The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-25
COUNTY GETS LIONS SHARE
Total Business for Court in the Quarter
Is Far Above Six Thousand Dollar
Mark-Lot of It Was Foreign Cap
ital''-An Arrests Convictions.

The men who drive automobiles and
drive them fast-the fellows who burn
up the roads and can not withstand the
temptation of clear right of way of
concrete-paid right smart for their
privileges in Kenosha county during
the three summer months. This fact
is shown by the report of the clerk of
the Municipal Court for the months of
July, August and September which has
been fled with the city and county
treasurers. The fact that men believed
in speeding both in the city and on the
county roads is shown in clean dollars
for the city and county to an amount
| of more than fourteen hundred dollars.
There were hundred and fifteen men
arrested by the aids of the sheriff on
charges of speeding and out of that
number not one escaped conviction and
all save four paid fines. The fines
range from five to twenty-five dollars.
The four men who did not pay the fine
had some excuse which appealed to the
court sufficiently to have the fine re-
mitted and they were released on the
payment Of the costs. In the city
| ffty-nine men were arrested and all
save two of them were fined. It is
cheaper to be speeder in the city than
after you get beyond the city street
| signs as an examination of the reports
show that the fines in the city ran from
five to ten dollars. The two men who
did not pay fines after being arrested
by the city police officers paid
the costs of the action and promised
not to do it again.
In addition to these amounts collect
ed in fines the city and county collect
ed on an average of three dollars each
in costs, SO that the sum total paid for
burning up the road" was in the
neighborhood of $1,80000.
A lot of this money was ''foreign
capital. An examination of the re-
port shows that about eight per cent Of
the people arrested on the country
roads were men who drove in automo-
biles from other counties or other
states. In the list of the arrests made
in the city the proportion of foreign
capital is not so high and there were
good many Kenosha men who said
" Good Morning Judge" and followed
it with Guilty Ny Lord"
The amount collected by the county
| is lot more than has been expended
in patroling the roads. The men
who have worked on the roads
have received most of their pay in the
way Of fees earned in cases where
convictions were secured.
The very large amounts collected
from "speeders" brings the quarterly
report of the Municipal Court up to
pretty nearly the high water mark and
the total cash which came in over the
counters in the three months amounted
to $6,370.07 Of this amount $s,340.58
went to County Treasurer Blair and he
other $3,021.49 went into the city treas
ury. The eity's balance is after the ex.
penses of the cases had been deducted.
The report shows that the county re-
ceived from justice criminal eases
$2,85057; from justice civil cases,
1896; from circuit civil cases, $500
and $334.95 from circuit criminal cases.
The annual report that will be made
to the county board when it meets in
November will show handsome profit
for both the city and the county from
the operations of the court.