The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22
COMES TO COURT MASKED
Nineteen ear-old Boy Keeps Police
Guessing and Then Shows Willingness
to Pay the Bill for Damages and
Fine In Addition.

g" Charley Chaplin, real live one,
not the one you see on the screen at
the theatre, but one who walked right
down Main street and one who pulled
stunts-real stunts which on the stage
would have made lot of people shout
themselves hoarse.
This particular Charley Chaplin made
his appearance first at a dance over on
the north side of the city. He sham
bled into the hall with a real shamble
He had cane and mustache and ev-
erything else that goes to make per
fectly real movie comedian. He was a
hit, and on account of the fact that
he was a hit he began hitting them.
There were evidently some people
who liked to change the program and
who believed that Charley Chaplin
drunk would be a lot more interesting
and amusing than Charley Chaplin Sc
Der. They pushed the good work along
and about the shank of the evening
they were highly successful.
The clever comedian admitted it this
morning in Municipal Court. He adj
mitted lot of things and in fact he
insisted that he could not successfully
defend himself against any of the soft
impeachments made by the police Off
GERS. Tt was in the early morning that
the bogus Chaplin found himself en-
route to the city lookup. When he got
there, he just naturally carried out the
character. He had seen Charley Chap
lin flood a building by breaking the
water pipes and he started in on the
one at the Jail. He shambled over to
the first pipe he came into contact with
and got busy. The water spurted up
and hit him in the eye, but Chaplin
never minded a little thing like that
and he took another pull at it. Then
it began to look like a setting for
Keystone comedy in the lookup. The
trouble was that Chaplin was not all
alone in the place and other unfortu-
mates who held distinct ideas that a
municipality was not entitled to force
any one to take a bath in cold water
began to object. They pounded on the
pipes until an officer came down to the
lookup. The rush of water drove the
police officer back. Get a plumber!''
he shouted to the man In the Office on
the second floor of the City Hall. 1t
is some task to get plumber in Keno
sha at three O'Clock in the morning.
There was the usual discussion about
Overtime" for night work, but finally
one arrived and shut off the water and
the soaked Chaplin and the other men
in the lookup were rescued and dried
up along side of the steam coils.
The influx of the water seemed to
have a considerable SOLDERING effect on
the gay movie actor.
With his makeup rather bedraggled
he went with the other prisoners over
to the Municipal Court this morning.
He still had the vile-ftting pants and
the shar,ble, but all the rest of the
Chaplin glamour was gone He seemed
to feel that he was out of place in the
court room in the Chaplin makeup and
he slipped into the toilet room. A real
friend had brought him a suit of
clothes and couple of minutes latef
he emerged from the toilet room just
plain Adolph Kozlcki of Kenosha.
He told the court that he was nine
teen years of age and declared that he
had probably been drunk and paid a
fine of dollar and the costs and in
addition he turned over five dollars to
pay the costs of the overtime work of
the plumber. Now the officials are out
seeking to find out just who furnished
the liquor to the boy.