The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-17

It was the lure Of eight children,
from whom he had been separated
since the night of May 31st, which
Kenosha to stand in court and answer
charges of the attempt to murder
Peter Molinaro. DeBartello was ar
raigned in the municipal court on Mon
day afternoon on a complaint which
charged him with attempted murder
He appeared to be very sick man and
he trembled as he entered plea OF
'FNot Guilty" and asked for continu-
anee of the hearing. The hearing was
continued to June goth and the bail
of DeBartello was fixed at twenty-five
hundred dollars. He signed the bail
bond and he had as his sureties NUM-
Der of the most prominent Of the
Italian men of the city. He was
released from custody without ever
being held in the city lookup or the
county Jail.
DeBartello came to Kenosha from
Grand Rapids, Mich. He left Grand
Rapids late Sunday night after hav-
ing spent five days in that city.
Goes to See Children First.
DeBartello reached Kenosha just
after eleven o'clock Monday morning
and he went directly to his home and
surprised his wife and children. He
fondled the children for two hours and
then put on his hat and coat and told
his wife that he was going to the Office
of the district attorney to give him
self up to answer the charge of at
tempted murder. He told her that he
hoped to be out on bond, but that
whether he went to jail or not, he was
going to end his hunted life as a
fugitive.
DeBartello was known to the dis
trict attorne. but his physical condi-
ton was such that Mr.. Fisher failed
to recognize him when he walked into
his office just after two o'clock Mon
day afternoon. DeBartello promptly
told Mr.. Fisher that he had come to
surrender himself and the district
attorney told him he would arrange
for an immediate hearing
Police Had Clue Before.
The police had clue to the where
abouts of DeBartello for several days
and messages had been sent to several
places in Michigan seeking his arrest.
A letter is alleged to have been sent
by Bartello to a brother of Peter
Molinaro, 1t is declared that while
this letter was not translated by any
official, that DeBartello told MoIinaro
that he wanted to come back to his
children and wife and that he could
not live without them. The letter is
believed to have suggested some ar
, rangement by which DeBartello could
secure his liberty. The letter was
mailed from little town some dis
tance from Grand Rapids and it is be-
lieved that DeBartello had a friend
there who was to forward the answer
to him.
Molinaro let the police know Of the
receipt of the letter and it is said that
he did not communicate with DeBartello
Was Long in Hiding.
DeBartello did not deny the fact
that he had fired the shots which re-
suited in the serious wounding Of
Molinaro, but he talked freely with the
officials after the hearing in court and
declared that he would have defense
when the case came up for hearing.
II was pushed up against the wall be-
fore shot," he is declared to have
said in court on Monday. DeBartello
told the police that after he fled from
the Molinaro home he broke up the
revolver with which Molnaro was shot
and threw the pieces away. He walked
to South Kenosha and he said that
after hiding there for short time
he took an interurban car and went
as far as the state line and that he
was in hiding near this point until
the time he went over to Grand
Rapids, Michigan
DeBartello had evidently suffered
terribly as result of his fight and