The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-02-12
PARSON WINNER
IS TAKEN TO JAIL
Cow Boy Preacher Spends
Two Nights in City Lock
Up but Comes to Court
Smiling.

Inc COWBOY preacher Went to jail
Saturday night. He declined to have
his right to preach on the streets ques-
toned by a mere police officer and as
result of his insistenee he was taken
in. He remained in Jail until this
morning and had a wonderful Sunday
of it, preaching the gospel to the mot
ley crew picked up by the police as a
result of the weekend activities. Two
| nights in jail had not in any way
dampened his religious ardor and peo-
pie who went past the city hall this
morning heard him still singing There
is Sunshine in Ny Soul" and he sang
just like he meant it. On the police
docket he was put down as "R. R.
WINNER" and he was charged with
making disturbance on the street.
Preached Too Loud.
WINNER started his religious work
early on Saturday evening. He began
preaching at the corner of Main and
Park streets, just after seven o CLOCK
and his services for the evening ended
half hour later when he went along
with Secretary Meissner of the police
department. Evidently the people
were willing to listen to the cowboy
preacher for the officer declared that
he had to stop the meeting on account
of the fact that the crowd grew so
great that it tied up traffic. The peo-
pie blocked the sidewalk and went out
into the street and held up the opera
ton of the street railway cars. Before
the preacher was arrested Meissner
told him to put an end to the meeting
and the officer claims that he said he
would close Iown.
Defes the Police
The officer strolled along down the
street for short distance and he heard
the we'll known voice of the preacher
again. WINNER had changed his mind
and had started preaching again. It
was declared that he shouted out CT
! defy the police" Meissner wouldn It
stand for defiance and in went the
cowboy preacher. He wasn't in any
way troublesome prisoner for the
man in charge of the lookup but he did
insist on being permitted to hold all
the services he wanted to on Sunday
and the prisoners i'll the Jail had the
busiest go-to-church- Sunday" that
had been known about the city hall
in its history.
Signs Bond On His Knees.
When WINNER was arraigned in court
before Judge Tully this morning he was
charged with disorderly conduct. He
promptly entered a plea of "Not
Guilty" and the hearing was continued
for week. WINNER offered to put up
ten dollar bill and his gold watch to
satisfy the twenty-five dollar bond ask
ed by the court, but later the court ac-
copied the ten dollars and signature
from the preacher. The cowboy knelt
as he signed the bond. "That will
make it more binding,'' he declared to
the clerk of the court. Following the
court hearing WINNER declared that
his arrest and his approaching trial
would in no way interfere with his
ministerial work in Kenosha. He as
serted that his only regret in the whole
matter was that he was in jail when he
ought to have been preaching the Cos
pei and that on account Of this fact he
had been unable to preach to a west
side congregation on Sunday night.
The minister himself gave out the
following statement:
Hello Folk:
I am pleased to be out of jai and
ready to preach to the public again.
| am glad l am SO fortunate to meet
Rev. Taylor of Chicago.
did not meet him while I was stop
ping atSMoody Bible Institute. | have
met him since. We are interested in
meetings just now at Socialists Hall
each evening this week and next.
I will be with Rev. Taylor through
these meetings. I invite all to attend.
The results Of last Saturday evening s
meetings after / was taken off the
strest, was that 65 hands were raised
in prayer, came forward as Bro. Tay-
lor continued the meetings and VIM
mer IS vote for out door meetings.
am pleased with results of Saturday
evenings meetings.
AS said in Saturdays paper. III
be here when the foe fiends come.
With best wishes [ am in the Lord s
service.
Respectfully,
R. R. WINNER,
! Cowboy Preacher.