Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-10
KUEHNLE BEGINS
YEARS SENTENCE
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gratitude. but gratitude" seemed
to be a lost virtue.
Then on November "a, 1918, the
Court of Errors affirmed tho convic-
ton. the very last court of the state.
Eight to one the vote OF the judges
stood, and there was no getting
around 1t.
5 Then Atlantic City became very
much concerned Only the Supreme
Court of the United States remained
and nobody around there had any
particular pull with that august
tribunal The case would have to go
there anyway, and immediately 1t be-
came known that Kuehnie had re
tanned a band of great lawyers to take
the case to Washington on a consti-
tutional question.
An appeal was looked for any day
There were many conferences, long
consultations and at last Kuehnle
made up his mind for himself. The
Hudson county cases had been carried
up to Washington and had been
thrown out; what was the use for him
to try? He would take his medicine.
In all these years Kuehn had al
ways lived simply. Until the death of
his mother he always remained with
her In the little fat on Atlantic ave-
nue.. In Atlantic CITY. Kuehnle with
out designations. has had one recrea-
ton. He is a yachtsman. Once he
owned three yachts and was the head
of the Atlantic City Yacht Club Now
he has two small boats and a bunga-
low boathouse on the shore.
Proud of His Achievements.
"There is nothing for me to say" he
remarked before entering the prison
gales today. i've got to take my med
iclne and l am going to take 1t W tn
cut complaining. ! was cow cted on
a technical charge upon which many
officeholders could be convicted. They
were out to get me and with all the
Investigations and hue and cry tney
could only get tn s.
81 am going to prison and l do not
know what will happen In the year;
but don't care who 1t Is, they must
admit that l have always been for
Atlantic City first, last and all the
time. They know what It was when
/ became the Republican leader; they
know what 1t Is now. ] have some
pride in that anyway.
"I don't know whether / will be
missed l don't know what will hap
pen. Yes, ! will be missed by one
thing anyway, won't |, Jerry? That's
my dog jerry Jerry has been the
dictator's companion for the last
seventeen years.
Kuehnle evolved himself into po-
litical boss OF the absolute type and
became one before anyone else knew
it or perhaps even he was conscious
of 1t. He Is fifty-six years old, IN
married and went to Atlantic City
from Egg Harbor on September !
1875 His father was q MOTEL man ian.
owning one big hotel in Egg Harboi
and another in Atlantic City
Kuehnle's hotel, the Corner, at Allan
tic avenue and North Carolina street
Louis Kuehnle took charge of the
| Atlantic City hotel and ran it unit
1907 He was a typical country note
/ man and the three-story frame build
ing where the destin.es OF Atlantic
City were settled for so many years
] is an fashioned place with resorl
notifications in the way OF luncf
counters and oyster bars
| Kuehnle ran it from barroom K
dining room in the old-fashioned way
and there he made his first acquaint
ance with the voters. He was liberia
by habit, always free with his money
ready to help the needy at all times.
He does not remember just wheI
he went into politics. He just me
people day after day, and because o
his open hearted liberality made then
his friends. He Is not man OF dis
sipations of any sort, but he Is hal
fellow well met in other ways.
Sheriff IngersoIl said County En-
glneer Estel d Rightmire, of Allan
tic county. will voluntarily surrende'
| himself today and enter upon his sen
tence OF one year.
| Mr.. Rightmire did not accompan,
Kuehnle to prison this morning. Thu
sheriff said he understood Mr. Right
/ mire would arrive in Trenton today
but had not heard what time Right
mire had proposed to enter upon hi
sentence The remittitur in the Right
mire case is in the hands of thu
| sheriff.