The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-20
PLACE PAPE UNDER
BONDS Of $4,000
Quincy Attorney Who Refused to Buy
Liberty Bonds, is Held to
Court Under Big
Penalty.
THE CITY rs INDIGNANT
Event Is Said to be Causing Consider
able Feeling in the
Neishboring
Town.

Quincy Journal: Theodore Pape,
former corporation counsel and pres.
ent waterworks commissioner, was
arrested at 1910 o'clock this morning
i in the jailor's room of the Adams
county Jail by Deputy United States
Marshal j. Ross Moore, under the
espionage act. The warrant was
sworn to by Charles Bartlett, local
attorney for the government who is
also present city counsel, and was the
result of statements made by Pape
when committee called upon him
4 and requested his reasons for refusing
to subscribe for Liberty loan bonds.
| Pape was told by the committee that
i his statements would be reported to
the department of justice, and when
he learned in the evening that war
rant had been issued for him he left
his home and went to the house of a
friend, where he remained during the
night, explaining this morning, when
he voluntarily gave himself up to the
sheriff in his office at the courthouse.
that he understood United States
Commissioner Martindale was out OF
the city last night, and therefore 1t
would have been impossible for him
to give bond-which meant he would
have to go to Jail, and this he wished
to avoid.
Bail Fixed at $1,000.
After his arrest he was escorted to
the office of Commissioner Martindale
by the deputy sheriff, where he
waived a preliminary hearing and
was bound over to the action of the
federal grand jury at Springfield,
which will convene the first Monday
in June. Bail was fixed at $4,000,
which he furnished.
The greatest Indignation has been
manifested all over the city, and COM
ing just at the pinnacle Of the Liberty
loan drive, many were so incensed
that there is little doubt some of the
more thoughtless might have been
tempted to do him violence. One in
dication Of the feeling existing is
large picture Of the kaiser at Eighth
and Hampshire streets, all besmeared,
with Pape's name written across the
face of it. One report had it that
barrel OF tar was in convenient
place.
Officers Search For Pape.
The fact that the United States
deputy marshal and the police force
were hunting for him became known,
and this added in stirring up the SEN
timent which was growing. The deputy
waited about his home until II o'clock.
He had learned that Pape had left
there with boy early in the evening.
When he failed to return the. deputy
entered the house and made a search
for the attorney, going from cellar TO
attic. but without results. He re-
manned there until Z o'clock this
morning. but Pape failed to show up
At Pape's offices in the Heintz build
inf at Sixth and Vermont streets,
Officer Lincoln of the city police force
kept guard all night, waiting for him
to turn up there. The Journal reporter,
who had been looking for Pape early,
was perhaps the first to find him
when he came to the courthouse.
When told that the marshal was look
ing for him, he said he was aware of
1t. and that he had come to the sher-
ifs office to give himself up. He said
he had spent the night at friends
house. but refused to disclose the
identity OF the friend, for the reason
he was afraid he would not have been
able to give bond on account of the
absence from the city of the United
States commissioner. The Journal
man informed him Martindale was in
the city and at his office, the reporter
just having come from there.