Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-02-06
Madison, Feb. !

municipal court yesterday was not only
a surprise to the citizens of Dane coun-
ty who had commenced to be dis
gruntled at the enormous bills they
would have to pay for the repeated
trips of district Attorney DudgeOn and
Sheriff Burmeister to and from Chi
cago and Springfield in their futile eff
forts to bring the man back by force,
but it was news to the officers them
selves. When interviewed on the sub
ject the day before the voluntary sur
render, the district attorney said that
Joice had made use of the services of
eight different prominent Chicago at
torneys during his stubborn fight
against extradition and there was no
reason to believe that he would not
continue to resist the Wisconsin off,
GERS to the traditional last ditch. Mr..
Dudgeon said he had received no infor
nation later than that the bankers
attorneys would Friday file their brief
in Judge CIiffords court and two days
after that the Wisconsin officers would
have to file their answer.
This was the situation when Mr.
Dudgeon was informed that Joice was
in the state and would accompany him
before a Judge and surrender himself
to the custody of the law. The dis
trict attorney met the man who has
given him so much trouble yesterday
morning in GAINESVILLE and came on
with him to Madison. The two, in
company with Rufus B. Smith and j..
M Clancy of Stoughton, the latter
two having been retained to defend
Joice in the prospective trial, entered
the municipal court and the alleged
wrecker was arraigned for receiving
deposits in the Dane County bank
some two years ago at a time when he
knew or had good reason to know
that the bank was insolvent. The
complaint is made out in the name of
Henry Beattie, a coal dealer of the
city of Stoughton, who was stock
holder and a large deposition in tne
defunct bank, but he is selected only
as one of very large number of a
SliHliIdT pUSlIlOu.
Joice entered a plea of not guilty
and was Immediately released on
bonds of $4,000. His bondsmen are
Christian Laurence and Gottlieb
Maisch, both of Madison The case
was continued until Monday afternoon
at 2 O'Clock at which time the district
attorney and Joice's defenders will
agree upon a time when the prelim-
mary examination will be held. Mr.
Joice in company with Attorney Clan
cey, who had business here before the
supreme court besides his connection
with the Joice case, left on the after
noon train for the Norwegian tobacco
town which he left under cloud more
than two years ago.
Mr.. Clancy was seen yesterday in
regard to the matter and he said it
was the determination of his client to
fight his aCCusers in the courts ana
show that he was entirely free of any
guilty knowledge or intent in regard
to the state of the defunct bank at the
time when the deposits in question
were received. The attorney declared
that it would be shown in court that
there was scarcely bad judgment
shown at the time when the loans
were made because of which so much
censure has since been heaped upon
Joice. Chief among these loans is
that known as the Brictson loan in
which $4,000 was loaned to l. O. Brict-
son who was involved in a cattle ranch
scheme in Mexico of large proportions
and who came to financial embarrass-
ment Mr.. Clancy said that Brictson
was then worth easily 5000 900 and not
only the bank, but various individuals
advanced money to him on no paper
other than his personal note He men,
toned shrewd business man Of Mad
ison who had advanced in this way the
sum Of $4,000. The fact that Brict-
son became tied up financially was not
evidence of short sightedness on the
part of the banks or individuals who
had trusted him.
Mr.. Joice said he had resisted the
attempts of the Dane county officers to
forcibly return to because he was not
as the extradition papers said fugi-
tive from justice and feared it would
damage and prejudice his case were
to acknowledge it even in technical
sense. He said he would pass the
time intervening before his trial in the
city where his alleged offense was
committed and where his most violent
reyilers still reside. He has still a
gOodly number Of friends in Stough-
ton, he said. and would be glad to
meet these and talk of old times. AL
though his attorneys in Chicago had
ISSUED him that the Wisconsin officers
were powerless to force him to return
and stand trial in this state, he said
he preferred to come when the oppor-
tunity was given him to come volun-
tar1ly and vindicate himself in an open
trial, but he could not come as a pris-
oner and captured fugitive. for he
had never for a day been where his |
whereabouts were unknown to the citi, |
zens uf Stoughton. both his friends |
and those who claimed he was an nm |
scrupulous criminal and a. swindlar |
of the depositors.
The trial will probably be held in |
the municipal court, so Mr.. Clancy
said, and Mr.. Joice and his ATTORNEYS |
are DESTROYS that it be held as soon
as possible. The penalty for the Of |
fence with which Joice is charged is |
fine of from 81 to $1,000 or imprison- |
ment in the penitentiary from one to |!