The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-09-11
District Attorneys Office is
Headquarters for
City's Ills.
GET MANY COMPLAINTS
Tragedy Walks with Comedy
in Type of Complaints that
Seek Help from Prosecutor.

dilemmas, perplexities, entanglements,
any form of wrinkle-producing exer-
cises-bring them up to the Office Of the
district attorney"
That seems to be the motto of hum
dreds of Kenoshans every day, accord
ing to the volume of swork which ID
completed and the number of calls an
swered each day. An average of from
80 to 100 people per day pass over the
welcome mat leading to the ONCE OF
the district attorney ct 1853 Main street.
And in this constant stream is repre-
scented every type of citizen-and many
who arc not citizens There arc Office
girls, laborers, working girls, factory
men, mothers, clerks, s5enographers,
gentlemen-of-le everybody and his
brother.
They all enter the office with feel
ing OF timidity. Theirs is weighty
problem, they think, and it demands the
earnest deliberation of the district at
torney for some time to settle.
First They Meet Miss Nielsen.
AS soon as they come into the sane
tum of the prosecutor the complainant
faces Miss Lilly Nielsen, his secretary.
Miss Nielsen could we'll qualify for the
class who write books on Glow it feels
to be district attorneys secretary
but with Characteristic modesty she
places her best judgment. at the serv-
ices of the visitors. Miss Nielsen will
tell them if District Attorney Barnett
or Assistant District Attorney Lewis
Powell is in. She will also invite them
to take advantage of the home-like at
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stuffed furniture and it's inviting wall
cases of law books.
Then the fun begins-fun sometimes,
tragedy at others, and oftimes there is
the combination of both.
A cross-section of one days work
would sound tremendously interesting.
For instance, this morning young
man came up and wanted the district
attorney to make out John Doe war
rant for the arrest of a man who
throws paper over in his yard
Almost an international Problem.
The man was quite sincere about it.
Probably in his code of ethical law,
throwing paper in another mans back
yard was crime punishable with moth
ing less than the firing squad at sun
rise,
"What kind of paper was t?" asked
Attorney Barnett.
polish newspaper" came right back.
'Is he Polish?"
''No. am polish. He is Lithuan-
ian"
The offender was reached on the
phone and the district attorney told
him of the Seriousness" of the offense.
After a moments broken explanation
it was found that the Lithuanian was
finding copies of the9Polish newspaper
in his own yard and was throwing it
back to the yard of the owner.
In FIVE minutes the entire affair was
matched up and problem which might
have taken on the proportions of an in
ternational difficulty Gin the eyes Of the
complainant) was avoided.
Many Similar Cases.
But that isn't ALL Here come three
people with another grievance. Three
men want something done to neigh
hcr who practices on his saxaphone as
late as ten o'clock in the evening-and
not only one evening but every evening
The men rightfully want to avoid any
trouble with the neighbor but they
want their sleep. eve work ten hours
and we want to sleep ten hours without
that noise" is their complaint.
Hardly five minutes goes by some
times without someone calling up for
a decision on point of law, or cita-
tion of the law in some particular case.
A young lady's voice asks if it will vio-
late any licensing ordinance if she
makes paper flowers for sale in her
home. Glow old are you?" asks the
district attorney
"Going on ten," chirps the voice.
eco right ahead then, and come up
here and sell some of them to me when
you get through with them"
And here's man who wants to gar
nishee the wages of fellow-country-
man who owes him $7.35 on bicycle
he sold him last winter.
While the district attorney is listen
ing to this outrage, a young lady, pro-
badly not minute over 10, enters the
room and quietly goes over to one Of
the rockers and sits down. She wishes
to see Mr., Barnett She is demurely
dressed in black She has beautiful
bobbed hair, with dark blue eyes, and
appears as though she might come
from a prominent family. Her mien
is serious one. Something is sorely
troubling her evidently.
Wants Hubby to Support Her.
Her trouble, it is soon found out, is
with her husband. She knew him only
a week before they were married, and
now he refuses to support her. He in
sists that she go to work to help the
family Income. She wants something
done to make her husband turn in his
weekly pay check.
II don't want you to arrest him OF
anything else" she says. III love him
too dearly to cause him one bit OF
trouble. But l want him to help me
take care of the home"
So here is this little wisp of a girI
already forced to look forward to 1
hard struggle. And so tragedy stalks
with comedy.
After this the district attorney is
called on the phone and is asked to
settle an argument which has already
reached distressing proportions be-
tween two sportsmen in the city. They
have already come to blows over the
matter, and each is threatening the
other with arrest on charge of as
sault. A has bet that Leopold and
Loeb will be hung, while B insists that