The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-04-21
Man Charged With Attempt
to E1tort Money From
Stern Gets Jail Sentence
TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY
Admits All the Charges Brought
Against Him and Makes New
Revelations in Regard to His Life
i'll Kenosha.

Maurice Kreider, the most interest
ing criminal product of Kenosha coun-
ty in many years pleaded guilty" to
from Isadore Stern, well known west
side merchant in the municipal court
Tuesday and in the afternoon he was
sent to Jail by Juage Randall to serve
a jail sentence in default of the pay
ment of fine of $500 and the costs of
the action.
Kreider- is interesting and he told
the most wonderful story of crime to
the court that has been heard in the
county. There was a time when
Kreider who is commercial traveller,
was well to do and highly respected
citizen of Stevens Point, but it claim
ed that he met with al accident many
years ago and that this accident left
him with an abnormal mind and a
criminal nature.
Specialists who have examined the
man declare that he is abnormal and
they insist that he is moral degener-
ate. Kreider, however, showed that
he was cunning from a criminal stand
point and his story told to the court
after his plea of guilty was one of
great interest. He admitted that he
had deliberately planned to extort
money from Stern who is the proprie-
tor of the West Side Fair and that to
this end he had placed check in the
trunk of Stern and later had charged
him with larceny and had insisted on
his prosecution TO the limit. Kreder
told of Low g .oles to the police
and the district attorney and how he
had even enlisted the efforts of the
Kenosha Civic Federation in his fax
ed story of the robbery. He told how
to carry out the scheme he had gone
to the banks and sought to stop pay
ment on the check and how be had
even deceived the woman whom he had
represented as his wife, but with whom
he admitted today that had been liv-
ing in an unlawful relation.
Kreider never hesitated ip the tell
ing of the story today and declared
that he had deliberately laid the plot
to catch Stern and that he had ex-
pected to be able to secure a large
sum of money from him as the result
of the story
The woman who had posed as Krei-
der's wife was the only person in
court with the exception of the attor-
neys and the people directly interested
in the case. All through the recital
of the strange and ingenious story of
the crime the woman sat with her face
covered with her hands and even when
Kreider declared that she was not his
twife she made no sign of emotion She
insisted, however, she had known moth
1 ing Of the conditions under which the
charge against Stern was brought and
that she had been convinced by Krei- !
der that Stern was guilty. I
The attorneys who have been inters
ested in the case will make an effort
to get Kreider out of town as soon as
he has served his term and it is ex-
pected that the woman who has been
living with him will remain true to him
and aid in getting him started in some
other place.
In sentencing Kreider Judge Randall
among other things said: ct should be
the first duty you have after leaving
Jail to give this woman who has shown
an almost unbelievable faith in YOU
at least your name. If it were in nv
power to enforce the sentence the sen
tence which I would impose on YOU
would be that you leave this town and
wander about the earth forever stunned
b. every one.
The court then sentenced Kreider to
pay a fine Of 800 and costs or in de-
fault of the payment to be held in
! jail for six months. After the bitter
alfaignment Of the man by the court
the woman who is Mrs. Elizabeth
Mayer formerly Of Oshkosh. consented
to marry Krcider and he appealed to
the court to perform the ceremony.
Judge Randall in no uncertain words
refused to perform marriage cere-
!
seek some other person for this duty.
Kreider went to jail while the woman
sobbing as if her heart would break
left the court room alone