The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-14
ARREST MEN WHOGAVE LIQUOR
Police Department Kept Busy When
Great Detachment of Sailors from
the Great Lakes Station Invade Ke-
nosha and Make Main Street the
Scene of a Merry Carousal - -Four
of the seamen Are Taken to Jail
Today.

Enlisted men Of the United States
navy answered the order of the Keno
sha police force, against sales or giving
away of liquor to men in the uniform
of the army and navy, by staging a
debauch in Kenosha on Saturday
night. Between three and five hundred
men enlisted in the navy and under
training at the Great Lakes Station,
came to Kenosha and staged mad
carnival on the streets Of the city.
Sensational stories are told about the
treatment accorded to young women by
the reveling seamen, but these stories
are not confirmed by the reports of the
police department. in regard to the Sat
nrday night debauch At one time the
police station was crowded with more
than thirty of the men in the uniform
of the navy who had been arrested
either on charges of intoxication or had
been taken into custody as witnesses
to the fact that civilians had given
liquor to the sailors. One pair Of the
"white tops had quart of whiskey
and four pints of beer in a paper bag
The detachment of the sailors came to
Kenosha early Saturday night and
while the police department. asserts
that no liquor was sold to the men in
the saloons by eight o o'clock, sailors
were staggering about the streets
making a general nuisances of them
selves. They invaded the dance hall
and the theatres and half dozen
disturbances were reported in which
the men in uniform had part.
AS result Of big drive of the
police to stop the carnival and de-
bauchery four of the sailors were ar
rested on charges of intoxication and
tody charged with either buying liquor
for them or giving it to them after
some one else had bought it. There
can be no denying the fact that the
men were plentifuny supplied with both
."hard0 and soft liquor A hun
dred and fifty Of them invaded one
dance hall early Saturday evening and
it was necessary to have the police es-
cort them from the hall. The men in
uniform marched the streets singing
songs and handing out "left handed
compliments to young women they met
on the sidewalks. It was the worse
l;a,lox- o4 +bo ra1alrx, of Az ra;lo, ~,
leave ever seen in Kenosha. Not all
of the men who came from the station
to Kenosha were connected with the
stirring scenes. Many of them conduct
ed themselves like gentlemen on the
streets and public places Of amusement.
When the police arrested the men
there was no effort on the part Of their
companions to secure their release.
Thirty of the men booked as witnesses
declared their willingness to come to
Kenosha any time their testimony was
needed. These men were sent back to
the station. Sunday almost as many
more Of the recruited men came to
Kenosha. They were in the parks and
in amusement places, but no serious
disturbances were reported as result
of the visit of the men on Sunday.
The enlisted men arrested included
Walter B. Johnson, I'll. K. Friday, Roy
Ruthwell and A. J. Cords. When they
were arraigned on charges of intoxi-
cation in the Municipal Court this
morning all entered pleas of not guilty
and the hearings were continued to
next Saturday. All were sent to jail
in default of bonds of twenty-five dol
lars, but it is expected that officers
from the training station will come to
Kenosha today and secure their release.
All of the men claimed that they were
ignorant Of the federal regulations
against the use of liquor by men in
the uniform Of the army and navy.
The men arrested for either procur-
ing liquor or giving it to the men were:
William Hendrickson, W. Reiplinger,
Mike Block, George Lorenz, George
Conklin, Frank Poesen and Thos. J..
Bristeham. These men were arraigned
in the Municipal Court this morning
not ON charges from the federal
statutes, but under state law.
1--WE are not going to stand for these
mad carousals of the enlisted men
from the navy said Chief O'Hare
this morning. We want to be patrio-
tic and we want the boy going to war