CMPLD Local History Collection

Lake County Register (1922), 30 May 1928, p. 8

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

RELEASE OF YOUNG JAGK DURAND SEEN On the witness stand both Durand and Miller gave testimony detrimental to each other. Both were sentenced by Circuit Judge Claire C. Edwards of F. Edson White, president of Armour & Co. A small fortune was spent by his foster parents, promin-- ent society leaders to defend him. Durand vas convicted in October 1925 of stealing a pearl necklace from cording to Hinton G. Clabaugh, chairman of the board. 'n:eDm'ndshavenever)ostffi in the innocence of their foster Since the youth's incarceration they Mr. and Mrs. Scott Durand, Lake Bluff millionaires, will be paroled from Joliet penitentiary it was re-- HKably reported last week. «Durand was convicted in October 1925 of stealing a wg:arl necklace from Miss Hester White, daughter Miss Hester White, daughter of F. Edson White. president of Armour & Co. A smzli fortune was spent by his foster parents, prominent society leaders to defend him. The state board of pardons and paroles which will meet here today reformatory. He turned state's evi-- dence, however, and was put on pro-- was understood to huave approved a \ Durand was convicted along with James CGordon Miller of Lake Bluff on the robbery charge, the case being vigorously prosecuted by State's At-- torney A. V. Smith. Jewels valued at $3,000 were stolen:s Franklyn Patter-- son of Lake Bluft pleaded guilty to participating in this robbery and was tained on October 23, 1925 and Dur-- and entered Joliet prison on Novem-- ber 17, 1925. He has been in the penitentiary for two years, six months, and eight days. Both State's Attorney Smith and Circuit Judge Edwards have written the board of pardons and paroles to serve sentences in Joliet peniten-- tiary of from 3 to 20 years. Miller was freed after being kept several merths in the Lake county jail. 'The robbery of the White home took "brains" of the gang of robbers and strongly contested efforts to obtain a pardon for him on several occasions. The Lake county prosecutor took the ' pardons and paroles for --his lease. + State's Attorney Smith charged dur-- Durand Gets Sentence $50.00 High Back Chairs The Bassinette is in the light and dark colors. We feature the all white number with springs w 95 T IEDEAE BE --...i..,.. rnnnntucirmmtene 2 © complete at .............. AND LIN'OLEUMS is attracting the wise buyers from miles around. Never before and perhaps never again will you have opportuniiy.to buy Real High Grade Furniture at such startling low prices. These bargains are genuine. This is a sale with a reason. The floor must be entirely cleared of the present stock. Every item in this great store is included in this great sale. Come to this store while the gale is on. Make your selections NOW. We will be glad to extend Liberal Credit Terms even at these low sale prices. Miller Is Freed in 1924 and Durand was "4~ | PAUL G. RAV'S | :# $25,000.00 LIQUIDATION AND QUICK DISPOSAL SALE OF HIGH GRADE FURNITURE This Great Sale Lasts Till Thursday, June the 7th ---- A Small Deposit Holds Any Article Until You Want It The Bassinette Prison officials said he Here is a bargain of special merit. _A beautiful high back chair, as sketched, in tapestry or jacquard. A most comfort-- able chair of beautiful design. You must see it to appreciate this chair at .. ac-- "Learned Lesson," Durand Says "I know I have caused my parents & lot of worry," Durand said, "but I valuable to me. I think I have suf-- !mdeno;xhanc}ui,fdlmnlowed:: get 4 can employment Wa&n" Durand told the board he was not involved in the actual robbery, lay-- punished several times previously for infractions of rules. Durand, rated as "super--intelligent" by prison authorities, has the repu-- tation of being the best fed prisoner in the penitentiary. Every two weeks ?ehehubeensenoencedhisfos- mother has visited him, bring with her great baskets of delicacies. . tence in prison. The minimum time for the crime is two years and six months, and as Durand> has served longer than this period, Col. Smith is willing that Durand get out on Durand appeared before the parole board sevéral weeks ago and made an eloquent plea that he be released from Joliet penitentiary. « emplary prisoner for the past year, according to prison officials, he was ing the blame for the holdup on stop before entering Milwaukee ave-- ® Crashes In City Nelson E. Lindskog, of 901 Lenok avenue, and Henning Carlson, of 679 Lenox Ave., Waukegan were injured Sunday afternoon when their ma-- chine pitched into a ditch and over-- turned. The accident resulted when Carlson, who was at the wheel, lost control of the car. The accident oc-- curted near Sumac avenue. Norgren was cut about the face, while his wife, Mrs. Hilda Norgren, sustained cuts on the head and was badly bruised and shaken up.