The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-01-11
Man Enters Home of DR..
R0Well on Durkee Avenue
Tuesday Afternoon
SEVEN YEAR OLD BOY GRITTY
Little Edward Rowen Sees Man at
Work and Without Disturbing Him
Calls Mother-Harry Bell, Man Ar
rested in Case, Says He Is Innocent,

Edward Rowell, aged seven years,
son of DR.. and Mrs. E. 7. Rowell, was
the hero Of burglary story Tuesday
afternoon at the Rowell home on Dur
kee avenue when he discovered 8
"second story worker busily engaged
in looting the rooms on the second
floor OF the residence. Young Rower
slipped quietly out of the room where
he had discovered the man and mott
fed his mother The man escaped from
the house but just after eight O'Clock
Tuesday night the police arrested Har,
ry Bell, claiming to be from Chicago.
and the RoweQ boy positively identi
fed Bell as the man whom he had seen
in the house.
It was just after four O'Clock that
the man was discovered at work in
the house. It is supposed that he had
gained entrance to the house through
one of the rear doors or through a
window in the back portion of the
house and he had been SO expert in
getting about the house that Mrs.
Rowel and her mother, Mrs. Bullamore
who were sitting in the living room on
the first floor of the house, had heard
nothing of him, Just after four
o clock Mrs. RoWell sent her son Ed
ward TO one Of the upper rooms Of the
house to get a spool of thread. Young
Rowsf, ri % the back staIrw.,y ii tAt
house and going into the room at the
head of the stairs he saw a strange
man. The fellow smiled at him and the
boy with great presence Of mind walk
ed right through the room acting az
if he had not seen the man and going
to a dresser in the room secured the
spool Of thread and walked down the
front stairway. He slipped into the
living room and whispered to his
mother that there was a man in the
house. There was no hesitancy on the
part of Mrs. Rowe4 and she dashed
up the front stairway and reached the
rear part Of the house just in time to
see the man slipping down the back
stairway. She ran to a window and
saw The man run north OIL Durkee
avenue and at once notified the police.
A hurried search was made Of the
house and it is not thought that the
burglar secured anything with the pos
sible exception Of few pieces Of
jewelry. It is thought that he was
discovered by young RoWelI just after
he entered the house.
The police Immediately took up the
case and securing an excellent descrip-
ton of the man they made a search
about the city. just after eight
O. clock Bell who answered the descrip-
ton of the man seen in the house was
arrested on Market Square and taken
to the city lookup. Later Police OF,
fcer Maher took him to the Roweil
home and the Rowell boy at once iden-
titled him as the man he had seen in
the house during the afternoon.
Bell claimed to be a travelling sales
man for Chicago company engaged
in the manufacture Of letter files. He
declared that his arrest was an out
rage and insisted that the Rowell boy
was in error in identifying him. He
declared that he had come to Kenosha
on Tuesday afternoon and that he was
a guest at the Hotel Orth. When
searched the police found q key to one
of the rooms of the hotel and ten
dollar bill in the pocket of the man.
Bell when he was at the Rowell home
threatened suit for false arrest and
all sorts Of things, but these threats
did not shake young Rowell In his
declaration that Bell was the man seen
in the house. Mrs. Rowell could not
identify the man positively but she
declared that she thought that Bell
was the same man she had seen in
the house.
1t is certain that the man who en-
tered the house was decidedly clever
worker and the cool way in which he
went at his work while the members
of the family were in the rooms below
him indicated that he vvaS m 4ama+o,.