Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-11
ADDS DETAILS TO
RECENT STORY OF
CRIME IN COUNTY
Bender Makes Supplementary
Confession Said to Involve
Several Others.
is WITNESS AT HEARING
Young Crook Tells About Alleged Re.
Iations With Sam Freyer. Sec
ondhand Dealer.

! Additional warrants are expected to
/ be issued by States Attorney Thomp-
son as a result of a supplementary
confession made by Silas Bender. the
! burglar who has already implicated a
Lumber of Rock Island men as par
! Elephants. either in stealing or in dis
| posing of pilfered property Bender
gave up additional details TO the
states attorney yesterday and the in
| formation is expected TO be made use
of as soon as the county prosecutor
ca I'd time to look after the mat
ter.
Among the jobs in which Bender
claims TO have been implicated. it is
said. were the robbery of thN Ramser
| jewelry store in Silvis sons, weeks
ago and of the office of County Treas
urer W. II. Whiteside, father of At
torney William Whiteside, who is
now Bender's attorney.
I me young prisoner was the only
witness this morning at the prelim-
mary hearing of Sam Freyer. the Rock
Island second hand dealer, in the
court of Justice William Carstens in
Moline. States Attorney Thompson
appeared in his official capacity. while
former Mayor Andrew Olson OF Mo-
line and b. F. Schriver represented
Freyer Bender IVES drawn out on
the burgla rizing of the Reid hardware
store in Moline Nov. ,. The states
attorney was careful to make public
as little as possible Of the story he
has told in his confessions. evidently
to keep the defense from making use
of the information in advance of the
hearing OF the case.
Sam Freyer in Barn.
Render said he was assisted in the
robbery by Dominic.k Gillespie, for
whom a warrant is now out After ,
the two had. secured the loot they
took it TO Freyer's barn on the alley /
north of Second avenue and between /
Eleventh and Twelfth streets. Freyer
met them, he said, and after some ,
hageling gave them $3.50 for what /
they had stolen, taking out $3.50 that ,
Bender owed him from some previous /
deal In his confession it is said that /
Bender claimed that Freyer paid him
only 81 for TIC goods taken from the
Ramser jewelry store, the value be-
ing reported at the time to be several
hundred dollars.
Attorneys for Freyer made every
effort to bring out more of Bender's
story. but with little success. A heat
I'd tilt between Attorneys Whiteside
and Olson arose from this line of in
Iuiry.
At the conclusion of the hearing
he justice declined to render a deci-
sion as TO whether the defendant
would be held but said he would give
lis verdict next Monday morning.
States Attorney Thompson made it
lear that a great deal more evidence
against Freyer than had been brought
,ut is in the hands of the state.
minated Revenge as Motive.
The defense sought to show that
Bender had asked the aid of Freyer
Ifter the former had been first arrest
ID for burglary, intimating that the
Confession was made TO get even for
efusal Bender. however, said he had
lot seen Freyer till the latter was /
ocked up i'm Jail and then the latter i
him to perjure himself to [
ct Freyer out of trouble, offering TO /
% what he could for Bender if re- c
sased. Il