The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-07-30
DETECTIVES NOT At WORK HERE
Report Spreads ALI Over the City That
Sensational Hearings Are to be Start
ed at Once But Officials Have no No
tice of Coming of Probers to City.

ESQ far as ] know the state vice
commission, or whatever you want to
call Senator Teasdale IS body, is not
coming to Kenosha. | have received
no advices along this line and so far
as I am advised there have been no
detectives or detectivesses working in
Kenosha. l believe that / would have
had some notification if these men were
coming to Kenosha.
This was the statement of District
Attorney A. L. Drury this morning
when he was told that it was rumored
all about Kenosha that Senator Teas
dale and the legislative vice investiga-
ton committee were coming to Keno
sha this week to make an investigation
of the city. All over the city the ru-
NOR was heard that things were to be
ripped wide open in the city and that
there was going to be sensation after
sensation before the week was over.
The stories in circulation intimated
that the investigation in Milwaukee
and the attendant sensations would be
nothing as compared with the real up
heaval which was to be caused by the
coming of the vice probers to Kenosha
The wee little underworld of Kenosha
appeared to be really scared. The story
was that the state vice probers already
had three men and two women working
as detectives in Kenosha and that the
things they had found were so shocking
that it would be impossible to put them
in the public print
80 Piffle, = was the first response of
Chief of Police O'Hare. "I have no
information of any one working here
to investigate vice conditions. These
stories are all rot. A hundred detec-
tives could not get any big sensation
about Kenosha now. There never was
time when Kenosha was freer from
vice than at the present time. The
police commission and the city of
ficials are in close touch with the con-
ditions in the city and while they may
not be entirely satisfactory there is no
reason to import any probers to show
them up. / do not believe that any
detectives are working along these
lines in Kenosha.
Senator Teasdale intimated weeks
ago that there would be no visit of the
commission to Kenosha and he has re-
peatedly given out statements that he
was pretty well satisfied with condi.
tions both in Racine and Kenosha.
There has been nothing in the past few
months to cause him to change his
plans in regard to this city. The
members of the commission admit that
they have received a number of com
plants against certain conditions in
Kenosha, but these complaints were
turned over to Judge Randall and the
district attorney some time ago and
immediate steps were taken to put an
end to the abuses complained of.
If the commission comes - Keno
sha the local officials will be ready and
wiling to co-onerate with them in any
movement that may be made to make
conditions better. There is no feeling
of opposition to the work of the com
mission in Kenosha as has been shown
in several Of the other cities and the
local men in places of authority have
declared their willingness to believe
in the sincerity of Senator IeasdaIe
and his associates.