The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-25

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telons, three suspects were arrested
at Mckinley, ILL.,, brought to Kenosha
by the police, and afterward released
when found to be government bar
berry bush agents. He said that while
the men were being investigated Gun
nard Hansen was brought face to face
with them in the police station.
Hansen claimed said Meissner,
that one of these men was in the
machine the night of the murder, and
he was almost positive but not sure
that it was the same man who did
the shooting"
Did you ever" asked Zisch, ''hear
Hansen make statementlto Ex-Chief
O'Hare that Carlson was the one who
shot the officer?"
NO." replied Meissner, chat was a
new one to me. / heard about it for
the first time only three weeks ago"
Kautenburg's Testimony corroborate
ed that Of f@ock, as ne stated sl VAN
sen {s ioe tilted tie wrong man m
stead of Carson at the slice station
when confronted with. Carlson and nine
others.
Closes Unusual Hearing
The hearing before Commissioner
Max w, Heck of Racine, appointed by
Governor Blaine to report the findings
in the Carlson case closed at p. m.
Tuesday. 1t was held at the county
courthouse for the purpose of examin-
ing the Kenosha witnesses and in order
to enable Judge Heck to make the
findings on which the Governor may
form an opinion as to the merits or
dement's of Carlson's petition for par
don or communication of sentence.
The hearing is the first to be held
at Kenosha and the second of its kind
to be held in the state of Wisconsin,
the first such referee hearing being in
the "Dogskin" Johnson case. Following
the finding of the referee appointed in
that case, Governor Blaine granted
pardon to Johnson. The two cases, that
of Johnson and Carlson, are entirely
different, in the issues involved. The
conclusion in the johnson case was
that he was an innocent man, sentenced
unjustly to serve for the crime of an
other. In the Carlson case, il has been
admitted that he was member of the
bandit trio which perpetrated the
American Brass robbery, and with the
trio fugitive from the scene of that
crime when the officer was slain.
Did Carlson Wear Oyercoat?
The robbery of the American Brass
took place before midnight of March
80, 1919 Shortly after the three men
who year later confessed to the crime
Loveday, Carlson and Blank, stopped
Gunnard Hansen on Main street in
front of the Elite and asked to be
driven to the North Shore station. On
the way a man, whom Hansen claims
was Carlson, held gun to his head.
Hansen pretending to be out of gas,
drove to the Sheridan Road garage.
He stopped, rushed into the garage
followed by one of the bandits ard
cried to officer Tony Pingatore, "Shoot
the first man that comes in! They're
hold-up men!" As Pingatore pulled
his gun, the bandit behind Hansen
pulled his and slew the officer.
According to Harry johnson and
Elmer Klumb this man who followed
Hansen into the garage wore short
overcoat and dark soft hat. Only an
other man of the three holdup men
wore an overcoat and that was August
Blank who stayed at the wheel of the
machine and did not leave it.
Attorney Zisch claimed that Carl
not on arI
the testimony absolved him. Dis
trict Attorney Symmonds claimed that
Carlson did wear an overcoat, and that
the testimony of Hansen was that the
man who did the shooting wore a short
over-coat. Symmonds further held
that whoever shot officer Pingatore
was guilty of murder in the first de-
gree, and that his companions were
guilty Of aiding and abetting murder
in the first degree because jointly
fugitives running from the scene of the
crime when the officer was killed by
one of them. Zisch held that the MUIR
der of the officer was an act of self
defense on the part of the bandit who
slew him, because Pingatore drew his
gun on the command of Hansen to
shoot the first man who came in.
"I shall find" announced Judge
Heck at the close of the hearing, .that
the testimony here today shows that
Loveday was the one who fired the shot
which killed the officer. My other
findings Fill be announced in a few
days"