Gross Point Youth Fined for Assault

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Featured Link: Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 28 May 1914, p. 1
Media Type: Newspaper
Item Type: Articles
Notes: John Mueller of Gross Point was fined $5 and costs on an assault charge following a lengthy jury trial conducted before Justice of the Peace E. P. Dunshee in the village hall Saturday afternoon. Mueller was arrested several days ago on a state warrant sworn out by Theodore Cox of Winnetka who declared that Mueller assaulted him. According to Cox, he with Landon Hoyt, Misses Virginia Ridgeway, Dorothy Taylor and Ruth Woodward, went to Gross Point to gather wild flowers. When the party left the automobile, Mueller accosted young Cox and beat him until he was unconscious. Cox and the other young people who were with him are pupils at New Trier High School. Each is about 17 years of age. Assistant States Attorney Malcolm B. Starrett of Evanston, assisted by Attorney J. R. Dickinson of Winnetka, prosecuted Mueller
Date of Publication: 28 May 1914
Subject(s): Crimes
Personal Name(s): Cox, Theodore ; Mueller, John
Local identifier: Wilmette.News.290945
Language of Item: English
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