Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1902 — An Artist Arrested. [ARTICLE]

An Artist Arrested.

Constable Vick went up the line Thursday with a warrant in bis pocket and when he returning in the evening he had in his custody Charley Chadwick, whom be arrested at Hank Granger’s joint, at Thayer.

Chadwick is a man about 53 or 54 years old, who came here from Hammond about 6 months ago and since that time has been on a constant booze, when he had anything to booze ' on. He is evidently a man of fine education, and is reputed _to have once been very wealthy but to have dropped it all through drink and gambling. He is a fine artist in oil, and a beautiful large oil painting of a dog and a bird, and now at Strick’s place, is a specimen of his work. He has been selling chances on this for a raffle, and every time he sold b ticket he took a booze.

Wednesday he and one De markus R. Brown, of the Gifford region indulged in an all day’s partnership drunk, at Brown’s expense, and at 11 o’clock at night when they were shut out of the saloons, they went to Chadwick’s room, at Mrs. Meyer’s Van Rensselaer street and went to bed. At 3 the next morning Brown awoke to find his bedmate had vanished, and with him the remnant of Brown’s wealth, estimated at $36.

Enquiry next day revealed the fact that Chadwick had gone north at 4.30 that morning. It seems that he went to Shelby, waited there for the milk train, and then went on to Chicago, where he invested some of his newly acquired wealth in clothing, and then retuned to Thayer, and Was whooking it up at Hank’s place in great shape, when Christie got a line on him. He still had $9.85 on his person, and was said to have spent $lO at the saloons. He had his examination this Friday morning, before Squire Burnham, and was bound over to the circuit court, in the sum of $200; in default of which he is now in jail. Among the witnesses against him was Hugh McKinney, of near town, who says that Chadwick relieved him of $2.25 some three weeks ago and afterwards was compelled to pay back $1 of it. Christie trailed him to Hammond and Chicago and then back to Thayer before he found him, and he was then just ready to make another jump to FowlerC At Hammond the police said he had the reputation of being an expert pickpocket. £