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_ BRACHER AND 4 OTHERS UP today that he will handle the case of Martin alone this time. -- Attorney Robert Golding of the firm of Kirk-- mmmmg % cago will again have charge of the take charge of the prosecution of the treasury case and will be aided by Assistant Btate's Attorney Sidney H. Block. There will be some change in McCarthy in the defense of Martin in Jlark C. Nye, former vice--president of the First National bank in Eurexa. Kansas. The defendants are all said to have been connected with the Bar-- Judge Fisher Monday morning told veniremen that he did not pro-- pose to excuse any of them from serving in the case. He excused 12 of the 36 members of the regular panel. Judge Fisher entered an or-- der instructing Sheriff Doolittle to summon a special panel of 35 men forwith The sheriff started down the north shore, intending to select the special weniremen from Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Highwood and Highland Park. _ State's Attorney A. V. Smith is con-- HATOIG E.: MArtin, former y ident of the defunct Security Lhere are five degd Bracher and Ira r ; county . treasurers of ducting prosecut Assistant State's Block. In the fs allowed to semars Attorney Ralph J. Dady,is again counsel for Brccher; Attorney James G. Welch is representing Pearsall; and Attorney McCarthy is handling the defense of Martin without a local counsel. Besides: Attorney Harvey, counse! for Busick in the first trial, Attorney Robert Golding of the Chicago firm mawmchum'.-ntm-: ting a new record Lake county the period of deliberation. * vice--president of the defunct Security Eavings bank in Waukegan. The five men are alleged to have conspired to embezzle $100,000 from the Lake coun-- ty treasury. This is the second time Pel:gnvith him last week he woi not represent him. Other Defendants The other defendants in the short-- age case are Roy W. Bracher and Ira E. Pearsall, former county treasurers; Clark C. nye, formerly vice--president of the First National bank in Eureka, that Busic Monday offered him a draft but that in view of his ex-- City Attorney Max L. Przyborski of North Chicago was retained by Busick last Thursday to replace Attorney Charles S. Harvey, who dropped out of the case. Monday morning Atty. Przyborski withdrew as counsel for Busick. He informed the court that when retained, Busick gave him a check to cover a portion of his fee and that upon investigation he toundl Busick did not have funds in the Probate Judge Martin C. Decker and Attorney Charles Harvey of Chicago Monday afternoon entered their appearances for Caleb Busic. The court deferred starting exam-- ination of veniremen until 2 o'clock to allow defénse attorneys to hold a conference due to several new lawyers entering the case. ing, Circuit Judge Figher of Rock-- ford, who came to preside in the trial, deferred starting the case until afternoon. Because Caleb A. Busick, a former Waukegan real estate dealer, one of the five defendants in' the county treasury shortage case, was not rep-- resented by counsel Monday morn-- (Continued on Page 8) / $100,000 County Shortage Case SEVENTY--EIGHTH YEAR NQ. 89 Sh.'ed Monday Before Judge Arthur E. Fisher; Changes Made in Defense Attorneys HUNTER SHOT ACCIDENTALLY will be in custody before long. In regard to Clifford, the license num-- CLIFFORD FACES MURDER CHARCGE the school. Monday's lxlme closed the season |to for the local team and marke{ the fawa final appearance of what is consid--| A ered by the athletic directors as the | Kell best football team in the history of |and the victorious team and the school faculty, but to the people of the community. _ This is the second consecutive year that Libertyville has topped the Northwest conference in foot-- ball and the fact is a matter of pride, not only to the members of fifteen yard line. On the other hand the local boys reached their mnents' ten yard line but once the touchdown. Practically the entire school ac¢-- companied the team to Antioch for the crucial game and a big delega-- tion of local business men closed: shop for the occasion. ' which held Antioch helpless. _ The major part of the action was in mid field, only once did Antioch carry the ball near the Libertyville goal and then only as far as the Antioch, evidently under orders, started a crushing attack with the ikickoff and 'hmw::: ;&.:, bruis-- ng tactics thro: t game. Thgq; nace was teriffic and the min-- or casualties were numerous but the members of the team withstood the attack and, after the tonch-- in the second quarter o two. passes attermpted team during the entire ' The fighting Wildeats of the Lib ertyville Township hl&: sehool clinched their hold on highest honors of the Northwest conference Monday afternoon when they won the hardest game of the {'mt season from Antioch on the latter's fiekd in the presence of the largest crowd which has ever witmessed a eonference game. The final score was 6 to 0 and testifies to the Tierceness of the struggle which was to decide the issue. ball was thrown by Grimes apd was taken by E. Tromblee for a nice «un across the Antioch goal line for the points which proved suf-- ficient to win the game. The try for the extra point went wide. Local School Wins Honors The lone Mc;'_r;{ was made the second quarter on one of th» he Lake ECmittyy Renister attempted by the jlocal a -- defensive Charles B, helhas (boss Pusking it "=" faad -uu-'h-nu......"'