The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-12
Speed Officer Bailey, Zion,
Offers to Pay Shufeldt
for Damage.
MUST FACE CHARGES
Refuses to Deal with Zion Of
ficer Except on Basis that
He Face Charges Here.

Elmer Bailey, the Zion City motor
cycle policeman who few months ago
trailed Henry Shufeldt, of Milwaukee
across the state line into Wisconsin on
speeding charge and then is alleged
to have shot holes in the tires of the
latter's automobile and to have ''kid-
naped" him to take him to Zion to
stand charges, is tired of lodging
Kenosha. A report from Milwaukee
declares that overtures have been
made to Shufeldt for a settlement, if
the latter will drop the criminal
charges which he has made against
Bailey in the Kenosha courts.
An unyielding demand that Bailey
be abedient to the law and come to
Kenosha to face the charges against
him is the only answer made by the
Milwaukee man to the offer.
Mr.. Shufeldt declared yesterday he
has directed his attorneys to refuse
all offers of compromise which do
not include the provision that the
police officer submit to justice in Wis
consin.
Faces kidnapping Charge.
Officer Bailey has been named in
warrants charging kidnapping and ma
licious destruction of property which
were issued by the Kenosha district
attorney following the action OF
Bailey last fall in arresting Mr.. Shu-
feldt for speeding on the Wisconsin
side of the Observation-Disclosures bound
airy and forcing him to return to Zion
City.
The police officer fired bullets into
all the tires Of Mr.. Shufeldt's car and
then forced the young Milwaukeean
at the point of gun to abandon the
machine and spend the rest of the
night in the Zion City police station.
Mrs. Shufeldt and a party of friends,
including William Pabst, Milwaukee,
were left in the disabled machine and
were required to appeal to the sheriff
of Kenosha county for assistance.
Technically Aids Him.
Mr.. Shufeldt Immediately embarked
on campaign to bring retribution to
the police department Of the Illinois
city and extradition proceedings were
begun against officer Bailey. An ex-
tradition warrent was obtained but the
officer evaded it through habeas corpus
proceedings as the result of techni-
cal defect in the papers.
With the extradition proceedings
renewed, the Zion police officials have
indicated an extreme willingness to
settle the affair through the payment
of money damages, Mr.. Shufeldt said.
They have offered $1,000 in settlement
of a pending civil suit, with the pro-
vision that criminal prosecution be
abandoned.
"This is not question of money"
Mr. Shufeldt said, "and any money
which may eventually be received as
damages, in excess of actual expenses
will be turned over to some charity.
We are determined that the officer
surrender Internationally and give
himself up to the Wisconsin courts.
Will Fight to Finish.
81 have told my attorneys to use
their influence to see that he is dealt
with as leniently as possible in case
he does surrender" he continued, "and
we will recommend to the district at
torney that the kidnapping charge be
dropped if he will answer the charge
of malicious destruction of property.
1--WE are in this thing to see it
through to finish as q matter of
principle, and for the benfit of mo-
florists who for several years have
been forced to submit to the tactics
of the Zion City police"
Extradition papers are now in
Springfield, it was said, awaiting the
signature of Gov. Len Small.