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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
DISAPPEARING WIFE
SOUGHT FOR In VAIN
Wife Who Left Sick Husband on Pull
man at Eau Claire is Sought by
Detectives from Chicago.

Eau Claire, visa search is being
conducted by detective bureaus in
Chicago, Minneapolis and Missoula,
Mont, for Mrs. Harris Fleck of Min
neapolis, who disappeared after she
left a Pullman car here on the night
of March 8, while her husband lay
i'll, it was learned yesterday.
H. B. Cunningham, Chicago, at whose
home the husband is staying, arrived
here today to prosecute search in
this city. After an all day investi-
CATION, carried on with the assistance
Of police officials, he had failed to
secure single clue and left for
Minneapolis.
On the night Mrs. Fleck disappeared
the Pullman porter was asked by Fleck
as to the whereabouts of his wife
when she did not appear after the
train pulled out of this city. Flick
was informed that the woman had
gotten off the train here, explaining
that she and her husband bad quar-
relied and that she was going back tc
Minneapolis. Fleck declared he had
not quarreled with his wife.
Mrs. Fleck is Fl years old, The
couple was married two years ago
The woman's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J
Reed of Missoula, Mont, have Joined
the husband in the search and de.
tective agencies in three cities have
been put to work on the case. FiecE
is 26 wears old.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
Coast Guard Girds
Itself for Battle

Seattle.-More than $1s0o0,oo0 is to
be expended by the United States
coast guard service, thirteen district,
embracing Puget Sound, the west
coast of Washington, and Alaska, dur
ing 1925 in waging a relentless war
against British Columbia rum rum
ners, according to Capt. F. G. Hodge,
commander Of the district. A fleet
of % speed boats each 80 feet long,
aided by Is craft Of 70 feet, has been
commissioned and assigned to patrol
Puget Sound and the western coast
Of the state. 1t has been estimated
that the monthly outlay will be S4o,-
600. The construction Of the boats
cost $4,000.
"The scoast guard service is closing
up the gaps" said Captain Dodge.
"Orders have been issued to comman-
ders to shoot to sink and kill If the
liouor runners do not heed stop sig
nails. IF they have TO liquor aboard,
pick them w for violations of the
navigation Laws. Hsrass the rum rum
ners in every possible manner.
"The government has appropriated
sl5. 600 900 to stop the smuggling Of
liquor. We are going to do it to the
best of our ability. We have the equip
ment, men and money"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
Three More Couples
Seeking Divorces
Two Filed in Municipal Court and
One Suit Filed in Circuit
Court This Morning.

Three more divorce actions were
started in the local courts this morn
ing, keeping up the almost continual
stream of divorce suits which have
been filed hers recently.
In the municipal court two actions
were filed. Mary Scopetta through her
guardian al litem. Apten Times. is
seeking divorce from Tony geopetta on
charges of cruel and inhun1an tEest-
naent and desertiou. Saverie Feraginl
is asking for a divorce tToIr Pose
Perugini on charges Of desertjoc, The
latter were married in Keueshs IN june
1910; the husband claims tiisk Zoe wife
refuses to live in the hur.e which he
has provided. In both % these suits.
Kuehnl and Malloy are astgsney for
the plaintiffs.
In the circuit court Bersha Molde-
nauer, through her attorneys, Stewart
ard Vaudreuil, has hie3 suit for di-
vorce from Frederick 4lcldeDauer or.
charges of cruel and inhgrpar treat
ment. They vera married aley 8. 1926
in Kenosha and hare lived at 800 Mar
garet street. The wife asks for the
custody &c the two children, Harold
William, aged Z, and Virginia Esther,
2ss years old, and for 6 division of
the property.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
DAREDEVIL WAR HERO
HAS PEACEFUL END
Brayed Reckless Dangers of Battle
field Successfully and Dies Quietly
at Hollywood of Paralysis.

