The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-02-09
Clever Confidence Men From Ra-
cine Are Arrested by MiIIager
and MaIoney Today.
CAPTURE MAY BE AN0TED0NE
The Men Gave Their Names assGeorge
Brown and Berthoff Fairness and
it is Thought That They Are
Wanted in Several Cities.
From Tuesdays Daily

George Smith, alias George Brown,
of Grand Rapids, Mich, andsBerthoff
Fairness, of Milwaukee, we're arrested
in this city at an early hour this
morning by Night Waterman Herbert
Mi11ager and Patrolman Bare Ma
1oney. The two men, who are said to
be clever confidence men, are wanted
in Racine on a charge of "him-fam-
ming" Louis Stube, a saloon keeper,
out of SIS.
The men who are confessedsgentle-
men vagabonds had been about Mil
waukee for the past two weeks, and
late Monday afternoon they started
out into the interior toSget little
easy money. They struck Racine
first and soon began operations there.
One of the first places they struck
was the saloon Of Louis Stube in the
Belle city, and when they went into
the saloon they laid $40 bill down on
the bar and asked for two glasses of
beer. They got the beer all right,
and after the bar tender had made the
change one of the men dshed dime
out of his pocket and passed it over.
the bar and asked for the return of
the $40 bill. In the transa ction the
man managed to hold out IS on the
unsuspecting bar tender. Thissgame
was tried in several places in Racine
and worked twice. TheSmatter was
reported to Chief Pfister, of the Ra-
cine force, late Monday night, and he
at once notified the police in!Kenosha
to look out for the men. They came
at once to Kenosha and after at
tempting to get rooms at the Park
Street hotel they went to a boarding
house to spend the night.
Both of the men got out early this
morning and it is supposed that they
were planning to take train out of
the city when Maloney and Mil1ager
nabbed them. The fellows were we'll
dressed and they put up an awful
bluff to the officers, declaring that
they had done no wrong and that
there was no charge on which they
could be held.
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of the arrest and he came to Kenosha
on morning car. He brought young
Stube, the bar tender, with him, and
the boy had no trouble in identifying
the man. Fairness, who is the older
of the two men, is said to be known
as 'Bott1es,' and the Racine chief
said that he had long police record.
Smith was decidedly nervous when
called into the presence of his accuse
ers, but he attributed his nervous
ness to the fact that he had ip1bibed
too freely of alcohol last night.
The two men were taken back to
Racine for trial this afternoon. Chief
Pfster later examined their luggage,
and in the grip owned by Fairness he
found faro deck and several other
decks of cards, as well as all the
other parapherna1ia of the gambler.
Smith admitted at the Jail that the
two men had been out for little card
game for the past few days.
The Racine chief seems to think
that the capture is noteworthy one
and believes that an examination will
show that the men are wanted for
swindling in several cities.
This was the first arrest to be made
by Ma1oney, the former base ball
player, and it is probable that it will
turn out to be a pretty good catch.