The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-20
MINNEAPOLIS
CAPT. HILL FAILS
TO SECURE BAIL
1t Is Fixed at $500, and the
Prisoner Goes to the Coun-
ty Jail.

Hill, second in command of the de-
partment during the administration of
Mayor Ames, who was arrested at Mil
ton Junction, Wis, Wednesday, was
arraigned before Judge Pond yesterday
on two indictments over a year old
In default of $500 bonds he spent
the night in the county Jail, but he ex-
poets to secure bondsmen tomorrow
Capt. Hill arrived in Minneapolis
yesterday morning in company of
Sheriff j. w. Dreger and Deputy George
10th.
Capt. Hill made no attempt to re-
sist the Hennepin county officers, and
was, in fact, so willing to return to
Minneapolis that he surprised the Of
ficers by meeting them at the depot in
GAINESVILLE as they stepped off the train
there Friday afternoon.
He then took them down town and
introduced them to Sheriff George M.
Appleby, by whom he had been arrest
ed at the request of Sheriff Dreger.
When the party arrived in Mime
apolis Capt. Hill went. to the National
hotel in custody of Deputy Sheriff
Lotn, and Sheriff Dreger went to his
Office to arrange other matters.
After partaking of breakfast and tel
ephoning to friends, preparatory to the
work of securing bonds,, Hill was ar
ra1gned before Judge Pond shortly be-
fore noon on two indictments. The
one charges the acceptance and the
other the solicitation of a bribe.
Fixes Bail at $500.
Freeman P. Lane appeared as attor-
ney for Hill, and through his request
time was allowed by the court until
Tuesday in which to plead.
Bail was fixed at $4,000, although
Mr.. Lane waxed eloquent on the will
lngness with which Hill came back for
trial, and thought the bond should not
be more than $4,000. Later Judge Pond
decided that $4,000 was not sufficient.
and notified the county attorney and
Mr.. Lane that $500 would be required.
The first indictment charged Capt.
Hill with receiving a bride of $3.50 from
Louise Davis, in return for which her
place, on Second avenue south, was so
be left unmolested by the police. The
witnesses examined by the grand Jury
In bringing this indictment were: Lou
Use Davis, Christopher c.. Norbeck, P.
d. Boutell and Cleo Murray.
The second indictment charges the
solicitation of $3.50 bride from Tracy
II aoag, who wept a house of i'll fame
on Second street south. The terms I'M
der which this bribe is alleged to have
been solicited We're the same as those
Where the mony- was accepted. The
witnesses on this indictment We're:
Tracy Hoag, Christopher G. hNorbeck
Both Of these bills are dated Sept. 81.
1902. - II ~ : =
Didn't Try to Escape = go
Capt. Hill asserts he did not leave
Minneapolis with the intention of evad-
ing the pursuit of officers, and that he
has since his departure from the city
lived at Milton Junction, Wis, on his
little farm. He had not tttea to keep
his whereabouts a Secret and the offi-
GERS could haye~found him there at any
time. - u
He says 1t was six days after the adj
1ournment of the grand jury that he
left Minneapolis and he would have
left sooner except for the determine
ton to remain until the grand jury was
through.
THE first knew of any Indictment
against me-" said Capt. Hill, was
when Sheriff Appleby came to my
house and told me was wanted here.
have been in the vicinity of Milton
Junction all the time working at my
map business, and have never been on
the Pacific coast. ma
have no fear as to the results of
the trial. said the former police cap
tain, but for the fact THAT the case is
one of spite work against me. Two or
three of my old enemies are after me,
and what they may be athletic do is diff
fcult to say" .deIJf
Capt. Hill, in company with. Deputy
Sheriff George 10th, iwaShout yester-
day in an endeavor to secure bonds,
and John Flanagan has consented to
act as one Of the bondsrHen. But no
other bondsman was secured ecd he
was taken to the county Jail, where he
will sojourn until Monday, when an
other effort will be madeal Capt. Hill
hopes that the required amount of bail
will be forthcoming tomorrow.