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Lake County Register (1922), 30 Jun 1926, p. 1

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E.%* *' _ _ Norman Hewitt Of Lake Forest _JEALOUSY IS _ MOTIVE FOR DUAL DEATH Two persons, Norman Hewitt, 50, of Lake Forest, and Miss Nora Ren-- wick, 30, Glencoe, are dead in Lake Forest, the result, it is believed of jealousy on the part of the woman. _~Miss Renwick, formerly employed as.a nurse for Hewitt's aged mother, who died June 9, fired two shots in-- to the body of --Hewitt and then end-- ed her own life with a bullet from Coroner John L. Taylor took up his investigation of the murder and suicide Monday afternoon at 4:30-- M.tflnWanxe:ndemkhz &;v&nfin are being Miss Renwick had been employed recently at the home of A. E. Denis 889 Washington road, Glencoe, an official of the First National bank. w she received a package a mail order firm, supposedly containing a--revolver. When the bod-- es were discovered the weapon, part-- jally wrapped in. tissue. paper was tightly clutched in her right hand. #ters from her to Hewitt. -- + But in her purse were numerous dlippings, most of them dealing with ; Clews Sought. Chief Alfred Hopman of the Lake ¥orest police searched her room and mlso the Hewitt home for documents that would give a clew to the motive had carefully destroyed all her cor-- " "Man's love is Of a man's life a thing apart; 'tis woman's whole ex-- istence," was one of the quotations, This led the police to believe that a love affair that had cooled or an af-- fection that was not requited drove Miss Renwick to the killing. Hewitt had fallen across the threshold leading to the ~dining g:n. Bohd"dboennhotmln abdomen once the his heart, ° Miss Renwick's> body lay on the opposite side of the room. She 'had shot: herself thru the head. Three bullets had gone wild. One struck the ceiling and hear the shots. When she entered the sitting room on the first floor it was in great disorder, indicat-- ing that Hewitt had tried to wrest the weapon from Miss Renwick. Both bodies were sprawled on the zibflnnvolnrfwubuwbu was shot in the abdomen. Then as he staggered away, Miss Ren-- wick> followed, took careful aim and fired into his body again. bf flowers to the invalid. B. Hewitt, a member of the Board of Trade. She died at the age of Reconstructing the shooting, the police believe that the first shot; went wild and that Hewitt seized the woman and was trving --to In their struggle the couple had overturned~a floor lamp and sev-- Turns Gun On Self were revolver at the Hewitt home nurse and there were no let-- upset a table and of Clem 'Hentges, at one time a pol-- iceman in Libertyville and with many friends here died early Sunday morning at Gary, Indiana, Death ollowed a stroke of paralysis which Mr. Hentges suffered while in pur-- suit of his duties as deputy sheriff of Crown Point, Ind. Mr. Hentges, it is learned, suffered a slight stroke about two weeks ago. He recovered from this and seem to be again in good health. Last Satur-- Clem Hentges > Passes Away day night with another deputy he was pursuing two men. While run-- ning Henges suffered the stroke that ended in his death. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Crown Point. He 'is survived by a widow and a brother, Dan Henges who con-- ducts a meat market at Lake Forest The deceased was village marshal in Libertyville for a period of two years during the term of Paul Mac-- Guffin as mayor and also served one term under the late Henry B. Eger. SWINDLED OUT OF HIS AUTO was purchased. The man alleged to have taken the car is Henry Miller Miller, according to information obtained by Sherif Ahistrom is wanted on several charges in Mil-- waukee. It was reported that he bought a tire in Waukegan for the car taken from Shorman and charg-- ed it to the Overland concern at lnwnnheand.ehecknpiqbdu made by Sheriff Ahistrom,. _ | The manager of the Woolworth five and ten cent store, Waukegan, brought Jesse Palomer, colored, 314 ters Saturday night at 9:30 o'clock. YOUTH TAKEN _ FOR TuEsTS no time was lost in getting out a warrant for his arrest. The police in Milwaukee received information that Miller had a gir} friend in Wauwautosa, which is in Milwaukee county and the local men made--# trip there with a Milwaukee policeman. They learned that Miller had departed some 20 minutes before their arrival. The ~license number of the car stolen from Shorman is 876039 Ill. informed Captain Thomas Kennedy. When poli¢e searched the boy sey-- eral small articles were found in his pockets