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~ gEVENTY--SIXTH YEAR NO. 96 --SLAYER MAY BE SENT 1O AN ASYLUM Mr. and Mrs. Honore Wright Cook 700 Center avenue, Lake Bluff. Sh. __"It was good enough for her," Kusnik is alleged to have said. "She had me arrested several times and planned to have me taken back _ to After talking the matter over at considerable lengtr, 'State's Attor-- ney Smith and Assistant State's At-- torney Block said there was no doubt in their minds but what Kusnik should be sent to Chester, rather than to Joliet penitentiary, the for-- mer the place where criminally in-- sane people are confined., _ _ eounty jail, Kusnik calmly stated that he was glad her life was end-- Friond; of Miss Marig Cook, of Lake Bluft, hav:ny eables telling of her suce Mimi in the opera "La Boh which she made her debut ' night in Venice. 100 Center avenue, Lake Bluff. She has been studying in Europe four-- which dealt with the sanity of Kus-- nik. Mr. Weich said that he per-- sonally has had a reasonable doubt at al} times as to the sanity of Kus-- nik. He said he was baffled as to the--defense to put up for Kusnik, wanting to do what was best for his his sanity. . He said th@t the Su-- wbowuin-'zand'gmnfl:"rq' Kusnik was arrested by the North Chicago police shortly after the shooting. His wife was still liv-- ing when he was locked up. The shooting took place around 9 o'clock at night and the woman died during the early morning hours. When informed of the death of his wife by Carl Ahistrom, who at that time was day turnkey at the Kusnik in court Monday morning appeared to have failed considerably in health during the stay of some four months in the county jai)l He had absolutely no coloring in his face and his cheeks appeared to have sunken considerably. Prior to starting examination of veniremen, the court heard several preliminary motions pertaining to the case, in the chambers. Attor-- _ Attorney Welch moved that the court, if at any time, during the trial, become convineed Kusnik is not Attorney Welch said that Kusnik was committed to the insane asylum at Elgin on July 10, 1925 and was there several months and in fact was never formally discharged. Mr. Welch said that Kusnik is to take the witness stand and will probably testify that he killed his wife be-- cause she had relations with two of her kin. He said he considers his story preposterous, being of the opinion that Kusnik has been labor ing under the delusion that his wife and other members of the family were plotting to "railroad"him back to the asylum. This is also the theory of the state. . LAKE BLUFF > _ STAR LAUDED speeuy. compicuion ui ic case, ine urst 1% men Ciamined were accepi-- ea and the jJury sworn. 'ihe pro-- secuting alluorneys, »tate's Auor-- mney Aa. \. Smith and Assistant btate's Attorney Siiney ii. Block and the detfenaants counsel, James t&. Weich, are ail of the peiief that , Mrs. Kusnik. 40 yvears old, the mother of three children, was mur-- dered on the night of August 1 of this year, in the rear of her home. Four bullets from a .32 caliber re-- volver were fired into her head, neck and stomach by her husband. Ku«-- nik admitted at the coroner's in-- dquest that he killed his wife, main-- taining that he had a just cause. musnik was insane at the time the crime was committed and is insane at the preset time. 'lhe attorneys in the matter favor an instruction being given the jury by the court that susnik, if found insane, be com-- mitted to the Chester asylum for He said she had not been true to him and that he woulftell his whole story about her to a jury. _ _ _ The jury, it was indicated by the court, will be instructed to consider three propositions, namely, whether or not Kusnik is guiity of the crime charged, whether he was insane at this time. If he is found insane and committed teo Chester, Kusnik can be brought e::k here for trial on the murder ge, if r cured. Sees Life Shorténed Attorney Welich said Monday that because ot the mental trouble which Kusnik is suffering, he will not live more than a year. o -- Attorney Wants Man _ MV Killed Wife Sent To Chester If Found Guilty of Murder; Jury Selected. morning and inaications pointed to a The trial of »1s0a husmik, 1UV1Y Lenox -- avenue, _ NOFLBA -- CRIcagoe, charged wilna Lae muruér 3( Ims wie, could not© properly defend e _BIlll, have received ; of her success . as opersa "La Boheme" in : her debut Tuesday -én known in musical rago is the daughter of show that Harwell used a shovel