vious occasions she thinks he made
an attempt upon her life. Once she
found her pillow saturated with ether,
she says, and another time lot of
gasoline was secreted in the room
which she thinks was put there so that
an explosion might be caused. have
the affidavits of the mans sons, as well
as that of his wife. and also of numer-
GUS other citizens Of Massillon sub
the wife In every particular.
1T Is alleged that Ertle has been
living with Tillie Andrews, at Muncie,
Ind, and the authorities there are anx-
ious to get him for unlawful cohabita-
tion. She was in Aassillon about the