Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-05-12
Former Convict Took $3.50 on
Pledge to Get Sons Freedom,
He Confesses, Says Police
AGED MOTHER ONCE A
RESIDENT OF BARAB00
Is Wiling to Sacrifice AN In Or
der to Obtain Her Sons Free
dom

Edward Tyrell, 163 Martin street,
Milwaukee, automobile salesman for a
Milwaukee firm, former convict at
Waupun who was paroled last Sep
| tember after serving twenty-one
months of a three year term for en-
bezzlement, was arrested by detec-
! tives late on Monday on a warrant
char ging him with obtaining money
under false pretenses from Mrs. Sarah
E. Montgomery, aged mother of Jud-
son Montgomery, now serving in four
teen year sentence for murder in the
Isecond degree. Mrs. Montgomery once
resided in Baraboo.
The arrest of Tyrrell barred an awe
some story of how the aged and white
haired mother had been preyed upon
by a younger mind and been infuenc-
ed to- turn over every cent she could
obtain, including money raised on her
wedding ring, to a stranger who prom
ised that he would obtain thesrelease
! of her son from the penitentiary.
/ pZglZO FdIOy 10 SIdIAS
According to the police, Rotal of
S2,13O was obtained from Mrs Mont
| gomery by Tyrrell since Oct. 20, 1920,
less than month after Tyrrell was
released from Waupun. The money
was obtained in amounts varying from,
SO to $500. Tyrrell told Mrs Mont
gomery that he would use the money
| to 'buy off, the district attorney and
Judge Backus and thus secure the
pardon of the son, according to Dis
trict attorney label.
Met Montgomery
| The account of the alleged black
mail as given by District Attorney
label and the detectives is as follows:
Tyrrell was arrested on Dec. 13,
1918, for embezzling $1,7O0 from the
Jonas Automobile Company with
which he was employed as a salesman
and was sentenced to Waupun for
three years. Here he met Judson
Montgomery, who is serving four
/ teen year term as the result of an
automobile accident at Wells and Thir-
teenth Streets on March 10, 1919
which caused the death Of three per-
sons and crippled woman for life.
| Tyrrell obtained his release on Sept.
| 25, 1920, through the assistance Of a
prominent business man in Milwaukee
who succeeded in getting Mr.. label
to intercede with the governor, Be
fore leaving prison, Montgomery had
| told Tyrreu of his mother living in
Milwaukee and probably told him to
] go to see her.
Quick Release Promised
On Oct 23, Tyrrell obtained the first
money from Mrs. Montgomery. He
told her that he knew a big business
man in Milwaukee who could get any
thing done he wanted and that he
would get him to secure a pardon for
Judson Montgomery. Tyrrell alsS
told the old woman that he had a
"stand in" with the governor and that
he even ''wined and dined" with him.
| On three separte occasions TyrreH
told Mrs. Montgomery that her son
would return to her that night Each
time the aged mother prepared "a
special meal and set an extra plate,
but each time there was a vacant
chair.
Finally Mrs. Montgomery funds
became exhausted and she communi-
Gated with Mrs. Olive Morton, sister
of Judson at New York asking for
more money. Mrs. Morton became
suspicious and hired the Minneapolis
detective to investigate the case. Mrs.
Morton herself and a friend of the
family then came to Milwaukee, ar
irving on Friday.
); Tyrrell was shadowed for several
: days but the arrest was postponed be-
cause detectives were afraid that he
would not confess. Learning through
telephone calls that Tyrre1 woulY
visit the Montgomery apartments on
Monday, the detectives planned to
: frame" him and get the desired tes-
timony when he should talk with Mrs
Montgomery.
Tyrren apparently smelled a rat,
However, and would not enter the
: apartments on Monday, but waited
) outside in his car for Mrs. Montgom
: erv to come out When the detectives
! realized shat Tyrrell would not steT
7 into the trap they had set for him
they arrested him and took him to the