The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-17
JUDGE SUSTAINS
ORLOWSKI LOCK
Orlowski's Saloon Build
ing Must Remain Closed
One Year.
WON'T ACCEPT A BOND
Man Found Guilty Four Times
of Liquor Violation Gets
Limit Under Law.

the sheriff of -Kenosha county follow
ing an order signed on Friday by
Judge E. B. Belden in circuit court
which made the temporary injunction
placed on the premises several months
ago now a permanent one.
In court Orlowski, through his at
torney, Oscar Dean, admitted all Of
the allegations which the plaintiff in
the case-~the United States of Amer
lea, represented by District Attorney
Lewis Powell--.set forth IN the origi-
nal complaint, and the judges action
was in keeping with the recommends
tion of the district attorney that the
place be locked up as a common NUS
ance and that Orlowski be forever en-
joined from committing any further
violation of any United States statute
in these premises.
Powells First Real Victory.
Thus was written into the records
the first decisive victory for the dis
trict attorney. While it was the sec
ond paddock injunction invoked by the
district attorney, it was the first in
which a favorable decision would
mean complete support Tor Powell in
his drive to rid the city and county
of those places which have become
notorious through repeated violations
and convictions. Orlowski has figured
considerably in the records of the
more conspicuous law violators in Ke-
nosha. On August %, 1921, he was
convicted of possession of whisky and
W1QE nnA1knu 10 1904 ha
was again convicted of possession and
sale of moonshine and home brew and
was fined this time 5000. But neither
Of these fines proved any kind of a
lesson to Orlowski, and on May 16,
1925, he was arrested for selling beer
without "a license. He was fined $50
and costs. On July is, 1925, he was
found guilty of possession of more
moonshine and home brew and Judge
John Slater in municipal court slap
ped on him fine of $400 with an adj
ditional sentence of thirty days at
hard labor in the county jail. On July
%, 1925, ten days later, and while Or
lowski was living in the county Jail
at the expense of the county, Judge
e. B. Belden signed a temporary in
junction submitted by the district at
torney in which the place on Brockett
street was ordered locked up by the
sheriff and Orlowski was ordered to
show cause why the injunction should
not be made permanent one.
Now It's Permanent.
The hearing to show cause was con-
tinued until Friday afternoon. At
that time Orlowski pleaded that his
building, which he had purchased for
$4,000, and for which he had mort
gage outstanding in the amount of
$4,000 which was to fall due this
year, was valueless to him as long as
he could find no opportunity to sell it.
He had had several prospects he said,
but each of them refused to enter a
deal when they learned that the
building was closed by orders of the
sheriff. Orlowski sought permission
to have the building opened and in
stead of the judge issuing paddock
order he pleaded that he be allowed to
offer bond of $500 to the United
States of America to insure that he
will not use the premises for any vio-
lation of any law.
District Attorney Powell spoke
against this suggestion, declaring that
he had no way of getting any assur-
ance that the place would not be used
for a violation of the law under cover,
and he told the court of the visits of
two women who reported that liquor
was being sold in the building since
the paddock order was issued.
The Judge denied the request to
place the defendant under bond, and
ordered the injunction made perma-
nent. According to the date of the
original injunction the building could
be opened by the owner on July 20,
1926, but the district attorney had the
permanent injunction dated for one
year from September 1, 1925, thus
making the paddock in effect practi-
cally for fourteen months. If Orlow-
ski gets another prospect for the sale
of the building he must first get per-
mission from the district attorney and
the sheriff to let the door of the
building be opened for admission to
the premises formerly occupied by the
saloon.
PROMISES MORE AulOC1Abs
The district attorney was iubilant
over his victory.
"Here was the first real test case"
he said, IF the government as plain
tiff would have lost this decision
there would have been a serious set
back on our efforts to invoke the
paddock law in abating public nuis-
ances in the form Of persistent liquor
law violators.
With this case as a precedent,
Powell continued, the Office of the dis
trict attorney can now continue in
preparing other injunctions against
other places in Kenosha. The dis
trict attorney said that he would in
stitute proceedings against one other
place in Kenosha at once and then
Immediately upon the heels of that
case he would start actions against
several other places which have shown
through their actions uncovered by
police raids that they are Haunting
their disrespect of the law in the eyes
of the enforcement officers.
"There are at least FIVE more places
which. 1 have in mind for paddock in
junction" District Attorney Powell
hinted,. "and we are preparing these
cases painstakingly and securing evil
dence against them that will convince
any judge that these places ought to
be locked up"
Bad news from Texas. Grasshop-
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