Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-05-10
| GOT HIS NAN
|NVAZ SHERIFF TELLS EXPERT
ENCE WITH PINE BLUFF
PRISONER.
Presidel,t Of Interstate Sheriffs
Association and Came All
Way from Dubuque.

Sheriff John Steiner, of Dubuque,
SlSwa, who is president of the Inter-
92ate Sheriffs association, is in the
city having in custody young man
aI2S med Frank Breneke. Breneke is
&arged with seduction, and was ar
eY&sted some days ago in Pine Bluff,
NIX, by Sheriff Steiner, says the Mem
sfAis Morning News.
1.-THE officer and his prisoner reached
Memphis last night and registered at
He Arlington hotel. There was moth
3ikg about either to indicate their re-
|I&tions, and few of the people around
He hotel knew the facts in the case.
s3he sheriff is square built man.
n hort in stature, but large in deter
s8ination. Breneke is an intelligent,
Well appearing man Of about twenty
|tWo years. The story was learned
MAINLY because of Mr.. Steiner's con-
Issection with the sheriffs association
Which is a large and influential or
|Ganization of sheriffs, deputies, chiefs
|0f police and other officers of the
Xeace in twelve states, Illinois. Wis
,{onsin, Michigan, Minnesota North
Md South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, Colorado. Missouri and Wyo-
hing The association has about 900
members, and will meet in annual con-
Mention at Omaha, August II and 13.
81 Sheriff Steiner was seen last night
IT the hotel, and said he would con-
&inue his journey to Dubuque this
Morning, going over the Illinois Gen.
&ral. He spoke of the case in the
following languages:
n sJ,lst one week ago tonight I ar
$este9d Breneke in Pine Bluff, Ark.
Since took him in custody I have
Mad the greatest legal fight of my ex-
Derience to hold him and take him out
Df nNe state. He is charged with Sc
1uctibn, the girl in the case being
Miss Frank, of Dubuque. Her people
IRE not particularly well4to-do, but
Ahey are respectable and have always
Borne good name. Breneke is rail-
Toad fireman and lives in Pine Bluff,
but he was up in Iowa and met the
girl there last summer.
II was armed with the necessary
Fequisition papers, and as soon as
arrested the young man I started
for Little Rock to present them to
fhe governor. The railroad men of
Pine Bluff got together and hired a
lawyer, and the first thing he did was
70 get out writ of habeas corpus.
t took day or two to get rid of
fEat 7'hen when I got the prisoner in
low again and started for Little Rock,
fhey sent down petition to the gov
Frnor, signed by twenty or thirty rail-
foad men. asking him to turn down
he requisition.
When I got to the governor he
fold me that he had promised to give
Fhe other side hearing. That meant
fWo days more of delay. Well, I wait
ed. When the day came around the
lawyer telegraphed the governor that
Pc couldn't be there, and the governor
asked me to wait day or two longer.
II saw that was my only way, for
pc was rather inclined to decide
against me anyway, so waited. FL
nally the lawyer came up and I put
The bluff straight at him. I told him
that I was onto his game, which
was straight bluff from start to
hnish, and that 1t would not work.
was going to stay there until got
my prisoner, or until the state of
Iowa hadn't the price of a bushel of
bats. He made up his mind was in
|or business, and this morning turned
Inc prisoner over to me without wait
ing for the hearing he was to have
With the governor"