The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

maybe 3 little less sometimes.
Csc that you think in the year
1920 your total receipts from Ritter
did not exceed $4,000?
A-1920?
Q-Yes.
Al don't believe it did, much.
Maybe Five Payments.
Q-Might have gone as high as FIVE
hundreds?
Alt might have.
Q-And there might have been as
high as five payments?
Ayes, there might have been.
Q-And when they ceased when the
slot machines were stopped?
Ayes, as I remember it there was
some months before those fellows
went out that everything was all clean
ed up in good shape.
Q-During all that time you never
did anything to stop gambling or slot
machines or the sale of liquor, that
was not forced on you-that you were
not compelled to do?
A-Oh, don't know; worked with
these fellows that came down from
the state department cleaning up
liquor stuff. | didn't have any help.
Yes, | was after the sheriff and the
chief on this gambling stuff.
Q-Don't you think the brides in
fluenced you any?
A-Oh, don't know; I presume so.
Q-Made you less active, and less in
terested? You could have stopped it
all, if you had been real anxious.
A-Well, it is pretty hard to do. I
don't know how you would do it with
those fellows to help you. Nobody
would do anything.
Q-You never made any very siren
uous efforts, did you?
A-No, not until when fall came,
when | asked the county board for
some money so could hire somebody.
Q-That is the only serious effort
you made, and the only effort?
A-Oh, it was not the only effort.
We were after those fellows right
along for one thing and another. /
think we had Martin in two or three
times.
Might Have Been Influenced.
Q-Were you really influenced by
this payment of money-that is what
I am anxious to know?
A-Oh, yes, I presume any person
would be. ysat e
0-That is all the dealings you had
with Ritter, was it?
Ayes, sir.
Q-Did you ever talk with Meyers
at any other time?
A-No, sir, I think that is the only
conversation we ever had, and that
was mighty short one.
Q-And you can't tell exactly when
that was?
A-No, sir, l could not.
rs Q-Hcw, did you attempt, within
the last week, to get Ritter out of
town?
A-No.
Q-Now, you have received other
money than Ritter gave you?
A-Not during that time, not except
unless that Millager is considered.
Q-Outside of that you have re-
eeived other money?
A-This other. money. go
Q-What was that? @
A-Well, the one I got last spring.
Q-How much was that?
Al think it was 100000, if 1 re-
member right.
Q-Where did you get that?
A-Well, that came, as understand
it, from Murray.
Q-Who gave it to you?
Left at Haywood Hotel.
A-Well, itdwas5 left at the hotel. j
Q-What hotel?
A-The haywood.
Q-By whom?
Al couldn't /, say whether it was
left with Heating, or somebody else.
I am sure / don't know.
Q-Who gave it to you?
A-Johnny Heating.
Q-Did he tell you who left it for
you? =
A-No, he did not. He said: "There
is something that was left for you"
don't think he knew much about it.
There wasn't word said - don't
thing there was a word said - and I
went on out.
Ole didn't say who gave it to
you?
A-No.
Q-And you don't know who left it
| there3
| Al don't thing there was a word
said at that time.
Odd you go in to get it?
Al generally went in there pretty
nearly every day.
Q-Did you go in to get this money
Ayes, / went in to get it.
Q-Who told you it was there?
Al talked to Murray about it.
Q-What did Murray say?
Asked for $1,000 Loan.
Al will tell you exactly how that
thing happened. called him up. I
needed some money, and l called him
up, and I met him down to the office.
and asked him if he would loan me
100000. I told him I needed it for
six or seven months. He said he
thought he could arrange it. I was
going up to the court house, and I told
him that if he could get it he could
leave it in there, if he wanted, and
phone me; or would meet him at
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