The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-06
IT. III. Shufel1t Halted
Here, Gets Heavy Dose
in Zion Court.
WILL APPEAL THE CASE
Fined $3.50 for Speeding Shu-
feldt VIII Appeal Against
''Zion Tyranny.

II. n. shufeldt, Miiwaukeean, who
several days ago had holes shot IN
the tires of his car by a Zion speed
con after he had halted in Kenosha
county, is convinced that he cannot
get Justice in a court st Zion and IS
taking an appeal of his case to the
circuit court in Lake county.
This announcement was made this
morning by Attorney r. P. Cavanagh,
of Kenosha, counsel for Mr.. Shufeldt,
after a hearing held Friday afternoon
before Justice Joseph L. Bishop OF
zion, at which shufeldt was fined $3.50
and costs for speeding and in addition
was bound over to the grand jury for
trial on a charge of resisting an officer
Shufeldt in company with his wife,
was arrested just across the state line
in Kenosha county after midnight on
the night Of October 23rd, by =. l..
Bailie, Zion speed officer. ~
Thought 1t Bandit Car.
Shufeldt claims that officer Battle,
in an automobile, started trailing him
in Zion. He maintains that he thought
the automobile might be bandit car
and that he stepped on the gas just
enough to keep ahead of it. When the
car continued to follow him, he halted
well across the state line, when Bailie
showed him off the road. Shufeldt al
leges then that he offered to go to
Kenosha with Battle but that the lat
ter's answer to this was to shoot holes
! in each of the four tires of Shpfeldt's
! Lafayette car.
Then Shufeldt, according to his
story, was forced at the point of a
gun to go back to Zion where he was
jailed; in the morning he was ar
raigned on a speed charge and released
for hearing on $500 bonds.
Meanwhile Shufeldt has had war
rant sworn out for officer Bailie on
charge of malicious destruction of
property but the latter could not be
located for service,
Justice Upholds Cop.
Friday when the case was called in
the Justice court at Zion, Shufeldt
found himself facing not only speed
ing charge but also one of resisting
an officer. He alleges that he in no
way resisted Bailie as evidenced by
the fact that he was finally taken
peacefully but against his will across
the line back into Illinois.
On the witness stand, officer Bailie
testified that he first saw the Shufeldt
car dashing through Zion about thirty
miles an hour and that when he fol-
lowed Shufeldt speeded to sixty-fve.
He claimed that Shufeldt kept the
middle of the road all the way until
he was halted, this act constituting
resisting an officer.
Attorney Cavanagh for the defense,
claimed officer Battle had confessed
that he committed a misdemeanor in
arresting man. outside of his juris-
dietion and bringing him back against
his will, to say nothing of the shoot
ing of holes in the tires of his car.
The state argued that the arrest had
technically been made after the man
was in illinois and the fact that the
defendant did return was evidence that
he had waived extradition.
VIII Put Up a Bond.
The court agreed with the prosecu-
tion and Attorney Cayanagh announced
that he would appeal the case. Shu-
feldt was given five days to put up
bond Of $4,000 pending the action of
the grand jury at Waukegan in De-
cember and twenty days to file an APP
peal bond to take the case to the cir
cult court of Lake county.
shufeldt's attorney is pointing out
the fact that officer Battle overstepped
his authority in arresting Shufeldt in
Wisconsin and maintains that the jus
tice swept this point of law aside. It
is also claimed that when the defense
presents its story that an entirely diff
ferent angle will .be thrown on the case,
Meanwhile reports reach Kenosha
that Officer Bailie went to Milwaukee
offering to replace the tires which were
destroyed and that this was refused.
It Is stated that the case may act as
boomerang on Bailie and that he may
find himself facing charge in this
county.