The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
STATEMENT TELLS OF
PROTECTION RING
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I +bink Ritter paid me that.


reney?
Al think so.
Odd he ever pay you in any other
way than currency?
Al, don't think he ever did.
Q-Are you in doubt about it?
Al don't think he ever did. 1t
seems TO me he had check once that
he turned over to me.
Q-Instead of getting the cash on 1t
Ayes. instead of money. But 1t
seems to me that was something that
II can't remember about that for sure
I think I can tell about that, because
/ think that check was one that went
into an account, so / can look it up
and tell you about that. 1t is long
while ago.
Q-When was it you got that check,
about?
At seems to me it must have been
over two years ago.
Q-You got that from Ritter too,
did you?
Z Ayes, as I remember it.
\ Q-Whose check was it?
Deal On With Millager.
A-That is what I was trying to
think. I had deal on at that time
time with Herb. Millager, on an auto
mobile, and it seems to me there was
a check there of his; but don't think
that check really was given for-H |
could remember just when that was.
That is the only thing ever remem-
Der of that Milliger was mixed in in
any way, as far as that stuff is con-
cerned. That is the reason | remem-
Der it. had deuce of time getting
the money out of him for the auto
mobile be bought from me.
Q-How much did he agree to pay
you for it?
Al think a thousand dollars.
Q-How much did he pay you?
Ale paid me the whole business
before / got through with him.
Q-Was there any money in fact
that was not pay for the car?
A--Oh, no. / sold him Chandler.
Q-What had the check to do with it
that Ritter gave you?
Al was thinking that / sent out
there. / don't know but what l served
a summons on him, at last, to get the
balance of the money, and that that
check came through that. 1t was
about at time when there was some
other money to be paid.
Q-What other money?
A--Ritter had some other money.
Gas a bride, you mean-bribe
money?
Al suppose money that had been
given to him.
Q-You think MilIager contributed
something?
Al think he contributed something
but that lis the only instance / remem-
Der Of can find out about that, and
get the date and everything, pretty
near.
Q-That was a check of Herb. Mil
layers?
Once Paid by Check.
Al think so.
Q-And there was some part of that
check that was not in payment for
the automobile?
Ayes, think so.
about how much?
Al don't know.
Q-Approximately?
Alt may be. There was a note
at the bank; he was supposed to pay
that, and guess paid that; it may
he practiral1v all IF IL
Q-How much was the check?
Alt seems to me that the check
was two hundred and twenty-five or
three hundred and twenty-five; some
thing like that.
Q-That was all for you, was it?
Ayes. That is the only one !
ever had.
Q-other payments were all in
money?
Ayes, sir.
Q-Currency7
A-Well, there were not many after
that, you know. It slowed down good
deal; and of course last year
Cat which bank was the note that
Millager gave you?
Ale OlOnt give me note. had
a note at the bank and told him he
would have to take care of it, because
he owed me this money on the car
That was on the automobile. In fact
i got Mr.. Brown to send word to him
to have him take care of it. That deal
was absolutely square.
Q-That was note at the First Ma
tional Bank that Millager paid?
Ayes, sir.
Q-That would fix the date he gave
you this check?
A-No, that was a different time.
Q-Then that check was not in any
way connected
A-(interrupting). No, it wasn't con.
nected with that part of it. have
FORGOTTEN whether he paid the note be,
fore or after, and whether it cleaned
up the whole deal. That money:
went to the bank and borrowed some
money, and told Mr.. Brown had thi:
money coming from Milliger. He wa:
to try to sell it to somebody.
CT expect you took Milliger's checl
for the reason you had had this auto
mobile deal with him. You didn't hest
tate to accept the check because yo,
had had this legitimate TRANSACTION
with him?
Ayes, l guess we had had thai be
fore took the check.
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