The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
POLICE RELEASE
DONALD JORDAN
His True Name, However,
is 'MiIreid," Lieutenant
Rock Learns.
TELLS ANOTHER STORY

Donald Milreid, alias Donald Jordan,
was we'll enough to get around today,
and after spending two nights in the
hospital and one night in the city
lookup, he has been allowed to go
whittier he would. Milreid, under the
name of Jordan, was taken to the Ke-
nosha hospital in police ambulance
Friday night from the Simmons board
ing house on Park street. He said he
had been shot, but examination of his
wound showed that he had been struck
with some sharp instrument which had
punctured the lower. tip of the right
lung.
AS soon as he had recovered suf-
ficiently to be able to get on his feet,
Milreid was anxious to leave the hos
pital without any further ado. The
police were equally anxious to have a
little talk with him. When discharged
by the hospital he was taken over to
the sity lookup.
Tells Another Yarn.
Lieut.. Charles F. Rock interviewed
Milreid late on Monday and the man
told a story which varied little from
the one he had told at the hospital.
There he had said that man from
Los Angeles happened to run into him
on the street and shot him. He said
the man had shot him three times be-
fore, once in Nevada or Arizona.
When questioned now about the
times he had been shot Milreid appar-
emily forgot his first story, because he
said that he had been shot while serv-
ing in the army in the World War.
"Then it was all bunk the story you
told at the hospital about being shot
by this man out in Arizona?" asked
Rock.
ayes. it was" replied Milreid,
"Well, | think this story about your
being shot while in army service is
all bunk too" commented the police
lieutenant.
Milreid admitted sheepishly that he
did not have his army discharge
papers.
Will Stick to Own Name.
Milreid said he took the name of
Jordan, because it rhymes better with
my first name, Donald. Among the
mans papers were found messages
d. .
I,tus. He said that j. T. was his broth
er, and admitted that his brother too
had sometimes taken an alias.
He would give no clear account of
his past, nor give any address which
the police could tie to, where he had
lived in other cities.
The original home, he said, was in
Bloomington Ill; he had sister in
Kansas City; he had lived in Los An
| geles, ''fooling around with one thing
and another He said he had served
in the army in Houston, Texas, and
was wounded in France, in the World
War.
"When? 2" asked the lieutenant
| quickly.
an 1919," said Jordan.
"Boy the war was over them" an
swered Rock. swell do ] remember
that day and year, November IL, 1918.
| If you had served in the army you'd
never forget that day."
Saws Father Committed Suicide.
"Do YOU know what / think is the
cause of it alI?" asked Milreid. For
| minute 1t seemed that he was going
| to divulge something. My father
committed suicide" He was not able
to expatiate upon this.
Milreid stuck to the story that
some man in Los Angeles had a grudge
against him on account of some girl"
"Do you think he came all the way
| to Kenosha to look for your asked
the police lieutenant.
| "No. I don't think he came all the
way up here to tickle me in the SIDE
said the man. "We just happened to
meet, that's ALL" Milreid said he was
eager that all of this should be taken
down in black and white, ain case one
/ of us gets killed" The other mans
name he gave as Walter Carson"
Milreid was allowed to go his way.
SO many lies were told by Milreid
/ that the police put little credence in
his explanation of the way he was
wounded.