The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
Walter M. Burke Bears Brunt of Sentences of
the Liquor Ring With Five Years
and S14,5OO Fine.
CUSTER Is RELEASED WITH FINE
Other KenOsha Defendants Draw Short Prison SEN
fences and Fines and Many Get OFF With
Fines = Burke to Appeal

declared by the government officials to
have been the "brains" of the Kenosha-
Milwaukee whiskey ring, bore the
brunt of the punishment for the ring
today when he was sentenced in the
limited States court in Milwaukee, by
Judge A. B. Anderson of Indianapolis
to term of five years in the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
with an added penalty of a fine of
$l4,500.a
Joseph Custer, former revenue coll
Iector at Kenosha, who turned states
evidence in the whiskey ring eases,'
got off with a fine of $4,000 and Ed
iKosterman, former Kenosha banker,
who was declared to have made for
tune out Of his exploits in the liquor
ring, got away with fine Of $4,000
No prison sentence was meted out to
either Of these men,
HynNan Gordon, Joel jacobson, Peter
Gales and Charles Murray, all of Ke
nosha, were each sentenced to year
and a day in the federal prison with
an added fine as a penalty.
Arthur Birk, Keposha saloonkeeper
drew a fine of $1,000 and a year and
two months in prison. and Louis
Schrayer was fined $4,000.
Flli List of Septences Imposed.
Here is the full list of sentences i'm
posed on the various members of the
liquor ring, laid bare by the investi-
cations of the federal grand jury:
Walter M, Burke, years imprison-
ment at TT. ILeavenworth and a fine
Of Sl4,5O0.
Harry Feuer and Charles Grosscurth,
Chicago, former Wholesale liquor deal
ers, 2 years and $4,000 fine.
Joseph Custer, former head Of the
Kenosha internal revenue office, $4,000
Joseph Budar, Milwaukee, former
cafk proprietor, ~ years and $4,000.
Thomas A. Delaney, former federal
prohibition director, years and fine
of $4,000.
Joseph Ray former prohibition in
spector, 2 years and $4,000 fine.
Joseph P. 0'Neill, former chief fed
eral prohibition inspector, / year in
house of correction and $4,000 fine.
Arthur Birk, Kenosha saloonkeeper,
1 year and months and 81 900 fine.
Peter Gales and Charles Murray
Kenosha saloonkepers, year and day
and $1,000 fine.
Joseph Dudenhoefer Sr., and Joseph
Dudenhoefer Jr,, Milwaukee dealers in
sacramento wines, fined $4,000 each. !
Frank J. Egerer Chiffon, Democratic
candidate for state treasurer In 1920,
fined $4,000.
Edward Kosterman Kenosha banker,
ttined $1,000.
~Louis Sehrayer, proprietor of cafe
Vat Truesdell near Kenosha, fined $4,000,
Walter LewandeEski, Milwaukee
south side politician, fined $500.
Hyman Gordon and Joel jacobson,
Kenosha saloonkeepers, were sentenced
to ! year and 1 day and fined $4,000,
Charles Erler, Kenosha, months in
the house of correction and $1,000 fine.
All time to be served at TT, Leaven-
worth excepting that of Joseph 2,
O'Neill and Charles Erler, who will go
to the house of correction.
Burke win Fight On.
Attorney Burke will not go to prison
at once but will continue his fight for
his freedom in the United States court
of appeaLand he will be at liberty on
bond pending the hearing of his appeal
in this court. 1t may be year before
the ease is taken up in the federal
courts. Burke was sentenced on the
charges of conspiracy and bribery of
which he was convicted after long
triad by juryNand no mention was made
of other charges pending against him
in the other indictments. 1t is possible
that the government will demand that
he go to trial on the other charges
before the appeal in his main case is
determined by the higher court.
Delaney and Ray will follow the
course of Burke in the appeal to the
federal court of appeals and sentence
in their cases was suspended pending
the completion of the appeal and they
were released on bonds,
Axe Fails Heavily.
There never was just such sem
fencing before in the courts Of Wiscon-
sin and the axe fell heavily for more
than two hours while defendants and
their friends groaned as the sentences
were handed out. On the bench were
pated to some extent in presenting evil
dence to that body, but day came
when the grand jurors also understood
and excluded you from their hearings
and confidence.
Repeated Acceptance of Money
Evidence of your repeated accept
ance and even solicitation of money
given and received for the purpose and
with the intent of corruptly influenc-
ing your official conduct as district at
torney and of your betrayal of the.
trust reposed in you by the people
accumulated, with the result that four
indictments, aggregating fourteen sew
eral counts for accepting bribes, one
indictment of four counts for enbez-
element and one indictment for obtain
ing money by false pretenses were
returned against you by the grand
jury
Upon the indictment charging ac-
ceptance of $1,000 for the purpose of
corruptly influencing your official in
tegrity and conduct you have been con
victed by the jury. Upon the indict-
ment charging you with embezzlement
you stand convicted by your plea of
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