The Detroit times., 1910-08-11
wolf. W|ECHERs
s0Bs IN HIS CELL
Talks Of Plight Of Sister Who Loses
$4,000 By His JunpAg Bail Bond
Arrested in Detroit.

Wiechers, THE Wolf" II broken In
spirit. Behind the bars in the Wayne
county tail Thursday noon. the be-
trayer OF Rosa Rene looked the hunt
ed animal. who has fought q long,
hard fight and lost.
Great sobs shook his frame while he
talked. not Of his own plight, but OF
his sisters. the woman whose entire
fortune Is tied up In his bail bond OF
$4,000.
Il came hero to save her." he told
\ Times reporter. And now 1t looks
as though they are not satisfied with
kicking me when ! am down. but
they're going TO take all her money.
too. DO you suppose I've come all the
way here on q pleasure trip? knew
all the time they'd set me and I
wanted to give myself up, so that the
money she risked 70 gain me my lib
erty would be saved for her. don't
care about myself now.
IT know my attorneys can't keep me
out of prison. but they might try to
save that money for my sister"
Wiechers' sister II Mrs. Veronica
Melcher, Of Milwaukee. Wis. He says
that she mortgaged all her property
to get the money necessary to 60 on
the ball bond. The oflcials are show
ing no disposition to annul the for
feiture OF the bond.
Anton wiechers, alias Or. John A.
Adams was transferred from police
headquarters to the county Jail at
noon. Judge Connolly came to court
purposely to sign fresh commitment
papers, on which The Wolf" will be
taken to Marquette prison, there to
finish his long term OF ave years.
Sheriff CASTOR says he Will take
Wiechers there very soon.
One of the jurors who served on the
jury that convicted Wiechers notified
the police that 1.-THE Wolf was here.
This juror hiHa standing Ia front
of florist shop at Gratiot and st.
Aubin-aves., Wednesday night. De
tectives Steinhebel and Sullivan went
there and captured him.
Wiechers had been stopping at the
Grand Central hotel In the shadow OF
police headquarters since Tuesday.
He says he was surprised that he was
not taken into custody sooner.
Wiechers, whose conviction In
Judge Connolly's court was confirmed
by the supreme court, jumped his bail
bond OF $4,000, on which he was re-
leased pending the courts deciaion In
his case. The bond has been declnr>
cd forfeited.
Since the forfeiture Of HE bond. the
o %sa las h sssa w 'ssnsztez sss
pose of having the forfeiture Of the,l
bail bond annuled. He wrote letters
to both the police and to Judge Con-
molly, In which he declared he would
surrender himself II they would con-
sent to annul the forfeiture.
The police have paid no attention |
to these letters, confident that they |
would get him sooner or later When |
Wiechers was brought into the CEN
trail station, he told the detectives
that his attorneys were at fault In |
failing to notify him that his appeal
had been denied by the supreme \
court. He declared that had he known.
he would have given himself up In |
time to prevent the forfeiture of his |
bond.
Chief Of Detectives Mcdonnell de-
clared Thursday morning that had II |
not been for the utter indifference Of |
the New York police, Wiechers would |
have been captured several days ago. |
The captain says that repeated let |
ters and kilograms to the New York |
were wholly ignored and |
that the police in Gotham did not |
even reply to any of the missives.
I'VE had planned to send tele- |
gram to Weichers' sister, knowing |
that 1t would be delivered to Wiech-
ers," said the captain. I'VE wired |
three hours ahead to the New York |
police, asking them to follow up the
telegram and arrest the man who re-
ceived 1t. They paid no attention |
whatever to the message.
This Is not the first time this has
In every other police de- !
partment In the country, courtesies |
are extended to other departments,
and the New York police certainly
have no reason to turn the Detroit de-
partment down. We have helped them
out on numerous occasions. can
point to several instances where we
have asked them for aid and they
have ignored u.s.