The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-26
JUDGE BELDEN
SENTENCES THREE
Milkowitz Draws $500 Fine
and so Days in House
of Correction.
HEATING Is FINED
Wife of MiIkowitz Is Sentenced
to Pay Fine of $500 and the
Costs of the Action.

The first Jail sentence in connection
with trials following the grand jury
indictments was imposed by Judge E..
B. Belden this afternoon when he SEN
fenced Morris Milkowitz, who had been
convicted on one count for the sale of
liquor to pay fine of $500 and the
costs of the action and in addition to
serve a term of so days at hard labor
in the county jail.
Milkowitz was one of three defend
ants to face the court for sentence this
afternoon. With him was his wife,
Mollie Milkowitz, who had also been
convicted on one count of selling Ii
quor. The wife was sentenced to pay
a fine of $500 and the costs of the
action.
Heating First Sentenced.
John E. Heating, former proprietor
of the Hotel haywood bar, was the
first man to face Judge .Belden for
sentence, and the court after discuss
ing his plea of guilty, imposed a fine
Of $500 and the costs of the action
covering each count with the order
that Heating be held in the county jail
for a term of six months on each count
until the fine was paid. Heating plead
ed guilty to an indictment charging
six counts of selling liquor and the
sentence will mean fine of $4,000 in
all with the costs of the actions total
ing several hundred dollars more. 1t
is not expected that Heating will serve
any time in Jail, as immediate arrange
ments were being made to pay the fines
and costs.
Place Declared a Nuisance.
Under the order of the court in SEN
fencing Heating, the place which he
had occupied was declared nuisance
and the court issued an injunction
against the owners of the property to
prevent it being used for unlawful
purposes in the future. Under the or
der of the court a bond of $4,000 to
insure the place not being used for
such purposes was demanded. The
bond must be signed by two sureties
to be approved by the court.
In passing sentence on the defendant,
Judge Belden declared that he had
taken into consideration the fact that
Heating had refrained from selling
liquor for time when he knew that
the law was being violated at other
saloons in the city and that he had
taken into consideration the fact that
Heating had gone out of business in
July and had refrained from any con-
nection with the liquor business.
Husband, Wife and Baby.
AS Heating moved away from the
bar of justice his place was taken by
Milkowitz and his wife. They had with
them their one child, three years of
age and as the court began to ad-
dress the couple the child played
about the court room.
Milkowitz and his wife had both de-
manded trial and jury had been
called to hear the case before they
changed their pleas and entered a
plea of guilty
After sentence had been imposed on
the two people they with the baby all
went to the county jail. Both Milko-
WITT and his wife declared that they
had no money with which to pay the
fines and the costs as imposed by the
court. Under the sentence of the court
there is an added penalty of six months
in jail for both Mr.. and Mrs. Milko-
WITT if the fines are not paid
Sold Liquor by Wholesale.
The Milkowitz case was one in
which it was declared that the de-
PENDANTS had carried on a wholesale
trafficing in liquors and that they had
been ready to sell to pretty nearly any
one who came along. There was but
one count in the Indictment returned
against the husband and wife but this
count alleged the sale of a very large
amount of liquor. Milkowitz was
not in the retail saloon business anC
it was said that the transactions had
been carried on at his home with the
full knowledge of his wife. Joe Hays
was the purchaser of the liquor which
was bought from the Milkowitz home
The fine of Heating was paid just af.
ter two o'clock.