The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-15

| refrain instituting any prosecution
against him, Martin, in conducting a
dance hall In connection with his sa-
loon at Silverlake. Martin is charged
in the second count with having of
fered and given Fleming sixty dollars
in the month Of June, 1920, for pro-
lection in the conduct of gambling
place at Silverlake. A jury in the
case was secured at three thirty o'clock
Monday afternoon, including nine men
and three women urors.
Attorney Drury sought TO block
much and almost all of the testimony
with his objections to the questions
as put by Mortimer Walker, special
prosecutor for the state The first
witness called by the state was G.
Luetten, carpenter contractor. who
was asked to testify as to the dance
hall he had built for Martin, it's di-
mansions and the purposes he under
stood it was to be used for The tes-
timOny of this witness was most siren
uously combatted by Attorney Drury.
who held that he had nothing to do
with the case, and that no foundation
had been laid for his testimony, and
that it was purely extraneous and
brought in collateral issues that had
nothing to do with the case. His OBJ
jections were over-ruled. The carpen-
ter testified that he had built a one
story building, dimensions forty by
sixty feet, which he understood would
be dance hall, and that it had fin
ished the place on May %, 1919.
Drury: II now move that all this
testimony be stricken as incompetent
and irrelevant, and not material to the
issue"
Judge Belden: "Over-ruled."
Tom Fleming was the next witness
called, and duly sworn by Acting Clerk
of the Circuit Court Minnie Staver.
Fleming testified that he was formerly
county supervisor, chairman of the
town board of Salem, and one of the
jury commissioners of Kenosha coun-
ty. "
Walker: Glow long were you jury
commissioner
Drury: OBJECTED to as imcompe-
tent, immaterial and irrelevant and not
within the issues of this case"
Judge Belden: answer the cues
ton"
Witness: -Four years."
Walker: GAS town chairman what
are your duties?"
Drury: "Objected to as incompe-
tent, immaterial and irrelevant"
Judge Belden: "Your purpose. Mr..
Walker?"
Walker: "To show the scope of his
authority"
Judge Belden: "You may answer"
The witness answered, but it was one
OF those answers that got tangled up
in his moustache. Every question
asked by Walker was objected to by
Drury, but sometimes the witness had
made his answer and Walker gone on
to the next question while Drury was
IN the midst of his objection.
will you kindly watt" cried Drury
once to the special prosecutor, "while
| have uttered my objections? You
might at least let me have the priv
ilege Of getting that upon the record"
"OhS' said Walker, "I'd like nothing
better"
Judge Tells Them Not to be Hasty.
Judge Belden: cit would be better
If you weren't SO hasty on either side"
Drury, plaintively: "But I've got to
be hasty if I'm to get in word edge
wise!"
In spite of all the objections, Elem
ing, after he made himself heard,
stated that Frank Martin had offered
him a roll of bills in the spring of
1919, when he, Fleming, had made
protest against the dance hall being
run in conjunction with his saloon.
Fleming testified that he had refused
the money and continued with his OBJ
jections.