The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22

today came closer to being solved than
at any other time since the investiga-
ton began out on the lonely North
Rowland avenue road that Thursday
morning at eleven o'clock when Sheriff
Frank Willems and Coroner Joseph
Friend found the bodies of James
Sears and Madalynne Latimer muir
dered, and half buried in ditch at
the side of the road. Just when every
clue had been practically exhausted
and every theory advanced thus far
in the search for the assailant had
been burned out in the intensive quest
Of officials here, two more clues were
unearthed, at least one Of which is
given considerable credence by Sher-
if Willems.
The most important development to-
day was the finding of Mitchell car
with the left rear hub cap missing.
The car was found abandoned on a
Milwaukee side street by Milwaukee
police. A hub cap similar to one that
would fit on car like that found in
Milwaukee was uncovered at the side
of the highway near the bridge which
spans Pike Creek The twisted cap
was found by Deputy Sheriff Chester
Bostetter while the creek was being
raked for a gun that the sheriff thinks
may have been thrown into the water
at the time the slayer washed his
hands in the creek under the bridge.
The owner of the Mitchell car found
in Milwaukee is being questioned.
Arrest Farmer.
The second of the two most impor-
tant developments today was the arrest
of Daniel Tough, 40, who lives on his
small farm on the Birch road, north
of the Lake Shore road. Lough's farm
is about mile and half from the
scene of the murder. Tough was ar
rested this morning by Deputy Sheriffs
Chester Bostetter, Leo Schend, and
Stanley Rauen, on a warrant sworn
out by Miss Sybil Campbell, probation
officer for Kenosha county, The war
rant was signed by Municipal Judge
John Slater following information CIV
en- to the probation officer by the four
teen-year- daughter of Tough, i'm
plicating the father in statutory of
Tense Tough is known to have been
somewhat eccentric ever since the
death of his wife six years ago. He
is a carpenter by trade, and has been
building up his little patch Of land on
the Birch road for the past four years.
As soon as Tough was brought to
the county Jail to be held in custody
pending his arraignment on the charg-
es preferred by his daughter, the depu-
ties went back to his home and ram
sacked every room in an effort to dis
lover whether there could be any in
dications that might fasten Tough to
the crime. They looked particularly
for a gun and for bloody clothing but
found nothing. They searched every
corner and square of the entire farm
but failed to unearth anything that
would confirm their suspicious.
Boy Says He Was Home.
The farmer has two sons in addition
to the daughter, one aged II and the
other g. The elder boy told the depu-
ties that his father had been home
early every night for the past weeks
and he himself had been sleeping with
him every night. This information is
not given full credence by officials,
since the police say that they have in
formation that Tough was out until
two o'clock on the night of the murder.
Tough is big husky fellow, six feet
tall and weighing 240 pounds.
Sheriff Willems indicated that he
would continue to hold the man on
suspicion in the murder case until he
was satisfied that Tough could not
have had anything to do with the dou-,
BILE murder.
With this clue rapidly dwindling
down to insignificance the sheriff
turned to the second bit that was un-
covered just before noon today.
The discovery of the abandoned
Mitchell car lead the Milwaukee police
to the home of Ray Wright, a former
Manitowoc man, now living in Mil
waukee., Wright is the owner of the
car which lost hub cap picked up
covered with small splotches Of blood.
Coroner Joseph Friend and Detective
Sergeant Emil Meissner are Joining
with the Milwaukee police in question:
ing the man in the police station here.
Can't Account for Incident.
Wright could not say whether his
car was in the vicinity of Kenosha on
the night of the Staying. He could
not say regarding the blood-covered
bit of woman's clothing and vanity
case found in his car. He did say,
however, that the missing hub cap led
him to believe that someone other
than himself had been using the ma
chine recently or that someone might
tasa Eue,Ded :nto his car. He said
re had been in the habit of leaving
the car parked at the curb in front of
his residence each night, and believes
that someone might have stolen it and
then abandoned it on another street
Wright is employed by a business
firm in Milwaukee and he produced s
card to show that he was at work on
the night Of October Ia, when the MUIR
der was committed. The police con-
tinue0 to question the man this after
noon in an effort to clear up a report
sent to Milwaukee by the sheriff that
local junk dealer reported to him to-
day that he remembered that three
meE came in to his junk shop inquir-
ing for a hub cap to fit Mitchell car
OH Saturday night. The dealer told
the men that he had none and they
drove on. The dealer also declared
that he believed be could identify tbs
man who made the request which M
was unable to fill.
Tire Marks Led to Discovery.
The original discovery of the huh