The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-10
HOLD TWO MEN
FOR SLUGGING
Injured Man Picked Up On
Tracks is Identified by
Police Today.
TELLS OF BEING HIT
Story Told by Injured Man
Leads to Arrest of Two
Waukegan Men.
TELLS OF BEING HIT

The mystery mat has surrounded the
finding of an unidentified man lying
unconscious or the North Western
tracks south of the state line on Sum
day afternoon was cleared up today
with the identification of the injur-
ed man as Alex Mcdonald, laborer
at the plant of the Johns-Manville
company, at Asbestos, Ill. Mcdonald
is at the Kenosha hospital recovering
from severe wounds and bruises about
the head and neck which for a time
were considered as serious, but which
are now said to be not so critical as
to endanger the mans life.
With the first fit Of consciousness
Lieut.. Charles Rock and Detective
Frank McClusky have been keeping in
touch with the man at the bedside in
the hospital in an attempt to get a
statement from him. The story which
he has given at these times has proven
to be sensational one and activities
of police officials and states attorneys
have already begun on a chain of
events which are expected to place the
blame for the mans condition.
The first of the chain of events
which transpired began at Waukegan.
There Anthony Durka, proprietor and
operator OF the haywood Hotel at
rs Greenwood avenue, Waukegan, and
Chris Vich, associated with Durka,
are under arrest and in the custody
Of Waukegan police on warrants
charging assault with intent to kill.
Their arrest came after an alleged
confession by Dairka IN which he gave
Ia Spartling story of fighting with Me-
Donald.
1t appears that there has been bad
blood existing between Durka and Nc
Donald for over a year. On one occa-
sion last September Durka had McDon-
aid arrested but the case fizzled out,
and ever since that time the two have
been personal enemies
On Sunday, according to the story
which Durka gave Waukegan police,
and which has been corroborated in
part from statements made in the Ke-
nosha hospital by Mcdonald, the lat
ter came to Durka's hotel. Durka or
dered him TO leave, he said, and when
he refused he hit him over the herd
with wire covered hose AT eleven
hit him another sock" over the head
with the same hose At two-thirty
o'clock that afternoon Mcdonald came
back and this time loitered about the
outside of the hotel entrance.
Fearing that Mcdonald was out to
get" him at that time Durka went
after him stronger than ever. He struck
him again on the head. and Mcdonald
staggered away Here the story is
somewhat vague. There is an angle
which brings in several Mexican La
borers who were engaged with McDon-
aid in dice game, in which it is said
Mcdonald made the charge that the
dice were loaded. This fact may have
led to the commotion in the hotel earl
Ter in the day.
After the last attack upon him Nc
Donald went back to the Evansville
plant and asked Crawford Greenwood,
the Negro watchman, to give him first
aid treatment. Greenwood wanted to
call doctor but Mcdonald insisted
that he should not. When Greenwood
found that there was nothing he could
do for the injured man who by this
time was suffering seriously from loss
Of blood Mcdonald walked back to
cross the tracks TO reach Durka's place.
On the way over the tracks he callap-
sed and it was in that condition that
he was found by Conductor John
Ebbetts of the North Western railroad
when his train whizzed by the scene
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock
On Tuesday the Waukegan polics
were busy chasing down several clues
in the case They found Thomas
Wells, barber in Durka's hotel build
ing, who saw all of the fighting and
he is being held as material wiz
ness. vich, who is said to have Joined
with Durka in assaulting Mcdonald
was arrested by Police Captain Thomas
Kennedy of Waukegan in that city at
one o'clock this afternoon. He is be.
ing held incommunicado pending visit
which Captain Kennedy and Assistant
States Attorney Sam Block of Lake
county come to Kenosha this afternoon
to talk to the injured man at the hose
pitel here.
Since the case Is entirely one for
the Waukegan police 1t is believed
here that Mcdonald will We returaed
to Waukegan to assist the state in
Durka and Vich for tns
assault At the hospital today II was
said that McDonald's condition 10
such that he will be able to leave the
hospital within few days.
TO GO BACK TO STAND TRIAL.
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