to beat his wife. Louis Dalle Valle, owner of the to the character of Harwell and Theilma Valentine. Dalle Valle as-- serted he had received complaints had boon-"ivcn a brutal beating. sase '!;'::'eo"'"..'x"gfl"".d,.l"" 'itaou'at the hearing. She told of being in the <Harwell home when he returned from Milwaukee and that Harwell began to beat his "wife" when she complained '" 4AE VCRA 4400 VCRIuICE POvalmou ', L.',':"J'y':l"'fi "p _ ) juryfind Thelma Valentine came bbhc'% from a beating inflicted by inry Harwell and recommend he be held to the grand jury on a charge of murder, without bonds until discharged by due process of law." \ As a result of the finding of the %}xry, Police Magistrate Walter A, aylor issued a state warrant charg-- ing first degree murder, naming' Harwell. Dr. R. G. Smith told of being called to attend "Mrs. Harwell" twice on Monday night and how the second time he was called to the home he found the deceased Defer Hearing. Al{rgignmt of Harwell dfofr r&: preliminary ' was defe until next wmy at 9 a. m., ternoon session lasted over three hours. Details of how Harwell was beating his common--law--wife when he forced him to desist were told by Clifford Williams, colored,-- of 225 Market street, whom Harwell accuses of having relations with his wife. Harwell was not put on the stand to <tell his story of the mysterious -- events londa; night which preceded his "wife's" death on Tuesday afternoon. . o Harry Harwell, colored, of 306 Market street, administered the brutal beating that is believed to have been*'the chief cause of the death of Thelma Valentine, colored, thmvhprdu&'fl. for 17 months, coroner's ~jury decided early Friday night. The last Saturday Er Judge -- Taylor when Attorney 1.Gray, colored, Claim Harry Harwell, Colored, Hit "Wife" With Shovel; To Analyze Organg of Woman To Determine Death Cause. appeared in court and asked for the continuance after announcing he and the law firm -- of Miller, Herr, Parnass and Buillinger had been retained by Harwell as de-- fense counsel. It _ developed Friday at the inquest when Coroner John L. Taylor made known the results of his examination of the woman's internal _ organs that the exact cause of death is yet unknown. Dr. Taylor reported that he was unable to determine after making an examination lfol the '(;lnlll'l internal organs if any one of them had been vitall mg'd. Coroner Tyloruahdl.in re is a pos-- n'gflity aleohol was a contributory cause to the Valentine woman's death but this could not be deter-- mined unless the éontents of the stomach were analyzed. | To Analyze Organs * Assistant State's Attorney Sid-- ney H. Block, following Dr. Tay-- lor's report ordered the coroner to send the contents g the stomach to a laboratory tely for a chemical analysis. The hearing _ opened _ Friday morning at 11 o'clock and was re-- sumed in the afternoon at 2 o'clock after a two hour recess. The af-- ened by a screw and pulled out. A copper air is then in-- serted, and a fan this shaft is connected to an socket. The fmt.hendrmh'm:irfromth outside and perf in back of the fan allow for the foreing of the foul air from the vault. The entire ope is completed in several momenm can be eas-- ily operated by the women employ-- ees. The fan is of rkiont capaci-- ty to furnish fresh for nnLnum- ber of persons wha might im-- prisoned within the vault. stalled in the large vault of the banl an unusual feaure, a. West m v-fihu.n-h&.dbytboc. B. McClintock Co., of Minneapolis. The installation of the ventilator lnflnloealhnkhbmldm the suffocation of anyone who be locked within the vault, and is JURORS TOLD OF BEATUPS designed as a protection to its cus-- tomers as well as to its employes. '!tomfllntoreanh-dn:: of hardened steel shafting 20 es long, and about four and one-- half inches in diameter. This shaft is inserted in the wall of the vault, g:uonuide md'o:d'hkh hg& y smooth, tight thereby precluding an: of any c in it be placed. The othe ..a'.:,"&'. shaft, within the vghult can be loos-- BMMW be to the grand jury on a charge 346 from view in a towering mina at the north end of the building. stead of light faced brick for the The synagogue will be a moder-- ately low structure 'of. sweeping longitudinal roof lines and free use of curves in windows and entrances. It'l]l be of a light colored brick with a bright red tile roof. ~Tentative plans, however, call for the use of The site for the new north shore synagogue is at the northwest cor-- ner of Lincoln and Vernon avenues