The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-10-23
BOTH SENT TO GREEN BAY
Two Strangers Who Dropped Into Sill
yer Lake Burglarize General Store
and Hide Under a Culvert Along
Railway Guilty to Burglary.
(From Monday S Daily

People of the village of Silver Lake
had some real excitement on Sunday
as burglars invaded the town and en-
tered the general store of Joseph E.
Dalton at an early hour Sunday morn
ing The two men connected with the
job were arrested late Sunday evening
! by Mr.. Dalton and Constable William
/ Spetzman of the town of Wheatland
and brought into Kenosha and landed
in jail. They were arraigned on
charges of burglary in the municipal
court this morning and the hearing of
the charges against them was contin-
ued. The men gave their names as
Ray McGlennon of Toronto, Canada,
and Carl Foust of Pasco, Washington.
They were strangers in the county and
evidently just dropped off at Silver
Lake a few hours before the burglary
took place.
The Dalton store was entered at an
early hour Sunday morning. The two
men went into the place after lot of
hard work First they cut panel out
of the rear door, but they found this
door had been barred by an oil barrel
and being unable to move the barrel
they went round and attempted to get
into the place through side window.
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They found the window barred and
they went over to the railway and Sc
cured a coupling pin with which they
managed to break loose two iron bars
which had held the window. Once in
the place the two burglars were decid-
eddy busy. They went all over the
store and picked out little from the
different stocks. They took tobacco
and cigars, underwear and clothing,
/ candy and canned goods. They man
aged to get away from the building
without the burglary being discovered
and the fact thattt the place had been
entered did not become known until
Mr.. Dalton went over to the store early
Sunday morning.
Facts in regard to the burglary were
at once telephoned to Sheriff Achen
and deputies were sent out to look in
to the matter. Sunday afternoon Mr..
Dalton and William Spetzman took the
trail of the burglars and started to
make a search of the surrounding ter
ritory. They found the two men under
culvert three miles west of Silver
| Lake, just after FIVE o. clock Sunday af-
! ternoon. All of the stuff that had been
stolen from the store was recovered
with the arrest of the two men. They
made no fight against arrest and they
were brought to Kenosha this morn
ing for trial.
The two men claimed that they had
never been in this county before.
They asserted that their families were
well known in the places where they
lived and demanded that Sheriff Achen
write to these places and look up
their records
Constable Spetzman, who. brought
the men in, stayed at the municipal
court until the cases were disposed of.
The men when arraigned showed a will
ingness to plead "guilty'' and District
Attorney Drury accommodated by fl
ing the information against them at
once. Both pleaded "guilty' to
charges OF burglary and Judge Randall
gave the same sentence, three years in
the state reformatory at Green Bay,
to both.
Constable Spetzman is entitled to a
great deal Of credit for the manner in
which he handled the case. He is one
of the oldest guardians of the peace in
the western part Of the county and he
has record of making more captures
than all the other constables in the
county put together.