The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-19
COFFEE MAN"
Is BOUND OVER
Campbell Bound Over on
Charge of Attempting
to Bride Officer.
ANOTHER FOR BRIBERY
Vastly PoIonin Is Bound Over
Also for Alleged Attempt
to Bride.

Tom Campbell, with diamond
stick-pin in his blue necktie, sat just
back of counsel in the municipal court
this morning listening to the testi-
mony Of a police officer who must at
one time from whichever way you
look at It, have given him surprise.
Campbell had come here from Iowa,
and perhaps he had had a different
experience with police officers there.
but he ran up against burr when he
struck a Kenosha policeman and that
was Police officer Curt Eek. Eek
must have given Campbell a surprise
when he found himself arrested.
After the preliminary hearing this
morning in court, Judge Slater found
probable cause to believe the defen-
dant guilty and ordered him bound
over to the April term of court under
bonds Of $3.50. The bonds were raised
from the first bonds given of 5000, as
the judge learned that the minimum
fine in the case Is set by statute
at two hundred dollars.
Officer Tells Story.
Officer Eek took the witness stand
in the case of the state VS.. Campbell
and told his story Of the circumstances
leading to the arrest. He said that
Campbell opened a place at 255 Mar
ket Square, upstairs over the battery
shop, and tAEt while making his
rounds on the niEht Of January 80. he
stepped in and IeoS ed the place over,
and CaRspb.il aska : him to come back.
EolS setE17sad Fah"sa tFs' 4, SgstsAsy, at,
i3.C0 "a. fn. IA lid there was in
csfSs rec, go ts:se ing groSsS OF
sg7asi tables. Iaen inside there Vas
another room which had been pare
titioned of. In this room there was
a table built like pool table, covered
with q green cloth.
tAs / entered" said the officer, II
saw bunch Of men around the table.
and saw them stick bunch of Jack
into their pockets. They also swept
off the green cloth and stepped away
from the table. The cloth was the
kind usually known as "crapv cloth
with a bunch Of numbers on 1t which
had been painted on.
~ walked back into little room
behind where Mr.. Campbell was.
There were a couple Of fellows there
also, and Campbell chased them out.
He pulled out roll Of bills from
his pocket and started TO peel on
one. He offered me a FIVE dollar bill
which / refused.
Campbell said he had just started
in, and as was a working man on the
police force, maybe / could stand q
couple Of dollars. He said was good
for s25 or $50 week. Then he pulled
off the five and said NO. and he
said Take it anyway and he pulled
of another five and offered me the
BILLS. Then / arrested him."
Eek identified the ten dollars intro
duced in evidence as the money Camp
bell offered him, and said that he had
turned the money over TO Police
Sergeant Kramer at headquarters in
Campbell's presence.
He said that he found no man drink
ing coffee on the premises on that
visit. 4
Eek said that Campbell said he
was giving thie money SO that he, the
policeman, would '1ay off Of him" On
cross examination he said that Camp
bell said, 81 am giving you the money,
to keep your eyes shut" but did not
mention gambling other than to say
that he was running little game"
Sergeant Kramer testified that in
the police Office Campbell said he had
Just come from Sioux City, that hSi
had been running games there, and
that he had come here to "open coffee
house and was running little game"
Attorney Stephenson, representing
the defense, moved for a dismissal on
the grounds that there had not been
evidence to support the charge. The
motion was denied and the defendant
bound over.
PolOnin Bound Over.
Vastly Polonin, bartender charged
with attempted bribery of Police Of
ficer Fred Lehman, was bound over
Tuesday following a preliminary hear
ing in his case. He will be re-
ouired to answer at trial at the April
term of the circuit branch Of the
municipal court.
Policeman Lehman testified that he
came into the saloon at 116 N. Fremont
avenue, where Polonin was tending
bar, finding the place open after Gloss
ing houYs and placed the man under
arrest. He said Polonin handed him
I'VE dollars, at the same time begging
him to make no trouble"
Bonds were fixed at $3.50 in Polo
Minis case also.