The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-03

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Just took the car and run it into the
ditch and turned it over We found an
old rag in the car and the Burlington
officers thought that it had blood ON
| it. 1t did but it was a mreat rag and
it had evidently been used to wrap a
side of beef. It not only had blood
it. It did but it was meat rag and
the men abandoned the car and took
for cover the people over their believed
that they were hiding in the woods but
we found afterward that the men must
have walked right across the country to
Lake Geneva. We went ON to Elkhorn
and then to Lake Geneva. I found
Mahoney the operator at the station and
he told me that he had seen the three
men. sThey caught the $50 train
out Of Lake Geneva Mahoney said.
They were lucky as the train was
three minutes late and they got here
| just in time to swing aboard here.
Two of the men swung aboard the front
platform and the third man with grip
got on just as the train pulled out.
The conductor told me that they paid
their way to Crystal Lake and when
they changed cars there they bought
tickets to Clybourne".
! We hurried to send messages to
places along the line in an attempt to
catch the men and then we got word
1 from the conductor that they got off
just out of Clybourne. They are pro-
badly in Chicago. We have been us
ing every possible effort to get them.
Leland L. DeFlon, Sarkis Boshnakian
and r. e. Curtis the three men arrest
ed on Monday afternoon at McHenry,
ILL.,, spent the night at the city lock-
up all the time strongly protesting
their innocence and demanding their
release. The men put up a perfectly
plausible story showing that they were
three University graduates in the serv-
ice of the United States Government
working in the campaign for the
eradication of the barberry bushes.
They had a lot of credentials to prove
their contention, they did not have a
sign of bond or anything else that
looked like it had been stolen from
the Brass Mill. DeFlon who was in
charge of the party had more than $135
in money and he was willing to admit
lit. He said that the money belonged to
him and that he was glad he had it
as it might look as if he would need
4 it.
This morning j. Hageman of Ft.
Atkinson, President and General Mana
ger of the Ft. Atkinson Canning Com
pany and John Cooley Chicago bank
er came to Kenosha seeking the release
of these three university men. Hage-
man is an uncle of young DeFlon.
stThis boy may be the victim of cir
cumstances but / am convinced that
he had nothing to do with the rob-
berry, Hageman told Chief O'Hare
and / am here to get him out of jail
lif theere is any way to do it. want
the officers to make an immediate in
vestigation of his statement and if
necessary bring people from Wood
stock, ILL.,, to show that he could not
possibly be connected with this robbery
lin Kenosha." Cooley came as the re-
representative of the motheT of young
i DeFlon who lives in Chicago.
4 Early Monday evening telephone mes
sages were sent by the News to Wood
stock and these brought facts which
showed conclusively that the men un-
der arrest could not have been in Ke-
Inosha at the time Of the robbery and
that it was practically a physical i'm
possibility for any of them to have
Ibeen here at the time Pingatore was
killed.
! Mrs. G. A. Wyman who is in charge
of the Hotel Woodstock stated that
DeFlon and his companionsehad been
guests at her hotel on Sunday evening.
lShe said that she had talked with De-
Flon at the desk Of the Hotel at a
quarter after ten 0 clock Sunday even
ling and that she knew that he had
spent the evening at the home of Miss
Marian Murphy daughter of A. J.
Murphy a prominent retired farmer
at Woodstock. Murphy when reached
by phone later said that he knew that