Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-09-27
AFTER A YEARS PURSUIT
ROBBERY FOR WHICH STACEY
is WANTED OCCURRED
LAST FALL
MADE HAUL OF S32O,OOO
POLICE IN ALL PARTS OF CON-
TINENT HAVE BEEN ON
TRAIL SINCE

st. Louis, Sept. PA years chase
following the $4,000 bank robbery
in New Westminster, B. G., has end
ed in st. Louis in the arrest Of ]. C.
Adams, who was declared today to be
wanted as one Of the robbers. The
arrest of his supposed wife. known
to the police as Jeanette Little, in
Edwardsville, Illinois, last night com
pleted the task of the local police and
private detectives, who had been hold
ing Adams since his arrest early We'd
nesday morning.
Adams, who is also known as Wal
ter Stacey. was declared by the detec-
tives to have been one Of the two men
who beat Police Lieutenant Burns Of
Chicago into insensibillty in saloon
where he tried, singlehanded, to cap
ture them on the night Of September
19.
When Adams was arrested by the
st. Louis police, he was entered on
the books under the name of Stacey
and the charge OF murder placed
against him. It was explained that he
was suspect in i local case. II
the meantime his photograph, taken
a few hours after his arrest, was
sent to Chicago. There it was identl.
fed by Lieutenant Burns Thursday as
the picture Of one of his two assail-
ants. AT the time OF the mans ar
rest the detectives could have arrest
ed his woman companion, who was
walking on the street ahead Of him.
They hoped that by leaving her at
liberty longer they would catch an
ether Of the gang. She was kept un-
der surveillance until she left the city
Thursday evening on an interurban
car.
A man met her at Gillespie, III, and
the two got off at Edwardsville and
went to hotel. The two were ar
rested at II p. m. Thursday, but, ac-
cording to the detectives. the man
was found to be not the one wanted
and was released.
Jeanette Little, or Mrs. Stacey, as
she gave her name at arooming house,
told her landldy that she was Grip
pie and at times walked with the aid
of crutches. At other times when
she wanted to make speed, she dis
carded the crutches. In Adams or
Stacey's clothes letter was found
which related that the bearer was
deaf and dumb. The police said that
the crutches and the deaf and dumb
letter were used as subterfuges in OBJ
tanning admittance to banks where
prospects for robbery were good.
Detectives said the arrest of the
woman was the key to the situation.
She was located by Acting Chief
Schuettler Of Chicago and a 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
4 rooming house where man met
her It was when the man and the
woman left the house that the man
was arrested and the woman was al
lowed to depart only to be arrested
last night.
The man arrested as Adams, or
Stacey, is believed by the local Ber-
tilIion official to be George West, re-
puted leader of the Canadian bank
robbery The detectives say they
knew him only as Aams or Stacey
At the Edwardsville. Ill, Jail the
Little woman, whose real name is said
to be Jennie Riley, told the detectives
that they had run her ragged in Chi
cage" and that once she had TO swal
i low railroad ticket. The detectives,
after explaining why they had arrest
ed the woman induced her to take
off her "boot" by which she appeared