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Libertyville Independent, 4 Oct 1923, p. 11

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TWO MEN HELD TO _ GRAND JURY FOR ----~ OLD MAN'S DEATH "YOLUME XXXL--NUMBER 40. 4ng/served two weeks there at one . time, in conmection with prohibi-- -- tory law violations. -- . $The mystery of hbow the man . %2 to hbis. death became more f 6 through the fact that * William Pennel!, chauffeur for T. 3 ©. Donnelly, millionaire Lake For-- est resident, hbas disappeared, _A _the first session of the coroner's LCase of Kenosha Automobilist _ --Being Probed in Telegraph : Road Tragedy. from the eugine for some distance 'before it caught fire and overturned in the ditch at the opposite side of "the road from where the dying man tis found several hours later. He clined to give the names of his Indictment on a charge of man-- Mte! was asked last Monday by State's Attorney A. V. Smith before the Lake County Grand Jury, which eonvened on Menday morning, against Frank -- Kuzmich, 511 _ Elizabeth Kenosha ~restaurant . prop-- stor, owner and driver of a car alle to have been responsible for the death of an aged man 0n Telegraph Road~ near Lake Bluff, AwOG weeks ago, and also against b*® «ompanion, Anon" Sonopol, Kenosha. At the inquest in Lake Forest Sat-- urday afternoon the coroner's jury recommended that they: be held to the grand jury. Coroner John L "Tayler had been told by Kuzmich that hbe had never been in trouble before, but he made an cinvestiga-- €ion and the coroner stated Monday that he found Kuzmich had been amrrested and fAined four times for reckless driving and had been in the )rl,lflnll in Milwaukee, hay-- 4ng/served two weeks there at one mow he bhad the car and therefore he did : it stop to heip the Keno-- tha men in their plight. Coroner @Taylor is convinced Pennell perjur-- d himself, as Miss MabeF Frye, one of them. testified at the final ses-- mlon of 'the inquest that they did f"t travel along that particular w of rbad, turning east, and 3 g: over © Waukegan --road in-- W Special Prosecutor E. V. Or-- is is at a loss to know why Pen-- mell claimed he had testified (that "he followed the Kenoshans car. Pennell is now being sought as a witness before the grand jury. jury Purnell testified that. lowed the car of the two ] men and saw it spurting _~The victim has not been identi-- g although dozens have viewed ; .remains in hope of identifying m: relatives. One being Mrs Bauer, 841 Fifth street, mo father, -- Frank Morate, is : ng. _ _ ~Mrs. Martin Olson, of Green Bay ¥oad, likewise found that the aged man who hbhad been employed on ::1 farm, Tom Dwyer, who has be missing for several weeks, is " he. _ Miss Frye was employed tempor-- afrily at the Donneily residence. Coroner Taylor wis unable to find Pennell. mor Len Small hurled an answer to ©pponents of his ome hundred mil-- lon dollar hard roag bond issue pro-- posal in an address at the Macou-- plan county fair today. SMALL SAYS BUILD 'ROADS NOW S0 WE -- ~ CANUSE THEM _ "Our opponents cry "Why build o now?" the governor said. "I will answer that: build them now hat we may enjoy them while we 'e and distribute the cost overmia period of years so those who w* use and enjoy them img#y help' /; the cost. Build them now that we may take. advantage of this splentid «xi & otgnmn. the Iilinois D+-- wision of Highways, and the con-- wtpuctive herds of road builders whict um taken years to bring toget! train to their present high state of effictency." . w build roads now?" the mor ~continued. '"Because m@ lois road system no longer is @ other woman _ companion of uris Answer in Speech at Car-- linsville to Those Who Ask *"*Why Build Roads Now?" Carlinville, II1., Sept. 27.--Gover Himent. . Civilizsed countries of wortld send their enginavers to is to see how woe are building BP ~Kovernor reitarated his state-- ' at several recent meat-- he had kept his cam-- ; to push the hard road women companions. He LIBERTYVILLE INDEPENDENT ~ LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT Mitchell Cole, a prominent young man of Libertyville, Harry Dasher, a married man of Grayslake and Rus-- sell Stickles, also of Grayslake, were artested last Saturday by Marshal Limberry of Libertyville on a war-- rant sworn out by a 16--year--old girl from the Foulds Milling company Of Libertyville, charging Cole with mak-- ing an attack on her Friday night. Another young girl was also in the party in which the alleged attack is said to have taken place