The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-07-07


whiskey illegitimately.
Another purpose of the alleged
bride was to enable MIR. Dublin
to make false reports regarding
liquor sale.
The Offense is said to have been
committed January 10, 1921.
1t was expected that MIR. White
would be arraigned in the federal
court today.
Additional arrests Of alleged
members of the whiskey ring were
expected today.
The whisky ring which operated in
Kenosha appeared TO be nearing the
end of it's string today. With all of the
leaders, save one, in the net of the
federal government and with United
States marshals working in the city,
seeking to pick up the last defendants
named in true bills returned by the
United States grand jury, it was evil
dent that the federal officials were get
ting to the bottom of the business.
Following the sensational charges
against Walter M. Burke, the Kenosha
attorney who was arraigned and re-
leased on bonds of $4,000 Thursday
afternoon, came the arrest of Bert
Herzog, former prohibition commits
sioner, and his aid, Joe Ray, both of
whom are charged under the same in
dictments as Burke, Hymen Gordon,
Joel Jacobson, Peter GALES, Ed Roster
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Of Kenosha. At the same time it was
announced that Joseph Custer, former
Kenosha internal revenue collector,
was indicted on the same charges. The
five counts against Burke were held to
be the most sensational of the returns
of the grand jury.
Other Arrests May Come Today.
Two more Kenosha men are named in
pending warrants. One has been a
close business associate Of GALES, who
was arrested and gave bond on Thurs
day, and another has been closely CON
nected with the brining in of liquor by
boat. y Other men named in the indict-
ments are men who served as agents
of the Kenosha ring in Chicago and had
charge of the shipments from that end.
One of these men, a Chicagoan, widely
known to the illicit liquor trade here,
has been described by the officials to
have been the brains of the "transpor-
tation department" of the conspiracy
to defraud the government. 1t is said
that one of the Kenosha men sought is
now on his way from Michigan and
thatshe will report in Milwaukee today.
TheS other man has not been located,
but kilograms are being sent out in an
effort to find him.
All Kenoshans Give Bonds.
All of the Kenosha men arraigned
on Thursday gave bonds and Attorney
Burke led the way back to Kenosha in
the early evening. 1t was said that all
of these men were ready to demand an
early hearing. 1t was declared that
some of them felt that the contention
of innocence was not nearly so strong
after they had read the formal indict-
ments returned against them by the
federal grand jury. 1t is declared that
the facts brought out in the indict-
ments of these men indicate that some
one on the inside "sQuealed" and that
the government has been furnished
with a full statement of all the opera
tions of the ring in Kenosea and sur
rounding cities The statements prove
that the operations of the whskey ring
were of mammoth proportions and that
the men who were in on the split must
have made vast sums of money
Follow Trail of Bribery.
While many charges and much infor-
nation relating to the whisky transac-
tions, the brides offered and given and
the alleged conspiracies are being care
fully guarded by United States Attor-
ney II. A. Sawyer because of the fact
that a number of the defendants have
not been taken into custody, such in
formation as was revealed indicated
that the government will attempt to
show that many carload lots of whisky
were shipped into this vicinity and that
many thousands of dollars were used
in the transactions and in the brides
alleged to have been given the officials
Herzog, according to the indictments
is said to have received more than
$4,000 in brides from the ring" in
order to keep the prohibition enforce
ment officers from Selling various
booze cars which made their way into
this district during August, September
and October of last year.
Protection Is Charged. Z
The indictments are said to charge
that Joseph Custer on several occasions
following alleged conferences held in
the Office of Attorney Burke at Keno
sha, delivered sums of money ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000 for protection
each time a carload of whisky was to
be run into Kenosha, Milwaukee OF
Racine. The indictments also set forth
that upon one occasion, Edward Roster
man, former Kenosha and Racine bank.
er, also named in the conspiracy in
dictments, delivered $4,000 to Mar,
garet Harbaugh, Burke's stenographer
which was to be taken to Burke. The
money was given to Miss Harbaugh in