The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20

Six men and two women from Keno.
sha, Balm and Winthrop Harbor, are
at the Kenosha county Jail awaiting
trial on charges of receiving stolen
goods They were caught in the net of
the detectives of the Chicago and
North Western Company in connection
with the Investigation of thefts from
the cars of the company which have
been going on for close on to two
years. The list of people under arrest
includes Frank Aiello, aged forty-one
years; his wife Thresa Aiello, his SON
Michael Aiello and his daughter Car
melia Aiello, all of Rain station;
Joseph Scopta ard Constantine Girar-
do of Kenosha, but employed al Win
throp Harbor; Enrico Dominario and
Oresto Bracolenti of Kenosha 1t is
probable that other arrests at stations
between Willow in Racine county and
Upton in Lake county, Illinois, may be
made during the day, but if these ar
taken either to Waukegan for trial in
Lake county or to Racine for trial in
Racine county. Nearly all of the ar
rests were made as result of the work
Of Detective Sollenberg of the North
Western force, but contributing to the
success of the investigation were Po-
lice Officer Tony Pingatore, who ar
rested three of the men, and Sheriff
Stahl, through whose efforts the Two
men from Winthrop Harbor were ar
rested at an early hour this morning
All of the Italians held in the Keno
sha county Jail are at present charged
with receiving and disposing of stolen
goods, but it is possible that charges
of grand larceny may be brought
against them later. Aiello and the
members Of his family, who were
brought in from Balm late Tuesday
evening, have made full confession
to the officers. From the homes of the
various defendants the officials secur-
ed stolen goods to the value Of more
than five hundred dollars and it is de-
clared that a traffic in these stolen
goods has been going on for so long
a time that it is probable that thous-
ands Of dollars worth of goods were
shipped from Kenosha and other points
to "fences" in Chicago and other
cities. The booty included costly ORR
entail rugs, silks, clothing of all de-
clio -
other sorts of articles. It is declared
that all of these articles were stolen
from cars of the Northwestern road
by band Of thieves who worked
Systematically between the villages Of
Willow and Balm Vito Albergo, an
italian, recently convicted of robbing
cars in Racine county and sentenced to
five year term in prison, is alleged
to have been at the head of the gang
in the work of robbing the cars.
The eight defendants taken here as
sert that they have not had any part in
the actual robbery of the cars but they
admit they received large consignments
of the stolen merchandise from AHber-
go and that they either converted it
to their own use or arranged to sell it.
The Office Of the Jail was literally filed
with trunks and bags filed with the
merchandise alleged to have taken
from the cars.
The confession of Aiello and the
members of his family to the sheriff
and the railway detectives on Tues
day night, opened the wav for the
other arrests and Police Officer Pinga-I
tore was sent out to locate and arrestl
the Kenosha suspects. Nearly all Of,
them made confessions during the day.I
Tt was declared that all of the MEM
bers of the party would plead guilty
to charges made during the afternoon
and the Kenosha county officials were
of the opinion that all of the cases
would be disposed of before the day
is over
For years the trail Of these car robA
bers has led to Kenosha and the detec-
tives Of the railway company seem to
be Of The opinion that other arrests
win be made here later on. Tt is adj
mitted that many men who have work.
ed flor the company as section men have
been connected with the robbing of the
cars. The detectives here today de-
clared that the people now under ar
rest in Kenosha had no organized plan
and that they were ignorant of the
part that the others had in the dis
posa1 OF the hundreds of dollars WORTH
Of stolen merchandise.