The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-03
NOTHING DOING IN ARRESTS
Local Officials Declare That There Is
No Ground for Claim of Chicago Men
That Art Institute Thieves Are
In Hiding In Kenosha.

Catching Art Institute" robbers in
Kenosha seems to be the continued
slant of certain Chicago detectives in
Chicago just at present and telephones
in Kenosha were kept a ringing late
into the night last night to tell Chicago
that there was nothing to the report
that the men who had pulled off the
biggest robbery of several years IN
Chicago had been captured here.
According to the report made in Chi
cago, three operatives of the Nicholas
Hunt Detective Agency in Chicago
have been at work in Kenosha for the
past week and it is declared that they
are ready to clamp their hands right
down on the guilty fellows just as soon
as the head of the agency gives the
word. AS there is a reward totaling
many thousand dollars for the arrest
of the men who robbed the institute
the capture Of the men is a matter Of
great interest. Reporters from Chicago
papers were on hand last night in order
to be right on the spot when the des
perados were captured and they waited
about wild eyed and sleepy until early
morning expecting to see the Chicago
detectives walk into the county jail or
the police station with some famous
criminal and ask that the robber be
kept until he could be taken to Chicago
In daylight. However, nobody came
eff these investigators of detectives
or whatever they want to call them,
have been working in Kenosha [ don It
know anything about it, said Chief
O'Hare long about midnight last night.
"We know all about this story that the
Art Institute robbers are here, but we
do not believe it. We have investigat-
ed every angle of the story and it is
pure bunk. Former Inspector Hunt
has been in Kenosha several times in
this case and he has been working
with us, but if he has found any
thing it must have been in the last
couple of hours"
Kenosha first became connected with
the Art Institute crime when John
Hartzell was brought here for trial on
charges of burglary. Hartzell was
bombarded for many days in an effort
to secure some facts in regard to the
famous robbery.
cit is possible that Hartzell had
some information in regard to the rob
berry," said Sheriff Stahl, ''but after
we got through with him and he went
through some third degree we did
not know what he knew. Hartzell
never had any one come to see him
when he was in jail here and I do not
believe that there is any one in Keno
sha who knows the slightest thing
about the Chicago crime -
1T will be remembered that Hartzell
was acquitted on the burglary charge
here but he is back in the state prison
at Joliet again. He was arrested a
month ago in Chicago charged with an
other attempted robbery and the pri-
son officials took him back to Joliet to
serve out his unexpired term. As he
was serving an indeterminate sentence
it will probably be some time before
he need worry about being arrested
again for the Art Institute job.
Tt is claimed by the Chicago men
who are investigating, that during his
stay in Kenosha Hartzell confded the
facts in regard to the institute robbery
to some friends here. "All bosh" was
the way Sheriff Stahl disposed of this
story. At any rate Chicago is convinced
that the men who robbed the institute
are in Kenosha and the detectives
there claim that they will be arrested
here in the next couple of days and
that there is no chance for them to get
away. None of the detectives have
registered with the Kenosha police de-
partment as yet.