Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-11-07

insisted on a complete detailed account of the
mans movements on the day in question. The
story gbly told and 1t impossible to
confuse the witness.
Then came the stumble. Among other incidents
the prisoner told of visiting a bo0tblack and ex-
planned that in addition to having his boots pol
ished he had received thorough brushing off,
all because it was an exceedingly dusty day. The
records Were produced and these showed that one
of the heavy rains of the season ragged not only
the day of the crime, but the days prior
and following. The witnesses were recalled and
they also remembered that it dusty bowly
day. This so confused the prisoner he made sew
eral other Measurements which in the end led to
his conviction
- A ranch hand accused of the wholesale theft of
grain from the fields of California ranches de-
cared that he not in California until after the
date of the alleged robbery. He then convicted
himself by describing clump of gum trees in
of the fields The prosecution able to
show that these trees were cut down two weeks
before the robbery and that the accused could
not have described the trees except from personal
knowledge His alibi upset, the unfortunate ranch
hand pleaded TO turn states evidence and impli-
cate what he pleased to term the ringeaders
of an extensive gang of grain thieves
Identify Coin by Perfume.
Several weeks ago a woman dropped her purse
containing large sum of money. A Guild of ten
der years picked up the valuable container and
started to carry it home. Two men in an oil dis
tributing station the incident and managed TO
get the purse from the child giving him a few
pennies. The men hid the money in an Oil car
first extracting few bills for immediate
The day the owner of the money made
report to the police and also instituted a personal
search. She inquired all along the street in
which the loss had occurred eventually embracing
the very child that had found the money The
little tot Immediately pointed out the two men
formal demand for the return of the money. The
denied the theft and by their fierce denial
frightened the child.
Police officers summoned, but by this time
the child thoroughly demorazed and refused
to identify the men, declaring that he was not now
certain to whom he had delivered the purse The
owner of the money among other things declared
the bills of currency could be identified, If located
by their odor. She explained that following her
securing the currency from bank she had pur-
chased a bottle Of perfume and that this bottle
had been accidentally opened in her purse and the
bills saturated with the liquid. The police visited
the stores in the neighborhood and learned that
of the suspected men had paid grocery bill
few hours after the money supposed to have
come into his possession. On examining the bills
that had been paid to the grocer they were found
to be strongly impregnated with perfume Then
the officer searched the oil station shifting into
every can and box in the place. Within few
moments after the search was instituted one of
the officers found the bills secreted in a of
cotton oil waste the perfume being distinctly dis
cernable in spite of the OIL
Minor Matters Trip Crooks.
Instances of similar nature may be found in
the police court without number. A thief con-
ycted recently charge of larceny because al
though he had memorized the numbers the ca e
and works of watch and produced what purport-
ed TO be bill of sale, still he die not know that
in the scroll work the back of the case We're
the initials of the owner
Another criminal justly convicted and later
made full confession after the police had dis
paired of fastening the crime on him. He was
accused of cutting open number of packages in
express office and extracting articles of value,
repairing the damage to the package that there
could be no exposure for several days after the
theft. While the trial was in progress the prose-
cutting witness picked up pocket knife the ac-
knowledged property of the accused, and a
close examination found red coral bead in the
slot where the knife blade feposed when clasped.
One of the beads had stuck to the knife blade and
had thus been Embedded in the knife slot. This
simple find resulted in the mans conviction and
the return of several thousand dollers of loot to
the express company.