The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-21
Police Have a Hard Fight at the
Cummings Saloon on Sat-
urday Night
MAYOR REvoKEs LICENSE
Charles Dodge, Gilbert johnson and
Charles Loesc4aer are Taken After
a Hard Fight-Art Dodge
Gives Officers Slip

A new outbreak took place in the
Kenosha "Bad Lands" Saturday
night when Gilbert Johnson, Charles
Dodge and Charles Loescher were ar
rested at the Cummings saloon after
one of the hardest fights ever put up
against the police officers of the city.
Arthur Dodge, the fourth member of
the quartette, escaped from the build
ing after he had been placed under ar
rest and is now fugitive. Monday
morning warrants we're issued charg-
ing Johnson, Loescher and Charles
Dodge with assault and battery, and
if the other Dodge can be captured
he will be arrested on warrant
charging him with assault with in
tent to do great bodily harm.
The fight at the saloon was one of
the most disgraceful affairs of the
kind that ever took place in the city
and as soon as the facts in the case
became known many prominent citi-
zens interested themselves in move
ment to have the license of the place
revoked. Alderman A1leman spent
several hours in Investigating the
history of the place, which has long
been famous in the criminal records
of the city and it was the intention to
demand the revocation of the Cum
mings license at the Council meeting
Monday night. AS soon as the facts in
the case were laid before the mayor,
however, he revoked the license of
the saloon himself without waiting
for any action by the Council and or
dered the chief Of police to close the
place Immediately. Needless to say
the chief of police was Only too glad
to carry out such an order and the
place was closed at once. 1t is not
likely that any license will ever be
granted for saloon in the same 10.
cation again.
The latest outbreak in the saloon
took place just after II O'Clock Satur-
day evening. Nathan HUT, a new.
conner to the city, who is employed at
the Jeffrey factory with three friends
had entered the place in order to get
a bottle of beer. The men claim that
they had no conversation with any of
the inmates of the saloon until one of
the negroes walked up to HUT and
asked him where he was born. HUT
replied that he was born in the South,
and it is alleged that with this provo+
cation one of the men jumped him,
HUT was terribly beaten in the fight
which followed. Three of his teeth
Il - 4 I1st
eyes BACKED. AS soon as possible
the police were called to the scene of
the trouble and Chief O'Hare and
Night Sergeant Biennemann re-
sponed to the call. When the officers
entered the saloon an effort was made
to place the four men nnder arrest,
but the men resisted the officers and
the Cummings woman declared that
the chief could not take the men with
out warrant. While Chief O'Hare
went to call wagon to take the crowd
to jail, Arthur Dodge, who is alleged
to have been the assailant of HUT,
managed to get out of a side door and
escape. He has not been seen since.
The men we're taken to the jail in a
dirt wagon, and when they had been
left in the waiting room of the jail
Loescher made desperate attack on
Officer Biennemann, striking him in
the face with his fist. Loescher was
subdued and locked in a cell.
While the warrants issued for the
men Monday charge assault and
battery, the officers will later have
charges Of resisting an officer, assault
ing an officer and possibly rioting
against the men.
The assault on HUT with the incl
dents which followed caused the
widest excitement, and when the men
were removed from the place a crowd
of FIVE hundred people had gathered
about the front door.
The men were making a desperate
fight in the wagon, and the arrival of
Police Officer Euting aided materially
in getting the trio to jail. An old
man, Nels Anderson, vas taken from
the place at the same time and he was
arraigred on simple charge of in
toxication on Monday, and paid a
fine of dollar and costs. Loescher,
johnson and Chas. Dodge were fined
$25 and costs by Justice Sturges.
The police have as yet been unable
to find any trace of Arthur Dodge
who escaped, and it is thought pos
sible that he got out Of the city.