The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-04-14
BEER TRAINS HIT
AN OPEN SWITCH
Two Loads of Beer from
Port Washington Fall
to Officials.
FRED PREMO DRIVER

Two beer trains on the Kenosha-
Port Washington line were wrecked on
Saturday afternoon-one on account Of
insufficient maintenance of road bed
and the other on account of the efic-
iency of the Racine county prohibition
officials but the result was the same
in both cases, one load of beer getting
to the county jail in Racine and the
other getting to the municipal court in
Kenosha. Deputy Sheriff Lon Miller
had the best of the bargain in the
amount of the Kenosha thirst quench-
err seized. He got full truck load of
twelve half barrels and two full bar
rels. John Scholey who was the man
who threw the switch on the beer rail
way in Kenosha only got thirty six
cases and some of the cases were emp
ties. However, Scholey's haul was
considerable one and the room up at
the court set aside for 'contraband"
was pretty we'll filled up.
Fred Promo as Driver.
| Fred Promo, former well-known Main
street saloon keeper was taken into
custody when Crusader Scholey seized
the load of beer in KenOsha. The big
truck driven by Promo which was said
! by the officials to have contained a
! hundred and eighty cases of the Port
| Washington brew when it started out
broke down on one of the muddy roads
along Lincoln Park. Scholey said he
was late in locating the shipment and
| that Promo had already delivered a lot
of the beer to the next to the ultim-
ate consumers. 1t was admitted that
woman had found the beer truck in
trouble and had tipped it off to Cru
sader Scholey. Promo was not taken
to jail but ordered to report this morn
ing and the beer and the truck were
left in the hands Of the crusader. The
catching of Promo caused something Of
a sensation and he is regarded as one
of the best known men taken in con-
nection with the crusade to get rid of
the illicit sales of LIQUOR. Promo was
in charge of transfer company here
and no one appeared to have any ink
ling that he had been in the beer-run-
ing" business.
He pleaded guilty to charges of
/
court this morning and was fined $1OO
and costs.
Flying Squadron Stops Shipment.
1t was Sheriff James private flying
squadron which got the other load cf
beer intended to ouench the thirst Of
Kenosha The sheriff had been warned
that the REQ truck owned by Jack Daily
/ of La Crosse and Kenosha had gone
north on Thursday. 1t was only few
weeks ago that this truck was taken
by the Racine officials and released
after Daily had put up $210 in cash.
| The money was forfeited when Daily
failed to appear and he has not been
back yet Neal Hamelink was in charge
of the truck when it was taken by Dep
uty Miller He admitted that he was
hauling the beer from Port Washing
ton to Kenosha but said that he had
nothing to do with the traffic in it. At
the jail he was booked as cleo" Hame-
link of Kenosha but later it was found
that the officers at the jail had mis-
understood the name when the man
was brought in.
Brother is Mystified.
Leo Hamelink is brother of Neal
Hamelink and he was considerably
aroused when the report came to Keno
sha that his name had been given at
the Jail in Racine by man charged
with beer-running. The name was
changed on the Racine jail register on
Sunday afternoon just after D. T. Nc
Owen of Kenosha arrived to furnish q
$500 cash bond for Neal Hamelink.
Sheriff James declared on Sunday af-
ternoon that he was anxious to get
Daily who, he declared, was the head
Of the beer-running syndicate. "These
Kenosha fellows are not very good
sports. They let this driver stay in
Jail for whole day before they came
to get him out" was the comment Of
the sheriff.
II want this fellow Daily brought
back here and believe that we are
going to get him he continued.
Beer-running through Racine county
is going to be decidedly harder as
Sheriff James now has an organization
guarding every road and he is askins
cooperation with officials in countie!
farther west to prevent the runners
taking wide path to avoid arrest.
Hamelink, who is known locally o.
Fuzzy" was formerly taxicab driver