The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-10
RAID RESORT
AT SILVERLAKE
District Attorney Fisher
Pulls First Raid in
Gambling Clean Up.
TWO ARRESTS MADE

Districts Attorney Peter Fisher inau-
gurated a movement to curb or end
gambling in Kenosha county on Satur-
day night when Deputies John Maho-
ney, G. w. Jackley and E. 7 Manning
raided crap game at the Silver Lake
hotel and arrested Adolph Stein and
Jacob Jensen of Kenosha on charges.
of gambling and seized a lot of the
equipment of the place together with
some $576 in money. No report of the
raid was made at the sheriff's office
and the district attorney declared this
morning that the raid was being paid
for out of the special emergency fund
set aside by the county board for use
by the district attorney in the suppress
sion of crime. A raid was also made
on one other place in the county but
it was said that nothing was found at
this place warranting the making of
arrests. Jensen and Stein, the two
men arrested were released on bonds
with the understanding that they will
appear in the Municipal Court on
Wednesday afternoon.
Just Start of Cleanup.
"It's just the start of the cleanup"
declared the district attorney this
morning. eve have had complaints
that the gambling evil is developing
very rapidly at these outlying saloons
and resorts in the county and we are
determined to put crimp in it. The
Martin place is the first where we have
been able to get the game in operation
but the other places will not escape.
We are determined to put the curb on
gambling in the county"
The deputies got their orders from
the district attorney late Saturday af-
ternoon and they moved fast. They
reached the Silver Lake resort just be-
fore eleven o'clock and according to
their story they found the crap game
going on in the barroom of the place.
The pool table was being used by the
gamblers and when the deputies went
into the place they claim that the dice
were rolling at rapid rate.
Many "Just Watching Game.
1t was declared by Deputy Manning
this morning that at the time the Off
GERS entered the Silver Lake place
there were more than a hundred and
fifty men in the place and that in a
hall adjoining there were as many
more. There was no gambling going
on in the hall according to the officials.
They declared that Jensen and Stein
were the only two members of the
crowd actually rolling the dice when
the raid was made. It was said that
a majority of the men in the place
where the gambling was going on. were
Kenosha men and that they had been
accustomed to make the regular run to
Silver Lake every Saturday night in
order to get into the game. The
amount of money confscated indicated
that the game must have been size
able one.
The men arrested made no state
ments in regard to the case and on ac-
count of the congested conditions in
the Municipal Court this morning the
hearings were laid over until Saturday.
Gamblers Infest Resort.
1t is declared that the "clamping
down" of the lid in Kenosha has re-
suited in a lot of the so-called profess
sional gamblers seeking big games at
the resorts out in the county It is
declared that in many of the road
houses these games are going on night
~ and that complaints galore have
been made against the games. It was
also stated today that the officials were
not adverse to working little nearer
the county seat but that the places in
close to Kenosha had shown tenden'
cy to close down on account Of fears
of the cleanup"
It is understood that the district at
torney is organizing a gambling squad
Of deputies in every township in the
county and that these men will work
directly under the orders of the dis
trict attorney and that practically oil
of the emergency fund voted by the
county board will be used in cleaning
up the gambling.
Deputy Jackley of the town Of
Brighton who was one Of the leaders
Of the raid got bad scratch on the
nose in the Saturday night visit to
the resort when someone slammed
door in his face. He was in town this
morning and ready to be in court if