and is approximately 200 feet square. It's a block north of the village hall and a block west of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad right of way. -- Bernard Kilbane and. John Milti-- more, both of Waukegan, indicted jointly on charges of assault with intent to rob, pleaded not guilty. They are charged with assaulting a Mt& Chicn':' girl, Mary Aduu:-. on s im t on ies dnevare "tording to the North police, made confessions. Miltimore was represented by At-- torney Orvis and gained his release in bonds of $5,000. The court ap-- pointed Attorney Wiliam Behanna to represent Kilbane. He could not raise bonds of $5,00) and was taken back to the county jail. religious services take "rlaeo in a public school at Hubbard Woods. Members of this congregation nrmbering some 800 families, live in the :tr?p of territory along Lake Michigan extending from Evanston to Highland Park,. Services are now being held on Friday nights in the Glencoe Masonic Infl 'l'he Sunday own, it was announced Sunday: It will be a $275,000 synagogue and will be erected by the North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe from plans by Alfred S. Alshuler, Chi-- cego architect. North shore followers of the Jew-- ish faith at last are to have an im-- posing place of worship of their JEWISH TEMPLE ON NORTH SHORE Joe Coney, colored, against whom two indictments were returned, one for burglary and the other for lar-- ceny, pleaded not guilty. He said he did not know just what had hap-- pened the night he is alleged to have broken into two places in Wau-- kegan and stole property, but that he was not guilty of the charges. He said the night in question a friend of his was the cause of him becoming intoxicated, a new exper-- ience to him. Attorney Earl Gray was appointed to represent Coney. Llovd Dowell of Lake Zurich in-- dicted on charges of larceny of a Wauconda garage and also stealing chickens, pleaded not guilty. He was represented by Attorney James G. Welch. He could not get a honds-- man and was committed to jail. leased in bonds of $0,000. FHer bond was signed by three colored people, Thomas Covington of Glen Flora avenue, Waukegan and J. Watson Jordan and wife of Lake Forest. They were required to file descriptions of their property before the release was granted. © ing guilty and the others entering not guilty pleas. John Padilla, of Waukegan, who Addy said he had never been in trouble before and on recommenda-- tion of State's Attorney Smith, Judge Edwards referred the matter to Probation Officer Jack E. Bair-- stow for investigation. The court said that providing the past record of the youth was good, he would be put on probation. C Stella Daugherty, colored, Lake Forest, who pleaded not guilty this week to a charge of larceny was re-- . Grover Addy, 18 years olo, who eame to Lake county from Chippewa Falls, Wis., several months ago, pleaded guilty to a larceny of a machine in Highland Park. He said he stole a car owned by Leslie Oet-- zel of Highland Park, on November 21. He cfiimod he was out of work and stole the car to make a trip in an effort to find employment. This move was fought by State's Attorney A. V. Smith on the grounds that the alleged offenses are of such a serious nature that there should be no reduction in bonds. The .court allowed the $10,000 bond to remain and Padillia went back to jail. was indicted twice on charges of assault with intent to commit rape was among those pleading not guil-- ty. He is alleged to have assauited and attemptted to atttack two Wau-- kegan women, Nrs. Anka Christian-- sen of 216 Keith avenue and Sarah Brown, the latter a nurse at the Victory Memorial hospital. $10,000 Bond Sticks. .. Padilla was represented by Attor-- ney J. A. Miller. His counsel made a motion to have his bonds reduced Six persons named in true bills by the December grand jury were ar-- Arraignment; Addy Admits Theft Of Auto In Highland Park After Indi¢tment. board announced that there were a number of matters requiring the attention of the board and that in @l. probability the sessions will last through Friday afternoon. A committee of members of the Lake County Farm Bureau will at-- tend the board meeting Wednesday Mmruh.mwu' an hmdbynt.nflo} win Grinnell, co veterinarian, The December meeting of the board of supervisors of Lake coun-- ty will start Tuesday morning. Ray Paddock, chairman of the SUPERVISORS _ TO MEET TUESDAY Upon completion of these three matters, trial of persons indicted by the December grand