The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-06-19
All the Boys Gather in
Court to Hear Robin
sons Trial.
SALT AND BATTERY
Winthrop HarbOr Cop Says
Hirsch Stuck Fist in
Steve's Phiz.

big case of the State VS.. Steve Robin
son. charged with assault and battery
upon one Herman Hirsch on June first
on South Sheridan road in front OF
the Matzur house, was on forA trial.
Edward Ruetz represented the de-
PENDANT as counsel and Frank Sym
monds the complaining witness, Il.
Hirsch, and the room was filled with
fans. most Of them motorcycle officers
Of the police department and sherltf's
Office and their friends.
The testimony continued until
twelve o'clock when an Adjournment
was taken until 1880 p. m.
Tells About Fist and All.
The case arose out Of little acci-
dent on South Sheridan road. Ac-
cording to the sheriff's office report,
Hirsch turned in his driveway with
out putting out his hand, and caused
a spill to a motorcycle just behind
him, ridden by Arthur Christensen,
garage man of Winthrop Harbor. The
cycle belonged to Eldon Peterson,
Winthrop Harbor motorcycle cop, who
presently Joined the scene, getting
there before Robinson. He was one of
sSteVeS pest Witnesses.
According to Peterson, Hirsch shook
his finger or fist in Stoves face, in
suited him by calling him a ''crook,"
blocked the traffic and refused to
move, and was finally showed off the
concrete by Steve, who got off and
handed his ice cream package to an
other while he showed Hirsch off the
road.
Mike Dorfmeister, Kenosha county
deputy, testified similarly for Steve.
Ben Stahl was another defense wit
ness.
Hirsch Tells Other Story.
Hirsch had a different story to tell,
saying that without any sort of pro-
vocation on his part, Steve had jump
ed off his motorcycle and assaulted
him.
The testimony of the various wit
nesses lasted throughout the entire
morning and continued this afternoon.
Steve Robinson, motorcycle officer
No. | of the sheriff's fleet, testified in
his own behalf
He said he had been down to the
sheriff's office, stopped and bought
some ice cream for Sunday dinner,
and with the package in his arm was
on his way to his home on South
Sheridan road, Pleasant Prairie, when
he saw in front of the Matzur place
that an accident had happened. He
stopped, and Mr. and Mrs. Hirsch
came over to him. Steve said, you've
had another accident" and laughed
about it. Mr.. Hirsch stuck his fist in
his nose and said, you've got moth
ing to do with this. You had no BUSH
ness coming out here. We called for
somebody else" Steve told him, he
said, to keep. quiet and get off the
road. And when he didn't Steve
haI ed his ice cream TO Mike Dorf-
meis to hold, got off his machine
and asa told Hirsch to get off the
road. he didn't but called the police
and motorcycle men a bunch of crooks,
the witness said, and Steve took him
and showed him off the concrete to
the dirt side of the road three or four
feet from the concrete.
Herman Hirsch, as witness in his
own behalf, said he was standing be-
side his mailbox on the right side of
the road on June first when Steve Rob-
inson came along. Hirsch said that
Steve got off his motorcycle and came
to him, that he did not go to Steve.
Steve said, "I've got all l want of
you," according to Hirseh, grabbed
him, shook him all around, pushed
him off the road, let loose, grabbed
him again, and shook him some more.
He said Steve was fighting mad, SMELL
ed of liquor and his face all red.
Grace Neiderprim Hirsch, wife of
the complainant, testified that she
and her husband were both on the
north side of the house when Steve
came along, and that he was hailed
by the Winthrop Harbor motorcycle
cop. She said she and Mr.. Hirsch
went over, and that Steve said, ''You
smashed up somebody again, did
you?" and she said, Don't be too
sure"
"By that Steve jumped off and
grabbed Mr.. Hirsch," she said, sand
showed him south One good push.
Then Matzur said, You've got no
right to touch that man and by that
Robinson showed him again, three
pushes, and said, IF you don't shut up
I'll throw you both in the COOP
"His eyes just belged,' she said,
meaning Steve's eyes. She said her
husband had black and blue mark
on his arm that night "and it was all
green"
Joe Matzur, who shares the down
stairs of the house on Sheridan road
with the Hirsch's who are his ten
ants, testified in Herman Hirsch's be-
half as did also Elmer Hirsch, his
eleven-year-old boy, and his wife.
Peterson's Lucid Story.
Eldon Peterson, Winthrop Harbor
motorcycle cop, testified for the de-
tense as follows.
Arthur Christensen had my motor
cycle and he telephoned me that morn
ing that he had had an accident and
to come down on Sheridan road with
truck to get the cycle. When I got
there / wanted to telephone the sher-
ifs Office, but Mrs. Hirsch wouldn't
let me use the telephone. She said
she would telephone the sheriff her
self. A little later Mr.. Robinson
came along. l think I hailed him as
he came along, or called to him just
as he stopped, I'm not sure which.
'After / had told him as much as
knew Of the accident, Mr.. and Mrs
Hirsch came. Mr.. Robinson said
something about Another accident
again" He was smiling at that time