Iowa Old Press

Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
January 12, 1925

WOMAN IS HELD TO GRAND JURY ON $1,000 BOND
Charged with Receiving Stolen Goods, Woman Enters Not Guilty Plea

     Mrs. Henry Nowack, charged with receiving stolen goods in connection
with the robbery of the Peoples Clothing store at 310 West Second street on
Dec. 18, was bound over to the Scott county grand jury on $1,000 bond this
morning.
     Attorney B.T. O'Neil, counsel for Mrs. Nowack, entered a plea of not
guilty and waived preliminary hearing before Police Magistrate Metcalf.
Claude Van Arsdale, who lives at the foot of Myrtle street, went Mrs.
Nowack's bond, putting up a certified check for that amount.
     Mrs. Nowack was arrested Friday afternoon by Officer Elmer Schlueter
and Detective Jim Carroll when they caught her wearing a $300 fur coat that
was stolen from the place. She signed a confession stating that it was the
stolen coat and implicated Matt Garvey, who is being held in jail at
Clinton.
     Captain F.J. Lew and Officer Schlueter drove to Clinton yesterday to
interview Garvey and get him to confess the robbery. Garvey denied that he
had anything to do with it, but an overcoat, also stolen from the store, was
found in the possession of another prisoner at the jail. The prisoner stated
that he bought the coat from Garvey for $7.
     Garvey is also wanted in Rockingham in connection with selling a
mortgaged car.
     "I'm not going to say anything until I get back to Davenport," he told
Captain Lew. "Every place I go, they're lookin' for me, and I'm going to
keep still until I get this mess settled up here."

Submitted by C.J.L., July 2005