The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-10-02
Dennison Brothers Con-
fess at Evansville.
HID THE SAFE IN A CEMETERY
And Broke II Open at Night
Found Little TO Pay
For Trouble.
A BOLD ROBBERY REVEALED

day from FREQ DennlSOn, dSSu hihS
teen, and his brother, Ed, twenty
three years old, of 307 Morris ave-
nue.. that they had stolen a 200
pound safe from the home OF wal
ter Queen on Outer Lincoln avenue
Thursday afternoon, says the Ev-
ansville Courier.
I'll, battered safe was recovered
about fifty feet from the Kentucky
avenue road, near Eagle Lake,
ttroe miles from the Queen home.
Fred leading Chief of Detectives
Ossenberg and Detectives Heuke
and Peck to the hiding place.
A silver watch, turquois ring and
another ring were recovered in the
back yard at the home of the Den
nison's in Morris avenue, where
they had been buried.
The two confessions were made
to Chief of Police Covey, Fred, the
younger of the brothers, telling his
story in the afternoon without
great deal of sweating. In the ev-
ening the same story was wormed
out of Ed by Chief Convey, who
questioned him for five hours. Dep
uty Prosecutor Hardy, who was
present when the confession was
made. said he had never seen
shrewder police questioning. No
promises or threats of any kind
were used to secure the truth.
At first Ed did not want to tell
his story, but when he saw from
the questions of the chief that his
brother had confessed, he began to
cry.
Chief, | am going to tell you
the truth" he said. Il am doing
this for Fred and my mother.
have no interest in life and if it
had not been for them would have
killed myself before this. But |
want to help Fred and ma all |
can"
The stories were that the two
brothers had gone to the Queen
home Thursday afternoon at 2
O'Clock. No one was at home, the
family having gone to Newburg.
The house was ransacked, a brace
let, revolver, knife and other things
being taken.
They saw the safe in a closet and
left by a side window, which they
had forced open with a Ratchet.
Then they decided they would get
the safe. The house was entered in
the same manner. The men car
ried the safe out of the front door,
re-entered, locking the door, and
then climbed out the window. The
safe was carried to a small ceme-
terry nearby and hid in a growth of
weeds.
At II o'clock that night the
brothers secured a wagon and car
red the safe to where it was found
yesterday afternoon, after Fred had
shown the officers where to go. Eff
forts to open it were unsuccessful
and they gave up the attempt until
Friday.
A heavy sledge hammer was Sc
cured and late at night the broth
ers went to work again. The door
was knocked off and the top smash
ed in. In it were found three IS
bills, one SO bill, a diamond pin,
which Queen says was worth $3.50,
and small gold watch. The pin
and watch have not been discover
ed, nor have the bracelet and revolt
yer which were taken the first time
the brothers entered the house. The
silver watch, which was recovered,
the brothers confessed, was stolen
from the home of william Pittme-
Ter, a farmer living on the Green
River road. They also confessed to
robbing another house in that
neighborhood.
The police are elated at securing
the confessions. They suspected
the Dennisons when the robbery
was first reported. Ed. however,
only a few weeks before, had made
his escape from jail and was dodg-
ing the officers. Saturday he was
arrested on a charge of assault and
battery and Fred was arrested later
in the day on the same charge. Ed
was sent to Jail to serve out his old
sentence and the new, and the po-
lice had him where they could hold
him. Yesterday morning Fred was
released on the assault and battery
charge. Chief Ossenberg, however,
Immediately arrested him again,
placing a safe keeping charge
against him.
An old coin which had been Ia
ken from the Queen safe was found