Hollywood, Cal. = Sam Dreben, ~,
known for his dare-deviitries on a
score Of battiefelds, died here yester-
day Of paralysis after an illness Of
several months, toward shutdown. The
HOLLYWOOD American Legion post, t
which he was a member, will take his
body TO a cemetery in Burbank over
the hills from here, where taps will
sound the close Of his colcrful career.
Born in Russia Of Jewish parents,
Dreben came to the United States as
2 young man and socn afterwards
joined the United States army.
When the World war broke out
Dreben enlisted and in the last zig
offensive OF 1913 he fought with fuch
outstanding reeklessness, -eseureeful-
ness and effectiveness that ths Unit
ed States awarded him the distin-
guished service cross. France decorat-
ed him with the croix de guerra and
Italy also honored him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
Made Money on
Prohibition Law
Collected Million and a Half More in
Fines Than Was Spent for En-
forcement in the State.

Madison, Wis. - Wisconsin has re-
ceived more than one and half MIL
lion dollars in excess of what 1t has
expended under the state prohibition
act, Herman w. Sachtjen, prohibition
commissioner, reported.
Detailed statistics on enforcement
of the prohibition law since passage
of the first act in 1920 were made pub
lie by the commissioner. These show
that the state collected under the Null
berger law and the Severson act 4 total
of 1881, 1880 and expended s244,-
36S.07, leaving balance Of $1,oS9,65S.-
IS in excess of the actual expenditures.
Appropriations for the five and one
half fiscal years amounted TO $685.
041.11, of which an unexpended balance
of S11 ,673.04 was returned to the gen
eral fund. Fines collected amounted
to $1,602,414 and receipts from fees
and sale of seized alcohol and automo-
biles were $219,S198o.
Fines collected and disbursements
reached their highest point in 1922,
when they were S503.565 and 100000
respectively. Disbursements in 1928
ed until fines in 1924 amounted to
SS55,S70 and disbursements S59,517.16.
Physicians in Wisconsin who use
liquor in emergencies have increased
nearly ten-fold since 1921, the figures
revealed. In that year they numbered
43, paying fees of 430, while last year
412 were listed, from which $4,12O was
collected.
Fees for permits to handle liquor
and alcohol reached total of $780,
$50 for the past four years. In 1924
they amounted to S37,170 of which the
following paid $40 each: Druggists (for
prescriptions TOT; druggists (for COM
pounding medicines) 125; wholesale
druggists, 7; physicians who write pre-
scriptions, 1,482; physicians who use
liquor in emergencies, Az; manufac-
turers, 65; dealcoholizing plants GREW
eries) 81; veterinarians, B; hospitals
%; railroads, a; laboratories, 80; flaw
oring extract manufacturers, II; spe-
cial permit to sell old stock, one; de-
linquent permittees, 1876.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
Legislature Will
Be Some Shorter
Present Legislature to Be Two Months
Shorter Than the One in 1925 Ac-
cording to Indications.

Madison, Wis. The current ses-
sion of the Wisconsin legislature VIII
end at least two months ahead OF the
last session, if state solons MAINTAIN
the same speed that has been the rule
of the last two weeks. Friday the SEN
ate acted on upwards of 55 bills. The
daily average in the upper house ap-
proaches Is bills. The assembly av-
erage comes nearer 20.
With the administration tax bill
booked fer final passage IN the senate
Wednesday, disposed OF IN the lower
house, the wheels will run smoothly
with occasional halts-until the con-
clusion of the session. There IS every
indication the Blaine measure viii De
finally acted on by the senate this
week, following an agreement between
stalwarts and administration to push
the measure through.
Midnight Wednesday was the dead
line for introducing new bills IN the
present legislature. Exactly "A bills
were reported in the assembly. Some
half dozen made their appearance In
the upper house. There remain up
WaTuS Oh OUo D41iS 70 DC NAoP07co ~
each house This would point to some
time between May Is and June i, as
the last day of the 1926 legislature.
Legislators are determined TO cut
the present session short. The 1923
legislature fingered until the latter
part of July, and the suffering was a
cute. There is firm disposition or
the part of both houses to expedite
legislation. Dilatory tactics are taboo
Filibusters, except in extreme instan'
ces such as the delay of the Blaine ta1
measure, are frowned on by the bull
Of legislators.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
ON TRAIL OF
POISON BOOZE
Police Take Up Tip Given
by Robert ROckOff, Moon
shine Victim.
MAN Is RECOVERING
ROckOff Reports to Police he
Was Taken Very iii After
Two Drinks of Moon.