which he had "lifted." youth was caught in the act of E't.'r o Road, Waukegan former city fire-- man was fatally injured Saturday afternoon and his two companions are in the Lake County General hospital hovering between life and death from injuries received when the machine in which they were rid-- ing skidded off the road and turned turtle on Bulkley road a short dis-- tance west of Five Points. The names of the two injured men are: William -- Etchell, 415 McKinley where the trio 6 f eauky"" were employed as The mathine, it is understood, was traveling at--a fairly fast rate of speed when Etchell lost con-- trol of the wheel and the machine skidded off the road into the mud and turned over in the ditch, pin-- lance the men were rushed to the Both shoulders were badly wrench-- ed and bruised. Carr's body was removed to the Weheland?ow%' n 'funeral home. Coroner Taylor noon Monday postponed the inquiry into the death until Tuesday becausé of other in-- quests scheduled for that day. Workmen employed by a landscape gardening contractor on the estate of George D. Wolf, on the Wagner road opposite the North Shore Golf club, near . Glenview, _ Friday found a human skeleton buried un-- der two feet of earth. HEART WEAK Possibilities of a murder were ad-- vanced, but a coroner's physicign. who examined the bones, said that there were no marks of violence on the skull. The skeleton was that of a man and had apparently been buried many years ago. _ Anthony Paonesse, 105 East Thir-- ty--first street, Chicago, wealthy re-- tired Chicago merchant, fell dead Death was due to heart disease a coroner's jury decided late Sun-- day afternoon at the inquest held at the deceased merchant's summer cago Monday where funeral ser vices will be held. -- Paonessa for the past 18 years has maintained a summer home at Fox l ak> and was well knowh there. Residents of the vicinity said that a man named John Toop had owned the tract where the find was made about fifty years 'ago_ and that when members of his family were stricken by illness and died he had buried them on the farm and gone away Robert Carr, 111 South Sheridan FIND SKELETON _ NEAR CEMETERY bert Carr, Former City Fireman, ~Fatally -- Injured Near Five Points; Two Others In--Hospital. AUTO TURNS NTO DIICH up a steep bluff bordering the William Salisbury, 53 years old, whose home was in Canada, dropped dead on the tusiest spot on Milawu-- kee avenue Monday night, Heart Disease Fatal to Man; ; Drops Dead on Busy Corner He was standing in front of the Gotti fruit store talking with friénds when seized with a heart attack and slumped to the sidewalk. He was carried inside the store and Doetors Penney, and Taylor. hastily sum-- moned €3.n} Dr. Penney was the first to arrive, being orf--the point of entering his office when called but Salisbury was beyond help and died just as the g'gsiysician administered a hypoder-- &, 4 The deceased has been in Liberty-- ville for some months past and was employed as a laborer by the Meyer company in the construction of the Budd Memorial north of town. He boarded with the Hayes Lewis fam-- ily who live on the Lawrence farm on North Milwaukee avenue. . The body. was removed to the un-- dertaking rocms of J. A. Treptow where it is being held pending the receipt oft word from rélatives. His personal effects disclosed the fact that he was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, having joined the order at Mason City, lowa and a paid up receipt was found showing that he was in good standing at the time of his death. An insurance policy in the same organization was also found naming COMMUNITY MEET . . GREAT SUCCESS sports for old and young. -- The applause which followed Mr. Insull's wornds of commendment ans encouragement clearly showed the wppreciation which everybody felt for his sincere intérest in this new community project. ~~ The committee in charge of the meeting :was as follows: Mr. M. J. Casey, Libertyville club,, Mr. James Swan, Kiwanis, Mrs, L. W. Beman, Woman's club, Mr. Charles Hoskins, The American Legion, Mrs. -- Jesse Dollenmaier, P T. A., Mrs. Kenneth Lovell, high school board, and Mr. R. Andrews, grammar school board. The town owes a vote of thanks to the Boy Scouts who turned out to a man in assisting with the real work for this meeting. They placed the seats in the high school aduitor-- ium for the meeting and put them back where they are stored. They put the invitations to the mecting in every 1 box in Libertyville and lflnde{:din. The town is to be con-- gratulated in having a group of workers such as the Scouts are. July and> August Mr.