The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-10-01
MANY ARE RELEASED
Kenosha Colony at the Waupun
Prison Trimmed Out During
the Past Few Weeks
WALDO ONLY ONE BAD
All of the Men Sent Up in Connection
With Che Car Robberies Secure
Their Freedom With
Good Time

KenOsha is losing her reputation for
having large number of prisoners at
the state prison at Waupun, for during
the past few months only three prison
ers have been sent from this county to
the state prison and in the same time
more than a dozen men from this county
serving terms in the prison have been
released. A year ago Kenosha sent to
Waupun ten prisoners in single term
Of the court and this was the record
for the state with the exception Of Mil
Waukee county for the month. All of
these men have been released and only
one of them was forced to serve the full
time under the sentence. This one was
Edward Waldo, sent up on charge Of
burglary for a years term and he
served till the last day and most of the
time he was what was known as q
Second Class convict. William e.
Williams sentenced for receiving money
under false pretenses, Frank E. Ellis
worth on the same charge, Edward
Conklin, given a year and half on
charges OF adultery, Claude E. Miller,
Charles Hill, Charles Ritz Adolph Moe,
and Archie Quayle, the members of the
famous band of men charged with burg
Iarizing cars on the Northwestern road,
have all been released and not one of
them was forced to serve the full time.
Fred Wadman sent up for year for
arson, at the last September term of
the Circuit Court, has returned home
and E. G. Dean, who was s-nt to the
prison for six months on charges of
embezzlement in April of this year was
released last week.
The warden of the prison declares
that all the men save Waldo have been
model prisoners and some of them were
occupying places of trust in the prison
when they were discharged from
custody
Charles Burns, who was sent up for
year and a half on charge of lar
ceny, is to be released in short time, but
there is no reason to believe that he will
return to Kenosha as the officials of the
prison have been notified that he is
wanted in Illinois and that warrant
will be sent for him just as soon as his
time has expired.
StanislaWs Pescaskas, who was taken
to Waupun yesterday told the officials
a strange story. He had been convicted
of aiding in swindling a north side sa-
loon man and went up for two years
The man declares that he never got a
cent out of the deal and that he had
$4,000 in the bank at the time of his
arrest and that nearly all Of this money
was paid to chicago lawyers in order
to secure a defense. He alleges that
he gave the lawyer $3.50 on the morn.
ing he was sentenced under the promise
that he would be released with term
of six months in jail He promises tC
make most sensational disclosures tC
the court as soon as he is released from
prison and declares that he will seek
to have the court take the matter uL
at once and call the men who swindled
him to an accounting.
The three men sent up from this
county ON Monday joined the prisoners
squad Monday night and it is declared
that Bushman and Gobolosky walked
off with the step of old prisoners. The
men will all be put to work in the over
all department of the prison.