jury will be-- gin. The first of these to be tried will be John Padilla, who is charg-- ed with assault with intent to com-- mit rape. The next case will be that of Bernard Kilbane and John Milti-- more, charged with assault with in-- tent to rob. The Kusnik, Klein and Hansen cases were to have been tried dur-- ing the October term, bu due to illness of Attorney Welch, were put over until the December term. Christian Hansen, who is charged with making a criminal attack on a 10 year old girl, Mary Verklan, of 1012 McAlister avenue, will be the third to go on trial in the Decem-- ber term. He is alsc represented by Attorney Welch. eustody of five children when she divoteodhotbfllbtudnonnflmm, was not taking the proper care of them, Judge Persons entered an order that --the kiddies be taken to an orphanage in Chicago. Naomi Happerton, 12 years old, Zion, was adjudged feeble minded at a hearing in County court Saturday Klein is charged with slaying Samuel Christopher, 35 years old, of 712 North Sheridan road, High-- land Park. He shot and killed Chris-- tcpher when the latter did not com-- ily with orders to stop his machine. Clein claims Christopher was speed-- ing and that he was shooting at his rear tires and that he acci-- dentally hit the car driver. Arthur Klein, a former Cook county highway policeman and now a state officer, who was indicted by the October grand jury on a charge of murder, will go on trial this week in Circuit court, follow-- ing the completion of the Kusnik murder trial. The latter case is ex-- pected to take three days, which means the Klein tris@ will probably start on Thursd*y in the court of Judge Claire C. Edwards. DPr Kdwin A. Crane, 46 years old, passed.away suddenly at his.home, 138 Sunnyside Place on -- Sunday night, his death being directly at-- tributable to heart failure. -- Dr. Crane passed through a criti-- cal illness over a year ago after an extended. period of treatment at Mayo Brothers hospital at Roches-- ter, Minn., and his general health for the past year has been improv-- ing. The iliness, however, left his heart in a weakened condition. Sunday night he retired in the best of spirits. He lay in bed read-- « Mrs. Mary Funk, probation of-- ficer of the County court, reported Saturday at a hearing before Judge Perry L. Persons in the case of Arthur Bilboa of Highland Park, that he had failed to keep a promise made last Saturday to get steady employment and support his & ily, so his four children were away temporarily. % \e Three of the children to the detention home, w ofher, a young baby,-- was the Lake\County General Attorney James G. Weich is re-- presenti Klein, while the prose-- cution :fil be conducted by State's Attorney A. V. Smith and Assist-- ant State's Attorney Sid H. Block. _A spirited legal t?t is expected to ensue. Mr. Welch says ii will take fully a week to try this band's chamber. Hurrying to his bedside she found him unconscious. She immediately--called Dr. Charles R. Galloway, her brother Frank C. Appley and F. 8. Kern who lives next door. All three hurried to the Crane home, Mr. Kern being the first to arrive and restorative meas-- ures were immediately applied but to no avail and Dr. Crane passed away without regaining conscious-- His brother in Chicago was noti-- fied and came to Libertyville Mon-- day morning to assist in arranging for the last rites His death came as a shock to his LOSE CUSTODY OF CHILDREN on orders dof the court. In.fi brought the matter to the Anx of the court some time ago, i= ing her husband would not . work and provide for the children in the and was committed to the Dixon state hospital She will be taken ing and Mrs. Crane in an adjoining room heard an odd noise in her hus-- CASE STARTS r manner. report of the probation this week by Mrs. Funk. LIBERTYVILLE, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1926 the children were sent THIS WEEK 'Published Twice Weekly Bast, riding with his brother, John, and A. C. Campbell in charge of the Mack farm. was on the high-- way near the Ruehler farm. Camp-- bell -- drMn1 when the machine skidded on the ice. The back wheel dition. Pinned under an automobile for balf an h\tan' before he could be ex-- tricated, 'Martin Bast, an employe on the farm of Miss Mary Mack, lo-- clm on the highway between Lake Zurich and Barrington. Wednesday, was carried to St. Joseph's hospital, Elgin, where he is in a serions con-- LAKE ZURICH MAN INJURED . He was a member of Libertyville Lodge. Number 492 A. F. & A. M., Libertyville Chapter 272, R.. A. M., mmcomnduyle,lKnixhu and Medingh Temple A. A. The funeral services will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church at 11:00 a. m. 