The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-31
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Harold Harrison Charged
With Grand Larceny is
Held irresponsible.
NOW IN COUNTY JAIL
22-Year-OId Lad Arrested Fri
day When Discovered with
Stolen Money and Car.

irresponsible" was the verdict OF
alienists called to examine into the
mind Of Harold Harrison, aged p, ar
rested last Friday at Twin Lakes on
charge of grand larceny. The youth
had stolen sixty-fve dollars from Mrs.
Jacob Gustafson who operates the
Alderman hotel at the summer resort
and had at other times borrowed mon
ey from her and guests at the hotel
without ever having shown any inten-
tions of returning the money. To top
it all off young Harrison is also
charged with having stolen Buick
touring car from Joseph Bosco OF
haywood. Ill. DIR. G. F. Adams and
DR.. C. R. Caughey were the physicians
who were called to the county jail to
examine the prisoner.
The report of the alienists, which
will be presented to Judge R. V. Bak-
er late today or tomorrow morning,
recommends that Harrison be COM
mitted to the Central Hospital for the
Criminal Insane at Waupun, but ac-
cording to District Attorney Morris
Barnett, Harrison may be sent to the
reformatory at Green Bay because of
his youth.
Had No Ideas of Property.
The doctors in their report declare
that Harold Harrison had ne ideass as
to the value of money and property
belonging to someone else. He seem
ed to suffer no qualms of conscience
while appropriating another's prop
erty for his own use, they said. The
fact that he took an automobile be-
longing to a prominent haywood, Ill.
business man and claimed he was his
chauffeur, showed his meager appre-
citation of value. Harrison, when first
seen riding around in the car, declar-
ed that the man for whom he was
chauffeur was spending vacation at
Nippersink lodge, but suspicious were
first aroused when it was seen that
Harrison was never seen with his en-
ployer. He used the car in taking out
parties of friends, he said.
Young Harrison is the son of Harry
C. Harrison, formerly of Kenosha, but
now a resident of Milwaukee. Harold
Harrison's legal residence is in Mil
waukee county, but because the crime
for which he is being held was COM
mitted in Kenosha county, he will be
prosecuted here.
Wants to go to Hospital.
The family of the young man have
expressed their approval of the recon-
mendation of the alienists and they
are anxious to see that everything
possible be done for their son that
he may again in the future return to
society as a normal individual. They
have expressed their willingness to
make good anything which their son
has taken without the knowledge of
the owner. The young man himself
declares that he is willing to go to a
hospital for treatment. He says that
he is never troubled when he is at
work, or when he has money of his
own. But the minute he is out of
work and broke he finds the need for
money so pressing that he simply
goes out and gets it the easiest way
he can" The alienists' report de-
clares that for the past three or four
wears Harrison has carried on these
tactics and for that reason they have
come to the decision that he is at
present irresponsible for his acts,
and they have accordingly made the
recommendation which will be acted
upon when Harrison is arraigned be-
fore Judge Baker.