The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-07-26
TOO MANY CROOKS.
KenOsha Becoming Headquarters fer
Floating Population of Chicago
and Milwaukee.
SOME REMEDY soRELY NEEDED.
City Should Have Work House and Zen
Without Visible Means of support
Should be Forced to Work.

Kenosha is growing entirely too
metropolitan. The streets of the city
are becoming altogether too much the
1oafng place of beggars and trick
sters. Of course this fact is no fault
of the police of the city, but in the
last few months there has been an in
fux into the city from Chicago and
other places of people supposed to be
crooks. They cannot be run out of the
city because no evidence can be Sc
cured against them. This class of
crooks are of the kid glove kind and ii
is openly asserted by people who are IN
a position to know that Kenosha is the
headquarters of one of the smoothest
gangs that ever worked along the lake
shore. Happily for Kenosha it is not
claimed that they are working in this
city, but that they are working in
other places and bringing the fruits of
their labor home to Kenosha. There
are places in Kenosha that are under
the watchfu1 eye of the police, but as
yet the officers have found nothing
that would warrant the arrest of any
of the people connected with such
places. Robbery after robbery has
been committed in Kenosha and these
places have knowing look. OF course
it is possible that some street fakirs
are good thing for town, but 1t is
not to be supposed that the gang that
are making their rendezvous in this
city will ever be of any great use to
the city. They have been here for
months and as yet no one has ever
been able to find the same crowd
working either in the day or at night
and it is about time that some one
make an investigation and see from
what sources these people derive their
support.
But this not the only class of fakirs
that are investing the city. They come
in droves, the fortune teller, the hand
organ man and the professional hobo,
and all of them join with their higher
class fellow fal1irs IN taking an easy
living from the people of Kenosha.
The yards of the railway company are
nightly filed with this travelling riff
raft and it is impossible for the police
to do anything to stop this continual
coming and going of tramps and fakirs.
Time after time the men are arrested,
but nothing can be done and they are
sent out of town in the morning only
to return at nightfa1l. This class of
people are a menace to the property. of
the people of the city. Their presence
BODIES no good for the welfare of the
city and some stringent measures
should be made to put a n end to Keno
sha being the rendezvous for such
gangs. The watchward of all the
Chicago ''con' men is Son to Keno
sha.' Along the railway the hobos
have written, "Fair fields and pastures
green at Southport" and it seems that
every man on the road has read the
p1easants'newss. that Kenosha is easy.
| The city should take some steps to
establish work-house or to make these
tramps work on the streets to pay fines
for vagrancy. Some plan must be de-
vised to see that this gang is turned
aside from Kenosha. So far as the kid
glove 1oafers are concerned the police
should get on the scent and make it so
hot for them that they will be forced
to leave the city.