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PF.TRSCH0 KUGCIST r~r' • Mike Your Home Pleasant With Good Furniture FURNITUR! RUGS Really good furniture will give * you comfort, the satisfaction of TiDng wear, and the great pleasure Of an attractive home, furnished In good taste. UNOLEUM UNDERTAKING JACOB JUSTEN McHENRY, ILL. NOT CURTYOf BRIBE JUDGE SHURTLEFFS DECISION ON BLAGKWELL CASE V, , < ' • t Si"'". THE reason our ice cream has grown so popular and is now considered the finest and best obtainable any where is because of the fact that nothing but the purest and most wholesome foods go into its making. First of all our cream undergoes one of the most complete tests known to the creamery world before it reaches our factory. The cream is sedimtnt tested, pasteurized and goes thru all of the various operations known only to the most modern scientific methods of purification. We do not use powder in any form. After the cream reaches our plant it goes thru a spotless process while in the course of being made into ice cream. Every piece of machinery in our modern plant is of the Very latest type and design and undergoes a thoro cleansing after every operation while our modern cooling systegi keeps the product at Jthe correct temperature until ready for delivery to the customer. We pride ourselves on the completeness of our modern plant and invite inspection at any time. Dymand the best by calling for McHenry Ice Cream. • * JURIST MADE LONG STATEMENT FROM BENCH AT WOODSTOCK MONDAY MORNING Judge E. D. Shurtleff handed down his decision in the Blackwell case Monday morning and made quite a lengthy talk from the bench, in which the judge described what he considers several amazing situations. The court was very emphatic in his announcement that he intends to see that the law is enforced whether it is a good or bad law. Below The Plaindealer presents to its readers Judge Shurtleff's statement in full: "In the Blackwell case the" orders will be entered just as I arranged with Mr. Field Saturday that they would be entered and to the satisfaction of Mr. Field. Mr. Blackwell is bound over to the grand jury on matters upon which a complaint was made against him in the justice court, where he waived an examination. "The only feature of the Blackwell case that I would feel like making any comments about is the feature of this court taking jurisdiction of that matter over the county court, and I am hesitant lo make any comments upon that at this time because it is quite possible the matter is not closed. It may go forward in some other form before the grand jury. Therefore, I don't care to make any comments about it. "There is no convicting evidence before this court that Blackwell accepted bribes. There is not sufficient evidence before the court to bind him over on the charge of bribery. Under all the proof here Blackwell coulcl not be guilty of the charge of bribery because he is not an officer. He was not a deputy sheriff; he was not an official of any. county. A man should not be charged with bribery unless he holds some office, some public position, and und€r all/ the proof here if Blackwell is guilty of any offense, outside of the one of impersonating an officer, he is guilty of the offense of being a bootlegger the same as all the rest of them; nothing more, I nothing less, and I will say frankly i before this court there is not sufficient : evidence to bind him over on that charge. _ "There: it an amazing amount of evidence here, open, public, confessed, of a conspiracy to defeat the law, stated by the witnesses themselves from the witness stand which ought to be acted upon in some way and if it were before you, Judge Smiley, and you were a court, you would have ordered a gallows and have them hung. I am not radical on the question, but I do believe in the enforcement of law, whether it is a good law or whether it is a bad law. It is not for the court to say; that is for the people to determine. Probably it is for the people to determine whether they want courts or whether they do not want courts, which may be one of the political issues in this campaign. The court has nothing 'to do with that. The judge takes an oath to enforce the law, the constitution and the laws of the state of Illinois, and while it may be all right, it may be popular for lawyers, people and citizens to openly, publicly violate the law, courts should not, and this court will not, countenance it. "There i§^another amazing situation in this case. While I do not care