1938

Clarence and Joe Hesse, brothers, of Prairie du Chien, Wis., were taken to the men's reformatory at Anamosa by Deputies E. C. Fitzpatrick and Fred Jungblut, Saturday, to begin serving sentences of from one to ten years on charges of breaking and entering, to which they had pled guilty last Friday. The brothers confessed to their part in breaking into the Marquette public school when a number of articles were stolen. They also, it is claimed by county officials, admitted breaking into the public school at McGregor.

~Clayton County Register, 12 Jan 1938

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Blaine Johnson, St. Olaf, was fined $25 and costs for reckless driving.

Erwin Huebner was fined $10 and costs for operating a truck without a permit.

W. R. Cook, Guttenberg, was given thirty days in jail for issuing a bad check.

~Clayton County Register, 26 Jan. 1938

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Wm. O. Schweikard of Buffalo, N.Y., was taken to the state penitentiary at Fort Madison, Friday, by Sheriff L. J. Palas to begin serving his sentence of ten years on two counts, the sentences to run concurrently. Schweikard had been charged with breaking and entering a hardware store in McGregor, and also larceny from a building in the night time. A jury of three women and nine men found him guilty of both counts.

~Clayton County Register, 20 Apr. 1938

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James Ried of Monticello was taken to Anamosa Tuesday by Sheriff L. J. Palas and his deputy, Fred Jungblut, to start serving a sentence of from one to five years on a charge of chicken stealing, to which he pled guilty.

~Clayton County Register, 15 June 1938

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Sheriff L. J. Palas took two men to the reformatory at Anamosa today (Wednesday) to begin sentences imposed by Judge W. L. Eichendorf.

Millard Ash pled guilty to a charge of rape and was given a sentence not to exceed 20 years.

Francis Losch pled guilty to a charge of larceny of domestic fowls and his sentence was not to exceed five years.

~Clayton County Register, 7 Dec. 1938

1939

Stealing from an automobile has cost Ewald Behrens, 27, of Guttenberg, his freedom for a period of one year - the time he will have to spend in the county jail here. Behrens received his sentence here last week.

Fred Schweer, Marquette hotel operator was also fined $200. and costs for having slot machines in his place of business. The machines - two of them - were taken in Marquette in a raid recently, and the machines were confiscated by the county. The money in the machines was placed in the school fund, while the machines have been destroyed.

Two young men, who gave as their address Minneapolis, are serving ten days in the county jail. They were arrested in Monona last week. James Amdahl was charged with failure to have license plates on his car and his companion, Lawrence Peterson, was charged with vagrancy. Finger prints were taken of both men so that state and federal bureaus may have an opportunity to check on them in the event that they might be wanted some place else.

Three young men from North Buena Vista were brought before Justice George Ehrhardt here on a charge of assault and battery following a fight in North Buena Vista last Saturday. The three are brothers - Eugene Boge, 18, Lawrence Boge, 26, and Norbert Boge, 27. All three were fined $50. and costs or 15 days in the county jail. The elder brother paid his fine but the two other brothers are serving out their time.

Russell Brown, 22-year-old farm hand, pled guilty Wednesday morning before Judge W. L. Eichendorf to a charge of stealing chickens on a farm several miles north of Monona on the Allamakee-Clayton county line. He was sentenced to serve six months at hard labor in the county jail after his confession had been entered.

~Clayton County Register, 7 June 1939

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Ed. Jensen, 39, pled guilty to chicken stealing before Judge W. L. Eichendorf, Tuesday, and received sentence. He was sentenced to one year in the county jail, six months of the sentence to be suspended during good behavior. Jensen admitted stealing chickens from the Elmer Drahn farm near Farmersburg.

~Clayton County Register, 19 July 1939

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Driving without a license proved expensive for John Hall, who hails from Missouri, as he found out in Justice Ray Barton's court Monday afternoon. Hall was arrested near Luana without a driver's license and in Justice court was fined $10.00 and costs - a total of $17.50.It would have been much cheaper to get a driver's license, which would have cost only 50 cents.

~Clayton County Register, 2 Aug. 1939

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Sheriff E. W. Carlsen went to Anamosa today with Lawrence Reasland, 19, who pled guilty to a charge of stealing a car several weeks ago in Strawberry Point. Reasland was sentenced for a period not to exceed one year in the reformatory at Anamosa, and he started serving his sentence there today.