-- A daughter, Alice Norgren, suffered a bad cut on the leg. Both machines were-- completely wrecked. AUTOS TAKE HEAVY TOLL OVER WEEKEND nue. Lyle Litwiler, a state police-- man, reports that he found' a bag containing bottles of home brew in the naval machine. CC Lindskog received cuts on both hands and a deep gash over the right and numerous bruises on the face and hurried to the offices of Dr. Bellows in an ambulance where their hurts were attended. Later they were re-- moved to their home. A truck driven by Myron Allen, of 6514 Thirtieth avenue, Kenosha, was dm Sunday when rammed by & car driven by Mary Harper, eolored, of 669 Kennard street. The siderably. The accident happened at Market street and South avenue. Machines driven by Miss Bernice Rumerstrom, 512 North Jackson street, and Wandel Peterson, Waukegan. were damaged in a collision at Jack-- son and Washington streets. No one was injured. _ --Guy Page, 314 Lewis street, Wint-- ford, Kansas, reported a vampire avtomobile rammed the rear of his eye when he was thrown against the windshield of the car. Carlson re-- ceived a deep gash on the right ear (Co: tinued from Page 1) $14.50 Congoleum Rugs: 9x12 Beautifully Bordered _ > The Congoleum rug stock is complete in: all sizes. The goods by the square yard at 65c. The 9x12 patterned rugs, choice 6f all-- colors, at cach ......_--_.--..~----..--_~_......!% stock. The sturdy fittings make them rigid. The dark green top ;or;') edis mzfide cl)'f pantisote. iced to sell quic 2 esc 52.00 The card table is made extra heavy and of special strong $4.25 Card Tables Full Line Room Size RUGS $2G.--15 Machines operated by Idos Nelson of 722 McAlister avenue, Waukegan, and Edward Teihlen of 6216 South Greene street, Chicago, eollided in Gurnee -- road Sunday afternoon. They were both shaken up, while the Lintien Burris of Green Bay road was fortunate in escaping with but a minor ankle injury, when his ma-- chine landed in a ditch in --Grand Ave., just west of Waukegan Sun-- day aégemoon, when hit by. a North ore Line bus. The accident occurred around 5 o'clock. -- Burris told Sheriff Doolittle . that two north shore busses were tfivel- ing in a westerly direction a few feet apart, the first being a city bus and the other being used for the day by the Bartlett Real Estate.: company, and that the city bus came to a sudden stop, causing the other driv-- er to turn out and hit his machine. This bus was driven by a Waukegan man named Davis. » car as he was driving north on Grand avenue, and then sped away. $ Lester Hamlin, of Lake Villa, hit the rear of an automobils owned and driven by J. W. Kelsey, of 111 Fulton avenue, in front of 905 Washington street Saturday night. The accident occurrcd when Kelsey stopped for a street car that was (discharging machines were damaged consider-- Sheriff Doolittle and Deputies Heckinger and Kelly investizated a number of minor automobile acci-- dents, in which names of car drivers «ine county Sunday afternoon to the effect that Thomas Elliott and Wil-- liam Martin,' fugitives from justice, who .are charged with assault with i@tent to kill, had been captured in were not taken. Chicago. The Racine sheriff tele-- phoned Sheriff Lawrence A Doolittle and asked about the matter. The lat-- REPORT MARTIN, ELLIOTT TAKEN cupture. The Racine sherif said Monday he had learned the reports were not correct. ¥ Elliott and Martin are charged with having shot James J. "Lefty" Lynch, Chicago Labor leader, at his home at Brown's Lake, Wis., on April 29. They were arrested in Antioch by Motorcy-- cle Policeman Frank Valenta of that The' alleged guumen were released in bonds of $5,000 each, furnished by Joseph Oltusky of