The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-24
Deputy Game Warden Ordered to
Arrest all Non Residents Get
ting Hunting Licenses
WARRANT FOR CHAS. LIPPERT
Lippert it is Alleged Had Not Been a
Resident of the State for Year
When He Secured Resident
License in Wisconsin

Deputy Game Warden Michael
Kleist, acting at the urgent demand
of the state game warden, has started
on new line of prosecutions which
will make former prosecutions under
the state game laws in this county
look exceedingly small. He has been
ordered to begin actions against all
men in Kenosha county who have
secured resident hunting licenses by
making false afidavits.
The first com plant under the law
was made before Justice Strrges this
morning, when the Deputy Warden
asked for a warrant for the arrest of
Carl Lippert of the town of Pleasant
Prairie. Lippert is accused of secur-
ing resident hunting license from
w. G. Crosby, county clerk, by max
ing statements to the effect that he
was resident of Kenosha county. It
is alleged that at the time Lippert
considered a resident of Wisconsin
under the law on account Of the fact
that he had lived in the state for only
few months previous to the time he
applied for the license, and the State
Game law provides that resident
license may only be issued to people
who have resided in the state for al
least year.
The Game Warden has been inves-
tigating the case of Lippert for some
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cured the evidence against the man
when he was sworn as witness in a
suit in the Justice court. Lippert
had sued Joseph Christman5 of Pleas.
ant Prairie to recover the value OF a
dog alleged to have been SHOT by
Christman. In his evidence he stated
that he had been a resident of Keno.
sha county for the past four months,
having come to this county from
Waukegan. This evidence, K1eist
declares, will be sufficient to show
that he had no right to take out a
resident hunting license.
If Lippert is convicted under the
complaint, the smallest fine that can
| be assessed against him is $500, the
law proving that such cases shall be
punishable with a fine of not less than
$500 or more than 1000.
| Warden Kleist claims that there
have been many violations of the anne
laws in this county by Chicago men
who spend few months each year in
the county and on account of this re-
sidence for short time take advan-
tage of the state and secure resident
hunting licenses for large and small
game. The license for non resident
costs SIS, while a resident license
costs but ST.. 1t is claimed that most
of the non residents who evade the
law do not appear before the county
clerk in person to secure the licenses,
but get them through applications
made by some justice in the rural
towns of the county. These applica-
tons are sent to the clerk and the IL
censes are forwarded to the justices
and in this way they are secured by
the non residents. Warden Kleist
has been notified by the superior Of
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broken up at once and many arrests
are expected within the next few
weeks.
The trial of the case against Lip
pert will be watched with great deal
! of interest by hunters in all parts OF
the county and especially by those
who have summer residences in the
county, but who in fact are residents
of Illinois and other cities. All the
fines collected go to the state and Ke-
/ nosha county will gain little from the
enforcement of this new portion OF
the game laws.