but that she sypceeded in fighting off the man she was with. > 4 2 MRLS ACCUSE3 . -- YOUNG MEN;.PROBE OF GRAND JURY ON Were Attacked by:--Well Known Lake County M}lts, It is Charged. _ Young 'Cole, with the other two men, are charged with having taken the two young girls--to Grayslake Fri-- day night. On the way back, the girls charge, Dasher, who whs driving the car, drove off the road while Cole made the attack on the girl The girl who was with Stickles declares she broke away from him and escaped. Theé warrants were sworn out before Justice Hubbard who placed Cole un-- der $1,000 bonds, and Basher and Stickles under bonds of $500 each. The preliminary hearing in Justice Hub-- bard's court was set for last lo.fi night, but was continued until n Monday. 'The matter was aired before the grand juty londt!. ' The Fould's Milling company, where the two girls are employed, declare they will prosecate the men to the limit. They claim that the girls, whose names are withheld for obvious reasons, were nice young girls and good workers. They were both 16 years of age and came to work at Foulds from Kenosha where their parents reside. & Charging that G. T. Pushman, own-- of of an 80 acre farm surrounding :!thr Lake, o:. which lrn:;t See managor, ¥e _ deepen the channed which is an outlet for But-- " lake, just west of Liberty-- so that it has drained the wa-- off about five acres of his front ake on the Intn': W. Butler Tuesday filed suit in sgircult court ask-- Ing that Pushman be compelied to reatore the channel to its former The 'lake is fod by saprings and Butler claims that lx. he can no longer watet his there he is compelled to go to much expense in supplying them with well water. BUTLER LAKE IS 'CAUSE OF LaWSUIT NOW COMES, THE -- WELL KNOWN FOOTBALL SEASON [ /ZZ" Aiv=s COUNTY HIRES A | . MANY MATTERS OF = vmmmmt PROBATE HEARD The county board Thursday_voted to BY JUD(IE'DECKER The county board Thursday voted to employ Dr. D. C. Grinnell of Kankakee county}y as a county veterinarian for the purpose of testing lMvestock herds in this county to staimp out bovine tuberculosis. * Dr. Grinae'} will maintain offices in the offices#' of the County Farm Bureaa at Libertyville.: lle will rteceive a salary of #300 a month, and the con-- tract is for one yeir e will also work ia co--operation with in> nite1 States Department of Animal Husbandry, which is furnishing a large share of the money-- being expended for the eradication of tuberculogis. The Rev. Mr. Kiessling is a new minister, not having served any reg-- ular pastorate and therefore if he de-- cides to accept he can take charge immediately. St. John's Lutheran ~Church Extends Call to Rev. Elmer Kiessling of Chicago. . St. John's Lutheran church at Lib-- ertyville has extended a call to the Rev. Elmer Kiessling of Chicago, it was announced today. LIBERTYVILLE IN INVITATION FOR ~-- NEW MINISTER This church has been supplied by the Rev. Richard O. Buerger, for six-- teen years pastor, of Immanuel Evan-- gelical Lutheran church, Waukegan, who leaves Nov. 9. for Milwaukee to take charge of Goethsemane Lutheran church. ®.0* _ The board --of supervisors in its \closing session Thursday afternoon awarded to the George C. Peterson Oil company, through its local man-- |u¢. Edward Conrad, the contract for supplying 15,000 gallons of-- fuel ol1l which will be used in heating the court house this winter. _ It has been d ecided to install ol! burners in the court house and this makes the purchase of a supply of ol! 'necessary. He was given most nnufln%pnlse for his services at -- the 'alther League conference at lAbertyville Saturday. About 150 persons attend-- ed the, afternoon session of: the con-- ference and more than 200 at (night. A fine banquet was W €:00 o'clock. Temporary were ap-- pointed and plans made for the state meeting to be held in Evanston. 15,000 GALLONS ---- OF OIL ORDERED wlared at the Postoffice at Livertyrille, IL., as Boecond Class Mail Matter s Circulation Greater than other Weekiies in County Combined Lake County's Big W eekly Among large number of probate matters l'rd Monday by Judge 'Mar tin C. Decker was the estate -- of Michael Wolff, -- Libertyville farmer, who died of lockjaw following an accident in which he became en-- tangled in the discs of a pulverizer several weeks ago. Petitions for pro-- bate of will was filed and the mat-- ter set for hbhearing Oct. 22. ~ The other matters heard and ac-- tion taken on same was as follows: Thomhas McCann, Waukegan--Inven-- tory, approved. C k * -- Margaret --Needhanr, Waukegan.