The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-11-30
TELL STORY OF BOLD CRIME
Lawrence Hochguertel and Harry Dunse
Show Little Contrition When Arraign-
ed in Court and Smile as Long Sen
tence Is Imposed on Them.
(From Monday s Daily

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three, and Harry Dunse, aged twenty
! one, both Racine men, held on a charge
of assaulting and robbing Julius
Splitter, Kenosha jitney driver on
last Friday night, pleaded guilty to
| charge of assault with intent to rob
when armed with a dangerous weapon,
in the Municipal Court just before noon
| today. They were sentenced to terms
of fifteen years at hard labor in the
state prison at Waupun. Before Judge
Randall imposed sentence on the two
men he gave them chance to tell the
full story Of the crime.
! Hochguertal was the spokesman for
the pair and without batting an eye
| lash be told Of the manner in which
they planned the robbery. He declar
ed that the two met in Chicago and
| that as he knew that there were large
number of jitneys working here they
arranged to come to Kenosha and
"pull off the job. = They came here
late Friday afternoon. We walked
about the city for some time and final
ly spotted this jitney It was an en-
closed ear and appeared to be best
suited for our purposes said Hoch-
guertel. II found the iron bar on
the street and hid it under my coat.
Then we went to the station at the
north end of the city and waited.
When Splitter came along we asked
him to take us to Central Park and he
said it would cost seventy-f cents.
We told him to drive a little farther
| when we reached the park and then I
hit him with the iron bar. He strug
| gled and Dunse drew the revolver and
| shot him. Then we drove to South
Milwaukee and when we abandoned
| Splitter in the car on the road out of
South Milwaukee we believed that he
was dead. We divided the money
amounting to about three dollars and
we were making for Milwaukee when
we were arrested.
| Dunse declared that he had nothing to
add to the story Of his companion in
the crime and he knew Of no reason
why he could not be sentenced. Both
| boys declared that they had been fol
! lowing the "show' business. They
declared that they had not taken part
in any other robbery and that this was
the first time they had ever been
arrested for crime
| Two sisters of Hochguertel were in
court at the time sentence was pro
nounced and they showed much more
concern over the sentence than did
Hochguertel himself. A brother of
Dunse had visited Kenosha on Sunday
| but he was not in court when the end
of the hearing came. He never was
any goodD was the remark attributed
to the brother by Sheriff Stahl at the
hearing this morning.
| Splitter, the injured man was in court
| but he was not called upon to make
any statement. He declared, however,
that the story Of Hochguertel was
correct.
The pair will be taken to the state
prison on Tuesday Under the law this
is Just half the maximum sentence
Hochguertel and Dunse were brought
to Kenosha late Saturday afternoon by
Sheriff Stahl and Chief of Police
O'Hare and they just seemed to revel
in making confessions. The confes-
sions had lot of the vainboasting of
men hardened in crime. In fact, one
of the men admitted to the sheriff that
they had considered finishing Spit
ger on the theory that "dead men tell
no tales. - The men admitted that they
had knowledge Of a holdup in Racine
nearly year ago in which a Mrs.
Scott had been robbed of one hundred
and twenty dollars. They claimed that
this was the work Of a pal by the name
Of "Fisher0 who was now working as
teamster in Chicago. The men made
no excuse for the brutal treatment Of
Splitter other than that they saw a
good chance and decided that they
could get away with the robbery.
A brother Of Dunse visited him at
the county jail on Sunday, but he made
no effort to do anything to get him out
of the scrape. The brother declared
that the boy had been going to the
bad for some time and that he had not
been able to check him.
The sheriff and Chief O'Hare went
to South Milwaukee early Saturday af-
ternoon and after getting the story Of
Splitter and the two men they decided
to bring them back to Kenosha for
trial. Splitter was suffering consider
able from bullet wound in his arm
and the bad wounds on his head, but
he insisted that he was able to drive
the jitney bus back to Kenosha, SO
the officials landed their men into the