The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-03-02

afternoon.
w. Wellington Burgett of Kenosha
nd Milwaukee, the detective who has
cen given credit for the securing of
ractically all Of the evidence for the
rand Jury probe in Kenosha, added
aw professional laurels early today
nen he cleared up the mystery sur
)unding the murder of Edward Thiel-
Of Racine, whose body was found i'll
liracle Greek, near Palmyra, the lat
r part Of November.
On speeding train Burgett worked
trough the night to learn the story
Thielens death from Frederick L.
eBride, aged 20 years, who had been
crested at Akron, Ohio, and early this
corning Mcbride made a confession
} Burgett in which he laid bare the
tory of the tragedy. The first word
the confession was brought to Wis
onsin by correspondent of the Mil
'aukee Journal, who sent the story to
Milwaukee from TT. Wayne. Burgett
md Mcbride are expected to pass
through Kenosha late this afternoon
IN route to Milwaukee and later Nc
Bride will be taken to Palmyra where
formal warrant charging him with
The murder Of Thielen has been issued,
Thought it O'Connor Case.
Burgett was called to take a hand
in the investigation of the now famous
Miracle Greek" murder more than two
months ago and he left Kenosha grand
Jury work to start the investigation of
the case. He had been working on the
case practically all the time and it
was on the information furnished by
the Kenosha detective that Mcbride
was arrested near Akron, Ohio, Thurs
day, When the body Of Thielen was
first found in Miracle Creek, it was
believed that the man had been a vic
tim of Tommy 0'Connor, the famous
Chicago gunman who escaped from the
county Jail in Chicago only a few days
before he was to have been hanged for
murder. The murder was then believed
to have been the work of booze run
ners and on account of the activity of
Burgett in Kenosha in the investiga-
ton of liquor cases he was called to
Palmyra The body of Thielen was
identified less than a week ago and
Burgett then started his efforts to find
Mcbride and he found him last Thurs
day morning working as tractor OPP
orator on farm near Akron.
Talks as Train Speeds On.
Burgett accompanied by Mcbride and
two Milwaukee newspapermen left
Akron on Friday night for Wisconsin
Mcbride had declared that he had
never heard of the death of his former
pal, Thielen, and he consented to re-
turn to Wisconsin without extradition
papers. All through the night Burgett
and the newspapermen kept boring in
to their prisoner in an effort to get a
statement from him and just after
dawn this morning when the train was
nearing Ft. Wayne, Mcbride broke
down and admitted the crime. Only a
short portion of the confession has
been given out. 1t was sent out by the
detective and the newspapermen when
the train halted at TT, Wayne just
after 9 o'clock this morning.
Murdered Man November goth.
The story of Mcbride declared that
he had murdered his pal, Thielen, on
the afternoon Of November goth as
Thielen drove his car along the Ger
man settlement road near the Frank
Vents farm, about miles out of East
Troy, where the fianc6 of Mcbride
lived, Throughout the afternoon and
until dusk, Mcbride said he drove
about the countryside with the body