The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-05-11
FORCED TO USE COUNTY JAIL
Recruits from the Naval Station Come
to Kenosha Saturday and Sunday But
Conduct Themselves Like Gentlemen
and No Need of Patrol Is Seen.

Police of Ken0Sha set new record
Saturday night and Sunday when an
even thirty-five prisoners were booked
at the city lookup. There was an over
flow to the county jail but at that there
was no room to take care Of all the pris-
oners and round dozen of them had
to be released on recognizance bonds
for the rush of law breakers. Sunday
night the city lookup with its five cells
housed a total of twenty three prisoners.
They were piled into the cells and about
the corridors. Nearly every one Of the
twenty-seven nationalities represented
in Kenosha was represented in the mot
ley crowd at the jail and it was the
most hilarious night that the basement
Of the city hall has ever known. Some
of the prisoners were talkative drunk
and they insisted on singing, others
were nursing broken heads and badly
bruised faces and they insisted on quiet
in order that they might rest and get
rid of some Of the pain from their
wounds. The police were kept on the
jump all night long trying to keep a
semblance of order in the jail.
The officers failed utterly and this
morning when the crowd was brought
up and marched over to the municipal
court it was the sleepiest bunch of pris-
oners ever taken out of the city hall.
There were thirty one of the defendants
to be arraigned this morning and the
charges ran the whole list of minor city
charges from intoxication to assault
and battery. In the company of dis
gruntled defendants there were num-
Der with broken heads who attested to
the fact that there had been disturb
ances and assaults. At that it was
good-natured bunch of defendants and
they sauntered up to the bench one by
one and pleaded "guilty." Nearly
every one of the record list of prisoners
was ready to plead guilty and pay a
fine. Most of them feared another night
in the crowded city lock up and as one
of then put it, CT would rather pay
twenty-five dollars and costs than spend
another night in that place.
eff prosperity keeps up we are GO
ing to have a bigger lock up" was the
comment of one of the police officers
" These fellows have too much money
for Saturday night
The disturbances were in no way Sec
tional Saturday night and Sunday and
the patrol wagon was called to nearly
every section Of the city. The police
Officers on Sunday had just got through
cleaning up a bunch of fighting drunks
way over on the north side when they
had a run to the exclusive districts of
the Durkee Avenue neighborhood and
brought in another load charged with
the same crime.
There was no trouble on Sunday on
account of the coming of the recruits
from the Naval Training Station. Many
of them came up on Saturday night and
Sunday but every one of them conduct
ed himself like a gentleman. The re-
cruits attended the various theatres in
the city but made no efforts to 60 into
the saloons and there was no call for
the police or the naval patrol to keep
them out of mischief. The recruits have
been given to understand that they are
not to go into saloons in Kenosha and
it is thought that they will abide by
this regulation.
AS result of the activity of the
police of Saturday and Sunday nights
there was continuous stream of gold
into the Golfers of the municipal court
this morning and the total from fines
and costs collected as a result of the
hearings today amounted to more than
5000.