The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-04-27
BRINGS EVIDENCE TO POLICE
serves Notice That He Is Going to At
tempt to Buy Cigarettes in Stores
First Work as a Detective Results in
Court Conviction-Tw Suspended.

Maceo Kueny is fifteen years of age,
at Maceo is reformer and what is
more he is engaged in work along the
lines Of reforming which promise to
bring results. This fifteen year old
boy who lives over on the west side,
has started out to stop the sale of
cigarettes to boys in Kenosha and the
methods which he has taken promises
to get results or to fill the treasury of
the municipal court with fines of peo-
pie who have violated the law and
bring about the revocation of lot of
licenses to sell cigarettes.
Kueny is not looking to have his
picture in the paper or to get any es-
pecial note for his work, he just wants
to be let alone to work out in his own
way the reformation of Kenosha.
Kreny has been working out his plan
for some time. He does not smoke
cigarettes and he knows that it is
against the Wisconsin state laws to sell
cigarettes to his boy companions, but
notwithstanding this fact he has been
keeping tab and he has found lot of
the boys smoking. He found them with
the "tailor made' article and with the
"makins" and when he asked where
they got the tobacco and the paper
pipes the boys We're reticent. He found
that there was sort of a sympathy
between the boys and that they were
slow to give up any information in re-
gard to where the cigarettes were
bought. 1t was a sort of eve belong
to the same LODGE attitude among the
boys who used the "weed" and it got
on Young Kueny nerves and he de-
cided that the only thing to do was to
go out and find out who was selling the
paper pipes to the boys.
He had the money to buy cigarettes
all right and he made an effort in sew
eral places before he was successful.
He finally got into the west side store
o. Mrs. Maggie Faber. None of the
regular clerks of the store were there
but when the young reformer asked for
cigarettes a package was slipped to
him over the counter without comment.
Kueny lost no time getting to the police
Office and he proudly laid before the
police the evidence of violation of the
law. He explained to the police of
ticers that he did not want the CT
garettes, but that he had purchased
them with the one idea of showing that
the law was being violated Mrs.
Faber was arrested and brought before
Judge Randall in the municipal court.
The young reformer was on hand to
prosecute and he had no trouble prov
ing his case. 1t was also shown to the
court that Mrs. Faber herself had been
decidedly strict in the dealings with
the boys and that she had repeatedly
refused to sell them cigarettes or to-
bacco and paper. The young woman
who had made the sale protested her
ignorance of the law. Judge Randall
imposed a fine of twenty-five dollars
and the costs of the action, but the
fine was suspended and Mrs. Faber was
released on the payment of the costs.
Later on Samuel Cohn was brought
in on the same complaint. He also
pleaded extenuating circumstances. 1t
was shown that he had refused to sell
cigarettes to Young Kueny and the
facts in this case proved just as ex-
tenuating as those in the case of Mrs.
Faber and Cohn was released on the
payment of the costs after the fine had
been made record and suspended.
Kueny has started along the right
lines to put an end to the sale of
cigarettes to boys and he has declared
his willingness to work in the field of
reform until he has brought an end to
traffic in tobacco against the provisions
of the state law. He is bright boy
and it is probable that the dealers
who violate the law will have a hard
time matching wits with him.
Young Kueny declares that he is not
known to great many people in Ke
nosha and he is not advertising his
picture. All he is looking for is a
chance to catch offenders and people
who have been taking the nickels and
dimes of the boys are in danger.