The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-10-07
MANY CALLED
FOR LANG CASE
Police Call People Who
Heard Confession to
Testify at Hearing.
TELL OF CONSCIENCE"

ono of them police officers, will be
brought into the municipal court on
next Friday morning to testify in the
preliminary hearing of the man charged
with the murder of Charles Pacinl.
This became known this morning when
the members of the police department
and the district attorney began to is
sua subDoenas for the witnesses to be
called at the hearing Many of the
men are prominent in the business and
social life of the city. They heard
the story of Lang on the smoking car
Of a North Western railway train as
he was being taken to Chicago on the
morning after he had made the confes-
sion Lang is declared to have said In
the presence Of many of these men,
"My conscience is clear now and | can
slaop at night. l haven't been able to
sleep because this thing has been on
nv mind. ! only worked one day and
tban quit. | couldn't work. These
statements are declared to have been
heard by the men in the car and they
are to be called People who visited
Lang in his cell at the city lookup and
heard from him the story of the shoot
ing Of Pacini are also to be heard.
WattIes Says Lang Lied"
"Lang lied" was the brunt statement
made by John L, Wattles, clerk of the
municipal court this morning. The
clerk is the man who was called to
take the statement of Lang on last
Tuesday morning. 81 am not party
TO this case, but | took the statement
of Lang" declared Wattles this morn
ing. "The words were not put into his
mouth by the police officers. Chief
of Police O'Hare, who was present,
never asked this man question. All
that he said to him was Now you just
90 ahead and tell your story Lang
dictated every word of the confession
himself and it was written in his own
words without the change of letter.
He heard it read to him and he signed
T.. He had no appearance of being
frightened in any way. This is what
saw when l took the statement"
O'Hare Says ''No Change"
Chief O'Hare this morning declared
that regardless Of the bombardment
that was being directed at the police
that he had not in any way changed
his mind in regard to the guilt of
Lang "No matter what the police
may have done to this man, he is the
man who killed Charles Pacini,' re-
peated the chief this morning.
1t is intimated that Lang is going to
deny connections with various burg
laries but the police are also working
along this line and they claim to have
secured lot of evidence to show that
his confession in regard to the burg
laries was true.
Has Uncanny knowledge.
That Frank Lang, is he is really
not the man who killed Charles Pacini
or who robbed the Lockhart jewelry
store as he maintains in the deposit
lions presented by his attorney, A. E.
Buckmaster, before Judge Belden on
Friday, has an uncanny knowledge of
some of the details of these two crimes
was again evidenced this morning in
the disclosures which Thomas Lock-
hart, the ieweler whose store was
robbed, made in Chicago on Friday.
Lang after he had signed the con-
fession which he has now retracted,
was taken by the police to Chicago in
an attempt to recover some of the
goods which he had said he had stolen
and to substantiate his story. He
talked there with detectives and in re-
lating to them the details of the .rob-
berries which he then confessed" MAX
ing, he made some statements which
tally up with the facts strangely.
Knew the Number of Chains.
In talking with detectives in Chicago
on Friday, Mr.. Lockhart found that
Lang had told them emphatically that
he had sold ten watch chains stolen
from the window of the Lockhart
store to a pawnbroker in Chicago.
Lang told the detectives that he Sc
cured exactly ten chains.
The peculiar part of this fact is that
in all accounts of the affair Mr.. Lock
flrt had said that he had lost "few
chains" and that this morning when
he checked up absolutely he found
that exactly ten chains had been stol-
en- by the thief, whoever he was.
81 am certain" said Mr.. Lockhart
shat 1 never told the police or any
one anything more definite than that
had lost few chains. am also
certain that there were exactly ten
chaius there and can prove that by
two other witnesses. Of course, he
may have just made a lucky or an un-
lucky guess but the more l look into
the case, the more l am convinced
that he knows something about this
robbery"
Mr.. Lockhart expressed regret that
he was not asked by the police to &C
company them to Chicago on Tuesday
He declares that he might at that time
have been able to identify some OF
the stolen goods but that now those
chances have been lost.
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