The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
Frank MateIski Arrested
On Two Charges by
Sergeant Meissner. s
VISIT SCHLITZ HOTEL
Detectives Get Samples of
''Moon" and Also Hold Five
yellow Backs"

Lets fix this up" Frank Matelski,
saloon keeper of the Grand View
hotel, better known as the cold
Schlitz," at / Main street, is alleged
to have said to Police Sergeant Emil
r. Meissner, following raid on the
place Saturday. "I'll give you $500
and you forget all about it. You're
500 ahead and nobody is hut"
Today Police Sergeant Meissner is
exhibiting five 20-dollar bills, which
he says are bills rendered him by
Matelski.
But there is another side to the
picture. Today MateIski is ordered to
appear in court on a charge of at
tempting to bride a police officer.
Accidental Raid.
IT was an accidental raid, so far as
the police were concernc |. Sergt.
Meissner had stepped into the Grand
View hotel Saturday to look for
man wanted on charge of assault and
robbery who was believed to be room
ing there.
There was customer in the place,
and the bartender had just handed
him a glass with liquid in it. Ser
geant Meissner and Detective Perry
Tusler, both as usual in plain clothes,
stood in the middle of the room, and
the customer, recognizing them as po-
lice, hesitated before he took the
gloss. The bartender pressed it into
his hand, and the customer set it
gingerly on the bar, as if he feared
il would bite him.
"The bartender was so casual about
it, said Meissner afterwards, shat
took for granted all the time that it
was a wash"
II was only the peculiar behavior
Of the customer, he said, that con-
WINGED him that it might be some
thing else. He then stepped over to
the bar, picked up the glass and cried
out why this is moon!"
Rides to Station.
Matelski and the bartender then
came rushing from behind the bar,
and while they were engaged in a
concentrated effort to get the evil
deuce from Meissner, Detective Tus-
Ter stepped around the corner of the
bar and found they had left more
evidence behind them. There was a
half pint fruit jar of liquor standing
at the end of the bar, and Whit of
tbs Convinced him that it would be
woi In while to remove it.
III was about to pour it into bot
tie chen a woman, who had not been
in she place when the officers entered,
rushed in and spilled the evidence.
Ms k,r1 h
had transferred it into a pop bottle
and though it hit the floor it did not
braak and was re-captured.
When the police were about to go,
Matvlski had taken himself off to the
dining room. Detective Tusler went
to get him. Tusler said today that
Matelski said to him in the dining
room, l"Can't / fix this up with you
feIlaws 2" and that he replied, II have
nothing to say, the sergeant is in
charge"
Places Two Charges.
Sergeant Meissner then went into
the dining room and there he declared
that Matelski made the statement
''rr give you 500 and you forget
ab t it," The police sergeant only
re- i, We've got to go to the po-
liz tation."
lski was taken in the police
ca nd it was when they were inside
tn that the saloon keeper, accord
III . the police sergeant, laid five
DC lar bills in his hand.
the desk at police headquarters
tn argeant, holding tight grip on
a tie of moonshine in one hand,
an a tight grip on one hundred dol
lars in currency in the other, placed
Two charges against the man-posses-
sion of moonshine and attempted
bribery.