The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-10-02
One OF THE MEN Who ROBBED
CANADA BANK Held
Theft WAS FOR $4,000
Helped Beat Up Chicago Policeman.
His Wife Also Arrested In St
Louis Who Posed as Cripple Mute.
Arrest of Woman Was Key to
Situation.

a year chase 1OllOHluS tuo @olV,
900 bank robbery in New Minister,
b. c., ended in ST. Louis in the arrest
of J. C. Adams, who was declared
Friday to be wanted as one OF the
robbers.
The arrest of his supposed wife,
known to the police as jeanette Lit
tie, in Edwardsville, ILL.,, early Fri
day completed the task of the local
police and private detectives who had
been holding Adams since his arres.
eally Wednesday morning. Adams,
.sno ,s also known as Walter Stacey,
was declared by the detectives to be
one OF the two men who beat Police
Lieutenant Burns in Chicago saloon
when he tried, single-handed, to cap
ture them on the night of September
10.
When Adams was arrested by the
st. Louis police he was entered on
the books under the name of Stacey
and q charge of murder was placed
against him. It was explained that
he was a suspect in local case.
In the meantime his photograph
taken a few hours after his arrest
was sent to Chicago. There 1t was
identified Thursday as the picture Of
one of Lieut.. Burns two assailants.
The man arrested as Adams or
Stacey is believed by the local Ber-
tillion experts to be George West,
reputed leader in the Canadian bank
robbery. The detectives said they
know him only as Adams or Stacey.
All requests for interviews with
the prisoners were denied.
At the time of the mans arrest the
detectives could have arrested his
woman companion who was walking
ahead of him. Thep hoped that by
leaving her at liberty longer they
would catch another of the gang, so
she was not molested but kept under
surveillance until she left the city
Thursday evening on an interurban
car.
A man met her at Gillespie, ILL.,,
and the two got of at EdwardsVille
and went to q hotel. There they
were arrested but according to the
detectives the man was found to be
not the one wanted and was released.
Jeanette Little, or 'tMrs. Stacey"
as she registered her name at a room
ing house, told her landlady that she
was a cripple, and at time walked
with the aid Of crutches. At other
times she discarded the crutches.
In Adams Or Stacey's clothes let
ter was found which related that the
bearer was deaf and dumb. The po-
lice said thai the crutches and the
deaf and dumb letter were used as
subterfuges in obtaining admittance
to banks where prospects for a rob-
berry were good.
Detectives said the arrest Of the
woman was the key to the situation.
She was located by Assistant Chief
Schuetler, of Chicago, and private
detective in Elkhart, Ind, where she
disguised herself as a member of a
religious order and pretended to be
lame. When she left Elkhart four
men trailed her to st. Louis and to a
rooming house where a man met her.
When they emerged the man was ar
rested and the woman allowed to "es-
CAPE" to Edwardsville.
One OF the two Canadian bank rob-
bers who escaped from the Sidias sa-
loon at Chicago after beating Lieut..
Bernard J. Burns into insensibility,
was arrested Thursday night in ST..
Louis by Chicago detectives, accord
irg to a report received by Assistant
Chief of Police Schuetler Friday.
The man arrested is described as
thu "short robber". The woman was
located on the South side in Chicago,
according to Schuetler, and was per-
mitted to learn that detectives were
searching for her. She boarded a
train and went to q town outside Chi
cago where she purchased ticket for
st. Louis.
In their anxiety to prevent the man
from escaping again the detectives
are said to have closed about him,
paying no attention to the woman
who threw away her crutches and es-
capped.