The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-01
Jennie Gallo Rose Tells Unusual
Story Of Her Attempt To
lmprison a Relative
SOUGHT TO GET REVENGE
Girl Admits That She Wrote Improper
Letter to Herself and Then
Caused the Arrest of Her
Brother in-laW

Facts of an unusual conspiracy were
brought to light Thursday night by
District Attorney R. V. Baker and
Deputy United States Marshal Charles
B. Reinardy in connection with the
arrest of Joseph Rose, an Italian, IS
years Of age, who was charged with
sending an improper letter through
the mails to Mrs. Jennie Gallo Rose.
Rose had been arrested by the police
Of Kenosha on Wednesday, but had
been released the same evening and
last night the deputy United States
marshal, on the demand Of the Italians
interested in the case, again arrested
Rose and placed him in Jail with the
plan of taking him to Milwaukee this
morning. Then came the bursting of
the bauble. Rose had all along pro-
tested that he was innocent Of the
charges against him and the story told
by the boy seemed to be such
straight one that the district attorney
and the United States marshal sum
moned Mike Gallo, the father of the
young girl to whom the letter had
been addressed. On the previous day
Gallo and his daughter, as we'll as
other friends Of the girl, had scored
the district attorney for permitting
Rose to be released after he was taken
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had appeared before United States
Court Commissioner Bloodgood in Mil
waukee and secured a warrant for the
arrest of Rose.
! The case looked like an unusual one
to the district attorney and with Mar
shall Reinardy he began a close ques-
tioning Of the young girl which
brought out one Of the most remark
able confessions ever received by the
district attorney.
For half an hour the girl continued
to accuse Rose Of sending the letter
to her and then she broke down and
confessed that she had written the
letter herself She admitted that she
had conferred with a woman and
that the two had arranged the plan
to have Rose arrested and placed in
Jail in order to get revenge on Paul
Rose, a brother Of the accused man.
who is the husband of the Gallo girl
The girl is but sixteen years Of age
but her story showed that she carried
out the plan Of the conspiracy with
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letter at the home of the other
woman and in order to make it i'm
possible for the prosecution to fall
down she made the contents of the
letter SO strong that there would have
been little doubt of the conviction of
Rose had the case ever come up for
trial. She admitted that she mailed
the letter to herself on Monday night
and that as soon as it was delivered
to her in the morning she made her
complaint to the post Office.
The girl was decidedly crafty and
she showed the letter to number of
well known women and so aroused
their sympathy that they appeared be-
fore the police to urge the arrest of
Rose. After the story of the girl had
been told the United States Marshal
called Rose and caused him to write
a letter similar to the one in question.
A comparison showed that he could not
have written the letter on which the
charge was based. Rose was taken to
Milwaukee this morning in order that
he might be properly discharged from
custody in the United States Court
and no charge will be made against
him.
1t is not known what will be done
with the girl and her accomplices who
sought to secure the imprisonment of
Rose. She can be indicted under the
United States postal laws for the same
! offense which she sought to have
brought against Rose and in addition
| to this the girl and her aids might
be arrested here on charges of con-
spiracy. AS she is little more than a
child it is probable that the govern
ment and the district attorney will
overlook the unusual conspiracy unless
Rose shall insist on the arrest and
prosecution of the woman.
The man arrested was not Joseph
Rose the milk dealer.
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