The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-10-03
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mission Office in the Calkins block,
with private wire service direct to Chi
cago and New York. Continuous mar
ket reports received daily.
Several boys, all old enough to
know better, have of late been in the
habit of annoying pastors and congfe-
cations at various churches by tapping
on the windows during the evening
services. The offence of disturbing
public meetings is punishable by a fine
and the imposing of the penalty in a
few instances would no doubt be pro-
ductive of good results.
1t is a we'll known fact that Bar
ney Bloch has for several days been
anxious to go on the stand and tell his
story, but he has been prevented from
doing so, and it is now too late in the
case to get his testimony in. He may
however have something to say if he is
proved guilty and before thejury pass
es sentence. The inside history of this
great case may never be written.
Tuesday evening was the first
time during the trial that Judge Fish
had ordered an evening session. He
had threatened to do so before, but
the jury got so weary he could not feel
called upon to force the matter. Get
ting to the end, however, and feeling
the necessity of closing at the earliest
possible moment, he decided to hold
the lawyers down to arguments at
night if they could not finish during
the day.
Eddie McDermott is serving a
sentence of forty days in the county
jail. He is the lad who was wanted
for so long by the police on the charge
of taking money and goods from Groc-
er R. FL. Lewis, and who evaded them
so long by skipping the town. He was
caught at last and his trial came off
Saturday afternoon. Norman Baker
appeared for the state and D. C. Lloyd
for the defense. Late in the afternoon
the jury brought in a verdict of guilty
and Justice Slater imposed the above
sentence. >a-t 3'o.
Oscar Waldron, a Kenosha county
farmer, was on his way to Racine Mon
day morning, when his horses became
frightened at passing bicycle rider
and ran away. Mr.. Waldron with his
wife and daughter and two other wo-
men were dumped il,to the ditch. Mrs.
WaldrOn had her arm broken, her
daughter was bruised and the other
ladies were badly shocked by the fall
but not seriously injured. Mr..
Waldron jumped and was not hurt.
He held onto the lines and managed to
stop the horses before they wrecked
the wagon.
Detective Alexander had fistic
interview with Barney Graft and one of
his friends at the Grant house Monday
evening. The controversy arose in re-
ference to the testimony Graft had
given in the arson trial wherein he
said that Alexander, Cowie and Rose
now had offered to not prosecute
Jacobson if $1,000 was raised for them
that night. The controversy waxed
hot and one word led to another, until
finally Alexander let go his right and
foored Graft and a friend coming to
the rescue shared the same fate. They
we're soon separated and no one was
much hurt but quite crowd gathered
to see the melee. We're getting so in
this town that we must have excite
ment in order to live, even if we have
to import the talent.
AT the close of Attorney Fosters
speech Tuesday evening he admitted
to the jury as something he had stat
ed several times to his associates, that
he was afriad of but one thing in this
case. That one thing was the person
atty on j. Y. Quarles. He had mace
an attempt to get Mr.. Quarles to al
low the case to go to the jury without
argument but Mr.. Quarles would not
agree to it. He saidh he was afraid that
the eloquence of the man might lead
the jury astray. That was some
thing which had leaped the boundaries
of his own state and he feared that Mr..
Quarles was SO we'll known and had so
great reputation that these coupled
with his having been born here and
pet of the county, might have greater
weight with the jury than all the testi
mony adduced. He specially caution
ed the jury against him. This was
looked upon by the audience as intend
ed to take the wind out of Mr.. Quarles'
sails.
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