Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-03
Chicago Attorney Convicted of
Receiving Stolen Furs.
UNEARIH BIG POS1OFrICE ROBBERY
Woman Turns States Evidence on
Wade and Makes Confession ImpIi-
eating Him in Robbery of Chicago
Postoffice-Stamps Taken.

From Mondays Daily.
Attorney Richard Wade of Chicago,
who is well known in this city, was
Saturday found guilty in Chicago OF
receiving stolen property, valued by
the jury at $185, and is stared in the
face by a penitentiary sentence. Ac-
cording to the confession of Mrs. Lucy
Moll, who when being tried on the
charge of completely in the crime
turned states evidence against Wade,
the Chicago attorney was also a party
to the big postoffice robbery in Chica-
go, October 20, 1901, when $74,601 in
postage stamps vas stolen. States
Attorney Deneen has announced that
he is in possession of proofs showing
who committed the robbery and that
he and Postoffice Inspector Stuart are
at work preparing the evidence for
presentation to a federal grand jury.
Attorney Wade is well known in this
city for his part in the defense of Sam
Richie, the alleged Eldon bank rob-
Der.
"SqueaIs" on Postoffice Robbers.
The states attorney, through a full
confession made by Mrs. Lulu Mol,
learned how the proceeds of the post
office robbery were divided, who dug
the tunnels under the building, who
bored the holes in the floor of the
steel vault and where the plumber was
stored.
Mrs. Mol broke down Saturday aft.
ernoon in States Attorney Deneen's
office and admitted the truth of the
evidence against the %postoffice rob-
bers. Ghas. Moll, husband of Lulu
Moll, and one of the most daring and
dangerous crooks known to the police
of the United States, is now serving
a term in the Michigan ~penitentiary
for burglary at Lansing. Richard
A. Wade sprang into prominence when
he defended Pendergast, the assassin
of Mayor Carter Harrison
Furs Stolen in Clinton.
Attorney Wade was found guilty Sat
urday of receiving stolen property anc
disposing of it. The vaule of the prop
erty is fixed by the jurors at SlS5, en-
failing a penitentiary sentence. Wade
was on trial with McNelly. Mrs. Mol
changed her plea of guilty and was +;
/, state witness. Friday afternoon. b.
, objection of Judge Mclwen the jur,
, found McNelly and Mrs. Winters no
guilty and dismissed them. leaving on
ly Wade to be tried. The property il
: question was a shipment of furs stolel
. in Clinton, by Charles Moll, HUSBAND
, of Mrs. Moll. Furs valued at $500
were shipped from Clinton in on
night. Mrs. Moll obtained the storag
t secret from her husband and toll
!, Wade Of it. He said he could dispos
+ of any thing from a postage stamp t
a frame house for 80 cents on tn
dollar" she said, and he and the We
! man secured the furs and shippe
!. them to Chicago. Wade then sol
them to a State street furrier.
Wade Well Known Here.
= The trial of the Chicago attorney o
the charge of receiving the stolen fur
attracted no little attention in thi
= city, owing to the notoriety that h
) received through his connection wit
the defense of Richie, who wa
charged with cracking the Eldon ban
!, in 1897. 1t was said at the time thu
Richie had powerful friends in Oh
cago, and that Wade was sent here b
n no other than "Hinky Dink' Kenn'
the we'll known Chicago alderman
Wade did not take a very active pal
in Ritchie's defense, which was sue
cessfully conducted by Attorney
" Jaques & Jacques, of this city. He b
: came well known here, however, an
Ottumwa people have closely watche
q the progress of his trial on the chars
of receiving the stolen furs. The new
. that he is charged with complies
y with the big Chicago p~ostoffice 70
!. berry, through the confession of Mr.
~ Moll, is, however, a big surprise
a. those who know the caution which !
y has displayed in the jobs in which
was charged with completely,