The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-09-10
Criminal Calendar at the Coming
Term Of Circuit Court To BE
an Extended One
GILLoTTI CASE SET FOR TRIAL
More Than Score of Criminal Gases
to be Ready for Trial and Dis
trict Attorney Will be
Very Busy

District Attorney r. v Baker is get
ting ready for the September term of
the Circuit Court which opens a week
from next Monday and the list of Grim
inal cases to be tried at the term will
be a long one and many Of them are
cases which Will be of great interest
on account of the prominence of the
people connected with them. It is
thought that the first three weeks of
the term Of the Circuit Court will be
given entirely to the trial of criminal
cases and it is even possible that there
The officials are still hopeful of getting
John Bradley and If he is brought back
to Kenosha the case can be put on the
September calendar.
There are, however, a half dozen i'm
portant cases to come up and it is GER
tain that some Of these cases will last
for days. The case Of the state against
Charles Gillotti and the two other Ital-
ians charged with holding up man at
Berryville, will be one of the first cases
called for trial. Gillotti and his com
panions were convicted at the last term
Of the court and Notwithstanding the
fact that the Supreme Court ordered
new trial, one of the men is still in
the state reformatory at Green Bay.
This is Joe Catuso and he preferred
to remain at Green Bay rather than
come back to Kenosha to await in the
county Jail. It is certain that great
| fight will be made to save the Italians
from going to prison.
The case Of the state against John
G.. DoWse, one Of the best known men
of the town of Pleasant Prairie, against
whom serious statutory charges have
been preferred, will be one of the early
cases on the calendar. This case will
probably take up several days and will
attract wide attention.
Another case which promises to bring
a good laugh for the court is the case
of the state against the two foreigners
arrested in Chicago on charge of
swindling north side saloon man out
! of S., 100. The men are alleged to have
pressed the money by putting it be-
tween two boards and. with this work
increasing the denomination of the bills.
1t is alleged that there is no doubt Of
the guilt Of the men, but the gullibility
of the Kenosha man may result in the
charges being laughed out Of court by
the attorneys for the defendants.
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in the trial of Silas Battle, one of the
former Zion City men, who is charged
with having assaulted his daughter.
The girl was whipped by her father and
it was claimed that he whipped her
too severely. In Justice Court Battle
was fined 800 and costs and he has
appealed the case to the Circuit Court
In addition to these cases is the
case of the state against Mike Griffin,
who is charged with having set fire to
the "Four Corners" resort. This will
undoubtedly be a bitterly contested
case. It is just possible that one or
more people charged with the same Of
Tense may have been bound over be-
fore the term Of the court opens. In
addition to these more important cases
there is a large number of minor cases
which have been on the calendar for
some time and the district attorney ex-
poets to have all this work cleaned up
at this term of the court.