'Wednesday morning and will be in charge of the local Mason-- of Chicago and a host of friends both here and in Chicago. NORTH SHORE DEATH PROBE Only with his intimates did Sen-- ator McKinley discuss his odd do-- mestic relationship. The public be-- lieved him a bachelor: even many close friends understood he was a widower, Senator and Mrs. McKinley had no children, but both wore fond of voungsters. It is said Mrs. McKin-- ley influenced manvy of her hus-- band's charitable and philanthropic gifts, which, during the last few years, totaled almost $8 000,000. Do¢, as he was generally known, was popular in fraternal and profes-- circles, his ever present good # making him an always wel-- | addition to any gathering. His loss will be keenly felt not only by those who knew him best but by his more casual associates who liked and admired him for his genial good fel-- Dr. Crane was born at Bridwood, Illinois, on April 4, 1880. For sev-- eral years he conducted a dental of-- fite in Grays Lake, afterward mov-- ing his office to Chicago, at which !..h he took up his residence in Although maintaining separate residences, Senator and Mrs. McKin-- ley were not estranged and there never had been talk of a divorce. They were married in February, 1881, and resided together until the panic of 1893, when Senator McKin-- ley nearly lost his fortune. Mrs. Mc-- Kinley consequently suffered a ner-- vous breakdown from which she never fully recovered. l"Out of the wreck, l?emtor McKin-- salvaged enough securities to make his wife independent. She jJourneyed to Europe and for years regided in Florence and Paris. Upon many occasions her husband visited After Mrs. McKinley's return to the United States, she and the sena-- tor met at Southern Pines several times a year. Plans have been completed for the openitg of the inyuest into the death of 'Ralph Duncan, 37, Racine, Wis., motorman of the northbound North Shore train, who received fatal in-- juries on the night of December 5 when his train crashed into a wood-- en car at Winthrop Harbor. The probe which promises to be a lengthy and thorough one has been DEATH What digposition of his million-- dollar estate has been made in the will of the late Senator William B. ¥cKinl£y was subject of specula-- tion _ Sunday when it reenme known the senator is survived by a widow, from wiiom he had been liv-- ing apart thirty years. Mrs, McKinley--nee Kate Frisbic --«wid not attend her husband's fu-- neral, for she has been an invalid many years. Just before he went to Johns Hopkins Hospital, he visited her at Southern Pine, N. C., where she has lived several years. Dr. Crane leaves in Li , one brother, George H. LEY LOVE Brown arrested Charles and Jos-- Bd ie Nn ds prattom Ty » shortly after 9 ~o'clock Sunday morning. About 11 o'clock Constable Hall arrested Stenley and Joseph ! The roomers, unaware that they | were in danger of burning to ; death, 'kl.n peacefully until mem-- bers of Highland Park police department _battered down their Six men were arrésted Sunday morning for frespassing on the Full-- er farm, west of Gurnee, three be-- ing taken by Chief Deputy Fred Brown and three by Constable Hall of Gurnee. , 6 TRESPASSERS -- ARE ARRESTED EOO PeC OB P IAPCCTC C PBR AEIINTUSY The petition states that the land in question, was annexed to the City of Aake Forest last spring. Accord-- ing to the bill, the majority of the people living on the disputed land petiticned to be annexed to Lake Forest on May 3 and later in the month an election on the proposition was held and carried. -- Highian? Park, however, contends it controls this property. ; Quo warranto proceedings were started Friday in the Circuit court against the City of Highland Park by State's Attorney A. V. Smith in behalf of the City of Lake Forest, to determine by what right High land Park claims title to certain property outside of its limits. , structures, p-- heat was intense, but in :pite'lz this fact telephone operators stuck to their posts while firemen |shot great streams of water on the building. Rescuers succeeded in rescuing one automobile from the store-- house but the flames envelom two --others before rescuers time to get to them. One of the cars was of an expensive make. The fire fighters battled the flames until the late morning Efiun before the fll:mes