The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-02-03
Held Since Saturday to be
Arraigned as Accessory
to the. Crime.
MAKES NO STATEMENT
Hart, Alleged Michigan Resi-
dent, Said to Have Been with
Supposed Mother of Child.


Jack Hart, 25 years of age, we'll
dressed and evidently prosperous,
said to be a resident of Michigan, will
be arraigned in the Municipal court
tomorrow as an accessory to the crime
of murder. Hart is to be arraigned in
connection with the death of an in
FAINT child whose badly bruised and
discolored body was found in corn
field along South Rowland avenue on
the afternoon of January 14th. The
post norton examination made of the
body indicated that the child had been
murdered and the coroner's jury re-
turned a verdict that's the child had
been the victim of violence. The
name of the mother of the child, if it
is known to the officials, has not been
made public but it is declared that the
young womAn also is resident of the
state of Michigan and is now being
sought by the officials and if found
she will be arrested on the charge OF
murder
Hart Arrested On Saturday.
Hart was arrested on Saturday after
noon just after two o'clock by Sheriff
William Rauen He was taken into
custody within ten minutes after he
had registered at the Plaza hotel He
had just gone to his room after signing
the register where he gave his home
as Chicago when Sheriff Rauen came
into the hotel and went to the room
AIS darh 1s f,5->5..
as to the cause of his arrest ct the
hotel and he was not booked at the
jail. He reme'~o' tacitnrn prisoner
ii jail and nothing was given out
in regard to tne Ease until this morn
ing
1T is true" said District Attorney
Peter Fisher, Jr, chat Hart will be
arraigned in the Municipal court to-
morrow on a charge of being an ac-
cessory to the crime of murder and
the murder was the death of the child
found in the cornfeld on Rowland ave-
nue., south of the city"
"Have you arrested the woman, who
is supposed to have been the mother
of the child and do you know who she
is p" was the question fired at the at
torney.
81 cannot give out all the facts that
are in my possession" answered the
attorney. eve can say this much,
Hart is declared to have been seen
in the company of the young woman
who we believe was the mother of the
infant child which met death I will
not say who that woman is but I will
say that she came here from Michi-
gan and that she is not widely known
to Kenosha people Hart left here
just about the time the badly body was
found He returned again on Satur-
day just before he was arrested.
understand that Milwaukee attorneys
are to be here to represent him when
the case is called for a hearing tomor-
row.
Hart, we'll dressed and prosperous
looking, has made no statement since
he was taken into custody and his first
statement is expected in court tomor-
row. No suggestion of the identity of
the young woman who is declared to
have been his companion has been
given out He was alone when he
came to the hotel and to the best of
my knowledge this was the first time
he had ever been in the house." said
Proprietor Bruins at the Plaza this af-
ternoon 81 had no idea what he had
been arrested for and I made no in
quiries."
Hunters Found Baby Body.
The body of the infant child was
found in the field by two men who
were out hunting They reported their
find to the coroner and the body of the
child was brought to tKenosha and
post norton showed that the child
had been the victim of violence. There
was' nothing to furnish any clew as to
the identity of the people who had left
the body in the cornfeld. It has been
known that the district attorney has
been busy at work on the case. Stories
of handsome young woman being
sseen along the road have been told in
connection with the case. 1t is said
that this woman is believed to have
been the young woman who is claimed
to have been the comnaniou of Hart