.?.""....... ence. Squad cars were immediately sent out to tour the district in search of the bandit trio but no trace of DRUNK IS FINED _ IN POLICE COURT headquarters and related his experi-- box from the safe containing the Saturday and Sunday night receipts amounting to $68132 and returned to their automobile, forcing Ross to lie on the floor at the rear of the 'mmhfihrvmlbdwhuqu to prevent seeing the bandits. Then they drove to the 6100 block on North Rockwell street, Chicago, where they gave him $2 and shoved him out of the car, ordering hin to "go back home." imfimmmm Park avenue, Waukegan ticket agent at '&mem«th. North Shore Line in that city, was mrdhfimumdhndih early Monday morning while on his way to work, was forced into their automobile _ and driven to the station where they forced him to turn over his keys and the comuina-- tion to the safe under threat of the ELdison Court station of the|the an North Shore Line in that city, was| for th mrdbythmamdhndih Satur early Monday morning while on his| very way to work, was forced into their| owned automobile _ and driven to the | seekin. statinmn whane ékam flllla a100 C 0 4) TICKET AGENT IS KIDNAPED Notifies Police Instead Ross rushed to a building in tss APeNe7 ,,, 40 ovtpneentrat-- following her. She gave the police a detailed description of the fellow. The sole clue uncovered in the case was a pair of pliters found lying a F) attack her but was frightened way . At the hospithl Saturday night Miss Kelley murmured "three men hit me" , me oo peat oo Ofsoecmily she would re-- | impetus . was by the posting Four suspects, two of them negroes, were brought in for questioning by Chief Lester Tiffany Sunday in con-- nection with the case.. All were .re-- leased, however, when they established their innocence to his satisfaction neighborhood. At the Alice Home hospital where Miss Kelley was taken attaches re-- ported Monday her condition was considérably improved and that she will recover. 9 wrench or some other heavy instru-- ment. Miss Kelley was found lying beside the sidewalk unconscious in a lonely spbt in Lake Forest by Miss A county--wide search was launched Sunday for a supposed maniac, be-- leved to be a degenerate, who Satur-- day night assaulted Miss Rina Kei-- ley, 23 years old, a school teacher at the Gorton school in Lake Forest and fractured her skull with a blow of a Motive Sought In Forest; Other Girls Reported Victims. IN BEATING _ OF TEA' Richman, <who lives in the 4 * ahs on Page 8) them took a metal street where he were of-- VOLIVA SEEKS RADIO RIGHTS limits. The defendents asked a con-- tinuance and the hearing on the case was set for November 19. One party of hunters fell foul of | the li:'mwbmA they were found hum-f ing perty just east «un'..x.':"'.'.&?';. whfa. lies | vithinthnlinlbo!flwvmmmy' 'm.deamhunoflhooflngtooelue tothehomolofliur?nnk.!.bru-' bu who went out and placed them under arrest. p Th xt Otle Baldri, is mo re ofthomeyenH.lorrhonaJ' cbarge of shooting within the village | whirr of wings of the startied birds, ie it flms or ts Saumha morning with y every able bodied man and boy who owned, or could borrow a gun, out seeking to secure one of the choice birds for tthe Sunday dinner. The local hunting squad was im-- creased by the presence of many from'out of town, chiefly from Chi-- cago who came out early to be in at the kill. ' HUNTERS OUT FOR PHEASANT SEASON P o e es en t C ol with salesmanship and wil be of great interest to the employee as well as to the employer. The local chamber is fortunate in securing a speaker of such wide-- ly known ability and it required much effort on the part of the sec-- retary and the members of the com-- mittee: to bring him here. Every member of the organization is urg-- ed to be present to hear this ad-- dress and to bring his entire foree with him. 3 A very fine program of monthly . talks has been worked out by the retail interest committee and the speakers and subjects will be an-- nounced from time to time. LOCAL MERCHANTS TO HEAR CEARY The speaker will be W. W. Geary, general sales manager of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. who will have for his subject "It this Your Store " llr.'_ Ge'ry'n talk will deal largely stt cog P CCA E i and when the call came in the three Waukegan men were in the garave Litertyrille uraks Tor the n Smbor garage for ambu-- ce to come and remove the body or badly injured. He put him in his machine and took him to the Condell Memorial hospital where Dr. Charles R. Gallowa&r was called to examine him. Dr. Galloway, on ex-- amination stated that the man had been dead for at least an hour when brought to the hospitail. The motor-- ist left without giving his name. With the popping of guns and the A second motorist stopped lnd!. ;t'" ; made a closer examination and dis-- ; evening covered th?