The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-11-07
The Girl is Permitted to Return to Her
Home in somers After Telling About
Her Journeys.
(From Fridays Daily.)

Chief Rolling, of Oshkosh.
When the trio reached Kenosha the
officers took Miss Becker to her home
in Somers while Sw1rtz was locked up
in a cell at the county jail to await
trial on four or five charges, including
everything from wife desertion to the
charge of criminal assault. Tricked
by decoy letter of the police Swartz
was sullen and refused to make any
statement in regard to the case, but
Miss Becker talked freely with the
officers and told the whole story of her
Disappearance from the city and her
life with Swartz in Oshkosh.
1t is the old story of girl basely led
astray by man many years her senior
and from the stories of Miss Becker it
is evident that the criminal relations
between the two people have continued
for over a year. The man seemed to
exercise a strange influence over the
girl and in this manner forced her to
leave her home in this city and to ac-
company him to Oshkosh, where the
two have been living as man and wife
for the past three weeks.
Miss Becker was at the police station
this morning attended by her father.
She seemed very sorry for her part IN
| the incident and with her face bathed
in tears of repentance she related to a
representative of this paper the story
of her disappearance.
Miss Becker stated that she had been
| intimate with Swartz for more than a
year and that short time before she
left the city Swartz had proposed that
she go to Milwaukee with him for a
visit. On the evening she left her
home she met Swartz and the latter
gave her two dollars to pay her fare to
Milwaukee. She took the midnight
train to that city and waited all day
for the arrival of Swartz.
They met in the evening in front OF
the postofice and went directly to
Oshkosh where they took rooms at the
| Columbian hotel, a cheap lodging
house, registering as man and wife.
Swartz was well supplied with money
and Miss Becker states that she was
well treated. After day or two she
tired of the life and she wanted to
write to her parents in this city but
she declares that Swartz would not al
low her to have any money to pay the
postage on the letter. Finally she
asked Swartz to write to the district
attorney, who he claimed was friend
of his. Swartz wrote the letter and
the arrests followed.
The girl claims that during her stay
in Oshkosh she was at work for two
days in a factory seeking to earn
money with which to come home but
Swartz refused to allow her to return
| to Kenosha.
The case is one of the worst cases of
degeneracy ever reported to the police
of Kenosha and it is hard to tell what
action will be taken against the man.
Swartz is evidently prepared to furn-
ish a defense and expects to be re-
leased on his own recognizance.
(From Saturdays Daily)
Carl Swartz will plead guilty to the
charge of fornication brought against
him in connection with the Emma
Becker case. Swartz was brought be-
fore Justice Stewart this morning and
when arraigned on the above named
charge he plead not guilty. Miss
Becker was placed on the stand and
told the story Of her relations with
Swartz during the past year. The
father of the girl also gave testimony
in regard to the case. Swartz con-
Quoted his own defense and offered no
| excuse for his action more than to
make an attempt to attack the chas-
tity of the girl before he met her. At
the conclusion of the hearing Justice
Stewart found that an offense had
/ BEEN committed and held Swartz to the
/ Circuit Court The bail was fixed at
ST., 900 and Swartz not being able TO
furnish this bail was remanded.
The hearing in the Justice court was
1 held behind closed doors, only the wit
nesses in the case being present.
AS soon as Swartz reached the jail
he instructed the Under Sheriff to no
tify the District Attorney that he de-
sired to plead guilty to the charges
against him and he will be taken be
/ fore Judge Slosson IN the County court
early next week.
.'Pudd 'nhead wilson Friday. Nov 18th.
Ever awake TO the wants of his pa