The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-07-15

Frank Martin on charges Of hav-
ing gambling devices in their
places of business. They were is
sued on the complaint of Under
sheriff Ritter. Neither of the men
had been brought into court to
answer the charges up to three
O'Clock this afternoon.
Underss erif Alex Ritter entered the
ranks Of the crusaders aginst slot ma
chine gambling in the county on Sat
urday afternoon and evening and as
result of his operations new dent
was put in the slot machine gambling
in the county.
The undersherif got back to Keno
sha just before midnight Saturday
night, bringing in five machines pretty
well filled with money. He got back
with a whole hide, regardless Of the
fact that for few dizzy minutes he
looked into the business end of re-
volver in the hands of a woman who
declared that the undersheriff would
have to take any slot machine out Of
one place under fire.
The undersheriff retired as graceful
ly as possible, as he was advised by
one Of the men at the place that the
woman was sick and in delicate con-
dtion and he did not desire to take
the chances of causing serious conse-
quences to the womanN
At the conclusion of the trip about
the county, Ritter declared that he was
convinced that there was not a slot
machine in operation in the county at
this time.
Starts at Central Park.
The catalog made by the undersherif
showed that he had picked up one of
the machines at Central Park, operat-
ed by H. c, Millager, and four others
at the Silver Lake resort operated by
Frank Martin. Ritter announced this
morning that warrants would be issued
in the Municipal Court today, charging
the two men with maintaining gamb-
ling devices in their places of business
and it is expected that the men will
be in court before the day is over to
plead to the charges. Both Millager
and Martin have been in court in re-
cent months charged with violations of
the law. Martin was arrested after
raid on a bunch Of crap shooters in
his resort and Millager was arrested
on a complaint of selling liquor.
Ritter started out with his truck just
after three o'clock Saturday afternoon
and his first stop was at Central Park.
He found just one slot machine in OPP
GRAFTON at the park and it was the first
one to 90 into the wagon" The I'M
dersheriff had no trouble with the men
in charge at the park and they gave
him the assurance that this was the
only slot machine they had in the
place.
Beats Telephone to Silver Lake.
Evidently the "lines were busy" as
the undersheriff beat the telephone
messages to Silver Lake and when he
reached the Martin resort he found
tour machines in operation and all Of
them went into the wagon. 1t appear
ed that the machines had been getting
liberal play and they had considerable
money in them. From Silver Lake Rit-
ter went from resort to resort until he
had visited every resort in the western
part of the county He showed in at
Twin Lakes, Bassetts, Camp Lake and
Truesdell and sailed over to Powers
AXE, but he found no machines in
operation or in sight in places at any
Of these resorts. 1t was getting late
in the evening and he had rather a
heavy load, but when he came into the
Kilbourn road he decided to make the
round complete.
Meets Terror at Devils Elbow.
He went down the road to the state
line corner to the saloon operated in
the name of J. Zellatooki. In the place
he found a large woman in charge and
when he started on his raid the under
sheriff found the woman facing him
with revolver. eff you take anything
out of this place, 1 am going to start
shooting" the woman exclaimed to
Ritter. "She looked like she meant
it," declared Ritter this morning. Four
other people in the barroom seized
clubs and 'brooms and came along to
aid the woman and in second the
lights in the place were put out. Rit-
ter did not draw his revolver but he
backed out of the place. One of the
men in the crowd confided to the un-
dersheriff that the woman was in a
delicate condition and Ritter declared
that he did not want to take the con-
sequences of going ahead and raiding
the place with the possibility of gun
play and a free-for-all fight. 1t was
declared that the undersheriff had not
seen any gambling device in the place,
1t is probable that warrant will he
issued for the woman before the day
is over, charging her with resisting an
officer.
The undersheriff let it be understood
that this was not simply q flash in the
pan but that it was the plan of his
Office to keep right after the slot ma
chine gamblers until all of the ma
chimes were rooted out Of the county.
This makes eleven slot machines con-
fscated in the county within a month
as Constable Scholey accounted for six
Of them at raid made some three
weeks ago.
Many Complaints Received.
Gle had received complaints Of slot
machine gambling at the various re-