The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
Effort is Made to Secure Absence
Of Mrs. Davis From kenosha
but 1t is ThWarted
SENSATIONAL TURN IN CASE
Jean Bernstein is in Jail and Com
plant Made Against Others Alleged
to Be Connected With the Con-
spiracy to Get Woman Away

There was sensational turn IN the
Regh manslaughter case on Friday
afternoon when Jean Bernstein was
arrested in Chicago and brought to
kenosha charged with conspiring to
secure the escape Of witness.
Charged with Bernstein are Mrs.
Lillian Davis, Mrs. Anna Regh,
Jacob Stern, Mrs. Speiss and two
other parties for whom warrants
have not as yet been issued. All
of the parties connected with the
alleged conspiracy are well known.
One of the men not yet arrested re.
sides in Milwaukee. The story of the
charges is best told in the complaint
on which the warrants were based
which was filed in Justice Sturges'
court this morning. The complaint
| follows:
"Robert Verne Baker, being first
duly sworn and examined under oath
by and before BENZ. O. Sturges, JUS
tice of the peace in and for said coun-
ty, alleges that Jean Bernstein, Mrs.
! Lillian Davis, Mrs. Anna Regh, Mrs,
| Speiss and Jacob Stern did, on
the 18th day of August A. D.
19O5,at the county of Kenosha,
wilfully, unlawfu11y, fe1oniously and
corruptly plan, conspire and agree
together to obstruct and impede JUS
tice and the due lawful administra-
ton of the laws of the state of Wis
consin, by then and there falsely, IN
lawfully and corrupt1y entering into
an unlawful and corrupt agreement
wherein and whereby it was corrupt1y
agreed by said Jean Bernstein,
Jacob Stern, Mrs. Lillian Davis, Mrs.
Anna Regh and Mrs. Speiss that
the said Lillian Davis should sup
press certain evidence on the part
of the state of Wisconsin to be
given by her in a criminal pro-
secution then pending before George
B. Nc Carron, magistrate and
justice of the peace of said coun-
| ty, and in which the said Lillian
Davis had been duly subpoenaed in
in the manner provided By law as a
witness on the part of the state,
wherein said Mrs. Anna Regh was
charged with the crime of manslaugh-
ter, and should depart from the
jurisdiction of the said magistrate
and from the state of Wisconsin, she,
the said Lillian Davis, should and
would receive the sum of Five Hun
dred Dollars, and that, in furthermore
of such unlawful and corrupt agree
ment, and in accordance Herewith,
the said Jean Bernstein, Jacob Stern,
Mrs. Anna Regh and Mrs. Speiss did,
on the 18th day of August, A. D. 1905,
at the city of Kenosha, in the said
county, un1awful1y and corrupt1y pay
to the said Lillian Davis the sum of
One Hundred Dollars, which said sum
the said Li11ian:'Davis did then and
there un1awful1y and corrupt1y re-
ceive and accept under such agree
ment, contrary to the form of the
statute in such case made and pro-
vided, and against the peace and Dig
nifty of the state of Wisconsin"
| The chase for the arrest Of Bern
stein was one of the most exciting
ever participated in by Kenosha
county officials. The district attor-
ney got wind Friday morning that an
| effort was being made to get Mrs.
/ Davis out of the city, and with Dep
Luty Sheriff O'Hare he hurried to the
depot to find that Bernstein and Mrs.
Davis had boarded train for Chi
cago. The deputy and the district
I, attorney managed to get on the train
and were attempting to get possess
ion Of the pair on this side of the
/ State line. The conductor was or
! dered to stop the train, but he de-
| clined to do this, and the party was
| carried over into Illinois.
| BY this time Mrs. Davis had made a
full statement of the case to the dist
riot attorney, and had even turned
| over the 500 she had received from
Bernstein, claiming that she was to
receive the remainder of the money
! when she reached Chicago.
| At Waukegan the district attorney
and Mrs. Davis left the train, and
Attorney Baker at once ordered the
Chicago police to arrest Bernstein as
soon as he reached that city. In the
meantime, fearing that the Chicago
officers might not get his message in
| time to detain Bernstein as he left the
train, Baker ordered O'Hare to keep
hold of his man and turn him over to
the first police officer he met after he
| left the train.
/ O'Hare carried out his orders to the
| letter, and Bernstein was turned over
to Officer Lynch at the railway sta
ton who at once took him to the
Central station. A little later Baker
reached Chicago, and after confer
ence with Bernstein he consented to
return to Wisconsin without papers,
and also consented to turn over the
remainder of the money.
The charge is most serious one,
and all connected with the effort to
get Mrs. Davis out of town may be
Isent to jail for long sentence.
Mrs. Regh had hearing on the
charge this morning, the case being
adjourned fora week. She was held