Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-01-20
Former Bogalusa
Dentist Arrested

nany That that DR.. Connel maintained
nsp affice here for a short time leaV-
q here Sare about two years ago:
hg 1 ng.S bv the police as the Beau
ha, sol Of automobile thieves, M.
E1 rLalnneIl. q partner in dental firms
E oA-.Lo and Liberty, Miss. and at
9 Vs5IP5 onoe and Franklinton, La,
BasO TESTED in Canal street Monday
g w. ing by E. E. Blount, chief OF
ngin" e Summit, Miss, and Detec-
polI' I ~ Ford and John Mahan
y M tbs New Orleans force.
q SsnnT ~ brother and dental part
r Connell, arrested in Baton
lel Z Sunday upon request of Chief
B Siognt escaped from officers, de-
D a;.o nistol shots, and also IS believed
Y ~ u N New Orleans.
!" P ~ says there is no better
.ISod dentist in the South than M.
~ Tgonne1 but Blount said tooth car
. g torin0 was a mere side line with
Eonnell, whom he charged with Delng
s y automobile thief with a roper
Y ~ IN u clever tricks, which the chief
lg nlSaJ netted the dentist touring
a ~. n wholesale quantities. The po-
~ obief Of Summit, which is in the
~ county as Osyka, asserted NJ. j.
SS S. was the proud owner of Az
MIS- Of clothes and half a hundred
svnensive silk shirts, to say nothing
"A the trimmings.
u To- Prosperous for Business
II Connell, who is "a years old,
sbsroed with being a fugitive from
sgce from Osyka and from In
1apolis, Ind. His brother, ~
vsars old, is sought on similar
~ Plopnt says syspicions were
.,orsed against the brothers in
AVA and Summit because of their
sv51ensive manner of living in con-
fradiction to the apparent lack of
dental business.
Tbe Summit detective got busy.
NJ aid he learned that a touring car
which the dentists were wont to
make trips from town to town was
rsoeptly stolen from Indianapolis,
nd. and was valued at $4,000.
Tracks Him to New Orleans
Last Friday Blount went to Oskya,
after completing his Investigations,
weDared to arrest the Councils. He
found both had departed. He
learned NJ. J. Connell had gone to
HoDewel, Miss, and there Blount
found the touring car, abandoned,
But missed his man. At Crystal
Springs he found Cornell was en-
goute to New Orleans, so followed
him and enlisted the aid of the local
police, who aided him in nabbing the
man he wanted Monday morning.
Blount says the yonger Council
made good his escape at Baton
Rouge Sunday after having been
taken into custody by Deputy Sheriff
Leieune and Detective J. w. Reed.
The officers fired at the fleeing man,
but missed.
Blount says the brothers, in addi-
ton to their touring car, maintained
coupe at Baton Rouge and car at
0syka. He is investigating the pos
bility that these were stolen.
In one of ConnelPs pockets the po-
lice found a black silk handkerchief,
similar, officers said, to the masks
used by bandits. The handkerchief
had on it the name Of Macmillan
Chsrissa," which Connell said was
his right name.
According to the police he stopped
At Fred's House in St. Charles street
since coming to New Orleans and
there registered twice, once as Ed
Burns and again as L. Wilson. He
sad he also used the name L. Cor
Don, but declined 20 tell the police
anything Of his past career. They
say he has been South only a year.
SlEN0GRAPHER wants situation.
bogalusa young lady, with 6 months
2perlence, desires situation as stem
0grapher Address 'Stenographer,"
care Enterprise.
Misses lone Singerman and Blanche
Johnson were the guests of friends in
AeW Orleans during the weekend.