The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-25
Police Arrest Stanley Bloom Who
Admits Having Committed
Seven Burglaries in City
MUCH BOOTY IS RECOVERED
Boy Breaks Down Under Searching Elk
animation and Relates Strange
Story of Crimes Claims He
Alone is Guilty

uuIlHS GH0 pdSG year anu HILL is In
the tolls and he has made full confes-
sion to Chief of Police Hare and af-
ter few preliminaries will undoubted-
ly go to Waupun prison for long
term. The burglar is Stanley Bloom,
a seventeen year-old boy, who was ar
rested at his home on North. Maple
street late Wednesday afternoon by
Police Officers Newhouse and Bradley
on information discovered by Chief of
Police O'Hare. Bloom at first sought
to deny his guilt, but when submitted
to the third degree in an examination
by the chief, he broke down and with
an air Of bravery told the story Of his
exploits which are unparalleled in the.
criminal annals Of the city. Bloom adj
mitted having committed seven burg
laries in the city during the past ten
weeks and while he got less than thirty
dollars in money as a result of these
crimes he loved the excitement of the
chase. The climax Of this excitement
was reached a few nights ago when
he entered the Threinen store and after
coming out was shot at three times by
Merchant Policeman Nader.
The places that Bloom admits to
are as follows:
The store of w. j. Threinen on North
Main street where he secured a small
sum Of money, several pipes and lot of
postal cards and writing paper. Bloom
admitted that he entered the Threinen
store twice.
The store of w. S. Lamb on Milwau-
kee avenue. Here Bloom secured $21
in money, his richest haul, bundle of
postal cards and a lot of smaller arti-
cles
Meat market at the corner of Park
and Pleasant street. Here Bloom
broke open cash register and secured
some $500 in money.
Store OF the Kenosha Hardware Com
pany on Main street. Bloom secured
revolver and cartridges, safety
razor and knife and a small sum of
money.
Bloom also admitted that he had at
tempted to enter the store of Elmer
Savage at the corner of Park and
Third streets, but was frightened away
from the place after he had opened
one of the rear windows with a chisel.
Bloom is a strange sort of boy and
his confession Of his crimes and the
manner in which he committed them
formed an unusual recital With him
the police arrested his brother, Frank
Bloom, but it is declared that the small
er boy had nothing to do with the
crime and Stanley Bloom gloried in the
fact that he was the clone BURGLAR
Early Wednesday afternoon a boy
was arrested by the police on charge
Of jumping on cars and when he went
to the police office the chief found in
his possession one Of the postal cards
which had been stolen from the
Threinen store. The boy declared that
it had been given him by Bloom and
this formed new link in the evidence
that the chief had been raking up
against Bloom and without further ex
animation he sent out his officers to
get Bloom. When brought to the police
office Bloom declared that he was limo
cent of any crime and for an hour stout
ly maintained his innocence. At this
time the chief took him into the private
office and began a searching examina
ton. Bloom finally broke down.
Well,' he declared, "the jig is up
and [ might as we'll tell you all about
it. [ am the lone burglar and [ am
ready to turn over all the stuff that |
have left Bloom then began the re-
cital of his story which took more than
an hour. He admitted that he had
carefully planned the robbery Of the
different places and that in order to
establish an ahbi he had gone to bed
at his home at eight clock on the
nights selected for the robberies. He
would remain in bed until nearly mid
night and then slip out of the house
and go to the stores marked for burg
larry. Bloom insisted that he never
entered private residence, claiming
that he did not have the nerve to
commit such crime. He declared that
he would always take couple of drinks
of whiskey just before he entered
place and that the excitement of the
possible capture was his main reason
for the burglaries. He declared that
he had spent all Of the money he had
secured in the different raids, but at
the time of his arrest he was leaving
his home to catch a train with the in
tent of going to Minneapolis. Bloom
had begun to suspect that the officers
were watching him on account of the
fact that policemen had followed him
on several occasions.
After the confession the officer hur-
ried to the home of Bloom where they
secured soap box full of booty which
had been taken from the various places.
Gloom had not tried to dispose of any
of the STUFF taken and had been CON