The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-18
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Chief O'Hare Declares That Evidence
Shows Alejko Was Murdered on N.
Pleasant Street and Body Dumped
Along Electric Railway Tracks.

That Joe Alejko, whose body was
found along the tracks Of the Chicago
and Milwaukee Electric Railway on
Sunday morning was murdered and not
the victim of an accident, was the
claim of the police department. today
and in support of this theory the police
have arrested John Pocus and Paul
Kuchunes, both Lithuanians, who are
held in connection with the case. Chief
Of Police o Hare declared this morning
that woman alleged to have been con-
neeted with the case would be arrested
during the day. The men under arrest
have stoutly denied any connection
with an assault on the nan.
This man was not killed by an cleo
trio car, but he was killed by blow
en- the head !" said Chief of Police o.
Hare this morning. "We are getting
lot of facts on the case and we are
convinced that he was slugged and
robbed and that after the men who
slugged him found that he was dead
tnat he was taken in an automobile and
that the body dumped along the tracks
OF the electric railway with view of
having people believe that he had been
struck by a car and killed That
wound in the head of Alejko was never
made by an electric car but with some
elunt instlu lt iA sile ltGn5la If tssa
men who slugged and robbed him. =
Facts discovered by the police center
about a gathering at house on North
Pleasant street on the night before the
body of Alejko was found. 1t is known
that the two men under arrest were
I present at this gathering and that they
Lad part in fight. The police assert
that when Aleiko went to the house he
had a considerable sum of money, a
gold watch and valuable ring. The
money and watch had been taken from
his pockets and the ring had been
stripped from his finger when the body
was found At the orders of the police
the inquest on the body of the man has
been held up pending the rounding up
of people suspected to have been con-
nctd with the crime. Alejko was well
known among the Lithuanians of the
city. He was leader among them and
they are insisting that the case be
probed deeply.
The police claim to have evidence
that the actual killing of the man took
place near the old Upton barn on
North Pleasant street. They claim that
some jitney bus driver was called after
the man had been knocked Gown and
that the body was placed in the auto
mobile and taken out to the north linz
its of the city. The fight in which the
man is alleged to have been killed is
supposed to have taken place early
Sunday morning. The woman who was
in charge Of the house where the man
was on Saturday night has been care
fully questioned by the police but she
had not been arrested up to late hour
today.
The police report Of the case on Sun
day declared that members of the train
crew had reported that they had struck
a man. 'tWe are going to call in this
train crew." said Chief O'Hare this
morning. s'The nature of the injuries
of Aleiko show clearly that he was not
struck by train. 1t is possible that
this mans body was left so near the
track that car pushed it off the track
but his death was not caused in this
way. We are rounding up every man
and woman connected with this mat
ter''
1t is expected that the suspects ar
rested will be given chance to tell
their stories to the police some time
this afternoon. One man arrested in
connection with the crime was released
on Tuesday night after he had con.
WINGED the members Of the police de-
partment that it would have been i'm
possible for him to have been near the
scene of the alleged assault.
ST. MATTHEW RECEPTION.