~ Rreiger touched the high spots in a very interesting program announcing that thegmundqatthepcmmarlchool would be open: Thursday at 1:00 o'clock. He asked that everybody read the newspapers for announce-- ments for coming events. _ Announcements of Coming Events --There will be formed at once a Junior Tennis club with instructions in tennis for beginners by Mr. Krei-- Mr. W. M. Kreiger followed with a sketch of several of the activities and avemnts which are nlanned for ger. ~All who want to take such in-- struction and prepare for the con-- test that are coming, please get in touch with Mr. Kreiger at once by calling at the office at the city hal or telephoniing 53. No age limits. The meeting closed by community singing led by, Mr. G. G. Hoskins, Miss Ruby Williams accompanying at the piano. -- > Published Twice Weekly U t ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 80, 1926 as his beneficiary his brother who lives in Crofton, Ontrio, Canada. The policy carried a benefit for accident and sickness but makes no provision for natural death. ---- -- The brother in Canada has been notificd" and the body will be held rere until word is received from him as: to its disposition. $ ~ Salisbury had a sizable sum of money on his person ani his bank account shows a ecmfortable . bal-- ance.* Fellow workmen fronm the L. E Meyer Construction company viewe!1 the body Tuesday morning and helped"to establish a complete identity. * & They gave the deceased an envia-- ble reputation among his associates and claimed that he had showed no previous signes 'of illness. : . Coroner John L. Taylor held an inquest in the death Tuesday morn-- ing amd the jury found that the man came to his death from an acute at-- tack of heart disease. There is a report that the man_had been drink-- ing on Sunday and this may have been a contributary cause but Coro-- ner Taylor says that an examination thowed that his heart was in such condition as to make death certain had he been a total abstainer. . The authorities are in communi-- cation with the Moose lodge at Wau-- kegan and shoulkd the brother in Canada fail to respond, it is prob-- mat the local lodge may take of the burial. ASSAULT CASE is being built by the H. B. Ryan com-- pany, Chicago, to provide additional The Waukegan Electric company announces that they ha'yoi'gt re-- ceived orders to proceed with the inltllhtionoftbeelect;'km.and power for the new Holy Child high facilities for that rapidly growing James Davis, 1003 Massena ave-- nue, Waukegan, died shortly before two o'clock Monday afternoon from injuries received when he fell while working on a house on Hickory street Saturday afternoon. Davis had been working at the top of the building when he accidently slipped. He fell through the building as he landed. He was taken to the office of Drs. Louig B. Jolley and Howard C. Hoag who had him removed to the Victory z:mm'hl hospital,« v;:ermp nt:t late afternoon, re-- gai:xy consciousness. Just before the end he became ra-- tional and seemed to recognize those They are to have a complete sys-- tem of electric clocks, electric bells for calling classes, fire. alarms, and inter--communicating telephones in each of the class rooms, thus provid-- ing a factor of safety not found in some of even the most modern of * According to Mr. Bente of the Waukegan Electric company they will have one of the finest electric-- ally equipped buildings along the around him. i. xt Davis suffered concussion of the brain when his head struck the base-- ment in his fall and in addition it north shore. MAN INJURED-- was thought that he had been in-- jured internally. 3 Coroner John L. Taylor is to con-- duct an inquest in the casé. ' his head on the basement IN FALL DIES IS DISMISSED xsn LOBDELL IS --CIVENROAD _ APPOINTMENT Examination To Be Held To Fill Position Permanently It Is Announced; New Head From Elgin. R. M. Lobdell of Elgin, who aas been connected with the state high-- way department for several years and who inspected most of the state aid road work in Lake county has been named to succeed Charles E. Russell as county highway superin-- tendent. The appointment is a tem-- porary one, an examination is to be held during the next 90 days for the office. Following the examina-- tion the board will select one of the candidates for a six year period. County Clerk Lew A. Hendee was informed Monday in a communica-- 'tion from Frank Sheets, state bighway engineer that C. R. Miller, state director of the department of public works and buildings, had