The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-23
ROBBERS KNOWN
But not ARRESTED
Detectives After Long Trail
Agree On the Identity of
Men Who Robbed the
Brass Mill Office
DISTINGUISHED IN CRIME
District Attorney Fisher Ready to Is
sue Warrants but Declares That Men
While known, Have Not Been
Seen Since the Robbery

81 think that / can say without a
doubt that we know the men who blew
the safe at the plant of the American
Brass company and shot down Tony
Pingatore. I can not say that these
men are under arrest, / wish could. y
This was the statement Of District
Attorney Peter Fisher on Tuesday even
ing following his return from Chicago
where he and Chief of Police O'Hare
had long conference, or a series Of
conferences with detectives who have
been at work on the case, eve know
these men but we can't get them, !"
continued the District Attorney.
Most Of the day Tuesday the Chief
and the District Attorney were in CON
ferences with men, many of whom have
been searching for the cracksmen ever
since the date Of the crime in Keno
sha.
All Trails Point One Way.
The District Attorney declared that
it was the consensus Of opinion of prac-
tically all of the men who had worked
on the case that the men now sought
are the men who pulled off the safe
blowing in Kenosha. Tt was admitted
that the photographs of these men had
been identified by people who had seen
them in Kenosha but it was admitted
that so far as could be learned not one
Of the men sought had been seen since
the killing of Pingotore.
Ready to Issue Warrants.
"The Chicago detectives want war
rants for the arrest of these men and
I have told them that I would file COM
plants for warrants any time they got
any trace Of the men. Even if we
make the complaints we shall not make
public the names Of these men. Of
course they know that the search is still
on but they will not be named in war
rants other than in ''John Doe" war
rants until we have some reason to
believe that they have been apprehend-
ed. While these men were suspected
shortly after the robbery and murder
they have never been apprehended in
any city so far as we can find out. -
Distinguished Among Criminals
81 Go not know the records of these
men other than what has been told me
but one Of the detectives, man wide
" acquainted with the criminal class,
has said that one of the men is one of
the most desperate and most successful
criminal operators in the country. He
is known as shoot on sight" work
er, and we feel confident that he was
one Of the men in Kenosha, possibly the
man who killed Pingatore.'
The detectives who have been at
work on the case have not given up
hopes of landing their men. They as
sert that they may even be under cover
in Chicago waiting for a chance to
make THEN getaway. The thirty thous-
and dollars worth Of bonds taken from
the safe at the Brass company IS offices
have never shown up Notwithstanding
the fact that the Chief of Police and
District Attorney have followed closely
every reported find of stolen bonds.
Search has been made by detectives in
every state in the union for these bonds
but not one of them has been located.
May Be Planted In Chicago
Many Of the detectives believe that
the bonds stolen have been "planted"
right in Chicago and that it may be
months or even years before any Of
them are offered for sale. It is posi-
BILE that they have been put up for col
lateral with some institution which has
instructions to hold them indefinitely.
It is admitted that if this course was
taken by the cracksmen that the bonds
could be held for long time without
their whereabouts being discovered.
It is expected that the District At
torney will issue the warrants for the
arrest of these men within a few days
and that they will be waiting when any
Of the detectives working on the case
find them.