The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-02-05
R GIRL IS FEDERAL WITNESS
Takes Stand in United States Court in
Milwaukee and Declares She Was Be
trayed by Man Whom She Had
Claimed as Her Husband Later.

A jury IN the IeQeTaI court III AAll-
waukee oD the first ballot cast and
after being out just twenty minutes,
brought in a verdict of guilty at 7:45
clock Tuesday night in. the case Of
Arthur r. Carey, charged with having
brought Laura Fleuker of Silver Lake,
from Green Bay to Minneapolis for
immoral purposes. Carey Will be sent
enced later in the week.
During the morning session on Tues
day thirty-fve prospective jurors were
examined before the twelve men were
chosen. When court was convened at
70 O'Clock and the jury filed into the
courtroom, Carey, in the custody Of
three deputy marshals, entered the
courtroom and became the target OF
fiery chances hurled at him by his wife
and three children whom he abandon
/ ed, the Fleuker girl, whom he was al
legged to have betrayed and the par
ents of the girl. The man hastily
sought seat near his counsel and dur.
ing the trial Of the entire afternoon
his gaze was centered upon the wit
nesses who testified
The first witnesses called were the
parents of the girl. They declared
that Carey had come to their home
seeking the attentions of the. girl
The father of the girl declared that
he believed that the man was unmar-
ried, ard that when she left the home
of her parents in November, 1910, he
was Of the opinion that they had in.
tended to be married The witness
declared that when his daughter left
home on the day Of Nov 5, 1910, he
had not seen or heard of her until he
heard that she and Carey were stop.
ping in Green Bay three years later
When the girl, Laura Fleuker, was
called to the stand, the ripple of whis-
pers among the spectators was SO pro
nounced that the crier of the court
had to rap with his gavel for silence in
the courtroom. Carey whispered to
his attorney as the girl was about to
take the stand, and appeared uneasy
AS the girl told Of the manner in
which she met Carey on her way to a
church pilgrimage while she was on a
train from Silver Lake, Wis, the vii
lage in which she was born, and when
she described the ingratiating manner
in which Carey approached her in the
seat of the train, the persons who
thronged the courtroom had to be
again silenced by the gavel of the
crier, in order that the testimony OF
the girl could be heard. The witness
admitted that she was cajoled by the
attentions Of Carey. She declared
that she believed him and after a
brief courtship she consented to visit
several places with him on the promise
that he would marry her The couple
travelled from city to city and from
state to state for three years until af
ter traversing the states Of Illinois
Minnesota and Wisconsin, they return
ed to Racine, where the father of the
girl, learning that she was in that city
and surmlslng that everything was
not right, enlisted the sympathy of the
chief of police of that city and went
to the hotel where the couple were
staying.
1t was alleged that Carey made a
hasty exit through a window of the
hotel.
The girl was taken to her home by
her father and shortly afterward Car
ey, it was alleged, by preconcerted
plans with the girl, called at her home
and whisked her away to Antioch, Ill.,,
in an automobile.
The gil declared that she was al
ways of the opinion that Carey was a
single man and that she had implicit
belief in him that he intended to mar
~ her Dressed in a modest robe Of
black with black veil covering her
face and the wedding ring that Carey
is said to have put on her finger, the
Girl mars an ohiapf of Svmna+hv