The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-27
Is Arrested by the Police Off
GERS at st. Louis.
ROBBERY DATES BACK A YEAR
When S32O,OOO Was Taken
From Canadian Institution.
Supposed Woman AccOmpIice
Is Captured in Illinois.

St. Louis. Sept. 27.-A years chase
following the $4,000 bank robbery in
New Westminster, B. c., ended in st
Louis in the arrest of J. c. Adams,
who was declared today to be wanted
as one of the robbers. The arrest ol
his supposed wife. known to the police
as jeanette Little. in Edwardsville, H..
last night. completed the task of the
local police and private detectives who
had been holding Adams since his ar
rest early Wednesday morning. Adams,
who is also known as Walter Stacey,
was declared by the detectives to have
been one of the two men who beat
Police Lieutenant Burns. of Chicago,
INTO insensibility in a saloon where he
tried, singlehanded, TO capture them
in the night of September -
When Adams was arrested by the
St Louis police. he was entered on
the books under the name of Stacey
and charge of murder placed against
sim. 1t was explained that he was
suspect in a local case. Mystery was
thrown about his arrest by the St.
Louis police Wednesday and Thursday.
In the meantime his photograph
taken a few hours after his arrest, was
sent to Chicago, There it was identified
by 1t. Burns Thursday as the picture
of one of his two assailants.
At the time of the mans arrest the
detectives could have arrested this wo-
man companion, who was walking On
the street ahead of him. They hoped
that by leaving her at liberty longer they
would catch another of the gang, so
she was not mOlested at that time, but
was kept under surveillance until she
left the city Thursday on an interur-
ban car. A man met her at Gillisple,
Illinois and the two got off at Edwards
vile, and went to q hotel. The two
were arrested at IL p. m. Thursday
but according to detectives the man
was found to be not the one wanted
and was released
Woman in the Case.
jeanette Little or Mrs Stacey as
she gave her name at rooming
house told her landlady that she was
a cripple and at times walked with the
aid of crutches. At other times when
she wanted to make speed, she dis
Stacey's clothes a letter was found
which related that the bearer was
deaf and dumb. The police said that
the crutches and the deaf and dumb !
tanning admittance to banks where
prospects for a 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, Indiana, where |
she disguised herself as a member of |
n religious order and pretended to be |
lame.
When she left EIkhart. four men |
trailed her to St. Louis and to a room
ing house where a man met her. #
was when the man and the woman left |
the house that the man was arrested |
and the woman was allowed to de-
part only TO be arrested last night,
The man arrested as Adams or
Stacey, is believed by the local Rer-
tilIon official to be George West, re-
puted leader of the Canadian bank
robbery. The detectives said they
knew him only as Adams or Stacey
All requests for interviews with the
prisoners were denied.