Somewhere in Kenosha on Thursday
night two drinks of moonshine liquor
were sold over the bar to Robert
Rockoff, formerly of the Brassville
hotel, and as result he was taken
most critically i'll and was sent to the
ST. GATHERINGS hospital.
Consequently the police today have
been engaged in trailing clues which
might establish the place where Rock
off secured the deadly poison liquor,
Rockoff Is recovering; he was caught
in time, physicians say, to prevent the
fusel oil poisoning from spreading
through his system. 1t is pointed out
his case may prove a warning to 9TH
ers in Kenosha.
Reported to Police.
Rockoff staggered into the police
Office just before eight o'clock Thurs
day night.
al bought two drinks of moonshine
and I'm dying" he told the police az
he fell over He claimed he did not
know the name of the place where he
bought the liquor and since he was a
comparative stranger here, was not
sure that he could find it again If ne
recovered.
He was hurried to the ST. Gather
ines hospital where prompt medical
and nursing service saved MS life
This morning he was declared to be
recovering and unless unforeseen COM
plications arise will be released short
ly from the hospital.
Came Here From Chicago.
Rockoff told the police that he had
been in Kenoshs only short time
and during that time had resided at
the Brassville hotel. He was quite
certain he had not secured tha poison
LIQUOR there. He stated that he had
checked out of that hotel Thurs
day intending to return to Chicago
Thursday night. His departure was
halted by the sudden sickness which
followed the two drinks Of moonskine
liquor.
Police believe that Rockof may be
able to give them more information
as soon as he completely RECEIVERS
from the illness: Meanwhile parts OF
his story have been pieced together
but no absolute evidence has been Sc
cured as to the source of the liquor.
Police officials gave out the story
as warning while a more thorough
investigation is being carried on By
the department
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
Give Cities Power
to Acquire Sites
Bill introduced to Empower Cities to
Acquire Sites for WaterwOrks
Outside of City Limits.

Madison, Wis. - Cities would be en-
powered to acquire waterworks sites
outside city limits by bill introduced
by the senate committee on judiciary
which passed the upper house Friday
The Casperson bill, calling for re-
modification and revision of the state
school laws, passed the senate.
A senate judiciary committee bill
requiring a special annual report to be
submitted to the state insurance de-
partment by fraternal benefit societies
over 300 passed the senate.
Two dollars day pay FOX cereners
juries is provided in another judiciary
committee bill advanced by the uppel
house.
The Hunt bill providing for invest
ment of $500 annual appropriation te
the teachers retirement fund passed
the upper house.
Cities would be placed outside coun
ty dance hall regulations by provisions
of the Carey bill governing operation
of city amusement places. The bill
passed the senate Friday,
Railroads are required to erect cat
tie guards at stock depots In the leas
dale bill which went through the up
per house Saturday.
Embalmers ana undertakers woulC
be obliged to go to school eight>week'
before practicing in Wisconsin In TIT
Boldt bill which passed the senate.
Public utility corporations are re
quired to have board of 15 directors
and to issue annual dividend state
ments by corporation committee bill
passed in the senate.
Vacancies in the Office of supervisor
would be filled by the county board To-
the term interval by the Polachowsk
bill which passed the senate.
The upper house passed the Brooks
bill relating to use of sdaplanes ant
motor boats without the owners con
sent. The otfense would be a mis-
demeanor under the Brooks bill.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
Resourceful Thief Takes
Trousers, Keys and Car
of Joseph Hart.
HAD ENTERED HOME
Finding Car Locked, Thief En-
tiers Home to Secure Key,
Then Escapes with Auto.

