The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-08

Walter Bates, % years of age, who
claims to be employed as a printer at
the offices of the Libertyville hide
pendent at Libertyville, Ill, is held by
the police pending an investigation
into the story of daring but unsuc-
cessful hold-up which took place at the
store of me- Sneider, 493 Elizabeth
street just after eight O'clock last
night.
Bates was arrested an hour later in
room at the Hotel haywood by
Police Officer Thand Logan. The man
was on the bed seemingly in a stupor
and it was admitted that he had con-
siderable trouble in attempts to regis
ter at the hotel. He was under the
influence of liquor and unable to make
any statement
This morning he declared that he had
never seen Sneider and had never been
in the store. He admitted that COM
panion, Byron Prossel, who had come
with him to Kenosha on Sunday after
noon had disappeared and that he had
not been able to locate him.
The story of the hold-up as told by
Sneider lacked none of the sensational
features which go to make up the ideal
hold-up. He asserts that a man closely
resembling Bates had come to his store
early Sunday night and had asked to
''warm himself" At the time there
were several people in the store and
Sneider told the man to go back and
sit down by the stove. He declined
the invitation and few minutes later
left the store. Later, it is alleged that
the same man returned half an hour
later after the men who had been with
Sneider left. AS he entered the door
he shouted to ''prow up your hands
and keep still" Sneider is power
ful fellow himself and he had no idea
of being robbed without making a
fight and when he threw up his hands
he threw them out as well and Crap
pied with the fellow. In fierce but
snappy struggle Sneider not only got
the hold-up man down on the floor but
he wrenched the revolver from his
hand. The man managed to wriggle
clean and ran out of the door with
Sneider in close pursuit.
The storekeeper had some trouble
getting started on the trigger of the
revolver but he finally got it to work
ing. He raced east after the man, fir
ing five shots at him but it was evil
dent that none of them took effect as
the man continued to run at a rapid
rate and he did not appear to be very
heavily under the influence of liquor.
Sneider declares that he saw another
man standing outside the door and the
police were advised that the patrons
Of the ice cream parlor adjoining had
been warned not to try to leave the
place. The officers were unable to
confirm this statement. When the po-
lice officers reached the Sneider store
In answer to his call, they found ev-
erything normal. The storekeeper was
able to give an excellent description of
the man who had attempted to hold
him up aud when Officer Logan got the
description he remembered that he had
seen man answering the description
go into the haywood.
Bates when arrested was very ner-
vous. Logan found him lying on the
bed with all of his clothes on and as
soon as the officer went to take him he
began to make explanations. He as
serted that he had been drinking in a
saloon somewhere outside the business
district of the city but that he had no
Idea where the place was. This morn
ing Chief O'Hare gave Bates a lono
examination but the Libertyville man
stuck to his story that he had never
owned or carried revolver and that
he had never been in the Sneider place.
Both Sneider and other men who had
been in the store identified Bates.