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PP bpt. "m COVER AFTER ----~ BLACKWELL ARREST Judge Shurtleff announced .that he desired to take up the charge con-- taired in the inforamtion filed by States Attorney Lumley in the county court Saturday morning. Assistant Special States Attorney Joslyn an-- nounced that he expected the special states attorney, William L. Pierce, to be present and felt the courtesy was due Mr. Pigrce to continue the case until the latter arrived. Both Mr. Lumley and Mr. Joslyn told the court they were expecting a witness from Chicago. John Freund First . Witness The judge gold 'them to go* ahead ° with what 'witnesses were present and Attorney Lumley summoned John Freund of McHenry, to the stand, at the same time asking another wit-- ness, John Oefling, to leave the court room during the taking of llr.l Freund's testimony. } Blackwell was brought into court by Sheriff Edinger and seated beside 'his counsel. -- Mrs. Blackwell occu-- pied a seat among the court fans and showed a keen interest in the proceedings. She is suing him for divorce on charges of drunkenness. Mr. Freund was first questioned by ¥ir. Lumley. The witness tried hard to evade the questions of the state's ytorney, relying time after time on the customary answer, "I don't re member" used by witnesses who are trying to withhold information. | Testimony Showed Beer Ped-- dlers Ditched Brew on Night * Raider Was Taken. _ A crowded court room _ greeted Judge Shurtleff! at the opening of court Friday morning. -- The bootleggers ditched all thei: supplies of beer and ran for cover after the night lra Blackwell, former member of the Lake county spong« wquad was arrested on charges of ac-- cepting bribes and shaking down béer: runners, according to -- testi-- mony obtained by inference in the gircuit court at Woodstock late Fri-- day and Saturday before Judge Fu-- ward D. Shurtleff. Mike Wortz testified he paid Biack-- i well $5 for protection from arréest as ; & violator of the prohibitory law. } Freund stated that his business was a ralesman, the main line being the sale of beverages. b GOT $1,000 BRIBE, CHARGE:! John Freund testified that he ped-- dled beer at $55 a barrel. He claimed it was near beer. e also tostifed that on the night that Blackwell was arrested --he went to all his custom ersg and had them dump the beer. It was brought out by inference, ac-- cording to States Attorney Lumley, that while Blackwell was in charg of the investigating work in McHenry Counrty that the beor runners weu: through that county at any time o day or night without fear of be's molested. . . A subpoenae was issued late Fu day afternoon for A. Grom, of Ch cago, who was to appear as a witnes against Blackwell Saturday. Blackwem is in the county jail at Woodstock, being unable to give bail for $10,000 while the hearing to dis-- miss a petition for habeas corpus is on. s The attormey's questions started out by referring to the sale of beér. The witness always referred in his an¥wers to the sale of "beverages." He admitted selling beverages -- in barrels at from $10 to $55 a barrel. When asked what made the differ-- ence in price Freund stated that the higher priced "beverage" was more "palatable." . * a + Charges made by the states attor-- ney are to the effect that Grom claims he paid Blackwell $1,000 for protec-- tion in operating beer trucks through McHenry county, paying at the rate of $2 a barrel. This was to the sub-- stance of the testimony States Atty. Lumley expected to bring out Satur-- day. 19 and had nsot delivered any in Mc !%E:nt{ since. cas has--the sale of beer stopped i tkwell was arregted?" 4 : w the coot Weathér may A komethlihg to do with it." k) John Ocfiing on Stand also of McHenry, was to the stand and 'his lack ?l was evon fore noticeable "Isn't it true that the regular price of this beer is $50 a barrel and you were collecting $5 extr£ to be paid to some one to get it through Mc-- Henry county? 'asked Mr. Lumley. The witness still insisted that he collected $55 a barrel, which was the regular price. "Didn't you tell m6," asked Mr. Lumley, "in my office last Baturday that you would go to jail before you would tell to whom this hush money was paid?" Spars WithLawyer Freund again sparred with the lawyer in his effort to get around the question, but would not admit that he had made such a statement. same night :ou heard Blackwell was artested and.give him back $5 and take away the beer you had deliver ed to him?'asked Mr. Lumley. The witness admitted the sale of "beverages" at Algonquin, Cary and MceHenry. -- & Attorney Joslyn's examination of the witness started by asking him if :, were not true that as soon as he Blackwoel! was arrested that he immediately dAisposed of all the beer When asked in what form the packages were which he had been delivering, if they were not beer bar-- rls, the witness said they used to be beer barreis, but that they were now "beverage &uh." s KFreund stated he did go to see Mr. Worts, but the $5 was cwhat he had borrowed from Worts. *"What did you go to Worts for at that hour of, the night?" . * went to advise him to be can = 'WI. CKbawering many wering many of the same put td his partner entirely ten. were made. When-- h pornared he always don't kpow," of "I ko to Mike Worts the Theodore Schiessle, another pro# prietor of a McHenry soft drink par-- lor, was a witness. He swore. that he had handled no real beer since his place was raided several months ago, when re entered a plea of guilty Both the witnesses mentioned they knew Blackwell --only by the name of Smith and that the latter was only. a mere acquaintance. Mike Wortz Best Witness °* Fred Justen, McHenry, soft drink parlor proprietor, was placed on the witness stand at the ~beginning of the afternoon session. He admitted selling beer, but that he had bought none since Blackwell was arrested. At the time of Blackwell's arrest he stated he had been notified to quit. begir out of Wortz' place of businesk and gave him back the $5 protection money. Judge Shurtieff stated he had been informed that other witnesses were due to be subposnaed at the time of filing the information in county court. Mr. Lumley said he had not issued and subpoenas except for Freund and Oefling, and .William Cooney, who served the papers on the two McHenry men, was called to testify, Mr. Cooney said he serv-- ed dbut two and had no> subpoenas for »any others. ". _ CGrom Fails to Appear As J. Grom, the main witness in Athe case, did not appear at the hear-- ing. . Judge SBhurtlieff ordered that the sgheriff be sent after Grom and continued the hearing until 10 o'clock this morning. Mr. Joslyn asked that Mr, .Schickler, an Aurora man, also be served with a subpoena to ap pear today. % can't remember." Several times Judge Shurtleff was compelled to re-- primand the witness for his hesita; tien and evasive replies. Michael Worts followed Justen in the witness box. Attorney Joslyn was able to get admission from Wortz to the effect that he had paid Freund $5, after having paid Oefling $50 for a barrel of beer. He said he asked Freund what the $5 was for and that he replied it was for "protec-- tion," but when Wortz asked Freund who. the prgtectlou money was to go to, the latter refused to tell. °> Wortz said that right after Black-- well's arrest Freunrd cammhe to his place and offered to help get the _ Attorney Field made a plea to the court for reduction of Blackwell's bond, which had been placed at #10, 000, Judge Shurtieff announced that he would not reduce the bail in the two priginal charges,--but would les sen the bond in the habeas corpus matter from $5,000 fto $1,500, which made the total $6,500 instead of $10,-- While a tireless worker and leader, Maj. Gen. John L. Hinces, who will roon become head of the army, has other @ccomplishments. One of them is dancing. The general is never & wall--fower when the music plays, and is often seen on the ballroom floor. His hobby is horseback riding each| morning before going to his office. Hoe will relieve General John J. FPershing in September. CLOUDBURST ALL BUT DROWNS OUT CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. Cedar Rapids, la., Aug. 19.--Two men are known to be dead today and many other lives and homes are im-- periled by the filoods which resulted from the, terrific rainstorm that struck northeastern Iowa late yester-- day. 'Only med&er reports are available from the storm district as wire sery-- ice is badly qrippled. Linn and Cedar counties wére beliéved to have suf-- fered the most. Farms were inubdat-- ed, three feet of water being reported on 'some of therh. 5 TWO MEN ARE DROWNED In the big creek district near Ber-- tram, Ja., Clavude Bartett and J. M. Bchly were drowned in the flood wa-- ters when they attempted to look after their Aive stock. * Te / 1 $3 In Grundy county many farms were under water. Hogs and cattle were drowned. _ eTlephone wires were blown down. * ' City. Under Four Feet of Water While Farms are Inundated and Cattle Drowned. Big Creek at Bertram overflowed it banks, covering acres of unharvest-- ed crops. Other creeks throughout this territory were today raging tor-- rents. ----Central Park section of this city was covered with from four to ten fset of water. Canoes were used to rescue mrtgu from fifty motor cars caught in the cloudburst. Two fire{frucks commission during in residential Aand were flooded. Garages 'hroughout this section were flooded today with requests from motorists demanding that their Barbarous Treatment of Prisoners. Formerly, _ all _ prisoners _ were "lroned," even in their cells, and the Irons used were of enormous weight. Up to the Kighteenth céntury great welghts like round sbot were at-- tached to the legirons, so that the wenrer could not whk unless hbe picked up the weights and carried were put out of runs. 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