The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-12-12
Men From the Great Lakes
Station and Police Officers
Clash at North Shore
Station.
FISTS ARE USED FREELY
Waukegan Girls Who Had Part in the
Debauch Skiddoo With the Arrival
Of the Police and May Have
Walked to Their Homes.

Four enlisted men from the United
States Naval Station at Great Lakes,
r. f. Rhodes, John Houton, w. j..
Stone and e. r. Wonder, were SEN
fenced to twenty days in jail by Judge
Tully in the Municipal court this
morning as a result Of the part they
had in debauch and fight staged at
the Chicago, North Shore and Milwau-
kee Electric Railway station just be-
fore one O'Clock this morning. 1t was
one Of the most stirring cazly morning
combats that had been pulled Off in
Kenosha for more than year and the
four sailors who seemed to be embued
with desire and willing to "clean
up Che police" failed Of their mission.
with the eye no left undimmed l
viewed his damaged noseo was some
thing Of the feeling that these four
guardians Of Uncle Sam 3 Navy had
when they got over to the county jail
this morning after pleading guilty to
charges Of discrderly conduct. They
win probably have plenty OF time to
think the matter over as they admit
ted that the real punishment in store
for them was not the twenty days they
drew in Kenosha but what they would
get when they face the Provost Mar
shall at Great Lakes. That official
sent word to tho local officials that he
would send for the boys In due time
but that it would be just "a wen for
them to have a chance to cool off and
let their animal spirits have rest.
Accompanied by some girls from
Waukegan the four sailors and two
others had come to Kenosha TO attend
a dance. One of the members of the
police officers had been advised at the
dance that there was to be clean up
Of the officers and one sailor informed
him that il the police tried to inter
fore they would be carried back in
wooden boxes.
According to the police the men from
the station had converted the waiting
room Of the railway company into q
'Fl0ve parlor The reports which
reached the police were Of a scanda-
lous nature and Merchant police Of
hcer Emil Fox went over TO the sta
ton and demonstrated with the men.
One of the sailors caught Fox by the
throat and pushed him against the wall
and threatened him with bodily harm.
Then the riot call went in and police
officers McGivern, Ohnstead and Radatz
went to the relief of Fox. Tn the
free for all fight which followed the
officers used their fists aud their guns.
No one was shot but lot of the sailors
were scared. Two of the men sought
escaped The girls all said to be from
Waukegan trotted away from the sta
ton just as fast as their tight skirts
would let them run and the police were
busy enough with the men not to pay
great deal of attention to the wo-
men. One of the sailor s came into
court this morning with badly bruis-
Cd face and others Of the list Of de-
PENDANT declared that the police had
shown ftreat 'em rough ten
dency.
People who witnessed the debauch
Of the sailors and the girls and later
watched with glee the fist-cuffs insist
ed that the police did not treat 'em
rough enough " While all Of the men
declared that they had not been drink
ing the police officers declared that
they did not act like sober men. The
four men admitted in court that they
that been guilty of disorderly conduct
and they made no complaints against
the manner in which the police handled
them
We regret this occurrence deeply"
said Chief O'Hare this morning. GIVE
know that these men do not repres-
emit the general sentiment of the en-
listed men at Great Lakes and we feel
sorry that a stain should be east On
the other men at the station by the
actions OF these men. Certainly no
one would criticize the police depart
ment from putting an end to such de-
bauch as these men had started at the
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