The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-18
Finds Convict By That Name Did
Sleep in Hotel But He Proves to
Be Wrong Man.
POLICE R1D1CULE ASSERTIONS
Declare it Impossible Puposky Bandit
Could Have Received Secret Aid
of Physician.

Superior, Wisconsin, July 1S.-
If Mike Davis, yeggman and crook
now fugitive from justice and much
wanted for his latest exploit, the par
ticipation in an attempted robbery
and burning of the Smythe store at
Puposky three weeks ago, will stand
up and be counted, he will relieve a
strained situation that is battling the
police in both cities at the head of
the lakes.
He will also confer a lasting favor
on Paul Davis, who has served two
terms at Waupun and two at Still
water, the last one for burglary, COM
mitted in Minneapolis. For this he
received a sentence of five years from
the Hennepin county district court on
Feb. 2, 1904. He has told his friends
that "for him the light of other days
has faded and that in the future the
narrow path of rectitude is the only
one that he will consider"
Detectives Believe He is in Superior.
Ever since the Puposky affair and
the escape of Davis and the subse-
quent search of Sam Fullerton and
the Pinkerton detectives for him
there has been a persistent story that
Mike Davis was at the head of the
lakes. The detectives and those as
sociated with them, in the develop
ment of what they claim will be the
greatest exposure of organized graft
ever developed in the northwest, have
repeatedly expressed the opinion that
he is hiding in Superior.
At the same time they express con-
fidence that they will be able to land
their man in due time, and intimate
that the reason he is not forthwith
taken into cutsody is the fact that his
friends are according him protection.
However all this may be, the police
at Superior have been consistent in
their denial of the statement that
Davis is here. They scout story
to the effect that Davis came
to Superior in wounded condition
after the gun fight at Puposky; that
he was there treated by physicians
secured by his friends and sworn to
secrecy, and that ever since he has
been taken care of. Such thing
would not be possible in Superior
with it's present force, say the police
Have Seen Davis.
On the other hand, people in both
cities who profess to know Mike
Davis state that they have seen him,
conversed with him and INDUCED in
the refreshing pastime of an occa-
sional libation with the genial and
doubtfully distinguished Mr.. Davis
He is given credit for having stated
to them with rare nonchalance that
the police didn't want him and that
he had nothing to fear from the Off
GERS in either city. At such times, sc
-EOcS VIC oLOl VAA. DoN "Ou1u Ouy
another round and board the street
car for Superior.
Yesterday morning what purportc6
to be reliable information was to the
effect that Mike Davis slept at the
Arthur hotel in Superior, conducted
by Buchanan & Hogan.
ha hnto1 6ou01,
oped that Paul Davis, convict ant
with record we'll known in thu
northwest, is and for some time ha:
been a guest at the Arthur. He ha!
been in Superior for several months
and he has told his friends that thu
old life is forsaken and that in tn
future he will attempt nothing tina
might have a term at the pen as :
sequel. .
Hotel Man Knows Mike.
Ed Hogan, one of the proprietor
of the hotel, discussed the matter
freely yesterday afternoon. He sale
he did not have an intimate acquaint
ance with Mike Davis, but that hi
knew him. Upon being confronted
with the statement that Davis hai
occupied room in his house Sat
urday evening. he stated that Davis
had never been in the house.
RI have been approached from sew
eral different aO,,rces TO-DAY with th,
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