The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-04
.BAILLIE GAINS
ANOTHER WEEK
Zion Cop Gets Habeas Cor
pus Writ for Another
Weeks Freedom.
WENT TO CHICAGO
Failure in Effort to Secure
Writ in Waukegan, Baillie
Surrenders i'm Chicago.

! Another week of delay was gained
by 4. L. Baillie, Zion speed cop, who
is lighting his being brought to Ke-
nosha co answer charges of kidnapping
| and malicious destruction of property,
brought by H. H. Shufeldt as the re-
suit of speeding arrest episode sew
eral weeks ago, when a writ of habeas
corpus was handed down in Chicago
court late Friday afternoon, blocking
for the time being the extradition pro-
ceedings brought by officials of this
county.
Baltic has been playing legal "hide-
and-seek" with the officers from this
county for several weeks, first de-
handing extradition papers and then
taking habeas corpus writ to hide
behind for another week. On Friday
Kenosha officers thought Baltic had
come to the end of his trail when his
attorney announced that he would sur
render himself to Sheriff Ahlstrom of
Waukegan.
Was Merely Ruse.
Later it developed that Baillie's at
torney planned to have the defendant
surrender and then before Sheriff ALL
strom could turn him over to Detec-
tive Charles Rock of Kenosha to be
brought to Wisconsin, writ of habeas
corpus was to be secured ordering the
sheriff not to release the defendant.
When Judge Edwards of Waukegan
refused to hear such petition, Bail
lies attorneys decided it would be
more convenient for his client to sur
render in Chicago.
Late Friday afternoon Baillie did
surrender in Chicago and Immediately
Sheriff Ahlstrom was served with a
habeas corpus writ secured in Chi
cago court and returnable next week,
which prevented him from turning
Baillie over to the Kenosha authori-
ties. Baillie must now give bonds
for his appearance next week at the
! hearing of the petition for the writ.
1t was stated by officials here that
they did not know the present where
| abouts of Baillie. Perhaps he is in
jail in Waukegan or out on bonds or
held under the surveillance of the
Waukegan sheriff, they said.
Detective Charles Rock has had
some interesting experiences in at
tempting to take Baltic into custody
| on the Kenosha warrants. At Zion
where Baltic has been a member of
the police department, it was stated
| that he was on a furlough. The police
officials there accommodatingly blew
the siren which calls the police Of
| ficers to the station for emergency
purposes in the belief that Baillie, if
in hiding there, would obey the call
The siren sounded for twenty min
utes ard all of the policemen report
ed with the exception of Baillie.
Attorney R. P. Cavanagh, who is
i counsel for H. H. Shufeldt, the Mil
waukee man who is pushing the charg-
es against Baillie, maintains that Bail
lie has merely delayed the day when
he will have 20 come to Kenosha to
answer the charges. Certainly extra
dition papers cannot be blocked by a
writ of habeas corpus, he says, and
he believes that following the hear
ing next week, Baltic will be handed
over to authorities.
And Baillie's attorney maintains
that this is merely a step to throw
the case into higher court and Sc
cure decision on the question.
Meanwhile the public watches with
interest how Baltic appears to be
hiding behind extradition laws which
| Shufeldt maintains he refused to al
| low when he halted him on highway
in Kenosha county several weeks ago
and forced him" to return to Illinois
territory.