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Lake County Register (1922), 15 Jul 1925, p. 1

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HIGHWD PARK EACHER DIES A amall section of glzss was re-- moved from a rear window and the bandit then reached inside and re-- moved a bar from the bac': door and also unlocked the door. He 'ocked the door afte: leaving, even putting the bar in place. then for six hours. The robbery, although not discov-- ered until 8 o'clock Monday morning by an officlal of the firm took place between the hours of 2 and 4 p. m. Maroney W"fi& covery. He was told that was someone at the plant all day Sun-- day up until 2 o'clock in the after-- noon, there being no one around The safe is said to have contained several hundreds of dollars in ad-- dition to valvable records and pap-- was impossible to got the safe open Monday, it being necessary to get an expert safe man out from Chicage. The Ford salesrooms and garage in Highland Park operated by Springer and Person at St. John's and Park avenues was broken into sometime Sunday afternoon . or early in the evening, the cash reg-- ister broken and $90 in paper mon-- day and Cnange stolen. handles of the safe were smashed, unparently with a heavy bar. It ROBBERS TAKE CGARAGEMONEY Smash Knobs on Safe in Place at Highland Park Sunday Af-- State's Attorney Smith when in-- terviewed Friday declared that Miss Vanderklont may have been the one who turned th-dxlu-awbg Further than that, bhe would tering the Vanderkloot Fome and stealin~ some articles out of it. two of the four young men being held in bonds are charged with en-- gave it to the Lake Eloff girl as a don Miller had taken the necklace and two rings while Durand sat in the automobile outside, later driv-- ing them away. . Durand Had Gems, Claim It is charged by the other conspir-- ators that Durand, when he failed in stolen from Miss Hester White of Lake Forest last September. Without being specific in her story, Miss Vandercloot said she knew one of the quartet involved in the story of the holdup told by Frank Patterson and through that source obtained the jewelry. At the hearing in state's Attor« uable pearl necklace, through at-- torneys to State's Attorney A.--¥; Smith. This necklace had been The link that may connect Jack Durand, foster son of the Seott 8. Durands of Crabtree Farm, Lake Bluff, with the "gold coast" hold-- ups, was uncovered Friday in the person of Miss Burnet Vanderkloot, daughter of William J. Vanderkloot guwmwm This came to light when Miss Vanderkloot admitted that she was the one who turned over the val-- Miss Vanderkloot Found to be One Who Returned Necklace _Ato Col. Smith Through Law-- SEVENTY--FIFTH YEAR $ :A It 4s a"strange coincidence that yer; May Link Durand. * due to diabetes, seearred last Tells of Theft trust. company's attorneys Friday. . The motion to dismiss the condem-- nation sult of the North Shore line w Deerfield property held in by the Chieago Title and Trust wus denied in the County ' "of Judge Petry L. Persons Fri-- day. Arguaments to have the ac-- tion thrown out were made by the DISMISSAL OF SUIT DENIED while working at North Chicago for the Malloy Construction Company. This company is executing a con-- tract for the laying of a system of water mains at the city and Biere was working in the ditch when one Other workmen dug him out and he was brought to the office of Dr. his injuries were attended Biere suffered a badly braised leg with severe contusions about the right knee. LOCAL MAN HURT AT NO. CHICAGO husband on April 22, 1925. November %, 1919, in Ottawa, II,, and have a 3'%%--year--old child. Ac-- and the forcible signing of a con-- tract under the threat of death. others, was named in a divorte suit filed in the Circuit Court by Mrs. Zoe O'Brien Friday in Chicago, wW.W. O' BRIEN IN DIVORCE crimina) lawyer of Chicago, who has won murder acquitals for William Helen De Mace, 21 years . old, of Highland Park, was locked in the county jail Priday on a charge of bny"n'iudofhdh'd ,I'Jcl«th-.m'u& Mae had been arraigned before Jus-- tice of the Peace A. E. Smith of It is charged that the young wo-- man took a check for $41.50, a hat, handkerchiefs belonging to Clayton As the woman could not