The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-01-13
District Attorney Declares
His Special Force VIII
Work Secretly.
ORGANIZATION IS BUSY
Leaders Say Local Officers Can
Have Chance but They Will
Appeal to New Governor.

District Attorney Peter Fisher act
ing under the authority given him By
the County Board, is planning for the
appointment Of special Investigators
who will work out Of his Office to Sc
cure the enforcement of law in Keno
sha. The district attorney admitted
on Tuesday afternoon that the special
officers were now being selected. "The
identity of these men will not be
known to even the regular members
of the police department or to the
sheriff's Office" declared the district
attorney "These men are named for
special work and they will be paid out
of a special fund md when their work
is completed they will be laid off until
it is necessary ~ have similar work
done. 1t was limited that the men who
will have charge of the Investigations
for the district attorney will not be
Kenosha men but will be experts in
the enforcement of the law. am not
able to state now and I would not
be willing to state when these men
will start work, They will work
out Of my office"
Says Law VIII Be Enforced.
District Attorney Fisher declared
that regardless of what any other of
fieials of the county did he was going
TO keep his pledge in the last cam
paign and see to it that the law was
enforced. 81 have been advised that
, leo ere ssr'e EaraA'ing deyces ~
operation n re county" said Mr..
Fisher, "and am looking into tho
matter. 1t is going to take little
time to get this clean up properly
working"
Law and order officials in the city
are active and meeting was held on
Monday evening at which the matter
was discussed and it was said that as
a result of this meeting immediate
demands would be made on the of
ficials for the suppression Of gamb-
ling "We have been investigating the
matter" declared one of the leaders
of the anization-himself veteran
in the reform line in the city, land
you will hear from us in the very near
future. / can not say just what ac-
tion we will take. We want the local
officials to have the first chance at
cleaning up the county. We have a
right to expect this of them"
May Appeal to Governor.
"0f course continued the leader.
eff we do not get results in short
time we are not going to quit. We
are going to go directly to Governor
j. Blaine and we have arranged now
that he will not have the excuse of
Governor Philip that he has no docu-
mentary evidence. We have it ready.
Men who have seen slot machines in
operation in Kenosha county within
the last few days are ready to go into
the court and make affidavits. We al
so have the record Of a telephone con-
versation which took place some time
ago which indicated clearly that the
slot machines operatives were plan
ming to make clean up in Kenosha
county and that they were even
hopeful that the machines would come
back into the city"
say Blaine is For Clean Up.
The Kenosha men interested in re.
form declare that they have every rea-
son to believe that Governor Blaine
will take a different attitude on com
plants than has been taken by Gov
ernor Philip in the past. They assert
that the new governor has shown a
willingness to buck even the whiskey
ring which has been busy in Kenosha.
1t is expected that the governor will
sound keynote for reform in the
enforcement of laws when he addresses
the legislature on Thursday and that
1t is possible that he will refer direct
ly to the Kenosha situation.
John Scholey declared that he had
been informed that the slot machines
were in operation in Kenosha county
not again, but yet-but he said that
he had been so busy with duties as
prohibition enforcement officer that he
had not been able to stage raids on
places where the machines were being
kept in operation. He declared that
as soon as he cleaned up cases now
under consideration that he would
take the trail for the slot machine
gamblers and would seek the indict-
ment of the men who are responsible
for the machines being operated here.