The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-25

A bomb placed under the doorstep
of the Rambler hotel, corner Rowland
avenue and Park street, by unknown
feudists, exploded at 2:40 o'clock Sun
day morning with a force that sent
the steps of the hotel up in the air,
shattered the windows of the building
and houses for block around, and
shook the entire west side, with the
violence of volcanic eruption.
The Rambler hotel is owned by Fell
tx Ameche| who conducts the place
together with partner, Joseph Gean-
selli. Geanselli, his wife and three
children live upstairs in the hotel, and
the family together with the dodgers in
the hotel, all escaped injury.
Ameche lives in a home a stones
throw away, at 267 Rowland avenue.
The force of the explosion awoke him
from his sleep, and in a moment he
had plunged outside in the darkness
of the early morning to find the street
in front of the hotel Uttered with
broken glass and splinters of wood.
"Some bunch" had left their calling
cards upon him and upon his partner,
Geanselli. In a moment the headlights
of the police car shone through the
darkness upon the wreckage. Capt.
Clausen, Officers Lawrence Bauschelt,
Harold Rock and Chase made inquiries.
Ameche had little to tell. He knew of
no enemies. Geanselli's response was
the same. He knew of no one who was
plotting vengeance against him.
All OF Ameche's Buildings.
When finally dawn came and the
rosy sunlight of perfect October
day shone upon the scene, the intent
of the gangsters who had laid the
bomb was more evident. All \of the
buildings on the corner had been eff
fected by the shock of the explosion.
The Rambler, an old frame building
at the northwest corner of the in
tersection of Rowland avenue and
Park street, stood like giant spectre,
Its green shades were drawn, but
everywhere the windows were out and
the bits of glass covered the side
walk and pavement below
Just across the street the windows
had been blown out of the Washing
ton ice cream parlor, the building OF
which is owned by Felix Ameche. And
diagonally across the street on the
southeast corner the windows of the
Slater tailor shop, the building OF
which is also owned by Felix Ameche,
were shattered everyone.
Hurts Woman Most.
Felix Ameche did not like the bomb
and neither did Joseph Geanselli, but
they are men, making their mems
way through the world, and take their
chances as men go to war, and the
person most deeply and terribly af-
fected was one at whom the bombists
probably did not aim; the stricken
wife of Joseph GeanselE.
If the persons who laid the bomb
under the doorstep of the Rambler
hotel Sunday morning could have seen
Mrs. Geanselli few hours later, they
might have wondered if there were
any feud so important that it was
worth more than woman's tears.
Mrs. Geanselli sat at her kitchen
table, the picture of utter despair
Her hands were dropped hopelessly
% her side, and she had not the
Energy to prepare the Sunday meal,
or to eat or to care to live at all. HeI
three children crowded about her, all
girls. The older girl understood and
shared her mothers fear and despair
but the two smaller children only
pushed in against their mother with
wide eyes of inquiry, comprehending
little and fearing much.
There are hearts and hearts in the
world, and it is comon belief that
even in the hearts of thieves and cut
throats, there runs some red-blood Of
human being. But what, conceivably
Fan the heart of those men look like
Open them up and you will find 8
lump of mud for heart and a dark
blood of mire in those who laid 8
bomb at the door of this Msdonns