The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-05-21
HOTEL MAN FIRST ARRESTED
Story of the Girls as Told to the ON.
Gals duplicates Many Young Men
of City in Carousals Alleged to Have
Taken Place in the Hotels.

"Young bloods" in Kenosha were
terrorized today when it became known
that District Attorney A. L. Drury was
considering the sensational stories told
to him on Tuesday by Margaret Young
of st. Joseph, Mich, and Anna Kiss
of Elkhart Lake, Wis, two girls ar
rested on Tuesday morning on charges
OF lettering on the streets 1t is de-
clared tina THE revelations of the two
girls will result in one grand clean.
ing up Of some Of the hotels in the
city and that their stories told to the
judge of the municipal court and the
district attorney with - frankness sell
dom seen in such cases may result in
the arrest of a score Of young men in
the city many of them connected with
prominent families. None of these
young men had been arrested up to
a late hour this afternoon, but several
of them have been in the custody of
the district attorney and they have
shown a willingness to "cohme across"
to use the parlance of the police Office.
District Attorney Drury declared this
morning that he had not fully decided
to proceed with the prosecution of the
men who had been named as com
panions of the young girls in de-
bauehes in various places of the city.
II just about reached the place
where believe that the men 81, S
possible such debaucaes instead OF ae
people debauched are the ones to be-
prosecuted" said the district attorney.
"The story told by these girls has
shown that there are rotten conditions
in Kenosha and they are going to be-
cleaned up even if some of these mon
have to be sent to the penitentary in
order TO do it. 1t is not time yet to-
give out the full facts in this case, but
they will be startling enough when the
warrants are issued. We spent all day
yesterday just listening to the sOrdid
story of these two young women and
[ believe that they have told the Of
fcials the facts as they exist in con-
neetion with certain so-called hotels
in the city,"
The two young women have been in
Kenosha for four weeks and in that
time they have been employed as do
mestics and as mattresses in hotels and
restaurants. On Tuesday morning they
were walking the streets without any
place to go and they were picked up
by the police and placed in the county
jail for the night. Both of the girls
she wed a desire to get back to their
homes, but after they had told their
stories to the officials Judge Randall
ord cred that they be held in custody
until after the "clean up" planned by
the officials.
The two young women declared their
willingness to appear as witnesses in
IL court and substantiate the stories
they had told and these stories are en-
tirely substantiated by three young.
rneh who have already faced the dis
tridt attorney and the judge in the
quiz. The names Of the men have
not been made public, but tho list is
a long one.
It is admitted by the officials that
the stories of the girls and their COM
panions open the way for prosecution.
of the proprietors of three of the no.
tells in the city.
Charles Christensen, proprietor Of the.
Hotel Jacobs was the first Of these men
to be taken into custody and it was
stated that warrants for at least two
other hotel proprietors would be issued
during the day. Christensen did not ap-
pear in court this morning, but it was
expected that his case would be dis
posed of during the day.
The two girls are said to be mem
hers Of respectable families in their
kome towns and the officers are in COM
munication with the officials of both
st. Joseph and Elkhart Lake with
view of having the parents of the
young women notified of their being
held in Kenosha and the facts sur
rouna4-. the case. 1t is expected that
there viii be develop --lents plenty in
the case before tomorrow.