The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-22
YOUNG MAN HELD
ON TWO CHARGES
]. J. Pollard Alleged to Have
Committed Two Holdups.
WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY
G. Cofman and Man Named
WGkham Identified Prisoner.

James Pollard, a cigar maker, wa
identified at the police station last nigh
by G. W. Cofman, an empIoye OF tn
Western Union, and an elderly MAJ
named Wickham. who resides near Dat
vile, as being the man who held up anC
robbed them at different times last Tues
day night in this city
Each victim is positive that the mai
Pollard now under arrest and held at thi
city Jail, is the one who held him up
On the strength Of the identification.
Harry Sutton, detective, who has beer
s working on the case, says that a stat,
warrant will be issued for Pollard today
and the prisoner will be turned over Il
the county jail o1scials until his cas-,
IS called for trial. The warrant Will be-
issued charging Pollard with highway
robbery
When asked last night if he had any
thing 10 say regarding the charge Of
robbery which The police have said the
are going to place against him, Pollard
remarked that ''it looks like they've get
~ me-"
The first Of the two robberies which
Pollard is said to have committed oc-
Cured at the corner Of Water and Sec
ond streets Tuesday night about II
O'Clock. Under pretense of asking for a
cigarette a man hailed G. w Coffman,
a young man about 20 years of age and
commanded him to give up whatever
money he had in his possession. At the
same time he placed his hand on a hip
= IL
Coffman had delivered his valuables, con
sisting Of 81 in silver and small amount
of small change, between 10 and 20 cents,
the robber ordered him 10 right about
face and run. Coffman did so with alac-
rity.
AS Cohman said the money he lost was
of such a small sum, he did not hurry to
report the matter to the police until yes
terday.
Yesterday morning about o'clock Po-
ncenlan Wachob arrested Pollard on the
statement made by an old man named
Wickham, who said that he had been
robbed of so. Pollard and Wickham are
supposed 10 have met in a West Douglas
avenue saloon. Under some prtext or
another, Pollard is said to have induced
the msn Wickham to go into a nearby
alley where he took the old mans money
away from him. He then compelled
Wlekham TO return to the same saloon
and The two took a drink together.
wtekham says Pollard threatened him II
he told any one of what he had done.
1t was while Harry Sutton was work
fng on the wickham-P Pollard case that
he discovered evidence which led him 10
believe that Pollard is the same man
who held up Coffman. CoTman was sent
for and he identified Pollard at once as
being the man who held him up.
The police say that the evidence against
Pollard is conclusive and that he is very
liable to receive a severe jail or peni-
Tertiary sentence as q result OF the rob-
berries. a young man named Ben Fox.
who chatted with Pollard a short time
after the first robbery occurred. has
said that Pollard confessed 10 him of
having just held up a man and robbing
him of s2.12.
Pollard is young man perhaps g or
"a years Of age. He said last evening
that he has worked fo-. the Ratcllff Cigar
company on Second street at different
times. and also for Noltemeyer's cigar
factory on North Market street in This
city. When searched at the police station
he had a cigar makers card in his pocket.
He also carried a big knife with which
he is supposed To have threatened the
man Wickham If the latter didn't give
up his money The knife is such as is
used by men OF Ponard's trade in making
cigars. Pollard has lived In Wichita on
and of for the past year. His parents
reside at Houston, Tex.
At the time he was robbed the young
man Coffman was on his way TO the
house on the corner of Waco and Muir
dock avenue, where he rooms. Wickham
IS a weli-tO-do farmer living in waco
township near Oatville and is visiting in
the city.