_t'l(orm was either dead ] the Ray es oh. s w o O 02° . & C 1 _ Arthur Morgan, who has been liv-- ing with the Lind Family at Thomas corner, four miles north of Liberty-- 7 ville, under the name of Clyde Dar-- nell, was almost instantly killed early Sunday morning when a ma«-- chine in which he was riding--with three Waukegan men ran off % Evement at the turn just north of ibertyville and crashed into a tele= phone post. The three others in the | party were: | iClarence Garland, 409 Oak street, | . owner and driver of the car. | John Kelley, 409 Oak street. 1 George Ho{hnd. 213 south West cago when the accident happened. The machine was traveling at a M:: rate of speed when it reached t curve at the intersection of Route 21 with Milwaukee avenue just north of Libertyville and the driver was unable--to keep on the pavement. The car slipped from the cement and into the ditch where it struck a telephone pole and righted itself. According to the story told to the local police department, the four might, guing to Grage Lake and ow t, g to Gra; e thentg_cyngoon their way to Gd-] Man Crushed To Death In Adto_ Accident Here Sunday Morning LIBERTYVILLE, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1928 of " ~"'s face, peck, chest and hand.| Ing.. accordin wmdmgmgmmwa The man was rushed to the Vic--| Friday by ::olpolieafllhmmmm,m&nm- tory Memorial hospital where Dr. H.| ing. mm&fm in the|cisco authorities awaited word from C.M%ufmdmmwam mmmhmwmm blood vessels the man was sufferine| _,,. _ """_ *Aw penitentiary, . case in the of the stato's at. yhich the shot was fired did not stop| °4!f!C® ________| ________ _ Porter made is way to the office af M' Poer made hbis way to the oftice c M'DONOUGH CAR iteplinte the d 1 a:?ihonlder. H. H. Porter, city clerk at Park Rm. was shot Saturday morning w hunting near Wauconda. He was the victim of a wild shot fired by some member of a party of hunt-- | _A member of the state parole and }pudon board visited Claude Clark, John Brown and Dominick Bressette in the county jail Friday afternoon. He talked to the three doomed slay-- | th: gallows. As no one had been sen-- | tenced to be electrocuted at Joliet , prison until judgment was rendered Two religious workers from Zion visited the murderers and left a lot of "un literature with them. Hope For Review s |__Warden Elmer Green of Joliet pen-- itentiary announcéd Friday that in-- | stallation of an electric chair in the | old state prison was begun Thursday. The electric chair was voted by the | last legislature to take the place of in regard to the murder of Beck. Depntiuuyheiatomkeanpofl back to the parole and pardon board. ers individually, making detailed in-- quiries about theu lih_ history and in the Lake county case, the prison authofluuhaddehyedxnlnnn'tm electric chair installed. The chair will be housed in a new death cell built in the court of the old institu-- | the Ray Furniture store where the ! body is being held and the examin-- | ation disclosed that death resulted from a crushed chest. Morgan's ribs had been broken when the car z:dmrudtbojaggedendsh;d his heart and lungs. A j to investigate the case was incn"erd by Coroner Taylor Mon-- day afternoon and the inquest post-- poned for one week. The members of the investigating body are: W. E. MAKE READY FOR DEATH OF THREE Hardin, P. G. Osborne, Dennis Lim-- berry, Richard Earl, A. G. Meyer Coroner John L. Taylor performed a post mortem examination Monday evening in the undéertaking rooms of and it is expected that he will be saved from interment in the potters leased on bonds furnished by com-- missioner Nicholas M. Keller. * A check up of the belongings of the dead mah at the Lind home dis-- losed two Christmas packages sent to him from Morris, Minn., and a wire was sent to the name given dn the return address. A telegram was received Monday afternoon from the [mnnmu town -- stating that the man's right name is Arthur Morgan 'nd that he has a sister living in Herrin, II1. | _ _A wire to the sister, Mrs. Floral' Hunfaker at the latter place brought a reply that she is unable to bear the expense of burial and that the county will have to take full charge. A move was started Monday by friends of the dead man who has been employed on the north Milwau-- kee avenuespaving job, to raise mon-- ey to defray the funeral expenses The men were held here until Sun-- day night when they were taken to the county jail where they were re-- held under bonds of one thousand dollars pending the outcome of an investigation. wice Weekly December 15 between sunrise and 'ago. The shot went side of his face, neck +0 ¢ Td + * CHURCH DROPS FIGHT IN ZION INIDC iptrontrmbentiietsteitiih on antiiich ids dith ... s3 21 was held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the _Holy hmfiy church Operating as the train approached. This point