The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-21
FOUR HURT IN
HEAD-ON CRASH
Two Autos Collide Head-On
Monday Evening on
Sheridan Road.
ARREST ONE DRIVER
Walter Manske Is Held While
Investigation Is Being
Made into Accident.

Four persons were injured and two
others strangely escaped injury just
after O'Clock Monday evening when
a head-on collision of two automobiles
occurred on the Sheridan road just
south Of the city limits.
Walter Manske, 731 Exchange street,
the driver of one of the cars in the
crash, was arrested Immediately after
the accident and spent the night in the
county Jail. Just after noon, today he
was arraigned on a charge of driving
a car while intoxicated and pleaded
guilty to the charge. He was sem
fenced by Judge Slater to pay a fine
of $75 and costs or spend thirty days
in Jail, and in addition, sentenced to
forty days in Jail.
The cars in the crash we're one driv-
en- by Manske and one driven by Otto
Zier, 255 Wisconsin street. The posi-
ton of the cars indicated that the lat
ter could not have been responsible in
any way for the accident.
The injured persons are:
Eleanor Manske, aged 8, and Dolores
Manske, children of Walter Manske;
both of these received cuts on the
head and were hurried to the Kenosha
hospital. They had recovered suffi-
GENTLY to be released shortly after
wards and were at their home today.
Mrs. Otto Zier, badly bruised and
suffering from shock.
Mrs. Peter Jensen, 306 South Chica-
go street, sister of Mrs. Zier; she
was unconscious for a short while af-
ter the accident, but has regained con-
seriousness and her condition is not
considered critical. .
Manske, when interviewed at the
Jail this morning, refused to give any
version of the accident other than to
say that he was returning from drive
in the country when it occurred.
Zier says thatthe was driving south
on Sheridan road when he saw the
Manske car approaching in a zig gag
manner. He claims that he pulled far
to his right side of the road, almost
into the ditch, in order to avoid col
lision, but that Manske, driving north,
darted to the west side of the road
and hit his car head-on, almost tele
scoping it.
Mrs. Jensen was hurled headlong
from the Zier car and was found un-
conscious in the grass at the side of
the road.
Zier remembers hearing the cries of
the children in the Manske car and
after he had done what he could for
the occupants of his own car, he went
to aid them. Manske, he says, got out
of the car and came staggering to-
wards him. Zier says he is ready to
sign a complaint alleging that Manske
was intoxicated.
Zier tagged the first passing auto
mobile, which happened to be that Of
John Wallace, constable Of the town
of Pleasant Prairie. The constable af-
ter investigation arrested Manske and
brought him to Kenosha, taking him
first to the police Office and then to
the county Jail, where he was held
pending an investigation.
A mail-box post probably saved the
lives Of the occupants Of the Zier car.
The automobile was jammed against
the mail-box post and thereby prevent
ed it from turning completely over.
An ambulance was summoned to the
scene of the accident and the injured
persons were brought either to the.
hospital or to their homes in this city.