Waukegan, by Jus-- tice Hervey C. Coulson. When they failed to appear for preliminary hear-- ing the bonds podufi:y Oltusky: were forfeited. Oltns'l::lfi said that as far . as he knows ott and Martin are still at large, but that he is makin possible effort to locate them. The reason some homes don't need an attic is because the family has to keep selling off the furhiture to raise enough to meet the payments on the car. 9 x 12 Reports reached the sheriff of Ra-- 9 E$10'3 The dining suite of 'eight pieces comes just as shown. Chairs are six uphols-- tered in jacg-- uard. A lovely gift at this low price for the June Bride. $ REMEMBER These Prices Prevail During This Sale Only! They also recommended that a 10 months optiom be taken on the bal-- ance of the block on the north side of Madison street between Utica and West streets for $48,000. ; Has 44,980 Square Feet : The Higley property includes lots £ve, six, seven and elgf'x't of block nine andha.saf:ontweonu-&hnnm of 235.28 feet and a depth of 138.28 feet.. The property contains 44,980 square feet. s > Monday from Washinfton D. C. that the recommendations for the location of Waukegan's $335,000 federal build-- ing had been received at Washington and would be acted upon shortly. 'The inspector and engineer, Wil-- liam Krumbeige!l and Allyn Packard, recommended that the R. E. Higley property, located on Madison street between Utica and West street, be purchased for the building. + °~ mendation by 'the inspectors did not come as a surprise as they voiced themselves several times as being in favor of that site. f property was placed at $155,000 by the R. E. Higley Real Estate company but it _was declared too high and the new bid of $100,000 was finally sent in. It was recommended at that price. Talcott Gets Wire Congressman Carl Chindblom this morning, follows: ' -- "Postmaster Talcott. L.s "The postoffice department and treasury department inspectors' re-- port has been received at the office of the supervising architect. The treas-- uy department rrcommends the pur-- chase of site at Madison and Utica streets for©$100,000 with the option of the obalance of the block on Madi-- son street running to MWest street for HIGLEY SITE _ RECOMMENDED ' "CARL K. CHINDBLOM." The Higley home is one of Wauke-- gan's oldest residences. It will prob-- ably be torn down although there is a possibility that it may be moved to some other site to keep the place as a Pretty little Mary Alcott R.ichsrd--i son, 15--year--old school girl of Glen Ellyn, asked no ids from her men | competitors in the Milwaukee : to i Chicago outboard marathon race f June 2 in which she has entered her fast little outboard speedster, "Lady Sparton," and daily after school she is out on 'the water for long practise trials. $f ; | ton," who will be right along side of w4A a0LA8. Fo] + . _ Her wee little craft is being fitted with all modern conveniences, steer-- ing wheel, aeroplane b seatl. large 20--gallon gasoline ta ith a pressure system just like fast Gar Wood boats, everything a copy of her daddy's boat, "Old Man Spar-- GIRLS ENTERING OUTBOARD EVENT Word was received in Waukegan PHONE .9 Ray Furuiture & Paint Store The "Pierce Arrow Volga Boat-- man' is entered from Evanston in-- stead of Russia, while "Fire Plug," "Oh Min," "P. D. Q.," '"Skippy." "Stetson Girl" and "Red Hot" are a few of the dignified names of boats entering from Chicago. "Hurry Up" and "Dog Ears" both are down from Wilmette, but Racine with "Lady La-- Balle" really has the prettiest name so far. Milwaukee has some danger-- ous sounding entries as "Disturber." her. h% race, if he can keep Both littleMary Alcott and . her father, Howard E. Richardson, will fly the burgee of the Columbia Yacht club on their boats' bow. Names Mean Nothing. Names mean nothing in the out-- board driver's life according to the list of entries for the race. Over 125 of these outbo@rds are expected to respond to the starting gun at the Milwaukee Yacht club basin at 8:30 on Saturday, June 2. Why. shouldn't the specialist charge more? He gets only one crack at you, while the family doc-- tor regards you as an annuity. _A modern can't hide behind his wife's skirts, but he can let her do the talking to the traffic cop. Now Building :--: 5--Room Convenient Bungalows 91000 