The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-03-03
Daughters Partner Comes
to Police Office from
Missouri.
NO CHARGE IS MADE
Man Tells Police Story of Past
Life and Declares He Was
Not Here on Saturday.

Fred Franklin Rhodes, partner OF
Fred Doughten, the wounded man" in
the McAlister hospital in Waukegan,
whose story of an alleged holdup IS
being investigated by the police in
connection with the story Of the shoot
ing of holdup man by Steve Heimer
on last Saturday night, was IN a cell
at the city lookup today and he is
being held by the police officers pend
ing a further investigation.
Rhodes admits that he is the owner
of the sailors pea-coat with the tell
tale bullet hole in it, but he has told
the police that he was not in Kenosha
last Saturday night and that he had
not been in the city for more than
two months.
Rhodes telephoned the chief of po
lice just before six o'clock last night
to advise him that he had returned to
Kenosha and asked that he be allowed
to take charge of the vulcanizing shop
IN Elizabeth street. He was ordered
to report at the police Office at once
and he was taken into custody when
he appeared. 1t was declared by the
police that no formal charge had been
placed against Rhodes and that he was
being held as a material witness in
the case.
Came from Central Missouri.
Rhodes told Chief O'Hare that at
the time of the shooting of his partner
he had been at his home at Central,
Mo-, and that on Sunday morning he
had received telegram from Dough
ten telling him that he had been shot
and asking him to return and take
care of the business. He said that he
left Central at once for Kenosha and
that he had not as yet been able to
talk with Doughten in regard to the
case. 1t, was asserted that he had
secured his first information in regard
to the case after he reached Kenosha
on Tuesday evening. He declared that
he knew nothing of the holdup at the
vulcanizing shop or of the shooting Of
the man by Heimer. Rhodes declared
that the coat which he owned had been
left at the shop when he went to
Missouri sometime ago.
Was Victim of Accident.
The return of Rhodes cleared up the
investigation which the police have
been making of an automobile accident
which occurred on Milwaukee avenue
many weeks ago. At the time a small
automobile owned by Rhodes collided
with another car and the Rhodes au-
tomobile turned over. Rhodes disap-
peared at this time and nothing was
heard from him by the police until he
called on the telephone on Tuesday
afternoon. He explained that in the
accident his shoulder had been broken
nd that he had gone to his home to
recover from his injuries.
Rhodes was expected to be question
ed by the police later in the day and
he may have a chance to tell his story
to the district attorney.
Reports from Waukegan were that
Doughten was continuing to show i'm
provement and that he still sticks to
his story that he was the victim Of
men who entered his place with the
intent of robbing him.
The police were digging deep into
the records of both Doughten and
Rhodes today. 1t was declared that
the report that one of the men had
served term in prison had not been
verified as vet, but Zion officials are
expected to find out the facts in re-
gard to the case. Both Of the men arc
said to be we'll known at Zion.
No warrant for the arrest of Dough-
ten has been issued but the police said
ALa+ l. L.,
Kenosha for further examination just
as soon as he was able to leave the
hospital. Meantime it is said that the
business on Elizabeth street is suffer
ing and that it may be closed up
Rhodes has lived in Kenosha for
some time and is declared to have had
good reputation here.