to comment about a case started in the county court, this case came before this court in such a form that the court called to the stand Mr. Joslyn and Mr. Lumley to inquire as to their information upon which these complaints against Blackwell were filed. Mr. Joslyn stated the names of the men who had told him the story and those men were on the witness stand. Whatever the court may believe as to their testimony, Whether true or false, it is not for the court to make any comment upon. Mi'. Lumley stated that his information came from James G. Welch of Waukegan; that he called him on the phone and told him that he saw Blackwell and John Freund drinking together in Justen's saloon. In view of the evidence here, if that statement were true it would be most strong evidence against Blackwell that he was, associating and conniving with John E. Freund. James G. Welch comes here and testifies that he made no such statement to Mr. Lumley; that he did i)ot see Blackwell drinking with Freund at McHenry; that he didn't know John E. Freund and didn't know that any such man was living and had never seen him until he saw him in this court room. "I have no apologies to make for bringing this case to this court. When it is finally run out and completed I may have something to say ps to why it wr,s brought here. I shall not say it now before the matter is finally completed in every form. "I haven't entered the orders or made them because I have a little question in my own mind as to just the form of the order that shouRI be made on this habeas corpus proceeding, but they will be entered just as I agreed with Mr. Field, the attorney for Mr. Blackwell, on Saturday, that they would be entered and if Mr. McHBNRY'S >^0WE OF AMUSEfftfff "SVE CAN T PLAY THEM ALL SO WE PLAY THE Bfi&T" THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER *1 Tom Milf * . --IN-- Eyes of the „ AND . f ELEX COMEDY FRI. & SAT.. SEPT. 12 & t Richard Talmadge IN " "On Time" 'THE TELEPHONE SAT. & SUN.. SEPT. S3 &.>4. SUNDAY MATINEE 2:30f VAI'DEVIUB AND PICTURES -fcau SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER t* The Whirlwind Comedy "Galloping Fisli" The Year'q^teal Laugh Hit AND THE COMEDY "KICK our SUNDAY MATINEE AT TUES. & WED., SEPT. 16 & 17 World War Movies Under Auspices American legion --WITH Corp. R. H. Ingleston in Person ALSO A SPECIAL COMEDY One Show Nightly Prices 25c tt Mc THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 18 John Gilbert. „ IN "The Exiles" AND THE COMEDY •1ESERT SHEIKS" that he has in the world that I would not protect with every arm of the law, as I did it when he was charged with murder and I presided at the trial. "From the testimony that is before this court in the Blackwell case, one can draw the inference, one can believe as a matter of law, one of thjree things, maybe two of three things; one, a conspiracy openely and publicly acknowledged by witnesses themselves on the stand, who are the chief conspirators, and then the alternative that either money is being paid as protection money to be paid to somebody, or else this is one of the grandest frame-ups that was ever brought into a court. I don't know. The orders will be entered just as I agreed with Mr. Field they would be entered." If you -reside in McHenry township your legals belong in The Plaindealer. Dont' let anyone tell you any different. Our prices for legals are the same as any other paper published In He- Henry county. McHENRY TEAM WILL TRAVEL TO ALGONQUIN I fib* McHenry baseball team was again rained out last Sunday afternoon when our boys were scheduled to meet the Libertyville team on the latter's grounds. Next SundayIthe team will travel to Algonquin, where a hot battle is sure to be waged between these two rivals. This will be the fourth of the five game series. The fourth game was originally scheduled to be played on the McHenry diamond on Labor day afternoon, but owing to the rain only two and a half innings were played. McHenry is very anxious to annex this battle, as it will have a decided bearing on who's who in McHenry- county. A defeat will give the Algonquin.Indians undisputed right to the championship of the county. That's why McHenry wants to win. A big delegation of McHenry rooters will follow the team $etbe ! own-river village. The Plaindealer for ne^rs. ' CITY ALDERMEN MET IN ADJOURNED MEETING SEPT. 4 Council Room, Sept. 4, 1924. The city aldermen met Thursday evening, Sept. 4, with Mayor Wells presiding to finish the business of the adjourned regular