Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-08
CASES CLEANED Up
ON CRIMINAL CALENDAR
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been a waif ever since then. The dis
trict attorney told the court how he
believed Regal had stolen the cloth
ing to protect himself from the cold.
The count was changed to petit lar
ceny, so that the sentence might not
be too severe. The court first SEN
fenced the youth to six months in the
county Jail after giving him choice be-
tween that and the reformatory at
Green Bay. 81 don't want to go to the
reform school, your honor" said Re-
gal. After a conference with the dis
trict attorney, the court suspended
sentence and while young Regal has
gone to jail, there remains splen-
did opportunity for some goOd-heart-
ed farmer who wants to help a like
ly lad into making a good man.
John Knox of Illinois, was the next
case called and tall, well built farm
er stood before the court. Knox went
to Lacrosse from his KeithSburg, ILL.,,
home and while there met Delilah
in the person of Mrs. Martha Colleran,
who was there on a visit. Mrs. Collier
an, so the story goes, is woman of
about fifty-one years of age and has
husband and married children. She
and her husband are both of not too
perfect morality. and shortly after
that Knox went to work on the Col
leran farm near st. Charles, Mimi.
Young Knox, who is only q, left Min
neSOta with his elderly affinity and
together they came to Grant county,
where they posed successfully as hus-
band and wife for several months. The
woman has made up with her husband
and gone back to st. Charles-KnOx
will stay in Jail until his fine of 5000
and costs are paid, but not to exceed
three months.
Ralph Teasdale of Cassville, APP
peared before the bar and denied the
commission of the crime he had plead
ed guilty to-that of resisting an Of
ficer. Teasdale said that he was, be
fore his arrest, employed by John An
stey, and that while he drank, did not
use cocaine as the district attorney
stated he had been informed. Teas
dale said that he had attempted to
assist the younger Greenwood in saw
ing wood for fire in the Jail where
he was taken for intoXication. For
this helpful act he was accused of
striking at the officer. That the next
day the elder Greenwood had come to
the Jail and picked a piece of wood
big as table Leg" according to the
prisoner, which he brought along to
Lancaster for evidence. The court
remarked dryly that the case seemed
rather one of missing" an officer than
resisting one, and gave Teasdale
jail sentence lasting to April 1st.
Ed Smith, alias Henry Myers, alias
Edward Kent, alias Edward Zatrow--
the latter being probably his real
name, told a rapid story in his defense.
Zatrow is charged with having taken
goods valued at $45 from the barn of
Phillips & Wunderlein in Potosi. last
fall Zatrow told a somewhat discon-
nected story of his downfall, COM
mencing with a term of two years in
Waupun when he was sent UP from
Milwaukee county in 1908 on a charge
of burglary. He was 20 years old at
that time. He worked for w. B. Dyer
here and went to Rockville and PotOsi
with some boys last fall. He claims
that he was drunk and did not know
what he was doing when the theft oc-
Cured. His father is a Woodworking
tanner in Milwaukee and he has
four-year-old child-his wife being di-
vorced from him.
I'm honest, Judge" said ZatrOw.
Liquor got the best of me or the
devil drove me to it."
Zatrow's sentence was suspended
until the court is again in session.
No responsibility here, you see.
Just plain derelicts of life-congenital
criminals, waits of fortune and boys
raised in public institutions, sent in
to the world at an early age and des-
tined to one mishap after another,
drifting down, down to the doors of
Waupun. No friends, no home, no
family ties, no one to worry over them
and pray over them or help them.
Petty crime first, light Jail sentences
followed by more severe ones and at
last the inevitable serious affair that
means the pen" and a totally wreck
ed life.