Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-27
$4,000 ROBBERY
SUSPECT IN TOLLS
Detectives Think St Louis Pris.
Oner One of Canadian Bank.
Burglars.
SAID TO BE MAN WHO
BEAT CHICAGO OFFICER
Woman Companion Means by
Which SIeuths Finally Run
Down Quarry.

So. LOUIS, Sept. PA years
chase, following the 1920, 900 bank
robbery in New Westminster, B. C.,
ended in st. Louis In the arrest OF
J.. C. Adams. who was declared to-
day to be wanted as one of the rob.
bers.
The arrest of his supposed wife,
known to the police as jeanette Lit
tie, in Edw~ardsvi1le, early today,
completed the task of the local po-
lice and private detectives who had
been holding Adams since his arrest
early Wednesday morning.
Adams, who is also known as Wal
ter Stacey, was declared by the de-
tectives to be n of the two men
who beat Police Lieutenant Burns,
of Chicago, into in~sensibility in a
saloon when he tried. single-handed,
to capture them on the night of Sep
TENDER 10.
Held on Another Charge.
When Adams was arrested by the
st. Louis police he was entered on
the books under the name of Stacey
and a charge of murder was placed
against him. 1t was explained that
he was a 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 1t was
identified Thursday as the picture of
one of Lieutenant Burns's two assail-
ants.
The man arrested as Adams or
Stacey is believed by the local Bertil-
Ion 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 We're denied.
Woman Is Swallowed.
Al the time of the mans arrest the
detectives could have arrested his
woman companion. who was walking
ahead of him. They hoped that by
leaving her at liberty longer they
would catch another of the gang, so
she was not molested. but was kept
under surveillance until she left the
city Thursday on an interurban car,
A man met her at Gillespie, ILL.,, and
the two got off at Edwardsville and
went to a hotel. There they were ar,
rested, but. according to the detec-
tives, the man was found to be not
the one wanted and was released.
Jeanette Little, or Mrs. Stacey as
she gave her name at a rooming
house. told her landlady that she vas
a cripple and at times walked with
the aid of crutches, At other times
she discard edthe c%rutches.
Carries Deaf and Dumb Gard.
In Adams, or Stacey's, clothes a let
ter was found which related that the
bearer was deaf and dumb. The
police said that the crutches and the
lea and dumb letter were used as
subterfuges in obtaining admittance
to banks where prospects for a rob-
berry We're good.
Detectives said the arrest of the
woman was the key to the situation.
She was located by Assistant 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 a
When they emerged the man vas ar
rested and the woman allowed to
escape to- Edwardsville.