were fii:- y extinguished. No one was in-- jured but the fire fighters suffer-- ed from the cold at times. Great quantitiee of sugar and several sacks of flour were de-- stroyed by wateér in the Federal Bakery when <~firemen found it necessary to u:"k the _ building with water save it from the flames. The 'damage here alone will total several hundred dollars, it is believed. The roomers were iiven lodging in nearby homes for the night. All of their clothing and other effects perished in the flames. The Hiker Toy Co., sustained the heaviest loss. Not even the records were rescued from the flames. ugortunnwly the company had already shipped a larg ?an of its Christmas stock or the loss would have amounted to --several thousand dollars more. BUILDINGS doors _with axes and led them through <_the _smoke--filled corri-- dors to safety. Police Discover Fire The fire was first discovered by Patrolmen Dengen and Driscoll. While Driscoll ram to summon the building to the east of the toy phnth:c:u'hd by C. C. Sullivan ::d M mugum'their way roug w building next d?orv h;"d h' C. _C. Hawk-- 2 CITIES IN LAND BATTLE cated in the heart of Highland Park's business district were levy-- &b;rnun;ammahfi. oy Co. plant. and twelve By the time the Highland Park firemen arrived on the scene the Girls Stick To Posts. C A wedding supper to seventv--five relatives and a few sorority sisters and fraternity brothers of the bride and groom followed the ceremony after which the young couple left on their honeymoon which -- takes them on a tour of the middle west. They expect to return to Wauke-- gan February first.'| . g Lohengrin's wedding march was played by Mrs. Raymond Bairstow as the bride came into the room on the arm of her father who gave her in marriage, The ceremony took place in a bower of ferns and palms in the home of tte bride's parents, 224 Ash street, with Rev. S. W. Chidester acting as officiating clergyman. The only attendants were Miss Betty Rennen _ of Chicago who was gowned in pink georgette and car-- ried a lovely bouget of Columbian roses and Wilfred Hall, a brother of the groom. _ ann was made Monday 'mfl. Welch, who vg Attorney Bernard Barasa, of Chica-- go, represents the defendants. The indictments® against Smith and McKee were returned by a federal grand jury several months ago. They are charged with at-- tempting to interfere with inter-- state shipments on the Chicago & North Western Railroad company, the night Dickey was murdered. Two In Prison Bernhardt Mylin and Edward Smith, both of Milwaukee were tried in Lake county with Bernard Smith and McKee on charges of murder, the ju?' finding the first two named guilty. The convicted men are in Joliet penitentiary, serving sentences of 25 years. Ber-- nard Smith and McKee Proved to the satisfaction of the local jury that they had no part in the mur-- dfr of Dickey and alleged robbery plot. In the conventional Romaine crepe of white, a tulle veil and carrying a shower bouquet of roses and lilies of the valley, Miss Ruth Bairstow, daughter of Supervisor and Mrs. George Bairstow, became the bride of Harry Hall at half after eight, Satérday night. -- Justice of, the Peace Hervey C. Coulson held Buckholz to the grand flhmon.forgery charge, ng his bond at $1,000. He says that Edward Doyle of Waukegan signed the bond. State's Attorney A. V. Smith upon receiving word that Buckhalz had left the state said that he poses to start ac-- tion in the gotice court to have the $1,000 bond forfeited. BANDITS FACE NEW CHARGES Supervisor Jack Hoban said to-- Buckholz, according to his Anforma-- tion, left Libertyville and 'went to Colorado shortly after he had been held to the grand jury and released Two Involved In Murder Trial Following Killing Of Russell Dickey Up Before Federal ed a at Dickey after locking ;.;lgmerglnd 1:hfi 4:om'lnd redm:hin the gar, and orde e mes-- senger u} "throw up his hands." Instead o complgring with the de-- mands, Dideli eaped at Mgulin and a strugg ensued. Two 1-- lets fired by Mylin stopgd the struggle, one entering ickey's abdomen _ and the other goi:g through one shoulder. He di within a few minutes after being sherift's office had been unable to get in bonds. The testimony in the murder trial showed that Dickey resisted efforts of Mylin to rob the mail coach and was shot down in cold blood. Witnesses for the state tes-- tified that Mylin entered the mail train at Highland Park and point-- Buckhol# was to have been arraign-- ed %{ in % court of Cireuit Judge C. along