~Clayton County Register, 6 Sept. 1939

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Howard Young, who pled guilty to a charge of larceny of domestic animal before Judge W. L. Eichendorf, was fined $100. and sentenced to one year in the county jail. The prisoner is subject to parole to the Sheriff of Clayton county after 30 days in jail and during good behavior.

Cletus and Donald Crane, half-brothers, charged with drunkenness, in Justice Ray Barton's court Monday, were sentenced to serve ten days in the county jail. The jail sentence, however, was suspended upon payment of costs, which amounted to $6.75 in each case.

~Clayton County Register, 4 Oct. 1939

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Wilber Frye and Elmer Landt, Luana boys, pled guilty to charges of petty larceny in the court of Justice Ray Barton, here. The boys had taken some iron and sold it to a Monona junk dealer. After making restitution the boys were freed upon payment of costs.

~Clayton County Register, 11 Oct. 1939

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Sheriff E. W. Carlsen, yesterday afternoon took prisoners to the men's reformatory in Anamosa and to the boy's training school at Eldora. Both prisoners had confessed to stealing chickens from the Julius Klebbe farm near Strawberry Point. Clarence Bachtell, 19, from Arlington, was sentenced to a term not exceeding five years at Anamosa while LaVon Thein, 17, from Strawberry Point was the boy taken to the training school. Both had plead guilty before Judge H. E. Taylor of Waukon, who is presiding over the October term of the district court.

~Clayton County Register, 25 Oct. 1939

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Joe Griff, Jr., pled guilty to driving a motor vehicle without the owners consent. He has been sentenced to one year in the county jail and costs. After 40 days of the jail sentence have been served, the balance of the sentence is to be suspended during good behavior, and he is to be paroled to the county sheriff.

Roy Pixler of Marquette, whose place was raided last July by Sheriff E. W. Carlsen and Deputy Arnold Miller, pled guilty to a charge of illegal possession of intoxicating liquor, and he was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail and fined $200. and costs.

Glen McBride, 37, and his hired man, Ed. Farrell, Jr., 21, both of Volga City, were taken before Justice of the Peace Ray Barton, Monday evening, where they faced charges of trespassing and malicious mischief. According to Justice Barton, the two had gone to the Harry Shea farm, adjoining the McBride farm, in the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Shea and had taken the wheels from several wagons, letting them fall into the sand and gravel on the place, had tipped over a hay rack and other machinery, and also had taken some fence wire and thrown it into the river. Farrell was the first to confess, and he was sentenced to 30 days in jail and costs of the action. The jail sentence was suspended upon payment of the costs. McBride was fined $25. and costs but $15 was remitted, providing McBride would repair the damage the two men had done.

~Clayton County Register, 1 Nov. 1939

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Walter Jennings pled guilty before Judge Taylor, Monday, to a charge of assault with the intent to commit great bodily injury. Upon recommendation of the prosecutrix, Helen White, he was sentenced to one year at Anamosa and paroled to the state board of parols, during good behavior.

~Clayton County Register, 8 Nov. 1939

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Adolph Wachendorfer of North Buena Vista, Tuesday afternoon, pled guilty to a charge of operating a gambling house before Judge H. E. Taylor of Waukon. Since this was his first time he was fined $50. and costs.

L. C. Krambeer, Luana farmer, pled guilty to a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was fined $150. and costs, and his drivers license suspended for a period of one year.

Frank Knitsch of Monona was fined $20. and costs and sentenced to ten days in the county jail by Justice Fox of Monona. Knitsch was charged with petty Larceny.

~Clayton County Register, 15 Nov. 1939

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Marion Miller, 22, Guttenberg, is serving a 30-day sentence in the county jail here for trapping without a license. He was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Arnold Mueller on an information signed by Deputy Game Warden George Kaufman of Lansing. His hearing was held in the court of Justice George Ehrhardt.

In another case before Justice Ehrhardt, Harry Fogel of Edgewood was fined $10. and costs on an assault and battery charge.

Glen "Bo" Squires, 18, of Arlington, received a 30-day sentence in the county jail for fighting and disturbing the peace, imposed in the court of Mayor Frank Mantz in Strawberry Point.

~Clayton County Register, 20 Dec. 1939