furnish bonds of $2,000, she was remanded to the custody of the sheriff.. tinued to July 16. YOUNG WOMAN SENT TO JAIL lung and lodged in her back. She also swallowed a quantity of lysol, according to Dr. Penney. Held In Theft of Articles at Home of Highland Park Man Recently. into ker body just above <the heart. The bullet was fired fr m 1 22 cali-- ber revolver and went through one ted that he questioned a brother of the girl Thursday night and that he said nis sister had given no reason for attempting to take her life. The eonstable was informed that the girl does not talk to her parents or bro-- thers and sisters, Two theories are being investiga-- ted, one that the girl. shot herself and. took poison because of disap-- pointment in a love affair and the other that she was brogding over the death of a sister. Clara Lenm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wl.hgbmn. living just outside of the west limits of Half Day, who is alleged to have attemp-- ted to commit suicide Pueday night by swallowing poison and shooting herself, was improved somewhat to-- day. Dr. Maurice ;D. Penney, the attending physician said the girl had a fair chance to recover,. William Biere of Libertyville was The bill charges habitual drunk-- _ to Mrs. O'Brien's com-- ahe was foreed to leave her murder threats firsd the shot in of injury was only a seratch. Miss Pik-- tel said Mrs. Dackilewies told het she had seen Efinger load the gun an hout or two before. The next day, when the boy's mother asked for the gun, Efinger told her it was no geod and that he had broken the wenpon and thrown it away, accord-- ing to Miss Piktel, * Miss Piktel said that on Tues-- h&rmmn the hospital and told him :'-'flfitmt{m taken another claims fihfi&"tfi" ue nane ie * t thk Aroth_ _ of Chief of Police Fred Eb-- lgr'm!d_";bgnddh that Efinger told her to keep qutet about the shooting, teling her it was not necessary to call the police, whem she so requested, saying that the _ She sah her sweetheart told her for the Arst time on Tuesday aft-- terncon of wedk. while on his deathbed, the story of the shooting She testified that Dackiewilex stated that Efinger put a gun efther in his pocket or a holster and the weapon dropped on the floor and the gon discharged when it hit the floor, or whether the trigger was pulled, ac-- cording to Miss Piktel ' She claimed further that Mrs. Dackiewles ran into the store and found her son lying on a chair and Efinger behind a counter. When the mother asked about the shooting, Efinger, according to the story Miss Piktel clatimed was told by the mo-- ther, said her son had shot himself accidentally, She testifi¢d forther Tells of Shooting + Miss Piktel who was called as a witness by Coro®er, John L. Tay-- lor. She charged among other things that drinks other than soft drinks had been sold at the place of busi-- ness operated by Dackiewicz and Efinger and that when the shooting occurred, Efinger, according to a statement made by the geceased, told !hohhfl'!d.teoin'l' him in the shooting as the store ,-rc'u deceased and who is said by Mrs. Dackiewicz to have had the {m which caused her #on's death, |enteerd the funeral home, the wo-- 'm was on the verge of becoming hysterical and started for him. | _ "Heé killed my son," cried the wom-- * was reported that Dackiewict was shot when 1 accidentally dropped a gun «from a counter. . Thursday following the death of her sweet-- heart, Miss Piktel charged that the truth regarding the accident had not been told, the gun being in the pos-- session of Ralph Efinger at the time. the i Kflw& + m rear of the meat market and--@rocery conducted by his father in Tenth street. A builet dis= charged from a..38 caliber revolver entered his h&lfl' We was taken that night to gounty hospital, had to hold Mrs. Dackiewicz back. Again she went into the room where the jury was hearing the testimony Mrs. Dackiewicz stood near Efinge: and glared at him, her body quiver-- ing. She was uui%' 'to a chair by her son, George, and Mizs Martha George Dackiewicz, a son of the woman, and other men in the room an at the top of her voige as glared at Efinger and started wards him. 1 JURY HEARS REAL STORY AT INQUEST Return Verdict Stating Joseph Dackiewicz Was Shot When