Show I CIRCUS AUDITOR AUDITORS S ACCUSED OF THEFT William From Fromn n Wagon on by br Deputy Sheriffs Will VilI m Fight Extradition Columbus 0 O. May lay 17 William William A. A auditor of or the Hagenbeck wild wid animal sho v who was from the ticket agon of ot that show at Cleveland by Columbus deputy sherIf sheriffs sheriffs sher sher- If iffs on a warrant char charging him with wih the larceny of ot from tho the Forepaugh Forepaugh Fore Fore- pau paugh h Sells Sels Bros circus at Tarboro N N. C C. last year ear was released on 10 ball bail bal tonight tonight His Ills attorneys are to fight extradition and will wi carry cm- the case before Governor Pattison The rho warrant was sworn out by Lewis Lews Sells Sels and amid John Saler as administrators of oC the of Peter Sells The Time robbery of ot the ticket wagon wason of oC the Forepaugh tc Sells Sels Bros show last year ear was one of ot tho the most notorious la in circus annals The Tho company compau had played its Is last stand for Cor the year and was to go into winter quarters after aCel tho the performers had been paid palt was tho tue treasurer and had over 30 30 In iii his safe in the ticket wagon When tho the mone money was as missed he re reported reported reported re- re ported the loss logg of oC his keys lees which had been stolen from froni beneath his pillow as he slept slept He Ho was a man of or unquestioned unquestioned toned Int Integrity and his story stomy has boon hoen believed b by his friends PInkerton detectives have worked on omm the case ever since but without success suc sue cess ces apparently arrest late last Jast night was highly high I dramatic As 8 he was wal standing on a u ticket wn wagon on at the tho show two men Jumped up tip alongside of ot his flashed flashed flash flash- fash- fash ed stars and announced that he was under unter arrest He was as dragged from tho the wagon and anti handcuffed and Into a waiting automobile which made its way out of town Ia by a circuitous route The Ha Hagenbeck management noti noti- fled fied fed the police polee after the abduction not was reported and every overy effort was made to prevent tho tile deputy sheriffs from getting out of town wih with their lr prisoner prisoner pris pris- oner but ut the they eluded their pursuers and amid ant finally landed in this city Patrick J. J Meehan tho the ohle oldest t editor of a n Catholic paper In time the United States having served continuously Co for or I four fifty four years n as editor of oC tho the NewYork Now New York Irish American Is dead |