Flashed Wife's Pass for Girl Companion

1920

Brakeman and "Other Woman" Fined $300 for Fraud

DES MOINES, Iowa — C. G. Graham, special inspector for the Rock Island road, returned from Ottumwa, where he ran down a pair using a railroad pass fraudulently. He has prosecuted several of these cases and has many others to investigate.

In the Ottumwa case a brakeman at Eldon named Vandevere and a girl from Fairfield named Linn were fined $300 each by Judge Wade for using the pass of the wife of Vandevere for Miss Linn.

The girl was introduced to conductors as his wife by Vandevere, who is a former service man and has a wife and child at Eldon.

Vandevere denied entertaining more than friendship for the girl, and she testified she was living on the savings she had made when employed in a store. The judge gave them permission to pay the fine $50 a month.


Masked Gang Raids Liquor Warehouse

LEXINGTON, Kentucky — Seven men, masked with handkerchiefs, raided the old Tarr distillery warehouse here and, at the point of revolvers, forced two guards to unlock the warehouse. The gang stole ninety-four cases of whisky seized last January at Versailles, Kentucky.

Search for Hungarian Makes Commotion, Discovers Garlic Scent

Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1908

FUTILE SEARCH AT MIDNIGHT

Austrian Grading Camp Near Transfer Raided by Police

Four members of the South Omaha police force and two detectives of the Council Bluffs station conducted a fruitless search Monday night for a Hungarian wanted in Omaha for stabbing another man in a fight Sunday night.

The affray is said to have taken place at the Kilpatrick grading camp three miles west of South Omaha. Two brothers, Dan and Ivan Detlich, were alleged to have badly wounded two other men.

Monday evening word was received by the Council Bluffs police that the Austrian who had done the stabbing was reported to be concealed in one of the house-cars situated near the former site of the Omaha elevator south of the Union Pacific transfer and that four South Omaha officers would be over in about an hour to investigate the report.

At 11 o'clock the Omaha men arrived and, guided by the Council Bluffs detectives, started out to look for their man. Upon arriving at the ruins of the elevator two of the men went to the home of the man who had sent the report. He pointed out to them the string of cars in which the fellow might be found. A thorough search of these produced nothing more than a great commotion among the Hungarians and a noisome agitation of the scent of garlic.

After satisfying themselves that there was no man there answering the description, the party plodded back to the transfer station, foot-sore and weary, and arrived just in time to miss the last car. They finished the remaining sixteen blocks on foot, humming cheerfully betimes, bars from "Forty-five Minutes From Broadway."

—The Daily Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 11, 1908, p. 5.

Gambling Raid, Arrests at Majestic Cigar Store

Des Moines, Iowa, 1909--

3 ARRESTED IN GAMBLING RAID

Police Descend On Pretty Game In Basement

In a raid last night in the basement of the Majestic cigar store and the arrest of three men, two of whom are well known gamblers, the police have broken what has been an eye sore to their department for many months.

The men arrested gave their names as Ira Stitzel, Joe DeRose and Max Frankle.

The police have known for some time that gambling was going on in the basement of the store but were unable to catch the men "with the goods."

The police claim that the place is being conducted for the purpose of getting actors' "rolls."

Joe DeRose was found in charge last night. He was required to put up $50 for his appearance in police court Monday morning. Stitzel and Frankle put up $15.

--The Des Moines News, Des Moines, Iowa, February 21, 1909, page 1.