The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-05-25
POLICE OFFICE LIKE SALOON
Officers Confiscate Gallons Of Whiskey,
Wine and Beer from Men Who Were
Taking It Back to Waukegan-
Twenty Charged Drunk" Here.


Do you know what a "bootlegger
ISL If you don't and want to find out
just, stick around with the members Of
the Kenosha police on the beat which
leads to the west side electric station
The bootleggers reigned supreme in
the city lookup and the county Jail on
Saturday and Sunday and this morn
ing the police station looked like a
well regulted saloon. In fact, the POI
lice Office had a lot more "Wet' goods
this morning than could be found in
some of the saloons of Kenosha.
Twenty men from Waukegan were in
the municipal court this morning charg-
ed with intoxication. Every one Of
the twenty had come to Kenosha not
with view of getting drunk, but rather
with view Of acting as a common car
rier to take liquor back TO relieve the
dryness Of Waukegan. They had liquor
by the jug, by the bottle, by the flask
and in tin cans and mason jars.
The invasion from Waukegan start
ed early Saturday afternoon and every
trip that the officers made after that
time seemed to be for some fellow
from Waukegan. This morning there
was some five gallons of whiskey, two
gallons of wine and half case of
beer stored up at the police Office and
every drop Of it had been taken away
from men who came up from Wauke-
gan. The only trouble with it all was
that the "common carriers" were in
clined to be greedy and wobbly. They
had been sent up with definite mis-
sion--to bring the booze back. The
men, however, seemed to think that
they should 60 the limit in taking it
back and after they had their arms
filled with packages they proceeded to
fill their hides with the contents Of
other packages Most of the Wauke-
gan men arrested said that they were
employees of tannery in that city
and nearly every one of them claimed
that he had been delegated by his
friends to come to Kenosha and get
liquor Only a small proportion of the
men. who came up after liquor got in
to theN hands of the police So long as
they could walk and did interfere
with any ono else the police officers
allowed them to go along to Wauke-
gan with their precious cargos Of dis
titled liquors 1t was only the ones
who fell by the wayside who went to
jail. The jail register shows that
there was exactly forty-two arrests
made in Kenosha between Saturday
noon and this morning this being the
largest number of arrests ever report
ed for the Sunday business in Keno
sha. True enough, twenty-five of this
number were from Kenosha, but the
crowded condition of the jail was due
to the large number Of Waukegan men
arrested The Waukegan men were
also to blame for the arrest of some
of the Kenosha men who found their
way to the city lookup, for the thirsty
Waukegah men when they reached the
saloons in Kenosha proceeded to try
to drink up all the liquor in the town
and in a short time they had their
fighting clothes ON and several parties
were taken for disturbance on
this account.
The police see in dry Waukegan a
real menace to the city of Kenosha
Chief O'Hare and Judge Randall were
in conference this afternoon figuring
out some plan to put an end to Keno
sha being made the drinking place for
the Waukegan foreigners and it is
probable that before the end of an
other week some plan will be agreed to
which will make it improbable for the
Waukegan men to come to Kenosha.
Waukegan is having a hard time in
getting its tipple. Tt is claimed that
the one boat running into The harbor
there brought in FIVE hundred cases of
beer on Saturday, but the price that
must be paid for the imported beer is
so high that the men who consume it
are kicking. That is the reason that
they preferred to send delegates to
Kenosha