The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-17
WEINHOLZ Is
FOUND GUILTY
Jury Returns Verdict at
Noon in First Case of
July Term.
NOW TREVANTY TRIED
Alfred Weinholz Stole Police
Ford Car, Jury Finds
in It's Verdict.

A sound as of fifty roller skaters
making merry on the skylight in the
new municipal court room interrupted
the testimony in the case of the state
VS.. Alfred Weinholz on Wednesday
afternoon, for neither the court re-
porter nor the jury nor the Judge
could hear the words of the witness
in the midst Of the racket.
It was the sound of hailstones pelt-
ed from the sky upon the skylightl
Captain Clausen looked out through
the easement windows and perceived
"stones" as big as golf balls ESQ he
said coming down. 1t would have
been a pretty how-do-you-do if the
hail had broken the stained windows
Of the skylight, but 1t survived. 1t
was so dark at $3.50 p. m, that the
bailiff of the court, Undersheriff
Knipfer, turned on the lights, and
those present in the court room had
the pleasure of seeing just how at
tractive the clusters of candles were
that surrounded the room on all sides.
Meanwhile the deluge. ceased, and
again those in the court room could
hear Alfred Weinholz was on trial,
charged with theft Of the Ford car be-
longing to the Kenosha police depart
ment, or rather to the city of Keno
sha for police uses.
Closely the web of testimony closed
about Weinholz, as Lieut.. Charles F..
Rock and Sergeant Emil F. Meissner
of the police Office, John Beckman Of
Highwood, I'll. and Motorcycle Officer
Jensen of Winthrop Harbor all gave
their testimony.
Rock testified that he was the one
who had the police Ford that after
noon of May 80, 1925, and left it on
Pleasant street some yards south of
Grand avenue. When he returned the
car was gone, and he did not see it
again until it had been recovered at
Winthrop Harbor.
John Beckman of Highwood testified
to his share in the events of that
Memorial Day afternoon, He said he
Is employed at the Bowman Dairy
company in Waukegan, and that on
May 80, he came to Kenosha where
he had lived several years, in order
to place flowers on a grave in the
Green Ridge cemetery, according to
his custom for several years. After
the cemetery visit he went down to a
place on Milwaukee avenue, where he
met Alfred Weinholz; a stranger to
him. Beckman said something about
going back to Waukegan, and as they
went down the street, he, Weinholz,
Beckman said, pointed out the Ford
car on Pleasant street as "his" car.
Weinholz asked Beckman if he could
drive, the latter replied in the af-
firmative, and then Weinholz proposed
that he, Beckman drive the car.
Motorcycle officer Jensen of Win
throp Harbor testified that he ar
rested the two men in the Ford as
they came through Winthrop Harbor,
although he did not at the time know
that the car was stolen one. Vein
holz, he said, gave the name of John
Brennan" and his residence as Rock
Island, ILL.,, when brought before the
police magigtrate at Winthrop Harbor,
and when the officer asked him how he
happened to have a Wisconsin license,
WeWinholz answered, 1.-THE first thing
Weinholz answered, "The first thing
that car" Weinholz insisted he said,
that he chad had the car long enough
to pay for it."
While the discussion was taking
place in the Winthrop Harbor justice
of the peace's office, in blew Sergeant
Meissner and Detective Chase Of Ke-
nosha, amounting that the Ford below
was police utility car stolen from
the Kenosha police department.
that he found the stolen Ford car in
Winthrop Harbor and John Beckman
the driver of it, and Weinholz, both in
custody.
Weinholz Found Guilty.
At noon today the jury of men and
women who took the Weinhclz case at
IL a. m. returned a verdict of guilty.
Sentence will be pronounced on the
defendant later.