The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-07
4 St, CLOUD MAN MIXED
IN A FAKE PRIZE FIGHT
Thing Bettor Is Relieved Of s'o''
600 m Cash at Council
Bluffs.

Omaha, Neb., Aug./.- A"NS
prize fight, following long ride from
Louisville to Council Bluffs, Henry
Hazelbaum, Kentucky sport, was
made a victim of one of the most
elaborate con games known to the
Omaha police.
R. L. Thielman of St. llouo
Mimi, a brother of the CLEVELAND
pitcher, and f. A. Alstead are under
arrest here, charged with being the
principles in the affair and with pro-
fitting $1,000 by the deal. Hazel
baum was approached in Louisville
by Alstead with the information
that prize fight, strictly secret, OF
course, was to be pulled off in Coun-
Gil Bluffs. Alstead's partner, Thiel-
man represented himself to be a
pugilist known to the fighting world
as Casey. His opponent was given
the name of German.
Hazelbuam, Alstead aud Thielman
made the trip together to Council
Bluffs, where Hazelbaum was per-
mitted to bet over $4,000 on Casey,
but the bets were all contracted
with confederates of the gang and
were made with "phoney" $1,000
bills. The strictest secrecy was
demanded in all the betting to pre-
vent wind of the affair reaching the
ears of the police. Finally the Casey
money ran out and the victim was
induced to bet $1,000 of his own
money, with odds of 2 to 1, and
when a later opportunity to bet at
the same odds was offered Hazel
baum pulled off his diamonds and
other valuables, at another 1000.
The fight was actually pulled off
for Hazelbaum's benefit at Council
Bluffs hotel. In the third round,
after Hazelbaum had been taken
into Casey's corner to act as his
second, German struck Casey flush
on the mouth and ruptured a small
bladder filled with red ink.
At the sight of the supposed blood
Hazelbaum tainted. When he came
to he was warned that the police
were seeking for him for promoting
prize fight, and he took the first
train for home. When he reached
St. Louis he found a telegram read
ing: Police still after you. Keep
on going. German has fled for
Europe"
After he reached Louisville he
discovered that the same Alstead
was accused of fleeing several mer-
chants there out of large sums of
money. Detective Ross of Louis
vile is here and will take Thielman
and Alstead back to Kentucky for
trial in the state where the deal was
Matched. They are charged with a
conspiracy to defraud.
Thielman, who has acquaintance
in Omaha, comes from staunch and
prominent German family of St.
Cloud, MINI. His father is the
pioneer hardware merchant of that
city. Here Thielman and his five
brothers were born and reared, and
at one time Thielman was placed in
charge of the store by his father.
The boys were all ball players and
their proficiency at the great game
tempted them to leave the less lurid
sphere of counter tending. Jake
Thielman, now on the pitching staff
of Cleveland, is one of the sons.
The man in trouble here has caught
for Seattle and Spokane.
Mrs. Thielman and the little
children had started for Seattle a
couple of days before the arrest.
Confronted at the Jail by an old St.
Cloud man, now engaged on a local
newspaper, who expressed his regret
at seeing him in this trouble, Thiel-
man said:
You cannot be half so sorry as I
am; it is the first time in my life 1
was ever arrested"
Thielman says he only met AL
stead short time before. He was
especially anxious that the news Of
his disgrace be kept from his aged
parents and family, if possible, but
added: / guess that is not possible"
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ann GRAND F0RKS RAY