The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-05

was accepted by him as such and that
it was part of a whole underground
system of gambling operations and
official protection in Kenosha county
Attorney r. V. Baker. ii outlining
the CASE IoJ US defense, grew afgo-
mentative from lime TO time and his
heels were stepped on by Prosecutor
label, who insistd that he stick more
closely to what the defense intended to
show or prove. Attorney Baker indi-
Gated that the defense would not re-
flute the fact that the $1,000 had passed
between Murray and Fisher but that
the defense would prove that the money
was meant as loan and that it was
onl ybecause Fisher was too busy at
the court at the time that promissory
note was not executed.
States Witnesses Called.
Attorney label showed that he was
fore the noon recess, sharply examined
and dismissed, with a rapidity which
showed an experienced mind. He had
stated in his outline that he would
show that the county had been honey
cOmbed with gambling operations while
Fisher was district attorney and that
Peter Gales and Charles Murray, two
of the main operators, went ffty-ffty
with the proprietors of places where
they left their slot machines.
Witnesses William Schwartz, who
had hotel at Twin Lakes in 1920; Ed
mund C. Hoffman, now of Milwaukee
and formerly proprietor of the Maple
Inn; August Boethke, formerly hotel
keeper at Trevor and Joseph Wedel-
stedt of Pleasant Prairie were all
called to the witness stand this morn
ing and all with the exception of Mr..
Schwartz testified that GALES and Muir
ray had put slot machines in their
places and run them on ffty-ffty
basis. When Schwartz proved balky
witness label spent no time upon him
and let him go. Boethke said he had
been told that "the government allowed
slot machines to run" He said he
didn't know what government" was
meant. The defense objections asked
that this testimony be stricken and the
court sustained the objection.
Get Jury al eleven Iouay.
With a winter rain falling without,
and two Jurors missing from the jury
box, the court room this morning
opened for the second day of the trial
of Peter Fisher, Jr., on the charge Of
the acceptance of a bride of $1,000,
while district attorney, from Charles
Murray and Peter GALES. The attor-
neys on both sides were busy prepar-
ing their strikes, and on the one side
tn eheads of Prosecutor label and Dis
trict Attorney Frank Symmonds were
in close conference, and near them the
three heads of R. V. Baker and Calvin
Stewart, defense attorneys, and Peter
Fisher, Jr, were in collision while q
careful scrutiny was made of the sheet
of twenty jurors names
At quarter of eleven the two abs
sent Jurors, Frank Hahn and John
Evans, hurried in, explaining that the
roads from Salem whence they had
driven were in such condition that
they had been delayed. The strikes
were made and the jurors quickly
called in the case.
Outlines States Case.
"The defendant, Peter Fisher, Jr,"
said label, as he outlined the states
case, as here charged by grand jury
Indictment with having taking bride
Of $1,000 from Charles Murray and
Peter Gales. We expect to show that
the bride was paid in cash by being
left at the haywood hotel by Charles
Murray in a plain envelope marked
Peter Fisher; that it was taken away
by Fisher We will show that he knew
that gambling was going on in Keno
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