-- Will admitted to record. Letters tes-- tamentary> issued. to Elien M. Ne:d-- William _ Burnett, _ incompetent-- Petition filed showing death of ward an conservator authoried zto admin-- ister estate without further letter;. File Petition to Have Will of Michael 'Wolff, Killed at Charles C. Copeland, Libertyvyilie-- Will -- admitted to record. Appeal prayed from order--admitting will to record 'by. George H. Copeland. Let-- ters issued to Ralph J. Dady. . William ~Clark, Wauconda--Inven-- tory approved. & e 2n Pearl Beshel, minor--Letters: of guardianship issued to Hilda Beshel Houlihan. Guardian authorized to settle with highway commissioner of Fremont for land taken and dam-- aged for making road for $144.75. Minerva Adams, .Gny-%id"-fin_ --#inal repoer; and account approv Estate closed. \ John Lawrence, Libertyville--Ap-- peal bond to circuit court of Lidia Greenfleld approved. Thomas Wagstaff, Lake Forest-- Petition for probate of will --filed and set for hearing Oct. 22. Samue! Kirk, Waukegan--Bond of Edward R. Webber approved. _ John Lossman, Gurnee -- Petition for probate of will filed and set for hearing October 22, 1923. _ Mary Scott, incompetent--Conseryv-- ator authorized to settle claims and pl% bills: heodore -- Jajoinbosske, -- insane---- Conservators bond fixed at--$1,000. Lettie Nichols, feeb!s -- minded-- Conservator . authorized to see per-- sonal property. ce -- Peter Numsen--Petition for ap pointment of conservator heretofore filed dismissed. A number of Libertyville people at-- tended the Indian encampment at Deer Grove Park, near Palatine, last *+rday, Saturday and Sunday. Among those who enjoyed the program were Mrs. Chas. Herrington, Mrs. William Haftemanai#i, Mra. Johna Dolienmatier and Mrs. P. G. Saow. Libertyville, Admitted. MOVE TO BREAK Probate court by Judge Martin C. Decker, and Atty. Ben H. Miller, representing George Copeland,> of Canton, N. Y., half brother of the deceased, indicated that an-- appeal is to be taken in an effort to break the will, despite,the fact that it cointains a clause that any bene-- ficiary seeking to. do so would automatically be disinherited. Under the terms of the will George Coueland would jreceive $500 every six months during his lifétime. Inf 1908 Copeland entered into an agreement with the La Saile Insti-- tute of Glencoe, Mo., Loyola Uni-- versity of Chicago, and other allied organizations giving them the prop-- erty providing <they cared for him during the remainder of his life. Later, however, he claimed they failed to carry out their part of the contract and after long> liti-- gation suceceded in regaining con-- trol of the estate. He was--an in-- valid for years. . * ' _ The value of the estate is un-- known as it includes coal, oll and Half Brother of Charles C Copeland Will Seek to Prove He Was Insane. Under the will the Village of Libertyville is . to receive all his books, shells, Mexican curios, rare: paintings and> unique furniture; Loyola University to get 160 acres of land bounded. by Rockland and 'St, Mary's Roads southeast of Lib-- ertyville; to the Catholic University 'l': glhfilngtonl z'c aqltflp"ot n Milwaukee road in Lib-- Tarm%fihb;"fé "%he odclety gas land .holdings in Southwestern Kansas that have proved of im» mense value, not even the owner, who had astounding offers, being able to appraise them. T of ~African Missions -- of Georgia, most of: the valuable Crawford county holdings, and the residue to be -- divided equally between . Mrs. Minniec A: Smach, 127 Ridgewood avenue, Ridgewood, h.l' J., dGaughter of --George Copeland;°C. C,. Russell, Milwaukee, Wis. ,a nephew, and the remaining residue to another nephew, Henry --~Coueland, Canton, Another unusgual feature of the will is 'the following paragraph: "I shall leave my many good . true friends with profound _regret and hope to the end to have conscious-- ness that I~may pray God to bless them exceedingly. I desire that my remains be taken to Antwerp, N Y., by my nephew C. C. Russell, and Mrs. Lulu Mattocks (who re-- ceive some personal belongings) and bburied beside my father, mother, brothers and sisters in the ceme-- tery on the very spot where I play-- Efforts to brea kthe will will be based -- upon the contention that Copelan@ was of ~unsound mind when he executed the will, Oct. 23, 1912. m The executor is Atty. Raiph J. Dady of Waukegan, and J. Seely Gridled and Ross M. Taylor of Lib ertyville, witnesses. Imagining himself to de a cow, William Doering, butler, was found eating grass in the yard at the residence of his employer, Arthut L. Farwell, millionaire farmer, at Belvidere road and Milwaukee ave nue Friday night by deputy sheriffs and was taken to the county jail Doering said there is a woman in Lake Forest who, could get him out of his--difficulty, 'and Deputy Lester N.