The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Q-Did you know what the money
was paid for by GALES?
A-No, did not
Q-Was he interested in the slot
machines?
Only for Slot Machines.
A-That is the only thing I ever
identified him with. I never found
found him, don't think, until, of
course, after we got investigating,
when we found him in this liquor
gang. never found him identified with
anything else.
Q-Your understanding was it was
for slot machine protection
Al presume so.
Q-That is what you thought it was
for when you accepted it, was it not
Ayes. There wasn't anything said
about it. I presume that is what l
thought; I don't know.
Q-Galles didn't say anything to
you personally?
| AZNo.
Is EQ-Did lie ever, at any time?
A-No sir, don't believe 1 have
talked with Gales more than twice in
three or four years. never see him.
have never been at all intimate
with him. I never go to his place.
Q-Have you ever received any mon
eys, to which you were not lawfully
entitled, of course, l mean?
Al don't remember anything now.
No, / did not. may not have stated
every incident. There might have
been little something.
Q-You mean you never received from
any other persons than Alec Ritter and
from Charley Murray and from Peter
Gales and from Herb. Milliger?
A-No, don't thing I ever received
any money from anybody except those
fellows. Now, where it may have come
from, from Ritter, ETC., of course that
| don't know; but | mean myself per
sonally.. Id - ~.~ 5.s
Remembered No Others.
Q-You can't trace any other money
to any other source?
Al can't trace it to any other
source. I can't now, no.
Q-And you thing that is all the
money you received?
Ayes, / think that is pretty close
to the amounts.
Q-There lis. mo use going over this
again. If there is anything more; for
heavens sake, tell us.
Aft I could think of anything.
There might be an item or so that a
fellow
Q-But you can't tell us any other
persons?
A-But there isn't anything else in
particular, that is of enough import
ance so that it comes to my mind now.
Of course, L am not saying that some
of this money that was paid was not
paid for some of these gambling places
out in the county, or in the towns.
don't know about that. l wouldn't
say, but they never personally came to
me with any of it.
Q-What did Meyers say, or Ritter :?
Didn't they ever intimate anything
A-They never did. They never told
me where they got it, or how they got
it, or Just exactly what it was for,
and never bothered them much about
it. They never did, must say.
Was Money A Bride?
Q-Wasn't this $4,000 paid to you
through the haywood Hotel, by Muir
ray, bribe?
A-Well, now
Q-You remember the other day when
I asked you about that, and why they
paid it to you, you told me that they
paid it to you, you supposed, because
they thought 1t might do them some
good A. i'F 4%4~
Al said they let me have it be-
cause thought probably they thought
/ might be able to help them. Yes,
that is what / said, and think prob
ably that is the reason they let me
have it. But I told you the absolute
truth as to what conversation we had.
That is all there is to it, and if you
talk with him you will find out the
same thing. a@E@9p3tsna9 z@4EstG
A-Welb itrwas that day. It was.
When went to him, really asked
him for a loan. 1t really was my in
tention to pay it back.
Q-But as the matter developed you
knew it was not expected?
A-Well, I can't say for sure that
know that it was not expected. 1t may
be.
Q-Nobody has ever said to you that
they expected it? xs~ae Ill 3d. o4a
A-No, don't think they have. a
Q-You made an effort to get in
touch with them, didn't you, after you
told me about this the first day?
Al certainly did not.
Q-With Murray and Gales?
Al certainly did not; nor have I
talked with them, or seen them, or any
body else
Q-I thought you promised me you
would get in touch with them, to see
if we couldn't have clear understand
ing about it? s.s-.e,a>
Al got in touch with them to the
extent of finding out whether they
were away; but we decided for me not
to say anything. Don't you remem-
Der?
Q-I thought it was decided to ar
range a conference?
A-No, it was determined not to do
that.
Q-Yesterday you said some rela-
tive Of their was coming up from Chi
cago; you could do better with him.
A-No, that was a relative of Meyers,
by the name of Meyers, from Chicago.
GA relative of the sheriff?