The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-03-23

| up In that crime. lie swore TO me
that he didn't know anything about
it,"
Or. C.. w. Morey. an old friend OF
Gums family. gasped as he was told
OF Gums confession.
IL came down here this morning.
ready TO back that boy for any limit.
he said. II believed In him implicit
ly. You couldn't give me a greater
shock"
Credit for the entire clearing up OF
the Madden mystery Is due TO Judge
Phelan. according TO Probation on
Ger Mcdonnell. who says that the
Judge obtained confession from
Wesley. after the police had tried IN
vain 10 get the truth from the boy.
and had been led on one wild goose
chase after another.
Gum was transferred from police
headquarters to the central station, at
10 o'clock, Monday morning. He IL
TO be questioned further by the po-
lice, who will ask him about other
bandit jobs. They did not touch on
them. Sunday night.
Gums father, William Gum. a mu-
sic dealer of Saginaw. also came To
police headquarters, wondering at all
OF the excitement. He was not told
for some time of his sons confession
and came to fight for the boys lib
erty. He has retained Attorney
Frank T. Lodge as counsel
Other relatives from Flint, Sag
inaw and Bay City, have fiocked to
Carlyle's aid, only to learn of the
confession, and to express amaze
ment.
THAT boy is not a slayer, and
never conld be one," his brother al
most sobbed as he spoke of the con-
fession. "He went for ride with
that AL Moore, and probably never
expected anything wrong would hap
pen. Then, being Just q kid, he was
probably frightened to death. and was
afraid to give up the secret that
must have been preying on his mind
ever since. can't understand how
he failed to tell me about It. have
been good to that boy, and he and
have been very, very close"
Carlyle Gum was taken before JUS
tice Jeffrles. in police court, Monday
noon, to be remanded to the custody
of the police for "a hours. pending ap-
RAtO0tiOA lOA - AnOo00ys AAS
was remanded to custody without
bail. A warrant charging homicide
will probably be asked for.
Meanwhile, Detectives Kunkel and
Fox had made two trips to Gums
home to get confederation, from
Gums wife, OF his story Of his move
ments, on the night that Madden was
shot
The detectives, sympathizing deep
ly with Gums young wife. who ex-
poets a visit from the stork In less
than a month, did not cross-question
her about her former statements, pro-
tecting her husband, by stating that
he was in bed at o'clock on the
night of the murder, while, as mat
ter Of fact, she was out with Gum
and "Ar' Moore, in the auto, leaving
at about $3.50, and being out until
about 1880.
When the detectives first called, to
inform her that her husband had con-
fessed, they dreaded to break the
news to her, and told her mother,
Mrs. Truckner, who conveyed the
news. Mrs. Gum made no demon
stration Of emotion, except to tremble
nervously as she talked with the de-
tectives. She at first said that she
would not talk. as she had been ad-
vised by Attorney Lodge, not to talk
to anyone.
Meanwhile, Attorney Lodge had Wis.
fled headquarters and heard Gums
confession, and he went with the
officers and Carlyle's older brother,
to visit Mrs. Gum, and she then cor.
roborated her husbands story, up to
the time that he left with "AI' Moore,
and as to his late return.
She said, though, that he never con.
fessed his part In the shooting to her,
and that her first intimation OF his
guilt came when she was told Of his
confession to the police.
Detectives Fox and Kunkel found
Gums trousers that he wore on the
fatal night. They were badly torn
about the knee, substantiating his
story that he had torn his trousers
and bruised his legs In jumping from
the auto when Madden was shot.