The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-01-29
Robert Smith Held by POLES
at Los Angeles May Be-
Man Wanted. for Murder
Of Martin Bngan, -
.SEAY NEVER AppREHENDED
Bagan Was Declared 70 .H&Sa. sResu
Numbered on Night ofsss 1Eazch 1919
by. Being Struck Oven H@adsSy
Blunt Insszunent. ~

Fife> pol5ce.-ods the city, bslsscstsSaE
the aTress of Robs1t Smith at Isos..8u,-
gelas, ca. ss1ay sotve the battling nrps4
sery attending the murder Of Marsin.
Bugan in KenosEa on the nfght nf
March % 1919. TlSss4nsorninDo the mo-
lice at Los Angeles Nave been nosSaedi
to hold Smith and question him and
Mrs. Mary Raszoff who was living
the accused man in Los Angeles. In
vestigations nSaae on Tuesday MONT
Indicate that SrniSh may he the man
who has long been sosaghf bv the po-
lice-yFho fed from che eisys oitstkes1igat3
Of Che siayipg u Rngan.
Forgotten Ia ExGiteuent
Martin Bagan fopnszay resided ags9s
North Main street end ne Yss. one OF
the older RuSsiasls Of the clay. lie was.
found dad on Inc .gtaewalk in aaont Of
the john DauSelsw8cz saloon ON North
Main street just before midnight on
the night Of sEat.h 29eh and great
brltsse gger lie sight semrIe showed
clearly tha ~ al esm killed. 9Fanv
~ -
RIssi 81 a atkfa elit
THAI the body Of 55ugan p9as found on
the street and there was considerable
delay IN calling the police to the place.
When the police arrived all of che men
had disappeared with the exception OF
Laze Veekich who declared himself to
be the best friend of the murdered man
and who insisted on riding with the
body 20 the mOFgue. Veel1ich was held
by the police but later released when
it was shown coneFusively that he could
not have had anything to- do with the
killing of Bugan.
Coroner's Jury PondeSs Long.
The jury called by Coroner T. IT,
Parker held many sessions before its
returned a verdict IN the case and wheaai
the verdict was ret1zrned it held that
there was no doqbt but that BHganl
had been murdered On the night fol-,
lowing the murder of Bugsn the. Offices
Of the. American Brass Company were
looted by armed bandits and in the~ex<
citemsnt which came follomsing the re-
port of this crime the Bugan case was4
forgotten by the police and the MUIR
derer of Bugan found It easy 20 get
out Of Kenosha. The story told bya
Smith and the woman to the Los Au~j
geles police seem to indicate that the
crime which the police 10 the western
city have charged ssurith with wassco1r-i
mit4ed just about this time At the
time of the crime there were stories
that Bugan had left the saloon "a CON-
pany with another Russian and that
the name of this man WAS not EnsEn
to the police. If it was known 90 che
Russians, they did not make 1t knoavn.
Woman and Man Both Here.
The police 7belieVS. that tfes ax<gstsof
Smith was brought about by sdSne4
statement made to 6fre- Los angeles Pc
lice by the woman. who had gone with
him from Kenosfra. Wires wers being
SEPT to Los AngeleBtodsy ordering that
the fullest possible facts IN regata to-
The case he forwarded to Eezp0siEa at
once IN order that fh6 district atbegnsyl
may take up theodnvestfgat9on Of the
case.
Bugan friends fns Z enosasash have Te~
peatedly urged that something be done
to hunt down his slayer but theamysterg
has proved battling one to thezmeu-l
bers' Of the police department..
Recall Other Ola Mystery
The leal police officers rhosIgt at
first that the man who calls himself
Smith might have been c0nnsatedi
with She fatal injury. of.a. man over az
Tatra Hall more than three years ago.
The body of this man was afterwari
found in the Kenoshs rivsF and II was
held that he had been murdered. This
is one of the old stock mysteries ON the
police books As the story from Los
Angeles says that smift lef1 Kenosha
about six mo1sths ago, the police think
it much more probable that he was con-
nected with the Bugan Staying.