The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-11-03
Julius BlOxdOrf is Found Guilty of Violating
the Liquor Law by Jury at Ten
O'Clock Monday Night.
MRS. IDA MARTIN FOREMAN OF JURY
Woman Foreman for the First Time in the History of
KenOsha County Courts = Decision is
Victory for Grand Jury Probe

The judge had arrived during the
evening, and a few minutes after ten
was preparing to leave for Racine once
more together with Court Reporter
Weleh, when the jury announced by q
loud alarm of raps upon the door that
they were ready to come in.
The judge took the bench and the
jury filed into their seats. There were
present only about four or five Other
spectators and none of the attorneys
interested, either for the defense on
the prosecution were present. Clerk
of the Court Ben DeDeimar took the
clerks place.
Jury is POIled by Clerk.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury.
have you agreed upon a verdict ?" ask
ed Clerk DeDeimar.
eve have!" responded The ladies
and gentlemen.
At this Foreman Ida Martin handed
the bailiff of the court the verdict
which the Judge orened and which was
then real aloud BY the clerk of the
court.
Then DeDeimar said, cray Kupfer
was this and is this still your YER
dict% and each of the jury was ques.
toned similarly until a poll of the
jury was taken and the verdict stood
as presented with twelve unanimous
"ayes."
Judge Belden then suspended court
until ten o'clock this morning. 1t was
learned that thirteen ballots were taken
before an agreement was reached. On
the first ballot, the matter stood seven
for guilty and five for not guilty. The
rest of the four hours was taken up
with bringing over the five who were
for acquittal to the other side. on
the next to the last ballot the vote
stood eleven to one, and the rest was
an easy matter for the jury.
Women Good Arguers.
1t was noticeable during the court
hearing that the women were some
what elf-effaceive, and especially when
they were being questioned by coun-
sci as to their qualifications as jurors,
from time to time their voices were so
10 wand retreating that it was diff
ficult to catch their answers.
But once in the jury room it was
not so. Those who sat in the court
room waiting could ever and anon dis
tinguish the voices of the women among
the jurors raised in strenuous argu-
mentation, and making themselves
clearly heard, although there were
eight men on the jury as against the
four women.
The four women were besides the
foreman, Mrs. Martin, Caroline Bar
rows, Elizabeth Kaufman and Mary
Moore. When the jury was discharged
by the court, the women, their sober
duty done, hurried into the rest room
and their first thought was of their
homes and families.
Mrs. Barrows flew to the telephone
to communicate with her husband, J.
J. Barrows, who is one of the super
visors Of the county board. One of
the humors G the situation was that
about nine clock Barrows called UP
the court house and wanted to know in
plaintive voice if the jury wasn't
out yet and his wife released.
Defense Had No Witnesses.
The defendant, Julius Bloxdorfi
while he sat at the table throughout
the trial with his attorneys, r. V.
Baker and A. L. Drury, did not take
the witness stand in his own behalf
and no witnesses were put on for the
defense. They moved early Monday
afternoon to discharge the case on the
grounds that there was no evidence to
sustain a verdict of guilty but the
motion was overruled The afternoon
beginning at 3:45 o'clock was ia
up with the arguments of court
District Attorney Frank Symnl
opened in behalf of the state, followed
by A. D. Drury in behalf Of the de-
Tense, r. " Baker followed for the
defense and Mortimer Walger summed
up the arguments for the state in his
closing exhortation to the jury.
Eugene Birmingham and Franl
Swift were the two chief witnesses for
the state The former testified to tht
facts in the case as he knew them
following a commitment to the count.
Jail for contempt of court in the morn
ing of which ne was given an oppor
tunity to purge himself in the after
noon, which he availed himself of.
In the evening when Judge Beldel
returned and found the jury still on
in argument, they were called int
court and the judges charge to tbs
jury was re-read them from the recor
by Court Reporter WEIGH, at tn
judges direction.