Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-10-01
POLICE CAPTURE
THE LEADER OF
BANK ROBBERS
Man Arrested at st. Louis Believed
to be One of Gang Which Sc
cured $4,000 in Ca
madam Hold-Up.
WOMAN IS CAPTURED ALSO.
Alleged Wife of Bandit Suspect Pos
ed as Cripple-Thought She
Worked Ruse.
WOMAN IS CAPTURED ALSO.

st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. ,28.-A year
chase, following the $4,000 banl
robbery in New Westminster, Cana
da, ended in st. Louis in the arres
Of J.. c. Adams, who was declared
yesterday to be wanted as one o
the robbers.
The arrest of his supposed wife
known to the police as Jeannett,
Little, in Edwardsville, ILL.,, Thurs
day night completed the task of tn,
| local police and private detectives
who had been holding Adams since
his arrest early Wednesday morn
ing.
Adams, who is also known as Wal
ter Stacey, was declared by the de,
tectives to have been one of the two
men who beat Police Lieutenant
Burns, of Chicago, into insensibility
in a saloon, where he tried, single
handed, to capture 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 charge of murder placed
against him. It Vas explained that
he was suspect in a local case
Mystery was thrown about his ar
rest by the ST. Louis police Wednes-
day and Thursday.
In the meantime his photograph,
taken few hours after his arrest,
was sent to Chicago. There it was
identified Thursday by Lieutenant
Burns as the picture of one of his
two assailants. At the time of the
mans arrest the detectives could
have arrested his woman compan-
ion, 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 surveil-
lance until she left the city Thurs
day evening on an interurban car
A man met her at Gillespie, H.,
and the two got off at Edwardsville
and went to a hotel The two We're
arrested at II p. m. Thursday, but
according 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 a rooming
house, told her landlady that she
was cripple and at times walked
with the aid of crutches At other
times when she wanted to make
speed, she discarded the crutches.
In Adams or Stacey's clothes a
letter was found which related that
the bearer was deaf and dumb The
police said that the clutches and
the deaf and dumb letter were used
as subterfuges in obtaining admit
lance to banks where prospects for
a robbery were good.
Detectives said the arrest of the
was the key to the situation.
She was located by Acting Chief
Schuettler, of Chicago, and a pri-
vate detective in Elkhart, Ind.
where she disguised herself as a
of religious order and pre-
tended to be lame.
When she left Elkhart, four men
trailed her to St. Louis and to a
rooming house, where man met
her. 1t was when the man and the
left the house that the man
was arrested and the woman was
allowed to depart, only to be arrest
ed Thursday night.
The man arrested as Adams or
Stacey is believed by the local Ber-
tillion official to be George West, re-
puted leader of the Canadian bank
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