Gun of Another Was Drop-- There was a display of antagon-- ism Friday at the inquest held at the Joseph Petroshius funeral home into the death of Joseph Dackiewicz, 20, 174 Tenth street Waukegan, who died Thursday at the Lake County General nospital from bullet wounds suffered several weeks ago. When Ralph Efinger, a Waukegan young man « who was a business paitner At the hoapital the following day ped; Mother Shows Emotion. (Continued on page 8) LIBERTYVILLE, ILMNOTS, | whonespay, Juuy she Bouth Sheridan soad was also raided and a pint of moonshine draug Samples of the . Hquor s Obffee house owned by Vacil Dineff and Georre Piacoff of 661 The report of the 3p@Mge ~squad for the week--end's activities show-- ed that the resort owned by Jack Goodall of Lake Zurich was raided. BRight kees of beet were on have been unable :o properly con-- trol of the machin~ Acgording to the police a pint of |iquor was found in the car, so Schro« der Was booked on an additional charge of trans-- porting liquor. SPONGE SOUAD LOCATES BEER E. M. Schroeder of w& Was Arfested Sunday in Chi-- eago by Acting Chic! Frod Ebler on a charge of driving * machinge while intoxlcated, when ho i® M to LTIQUOKk FOU IN MAN'S AFTER ARRESsT Committee: Rev. C Ccorge Engdahi, VWB CAL L. E. Wyille, chiel of LaGrange, N., Francls m! staff, anmounced. Evanston, I1l.; Edit) Jhm' Regarding his work while in Chi-- K: | * *_ * *|engo, iGen. Hale, at a gathering of Oden, Chicago, president, Rev, Frank William Richor, Frin. Carlson, Elgin, 11. vics, Miss Nina G Anderson, Kewanee, ML, secretary Arthur E. Wanfal Ewanston, 111. The entire forencon amd evenings will be used for special biblestudies and lectures on church problems and the afte--ncon will be gi¥@m over to recreation. A specia!l feature this year will be the Pr"-"""-: of the eantata "Ruth" by the league of the Saron Luthoran Chureh, Chi-- Grand Rapids Lodington, w, #gan, Indiana and sor #in,. The cities in II the largest . de :co. Evanston, R Flint, Bay City, !ansing, Detroit, Kent City, Cadillac; Ind#iana: Gary, South Bend, Flkhart, Chestertown, Geneseo; those Trom Michigan are: #esenting a total me# 444 will be registered 482 local leagues in t which includes Ilinois, Batavia, Aurora, Joliet, Peoria, Moline, Orion, A call elp was sent to Liber-- tyville, but Mawthoin farms are Ne Gl8y limits, no aid could be . a:'";' without the consent 'of the village officers and this consent came too late to save the barme «. ) . .. One ";mll at the time the call fl&l d easily Lave xtinguished the blaze in the =mall building and prevented its <pread to tyville, but a "" are oo Aeepan li could f A consent 'of the. m this consent came too the barn. *# y One tank of a the call was ns roul vius mt r i _ A call for 3 sent to Li tyville, but as 1 iwthoin fa The officers o( the sgiue are as follows: o ¥okoun was found in the clothing of LONG July 13. -- The| the dead man. Upon further inves-- ing Lake f nce will en-- | tigation, the undertaker got positive rtain the convention of | identification. 'The man's . parents e Augustana' uther leagues | were notifed and were at the in-- {& nois < July 20--26. qfila._day afternoon. senting a fotal of 4 T ang eay ores d &A tent on 14 will be registered. There are %...u."h. :':n-n shore _ the .". Tanfalt F)*' wanston,. T11 | Retirement of Maj. Gen. Harry ;:{nlm G.I:L'C Hale, ex--commander of the 8th mu-m-'amv.'nm corps area, from active duty + Rev. Herbert Swanson, [ last Friday noon will in no way cur-- h.; Car| HoIm, Ind.; | tail the execution of his big summer 6 i e '.Wm for reserve army ..?z.: rmé«-:-'- 1; | units, R. E. Wyllie, chief of in the conference were out of of the blaze, was entirely implements. the fire oe-- the Kruckman Bttle have been s strous fire which destroyed h was built ed the pre-- b fire started t the bain that wash room for and is believ'fi y a fault in mp --rary water : _ eonference Joshua '.;. Frank #, Mins Nina l'.mry wanston, 111. was incurred farm Monday arn was burn-- IS SCENE y Fire The others named Ray Harrison hh.'h:dmlh:hn- owned . T. Ogden Chicago and Pete Flament of Waukegan for driving while intoxicated in Belvi-- dere road on April 6. Both of the latter .are out in $1,000 bonds. bound over to the October