made the temporary appointment t' fill the vacancy in the Lake coun-- t)otfiee. It was indicated that Lob-- dgellwmasnmeflnduluofeonn- ty highway superintendent this county board said Monday that Rus-- sell will be allowed to retail one of the four rooms now 'occupied by him, as he holds an elective office of coanty $urveyor. The other rooms will le cecupied by Lobdell. week. It is recalled that the board of supervisors accepted the resignation of Charles Russell as county high-- way superintendent at iurhgt ses-- sion by a vote of 18 to 11. Russell charged that a certain "ring". of \)oud-uenbcrlowooedhim,so\h felt it best to resign. of the station, greeted the prince who 'nspected the gailors and ma-- ed to Lake Forest to the home of Charles H. Schweppe, where there was a banquet and danee. Saturday nrorning the prince played golf with Mr. Schwoppe and--a few others--at the Old Elm Golf Club at Lake Mrs. Katie Paskarschill, 65 yearse old, 2925 Racine avenue, Chicago was seriously injured Saturday mor ning when a machine which her hus band was driving, was hit by a large riding south when the acctident oc-- curred. The truck pulled onto the road, the driver apparently not see-- ing the Paskerschill machine, and crash»d broadside into the. car. Both were rushed into Waukegar to the Victory Memorial .hospital where Dr. J. E. Walter was called According to Dr. Walter, Mrs. Pas-- karscaill suffered a fractured left leg, and numerous bruises.about the WOMAN HURT IN ACCIDENT truck on Grand avenue in Lake Vil-- la. Both were thrown from their body. Her husband received mino bruises. + Mr. and Mrs. P: ling south when | ONE ISSUE Because of the fact that the celebration of our Na-- tional birthday will be held on Monday, July 5, which is the day on which the material for the first issue of the Register is compiled, there will be but one issue next week, that of Saturday, July 10. 4 Advertisers and correspond-- ents are requested to note this and be governed accordingly. Recall Charges NEXT WEEK of th C3 Budd Memorial Is Dedicated Memorial Home near --Libertyville, built by Britton 1. Budd, president of the Rapid Transit company, in mem-- ory of Mrs. Budd was formally ded-- icated Sunday. The Rt. Rev-- Sheldon M. Griswold, suffragan Episcopal bishop of Chicago presided and dedicated the home, assisted by the Rt. Rev. B. F. P. Ivins, coadjutor of Milwaukee. The home, including 200 acres of land on the Des Plaines river, is estimated to cost $450,000. It will be under supervision of the sisters of St. Mary of the Episcopal church, which order manages (St. Mary's Home for Children at 2822 West Jaskson boulevard. One hundred orphan children from the home were moved to the Libertyville loc-- ation Sunday on a special North Shore train which was met at the Libertyville station by busses which carried the children to the new home. Fifteen cottages Jand buildings have beefi erected for the new insti-- tution. More permanent structures, including a beautiful chapel, will be erected later.© When completed, it is Addresses were made at the ded-- ication Sunday by the Rev. Dr.Fred eric S. Fleming, rector of the Church of the Atonment and Bernard J. Fallon, member of the board of trus tees. Others"taking part in the cer-- emonies were the Reverend A. D. Kolkebeck, Church of the Aton-- ment, and Rev. Arthur Selcer, chap-- expected the will be a model in children's institutions. NAME SCRIBE _ FOR REWARD lain of St. John E. Hayes, Reporter Who Aided Confession, Included Frank Tiffany, chief of police of North Chicago. William~€. Ives, supervisor and special agent for the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad Co. Wesley Linstroth, clerk of the North Shore Line. North Shore Line. -- f E. F Bartells, sergeant of police Paul Haase, Prospect avenue, Mil-- waukee. + but were included in the list to re-- eeive awards follow: ; L. R. Hutchinson, dispatcher for the North Shore Line. E. G. Gile, secretary North Shore Building and Loan Association. John E. Hayes, reporter for the Waukegan Daily News. _ to ronbery after their tenced to son. Jud Municipal to serve f1 the senten Shore Line car at the North Chi-- cago Junction. All of the loot taken from the bank, amounting to $1175 was recovered by Chief Tiffany. The bandits, Herbert Cooper, 21 Sicu* City, Ia., and Frank O'Mara 40, South Dakota, pleaded guilty to ronbery in Milwaukee 48 hour: after their arrests and were sen-- tenced to the Wisconsin state pri-- son. Judge Shaughnessy in the Municipal court sentenced Cooper to serve from 3 to 25 years, while