meeting of Tuesday evening, Sept. 2. Aldermen present: Doherty, Fris- • by, Goodell, Justen, Overton and Perkins. Motion by "Perkins, seconded by Goodell, that an ordinance for the revising of general ordinance for the city of McHenry, Illinois, be pasted as read. Motion carried. Motion by Doherty, seconded by Frisby that the ordinance in regarjl to the publication of the laws and ordinances of the city of McHenry he passed as read. Motion carried. Motion by Doherty, seconded by Perkins, that the tax levy ordinance be passed as read. Motion carried. Motion by Goodell, seconded by Justen, to adjourn. Motion carried •, Read The Plaindealer for news.. McHENRY ICE CREAM COMPANY WHOLESALE PHONE 79-M "In connection with what I said as to the s r-.it in the county court, two men are subpoenaed into the county court anthey have been subpoenaed here, who by their own testimony On the witncjs stand have been and are beer rurriers in McHenry county, paid the bribe money to somebody or they say collected it. I am not certain \ hether the testimony was they paid it or not. I was surprised that thof- j two witnesses should be subpoenaed into the county court, the only two subp oenaed by Mr. Lumley. Men who on t"ie witness stand openly and pub^ely confess that they were selling boer at fifty dollars a barrel and colle ting five dollars a barrel for protection. "Mr. L mle'y is contradicted squarely by James G. Welch, who says he never gar e Mr. Lumley any such information. I say that is an amazing proposition to me here. I don't understand t. There are a lot of things I don't understand. It only goes to show that when men do start out openly, notoriously, willfully to violate one law it leads immediately to bribery, perjury, corruption. If we believe newspaper reports they are protected by murder. There isn't any law they stop or hesitate to violate when they start on that course. "The interest of this court in this subject m:\tter might possibly--it can be chargcl to me, I shall never deny it--was instigated by the open and public talk that they had Sheriff Edinger bought and paid for so that he didn't daro make any move against the liquor violators; that they had the state's attorney bought and paid for and that they had the two courts in this county bought and paid for, openly and publicly bragged about It, "It is an amazing situation and making public charges of that kind is enough to make every citizen in the county lose all confidence in courts, in lawyers and in feeling any protection for their own safety and their own property, 2nd this, court will not sw "T» f r ,> •V52f*'V 5 "K» Bankers to the Nothing pleases us more than to see sever# members of a family, father, mother and the children with their pass books, come in together on a Saturday to do their banking. From many father's business, families we have not only thi but the family checking and interest accounts, a Safe Deposit Box, and accounts for each of the children. s f We'll be glad to handle your family's business. • You'll find many of. your friends banking here. May we serve yoti, too? West McHenry WEST McHENRY, ILL. k K [is: •ww "WW talUtai TP s: ir -<r NOWIt's Economy to Trade "Your Old Tires For FULL-SIZE stop or hesitate to go to every length that it may go to see that this law and every othei^ law ife honestly enforced. If anybody is being bribed in this county to protect this business there is no limit where the investigation ought to stop to uncover it and to say that it is politics or, as a newspaper printed a column article last week deriding this matter on account of the cost of the investigation, is the most ridu-ulous thing that I ever read. •'I do not know so far as the Blackwell case is concerned, whether he is guilty or whether he is innocent. I haven't any idea. I haven't formed any idea. In this proceeding I didn't undertake to form an idea except from testimony introduced and there is not any testimony sufficient to lead fhis court to believe as a matter of law that he has a right to bind Blackwell over for bribery. Ii suppose courts^ draw inferences, have personal opin- Blackwell is not held on any additional! ions the same as everybody else from bail in this court this bail is fixed as I the testimony, but they can't act upon it was when the case siarted, in the them as a matter of law. I don't sum of $5,000, which was very agree-1 draw inferences; I haven't any inable to Mr. Field. Mr. Blackwell can ference. 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