The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
GORDON STARTS
FOR PRISON TERM
Alleged Leader of Liquor
Ring" Goes to Serve Year
at Leavenworth.
JACOBSEN GETS STAY
Condition of Health of Joel
Jacobsen Wins Stay of Sent
). ence of Thirty Days.

H. R. Gordon, accredited with being
one of the leaders of the so-called
"whiskey ring" in Kenosha and Mil
waukee, left Kenosha today for Mil
waukee and this afternoon he will
leave for the federal prison at FIT.
Leavenworth to enter the prison to
serve his term of one year. Gordon
was the only one of the Kenosha de-
PENDANTS to make the trip today with
the party which left Milwaukee. Peter
Gales and Charles Murray, two other
Kenosha men who drew prison sent
ences went off to ILeavenworth nearly
two weeks ago and they are now
broken in to the prison life. Each is
to serve a year and one day. The de-
parture of Gordon was without any
demonstration. In the weeks which
have passed since sentence was form
ally imposed upon him he has. been
busy arranging his business affairs
and he announced on leaving, Kenosha
this morning that he was ready to pay
the penalty imposed upon him.
Jacobsen Gets Long Stay.
1t had been expected that Joel
Jacobsen, who was jointly indicted
with Gordon would go 10 FIT. Leaven-,
worth today; but his attorneys have
secured for him stay OF sentence for
another thirty days. 1t was stated
that the stay had been granted by the
United States court on account of the
condition of the health of Jacobsen.
He has been under the care of physi-
clans for some time and they declared
to the court that it would be impossi-
BILE for him at this time to stand the
trip to Leavenworth. Jacobsen is ex-
pected to be able to go to prison at
the end of the stay granted by the
court. His attorneys today declared
that Jacobsen was not "stalling" but
that his health was in such a condition
that it would endanger his life to at
tempt to make the trip and to accustom
himself to prison life at this time.
Fines to be Paid Later
The tens of thousands of dollars i'm
fines assessed against Kenosha men
have not as yet been paid and it was
said today that they might not be paid
until the men have concluded their
prison sentence. Under the lpractices
of the United States court considerable
leeway is given in the matter of pay
ing fines and the fines may be paid
at any time before the completion
of the penal servitude.
1t is also expected that collections
of penalties and taxes claimed by the
government from these men will await
their release from prison.
Local revenue officials today re-
ceived large number of warrants in
distraint from the office of Collector
of Internal Revenue Wilkinson, but
none of these warrants named the
men who have been most active in the
liquor traffic in this section of the
state. 1t is said that the Kenosha
men are reconciled to the payment of
the claims of the government when
they get out of prison and that no
ton. Under the law all property
owned by the men may be sold to
make the collections.
Get Little Fellows Now.
The more than two hundred war
rants in distraint which have been
sent to Kenosha are to be acted upon
at once. For the most part they pro-
vide for the collections of small
claims for income tax against men
who failed to file a report and against
whom a penalty as we'll as the tax
has been assessed.
"We do not expect to get the war
rants for these liquor men for some
time yet" declared one of the men at
the local office. "It is going to take
some time to get them all ready, but
the collection of the claims will start
as soon as they are turned over to US.
Only three or four warrants in dis
traint against violators of the prohi-
bition amendment are now in the
hands of the local collectors and they
orc in propaSs of collection