Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-07
Attorney Dick Wade Again in
Court in Chicago.
TRIED TO LOCATE STOLEN GOODS
Fact Brought Out Yesterday When Mo-.
ton for New Trial Was Being Ar
gued-Man Who Committed Cross
man Fur Robbery confesses.

Attorney ''Dick" Wade of Chicago,
the man who defended the Eldon
bank robbers and who has since that
tine worked himself into a great deal
of trouble with the states attorney In
Cook county, Illinois, is trying to get
new trial in the case in which he is
charged with completely in the big
Chicago postoffice robbery and yester-
day, when the arguments for his mo-
ton for a re-hearing We're being made
before Chicago judge, it was devel-
oped that he had last winter disclosed
to the authorities some valuable in
formation regarding the robbery OF
the government building.
The fact came out that Wade went
to New Orleans last February with the
hope of turning up the great quantity
of stolen stamps, and that in New Or
leans he was joined by Detective
Frank Tyrrell of the states attorneys
office.
Facts Kept Secret.
| The greatest secrecy was observed
in this trip to avoid its being made
public. Wade went by one route from
Chicago and Tyrrell by another They
remained in New Orleans for several
days,
What the clews We're is still kept a
secret but nothing ever came from
| them. No trace of the postage
stamps was secured.
The day after Wade left Chicago he
was seen on the train by somebody
who knew him and information wa!
hurriedly sent to the states attorneys
Office that Wade was fleeing to South
America.
4 Deneen Makes DeniaIs.
i Mr.. Deneen, who had himself SEN
Wade to New Orleans, laughed at thi!
report and hushed it up.
4 1t was about this time the repor
was published that Wade had furnish
ed the state with information in thu
postoffice robbery case Wade vigor
ously denied that he had done so.
Yesterday the arguments for new
: trial in the Wade case were concluded
but a final disposition of the matte
was postponed until next Thursday.
Z Assistant States Attorney Franz
Grove represented the state, and Al
: torney W. E. Brown argued for tn
: defense. Brown set up the argumen
that the jurors were prejudiced b
. reading newspaper reports of the tria
in which Wade was convicted of re
ceiving stolen goods.
: Clinton Robber Confesses.
: George B. Burrier, the man who wa
!. recently arrested in Clinton on tn
0 charge of having been connected wit
the Crossman fur robbery there las
. winter, has confessed his guilt and in
) plicates several Clinton people {
prominence in this and other crime
which gained state wide notice TIL
Gfossman fur robbery was the cas-
5 in which Wade was proved to be col
: cerned. Chicago court finding hil
guilty of having received part of tn
stolen furs. The Clinton Herald tel
: of Burrier's confession as follows:
Curriers' statement consisted of s.
e closely typewriter sheets, and
$, kept secret by the police for the reasc
that some of the parties who will
,e brought under the ban of the la
l. through it are not as yet apprehende
The officers state that there will
% important developments within a fe
days.
at is given out, however, that I'll
confession gives the details of the re
berry of Mr.. and Mrs, Clarence Fa
(. the attempt to rob the residence
"a Lafayette Lamb, the hold-up in Il
Rooms block last fall when Joe Howa
= was wounded, the Grossman fur 70
berry, and the Lyons robberies. A fl
- history of the transactions is give
~ which will make interesting readil
&c when it is given out. The names of t
local and outside participants in t
n, series of robberies are also given"
"a cnMEInEMT AE NINnICATInMl