The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-03-04
HE WAS QUEER ACTOR
Entered Several Homes and De-
manded Money

to custody Sunday evening by Night
Officers Rillihan and Green, and is now
lodged in the county Jail pending an
Investigation of his record.
A call was sent to the police about,
Iten-thirty o'clock from the residence
of George Moore, No. 10l South Third
street asking for the arrest Of an in
truder. Mr. Moore who was seated
at his home heard some one come up.
on the front porch and try The door.
The night latch was on and the door
would not open. Mr. Moore went to
the door and released the lock TO
look out and stranger bolted past
| him into the house. RE asked Mr..
Moore for quarter" and refused to
leave when ordered out Mrs. Moore
hearing the confusion in the hall APP
peared in door and the man ran
| toward her asking for dime. He
then wanted to play the piano. Mr..
| Moore was having a scufffe with the
i tramp in the effort 20 put him out OF
| the house. John Anderson, WAC was
at the home at the time came to the
| assistance of Mr.. Moore and police
| call was sent in. The man had pre-
| tended to be drunk or crazy but the
1 moment he heard the telephone used
i he broke away and ran south down
1 the street and joined companion at
the alley The police trailed the man
| past the opera house and into the
4 Downing Hotel where he was arrested
| and he was taken to Jail. The fellow
was somewhat ugly when taken by the
officers. He declared he would not
| go to jail but he accompanied the men
without a demonstration. He was
angry and threatening and when
| placed in the cell stated. We'll, you
! fellows have picked up good one II
you only knew where to locate me-"
The same man earlier. in the even
ing tried to get into ne fiat apart
ments over the Walter Campbell gro,
Gerry. He went up the stairway and
was going through the rooms when he
was interfered win and made to re-
| trace his steps. The fellow also at,
! tempted to gain admittance to the
Dennis Ragen home No. 30S High
avenue east.
| The police are of the opinion that
| Lewis made his nightly calls with the
purpose of robbing the houses. Mr..
| Moore stated that the fellow smelled
| of LIQUOR but he was not intoxicated.
The man is apparently not crazy eth
err. When taken before Mayor Raj
ston this morning, he was very willing
| to plead guilty to the vagrancy charge
/ and begged to be released, but Chief
| Glass, believing that he is a much
wanted man with bad record against
him, sent him before Justice Wood
ruff to be incarcerated in the Mahas-
ka county bastile while the case is
being investigated. .
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Mayor Charles H. Ralston's court
this morning resembled police court
| in New York, ST. Louis or Chicago.
| The room contained six men up for
drunkenness and four for vagrancy.
| The Migrants, who gave their names
as John Bannahan, Pat Burns, Charles
| Chapman and T. II. Evans, pleaded
guilty to the vagrancy charge and
| were given thirty minutes to leave
town. and if not done would be ten
days on the rock pie.
The fine business was very good
in the line of offenders before His
| Honor for intoxication and S2S.25 was
secured from the six offenders. u.
M n
Sass. James Newman, John Young,
w. Smith and Will Smith, We're fined
! SASS, which they paid. ....., III. .....
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Mrs. Mary Pickett will not have to
pay fine for beating Charles Whit
sci Friday vening. When arraigned
before Justice Bacon Saturday after.
noon she pleaded guilty to the charge
and admitted that she gave Whitsel
pretty rough treatment with her fists.
After her story, in which sho related
that she was talking to a party of
women on High avenue when mhitsel
came up and josLled against her and
made an insulting remark TOWARDS
her. Justice Bacon came to the con-
clusion that she was justified in pro.
tecting herself.
A free for all fight occurred in the,
C.. o. Snider pool room in the Beadle
building on High avenue west, late Sat
urday evening. The police we're noti-
fed and when Officer Art Walls made
his appearance the parties to the af-i
fray attempted to escape, One OF the
fighters, William Howells, was ar
rested after he had given Officer Walls
a chase down the alley and was on y
stopped when the officer fired his re-
volver in the direction OF the escap-
ing offender. Howells was arraigned
before Mayor Ralston Saturday night,
pleaded guilty to the charge OF fight
ing and was released upon his promise
to leave town. The other parties in
the ARRAY are known ana their arrest
will follow.
John r. Kerns, who was caught at
St Joe, Mo-, by Constable Ed Henley.
Friday. for wife desertion, and who
was brought back to the city to answer