The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-19

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ing to stop payment on a check they
have given Feuer of Chicago" Custer
swore Burke told him.
Custer then related events which he
had previously testified to at the trial
of Bert Herzog. He told how he met
Harry Feuer at the Kenosha station,
and how Feuer and he went to the
Erler saloon, where Feuer gave him
$500. He told of meeting Joseph P.
O'Neill and Thomas Delaney in Ke-
nosha- the next day, and how they
visited the newspaper Office there. He
then testified that he went back to
Burke's Office and told him what
ONeill and Delaney had done.
Chats just for your consumption"
Burke answered, according to Clusters
testimony. Burke then asked him to
get in touch with Herzog- and told
him: "They can't put you in Jail for
asking him." the witness stated. Gus
ter also testified that Burke said, 81
can take care of ONeill and Delaney
and their departments"
Was Tenth Witness.
Custer was the tenth witness called
/ by the government in the first day of
the Burke trial. His testimony, &C
cOrding to indications, was barely half
finished when the court adjourned for
the night. The trial was resumed at
$3.50 this morning.
Sensation after sensation followed
the opening of the much heralded
"Lederer triap Monday morning, the
greatest being the guilty pleas adj
vanced by Harry Feuer and Charles
Grosscurth, Chicago liquor dealers.
Joseph Budar and Custer had been ex-
pected to plead guilty. Each man was
held on $500 bail and sentence was
deferred until completion of the case.
The trial of "Lederer," as result,
became instead the trial of Walter
Burke, the sole remaining defendant
to adhere to the plea of mot guilty"
Feuer,. who had been said to be the
body from Nowhere" as the result
of testimony at the Herzog trial,
was positively identified as Lederer by
the first three witnesses called Mon
day afternoon, as soon as THE oppos-
ing attorneys had made their prelim-
mary addresses to the jury. ~
Cudahy Tells of Meeting.
William Cudahy, former manager of
Budar's cafe, testified that he met
Lederer at Budar's cafe, two weeks
before the first car came in, and later
learned that his real name was Feuer.
He said that Budar sold the whiskey
which came in each of these ship
ments and acted as banker for
Lederer. Under cross examination,
Cudahy was asked by Attorney Willett
Spooner if he knew that the amount
of money handled by Budar, in his
capacity as banker, amounted to
$575,OO0. Cudahy replied that he did
not know the exact sum.
Charles H. Klinger, freight agent
at the North avenue yards of the
Milwaukee, testified that he knew the
man who had represented himself as
Lederer on four occasions, when car
loads Of whiskey consigned to Lederer
arrived at the yards.
He described this man as a man an
swering the description of Feuer.
John Zuest, yardmaster at the North
avenue yards, testified that he knew
Lederer and when asked what Lederer
looked like replied that he was a short.
chunky man, something on the order
OF United States Attorney SAWYER.
This statement caused so much mer-
riment that the court nearly had to
restore order.
Outlines Burke's Defense.
Attorney Patrick H. Martin, coun-
sci for Burke, told the jury in his
preliminary argument that Burke had
never met Feuer or Grosscurth or Her
zog, previous to the fall of 1920 and
that Custer never gave Burke $4,000
or 81 or one penny at any time or any
place or under any circumstances.
The government is basing what
Mr. Sondel told you," Attorney Mar
tin charged, ION the testimony of
Joseph Custer, a man who has with
IN two months confessed to a dozen
telonies and who has threatened re-
peatedly that he is going to get even
with Burke"
Objection to this statement by
United States Attorney Sawyer on
the grounds that it was not proper in
a statement outlining the defense. was
sustained by the court.
Mr.. Martin said that the defense
would admit that liquor was actually
shipped into Milwaukee, probably as a
result of conspiracy in which Led
erer, Grosscurth, Custer and Budar
were implicated, but that Burke never
had any part in the proceedings.
David Sondel, assistant United States
attorney, in making the preliminary
address to the jury, outlined the case
which the government will attempt to
prove. He, told the jury that so far
as they We're concerned the only de-
PENDANT on trial was Walter Burke and
ne charged that Custer, on several oc-
casions, gave Burke $4,000 for him
self and Thomas A. Delaney, in order
to secure freedom from investigation,
Delaney was, during the entire period
OF the conspiracy, chum, pal, and
roommate of Burke's, Attorney Sondel
said. He also charged that the legiti-
mate price of whiskev in 1000 NOS 49,,