The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-07
AMERICAN BORN IN LEAD
Report of Chief Shows Large Number Of
Arrests for State Charges Nearly
Hundred Women Get Behind Bars in
Year Earnings of Dept. Large.

The year 1917 was a buster year for
the police department. of Kenosha. This
fact was shown in the annual report
of Chief of Police O'Hare which has
been filed with the City Clerk. It
shows that during the year a total of
1886 arrests were made by the police
department. 1T shows further that
fines and fees earned by the city as a
result of these arrests totaled $11,-
1876.
It is one of the most complete and
most interesting reports ever issued by
any department. of the city govern
ment.
Chief O'Hare in his report urges
strongly the proper notifications of the
ordinances of the city holding that
such work is vital to the proper OPP
Grafton of his department. and the pro-
per protection of the people. He has
urged that this work be done for sew
eral years but up to the present time
the council has not been able to work
out plan for the carrying forward
of the work.
The report is not without the custo-
that during the year the Police Depart
ment established its Honor Roll' and
three men who had travelled the beat in
Kenosha resigned their positions or took
indefinite leaves of absence in order to
aid the nation in winning the war On
the Honor Roll appears the names of
William Biennemann and Thad Logan
both Of whom are now in France with
Pershing's forces and Charles Rock
who is at the cantonment at Battle
Greek ready to go over.
The report shows that the total cost
of maintaining the department for the
year was $28,554.84. The report shows
that the Police Pension fund has
fund in bonds and in banks to the
amount of $12,349.71. The total re-
ceipts for the year for the fund in
Guiding the one percent Of licenses,
dog licenses and donations coupled with
the regular payments from the police
officers amounted to $2,403.77.
The report shows that during the
year 1,016 defendants were arrested
under warrants charging state often
ses; 2,213 were arrested for violation
of city ordinances and some sixty ar
rests were made for the United States
Government. The report shows that
1868 of the prisoners arrested paid
fines and costs. 273 were sentenced to
the county Jail, eleven were sent to
the state prison, six to the industrial
school at Wauskesha and forty three
prisoners were turned over to officers
from other cities. During the year
there were 2910 calls for the Patrol
wagon.
Two hundred and thirty three lost
children were returned to their homes
in the year, $50 animals were killed by
the police, twelve stolen automobiles
were recovered, ninety six stolen BIZ
cyles were returned to their owners and
three stolen motor cycles were re-
covered.
The largest number of arrests were
made in August of last year when the
police brought in 387 prisoners, Septem-
Der was close second with 374 and
December was the low month with
179.
Single men were greatly in the ma
jority Of people arrested. $3.50 Of the
men arrested had no home ties while
S97 were married. 1924 of the people
arrested were residents of Kenosha and
the remaining Se2 were non-residents.
Only thirty six Of the people arrested
during. the year could not read and
write. Ninety eight women were pick
ed up by the police during the year.
Eight colored men found their names
on the police blotter and the remainder
of the people arrested were white.
The report shows that the greatest
number of offenders are found be-
tween the age Of 81 and 40 years of
age this total reaching 731. There
were 1913 boys under sixteen years ar
rested by the officers and 12S of the
people arrested were over sixty years
of age. A hundred and twenty five
accidents were reported by the police
in the year.
An interesting table shows the ma
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