The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-11

After lingering on for twenty hours
after being shot by hold-up men, Paul
Jurik, 81, died at the Kenosha hos
pital, Friday at $3.50 p. m. His death
followed that of George Balazs, his
partner in the beer depot and ale
house at 463 Pearl street, who was
killed instantly when three holdup
men ope ned fire from 45 automa-
tic when they entered the place on
Thursday night at 10000 o'clock and
demanded money.
Jurik was shot through the middle
of the chest, through the palm of the
right hand and through his left arm.
He made all preparations for death,
met his confessor, made his will, told
his story once more to the police and
said goodbye to his wife and family,
and then folding his hands waited
for the end, which came during the
supper hour.
Jurik Death Inevitable.
His friends had begun to hope that
Jurik might recover. Two of the big
bullets had whistled through him, and
were found covered with blood lying
back of the bar in the room where
the shooting took place. 1t was hoped
that the clean path left by the bullets
had left no great tear and that he
might recover. But one of the bull
let's had pierced through the stomach
and liver and hope had been given up
by the physicians from the first.
George Balazs, who died a few
minutes after the shooting, had been
struck also by one of the bullets
from the As automatic. The autopsy
held Friday showed that his spine
had been broken. The inquest into
both deaths will be held Monday
afternoon, December 8 at 1900 p. m.
BaIazs Funeral Monday.
Balazs is survived by his widow and
four children, Mrs. T. c. Thompson
of Chicago, Mary, Margaret and Ga
brel, who is student at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. Jurik is sur
vived by his widow and two small
children, Mary and Irene. Both men
were members of the Slovak National
society, and were held in high es-
TEEN within their circle.
Funeral services for George Balazs
will be held Monday at 11:00 a. m.
at st. Johns church, Racine, with in
terment following in the Catholic
cemetery there. The remains will be
taken at 4 200 p. m. today from Misch-
ler's undertaking establishment here
to the home at 2063 Douglas avenue,
Racine.
Funeral services for Paul Jurik
will ha announced later.
Thugs Still at Liberty.
The police meanwhile are making
every effort to close down upon the
identity of the three mysterious men
who came into the place at 463 Pearl
street Thursday night and shot the
two men at the bar. On Friday after
noon Assistant Chief Cyzak and Secre-
tary Emil Meissner of the police de-
partment sat at turks bedside and
learned all that he had to tell. The
patient was conscious and laxative.
He said the three men wore blue
handkerchiefs with white dots con-
cealing their faces. Two were armed,
and he believed that one man opened
fire on Balazs and one on himself. He
said, on their entrance one man said,
Don't make a move, but open the
safe" Jurik said that neither he nor
his partner had time to either open
the safe or resist before the others
opened fire.
Jurik insisted that he and Balazs
had never had any trouble with any
one. Jurik believed that three shots
we're fred, the man upstairs heard
three shots, but four empty shells
were found by the police, indicating
that four shots had been fred. The
discrepancy is not considered import
ant as Jurik at the time of the shoot
ing was not in mood to count shots.
Think Work Amateurs.
The police are working on the hold
up theory. The work suggests gangs
tiers to them and "green hands" The
professional and hardened holdup man
is not so nervous at the trigger, much
slower to shoot, the police say. 1t
is the amateur gun-man who, alarm
ed at the least move on the other
side, fires too soon.
Herman Bloxdorf, told the police Of
an incident Thursday morning when
he observed. three men near the en-
trance of the bottling place. He was
strolling around the block and was
particularly aware of the premises of
463 Pearl street for he looked that
way thinking of the good old days"
when his brother cot" Bloxdorf was
the manager. He saw a short man
looking down the alley and two taller
men at the entrance. One OF the
two gave him such an ugly look that
Bloxdorf said afterwards that he
thought to himself, att seems to make
him mad to have me look at him."
The police traced the three men
who sought to buy gun at Joerndts
hardware store, learned their identi-
ty and found that they are not con-
nected with the crime.