The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-01-27
CHARGE HOLDS HANSMANN
Man and Woman Spend Night in Jail
and Hearing May Be Held Late To-
day-Hansmann Friends Protest
Against His Being the GGoat."

Eva Major Goerndt, companion of
Mae Molter Bull in many of the gay
times which have been told about by
the two women, joined Mrs. Bull in
the county jail just before one O'Clock
this morning and she is expected to be
a part Of the stirring of the scandal
pot" in Kenosha in the general clean
up of all charges which may have
grown out of the activities Of the two
young women in Kenosha. No formal
charge was put against Mrs. Goerndt
when she was taken into custody.
Arrested at the same time was Frank
Hansmann, who is held on a warrant
charging serious statutory charge.
Mrs. Mae Molter Bull is named in the
complaint against Hansmann and it is
practically the same complaint on
which he was arrested some time ago
and on which he secured a release at
preliminary hearing in the munich
pal court. Hansmann and Mrs. Goerndt
were arrested at the Main street chop
suey restaurant which is declared by
the police to have been their meeting
place, just before one o'clock this
morning. 1t was alleged by the police
officers that the two had come to Ke-
nosba from Racine only short time
before their arrest.
Following the new stories of Mrs
Bull and her demand that the case be
fully investigated Kenosha officers
were sent to Chicago on Tuesday with
orders to make an effort to locate
Hansmann and Mrs. Goerndt in that
city All day long Chief O1Hare and
Chicago detectives waited about the
North Western station in an effort to
find the two. They failed to put in an
appearance and Chief O'Hare returned
to Kenosha just before eleven o'clock
Tuesday night. An hour later he was
advised that the people he had sought
were at the Main street place and he
at once sent an officer to arrest them.
Neither Hansmann or Mrs Goerndt
made any objection to going with the
officer, but at the police Office both Of
them protested vigorously against their
being detained. They demanded attor-
neys, but none came to the county Jail
to see them until this morning.
A big calendar of cases in the MUM
cipal court this morning rendered it
impossible to take up the cases Of the
two before noon. District Attorney
Drury declared that he had not made
any formal complaint against the
woman as yet, but that later on com
plant would be fled. At the time the
woman was brought to Kenosha some
months ago she made statement TO
the district attorney and it is expected
that this statement will serve as the
information on which the warrant for
her arrest viii be issued.
The cry that Hansmann was being
made the ''goat' was raised immedi-
ately after his friends learned of his
arrest this morning. This was answer
ed by the district attorney by the
statement that he was willing to have
the scandal pot stirred to the bottom
and that he was ready and anxious to
have every fact connected with the
delinquencies of the two women laid
bare in the court room and would let
the evidence hit who it would. The
district attorney assorted that he
would follow up every bit of evidence
presented by the woman or by the at
torneys in the case and that there
would be no favoritisms or partially
shown in the prosecutions. The war
rant for the arrest of Hansmann was
issued on the statements of Mrs Bull
at the time she entered plea of guilty
to the charge made against Hansmann.
Tn court she mentioned the name of
no other person. 1t is admitted, how
ever, that the names of other men
have been brought into the case in in
formal statements made by both of
the women earlier in the investigation
into the case. There is desire on the
part of the officials to make this final
cleanup of everything which may be
related with the cases of the two WON
en- and this plan is to be followed out
1T is probable that both Hansmann
and the young woman arrested with
him early this morning will get hear
mo IN the municipal court before the
dav is over. The attorney for the
state has declared that he is ready
70 proceed with a preliminary hearing