The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-01
Thieves Following the Wild West
Show Take a Rich Harvest On
Car Saturday Afternoon
VISITING PHYSICIAN ROBBED
DIR. J. p. Stewart of Clay Center, Kan
sas, Held Up for His Pocket Book
While Grover Stetson is
Relieved of 500

Saturday night proved heyday for
criminals following the Wild West
show and the entire police force of
the city was called out late in the
evening to search for thieves and
pickpockets who made a rich haul
among the great crowds attending the
show. There were close to ten thous-
and people on the show grounds Sat
urday afternoon and after the show
was over the pickpockets began their
work and many robberies were eport-
ed. Added to this reports we're sent
to the police Office that suspicious
characters were seen in other parts of
the city and efforts were made to enter
the home of Frank Wells and other
residents on Park avenue.
The most noteworthy crimes of the
afternoon took place on the cars of
the Kenosha Electric Railway Com
pany Just after the close of the after
moon performance of the show. AS a
result of the workings Of the nimble
fingered gentry on the cars DR.. ]. p.
Stewart, Of Clay Center, Kansas, who
is visiting the Rev. and Mrs. Harvey
Dee Brown was relieved of his wallet
containing valuable papers and gold
ring while Grover Stetson, a we'll
known farmer was relieved of a
pocket book containing Sos.
1t is supposed that both robberies
were committed in the crowds that
thronged the cars. Every seat in the
cars was filled, and the people crowd
ed into The aisles so as to make it al
most impossible for the conductors to
collect the fares. Ia this jam DR..
Stewart felt some one strike him on
the hip pocket, and a minute later
when he felt for his wallet it was
gone. Stetson was not certain as to
whether he was robbed on the car or
during the jam among the crowds
coming out of the show tent.
The two rooberies were reported to
the police few minutes after they
occurred, but the officials were power.
less to do anything as the streets
were crowded with people, and neither
DR.. Stewart nor Stetson could give
any description of the men they sus-
pected of robbing them, and by the
time the police officials reached the
scene of the robberies the men had
time to get away and were probably
plying their vocation in some other
part of the crowd. Stories were told
of a dozen other minor robberies
where the pickpockets secured small
sums Of money and watches, but
these were not reported to the police.
Chief O'Hare notified the officials
at Oshkosh where the show plays to-
day to look out for the band of pick
pockets but there is little reason to
believe that any of them will be APP
pretended. There was great bunch
of strangers in the city with the show
and on account of the presence of
these people the police officers we're
all held on duty Saturday night until
after the last of the show trains had
pulled out of the city. There were
no grafters on the inside of the show
tents and the managers of the show
claimed to know nothing of the men
working among the crowds and in
sisted that they must be local
criminals who took advantage of the
great crowds to ply their calling.