The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-02-26
POLICE FAIL TO FIND ACCUSED
Warrants Issued by Judge Joseph r.
Clarkson as Court Commissioner But
They Still Remain Unserved and Cir
cult Judge Is Active in the Matter.

In the words Of John Fox, there was
hel a poppino in Kenosha on Mon
day night when on tho complaint of
Norman Il. Baker, one Of the attorneys
for the defense in the Koscak case,
warrants were issued for the arrest Of
Fl. Poppic, 7. ]. Thompson, David Boz
tano and Z. G. Hansen, of Chicago,
operatives Of the Burns Detective
Agency, who had worked on the Kos
cak case, charging them with conspir-
acy and perjury. A similar warrant
was issued for the arrest of Jerry w
I DeCou, factory manager for the Thorn
as B. Jeffrey Company. The warrants
were issued by Judge Joseph r. Clark
son, and while they bore the date of
last Saturday they were not turned
over to the police department for
service until few minutes before the
adjournment of the court on Monday
afternoon. Assistant Chief of Police
Joseph G. NeWhouse was given the Gus
tody of the warrants and he went to
the courthouse expecting to arrest the
detectives and DeCou as they left the
court room, but when the men came
out he found them in the custody of
the sheriff and the latter warned him
to make no effort to serve a civil pro-
cess on them The sheriff declared
that at the present time the men were
III the circuit court of Kenosha county
as witnesses and as such, under the
orders of the judge of the circuit
Ecourt, We're not subject to the service
of a civil process issued in any lower
court. The detectives who had been
called here as witnesses for the state
spent the night at a local hotel under
the charge of the sheriff and Mr.. De-
Cou was in no way molested In an af-
fort to serve the warrant.
District Attorney Drury hurried to
the police Office and demanded that he
be shown a copy of the warrant which
was issued and later he was closeted
with the court. This morning the court
through the clerk, issued formal or
der to all court commissioners that
they should issue no warrants during
the pending of the trial in the court.
The complaint on which the warrant
was issued by Commissioner Clarkson
had been made out before it was pre-
sented to him and it is known that it
was taken to at least one other court
commissioner. Commissioner A. E.
Buckmaster had declined to issue the
warrant on the complaint. In his COM
plant Attorney Baker declared that it
had been shown that the men named
in the warrant had conspired together
in August of last year to charge
George Koscak with transporting dy-
Mantle to Kenosha to be used for the
blowing up of the home of j. W. De-
Cou. 1t is declared that in furtherance
of this conspiracy the men named had
appeared in the circuit court during
the past week and had given testimony
which was perjured. The fact that the
warrant had been issued had evidently
been known to many people who have
been active in the councils Of the de-
Tense in the trial and they stood about
awaiting for tt to be served.
Judge Belden did not take official
cognizance Of the matter, either Mon
day night or this morning, but the
matter was taken up in private with
the attorneys. 1t is said that the at
torneys for the defense declared that
| it had not been their intention that
the arrest of the men should be made
known until after the trial of the case
was over and that at that time they
had planned to take the matter up
with the district attorney. Judge
Belden is said to have expressed his
surprise at the seeming discourtesy in
applying to another court for a war
rant when he was on the bench and
circumstances in the case. The war
rant was In the hands of the chief of
police today and he admitted that
service of it had been demanded from
ed with Judge Belden in regard to the
matter and that he had not been able
to locate any of the defendants In adj
vising the sheriff as to his actions in
the matter the judge simply stated
that the men were in the custody of
the court and that they had been
brought from another state to give
evidence in this case and for no other
purpose. It is probable that the mat
ter will be brought to the formal no
tice Of the court at the close of the
trial.
District Attorney Drury refused to
be quoted on the issuance of the war
rant. We are now engaged in the
trial of criminal case in which
some of these men are interested and
shall make no comment until this
case is disposed off, said Mr.. Drury.