The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-25
SHOULDER sHRUG EVIDENCE
Injured Men and Men Found in Saloon
Following Shooting Refuse to Give
Police ANY Information Regarding
Crime-Man Shot Will Recover.

Vincenzo Ciceraro, 20 years of age,
was target for bullets in a saloon
frequented by Italians on Pearl street
just west of West street just after
o clock Friday night and when police
officers Biennemann and Kautenberg
found the wounded man Longing up
against the bar of the saloon with
three 38-calibre bullet holes in his an
atomy. He was taken to the Kenosha
Hospital in a police ambulance and DR..
George E. Thompson called to attend
him.
One of the bullets had caused bad
scalp wound and the other two. had
taken effect in the man S hip. 1t was
declared at the hospital this morning
that his condition was such as to give
great encouragement and that he would
probably recover. The man had suf-
fered considerable from loss of blood.
Efforts to secure statement from
him in regard to the shooting were
answered by the usual shrug of the
shoulders and he declared that he did
not know who shot him. 1t is possible
that several men took a shot at him,
but If several men were connected with
the crime, all of them must have had
the same kind Of revolvers.
One arrest was made in connection
with the case, but the police admit
that the evidence they have found will
not warrant the holding of the suspect
on charges of attempted murder.
Cceraro had come to Kenosha on
Friday afternoon from DeCarlo, Wis,
and he was living at room on West
street, only short distance from the
place where he was shot.
The proprietor Of the saloon told the
police that he had not witnessed the
shooting and that he was not able to
give them any facts in regard to what
it was all about. 1t was alleged that
at the time of the shooting there had
been about thirty men in the saloon,
but when the officers reached the place
all but three had disappeared and these
three were busy making an attempt to
stay the flow of blood from the wounds
of the injured man. It was rumored
that the shooting had been the result
Of a fight which started over a game of
cards, but the men who were found by
the police all declared that they had
heard of no trouble before the shooting
took place. They did not know how
many shots had been fred and they
could give the police no evidence as to
the identity of the men in the saloon
at the time. 1t is declared that one
man who had been living in Kenosha
for only month had been one of the
participants in the card game and all
trace of him seems to have been lost
right after the shooting.
People in the neighborhood declare
that they saw score or more of men
running away from the saloon after the
shots were fired but when the police
reached the spot, there was no one in
sight except curious people who had
gathered about the front of the saloon
and not one of them had been in the
saloon during the evening.
Ciceraro showed no evidence of be-
ing under the influence of liquor and
while he suffered considerable from the
peppering of bullets he had received,
he did not seem to have any desire to
make any statement of any kind. He
seemed to be lot less interested in
the arrest of the man who had shot
him than the police officers. The in
Jured man was unarmed when he was
found by the police officers and no one
was found who could say that he had
been armed earlier in the evening.
The whole shooting presents the
usual mystery which follows these ca
SEES and although the chief of police
had most of the members of the force
busy on the case during the night, they
did not get a single clew to the iden-
tity of the man who actually did the
shooting.