The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-05-05

Is the long search for "Herman
Becker" the man wanted on a charge
of attempting to kill Chief of Police
Owen O'Hare on the night Of July 4th
of last year come to an end? The chief
declares that it has and he insists that
Ernest E. Alyea arrested in Chicago
Saturday night by Detectives A. KEEL
ley and Charles Vented is one and the
same as Herman Becker who shot the
Kenosha official. Alyea was seen by
O'Hare on Sunday afternoon at the
Central Police station and at the first
look at him he declared that he could
not be mistaken and that the man was
CHECKER" Later the identification
was made more certain by Peter Mum
gen who had dealings with Becker when
he was in Kenosha and he insisted that
there could be no doubt as to the iden-
tity of the man. Alyea is a painter
living at 3130 Michigan avenue, Chicago
and he was arrested by the Chicago de-
tectives on a fugitive warrant which
charged him with having stolen a horse
belonging to A. S. Taylor at La Porte,
Indiana, last October.
Sheriff William Anstiss of LaPorte
reached Chicago before Chief O Hare
and he insisted that there was such
strong case against the man at La
Porte that he be allowed to take him
there for trial declaring that under the
Indiana law the man could be sent to
prison for a term of fourteen years
under the charge of horse stealing.
Chief 0 Hare decided not to make a
fight for the man, but he has the as
surance that should he not be convict
ed in the Indiana county there will be
no chance for his escape and that he will
promptly be turned over to the Keno
sha officials. 1t is expected that
Alyea will be given a hearing at La
Porte before the end of this week and
that he will be held for trial. A war
rant charging him with the attempted
murder of the Kenosha chief was for
warded to Sheriff Anstiss this morning
with instructions to arrest him the
minute the Indiana county is through
with him. The man will not be per
mitted to escape and should he be sent
to prison from the Indiana county the
warrant from this county will be await
ing him when he leaves the prison.
Alyea stoutly maintained his limo
cense of being connected with the
0 Hare shooting and the stealing of the
Taylor horse at LaPorte. He even
went further and made long state
ment in which he declared that he was
at Knox. Indiana, at the time 0 Hare
was shot. However, the fellows story
did not hang together at all and Chief
O'Hare is positive that there is no
doubt of the identity of the man.
When Alyear was arrested on Sat
urday night the Chicago detectives at
once notified the Kenosha police and
Chief 0 Hare and Mungen went to Chi
cago on the first train on Sunday.
They did not get to look at their man
until after dinner and when the chief
hiC lpn1y OF hin, ho Lo4
there was no doubt as to the identity.
Alyea smiled a sickly smile and in
sisted that he had never seen O Hare
before. Mungen's Identification was
just as positive. Latter the clothing
which had been taken from "Becker''
in Kenosha at the time of his hasty
exit from the city was taken to Chicago
and tried on Alyea and it was found
to fit him perfectly. O'Hare declares
that the man was wearing the same hat
that he wore at the time he was in
Kenosha.
At the time of his arrest Alyea had
woman with him and she was also
taken into custody. He claimed that
the woman was his wife and no charge
was placed against her 1t is alleged
th@C the woman was the same woman
who was in Kenosha on the night
O'Hare was shot.
The officials made an effort to get
some story out of Alyea which would
reveal the place where he had been
in hiding and they found that he had
been in Iowa, Oklahoma and other
states and had returned to Chicago
only few days ago. The Chicago
detectives declare that Alyea is an old
offender in the horse stealing game and
they claim that he has served six years
in one of the state institutions of
Michigan. They claim further that he
was connected with horse stealing in
Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michi-
gan during the past ten months. AT
the time of his arrest Alyea had two
revolvers. Sheriff Anstiss of LaPorte
identified the watch which was dropped
by the man in Kenosha as the same one
he had seen on the man wanted fol-
stealing the Taylor horse.
In speaking of the matter after his
return from Chicago, Chief of Police