The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-01-24
FACES PRISON
NOT WEDDING
Banassic's Wedding Plans
Rudely Interrupted by
Police Action.
IS CAUGHT BY POLICE
On Parole on Check Charge,
Prisoner Finds Himself in
Serious Situation.

wedding plans of Frank J. Ban
Inassic, SO Congress street, were halted
TODAY when he was arraigned in muni-
icipaI court on a serious statutory
charge. The wedding was scheduled
for high noon Monday at Chicago
where he was to marry Elizabeth
Chase.
Bannassic pleaded not guilty and
was bound over in $1,000 foH prelim-
mary hearing on Wednesday. The girl,
with whom he was arrested, gave her
name as Esther G. Drake OF Wauke-
gan. She is said to have admitted to
the police that she has husband. she
entered a plea of guilty when brought
into court, and was sentenced to IL
months. at the women's industrial
school.
Two months ago Bannassic was
found guilty of forgery and given a
two-year sentence. Later he was
placed on parole, to the. state board, of
control. On Monday he appeared at
the office of Judge John c. Slater, and
asked permission to marry. 1t was
necessary for him to obtain the courts
,
under sentence He explained to the
judge that what he needed was the
steadying influences of wife: The
court agreed with him, and the permits
sion was granted.
Police Become Suspicious.
Reports which came to the police
that Bonnassc had been seen fire.
quently during the past five days in
company with the Drake girl, aroused
their suspicious. Knowing that he had
obtained permission to wed on Mon
day, it did not seem quite conventional
that he should be paying such close
attention to another girl. It was then
that they started checking up on the
movements of the couple.
The prospective bride, the police
state, recently obtained divorce from
her first husband, who is serving time
in the Illinois state prison for automo-
bile theft.
Police Arrested Girls.
The determined effort on the part of
the police to keep questionable charac-
tiers off the streets and out of the city
of Kenosha resulted in the arrest On
Friday afternoon Of two girl waitress
les, Esther Gladys Drake and Dol
ores Monteton of Waukegan, whose
arrests resulted in placing Bannassic
in his new difficulties.
The girls were arrested by Officers
McGivern and Buchanan, after the po-
lice had had information to the effect
that they had had sordid affair with
a taxi-cab driver here. One spent the
night in the county Jail and the young
er of the two in the detention home.
Tells of Night Visit Here.
The story that was told the police
which led to the arrest was that the
two girls had come to Kenosha penni-
less early Tuesday morning and had
been met by taxi-cab driver, Frank
Bannassic. The taxi chauffeur was on
the train arrived from Waukegan at
one o'clock in the morning.
The two female characters, who are
alleged to have been driven out of
Waukegan by the police there, asked TO
be driven to local hotel. On the way
down the street they told the driver
that they were out of purse and peck
ct. The driver, it is said, drove the
pair to a downtown garage.
Bannassic and the two girls were
both arraigned on statutory charge
in the municipal court this morning.
Another Man Named.
Charles Sorenson, 760 Roberts street,
was also arrested in connection with
the affair, held on suspicion. He was
arrested in the company of the girls
at 4:45 p. m. Friday afternoon by Of
ficers McGivern and Buchanan. Ac-
cording to the police version of the
affair, Sorenson is said to have been
!, friend of the two mattresses who fire.
'uently paid their fare from Wauke-
. IAN to Kenosha and for their enter
yainment here.