with Noy thab mer salled. Depul Homer case was omer Cook informed the court that the Buckholz: is charged in the in-- dictment with forging the name of a Waukegan firm, Hoban & Son to two eheefi, one for $150 and the shot. SUPERVISOR'S DAUGCHTER WED other for $16.75. Both checks are alleged to have *een forged in Sep-- tember. Court Soon. U --t6 dt--atmsre . P $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE "Here is a ¢ase where on May 8, 1925, Seeley Gridley shot his wife twice. She appeared before the grand jury to testify against him, although suffering greatly from the bullet wounds, haivng to be brought into the jury room on a cot. Grid-- ley was indictéd on a charge of as-- sault with intent to kill. He then came to Lake county and at a secret hearing was found insane and. a conservator appointed to handle his estate, and he disappeared. Where he went I don't know. "In Florida his wife appeared against him when his case was called. 'He did not put in an appear-- 'ance and his bond of $10,000 <~was declared forfzhd and he was 'tlassified as 2 from justice. He returned to Florida a year and a half later and .without his wife or ly decided it would be better for Gridley not to have his wife testify against him. 'This certainly is | a _great injusti¢e to my sister. What *can be done about such unfair court Mr. Block in commenting further on the case said: _ o0 40 MRS. HARRY ROGER$." Assistant State's Attorney Block characterized the Florida court ac-- tion in the Gridley criminal proceed-- ings as one of the greatest miscar-- riages of justice ever brought to his attention. He charges conssoincy in the matter and wired vernor John W. Mattin of Florida asking him to conduct an investigation sand fix the blame for the secret move which prevented representation on the part of Mrs. Gridley. _ -- _ U who has been stayig with her in St. Peétersburg for some months. Mrs. Rogerd states that the shock of the court action which made her hus-- band a free 'man may have a per-- manent effect on Mrs. Gridley, as she fears he will come to her home and carry out alleged threats : to kill her and bher two children. Detective Used As Guard ; Assistant State's Attorney Block got in communication with Chicago relatives of . Mrs. Gridley unon learning of her condition and had a detective «ngaged, who left for St. Petersburg to watch over Mrs. Gridley and her children to see that no harm comes to them. '"The court action was kept under cover. Although Mr. Wilson, the state's attorney Rad promised you and Mrs. Gridley and also her law-- yer here that notice would be given if Gridley wag notified, he apparent-- Libertyville banker, was changed to a mere assault and that he was freed ferfanl meam anake tion is regarded as most serious. This information was received Fri-- day by Assistant State's Atty. Sid-- ney H. Block, local counsel for Mrs. Gridley. Mr. Block is in receipt of a tele-- gram from Mrs. Harry Rogers : of learned of the secret court action which has made Seeley a free She talks most of the time m threats made by bher husband to kill her and the children and is it constant fear of him. At times she becomes quite hysterical. She must have police protection. '"My sister tells me that Gridley before he detided to leave Florida and go to Waukegan, I!L., for a sanity hearing boasted he would have the court action 'fixed' after things quieted down and that he would not be greatly annoyed 'by the court procedure, Mr. Block wired the chief of po-- lice in St. Petcnbnl rg,Gt::l'i:g' him the condition of Mrs. and of her fears' and requesting that men be stationed around the house '"Mrs, Gridley says that the night Seeley fired two shots &x her body he finally called a doctor _"Mrs. Gridley says that Carroll Gridley, the conservator of the es-- tate of his brother had tried to get her to drop the charges against Seeley and accept a certain amount of money and be satisfied. She says that when she turned down his pro-- position, Carroll told her it was the final proposition and that in the end she would get nothing for her fight. upon her pleadings after she hat promised not to tell the authoritie# he had shot ber. She-nthu': told her that night that if she him arrested, he would have matters fixed with the authorities and then would kill her and the children. Upon learning of the secret action in the circuit court at Clearwater, Fla.,, in which the charge of assault with attempt to kill, against her (Continued on Page 8) B4 en Ni i -- 5.