grand jury were filed in the Cireuit court Saturday by Justice Harry Hoyt. One of the writs cited the bind-- lncmdlukl:-ld Lake Bluff in bonds of $10,000--on--bur-- glary charges for the theft of jew-- elry at the F. Edson White home in fellow _officers yesterday; said he is "Aully satisfied." "I always have done my duty," he said. "and I have no regrets." And he added, "Everybody seems to think this is a funeral. Well, it isn't; it's my Birthday." Gen. Hale was 64 years old Friday, the age at which Iuv*r the regulations army officers must retire, Transcripts of preliminary hear-- ings in which three persons were FINDINGS IN CASES FILED | Presumably he camped there the |night before and had been swimming Md:-oming. It is rather peculiat Shat although there were othut%l'hb-dn.nooueddk found thiat remembered seeing Vo-- koun #% the water. Coroner Taylor said there is a possibility that the man had' m poor heart and was over-- come by his exertion. It is also pos-- sible that Vokoun was taken with cramps. Bemhnbnnh-i ming out into deep water struck HALE RETIRES; WORK GOES ON not been dead more than half an hour when his body was found. He is said to have camped regularly over week--ends at the "Lake Forest beach for sometime. his The Lake Forest undertaker said that in all probability, the man hao body gave their names a¥\Joseph Louzensky, 2505 South Trumbull avenue, Chicago, and Robert Kocou-- rek, 1400 South Fifty--seventh ave-- Two men were in swimming and stumbled onto the body of Vokoun. nue, Cicero identified as that of Karel Vokoun, 85, 2341 Central Park, Chicago, was found on the bottom of Lake Mich-- igan 15 feet from shore in water at a depth of but four or five feet. ¥t the funeral home a card issued by a Chicago painters' 'union, No. 273 and bearing the name of Kare! the dead man. Upon further inves-- tigation, the undertaker got positive identification. "The man's parents were notifed and were at the in-- quest Monday afternoon. . --, the immen were swimiilng near each other and both struek the body about the same time. They carried it to shore and summoned a physician, who pronounced death. The body was then removed to the Weban funeral home in Lake Forest and Coroner John L. Taylor notified. ¥okoun was found in the clothing of Rockefelier MceCormick home at Lake Forest. A man's body, later The sixth drowning of the sum-- mer season in Lake court; occurred Sunday off the beach of the Edith Water Victim on Gold Coast is Sixth of Season in This County; lnqu-t Held Monday The injured man was an employ®e of the L E. Meger construction Company which is building the y arJ are goiting the gravel from a newly opened pit near Mundeclin. Just how the man came to walk in front of the train cannot hae his leg was crushed off just below the knee and he sustained other in-- learned, stepped in front of a North Shore work train at the local sta-- tion and received injuries which may prove fatal. Drs. Taylor and Penney were called and because of the serious-- ness of the injuries, rushed him to the Victory Memorial hospital at Waukegan. <+Dr. Taylor states that Ane second serious accident in this occurred about three o'dcevkkmaylm when a man whose name could not be MAN LOSES LEG IN FALL UNDER TRAIN ewn country," he said, "so why should they get away with it hore." Much agitation in favor of the plan is seen in Springfeld, I11., where the federal dry squad head has an-- nounced himself as being heartily in accord with the move, *They wouldn't be allowed to break laws with impunity in their The deportation plan has been broached in many,<tarters and seri-- ous consideration has been given it by prosecuting Attorneys in a num-- ber of counties. The state's attor-- ney of Kenosha county was in con-- ference with federal authorities of Chicago a few days ago, relative to arranging some sort of plan whereby those convieted pf bootlegging, man-- ufacturing booze and otherwise vio-- lating the prohibition act could be sont to their old countries. No Action Yet Up to this time, State's Attorney Smith has taken no action toward\ putting that plan into operation. He feels that it is up to the federal government first to say if it ap-- proves of the plan and will support it. \ Mayor