The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-05
HOLD CHAFEE u
ON NEW CHARGE
New Warrant Names Cha
fee in Serious Statutory
Offense Here.
GIRL IDENTIFIES HIM
Story of Girl ! d entity in g
Chafee Results in a New
Charge Against Him.

Leo Chafee, arrested at Iron Noun
tain, Mich, several days ago on suspi-
cion in connection with the murder of
Madalynne Latimer and Jimmie Sears,
faces new charge that may send MIN
to prison for period of 20 years fol-
lowing action taken just before noon
today by 1t, Charles F. Rock, when he
ordered warrant sworn out charging,
Chafee with a serious statutory offense
against Kenosha young woman. The
warrant was issued in the office of the
district attorney and according to Dis
trict Attorney Lewis Powell, Chafee>
will not be arraigned on the charge
for the present at least, unless Chafee
should secure an attorney to get out
writ of habeas corpus, demanding his
release from custody.
This development came today after
weekend of scouting information
and theories by Kenosha detectives.
These made frequent trips to Racine
and several persons were brought back
to Kenosha to give additional informa-
tion. On Saturday afternoon a young
girl, said to come from prominent
family in the city, came to the police
office and asked for an opportunity to
look at Chafee. She declared shat she
had seen his picture in the papers and
his face seemed to be vaguely familiar.
Recognized as Assailant.
When the girl was brought face to
face with Chafee she identified him
| Immediately as the man whom she saw
on lonely road on a night last May
| under suspicious circumstances. And
then the young woman was led to tell
her story to the police. The girls
name is being withheld by the police
and a new state law prohibits publica-
'tion of the name Of any woman con-
cerned in a story of the nature as that
given to the police.
According to the girls story, she
and a young professional man were out
motoring on the night of May goth.
| They drove out Grand avenue to a
point west Of the Milwaukee road on
highway ST.. Here, she says, man
approached the car in which the two
we're riding and ordered the driver 20
stop. The man held a gun in his hand,
The driver stopped. The girl was orr
dered out of the car and the driver
was ordered to return back to Kenosha
at the point Of the gun.
Chafee Says Nothing.
Then, according TO the girls story
to the police, the stranger grabbed her
and in spite of her struggling succeed
ed in getting her behind haystack off
the roadside and there attempted an
assault upon her.
The driver of the car, in the mean
| time, sped back to Kenosha where he
notified the sheriff. A squad Of depu-
ties came out to the scene few min
tutes later, but failed to find either the
| girl or her assailant. The point where
the struggle took place was plainly
visible and it was evident that there
had been a terrific fight.
Faced with this accusation Chafee
was silent. He refused to talk Cues
| tioning by police failed to get from
| him any denial or affirmation Of the
offense. Chafee's, wife, however, is
standing by her husband throughout
the affair. She arrived in Kenosha
Saturday morning to help him estab-
lish his alibi for the night of the MUIR
der.
Married der In July OF 1874.
At the time of the alleged offense
Chafee was married to his present
wife and living in Racine. He had
| first met his wife while trusty in the
| Racine county Jail. His wife was then
working in the building for the sheriff.
| That was n the summer of 1928. In
| March, 1924, child was born to the
| couple and in July, 1924, they were
married. The child is now 10 months
| old.
With the new charge against Chafee
police are becoming more and more
optimistic in the belief that they have
the man who committed the murder
of Madalynne Latimer and Jimmie
Sears here on the night of October ID.
They pointed GU. that it is possible
that these two met their deaths under
exactly the same circumstances that
marked the episode on West Grand
avenue. They gave as their opinion
the belief that Chafee might have APP
preached Sears in his roadster in an
attempt to commit the same sort of
deed by ordering the girl out Of the
car at the point of gun and ordering
the driver to "beat it." Sears was
known as fighter and probably re-
fused to take the assailants command
seriously. Then it was, according to
the police theory, that the hold-up may
have shot both Sears and the girl to
save himself.
No new information has been auncov-
cred which might connect Chafee with
the actual double murder other than
this new development, the police adj
mitted, but they are grasping at every
angle in their investigation in their
search for the slayer.
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