> Tiffany got him to the jJail nnrcr the wpretext of taking him to the woman's home, BUTLER, RUNNING WILD, ARRESTED; BELIEVED INSANE Man Employed by Arthur L. Farwell, Millipnaire Farmer, Gets Sanity Hearing. After glancing about the jail, Doering ~said: "I don't want to go to Dew's place." > Shorty Bhoe ben ,who speaks Geéerman, succeeded in learning Doering's name so he could be booked. ' Doering insisted upon singing col-- lege songs all night long in the county --Jail. s Deering, a native son of G<rmany, ho came to America in 1914 to es cape military service, as sent to the hospital for to or three ewek* for treatment.--.He admitted that h* had --received nflu& treatment, in Long Island, New Y two years ago. He was adjudged Insane Saturday afternoon. The will of Charles C. Copeland, s admitted to: record Monday in 'obate court by Judge Martin C. cker, and Atty. Ben H. Miller, presenting George Copeland, > of , 1923. THE C. COPELAND, WILL IS MADE WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN ausc s l qnalll oh ldiitiN' s EXTRA YOUNG MAN WAS KILLED THIS NOON Young Jannson's home is supposed t;-b; in Chicago.: He was riding on the truck wit ha number of other lhen employed by the construction com--: pany, and in some manner he fell, off the truck, the heavy .wheels passing over his 'body, fracturing his skull and otherwise injuring him. ~ . : Obie Johnson, aged 25, was killed about noon today (Thursday), being run over by a heavy truck belonging to the Liberty Engineering Co., which has a contract for road building near Gurnee: ' and rushed to the Lake County Gen-- eral hospital, where he died on the operating table at 12%:385. _ The °E., J. & E. croksing near Diamond lake nearly claimed two lives Subday when a switch en-- gine struck a . roadster driven by Newman Zenek 'of 1751 West 47th street, Chicago, injuring him and his friend; George Hodek,. of $14§ West 26th street. B The body was removed to the Wet-- zel & Peterson morgue, where an in-- quest was to be held this afternoon. The tip of Zenek's spine was frac-- tured, and ~lacerations -- covered -- his body.. Hodek had a foot.crushed and suffered many bruises. . The preliminary examination was _ made by Dr. J. L. Taylor of Libertyville, where the men were taken in the Wetzel and Peterson ambulance that was called to the scene of the wreck. Nturct% of the occupants were picked ~up unconscious. --When the ambulance arrived they were still dazed but were in no: comatose state. 6 k The accident happened about 2:30 o'clock. . > £.: #.., The two men, who an':'r'd to be around 21 years of age, not hear the train approaching, accord-- ing to 'informants, but-- when . they did see it it was too late to avoid being struck. 'The automobile was hurled several hundred feet. Both 2 ESCAPE DEATH _ : WHEN STRUCK BY . ENGINE SUNDAY ~"As a result of the marriage on Sat-- urday of Deputy Sheriff Paul Jensen of Winthrop Harbort who is the mo-- torcycle policeman in that neck of the ;oodo. following by two months the marriage of Fred Beckley, deoputy ?mm and motorcyclist at Dooxld. t develops that there is but one bachelor deptuy sheriff left in Lake county. us s. i) L ¥ Another ~crash -- between a --train and an automobilé resulted in eriti-- cal injuries to Arnold Kirkeby of 2420 North Kedtie aevnue. His ma-- chine was completély wrecked when it smashed into a train of the 'Pal-- atine. Lake Zurich and Wancondsa railroad, three 'miles east of Bar-- rington. He was taken to the Pal-- atine hospital by the train crew. DARTS HIT ALL BUT ONE DEPUTY .. SHERTFE OF C0. on E. J. & E. Railroad, Nearly Takes Two Lives. And #o, as a result, fair maidens who admire the star that adorns the vest of a deputy sberiftt will turn their eyes toward Deputy Sheriff Harry Ablstrom. »+=> oc0) > 34080 It seems as though the darts of cupid have been fMying rather fast toward the deputy sheriffts'® head-- quarters and therefore, with Harry left as the only single man on the staff there is no telling when a dart will move that ~ way. -- Jensen, and Beckley have been passing the cigars and friends of Hatry arse now won: dering whe he will do the aame. . He was picked wo by Lynn Vincent arry . Ahistrom, Following Paul Jensen's Marriage, Only Bachelor on Force. iss NEAR GURNEE . BULLETIN Springfield, II1., Oct. 2.