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

hundred or one hundred and twenty
five dollars in the fall Of 1919. Had the
slot machine business started in then?
A-Well, think they were in for
awhile, and then, if remember fright
", they were out.
Odd you know, before they went
in, they were going in?
A-No, did not.
Q-Did you know they were in when
Ritter made you that first payment
in the fall?
A-Oh, yes, I presume I did.
Q-How did you learn of it?
A-Well, I probably took it for
granted from the fact that these fell
lows were paying something in.
/ Q-You think that is your first
intimation?
Al think so. Although can't tell
them dates and everything. We had
considerable complaint about Silver
lake out there; but whether at that
time or not, 1 couldn't say.
Q-The only person you ever were
paid by was Herb. Milliger, outside
Of the payments
A-Cinterrupting) Herb Milliger
didn't pay me that money. If it was
a check what's his-name gave it to
me-Ritter.
Odd you give him any part of
the check back?
A-No. AS I remember it, not.
Had No Direct Dealings.
Q-But you had no direct dealings
on slot machines with anybody?
A-No, I had no direct dealings.
There was fight. When Meyers first
went in I thought we were going to
get along fine. I wish the thing had
stayed out. 1t seems Jacobson and
GALES were fighting about who was
going to have the machines, and they
were out long while. Finally who
did get them at least l don't know.
Q-You mean there was fight for
lodng time before Meyers got in?
A-No, when Meyers was in.
Q-That summer?
A-That spring. From the 1st of
January, when he first went in, don't
think there was a slot machine in
Kenosha county for some months after
he first went in.
Q-Who was the fight between?
Al think it was Sam Jacobson and
Gales and those fellows, as to who was
going to have the machines in the
county; something of that kind. 81
| Q-Do you know who won out?
A-No, do not. I don't know who
finally had them. I think they both did.
Odd they come to an agreement?
Al don't know.
Q-Were you informed by anybody
that they had?
A-No.
| Q-What was the next payment after
the $125,00 in the fall?
A-Oh, there might have been an
other payment that winter, and the
next summer it quieted down pretty
WE'LL
Q-You say there might have been
payment or two that winter. How
much did you get that winter?
A-Oh, there might have been
couple of hundred dollars paid that
winter. In the winter time it seems to
me things were closed down pretty
well.
Q-Not so much doing around the
county?
A-Net so much doing around the
county. AS I remember it, they were
pretty well closed down.
Q-You think after that first pay
ment of one hundred or one hundred
and twenty-five dollars in the fall, you
didn't get more than two payments of
about 100000 each that winter? Z
Al don't believe so.
Q-And that was made in the same
way?
Al think so, yes.
Q-And can't you remember any
place where any of the payments were
made by Ritter?
Made Payment at Office.
Al think he made one or two at
the Office.
Q-At your Office?
Ayes, think SO. Which ones
they were
Q-What did you do with these pay
ments when you received them?
A-Oh, sometimes l deposited part
of it. 1t all depended.
Odd you make it practice to
deposit the payments in the bank to
your credit?
A-Well, used to deposit good
many-or, parts of them.
Q-In your personal account in the
Merchants and Savings Bank?
A-Generally did.
Q-How much did you get during
the spring and summer?
A-Probably two or three hundred
dollars.
Q-Two or three payments?
A-No, two or three hundred, maybe,
all together. AS I remember it, there
wasn't much doing.
Some One Was Holding Back.
Q--Do you think Ritter was begin
ming to "hold back" on you?
A-Well, don't think ever got my
third. I don't think it was Ritter.
Q-Who do you think it was?
A-Meyers, probably.
| Q-What makes you think you didn't
get your third?
A-Oh, / think they must have got