The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-13
GET BOTTLE OF RADIUn TOO
Men Had Cards Indicating They Had
Been Working in Various Parts of
State Gave Sheriff S12o to Settle
Case for Them Out of Court.

Two "radium experts, who 4.pro-
badly have been doing a fourishing
business in various parts of the state
are in the county Jail today waiting
for the District Attorney to decide
just what charge shall be brought
against them. They gave their names
as W. H. Londergon and j. G. Whit
worth both of Chicago and they were
arrested by Sheriff Hermann at the
Hoogerheide home, south of Kenosha
late Friday afternoon just as they
were completing arrangements to make
some wonderful cures with sra
dunn - belt.
Members of the Hoogerheide family
had been informed that they were
DOCTORS and "specialists'' in the
use Of radium as a cure and they had
been induced to give the two men
sixty five dollars as first payment on
large fee that was to be charged
for cure of one of the members of
the Hoogerheide family.
The two men had been working in
Kenosha since last Tuesday and the
sheriff and his men are now seeking
other places where they worked.
After they were searched the sheriff
was convinced that they were clever
workers as he found a series of "di-
rectory" cards in their pocket which
purported to show just where "easy'
money was to be found at various
places.
The men dropped into the Hooger-
heide home and asked to be directed
to the way toward Chicago. They in,
sisted that they were going to treat
Mrs. Durant" between here and Chi
cago and that they did not know the
way.
Incidentally they discovered that
there was illness in the Hoogerheide
home and after considerable prelim-
mary fencing the man who had first
entered the house told of the "Fwon-
derfu1 specialist who was out in the
automobile
After considerable coaxing the spe-
cialist consented to make an examina-
ton of the patient. He suggested a
radium belt as the cure. The belt was
originally priced at a thousand dollars
but as this amount did not appear to
be forthcoming the price was dropped
IN fuo h11r draI lot
dred and fifty dollars. Before invest
ing one Of the Hoogerheide bows slip
ped into Kenosha to get some advice
He went to his family physician and
got warning. Then he went to form
Ter Mayor Charles H. Pfennig a friend
Of the family who offered to aid. He
took the sheriff along with him and
they hurried out to the Hoogerheide
home The doctors were still there.
Under rather persuasive language they
returned to Hoogerheide the sixty five
dollars that they had already collected
and then the Sheriff told them thew
were under arrest and put them into
the automobile and was ready to start
for town. Just then one of the mem
bers of the Hoogerheide family came
out with pint bottle containing some
sort of a colorless fluid. "You forgot
the bottle of radium,' he shouted to
the Doctor as he turned it over
to the Sheriff. It must have been
most. of the radium in the world for
blown right in the bottle was the
statement. EfFull pint = full measure
guaranteed. -
After the men reached the jail they
at once began to make arrangements
to fix things up. One of the men in
conversation with the Sheriff wanted
to know if the matter could not be
fixed up with fine. When searched
the Sheriff had found something like
two dollars on the men and he had
decided that it might be we'll to give
them the "second over. - The Sheriff
intimated that money could do lot
Of things and one of the men promptly
from some unbound hiding place drew
out hundred dollars and gave it to
the Sheriff as fixing money. The sher-
if decided that 1t was best to interview
the other "Doctor' and he managed
to dig up twenty dollars for the same
purpose. The Sheriff is holding this
money to substantiate his statements
when the case comes up in court.