| Show GIRL BECOMES SLEUTH FIND j DOUBLE AND ND FREES BROTHER I a m g ga a r ft x I t 4 V ir I l. l A I x t Mrs Helen Bowman who saved her brother Leo upper right from a life r 91 I I Ift ft in prison and caused the conviction of Harry Hill lower right on a charge of murder I c. c BY HERBERT WALKER N NEA EA Service Writer DETROIT Mich June 2 I 2 I believe be- be lieve e you are innocent ana Ill I'll work until I r die to set you free A sisters sister's loyalty has saved her brother rother from a life behind prison bars ars To do t this is Mrs 1 Helen Heen Sauer- Sauer r. r man an Bowman of ot this city turned detective She lived the life o of the underworld under under- world She Invaded the haunts of ot bootleggers and hijackers She subjected sub sub- je ted herself herset to extreme danger But she found fount her brothers brother's double double double dou dou- ble the Veal real slayer Leo the brother has been en pardoned after 30 months of imprisonment The real murderer Har Harry Hill HUl is starting a lifes life's sent sen- sen tence t nce In October 1922 was sentenced ed to life Imprisonment on ona ona a charge of ot having been a member of ot a gang which had killed Alex brotski a farmer living Ing near Brownstown Mich Evidence sub submitted tended to show that a gang visited Dombrow- Dombrow akis aki's is i's home on January 24 1922 and posed as federal agents demanding the farmer produce liquor believed to have been cached on the farm When Dombrowski refused to permit permit permit per per- mit the men to search the farm he was shot and killed D Dombrowski's widow seeing Sau- Sau erman's picture ye said he was the slayer Her son a cousin and a hired man at the farm who witnessed witnessed wit wit- the shooting testified that was the slayer was convicted His Hiss s sister at once started a fight to prove his Innocence She insisted that the slayer sayer was wasa a a- aman man who resembled her brother She got affidavits and anal a hotel T register showing that W was lyas in Ka Kalamazoo at the time of the murder r She induced Melvin Brown and Homer Noel who confessed that they were members of ot the gang which visited Dombrowski's house to admit that was not in inthe inthe th the gang Find Harry Hill they said But police laughed They believed Hill to to-be to be a phantom character y if Its a and it will come but out some day told his sister before being taken away to begin ln his life term i From that time on until her brother was freed from prison Mrs Bowman did not rest Every night after fter finishing her work she sought clews to the whereabouts of ot Harry HarryHill HillI Hill HUl I first went to Ecorse near here which is known as the hangout of bootleggers and hijackers she said By By mingling with these characters characters characters charac charac- of the underworld for several days das I 1 found that a Harry Hilt Hill once lived In Battle BatUe Cre Creek k I 1 heard that Hills Hill's sweetheart lIved Hived there After After Arter Aft Art er working for many days I 1 finally obtained her name and by pretendIng pretendIng pretend- pretend Ing that I 1 was seeking a room to rent I talked with h her t r a few times Umes But she was suspicious and all I could learn was that she was corresponding corresponding corresponding cor cor- responding with Hill Hilt her letters go goIng going going go- go ing through the hands of ot fire five members members members mem mem- bers of Hills Hill's band before they reached him Some time Ume later ter I got word that Hill fill had a brother who ran a garage in Chicago A A. friend of mine had hada a a- a a car We damaged the carburetor and the and took it to Hills Hill's gara garage garag a for tor repairs For weeks I watched his garage thinking that Harry Hill would come there Many lany a night I parked in front of his brothers brother's home I watching for the man whose arrest I believed li d- d dould would clear my brother t I 1 did manage to learn that Hill often came to Chicago By this time I 1 convinced the police that Harry HarryHill HarryHill HarryHill Hill Hill was not a phantom but a real character and probably the real murderer of Dombrowski j Last November ember my long search was vas rewarded with the arrest of ot HillIn a Chicago Y Y M. M C. C A A. He vas v vas s getting mail mall there through a aie fiend ie d who roomed in the build- build ng rig I f 1 spent every cent I could get n n this man hunt We mortgaged a aHme Tome lome we had in the country and cloyed noyed into a small cheap house In Detroit but It fl was worth it My brother had no bitterness in its ils heart At Marquette he has been een a model prisoner and he is de- de Ined to to start life ute anew |
