The Globe-republican., 1910-03-31
cold WAS TAKEN
Chest of Gold Stolen From
Cellar Beneath Baeder
Residence.
CHEST CONTAINED $4,000.
Arrest Was Made Two Days
Later. Robbery Committed
During the Wind Storm

Sv"UeVu
= = During the Wind Storm
, Monday night, during one Of th
= worst wind storms that has visite,
this part Of the country in years
q Fred Baeder was robbed Of $1,000 /,
/ gold, most Of the money being ii
b twenty dollar pieces.
Wednesday afternoon, John Wells
who has been real estate man api
carpenter at different times here 10,
> q number Of years, was arrested or
charge OF committing this robbery
For two days after the robbery nc
clue could be found, and indeed, there
| seemed little to work on.
Mr.. Bseder kept a steel chest i'm.
bedded in one Of the walls Of the eel.
lar beneath bis house on Chestnut
street west. There was an iron door
In front Of this chest, and a wooden
door outside Of that. The wooden
door was covered over with a piece
OF carpet. Mr.. Baeder believed that
no one save himself knew that he
kept a large amount of gold there.
and further that no one, at least out.
side OF his Immediately family, knew
that the safe was concealed there
The robber entered through b a trap
door in the front porch, from which
steps led down to a strong upright
door. At the inner door he bored
twenty-six holes with an inch auger.
the holes describing asquare Of some
six inches, which would admit the
entire arm. The door was fastened
on the inside by an iron bar, which
was easily raised after the opening
had been made. The safe was then
carried to the front yard, from where
it was taken on a wheel barrow to a
ditch little over two blocks west.
There hole had been drilled in the
top OF the chest with an ordinary
pick. The hole was large enough to
admit a mans hand, but so many
sharp edges Of steel protruded that
It was impossible to reach into the
box and withdraw the hand without
getting the hand scratched and
marked.
A marked hand was the only thing |
here was to work on, in locating the
obber, and the first suspicion against
ohm Wells arose in a way which
'romlsed little if anything. :
Someone remarked to Marshal c
ohm Madden, that John Wells was Il
Vearing gloves. Tt was not wholly Il
for Wells to wear gloves, but P
he marshal did not like the idea of G
nyone wearing gloves, when he was r.
rying to make wholesale inspection o
hands. Wells was watched the f
est OF the day. He removed his t,
loves later, and his hands were sus- b
iciously cut and scratched. Mr.. Ii
'adden visited Wells room, where m
3 has been staying on the vest hill, nj
nd found that he had been out Mon CO
~ night. He knew to start with, K
70, that Wells kept q room at the di
'righten house, which he used as q vi
nd OF Office, and the Wrighten er
'me is the next door to Baeder's pl
ace. of
An interview he had with the kc
unity attorney disclosed the fact frt
at Wells was about to have trouble
er rents he had collected for an exI
her man and had spent, and that an
ellis had agreed to raise q sum Of the
'ney by the first Of the month. fri
ith these things and other circum- by
noes picked up. the marshal ar in
ted Wells, and took him up to
county attorneys Office The pull
riff at the time was at Wichita the
Or "Stray" Waddell, and Wells hay
3 turned over to the deputy sheriff the
taken to the county Jail. Bat
In examination Of Wells room at c
8. Johnson's place in the west part Lal
own was made, and suspicious the
ount Of new goods were found in was
room. Mr.. Erhard. of The Globe zoo