The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-19
SHERIFF RAIDS
LUCKY STRIKE
Robert Rein Charged With
Serious Offense as Re
suit of Raid.
BRING WOMAN IN
Louise Reichert Pleads Guilty
to Statutory Charge
and Names Rein.

Louise Reichert of Racine, who has
been living in Kenosha for the past
month, has pleaded guilty to statu-
tory charge in the municipal court,
involving Robert Rein, proprietor of
the "Lucky Strike" hole on Rowland
avenue. which is ice cream parlor, soft
drink parlor or rendezvous, whichever
you happen to prefer to call it.
Rein has been arrested many times,
and there are two old cases still pend
ing against him in court in which he
is char ed with possession of moon
shine. He is now charged with a sta
tutory otfense and again with posses
sion of moonshine, following trip
to his place by Deputy Sheriff Ray
Willems on Monday afternoon.
Woman Tells Story.
Louise Reichert is married, is
twenty-five, has husband and mother
at Racine, and chad trouble with her
husband there, she says. According
to her story, she came to Kenosha to
seek employment about month ago,
secured housekeeper's job, then a
job as waitress in the Cream City
hotel, and finally landed at Rein's
place. In a letter to her mother at
Racine, the woman wrote that "the
man she was working for was not
treating her right"
Her mother came to Kenosha and
told Sheriff Willems what she had
heard, and asked for help. She said
that her daughter was "good girl"
and had never been in any trouble
before. After hearing her story,
the deputy sheriff was sent out to
raid the place.
Find Louise Reichert.
Louise Reichert was found by the
deputy, who found something else
also, namely a pint of moonshine on
the premises of the so-called Lucky
Strike. The place has been struck so
often that it remains a question of
whether Rein thinks it "lucky" or not.
The young woman confessed that
Rein had been intimate with her and
protested that it was against her will,
and that she had told his wife. She
said that she had married Reichert
in Waukegan year ago, that they
had no child, but had not gotten along
together so she left him. She refused
to tell his Christian name.
Glow did you come to get acquaint-
ed with Rein? ?" she was asked.
She answered that some one had
told her that he wanted a girl at his
place; then she said that she had
overheard somebody say he wanted
help; then she was not sure just where
she had overheard it. She became
quite vague about this, not intelligently
bridging the link for her interlocu-
tor to show how she had come to
leave respectable employment for a
place like Rein's.
Sentence is Deferred.
She said she started to work for
Rein last Wednesday and he told her
he would "fix it up with his wife"
and that he would pay her ten dollars
a week. She narrated, as if it were a
matter of course, that she went home
and slept with "them," that is with
Rein and his wife, in the same bed.
"Then on Wednesday evening Rein
did not treat you right and yet you
stayed there on Thursday?"
She admitted this was so, and that
on Friday again Rein did not treat
her right but gave no explanation
that reasonable person could com
prehend of why she happened to re-
main at such place until the sheriff's
men raided it on Monday.
Sentence was deferred in the wom-
ans case, as Judge Slater said he
would like to have talk with her
mother.