The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
Sensational Arrests Again Prom
ised In Connection With Fed
Grafton Cases in Court
BAKER W00lD STOP PERJURY
District Attorney Declares That the
Perjury Issue is More Important
Than Convictions on Charges
of Gambling

Kenosha is threatened with an ex
plosion as an aftermath of the Fedora
ton gambling cases and there are {
score of people on the uneasy seat as q
result of the declaration of District
Attorney Baker that he is determined
to put an end to perjury in Kenosha
even if he is forced to send dozen
men to the penitentiary. The district
attorney has declared by affidavit filed
in< the Municipal Court that men who
have been called in the Federation
cases as witnesses arc ready to perjure
themselves and he declares that already
number of witnesses have taken the
stand and given false testimony
Three warrants charging perjury have
already been issued, but no arrests
have been made and the court officials
declare that it would be unwise to
give out the names Of the men named
in the warrants until such time as
they have been arrested. 1t is known
that these men realize the danger they
are in and it is admitted that all of
them are suing for peace.
The district attorney when seen this
morning said: ~ don It know how long
it will take to dispose of these cases.
1t may take day and 1t may take
week, but [ am going to the bottom
of this matter. The specific cases On
trial are of little moment in compari-
son with the fact that witnesses have
conspired to perjure themselves to de-
feat the ends Of justice and l am going
to make these men come into court
and tell the truth II they do this
there will be no arrests for perjury.
but if they fail to do this l am going
after them without mercy These
men have all been warned and there is
not one of them but what knows the
desperate chance he is taking by Civ
ing perjured testimony. This testi
mony is all being filed and I shall have
a chance to take it up even after the
cases anoNj on the calendar have been
disposed Of. One of these men came
to me last night and asked that he be
given a chance and I promised to give
him a chance to go into court and
make good. I expect that others will
take the same steps.
There is an uneasy feeling in many
circles over the open declaration of the
district attorney that he will make
these arrests for perjury as the action
of the district attorney in the past has
shown that he is a vigorous prosecutor.
The bitter fight between the district
attorney and Attorney Calvin Stewart
in the. hearing of the various cases
brought by officials of the Civic Fed
GRAFTON has added fuel to the flames
and it is the general impression that a
bomb is about to be exploded which
will result in the most sensational ar
rests. The leaders Of the Federation
have been insisting all along that ar
rests for perjury be made, but the dis
trict attorney has sought to hold these
men in check in order to give the men
charged OF this serious crime a chance
to get out from under. The district
attorney in speaking of the matter init
mated that the men for the most part
did not understand the seriousness Of
their crime and that for this reason
he did not like to rush in rough shod
He has no doubt but that half
dozen of the men in question could be
convicted on charges of perjury. The
Federation, officials know this and for
this reason they are urging the arrests
These men have been stirred to fight
by the castigatlon of them by Attor
ney Stewart.
It begins to look as if there would
be something going and that there
would be one of the biggest sensations
in the history Of Kenosha before the
hearing of the two cases now pending
is over.