The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-02-09

at noon this day, the first day of act
ual confinement to be solitary.
On the fourth count of Indictment
No. 564c, malfeasance in. office. it is
the Judgment and sentence of the
court, and of the law, that YOU. Owen
O'Hare, be punished by confinement at
hard labor in the state prison at Wau-
pun, Wisconsin, for and during the
term and period of one year, beginning
at noon this day, the first day of act
ual confinement to be solitary.
Upor the fifth count of Indictment
No. 564c, malfeasance in office, it is the
judgment and sentence of the court.
and of the law, that you, Owen o'Hare,
be punished by confinement at hard
labor in the state prison at Waupun,
Wisconsin, for and during the term
and period of two years, beginning at
noon this day, the first day of actual
confinement to be solitary.
The sentences upon the several
counts of this indictment will run and
be served concurrently.
It is the order of the court that the
several sentences imposed upon each
and all of the indictments, 1880. 5O0c.
Size, 546c, 547c, 549c, 564c, and the
several counts thereof, shall run and
be served concurrently, all being COW
cred and included within the maximum
sentence imposed of 2k years.
Tells of Meyer Charges
In sentencing the former sheriff
Judge Belden went into the charges
against him with considerable length.
He said:
"You stand convicted by the verdict
of the jury of the crimes of bribery,
upon four several counts as charged
in the Indictment.
"The first count of the indictment is
that on the 23rd day of October, 1919,
you, being the duly elected sheriff of
Kenosha county, authorized, empower
ed and required by law and your off
cial oath of office to uphold and en-
force the laws, and to make arrests for
crimes and misdenreanors, committed
in Kenosha county, did corruptly and
contrary to law accept and receive
dollars, ($50.00) with the agreement
and understanding between you and
Schrayer that in consideration of tht
payment and receipt of such money,
you would refrain from arresting or
causing the arrest of Schrayer for
unlawfully maintaining and operating
gambling houses and devices or for
&c 1tI ,,l
misdemeanors in Kenosha county, and
that you would use the power and
influence of your office to prevent
such arrests and to protect Schrayer
from interference or molestation in
unlawful acts and conduct.
"The second, third and fourth counts
of the indictment are like unto the
first, differing 'rnl" as to the times
when like sur paid and received
with like pul
"The evidence .Dply justifies the YER
dict of the jury upon each count that,
beyond all reasonable doubt you did
receive such sums for the purposes
and with the intent charged.
No Doubt AS to Evidence.
Emotions have been made in your
behalf in arrest of judgment and, in
the alternative, for new trial, both
of which were denied because the
court entertains no doubt of the suf-
fciency of the evidence to support the
verdict or of the regularity of the
trial and no doubt of your guilt as
charged in the indictment and found
by the jury.
"You were elected sheriff of Keno
sha county in the fall of 1918. You
took the official oath of office, in
writing, subscribed and sworn to by
you, wherein you swore that you
would support the constitution of the
United States, and the constitution of
the state of Wisconsin, and faithfully
discharge the duties of your office.
officer of Kenosha county, charged
with the duty, among others, to be ever
alert to detect crime in this county
and to bring violators of the laws to
the punishment of the law in order
not only that such offenders might be
punished, but also that your fearless
discharge of duty and their punish
ment should serve as salutary eX-
ample and warning to others not to
commit like or any unlawful acts.
GLOW lightly you regarded your
oath of office, your duty to the state
and the people as sheriff of this coun-
ty, your personal integrity and repu-
tation, has been shockingly shown in
this court recently.
''You were sheriff of this county, I
cannot say that you served as sheriff,
during the year 1919 and 1920 Those
were memorable years for Kenosha
county. I hope the last of their kind.
! Under your administration, with the
corrupt cooperation of other public
officials likewise charged with the
sworn duty to apprehend and punish
crime, to uphold and enforce the laws,
who have been likewise convicted for
violation of duty and of moral turpi-
tude, an era of crime, law violations,
brazen defiance of the law, such as
| had never before existed here, sprang
up and fastened itself upon this COM
munity, and has so left its imprint and
| influence that since your administra-
ton, through the sessions of the grand
| jury, through the trials in this court,
there has continued and exists this
very day much brazen violation Of the