Hyatt heard the crash and jumping into his car, started in pursuit of the offender who sped away after the accident. Our two police officers joinei in the chase and it seems that all three were somewhat hazy as to the sort of a car *hey were after. . get some one and that they did, but it has not yet been ascertained whether they used the eeny, 'meeny, miny, mo system to select the vic-- tim or whether some nore modern method-- was employed. But the joke of the thing was that they brought back the wrong man and from all accounts he was fight-- ing mad, with his better half taking law--that of deporting them--is be-- ing considered by State's 'Attorney A. V. Smith. -- After some heated argument, the unfortunate traveler convinced the officers of his innocence and was allowed to resume his journey. Noné 'of the trio involved have much to say about the affair and we suppose that they don't want anything said mabout it so we won't. A new plan of attack against aliens who violate the prohibition up the tirade wnen was> forced to pause CONSIDER PLAN OF DEPORT! A potential Barney Oldfield in his mad course through this village col-- lided with a going car in front oltllc"l\mcm Corlett resi-- dence and pushed the law abiding driver off the road and into a tele-- phone pole. cornered : chase down Milwaukee avenue, reulted in a comedy of er-- May Take New Action Against Bootleggers of This Section Who-- Are Aliens enister _ as we go to proxs. for want of |day: af coming cV service axoude Iaborer af Great Lakes naval will be held in Waukegan. Applica-- tions will close July 22. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS UP SOON Charles Steele, sold to William E. Zukas, of Waukegan. Thirty--eight lots which comprise the balance of the Pnldbw subdivision, Grand svenue MMM&&!: ges, of Chicsgo. Lot near the corner of Washington street and Maple avenue, owned by Grand avenue, Waukegan, sold to John Leicht, Waukegan. The Charles Pearson property, 810 McAlister avenue, Waukegan, purchased by Peter Panuer. | _ The bungalow owned by Miller and Meyer at Ash and Fourth atreoets, sold t« Alfred Pederson, of Newport Township. Whether Quinn stumbled or was shoved into the chute by a fork full of hay,' annw as no | one saw the happen end it | was only when the deceased. was missed by his fellow workmen that the accident wis discovered. pyess | of the chute and the man was 'hlsuuthh'hhbytb l Dr. John L. was | iately called and found that death ihadbeendnup tant uze | _ _An inquest was Reld in the office | of the Coponmer Tus orenc« land after he m 1 lonmak" Jackson street and Victoria street, Waukegan, owned by the old Dodge estate, has been sold to C. L. Wyman of Chicago. The tract will be sub of Waukegan. Ash street, gold to Edward Schmidt, of $40,000. Another deal of consid-- ten lots in Lake View subdivision at. Lake Villa, owned by a Chicago syndicate, to Charles B. Vorkis, of Lake Villa. w¥ } r workmen was mowing away the hay as it came up on the Dig fork from the wagons below and was, at the time of the accident, ihandling the trip rope which re-- leases the hay from the fork when it had reached the mow. t *A acres to Dr. Eugene T. Hay, of Chi-- $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Land deals Mtalling $150,000 were reported Saturday by T. J. Stahl & Co., of Waukegan. The largest deal reported was the sale of the Joseph Paule resort The barn at this place is--con-- structed with a chute near the raid-- dle of the bay for convenience in delivering the hay to the stock barn Report Made on Transactions -- of Land Throughout County by Waukegan Firm ' his home addre*s as lor'*'& %, but nothing is known of his Coroner Taylor is e "to reach some nhtin,-ivflo is being held at the Ray. 3 a rooms pending this information, _ James Quinn, a laborer who was employed by the Hawthorn Farm, was instantly killed Tuesday morn-- ing, when he fell through & hay chute from the mow where he was storing hay. DEALS DURING clock on the old Follett Farm on Milwaukee Avenue. tal death in facts above s Laborer on Insull Farm Meets _ Instant Death Tuesday Morn-- ing; Neck is Broken. Other deals reported follow: was the sale of at 7:30 o'-- 28

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