The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-08-12

Racine on Thursday afternoon follow
ing the arrest of Minnie Borganhagen,
a Kenosha woman, on a statutory
charge and the arrest of men with
her on charges of pandering.
The Borganhagen woman gave her
residence at 600 Elm street. Kenosha,
and her story resulted in two of the
men arrested with her-Roy Mutehler
and Louis Niels, both from Racine
being fined fifty dollars and the costs
of the action, while third member of
the company, Waldo Shanyfield, held on
a statutory charge, pleaded guilty but
sentence was deferred pending an
investigation
"Unprintable details of drunken
orgy which started at Central Park, a
Kenosha county resort, and wound up
at resort on the Five Mile road in
Racine county, were related to Chief
Baker yesterday afternoon by three of
the principals, following their arrest
on a serious statutory charge" says
Racine paper. "They received several
drinks of intoxicating liquor at Cen
trail Park, they said, but at the Racine
county resort the supply was consid-
erably larger than that secured at the
Kenosha county place. First they
drank pint of whiskey, they said, and
then they went after half-pint bot
tie. The proprietor hesitated at first,
they say but later sold them the liquor
when told by another person in the sa-
loon that they, the jewellers, were
all right.
/ Paid Eight Dollars a Pint.
The story of the securing of the
liquor was related to Court Commits
sioner Benson as well, and Assistant
District Attorney Wilberscheid was
present in court when the statement
was made by two of the parties under
arrest. They told of paying eight dol
lars for the first pint of liquor and
four dollars for the half pint. The |
drinking of the pint and one-half |
pint on the premises was not the only
serious misconduct which took place,
and what transpired on the premises
is of such nature as to shock even
the sophisticated.
Profit by KenOsha Woman's Shame.
The case which is now before the
authoritise comes near being a par
allel with anything which has taken
place in the underworld of the larger
cities. Woven into the fabric of the
story is the assertion that no less than
three men profted from the vicious
traffic in which q married woman of
nineteen years was engaged. She is
Minnie Borgenhagen, 500 Elm street,
Kenosha. It was Minnie who made the
money with which whiskey and lunches
were purchased and paid the other
living expenses of Harold Anderson,
also married, according to the charges
made by the police.
While she did not make direct pay
ment' to the proprietor of the resort
on the Five Mile road, it was money
earned in her criminal occupation
which was used by the purchasers. the
police say They received money
from the woman and appeared to be
content to gain livelihood at her
expense, according to the charges
preferred by the police before the
court commissioner.
Connected directly with the pander- /
ing charge are: George Leipscher, 1917 |
Owen avenue; Harold Anderson, who |
was living with the woman in room |
at Seventeenth street and Morton |
avenue; and George Masteos,, 400 |
Sixth street. The latter defendant is
going to fight the charge, asserting |
that he is not guilty. He is out on |
one thousand dollars bail, pending his
trial before Judge Burgess in the muni-
cipal court at the next jury term. The |
trio was before Commissioner Benson
late yesterday, all being held to the |
municipal court for trial. Masteos was |
the only one who secured bail.
While the above named men are the |
only ones alleged to have accepted
money from the woman or profted |
from her life Of crime in other ways,
three others were, brought into the
case as being men who had paid to
the young woman the money which
she lavished on Anderson. They are
Louis Niels, 2125 Mead street; Waldo
Shanyfeld, TIT Eleventh street; and
Roy Mutchler, 1927 Howe street. They
were all charged with adultery before
Court Commissioner Benson and bound
over to the municipal court for trial
None of them secured bail yesterday
afternoon and all spent the night in
custody. Mrs. Borgenhagen was al
so arraigned on a statutory charge
and held over for trial.
The first arrests in the case came as
the result of the work Of Patrolnan
Humble who is on duty at Columbia
Corners and other parts of Washington
avenue. He learned Of the fact that
Anderson and the KenoSha woman
we're occupying room on Morton
avenue and that they were not married
to each other. He went to the place
and found the pair asleep, third per-
son, Roy Mutchler, also being in the
room. Anderson and the woman were
and taken to the station, but
not until some hours later was
Mutchler put under arrest.
The marriage certificate issued to
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