The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-01-10
CAMPBELL GETS EVIDENCE
Kenosha Detective Piles Evidence on
Desk Of the District Attorney at the
Request Of People Who Voted
Towns Dry Last April.

District Attorney Peter Fisher, Jr.,
il going to ask the Municipal Court to
decide whether or not prohibition pro-
hibits in the towns of Pleasant Prairie
and SOmers, the people of which towns
voted out the saloon at the last spring
election and the first preliminaries to
the answer of the question were issued
in the Municipal court this morning
when warrants were turned over to the
sheriff for the arrest of Pat Devine
and Matt Newhouse. The former has
an fice cream and soft drink parlor'
on the Sheridan Road in the town Of
Pleasant Prairie and the latter has
similar emporium in the town of Som
ers. The warrants are to be served to-
day and it is expected that the two de-
PENDANTS will be in court early Monday
morning.
The complaints on which the warrants
were issued were signed by Il. J. Hamil-
ION and they charge that ardent spirits
and malt liquors were sold in both of
the places regardless Of the fact that
they were not licensed saloons and re-
gardless of the fact that the people of
both of the towns voted last spring that
the owns should be dry. t
The cases are the first result of the
work of The Central Detective Agency
and Detective Campbell who has had
n lot of experience fighting "booze"
in other cities and states. The district
attorney admits That Detective Camp
bell has laid on his desk mass of evil
dence which should be sufficieiA to con.
ince the blndest and most suspicious
ury. Tt is also declared that these
cases are not "trumped up cases."
Complaints have been coming to the
District Attorney against the "ice
cream" parlors in the two towns for
weeks and he has asked the people who
made these complaints to bring in evi-
dence which would look well when pre-
Sented to jury. Detective Campbell
seems to have turned the trick.
Thus far warrants have not been is
sued for the arrest of other men in
similar lines of business in the two
towns but it has been an open secret
that these places have been under close
scrutiny and it is not improbable that
there will be a general cleanup of all
the places. District Attorney Fisher
declined to make any statement in re-
gard to the possibilities of other war
rants.
Convictions in the local courts would
undoubtedly be of great interest to the
federal officials in this district. It is
admitted that these officials have been
keeping a close watch on Pleasant
Prairie and Somers on account of COM
plants which have been sent in by the
people of the two towns.
II is certain that Pleasant Prairie and
Somers will be we'll represented when
these cases are called for trial A lot
Of the people out in these towns have
been demanding the enforcement of the
dry order Tt is certain that the matter
will be made decidedly interesting is
sue at the town elections this year and
the people of the towns are anxious to
get men in official positions on record.
Ii is just possible that an effort will be
made to put the towns back into the
"wet" column this year but the people
are going to contest any such action.
They feel that they must show an abil-
ity to enforce prohibition in the towns
if they are DESTROYS of having the
ifdrvS1 rule continued