The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-29
THAILSONE MAN TO MILWAUKEE
Mob Of Polanders Follow the Kenosha
Chief When He Takes John Grabo-
wicz From House in Milwaukee on
sunday-Wil1 Plead Guilty"

Chief Of Police Owen O'Hare won
day and Sunday when he managed to
bring about the arrest of couple Of
foreigners who in the past few days
had managed to pass four forged
checks in Kenosha and the two men
John Swidorskiz and John Grabowicz
are now in Jail awaiting chance to
plead guilty to charges of uttering
forged checks. The manner in which
O'Hare landed the two men is not
without the elements of interest. The
checks which were drawn on the Mer-
chants and Savings Bank had been
passed on Thursday last, and they reach
ed the Chief late Friday afternoon
They had been signed by number of
farmers out in the town of Somers and
the Chief after considerable trouble
learned that Young Swidorskiz had
worked on farm in the neighborhood
With police officer Biennemann he lay
In wait at the room of Swidorskiz on
North Chicago street until midnight
Saturday night and when the young
Pole returned home he confronted him
with the forged checks. The man de-
MED his guilt but the Chief made a
search of the room and found the
burned portions of a check book in
stove. He took his man to Jail and
later he learned from his examinations
that the checks had actually been pass
ed by Grabowicz. He found out that
Grabowicz was still in Milwaukee and
started out to get him. In his quest
he had the aid of Kenosha man who
knew where Grabowicz was accustomed
to go to visit young Milwaukee wo-
man. The Chief and his aid went to
Milwaukee and the aid led him to a
house way over in the fourteenth ward
Polish district. The Chief concealed
himself behind building and just af-
ter six CLOCK Grabowicz came to the
house. O'Hare at once entered the
place and arrested Grabowicz, but when
he took him from the house and put
the "nippers" on him great mob of
Polish people followed. The Chief man
aged to make his way to the nearest
patrol box where he called aid of the
Milwaukee department and without fur
Their trouble he brought Grabowicz to
Kenosha. Just after Grabowicz had
been landed in cell Swidorskiz made
a confession. He admitted that he had
written the checks but that they had
been cashed by another man. When Swi-
dorskiz saw Granowicz he declared that
he was the man who had passed the
checks and this morning GTaboWicz adj
mitted his part in the crime. Chief
O'Hare declares that the two men had
carefully made the plot to get the forg-
ed checks in action. Swidorskiz some
time ago borrowed $50 and deposited
it at the Merchant s bank and in this
way got a check book. All of his own
money had been drawn from the bank
some time ago and it is evident that he
had planned to use the remaining
checks for unlawful purposes. Grabo-
wicz has been in trouble in Kenosha
before and he at one time served
term in the Green Bay reformatory fol-
lowing a conviction for burglary.
At the time he was nabbed by the
Chief in Milwaukee he was laying plans
to 90 to the Pacific Coast. He was
identified by the men on whom he had
passed the forged checks.
AS the two men are willing to plead
sguilty" to forgery charge it is
probable that they will be sentenced
late this afternoon or TUESDAY morning
Both men have lived in Kenosha for
some time and both of them are pretty
we'll educated.