The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-22
-Four Of the Band Of Railway
Thieves Taken To the State
Prison at Waupun
WILL DROP OTHER CASES
Men Arrested in Order To Hold Them
for Witnesses Will be Discharged
With Sitting of the Circuit
Court in September

morning for the band of railway en-
robbing the cars of the company at
various points in Kenosha county,
and four of the men who had been
employed by the company for between
eight and fifteen years, hand-cuffed
together, marched off to the depot to
take train for Waupun where they
are to learn the lock-step of the pris-
oner and where they are to contribute
year of hard labor to the state.
1t was the cool gray dawn of the
early morning when the men.left the
county jail to catch the train for
prison, and it presented strange
picture. The men we're accompanied
to prison oy Sheriff Pfennig, Under
Sheriff Vi1lnow, and Assistant Chief
of Police J. c. Newhouse. In the
party were Charles RIFT, Adolph Moe,
Charles Hill and Archie Quayle.
The men dreadedsthe ordeal of meet.
ing the railway men at the station,
but in some manner the freight trains
were all out of the way when the
quartette arrived, and theysEdid not
meet soul with whom they had been
formerly employed. All of the men
seemed to be. greatly pleased when
they were on the train enroute to the
state prison. RIFT was to sshave been
going on his wedding trip at this time
and the trip to Waupun must have
been strangely homogeneous to him.
Wednesday one of his friends called
on him and when Ritz was asked about
the wedding he simplyl5 smiled and
said, 81 guess that will have to be
laid over for time, any way"
Only one of the long list of railway
men arrested remainedlat the county
jail, and that was Frank asHeney, the
Milwaukee switchman, who is in jail
for term of six months. Heney
chafes under the sentence as he had
planned to pay fine and get back to
Milwaukee. This p1anI:fel1 down on
account of the fact that Judge Will
liams did not think the fine would be
a sufficient punishment.
The departure of the four men for
Waupun will practically end the rail
way conspiracy case so far as Kenosha
is concerned. WaltersLyonsland Peter
Bub, the two Milwaukee men who
we're taken into custody with the first
bunch and who were charged with
grand larceny, will be discharged at
once, as they were only held as wit
nesses against the other men and they
showed a tendency to tell all they
knew in regard to thegcase. 1t is
probable that an order discharging
them will be entered on thesf1st day
of the September term of the Circuit
Court. One of the'. Milwaukee men
came down for hearing today, but
his bond was returned to him tand he
was discharged. John Andrae, of
Kewaskum, who was charged with
aiding the men in the concealment of
some of the stolen property, has re-
fused to plead guilty and his case will
go to trial at the September term of
the Circuit Court.
The railway detectives and police
officials of Kenosha land milwaukee
are still seeking to find John Hilton,
who is alleged to have been one of the
leading members of the gang, but he
seems to have disappeared COM
p1etely. However, it is almost GER
tain that he will be taken at some later
time, and when he is captured he will
be forced to stand trial and take the
punishment just like the other men.
The railway detectives who have been
at work in Kenosha for more than
three weeks will desert the city this
afternoon. More than three thousand
dollars worth of stolen goods have
been recovered and this will be sent
to the people to whom it was origin
ally consigned.
The railway companyiwi11 be forced
to bear a heavy loss as result of the
workings of the gang of thieves, as it
is claimed that much Of the stuff taken
has been disposed of in,such way
that it would be impossible to ever
recover it.