--Attorney General Brundage filed in the su-- preme court today a motion asking that the writ of error issued in the case of Ben ~Newmark, who was sentenced to the Lake county jail and to pay a fine by the cireuit court of Lake county. for contempt of court in refusing to testify before the grand jury investigating the charges of jury{ixing in the trial Atty. General Seeks Dismissal of Writ of Error in the New»-- of Governor Smail, be -- & The motion was filed on the that Newmark was a fugitive justice. . Newmark surrendered at Waukegan last night and was locked up in jail. Attorney General Brun-- dage thereupon withdrew his motion: today to dismiss the writ of ertror. Newmark filed a motion in the s# preme court when it met this after noon ~for the October term for a writ of supersedeas and bail. SEEK TO FREE 1 NEWMARK--BOYLE j BEFORE SUP COURT _ a fine in the circuit court of Lake 'county for contempt-- of" court for refusing to testify before the-- grand jury . in the --investigation --of -- the charges of $jury fixing in 'the trial charges of djury fixing in 'the trial of Governor: Smail be dismissed. Newmark : was ---- sentenced -- . with "UmBrella". Mike Boyle. Both he and Boyle are in the Lake county jail." ~Attorney. : Charles M.. Soolke thed weagomon in onmpadon 1 ts motion of ~Attorney General ~Brun-- A tofney %..«.i';";u'é'.'.'e":fl ttorney 'Bn s -- mo! made when the supreme court met for the October term this afternoon. In the case . of "Umbrelia" Mike supreme court a motion asking that the writ of error iasued in the court and Boyle are in the Lake county jail.~ ~Attorney -- Charles M. Soolke of Chicago,-- representing --Newmark, - filed suggestion in opposition to the & motion of ~Attorney General Brun-- -- . 'Atto c Gmt:'n::':c'"& & rney % a t made when the supreme court met : for the October term this afternoon. f In the case of "Umbrelia" Mike ¢ Boyle, a motion for a writ of error t and supersedeas, filed by Boyle's at-- torney, Thomas E. Swanson of Cht-- cago, was" presented. to the court this afternoon. Ben Newmark, former deputy state fre marshal, and Michael J. Boyle, head " of: ~the Electrical Workers' un%pn. both were in the Lake county jail at Waukegan last--night. Boyle has been there for several weeks, his attorneys -- fighting to get him out. Newmark gave himself up last night. Both are serving six months' sen-- tence for contempt in refusing to tell a grand jury what they knew about alleged "fxing" of the jury which.at-- quitted Gov. Len.Small. © j Silk Shirts for Long Stay. . -- Newmark drove up to W county jail in a--bright and .. / new automobile. He had with him a Fimers soppiy 'of sigare." ife grook wint supply gars. e ' ed the sheriff amiably and said he "guessed" he would "join 'Friend Mike' in --jail." ©. e x9 "Yes," said the sherift with an om-- inous twinkle in hbis eye. Then he assigned Newmark to a coll on third floor of the jail while d Mike" reposes on the second fioor. "I've got to play safe," said "the sheriff. "I'm afraid something -i,t happen if |I put you together, Ben.". Both Newmark and Boyle were fu-- gitives -- from -- justice f or several months and it appears both will have to serve their six months' sentences given them b yJudge R. K. Welsh. The worm. has turned. have always hbeen the t lawsulits, 'but Thuraday the 6 North Shore .:' Milwaukee electri rallroad cha thae bt things wour&ct 100 _ dam age suit in the clroult court againa Pasguis! Brothers, Highiland Pm motor expressmen, charging that on« The SBupreme court has ruled that the governor may not pardon a per-- son sentenced for contempt. . _ Boyle was captured "~on a 2 trip several weeks ago and several vain batties for freedom. Field, Kautman and courtney were acquitted. C 8 Newmark has been summering at Lake Geneva. WhenField,; Kautman and Oo-rtuz were indicted for alleged "fAxing, State's Attorney A. V. Smith isgued grand jury subpoenaes for Royle and Newmark. They refused to answer questions "on the grounds that I might incriminate myself." . The con-- tempt kentences followed: and the men became fugitives. . t EXTRA! RAILROAD ' STARTS LAWSUI -- _ o° 'their drivers care m the " Washington, at the in Highwood, damagi cars to that extent. Springfield, Il.,, Oct. 2%.-- $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE _ 1tm 44

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