The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-09-16
ANOTHER CLEW
GOES GLIMMERING
Sgt. Charles Linstrom OF
Chicago Police Brings
Gun Bought Here.
GAVE IT TO A FRIEND
Bears Same stock Number as
Gun Found in Weeds Here and
Believed to BE One Used.

Ano+har clew in connection with tne
-.orcb for the slayer Of the Aate
Charles Pacini went wrong on 1850
afternoon just after five oclocA w.
eo4 Charles Linstrom, big me ioon-
10 S member Of the police force IN Cnl.
o.ero walked into the private once u
Cb3nf of Police O'Hare and laid down
~ H. fable new revolver. II was
90 coIibra revolver which Linstrom had
nurcbased in Kenosha on the afternoon
Of August eth last, at the store 81 tns
Ernst Book company. Alongslae 81 ~
on the table lay another revolver ia
evarv way identical with the one Whicn
Tjnstrom brought from Chicago. Ian
e+rom and the two revolvers waited ana
Ia4ar an clerk came from the Ernst
Store. He promptly Identified Linstrom
~ ~ man who had purchased the
revolver. The clerk picked out the [e-
yolver which had been lost ~ the
weeds as the one which he had soid 70
Tinstrom. but later the other revolver
u,ss produced. 1t had never been nreo"
~ clerk admitted that he might nave
been in error and Linstrom convinced
hS@AA -
him.
Called in by Mooney.
On Monday, Chief o'Hare had been
IN Chicago and he had asked Chief q
natectives Mooney to find Che man who
obought Tie gun With which Charley
Paeini was killed" He gave ChleT
Mooney Linstrom's name. DO you
know this fellow? O'Hare asked MOO
new. "Sure, / know him; he is one OF
the best men we have" was Mooney s
answer and then there was buzzing
Of bells and ringing Of telephones
and a short time later Sergeant Ian
strom came into Moneys office
"Did YOU buy gun at Kenosha, Wis
consin 2" Mooney asked Linstrom " es.
sir" came the prompt answer. Chlei
OHare perked up his ears and was az
attention where is That gun now
continued Mooney. II gave " 10 my
friend Welch at the garage" was the
response of Linstrom, and he appeared
10 be entirely at sea as to just what
the chief Of the Chicago bureau and
thu chief Of the Kenosha bureau might
want with him and his friend.
Goes Ont and Gets WEIGH.
Then Chief Mooney explained the
condition and in less time than it takes
to tell it. Linstrom and Welch we're IN
the Mooney Office with the gun. 1T
was this way" said Linstrom, "Welch
asked me 10 get him a revolver and |
couldn't buy it in Chicago SO when |
went on my vacation and went through
Kenosha / stopped at the Ernst store
and bought the revolver. ] gave the
man at the store all the possible I'M
formation in regard to myself and |
told him that was buying the re-
volver for friend. | turned it over
to WEIGH on my return and have
never heard that there was any ques-
tion in regard to it. The revolver has
never been fired"
Mooney ordered Linstrom to take the
gun and go to Kenosha for examination
by the clerk who had sold it and he
came up on Tuesday afternoon.
$4,000 Numbers Different.
when the revolver which had been
bought BY Linstrom was compared with
tie revolver which had been found in
the weeds near the Arnold & Murdoch
garage, it was found that while they
were identical in style and that while
the general stock number on the bar
rels was the same that a close exam
nation showed that there was $4,000
numbers different in the numbers Of
the two revolvers. Chief o'Hare and
Chief Mooney are now making q new
appeal to the Richardson Arms com
pany, makers of both revolvers, to find
out Just where the one found in the
weeds was sold Linstrom was given q
clean bill by the officers and thanked
for his work in coming to Kenosha t.
show positively that the police here
had been misled in the matter Of the
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