The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

on Sunday evening shortly after
eight o'clock.
Officer Otto Pollesch, whose beat
takes him into the west side in the
vicinity of the Cicchini poolroom, was
on the watch Sunday evening for any
thing that looked like mischief. He
noticed that there was crowd of
some thirty or forty men gathered in
the poolroom and suspected all was not
right. The men we're gathered about
the pool tables in the room, and James
Cicchini, the proprietor, was stand
ing behind the cigar counter near the
head of the stairs. There was an
ominous silence.
Free for All Starts.
tables. Some one moved slowly
towards the door as the officer walked
to the entrance to the place, On the
stairs something happened. Pollesch
declares that he is unable to account
for what actually did happen, except
that men jumped on him from all
sides. Some one got his club, some
one tore his badge off of his coat,
and another person grabbed his gun
and in another moment he was help
less. When he was brought to the
police Office later he had a. deep cash
over his right eye, his mouth was
swollen, he had been Dumped" on the
back of the head, and he complained
of severe pains in his side. Pol
lesch figured in an accident while
on duty several weeks ago and his
side was injured.
When the fighting reached it's
height call was sent in to the police
office for re-inforcements. Sergeant
Max Kramer, Lieut.. Charles Rock, and
Officers Henry Fenske and Edward
Pecan responded in the police wagon,
and when they arrived crowd of
nearly thousand persons had gath
cred at the corner.
Difficulties in Crowd.
It was sometime before the officers
were able to fight their way to the
center of the disturbance, and when
they got there, they found officer
Pollesch lying on the stairs leading
down to the poolroom with blood flow
ing from the wounds on his face.
James Cicchini and his father, Ottila
Cicchini who police said figured in the
assault on the officer, were arrested
and brought to the police Office. Her.
man Cicchini, a brother, escaped in
the crowd and an order went out to
every officer in the city to pick him
up. All three were formally charged
with assault with intent to do great
bodily harm upon an officer.
This morning Detective Sergeant
Emil Meissner arrested Herman Cic-
chini when he was seen getting out of
All automobile. Cicchini made signs
Of refusing to come to police head
quarters to face the charge against
him, but Meissner forced him to obey
the order and Herman joined the
other two in the city lookup.
At the police Office Sunday night an
examination of the injured officers
condition showed that he was suf-
Iifering extreme pain from his injuries.
DR.. A. L. Christopherson was called,
and later the officer was taken to his
home where further medical attention
was necessary.
1t was reported that a deputy sher-
iff was mixed up in the brawl and
Officer Pollesch limited that the depu-
ty was attempting to resist him in the
fight. But no formal charges have
been placed against this deputy as yet.
Find BeIIigerent Atmosphere.
The affair on Sunday night is the
latest in the series of difficulties the
police have been encountering at the
Cicchini place. A series of raids in
the past few months have always pro-
duced results until the cases were
brought into the court and almost in
variably there was no punishment
when some technicality arose in the
defense of the Cicchinis. There has
been bad feeling for months between
the police and the Cicchinis. And a
police officer was in bad grace in
the poolroom if he did so much
as visit it
When the officers in headquarters
learned of the assault on one of their
brother officers there was more fric-