The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-09-16
TELLS STORY TO THE COURT
admits Aiding in the Robbery of Half
a Dozen Places and Declares Father
Has One Watch Stakeholder Boys
to Plead on Saturday.

Frank Aiello, ten years of age and
just big enough to peek over the top of
the desk Of Judge Randall in the NUM-
cipal court pleaded guilty to charge
OF burglary in the municipal court late
Thursday afternoon and was sentenced
to the state reformatory at Waukesha
to remain there until he is twenty one
years of age. Before. the precocious
youngster entered his plea to the ser
ious criminal charge he related to the
court much Of the doings Of the band
of boy burglars who have kept things
lively about the city during the past
two months. Two other members of
the burglar gang are now held at the
county jail and they are to come before
the court on Friday morning when it is
expected that they will enter pleas of
guilty to the same charges. The hear
ings Of these boys were delayed in order
to give to their parents the forty eight
hour notice demanded by the state law.
Bruno Aiello, the father of the youth
full burglar is held at the city lock up.
Tie is booked on charge Of having re-
ceived stolen goods, but against the
vigorous claims of his ten-year-old son
he has protested his innocence Attor-
neys have been retained to defend the
father and his case will be taken up
later
A lot of unusual stories have been
told in the municipal court but that Of
little Riello, the youthful burglar proved
the most interesting, He admitted in
reciting the story of the doings Of the
gang how they had burglarized the
Funck, Smith, Hennes and Michlen
homes on the north side Of the city and
how they had entered the blacksmith
shops of Edward Murphy and J. L.
Milligan in the down town district.
They had also made an effort to enter
the store of William H. Robinson.
Seven bicycles had been taken by Aiel-
10 and his companions according to the
story of the self confessed hoy burglar
The boys showed a daring which would
hardly have been expected from men
long practiced in crime. Aiello told
Funck home while other members of
the party made search of the rooms
for valuables His story is nearly the
same as that told by Murko Mullich,
who has been considered the brains
of the gang. Mullich is one of the boys
to come before the court on Saturday
morning. His father seems to take
great interest in the son 8 case and it
is possible that he will find some plan
to care for him without having him
sAnt to state institution.
John Biennemann, another boy of
tender years, who had been interviewer
into the workings of the gang on ac-
count of the fact that he had accepted
wheel which had been stolen by
Aiello was also in court and he plead
ed to charges of receiving stolen
goods. How far the criminal instinct
was developed in the Aiello youngster
was shown by the facts in this case.
Young Biennemann had met Aiello in
Racine and the latter had given him a
bicycle to get back to Kenosha. Lat
er Aiello went out and stole another
bicycle in Racine and joined his friend
on the homeward trip.
The police and district attorney be
lieve that before the cases of all of
these boys have been disposed Of the
mystery that has surrounded all the
burglaries committed in Kenosha in re-
cent months will have been cleared up.