The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-01
Levi HogIe, Of WiImot, Sent to
the State Prison for Eigh.
teen Months
ARRESTED ON AWFUL CHARGE
Charged With Having Improper Rela.
tions With a Little Girl But
Three Years of Age-Long
Record of Misdeeds

Levi Lorenzo Hogle, of the village
of Wilmot in this county, arrested in
Racine on the charge of taking inn
proper liberties with three-year-old
girl at the National hotel there some
time ago, has decided that he is guilty
and he notified the district attorney
of Racine county that he would plead
guilty to the Charge and take what
ever sentence Judge Shielding might
mete out to him. At first ne main
tanned that he was entirely innocent
and that there was something back of
the deal which would bear investiga-
ton. 1t was investigated and ascer-
tanned that there was nothing to his
charges. and that everything pointed
to him as the guilty man. Since his
arrest he has confessed to the sheriff
that he has been under arrest on the
same charge on two different occa-
slons IN other places, and that he was
punished therefor, being let off easily.
Now, however, it appears as though
he had come to the end of his rope,
and he was sentenced TO iserve one
year and six months in athe state
prison at Waupun.
Hogle has not very good past to
review. He has admitted thatthe was
arrested on serious charge at Will
mot, where he says. his invalid wife is
making her home with her mother.
There he was arrested and his mental
Cd
clans agreed that he was insane, and
his Incarceration in the insane asylum
at Oshkosh sfollowed. He remained
there from April until August of last
year, when he was liberated, the
authorities claimingSthat.she was not
insane, or at least no more Ethan he is
today.
After that he drifted into the city of
Burlington where he was arrested on
charge of taking two little girls
away from their, home..% for indecent
purposes. There was mo doubt about
the directness of the evidence but he
was released on the payment of fine
of $25 and costs. He was ordered out
of the city and went to Racine. Then
followed his actions at the Racine
hotel and his arrest on the present
charge.
Hogle is alleged to be insane on the
detective business, as he posed as
that kind of an officer there. He
claimed that he had recovered a mum.
Der of stolen harnesses atlCorliss and
caught the culprit who stole them.
Then again he stated that he had
been up north where he was sent by
the Pinkertons to catch a horse thief
who had been operating for some
months and who eluded the local
authorities repeatedly. He claimed
to have captured that man and sent
him to prison. All of these stories
were made up and he is not known to
have been employed on any case. A
few weeks ago he ordered a private
detective star which he wore at the
time of his arrest.
He had had his preliminary exam
ination before Court Commissioner
Wentworth and was held for trial in
the Municipal Court. Tuesday he de-
cided that he would not await trial
and would plead guilty. He was taken
into court late Tuesday afternoon and
given an opportunity to plead. He
was sentenced to eighteen months in
the state prison.
Hogle is widely known throughout
the western part of the county on ac-
count of his escapades.