The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-21
United States Court Sends John
McNichoI to Kenosha for Trial
On a Robbery Charge
VICTORY FOR PROSECUTOR
United States Court "Roasts" Courts o.
Illinois for Alleged Shielding of
Criminals in Holding Nc
NichOl From Kenosha

District Attorney Robert Verne
Baker has won his two years fight for
the custody of John McNichol, wanted
in this city on charge of robbery,
for late Monday afternoon the United
States Court handed down decision
directing the state of Illinois to turn
McNichol over to the fficials of Keno
sha county for trial on the charges
against him.
The victory of Baker comes after
one of the hardest fights ever made
for the extradition of criminal from
one state to another. McNichol has
been fighting the officials of Kenosha
county for more than two years.
On Sept. 80, 1905, Thomas Hansen
was held up on a street car at the cor
ner of Market and Main streets and
robbed of his purse which contained
$500 in money. McNichol and two of
crime and the two men were arrested
and afterward released after declar-
ing that McNichol was the really
guilty party and after they had paid
back to Hansen all that was stolen
from him. McNicho1 is alleged to
have fled to Chicago Immediately
after the robbery and in that city was
arrested later on a charge of robbery
on a warrant issued in the justice
court here.
He asked the Courts of Cook county
for release on writ of Habeas Cor
pus but while the hearing of the case
was pending McNicho1 was arrested
on warrant issued by the governor
of Illinois and he then took the case
to the Supreme Court of Illinois. At
torney Baker fought the case in the
Courts at Springfield and won it but
as soon as the Supreme Court of Hi
nois had decided that McNicho1 should
return to Kenosha for trial he took
an appeal to the Supreme Court Of
the United States. McNichol and his
friends spent thousands of dollars IN
fighting extradition and Attorney
Baker was forced to carry on the en-
tire fight for Kenosha county. Nc
Nichol was taken back to the county
jail ia Chicago and later released
pending the hearing in the United
States Court on bonds of So, 500. In
handing down the decision the United
States Court criticises the officials of
the state of Illinois for the manner IN
which they have allowed McNichols
to evade. being brought to Kenosha
and in the opinion the Court declares
that constitutional provisions are not
for the purpose of aiding fugitives
from Justice. 1t holds that Kenosha
is but an hour and a half from Chica-
go and that there is no reason why
McNicho1 should not have committed
the crime in Kenosha and then re-
turned to Chicago to establish an
alibi.
McNichol is one of the famous
criminals of the country. He has a
long criminal record and it is stated
that he is leader of daring band
that has been working in Chicago
and other cities for the better part of
a decade. McNichols is supposed to
be in Chicago and it is expected that
his bondsmen will produce him at
once and order him brought to Keno
sha for trial.
The fight for the custody of Nc
Nichols has been a noted one and de-
velopments have been watched with
the greatest interest by people in all
parts of the cour Try.