The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27
BROTHER IN-LAW IN JAIL
Nicholas Butera of Kenosha Is Taken
Into Custody by Police After Wife
Tells Weird Story of Disappearance
of Her Husband in Kenosha.

Mrs. Wassena Boscho, comely Ital-
| ian woman twenty two years of age and
the wife of Frank Boscho, of Milwaukee,
found murdered at the Jeffrey ball park
| on Friday morning is held at the county
Jail and Nicholas Butera of Kenosha,
a brother-in-law of the murdered man,
is held at the city lookup pending fur
Their investigation of the crime Mrs.
| Boscho was brought to Kenosha late
Friday afternoon after she had told
q weird story to the police officers re-
garding the last day which she had
spent with her husband in Kenosha.
Several other people are being sought
by the police in connection with the
crime. Mrs. Boscho left Kenosha on
Friday morning to return to Milwaukee
threee hours after the body of her hus-
band had been found. She declared that
she did not know of the murder of
Boscho until she was informed by
| members f the Milwaukee detective
| bureau that he had been killed.
According to the story of the woman
she and her husband had left Milwaukee
| on Thursday morning and gone to Ra-
cine where they had dinner. Later in
the day they came on down to Kenosha
where she went to the office of DR..
Germano for medical treatment. Later
| they visited at the home of several
relatives in%Kenosha. Mrs. Boscho told
! Chief O'Hare that she last saw her
husband, at the corner of Rowland av
enue and Market street just before
eight clock Thursday night. Her hus
band had left her in the company of
Frank Chiapetta, a Racine man, and had
said "I'm going over to the drug
store When Boscho did not return
Mrs. Bischo and Chiapetta went to the
Northwestern depot. The woman claim
ed%hat her companion told her that her
| husband would be along in a few min
utes. Mrs. Boscho said that she waited
at the station until after nine O'Clock
when her brother-in-law came to the sta
ton and she returned with him to his
hcme and spent the night there. She
declared to the police that she had been
| worried about her husband and that
one of the men said, "Did you hear
| any shots?'
Mrs Boscho detailed the places she
i had visited with her husband while they
| were in Kenosha and told of several
| people they had met. She declared that
| Chiapetta returned to Racine late
Thursday evening. The police have not
as yet been able to locate Chiapetta.
Stories are told by Kenosha people of
| having seen Boscho in Kenosha on
Thursday morning. 1t is claimed that
he played pool at the Palica pool rooms
on Main street and that he purchased
a revolved there which he later
returned to the store and asked that he
be given his money back. Men who
played pool in the Palica store and
clerks in the store declare that they
are certain that the man seen there
was the murdered Italian. The story
they tell does not in any way correspond
with the story told by the woman
8utera declared 90 the police that he
had absolutely no knowledge of the kill
ing of Boscho. He asserted that he had
been busy searching for the missing man
at the time he heard of the murder.
Chief of Police o Hare is inclined to
doubt the report that Boscho was killed
where his body was found. He holds
that there was little blood at the spot.
A careful examination of the body of
Boscho revealed the fact that he had
been shot twice in the head as well as
twice through the right lung.
Coroner Millager is still busy investi-
eating the case and the formal inquest
is to be held probably on Monday. Sew
eral witnesses are being sought in an eff
/ fort to trace the events of the visit Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Boscho to Kenosha.
No arrangements have been made for
the funeral of Boscho and no arrange
merts will be made until after the cor
oner has concluded his investigation of
the case.