The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-04
MORE VANDALISM
BY HIS. STUDENTS
Kenosha High School Stu
dents Break into Build
ing Monday Night.
LEAVE INK TRAILS

The floor of the assembly room o.
the Kenosha High school was covered
with pile of ink-bespattered books
and papers this morning, as the result
of a midnight visit of nearly score
of students of the school to the build
ing on Monday night. The youthful
vandals broke their way into the build
ing, took all the books and papers out
of the desks and scattered them over
the floor of the assembly room, allow
ing the ink bottles to fall with them
and splatter the ink all over the note
books and textbooks.
The student-vandals left behind them
"ink footmarks" which together with
the fact that some of them were seen
going towards the school building last
night may reveal the identity of the
entire number to the police officials.
An Act of Retaliation.
The trouble started Sunday night
when some of the boys perpetrated a
Halloween joke by breaking into the
building and scattering the papers and
books on the floor of the assembly
room. When school opened Monday
morning, the instructors took the joke
good naturally and because of an i'm
possibility of finding the real culprits,
allowed the first hour of school time
for all "to pitch in and clean up
Then school was held over until four
o'clock Monday afternoon to make up
for the time lost.
On Monday night, the boys decided
to get even for this hour of lost time
and staged the second act of vandalism
Last night is believed the work
started about ten o'clock-the boys
crawled up fire escape onto the west
roof of the building and there broke
into window leading into a recitation
room on the third floor. They broke
off the door leading out of this room
and forced their way into the chemis-
try laboratory and into the assembly
room, where they must have taken
their time to spill the contents of ev-
cry desk in the room. They also at
tempted to force several other doors
but were unsuccessful.
Know Some of the Culprits.
The school officials are determined
that they will ferret out the identity
of the students who took part in the
act of vandalism last evening and will
force them at least to pay for the dam
age which they did to the building and
to the floor of the assembly room. It
is declared that this may mount into
several hundred dollars and that the
least that will be expected of the gull
ty parties will be payment for these
repairs.
eve know who some of these eight
cen lads were," declared one of the
officials, "and by evening believe that
we will have the name of every lad who
went on the expedition. We know that
boys will be boys but We do not in
tend to allow them to be vandals. The
easiest way out of it now for them is
to admit their guilt and take their
medicine"
Steps were being taken today to clear
up the building for school work on
Wednesday and it is certain that when
the lads come to school on Wednesday
they will be surrounded by chain Of
evidence. School officials pointed out
that the affair had gone farther than
being merely prank and that the
breaking into school property consti-
tuted a criminal offense if the officials
cared to push the cases.
Confess This Morning.
Members of the police department
and members of the board of education
made an investigation into the case
this morning which resulted in the dis
covery that some thirty boys, many of
them members of leading families in
the city, had part in the vandalism.
The boys were brought in this morning
and they confessed. It was said that
eighteen of the boys were considered
more or less as ring leaders. Presi-
dent Glerum of the board of education,
has called in the parents of the boys
for a session this afternoon and de-
mand will be made that immediate ar
rangements be made to pay all damage
done to the school, even though it may
be necessary to lay new floor in the
assembly room. In addition to this
other steps will be taken. The board
of education is to be called into special
session to meet on the matter.
The names of the boys connected
with the vandalism were not made pub
lie by the officials this morning but
they may be given out later. The con
fession of the members of the vandal
gang may aid them to escape criminal
prosecution if prompt payment of the
damages is made.