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GOES BY SECRET ROUTE
Louis DE RYDER is Smuggled Out of the City by Sheriff FISCHER -- Boards Train at Plymouth, Wisconsin for Oshkosh.
With the idea of giving no one an opportunity to see Louis DE RYDER when he left this city today for Oshkosh for trial on the charge of embezzlement, Sheriff FISCHER took him over on the street car as far as Plymouth, at which point they boarded the train.
The fact that DE RYDER has been able to secure some of the most talented lawyers in the country to defend him and that without seemingly any finds, has led the officials to believe that some of his confederates are backing him. Besides securing Attorney RUBIN of Milwaukee, he had BOUCK & HILTON of Oshkosh, exceedingly high priced lawyers.
It had been planned to take DE RYDER to the station this morning to make the 7:05 train west, but the district attorney and sheriff received some inkling Saturday that an effort would be made on the part of strangers to confer with DE RYDER at the depot, and with the idea of preventing this, the plans were switched at the last moment. When DE RYDER was taken off the car he was handcuffed and carefully guarded on his trip to Oshkosh.
District Attorney COLLINS and several witnesses for the state including Attorney Chas. VOIGT went over on the morning train.
When the case was called today Judge BOLDEN of Racine presided. Judge BURNELL of Oshkosh who was ill was unable to preside, and Judge BOLDEN was called in to take his place.
The case of DE RYDER will probably be on for the greater part of the week as witnesses have been summoned from this and other states. This is the famous case in which Attorney Chas. VOIGT lost some $6,300 through the clever swindling some alleged to have been worked by DE RYDER and his pals. DE RYDER being listed as the so-called stool pigeon.