The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-12-28


Sheriff Andrew F. Stahl is now ready
to turn over the sheriff s Office to his
successor as the last of the old war
rants which have been hidden away in
pigeon holes in the Jail Office for a
long time was served on the night be-
fore Christmas and as a result of its
being served Frank A. Brown, former
financial secretary of local union num-
Der 161 Of the Carpenters and Joiners
of America, was brought back to Ke-
nosha to answer charges Of embezzle-
ment preferred against him by Alfred
Larsen, the president of the union, con-
siderably over two years ago.
Brown had reached Chicago on Sun
day morning only a few minutes be-
fore he was nabbed by men from the
Chicago detective bureau who had been
warned by the sheriff to look out for
him.
The search for Brown has been
persistent one. 1t was on June %, 1914
that Brown left Kenosha. Later it was
found that there was shortage
amounting to more than two hundred
dollars in his accounts and formal
warrant for his arrest was issued. When
Sheriff Stahl succeeded DR.. f. w. B.
Achen in Office the warrant was one of
the legacies. Stahl and the city police
department kept right on the hunt for
Brown regardless Of the facts that
months and years passed without any
trace of him being found. The wife of
Brown continued to live in Kenosha
ard with Christmas coming on the
sheriff kept a pretty close watch on
Mrs. Brown believing it possible that
she might seek to saend the day with
her husband. 1t was mighty good
bunch and just before ten O clock Mrs
Brown left for Chicago. The detec-
tives in Chicago were instructed to be
at the train and look out for a meet
ing between the husband and wife. The
detectives did not know either Brown
or Mrs. Brown, but they watched the
Christmas crowds at the North Western
station. They saw couple who ap-
peared to be very much interested in
each other hurrying away through the
station.
oh, Brownie one Of the detectives
shouted at the couple and Brown at
once turned around. Both he and his
vifa y.ynra toIyan ~ +bo do+oo+sr-a L.
reau. Brown at first denied his iden-
tity. He had been living under the
name of A. B. Franklin and he gave
his name when he was arrested. He
was put down in the hole'' with a
lot of other prisoners and when Sheriff
Stahl reached the detective bureau late
Sunday afternoon he expressed will
lngness to return to Kenosha without
the extradition papers
He admitted that he had reached
Chicago from Defiance, Ohio, only a.
short time before he went to the North
Western station to meet his wife.
Brown was brought back and lodged
in Jail He did not admit he was gull
ty of the charge alleged in the warrant
but he insisted that he had a lot of in
formation which would be decidedly
interesting to several people in Keno
sha and limited that he was ready and
willing to give this information to the
district attorney.
The crime of which Brown was
charged had been committed so long
ago that many people even directly
connected with the organization had
forgotten it. The exact amount of the
| shortage of Brown was not stated in
the warrant but it was declared that
it was over a hundred dollars. Prom
inent members of the union asserted
that they had forgotten the incident
but they declared that the union would
probably insist on the prosecution of
Brown. 1t is declared that Brown had
been living IN Defiance for some
months.
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