The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-01-11
CRIME IN KENOSHA
Annual Report of the Clerk OF Court
Shows an Alarming Increase of
Criminals in the County.
LARGER THAN EVER BEFORE

The Report Shows That Nineteen Cases
Have Been Filed in the Circuit Court
During the Year and Many other Cases
Have Been Disposed of in the Justice
Courts-F1ve Burglaries Lead the List Of
Felonies-Many Rape Gases.
J. B. Ma1oney, Clerk of the Circuit
Court, has just completed the making
out of the annual statistics of crime in
the city and county of Kenosha and
the report will be of great interest to
all. While there is nothing with
which the report of this year can be
compared the Clerk announces that
the years product is greater than was
ever reported in the county.
The report, as forwarded to the state
officials shows there were fourteen
prosecutions begun during the year for
fe1onies and FIVE cases for actions other
than fe1onies. Of this number two
were convicted by jury and eleven
convicted on plea of guilty, making
the total number of convictions for the
year thirteen. One was acquitted by
jury and three cases were disposed of
in other ways. There are now three
cases on hand yet to be disposed of.
OF course the above report does not
in any way represent the total list OF
crimes committed in the city or the
whole number of convictions secured
as the work of the police. Many
crimes have been committed in which
the criminals were never apprehended
and as many others have been found in
which convictions were secured in the
Justice courts.
The report above relates only to fell
onies. The list of nineteen crimes,
which have found their way to the
Circuit Court, are as follows: Burglar
les, 5; Obtaining money under false
pretenses, 3; Larceny, 2; Attempted
rape, 2: Lewd and 1ascivious conduct,
2; Rape, 1; Libel, 1; Abandonment, 1;
Assau1ting an officer, 1; Receiving
stolen goods, 1.
The list will show that burglary has
been very common in the criminal an
nails of the city during the year. Five
burg1aries have been tried and fully
twenty others were committed in which
the criminals were never taken as far
as the Circuit Court. The prevalence
of rape and attempted rape cases is al
so alarming, but it can be said that
these cases were all the product of the
early part of the year.
Judge Slosson's court has been a
very popular place with criminals dur
ing the year, all of the criminals hav
ing pleaded guilty in this court. In
some cases the penalties assessed have
been very light, and this is largely to
account for the popularity of this court
with the wrong doors in the county.
The State reform institutions have
received many inmates from the
county during the year, and the Super
intendent of the reform school for
boys at Green Bay states that this
county has sent more people to the in
stitution during the year than any
other county in the entire State, not
excluding Milwaukee county.
While the report on it's face shows
an alarming increase of crime, it
should be remembered that all the Cit
les along the lake shore have been in
tested with criminals during the year
just passed, but Kenosha has certainly
received more than her proportionate
share The records of the police force
show that greater member of arrests
have been made this year than ever
before.