{"id":765,"date":"2012-08-12T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2012-08-12T20:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T20:56:34","slug":"police-court-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Police Court Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strange stories from the police blotter one hundred years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Milwaukee Journal, August 12, 1912<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nPolice Court News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Tornic, 4104 Grand-av, arrested as the result of statements made by Mary Reonlaka, 15, in juvenile court, was found not guilty in district court, Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Austin, 45, was standing on Kinnickinnic-av, Sunday night, when a man passed, carrying three jugs of whiskey. The bearer of the jugs accosted Austin and the two sat down upon the sidewalk. &#8220;I am going to West Allis,&#8221; said the man with the whiskey. &#8220;Will you go with me?&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ll go anywhere with a man who has three jugs of whiskey,&#8221; declared Austin. The three empty jugs were used as evidence against Austin, Monday, when he was fined $5 and costs.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Calvin Whittington nor William E. Hunt, who engaged in a fist fight in front of the Plankinton, Saturday night, while Miss Ruth Gwendolyn Shaw, said to be a Chicago heiress, acted as referee, appeared in the district court, Monday, when their names were called. Judge Neelen fined each $1.<\/p>\n<p>For raising a disturbance and using profane language on a street car on Eighth-av and Mitchell-st, Sunday night, Joseph Klutz, 25, was fined $25 and costs Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your wife must be a wonder.&#8221; Judge Neelen told James Heina, Chicago-rd, arraigned Monday for being drunk. &#8220;She must certainly be economical.&#8221; Heina said that he had a wife and six children and that he earns $60 per month. His wife said he kept the family well on that sum. &#8220;Because of your wife I&#8217;ll let you go.&#8221; the court told Heina. &#8220;Do your part by keeping away from whisky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Moonshin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Moonshin.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Moonshin\" width=\"286\" height=\"251\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-766\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange stories from the police blotter one hundred years ago. Milwaukee Journal, August 12, 1912 Police Court News Michael Tornic, 4104 Grand-av, arrested as the result of statements made by Mary Reonlaka, 15, in juvenile court, was found not guilty in district court, Monday. Walter Austin, 45, was standing on Kinnickinnic-av, Sunday night, when a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-old-days","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}