The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-08
ARMED CITIZENS GUARD STORE
Prisoner Thanks the Sheriff for Quick
Service When he is Taken from Store
to be Brought to County Jail-Will
Probably Plead Guilty.

The Somers burglar alarm was work
ing this morning and as result John
Marone, twenty years of age, an
Italian, claiming Chicago as his home,
is locked up in the county jail charged
with burglary. Marone was so fool
hardy to believe that he could get
away with burglary at the Bullamore
store in Somers. A half dozen other
burglars had tried it and evidently Ma
rome was either ignorant of just what
he was running into or he was looking
for a place of honor in the profession.
When Marone was safely slowed away
in q cell at the county Jail he breathed
a sigh Of relief and declared that he
was lot more willing to face a court
than he was to face the muzzles of
the shot guns and rifles of the men Of
Somers awakened by the burglar alarm.
Marone might have been fit subject
for a coroner's jury, but he showed a
willingness to believe that discretion
was the better part of valor and when
he found himself surrounded in the
Bullamore store he decided to await
the coming of the sheriff rather than
take chance Of escape.
Marone had walked out from Chicago
during the past few days and he told
the officers that he reached Somers Just
before midnight last night. The back
window of the Bullmore store was in
wiling and Marone went over and tap
ped it with file until he was able to
get his hand in and unlock the win
dow. He did not know that when he
unlocked the window he set the bells
tingling in half of the houses of Som
ers. While he was crawling into the
store Mrs. John Writ was busy on the
telephone notifying Sheriff Stahl that
the Bullamore store had been entered.
Within half dozen minutes after
Marone entered the store and before he
had even got his bearings he heard
three shot gun shots and as he peeked
out Of window he saw the people of
Somers coming from all directions.
Some of them carried rifles and others
carried shot guns and in less time than
1t took Marone to tell it the Bnllamore
store was so surrounded that it would
have been impossible for any one to get
near it or get out of it. Sheriff Stahl
and Turnkey Al. Fries made an early
morning dash to Somers in an automo-
bile in twenty minutes after they got
the call and when they arrived the peo-
pie Of the village were on guard con-
WINGED that the burglar had not escap-
ed. The sheriff took his revolver and
entered the place. There was no need
of the revolver as Marone was tickIed
to death to see the sheriff approaching.
This is some service he shouted
to the sheriff as he dragged himself out
from behind box where he had been
in hiding. 3SDon't be afraid of me
making any resistance. / have taken
a look out of the window and believe
me I'm glad to see some one coming
to take me out Of here. T wuld rather
take a chance with any one than face
those guns
The Somers people fred a salute
when the sheriff brought Marone out
of the store and the sheriff tucked him
away in the automobile and brought
him to Kenosha. its the first time I
ever tried to go into any place. said
Marone. TT guess I'm a bum guesser
when it comes to breaking in. That
sure is some burglar alarm though