down -- fase See plans at this office s This is a real opportunity to --buy a home at a price, and on terms, that will fit into your in-- come and work no hardship upon the family This is just the liberal housing plan so long needed in Libertyville so if you are interested make your inquiry right away. _ | Park and Milwaukee Aves. : Balance monthly to fit budget. These bungalows are under construction in Oak Terrace _ Copeland Manor West Cook Ave. JAY CAIRNS DAY, MAY 30, The ning' piece suite includes the chin a cabinet. Here you will find a dining suite of highest quality at the lowest possible price. $50 Coxwell Chairs $38.75 The life--long dreams of John T. Emerick, of \5aukegan, may either be realized or shattered within the Astors next few months following the fil-- ing of the law suit against the As-- tors in the Federal District court in New York Friday. The plaintiffs in the case are: Edna Carnahan of Eau Claire, Wis. > * -- Christian Campbell of Appleton, The plaintiffs are seeking more than two--thirds of the estate of John Jacobs Astor which is valued at $500,000,000. f Jack Emerick, son of J. T. Emerick, has been especially active in checking the geneology of the descendants who are promoting the suit against the The action hinges on an arrange-- ment by which Emerick is alleged to have established Astor as trustee of a nineiy--year trust of his interest in the partnership. At the expiration of that period Astor--or his heirs-- was to have divided the estate be-- twee.1 descendants of Emerick's two SUES FOR PART IN HUGE ESTATE $25 Occasional Tables The occasional es are in &A group of djtfel'e shapes and sizes. They are in the walnut Thomas Emerick of Wauke-- hogany finish. Beauti-- n augments the charm $275 This stite is made of beautiful quality walnut| touched here and there with the lighter;shaded wood to give it a distinc-- tive tome. Four beautiful pieces as shown, includfif two standing hand mitrors. Ex-- ceptionf@lly low priced. ' Libertyville. $16.85 158 Just Six More Days > jl °C Four Piece Room Suite ib $ h ment, declaring the estate was then worth $390,000,000. « Warrants were issued T'IUMI&' by Justice of the Peace ervey C. Coul-- son of Waukegan for the atr-- rests of _ two -- Chicago men, Franx Beamish and John Warner of West Monroe street, on charges of operating a_ confidence 5a|ne. Beamish was arrested Thnurs-- ay_ nitht by the office of Sheril Dooliitle, while Warner was «» e ons «omiplinie migg dnteraay , ARRESTEDIN -- _ : 1 is atiged tat mm sher l ---- CAR ACCIDENYT trust had only 3 years more to run, a legal representative of the elder Astor's estate told a descendant o% sur.«n»der -- Frida according . to Chief Deputy Fred Brown. TWO ARRESTED FOR CON GAME Beamish and Warner are employed tion This mattress weighs full 45 pounds. All new cotton with a light blue figured art ticking. You can have any size you want, for single, three--quarter and full sized beds. Now priced s fi m iL ... . ... . :. ... . . ons uty ce +h +ri4a + 6i rnt sirinir t en ntemint ie w ie w h w we Phranea whnitven's en m e The selection in the difl'e!;nt styles is quite complete. We f.eu- e a lovely mohair suite with the reverse Ashions showing the plain back and carved w??eL{rfmf.nnTry 'u: selling 't.:t Beautiful Living Room Suites Reduced $10.00 Mattress Now $6.89 m**=**l _ nc Spinet Desk --ampreimepte o . NS The Spinet Desk at the sale price Three * pi€Ces..:.--.--~~~:> W oo nonne etpet ant ts ie _ s SiG. 7 The spinet desk we are showing in three different gizes. Shown as sketched in gum wood. The James Moran of Lake ForeZ was arrested Monday afternoon by Po-- lice Chief Tiffany of North Chi-- cago for driving a maclhuine: whue under the influence of liquor after he had crashed into two machize» and later started a fight in u_ s0f drink parlor on Sheridan road. Chue{ Tiffany caught him as he was--Griv-- ing recklessly along Sheridan roaC. He was being nheld in jail pending a by a Chicago real estate firm. The nn:'nts for their arrest were sworh out by John Gallagher of Waukegan. Gallagher charges tha: Beamish @MI Warner swindled two 'riends of bis, Jostph and Lucy Bass nf Winnetk«, out of $4,700 in a rea} extate transat-- "* $167.09 of Lake Porek was #£

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy