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

Undersheriff Alex Ritter finished up
the thing he started Monday afternoon
when he went back to the Devils
Elbow" and raided the saloon of Kas-
imera Zalatuka and secured one lone
slot machine which had been tingling
away melody of profits in the place
for some time. The machine was
brought into Kenosha late Monday
evening and placed in the same barn
with the others brought in as a re-
suit of raids made at Central Park
and Silverlake, on Saturday afternoon.
Meantime a warrant was issued for the
arrest OF Kasimera Zalatuka, charging
that she had permitted gambling de-
vices to be in her place of business.
The woman has the distinction of be-
ing the first woman in Kenosha county
to be charged under the gambling
statute. 1t was not expected that she
would be in court today as it was
said that she was i'll in the hospital
and that it might be several days be-
fore she would be able to appear in
court and answer the charges against
her.
Too Much Excitement.
1t was declared by the husband of
the woman that the Saturday night
raid, when the woman drew a revolver
and threatened the undersheriff had
proven too much for her nerves and
that she had been taken to the hospital
on Sunday. The husband of. the wo-
man shaved no desire to interfere
with the visit of the official to the sa-
loon. The saloon had been closed up
after the woman was taken to the hos
pital and evidently no effort had been
made to remove the slot machine. I'm
dersheriff Ritter went out to the
place Monday afternoon prepared to
go to the mat with the keepers of it
and get any gambling devices in OPP
GRAFTON. There wasn't even ripple of
excitement as result Of his visit.
The place had been closed and there
was no one about it and all the Sher-
ifs aid had to do was to open the
door and take out the slot machine and
drive away with it. He had made no
effort to serve the warrant on Mrs.
Zalatuka this morning and he declar-
ed that there would be plenty of time
to bring her into court when she had
recovered and had left the hospital.
May Ask Towns to Act.
1t is declared that a county wide
movement is to be made to get rid of
the slot machines and slot machine
gambling and that the town boards in
every county will be asked to take
action to close up all places where
Complaints have been made to the
Governor from nearly every town in
the county alleging repeated viola
tions of the laws against gambling and
some of the interested citizens have
gone to Madison and have laid the
facts before the governor in personal
interviews. He has given the assur-
ance that the Kenosha county officials
will clean up the conditions.
1t is admitted that the fact that
every resort in the county has tele-
phone connection with every other re-
sort proved a big handicap to the
work of the officials on Saturday but
it Is declared that the slot machines
which went under the counters follow
ing "tips" on Saturday viii be seized
if any effort is made to pull them out
again. A few machines were report
ed to be in operation in the county on
Monday but people who made the
rounds declared that the number had
been greatly reduced.
It is known that the District At
torney is in complete sympathy with
the raids which have been made and
he is personally in charge of the pro-
secution Of the men arrested for vio-
lations of the gambling laws. It is
understood that s1eciaI nfieers in the