the sentence of O'Mara was fixed at from 3 to 30 years. > Since the bandits were taken tc the -- penitentiary, Chief Tiffany learned that they are wanted in other cities. They are alleged tc »since the bandits were taken tcl;"n';fi the ~ penitentiary, Chief Tiffany Againg learned that they are wanted in | court, other cities. They are alleged tc haverobbedabanglfe'weehMR before. "pulling the job" in Shore-- wood.: _ :. ='> > 6 * The bank robbers were captured by Chief Tiffany and several of his policemen, being taken from a North To Chief Tiffany and Ives war credited the actual work of getting the men The North Chicago police made the capture. The North Shore men and the loan official aided in trailing the bandits. Hayes, Daily News reporter, up-- on his consent was placed in a North Chicago cell as a decoy and> when police went throuchthemofljoof and confessed. The four men who made no claims Katharine -- Kreigh Budd ed, It 18| ;seue taxes and road and bridge nodel in |;,yes. 'The court overruled the ob-- jections on the bond issue tax, the ded-- |which involves taxes amounting to Dr.Fred | sossg.49, 'The court upheld the romd : Church and bridge objection which amount-- nard J.| ; 1. eqgqsg 142 TAXES ARE $2.00 PER YEAh IN ADVANCE 14 Cent Assessment Rate Upheld By Court In Case Of Two Railroads Running County Judge Perry L. Persons Sltnrdtymledontheuxob;dnl of the Chicago and Nort® Western and the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad companies, the objec-- tions with one exception being over-- ruled in both matters Assistant State's Attorney Sidney H. Block handled the tax matters for the of-- fice of County Treasurer Ira E. Pearsall. The Chicago and North Western road raised two main objections, one that a rate of 14 cents assessed by the county on each $100 valuation was excessive and the other that the road could not be assessed for bond which involves taxes amounting to $2558.49. The court upheld the romd mdmobjeefionwhkhm ed to $886. 438. _ _ __ _ 'ho.tbueentboulhmh!. as in the North Western case. The court upheld the objections to town-- ;-hiphmvhichm-denthe 'MMMJ" al taxes was done after the time limit had expired. * * The Chicago, Milwaukee &,. St Paul road paid taxes of $66,773 and objected to taxes of $3870.51. By the ruling of the court most of the taxes to which objections.had been made wil have to be pad.= --~ . Pay $87,269.17 The North Western road paid tax-- es of $87,269.17 to the county treas-- mmudveehm"'m to taxes 'of $3448.92. The of the court was that this railroad company pay $2558.49 of the tax ow which objections were made. & In the case of the Chicago, Mil-- The youth.was found hiding od the third figor in the glass and dish department of the Frank Burke Hardware store located at 18 Sou®h Genesee street, at 9:80 o'clock Sat-- urday night by a clerk who had occasion to take a customer to par-- ticular section where the youth was a corner behind the display shelves his~face buried in his hands. The salesman called to the boy to come out and when he asked him what he was doing, Taylor replied, "I'm sick." The youth was taken to the offices of Mr, Burke where in the presence man E. Hicks, he confessed that he intended to hide in the store until it was, locked up and then steal a baseball bat, catchers glove, bails, and possibly the money from the Taylor later at the police station when being grilled again by Captain Thomas E. Kennedy who took charge of the case entered a complete de-- nial that he was there to rob and declared that he never said he in-- tended to rob although three wit-- nesses heard him make the state-- ments. Although he.was grilled for a long time by Captain Kennedy Taylor held to his denial and refused to sign a confession or a statement of any of two store employes and Patrol« The young alleged robber was locked up and is being held in jail while the matter is being taken up with State's Attorney A. V. Smith Police officials announced they in-- tend to ask that information be filed against the youth in the -- county MRS. TIBBALS IS DIRECTOR Mrs. Grace Tibbals has been ap-- pointed Red Cross recreational di-- rector and hostess at the new vet-- eran's hospital at North Chicago. She will assume her duties on July 1. Mrs. Tibbals is state historian of the American Legion auxiliary and is relief worker for the local legion. She is very well fitted for the work Through Lake County. of her new office as she has had a great deal of experience along this 'l\nd-_'k_wthmh IS CLAIM $5

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