The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-03-05
ATTORNEY BAKER SENSATIONAL
Declares as Jury Renders Verdict That
He Will Spend Last Dollar to Secure
Reversal Crowd Throng in Court
room When Verdict is Announced.
We, the Jury, Find the De-
PENDANT George Koscak Guilty
as Charged in the Information.

DIS CndTgeQ IN the lnf formation.
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This was the verdict in the trial of
George Koscak, charged with trans
porting dynamite from Racine to Ke-.
nosha to- be used for the purpose of
destroying the home of Jerry w. De
Cou. It.Was read under the most dra-
matte conditions ever known in the
circuit court Of Kenosha county at a
session of the court held at nine
O'Clock Wednesday evening. Koscak
was not sentenced as his attorney NOV
ed for an arrest in Judgment, stay
of execution and new trial and these
motions will be heard by the court on
March 9th. No sentence will be i'm
posed on Koscak until that time and he
was remanded to the custody of the
sheriff. Under the law Koscak may be
sentenced to the state prison for a
term of from three to ten years.
No more dramatic setting could have
been arranged for any case in court
The intense feeling which had been
worked up during the twelve days in
which the trial had been in session
found real climax. The jury had
reached its verdict just after two
O'Clock in the afternoon and it was
given out that the final chapter in the
tragedy would be enacted at nine
clock.
Great Crowd Hears Verdict.
People gathered at the court house
early in the afternoon prepared to
wait for the coming of the jury. They
were anxious Some of them had at
tended every session of the trial
Many were friends of Koscak who had
given up their work IN order to be in
court and they were intent on seeing
the end Of the case. On account of the
crowd the officials cleared the court
room at six clock and the big build
ing remained dark until few minutes
before the verdict was read. Just as
soon as the building was opened a
great 'crowd surged in and long before
Judge Belden arrived every seat in the
court room was filed and the crowds
were thronging the hall. Between
eight hundred and thousand people
were in the court room when Judge
Belden arrived from Elkhorn just af-
ter nine O'Clock. He had travelled
more than hundred miles in order to
get to Kenosha to open the verdict.
Court Warns Against Demonstration.
When the defendant was brought in
by two deputy sheriffs they found it
necessary to fight their way through
the crowd which packed the corridors
and halls. The crowd was demonstra-
tive as Koscak was brought into the
court room and Judge Belden hurried
to show his displeasure of any demon
stration. Deputies and police officers
were everywhere in the crowd and
they were prepared for any emerg-
ency. AS the jury filed into the box
a deep silence fell over the great
crowd. The foreman of the jury, with
out delay. passed up the verdict, but
before it was read Judge Belden
raped for order and said, EsThere
must be no demonstration of any kind
regardless of what this verdict may
be and the sheriff and his deputies are
directed to arrest any one who may
seek to make any demonstration. Mr..
Clerk you will proceed
The clerk opened the verdict and as
he read Eve find the defendant guilty
as charged all that came from the
deep silence was the sob of woman.
The crowd was hushed and awed by
the orders of the court, but Elizabeth
Koscak, the daughter of the defendant,
gave way to tears. Koscak sat I'M
moved as the verdict was read and he
looked at the jury intently as the clerk
asked the formal question of the poll.
WAS this and is this still your YER
dict?' and as each man answered,
9It was Koscak turned away and
looked over into the crowd. Just the
intimation of smile played about his
lips, but there was no sign of emotion
Baker Grows sensational.
Attorney Norman L. Baker, who had
been associated with Attorney Robers
McMynn in the trial of the case for
the defendant, swas not SO composed.
AS the court ordered the defendant to
be committed to the custody of the
sheriff Attorney Baker addressed the
court in a dramatic manner 1T want
to place on the records at this time, =
he said, a motion for arrest in judy
ment and later I will make motion
for new trial. I also want to have
made on the records that I solemnly
swear that I shall wipe this stain from
my native city and shall wipe off this
blot on the administration of Justice in