The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-11-24
f(Frofn Saturdays Daily

wise known professionally as Mrs.
Greenwald, the woman operative of the
Russell Defective agency, who has been
working secretly in Kenosha county
for nearly a. year of the past Mrs.
Greenwald's appearance in the trials
now underway in the circuit court was
made, for the first time in the case of
the state VS.. John Bruins on Friday af-
ternoony awhen she appeared as one of
the Chief witnesses for the state, with
Joseph P. Hayes. Bruins is the propri-
etor of. the Hotel Plaza, 258 Church
streets33b .as3
Dating the time Mrs. Greenwald OPP
Grated i'm Kenosha for the agency she
was Miss Rayce, being at that time un-
married, but she went under the name
of miss Roberts," The trial of John
Bruins held Friday was on one of the
two Indictments against him, for the
sale of Intoxicating liquor, but during
the course Of the testimony, some of
the evidence which will be introduced
against Bruins on the second indict-
ment, namely; charging the excepting of
a disorderly house, was disclosed, as
Mrs. IGreenwald and Hayes both testi-
fed to the way in which Bruins gave
them 81 room together for a short time,
although they were known to him as
"Mr, Hayes and Miss Roberts"
State Captures Hotel Register Sheet.
One Of !, the sensational features OF
the trial was when Bruins was on the
stand for the defense, as the only de-
Tense witness and under the cross-ex-
animation Of Prosecutor Mortimer
Walker, Walker asked him if he had
the hotel sheet on which the registra-
tion Of Hayes and his companion was
made. Bruins said he had and produced
it in court on request. Walker, togeth-
er with Hayes, scrutinized the docu-
ment carefully and then Walker turned
over the sheet to be held by the court
as States exhibit A." Morris Barnett,
though looking somewhat disturbed by
this rolling of events, made no protest.
But it was observed that Attorneys
Drury and Baker, who sat at the side
as spectators of the case, consulted to-
gether on the matter. "They had no
right to get that paper!" cried Drury,
meaning by "they" the state prose
cutors.
There were seven counts in the in
dictment against Bruins, on the charge
of sale of liquor, but the most sensa-
tional was count two, though this as
matter of time was really the first
count.
Get Room and Whiskey Too.
Hayes testimony as to how room
and whiskey too was secured at the
Plaza hotel on February 8, 1921, was
told by him substantially as follows:
II went into the Plaza hotel at six
O'clock on the evening Of February 9Th.
John Bruins, the defendant, was doing
duty at the desk. 1 told him that a
girl friend of mine from out Of town
wasqint Kenosha that evening and that
she and would like to occupy a room
an hour. All right said Bruins. told
him that the girl would register as
Miss Roberts, from Chicago so that
he wouldsrecognize her when she came
in. miss Roberts was Miss Rayce of
the " Russell Detective agency. On
Bruins telling me that it would be all
right, rswent back, met Miss Rayce and
Instructed her to register at the hotel
under the name of Miss Roberts. /
watched her from across the street as
she registered and went in five or ten
minutes later. There was a figure go
opp osite Miss Rayce's name, written as
Roberts and wrote my name and
BruiIs wrote an awkward 20 after it.
r" sIthink you can find the ROOM said
Brufs. Joined Miss Rayce in the
r06n In "a few minutes l rang the
bell, Bruins came to the door in re-
sponse TO the summons, l asked him
for s(mething to drink He took bot
tie from. one. pocket and two whiskey
glass(s from another and poured US
eachl Ia glass of whiskey. l asked him
how much and he said rs cents glass
gave him a 81 bill. l paid him So
for the room and l believe paid him
at this time, although l cannot say
positively as to that.
"Three-quarters of an hour after ]
rang again and Bruins again answered
the call, During the interval l had
disarranged the bed for Bruins benefit
and Miss Hsyce had taken down he1
hair also for Bruins benefit. When
Bruins came the second time, I asked
him to step into the room, which he
did, and asked for more drinks He
went through the same process as be.
fore, producing bottle from one peck.
ct and two glasses from another.
introduced "Miss Roberts" We hac
two rounds of whiskey. Miss Rayce
asked if she could buy some whiskey
Bruins said he had to be careful not tc
sell any to get outside. He said once
two federal men stopped at the hotel
but the clerk, Stubbe, had happened &c
see their badges and that put him wise
The label of the whiskey bottle reaC
Old Taylor, but Bruins said it was bull
whiskey. At about $50 that evening
we left the room and the hotel, going
separately, I think Miss Rayce went
first"
Mrs. Rayce Greenwald was the next
witness on the stand and her test
imony corroborated that of Hayes, ex
cept for the detail that she did not re-
member taking down her hair.
Bruins Tells His Story.
Other witnesses for the defense, in
GLIDING Harry Harrington, former po
lice officers William Marsh and Charlie:
Amberlang, were called. The witness
es told of the purchase of drinks Of