A resourceful thief invaded the
farmhouse of Joseph Hart on the Cen
eva road sometime Thursday night OF
Friday morning, and surmounting all
difficulties as they arose, succeeded in
escaping with the family Ford and
other valuables.
Hart came this morning to the sher-
IFS office to report the robbery. He
was all dressed up in his Sunday4best
and he explained the reason for it by
stating that the thief had inconsider-
ately taken his everyday" trousers in
order to get the key to the autom obile.
The Harris had put the car in the
garage near their house on Thursday
night and in keeping with their usual
custom had made sure that it was
locked.
Thief Had Secured Key.
The thief or thieves had first evil
IDENTIFY tried to start the car, but find
ing that the key was missing, had gone
out to steal the key.
They entered the house = the back
door was un-locked-and finding Harris
trousers, escaped from the house with
them. In a pocket of the trousers was
the key to the automobile, along with
a small amount of money. Equipped
with this the providers started the car
and drove away. They also took the
trousers, according to Hart.
Robbery in Kenosha.
The car was driven away without
arousing any members of the Hart
household and it is not known at what
time during the night the robbery oc-
Cured. The thieves have several hours
start on the authorities and it will
therefore be most difficult to appre-
bend them.
Another robbery was reported dur
ing the night The home of H. E.
Gregory at 1914 Seventh avenue was
entered by an unlocked rear door and
an overcoat with some small change
taken from a closet. Several rooms Of
the house had been ransacked.
II is thought possible that both rob-
berries were the work of the same per-
san Or persons.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
Dominick Fato, Flagman,
Hit by Train at Garden
Street Crossing.
HURLED AGAINST FENCE
Has Neck Broken and Receives
Fractured Skull When
Hurled Against Fence.

Death toll was again exacted in
Kenosha grade crossings early TINS
morning when Dominick Fato, aged
about 81 years, flagman in the EN-
ploy of the railway company and the
father of five children, was instantly
killed when struck by the engine lot
a freight train at the Garden street
crossing of the Chicago and North
western Railway Company, The &C
cident occurred just before five o'clock
this morning; Fato had come out OF
the flagman's shanty and was en-
gagged in tagging the freight train
in question when he was hit by the
engine.
The train was going slowly and did
not run over the man. He was
hurled into fence along the
right of way of the company, re-
ceiving a broken neck and fractured
skull. He was dead when members
of the train crew reached his side.
Long Employed Here.
Coroner Joseph Friend was imme-
diateIy called to the scene to make an
investigation into the accident. Wit
nesses have been subpoened to appear
at formal inquest to be held later
The body was sent to the Pawinsky
Funeral establishment on Milwaukee
avenue but later taken to the Hansen
Funeral Home, where it will remain
until the time for the funeral.
Dominick Fato,s the victim of the
accident. was a native of Italy but hat
long been a resident of Kenosha. He
had been employed by the Northwest
ern Railway Company for severa
years.
He is survived by his widow ane
by five children, two daughters nov
married, and the other three chill
dren at the home.
Announcement Of the funeral serv
ices will be made later.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
POLICE HAVE
THE ONCE OVER
Dust Off the Uniforms and
Clean Up the Guns for
Inspection.
GOOD LAWYER TALK

The monthly inspection of the po-
lice department was held last night
at headquarters in the city hall. For
ty of the city's finest lined up In pla-
toon formation for the critical exam
nation Of uniforms and equipment py
Assistant Chief Cyzak and Captain
Clausen. They presented a fine ap
pearance, and passed muster.
After the inspection had been con-
Guided they filed into the council
chamber, where in few weli-chosen
words Chief Logan presented Attorney
Roy S. Stephenson, who addressed the
assembled officers on some practical
phases of securing and preparing evil
denee in aid of prosecutions. He en-
phasized the Importance of trained
observation-the capacity to see what
is looked at. AS simple illustration
he buttoned his coat, and suggested
that though the officers had been look
ing at him for some minutes, he had
no doubt there were some Of them
who could not tell whether or not he
had g watch chain. The officers didn't
indicate whether they could or not,
but this reporter couldn't. The old
old story of didn't notice" on which
many good case has gone wrong.
Importance of All Details.
Mr.. Stephenson cited numerous in
stances where details of no apparent
Importance at the time of notation by
the officers had become of controlling
Importance in later developments OF
cases, and urged all officers to look
for all details, letting the future de-
velop their Importance. He thorough
ly explained the Importance from q
legal standpoint, of dying statements
and made very clear the absolute le-
gal requisite that the person making
the statement must state that he
knows he is in imminent danger OF
death. Then what he says may be
testified to by anyone who heard it
the knowledge of approaching death
being regarded and in law as the
equivalent of an oath in guaranteeing
the truth of the statement. He gave
many interesting examples from his
own experience in prosecuting cases
and no officer who listened could fai
to become better equipped for hand
ling the details of first line work in
crime fighting,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
DIVORCE MILL
GRINDING ON
Two More Divorces Grant
ed in Circuit Court Here
On Friday.
TWO OTHERS FILED

