The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-19

to be one Of the main pieces in the Ames
graft machine and at present under
a grand jury Indictment because Of that
reputation arrived in Minneapolis via the
morning in company with Sheriff j. w.
Dreger and Deputy Sheriff George 10th.
Captain Hill stands very pat; so pat,
In fact, that he met the Hennepin county
officers at the depot in Janseville. Wis,
yesterday afternoon and took them down
twon--a half mile walk-and Introduced
them to Sheriff Appleby, who lad ar
Dreger. Altho extradition papers were
made out in his case, he twice volunteered
by telegraph to come back to Minneapolis
without them.
He has not been hundred miles from
Milton Junction, Wis, where he was ar
rested, since he left here a year ago and
says that the first intimation that he was
indicted was received from Sheriff APP
pleby Of GAINESVILLE, when that officer
came out to the farm at Milton Junction
and arrested him.
ArraIgned on Two Counts.
The prisoner appeared before Judge
Pond shortly before noon to-day and was
|arraigned on two indictments, one char
ging the acceptance and the other the
solicitation Of bribe. Freeman P, Lane
appeared as the defendants attorney, and
until next Tuesday morning to plead.
Bond was fixed at $4,000 and MIR. Lane
says that it will be furnished before night.
The first indictment read by Deputy
| Clerk Ryberg, accuses Captain Hill of re-
ceiving a bride Of $3.50 from Louise Da-
Wis, in return for which her place, at 121
Second avenue s, was to be left unmo-
Tested by the police. The witnesses ex-
amned by the grand jury in bringing this
Indictment were: Louise Davis, Chris
topher c. Norbeck, P. D. Boutell and
Cleo Murray.
The second indictment charges the So
! licitation of a $3.50 bride from Tracy H.
Hoag, who kept house of Ill fame at
lips Second street S. The terms under
which this bribe is alleged to have been
solicited were the same as those where
the money was accepted. The witnesses
ION this Indictment We're: Tracy Hoag,
iChristopher G. Norbeck and P. D. Boutell.
4 Both OF these true bills are dated Sept
~. 1902.
Bail Fixed at $4,000.
| Mr. Lane made a very strenuous en-.
tdeavor to have. Judge Pand fix the de;
4 PENDANT s bond at ~ cure notssto exceeS
$4,000. In support Of this request lis
i attorney grew quite eloquent upon the
5Isubject Of Captain Hill's readiness t
come home. He dwe1t at length upon how
the captain had remained in the city fol
months after the municipal investigation
4 had been started, and how, finally, he de-
-lcided that he would not be wanted anc
left for Milton, where he has remained
ever since in the full knowledge OF thu
Minneapolis officials.
'It is matter Of which must take
Judicial notice, Mr.. Lane remarked tn
court, 'that Captain Hill did go away
and that he was brought back in tn
custody of the officers. don't see VIII.
this defendant is any more entitled to
low bail than others in the same class
You had better try to get some bondsme1
for a SIS, 900 bond"
Later in the day, however, Judge Pont
decided that $4,000 was too low AM
notified the county attorney and Mr.. Lam
that a $500 bond would be required.
Acting upon this advice the defense
/ working hard to get bondsmen befor
81 night. John Flanagan has already con
r sented to act. Meantime the accused ma
is the guest Of the sheriff's Office, Twin
! well at the National hotel.
Says He Went Openly.
: This is the statement Captain Hi
t makes:
$ Il left here year ago next Thursday
five or six days after the grand jury ha
adjourned. For several weeks my wifi
Z and I had contemplated returning to Nil
ton junction to live in the neighborhoo
of her people and on the little garde
IL & j s /
. 1--WE would have gone away sooner bu
: 1 was determined to remain until tn
: grand jury was quite thru. There was n
: secret about my going away. There we1
at least dozen friends at the depot Whe
we left and I left a forward order wit
the mail carrier on our route, and "
have received forwarded mail in that wa
/ every week since have been away.
+ 1.-THE first knew Of any indictme1
i against me was when Sheriff Applet
n came out to the farm and told me I WE
b wanted here. There has never been an
= secret about my residence and I hay
= never been in hiding. have never bee
Is on the Pacific coast. In fact, have bee
t. in the vicinity of Milton Junction, worl
ing at my map business and on the farm
:, ever since left here They could ha,
ISS gotten me any time they wanted to.
lie s''It was not necessary that spend tW
g. days in GAINESVILLE, in the Jail. While
u was there lived in the sheriff's priva
IN apartments and used his carriage to s
driving. Had it not been for the appeal
ance Of things could have stayed In Mi
E ton Junction until Sheriff Dreger and M
'ss 10th came for me.
ST would have no fear Of my trial We
it not for the fact that it will be ca
Of spite work against me. Two or thr,
of my old enemies are after me and VIII
they will do in a case like this no OF
knows. Isn't it pathetic thing that Il
~ grand jury system can De udue d lOOl
mans i'll will like that"
.S The former power of the Ames admin
istration is greatly changed He says
has lost forty-three pounds in the pa
year and he looks the part. He appea
y to be in better condition, tho, than VIII,
he went away. He has lost with his fie
much of that nervousness which show,
Itself during the Ames regime In t
!. blinking Of the eye and the tremble of t
chin has left him. His appetite is st
good, too. He ate of pork sausage, CO
/ fish, eggs and other things at the Nation
; hotel this morning and ate well.
Doesn't Fear krumwelde.
When told that his ancient enemy, Fo
y mer Captain Henry Krumweide, wou
probably testify against him he sal
L '.Krumweide can tell all he knows in
minute and then won't have said anythi
damaging to me. = 80
How about that house you were payi
for here when you left?' he was asked.
3 81 was trying to get a home here, =
admitted, but there was a thousa
dollars on 1t and we had invested 81
and had to give 1t up s5s
81 haven't yet begun to realize that
am prisoner, he added as he and De
uty Sheriff 10th went out to look
bondsmen.
Captain Hill is wearing the blue unifol
trousers which he purchased while on