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The Rhinelander Daily News from Rhinelander, Wisconsin • Page 2

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PACK 2 THE RHINELANDER (WlS.) DAILY NEWS JANUARY 5, 1938 APPLETONMAN ON TRIAL HERE IN GUN CHARGE Drcscly Accused of Aiming and Shooting at Warden Charles Otto. Charged with aiming a gun and shooting at Conservation Warden Charles Otto of Tomahawk during the deer season, H. Dresely, Appleton barber, went on trial late this morning in county court before a jury of three men and two women. At noon, when Judge H. F.

Steele called a recess until 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, the state's first still on the I stand. Indications were that the trial would continue most of the afternoon, as Dist Ally. O. A. Du Bois said he had another witness and defense Atty.

A. J. O'Melia expected to call a number of people to testify in the case. Members of the jury arc: George Wilson, 326 Lincoln avenue; Gunder Arneberg. 320 West Harvey street; Gustave B.

Luck. 825 Rivet- street; Mrs. Florence Savri, 127 West Frederick street; and Mrs. John Haney, 619 Keenan street. Occurred Nov.

28, The alleged shooting occurred Nov. 28, the last day of the 1937 deer hunting season, in what is known as the Willow flpwage country in the western part of Oneida county. Warden Otto, one of the veterans in northern Wisconsin, testified he was hunting and doing some official work Nov. 28 in company with Bernard Klippel, a special warden. About 1:30 p.

he said, they stopped on an old logging road to plan their next move. As soon as they had halted, he continued, someone whistled and asked them to move down the road. "I looked around and saw a hunter standing on a small hill about 225 feet away," the warden explained. "He shouted to us again, asking us to move down the road because his party was making a deer drive in the vicinity. I asked him if he owned the country and told him to take a jump in the lake.

Offered Apology. "Then I decided to check him and see if he had a hunting license and deer tag. I pulled out my identification folder and started for him. He shouted 'stay back, stay back? but I kept on going up the hill. Then the gun discharged.

"When I got. up to him he said 'well, my bluff didn't and he offered an apology. I couldn't see it that way and refused to accept the apologv tv-i cnnrt recessed this noon the warden "iTlergoing a slid cross-examination by O'Melia, who sought to show that ly thought he was going to be assaulted by an irate hunter and fired only to "scare otT" the man coming towards him. In his opening statement to the jury the defense attorney said that Warden Otto identified himself ns an officer only after Dresely had fired over his head. ENFORCEMENT CHIEF TOPIC AT TRAFFIC MEET Seventh Division Officers Discuss Plans for 1938 Here Yesterday.

BANK ELECTS S. DJUTL1FF First National Has Annual Meeting; Directors, Officers Named. S. D. Sutliff was re-elected president of the First National bank at the bank's annual meeting last evening.

Other officers are: Vice president. S. D. Nelson; executive vice president, John G. Schutz; cashier, Frank Hyland; assistant cashier.

E. G. Nylund. Election of officers followed reelection of the board of directors, consisting of Mr. Sutliff, Mr.

Nelson. J. S. Daniels, Dr. C.

A. Richards and M. R. Jeffris. In accepting re-eiection as president, Mr.

Sutliff requested that he be relieved of administrative responsibilities so'that he may devote more of his time to his other business interests. Mr. Schutz, president of the First National bank of Little Falls, was selected to take over Mr. Sutliffs duties. He is expected to arrive in Rhinelander about Feb.

15. Discussion of plans for a more Uigid enforcement of traffic laws in 1938 was the principal business tak- en up by traffic officers of the Sev- enth division at a meeting here yesterday. Six of the eight counties in the Vilas, Forest, 1 Langlade, Iron and representatives at the session, which was in charge of John N. Brown, state traffic inspector. Two counties in the division Lincoln and not have traffic officers, and they were not represented at the meeting.

The state officer handles most of the traffic enforcement in these two counties, aided by sheriff's officers and city police. The officers made arrangements for communication of useful and I interesting information within the division, including an inter-county file of traffic convictions. Each county officer will make monthly i reports to Officer Brown on the traffic convictions for each period, and the state officer will compile this information for transmissal to TONIGHT BAKED HAM SANDWICHES At WARREN'S RATHSKELLER Schmier Party at the Masonic Temple Thursday, Jan. 6 At 8 P.M. The Public Is Invited Grenadier COAL PHONE 144 The Dozen Dozen Number Easy to Remember.

SUTLIFF LUMBER AND SUPPLY CO. Tonight Shows 7 9:15 Adm 10c-40c Junior High, 25c ITS ROMANCE WILL REMAIN FOREVER IN YOUR HEART! IWA mncDOnflLD wt RLLflnjOHES WARREN WILLIAM all other county officers in the sion. Make Records Available. Through this system, Brown explained, "habitual" traffic violators' records will be immediately available to all officers in the division. At the present time officers have ho way of knowing whether a motorist is being arrested for the first or tenth time.

Officers at the meeting, which was held in the court house, eluded: Clifford Guilday and Mer-' rill Hibbard. Rhinelandcr, Oneida county; Meno Bertoluzzo, Hurley, Iron county; Waller Kline, Crandon, Forest county; Albert Flood, Ogema, Price county; Evert Wilson, Eagle River, Vilas county: and Carl Monroe, Antigo, Langlade county. Several officials of the division headquarters of the state highway department, including S. A. Koszarek, division engineer, also in" on the meeting here yesterday.

GEORGE PERRY CASEJN PRINT Career of Eagle River Murderer Reviewed in Inside Detective Magazine. "Sex Racketeer," a story concerning the amazing amorous career of George Perry, whose sensational trial at Eagle River for the murder of Mrs. Cora Belle Hackett took place a few years ago, appears in me February issue of Inside Detective magazine, now on newstands throughout the country. The story, written by George S. Hymer, special investigator for the magazine, is of special interest to Oneida and Vilas county residents because of the proximity of the famous case.

Wisconsin's "sinister Bluebeard," Perry was convicted of the murder of his bride of a few weeks by a jury which deliberated only 42 minutes before returning a verdict of guilty. He was sentenced to life, imprisonment in the state prison at Waupun by Judge C. M. Davison. Atty.

A. J. O'Melia of Rhinelander, mentioned frequently in the story, was the prosecuting attorney in Perry's case, Great Lester in Print. An article on the Great Lester, famous Rhinelander entertainer and ventriloquist, appears In the Nov. 1, 1937, issue of Life magazine.

Illustrations in the article are of special Interest to residents here. ORE STEAMER READY CLEVELAND, Jan. 15 steamer John Hulst, 'last of four new ore carriers being for the opening of the 1938 shipping season by the Pittsburgh Steamship company, will slide the ways at the River Rouge, yards Saturday, company officials announced today. Snails have teeth on their tongues, and they secure their food by a rasping process, which wears away the food much in the fashion that a file wears down a surface. C4RD OF THANKS We wish to thank out 1 'friends and neighbors for the kindness, sympathy, beautifulflorel tributes, the memorial wreath received during our recent sad bereavement, the loss of our mother and grandmother, Mrs.

Birgittdi C. Mangerson. We especially wish to thank those who donated their cars, the pallbearers, the ladies who had charge of the flowers and Rev. Olson for his words of comfort and the Choir. These many kindnesses are all most sincerely appreciated.

i Waldemar Mangerson Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mangerson and Family Mr. and Mrs.

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