Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-30
LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE
And Awaiting Wisconsin Officer Who
Wants MisheI, Under Arrest.

Waterville, Me, May 29.-(SpeciaD
-Lias Mishel, who was arrested Tues
day afternoon at North Vassalboro by
Deputy Sheriff George H. Simpson of
this city. assisted by Deputy Sheriff
Jewett of North Vassalboro, is still an
inmate of the Waterville police station
tonight.
Owing to the fact that MisheTs
counsel, A. a. Matthew of Waterville,
was called away on legal business in
Madison this morning, the case re-
manned exactly the same as yesterday.
Mishel maintained the same natural
ness which has characterized his ac-
tons from the moment of his arrest.
He does not get excited, nor does he
show the slightest degree of bravado.
He eats his meals with fair appetite
takes his exercise in the cell room, and
returns to his cell with undisturbed
equanimity.
AS vet the local officers are very
much in the dark a., to the exact ma
ture of the crime for which q man of
Mishers name and description is
wanted. Larceny" hundred dol
lar banknote,' attempted murder
these arc the three salient points in
the letter which was received by the
Watervlle police department over a
year ago and which have been supple
mentcd by additional but meagcr de-
tails which the officers are keeping to
themselves.
But Mishel is not charged with any
of these things by the Waterville Of
ficers. Larceny and attempted murder
are propositions which the sheriff of
Dodge county, Wisconsin, will have to
back up when he presents his applica-
ton for rcquisition papers to Gov.
Cobb. The technical charge upon
which the Waterville officers are hold
ing Mishel is being a fugitive from
justice, and that is the charge which
will be named when he appears in the
Waterville municipal court, probably
tomorrow. The Wisconsin officers
want man named Las Mishel. aged
20 or p, five feet eight inches in height,
Of very dark complexion. The Water
Vile officers have detained such a man,
and their work is done when they sue
coed in identifying him with the man
wanted in Wisconsin.
This is a fact which Mishel does not
understand. and although warned not
to talk by his counsel he is said to be
endeavoring in chance conversations
with the officers to establish his inno-
cence of crime. but at the same time
he is said to be establishing his iden-
tity with the man who is wanted in
the West, whatever the grounds of the
string his apprehension.
The first story which MisheI told
Deputy Sheriff Simpson was to the ef-
feet that he had come to this section
of the country directly from Syria and
that he was acquainted in no other
locality Then came the statement of
his brother Hiromc that he had pass
ed two weeks in Uniontown, West
Virginia. When confronted with this
statement Mishe! Is said to have cor
rOborated his brothers statement.
At first his brother and friends dis
claimed any knowledge Of his ever
having been in Wisconsin or of ever
having even known of the locality It
was surprise even to the Waterville
officers to learn in the Journal this
morning that Hirome Mishel, the
brother of the suspected man. had
communicated with another brother in
Wisconsin. telling him that LAS had
been arrested and that he must have
the money ready for his bail when
LAS returned to Wisconsin in custody
of the sheriff Of Dodge county.
When Deputy Sheriff Simpsons at
tention was called to this feature of
the case he remarked:
THAT settles it. We have been try
ing to connect this man with relatives
in Wisconsin. If he has a brother in
Dodge county, Wisconsin, this is the
man we are after