Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-07-27
ALLEGE CAR THIEVES
UNDER $500 BONDS
Taken to Jefferson to Await Pre-
limindry.
Examination Before Justice Stacy
Next Sdturddy-Deldy in Order
to Permit District Attorney to
Subpoena WitneSSeS-'LegiSld-
ton Needed" Says Casey.

FRANK wagner, Claiming Bu11alO,
New York, as his home, and John G.
Miller, giving Chicago as his place
of residence, were arraigned in JUS
tice Stacy's court yesterday morning
to answer to the charge of breaking
the seal on box car on the c., M.
& ST. P. road and taking therefrom a
quantity of shoes which were shipped
from }. Miller & Co.'S factory at Ra-
cine and consigned to Halbkat & Co.
of Spring Valley, MINI. This rob-
berry was committed on the 10th of
July. There was another robbery
of the same character on the 18th
inst, the shoes at that time beng
consigned to firm at another point
in Minnesota.
under arrest was adjourned to next
Saturday in order to permit District
Attorney Davies to subpoena some
necessary witnesses. The prelimin-
AIRY at that time will be continued be-
fore Judge Stacy. In default of $500
bail each, the men under arrest were
taken to the county Jail to await the
action of the court.
The evidence gathered which result
ed in the arrest of the parties at Port
age on Tuesday was gathered by P.
HI. Casey, chief detective for the c.,
M. & ST. Paul road, assisted by Chief
of Police Block of this city. The
robbery which furnished several clues
which ultimately resulted in the ar
rest, was committed in this city at a
point across the river on the west side
about II o'clock on the night of July
10Th.
The shoes stolen were taken from
a car in through trieght No. 16, in
charge of Conductor Moran. The
conductor had registered his train and
while in the act of running to catch
his train which was moving out and
already under good Roadway the con-
ductor observed a case of goods by
the side of the track and a man who
answers the description of one of the
men arrested standing by the side of
the same. 1t was also noticed that
the seal of one of the cars had been
broken. The fact that the train
had been registered and was already
pulling out of the city did not permit
Conductor Moran to report his obser-
vations to the authorities.
With the above slight clew, De-
tective Casey has been diligently at
work on the case and he feels quite
confident that he has been awarded
for his labor, which has necessitated
considerable travel and time. 1t was
learned that two fellows boarded
later freight, one of them going to
Portage and the other to further
point. The fellow who visited Port
age was gathered in by the authori-
ties, having in his possession num-
ber of pairs of shoes, which he was
attempting to dispose of at prices that
fully convinced the officers that the
shoes must have been stolen. Detec-
tive Casey was made aware of the
arrest and in company with Chief
Block, visited Portage as previously
stated.
Since their arrest, Wagner and Mil
Ter have done very little talking and
are evidently wise enough not to give
themselves away by dropping any care
less remarks. The men are rather
tough looking characters One of
them claims to be a railroad man and
the other laborer. Mr.. Casey is of
the opinion that the robbery was per-
petrated by some person or persons
who are familiar with railroad work
1t was only last year that Mr..
Casey traced down robbery commit
ted in this county and was instrument
tai in sending couple of fellows to
Waupun to serve seven years each.
The detective in conversation with
Leader representative yesterday ex-
pressed the belief that the number of
tramps, especially the criminal and
vicious class, is largely on the in
house and stone pile cure was a good
one if carried out by counties and num-
icipalities, there was not enough effort
along that direction. He is strongly
of the opinion that the Wisconsin leg
islature, as we'll as others, should step
in and enact stringent measures that
will exterminate the tramp evil, which
is continually increasing to an alarm
ing extent. ''There is no need of
able bodied men tramping through the
conutry in the present prosperous
times with work so plenty and labor
so scarce said Mr.. Casey in sum-
ming up the situation. .'What we
need is action by the legislature with
governing laws so stringent that they
will have tendency to abate the
tramp nuisance, instead of encouraging
it,