The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-31
ANNIE smith IS
CAUGHT AND
LOCKED UP
NAssED AT SHELLEY STATION ~
COUNTY DETECTIVE - SAYS
FOUR BUSINESS MEN INDUCES
HER TO LEAVE DETROIT.

Annie Smith, the peoples star Wit
ness in the graft cases against Frank
b. Hibbler and Capt. Frank A. New
berry, who has been missing for more
than month. was apprehended by
County Detective Edwin #. Church
Ill. at Sibley station. near Trenton.
Thursday afternoon as she was about
to board car for Toledo. She was
locked up in the county jail on a ca
pias issued by the recorders court
after her failure to appear for trial
on charge of keeping house Of III
repute. Her bail Is fixed at 81 900.
Charles DeLisie. who Is reported TO
have exercised sort OF supervision
lover Annies property In the Eigh-
teenth ward during her absence, was
also taken into custody along with the
woman. In the prosecutors ONCE II
IL stated that DeLisle. was about to
accompany Annie to Toledo and he
may be charged with being an ac-
cessory In aiding Annie to escape He
was released late Thursday night ON
the order Of Police Justice Jeffries.
Annie has furnished the prosecutor
with the name Of four business men
who. she AYERS, induced her to leave
the city out Of sympathy for the rela-
tives of the accused men. She does
not claim to have received any money
from these men. but says they prom
Used to make 1t right" with her II
she would go to Arizona. The prose-
cutor Is investigating this phase OF
the story and 1t Is quite probable that
the men named will be prosecuted AZ
accessories after the fact In inducing
a person charged with crime to
leave the state.
Annie Smith left Detroit June ~.
II appears from her story, after pur-
chasing "A ticket for Bisbee. Arix.,
where she intended to 60 into bust
ness. When she reached Ell Paso.
Tex, she became i'll and started back
east, landing In Chicago. She remain
ed there until last Sunday night, when
she took a train for Buffalo. She ar
rived I'm Detroit about Z o'clock last
Monday and remained In the Michigan
Central Station until $50, waiting for
the Buffalo train. During that time,
she says, shse met policeman, who
recognized her readily but made no
fenort to apprehend her.
I'VE joked along until train time
and then walked out OF the gate
without the slightest interference, =
she said.
Annie's object In going to Buffalo
was presumably to see her little girl.
She left there Tuesday night, went TO
Toledo and arrived Wednesday In
Ecorse, to visit Mrs. Nicholas Glote.
an old friend. Her whereabouts were
revealed to the authorities wholly by
accident.
Thursday morning, Mrs. Glote and
her daughter, Mrs. Edward Ropelle
quarreled. 1t is said. and during the
fuss Mrs. Glote Is alleged to have
struck her daughters husband over
the head with piece of lead pipe.
Riopelle later reported the AFFAIR to
Deputy Sheriff Elmer Labadie, who.
quite naturally asked II there were
any witnesses.
why. yes, Annie Smith saw IT."
Riopelle answered.
Riopelle at once notified the prose
cutor's ONCE of Annie's presence in
Ecorse, and the office at once got
busy.
Assistant Prosecutors Crosse and
Hanley and County Detective Church.
i'll boarded the first car for Ecorse.
About half a mile from the point
where they left the car, Annie Smith
boarded IL to go to Sibley. where
she intended to change to the Toledo
car.
AS soon as the searching party
learned OF this County Detective
Churchill lost no time In getting to
Sibley, sending Constable Joe Smith,
OF Ecorse. and dispatcher to head
of the Toledo car, IL possible. In this
they failed, but Churchill stepped from
the Wyandotte car In Sibley just In
time to see Annie Smith and DeLisle
getting on the Toledo car. The ar
rests quickly followed.