The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-20
REVOKES
! SLEUTH'S PERMIT
Symmonds Angry When
Chief Says Barber Can't
Garry Gun.
CALLS IT SLAM AT HIM.
Slade Says Barber Pointed
Gun; Barber Brings Slade
into Court.

1t all came about because Guy w
Slade, $50 Prairie street, foreman at
one of the local factories, tried to col
lect witness fees off Marsh Barber on
Monday afternoon, after being sub
poened long ago in the famous civil
suit of Barber VS.. Vandenburg, wherein
Marshall Barber tried to collect $500
damages for alleged injuries to a
broken thumb, and wherein he was
defeated by the jury verdict in the
case which was favorable to Vanden-
burg. Barber, it is said,> did not take
kindly to SHADES approach, and a
pitched battle of words took place be-
tween the two. The scene was barber
shop on Elizabeth street.
A battle royal took place between
Slade and Barber on Monday after
noon at 800 o'clock, when words flew
like missiles, and Barber, according tc
Slade, drew his gun, applied filthy
epithet to him and said "You
I'll kill YOU" Barber has different
story, and brought Slade into court
this morning, backed by the district
attorneys office, charging him with
uttering a threat to kill.
ibid you see the gun Barber had ?"
Slade was asked.
"Did II" he answered. 81 looked
into the business end of it two diff
ferent times"
Chief Logan Demands BARRIERS Permit.
Meanwhile there was still another
angle to the case, for the police Of
ficers, when called to Elizabeth street
Monday afternoon refused to arrest
Slade, and while he was brought into
the police station in the wagon, it was
Barber who lead the procession. Agar
at the police desk, the two officers.
McGivern and Long, refused to place
a charge against the prisoner, declar
ing that he was sober and orderly and
they saw no reason to arrest the one
and not the other. Slade declared tc
the police that Barber had fourished
his gun and threatened him with it.
Slade carried no weapon.
Now Marsh Barber, as is commonly
known, has been an employe of tho
district attorneys Office and as such
has been allowed to carry a gun, the
permit granted by Chief Logan. After
listening to both sides Of the story in
his Office Monday evening, Chief Logan
in the presence of District Attorney
Symmonds, told Barber that he. had
to return the permit.
Logan and Prosecutor Differ.
"When I granted you that permit
said Chief Logan, "it was with the un-
Outstanding that you would only use
the gun as occasion might require
while you went about business for the
district attorneys Office in tracing
would flourish the gun in trying to
settle a personal affair. I shall there
for have to ask you to, kindly return
the permit granted YOU"
District Attorney Symmonds started
out of his chair in high dudgeon.
"That is a direct slam at my depart
ment," he cried.
81 am sorry you take it that way"
replied Chief Logan. "If there were a
man on my force who acted that way, l
should prefer charges against him."
"Then you and are DONE" SYM
monds cried, leaving.
Slade was forced to give bonds of
$1,000 before he was released from the
police station Monday night, although
the police said they wiped their hands
of the affair. He was brought into
the municipal court this morning.
charged with threat to kill Barber.
pleaded not guilty and the case was
continued until Saturday morning
when a hearing will be held.
Slade Tells His Saga.
Guy W. SHADES statement Of the
fracas is as follows: 81 was at leisure
yesterday afternoon, I might almost
say for the first time in three years
on weekday, and l started out to do
little collecting on my own behalf
| had some jurors fees coming, so !
went down to see Mr.. Wattles about
it, Mr. Wattles the clerk of the NUM-
cipal court He had told me to come
in and get the money some time.
81 had also been subpoened as wit
ness in the circuit court and / asked
Mr.. Wattles where l could collect it.
He asked me what the case was and ]
told him that it was in the case of
Barber VS.. Vandenburg. He said, We'll
that is civil case, and the only one
you would be able to collect those
fees from is Marsh Barber. I told
Mr.. Wattles that I believed if l ever
collected those fees I'd have to pay
fine first.
"This was all about 4:00 p. m. and
twenty minutes later I took the Eliza
beth street car. / stood on the corner
of Fremont avenue and Elizabeth
street, and on the next car that came
along, Marsh Barber stepped off. /
walked up to him, told him that
/ was out collecting and asked for
my witness fees. He said, GO to hell,
don't want anything to do with you!
/ tried to talk with him but he would
mt talk. He went on to the barber shop
there and ducked inside. I went in
also and talked to him.
Trouble in Barber Shop.
"Now as you know, we all of US have
a disposition, and when I talked to
him, it was not exactly like father.