The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-11
EXPECT OFFICIAL PROBE
Commandant at Great Lakes Station Elk
pocted to Make an Effort to Punish
Saloon Men Who Sold Liquor to Re
cruits in Kenosha on Sunday.

Four United States naval recruits in
greater or less degree of intoxication
were picked up by the police Officers of
the city on Main street on Sunday
night and this morning all of them were
lined up before the municipal judge
md fined So and the costs Of the ac-
ton. They gave their names as f. fl.
Davis Il. Gross, John Johnson and r. G..
Grouse All four entered pleas of guilty
TO the charge against them. The men
declared that they had been in the ser
vice of the government at the Great
Lakes station for month Jail pen
altics of ten days were named as the
alternatives of the fines and the four
Boys were taken to the police office to
await the coming of the federal offic-
ials. The men in charge Of the Great
Lakes station were notified early this
morning of the arrest Of the four re-
cuits and they instructed the local
police to arraign the men under the
civil code the same as any other men
held in the bull penv at the Jail.
Capt. William A. Moffett, command
ant of the naval station, is expected
to demand an immediate investigation
to discover what saloons in Kenosha
sold liquor to these men. Many months
ago the Commandant issued formal
order to all saloon men charging them
not to sell liquor to men in uniform.
The men in court today all declared
that they were more than twenty-one
years of age and this Will be one of the
first points investigated. The local of
Ulcers were not advised as to where the
men secured the liquor but it is thought
certain that when they are taken back
60 the station the officials there will be
able to get this information and that
some immediate action will be taken to
prosecute the saloon men in Kenosha.
Two of the recruits were in beastly
state Of intoxication when they were
picked up by the local officers They
had fallen ON South Main street and
people in the neighborhood feared that
they might suffer severely from expos
ure
The local police officers have been
under the fire of the officials at the
Great Lakes station on account of ar
rests of recruits made in the city and
at one time it was declared that the
Secretary of the Navy would ask the
local Police and Fire Commission to re-
move one of the members of the police
force on account of the activity he had
shown ia arresting some of the noisy
recruits. 1T was also declared that it
was possible legal action would be start
ed against the city. The local offic-
ials have offered to cooperate with the
men at the station and at one time it
was declared that patrol of Officers
would be sent to Kenosha to look after
the recruits This plan was not fol
lowed out and in recent weeks MANY
OF the recruits have been coming to Ke-
nosha and some of them have been max
ing nuisances of themselves. Mayor
Pfennig has declared his willingness to
work IN any way possible with the
Commandant at the station with view
of getting the best possible results and
with the four cases of this morning
fresh in his mind he has renewed this
offer. One thing is settled, and that is
that drunken recruits from the station
will have the same treatment in Keno
sha as drunken and abusive civilians.