Kenosha's divorce mill was grind
ing on Friday.
Two divorces were granted by Judge
z. b. Belden in the circuit court and
hardly had these been disposed OF
when two other suits were filed as
grist for the mill.
Adeline B. Hirsch was granted di-
vorce from Albert j. Hirsch on the
grounds of desertion and cruel and
inhuman treatment The wife alleged
that the husband had ordered her out
of the house and when she refused to
go had left and never returned.
Edward Shepard secured divorce
from Frances Shepard on charges OF
desertion and infidelity. They had
been married October 9, 1920, in Ke-
nosha and had lived here since that
time. The complaint alleged that tbs
wife had left the home several months
ago and refused to return. The Gus
tody Of the one child, Vernon Shepard
was granted to the father
Two Others Filed.
Mary Catherine Lueck, through heI
attorney, Judge r. V. Baker, has filed
suit for divorce from George Richard
Lueck, charging cruel and inhumar
treatment, They were married in
Waukegan, October II, 1924 and have
lived since then in Kenosha. The wife
claims that in the short period of mar
ried life, the husband has seolded hel
frequently and upon one occasion wher
she resented his reckless driving, or,
dered her out of the automobile anc
forced her to walk to their home.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19
BOUND OVER ON
LIQUOR CHARGE
Krasowski to Stand Trial
On Charge Of Destroy
ing Evidence.
Is A STRANGE CASE
Officials Allege that Defend
ent Tried to Destroy Liquor
Found Near Sink.

John Krasowski, $40 Park street
must stand trial on the charge of de-
stroying liquor evidence despite the
fact that apparently no one can be
found who actually saw him destroy
the liquor. Judge John G. Slater in
the municipal court today after lis
tening to the preliminary hearing in
the unique case bound the defendant
over for trial under bonds of $500.
The charge arose out of raid car
ried on by state prohibition agents
with Police Sergeant Max Kramer aid
ing them, on the soft drink parlor op-
Grated by Krasowski. The state con-
tended that Krasowski, scenting the
approach of the raiders had emptied
jug of liquor into nearby sink.
Tested Evidence" There;
Police Sergeant Max Kramer was the
chief witness for the prosecution. He
told the court that when the raiders
reached the scene they found an emp
ty Jug near the sink in question A
Whit of it gave them telltale odor
but there was not enough liquor in the
jug to constitute evidence. On the
floor around the sink they found some
fluid and lighting a match to this, it
was found to burn as il it contained
liberal alcoholic cotent.
1t was admitted that no one had seen
Krasowski pour the fluid down the
sink but it was maintained that all
circumstances pointed to the, fact that
evidence had been destroyed
Someone Did 1t.
"This is all imagination and con-
clusion on the part Of the officers,
said Attorney Leo P. Vaudreuill, rep
resenting the defendant as he argued
his motion for a dismissal Of the
charge. 1T merely shows what they
think happened and is purely con-
lecture There has been produced no
proof that the liquor, if it was de-
stroyed, was destroyed by this defend
ant.
Judge Slater in handing down the
decision to bind over the defendant
stated that most certainly evidence
had been introduced to show that
someone had destroyed evidence and
that it would be a question for the
jury to decide whether or not the de-
PENDANT was the guilty one.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-19

Helen NJ Gantzer has also filed suit
for divorce from Frank j. Gantzer on
a charge of cruel and inhuman treat
ment. The complaint alleges that the
husband on several occasions had
slapped the wife and otherwise had
treated her in a cruel and inhuman
manner. The wife asks for the GUS
tody of the three children, Charles,
Nancy Jane and Robert. The husband,
says the complaint is q gardener
and florist with an income OF ap-
proximately $4,000 year.