will hr determined at the inquest. police, _ witnesses whether the wi _ ADIC 1O + The bodies of the two children vmre] & removed to the Petroshius undertak-- Estle L ing parlors on Tenth street 'hfl",thearres they are being held pending an in-- |kesha, W quest. _ Coroner Taylor Monday | deadly w morning impaneled a jury and con--;Saunders tinued the inquest until after melo, s mR funerals of the children. perinerdiicA a serious state of nervousness Dr. Budde said Monda, two rwo injured men were taken to their homes and attended by the doctor Gou:ski3 the driver of the car, is in the North Chiesgo junction at 10:04 p. m. and had gathered speed to such an extent that it was traveling at a good rate when it reached the Sixteenth street crossing. J. Hamer, crossing and was tunable to get across in time to avoid being hit. M According to Gonski's statement after the accident, he was unable to see the northbound train on account of a building on the south side of the Jackson street, N killed shortly afte day night when which they were uncles, Joseph V; teenth street and Jackson street, kowski 'Die In Auto--Train Crash At Sixteenth Street Crossing Of North Shore. interment at Ascension ceme-- W in Zion, how-- ur Glenn Volive Wilbur Glenn Voliva to have his officials for the two _the _North Chicago and attempt to riding with their of 152 Six-- Gonski of 1225 hit by a North 'e, Assault: Charged ~1 Estle Leslie swore out a warrant for f,the'arrest of A. J. Saunders of Wau-- '-|kesha. Wis., charging assault with a MAY 60 WEST FOR FULWIDER PVR ILAEE adhis. Th sls znc and that thus it was necessary for Leslie to either drive into his car or leave the pavement and he chose the latter--course. Saunders is in the county jail. His bondmsetntmby.!mubeolthe Peace Harry Hoyt, but he could not get a bondsman. Mrs. Josephine Leslie, 40 years old. of 265% North Lemont avenue. Chi-- cago, badly bruised and shaken o ®r son, Estle, was slightly an autemobile accident --at #:30 o'clock Saturday night on Green Bay road about three and (a half miles north of Grand avenue. In try-- ing to avert a crash, Leslie drove off the concrete and the machine over-- turned three times and landed in the ditch The Chicago woman and her son kwere taken to the Lake County Gen-- eral hospital in a Rolland ambulance. They were attended by Dr. Karl M. Beck. county physician. The boy was able to go home. 3 2 INJURED IN CAR SMASH--UP The citizens of Libertyville are justly appreciative of this peace time S@rvice of the Legion and they are willing to contribute their efforts toth-mccensofthel.egionpro- €¢Continued on page four.) _ This year the Legion, and the Le-- gion AtGxiliary which is assiciated with the Legion in its work, is anx-- ous that the 1929 program be started as soon as possible. In order that the full strength of the two organiz-- ations can thus early be put to work on the great objectives of the com-- ing year, the week of November 11 to 17 has been set aside when every effort will be made by the Legion and the Auxiliary to have paid up ; for 1929 the dues of all who are l928| members. \ One of the first tasks of the Le-- gion was to make provision for the relief and rehabilitation of -- those who were disabled. They looked af-- ter the welfare of the children left orphans by the war. They then launcHeda great program of un-- selfish service to community, state and nation and many activities were undertaken in an effort to serve the people and the country. began that work which has identi-- fied The American Legion as one of the greatest patriotic forces Ameri-- ea has ever known. service they gave ten years ago. They dedicated their organization to "God and Country" and immediately Axb Lo e sc d on ean s m PR i > ville have the greatest of admiration for the splendid service given by her sons and daughters in time of war.= They appreciate the heroic sacrifices that have been made by the.lg;l men and women who have so y defended this great nation of ours in every emergency. * To;d:g we have in thifs city an ohr- ganization composed of those who only # decade ago were engaged in that most glorious service. They served their country well and when the war was over they banded them--: selves into The American Legion, determined to continue the same Mayor Issues Proclamation The people of the City of Liberty-- weapon. It is charged that s pulled over to the 'Jeft side road without giving a signal ghtry | Forest at 3:55 a. m., t .21 | on Y--'day, 2~¢ * n | _ At the hospital furnace victim rheaelf 1Cs QW" repeatedly by mem-- ity Jbers of her family, Dr. A J. Ris-- 'o'r;"smm' Dr. Theodore Proxmire. at-- ,,-,,,.,I_U?n{imarnum. State's Attorney A. command an audience and that she wished to become proficient in the art of speaking Before large bodies gazed over the spectators. It was plain to see that 'Hitch' was unnerv-- ed by his experiences of the past 10 days. His eyes are deeply sunken. He was careful to refer.to the burned girl as Elfrieda, Miss Elfrieda or Miss Knask, but under stress called her "Fritz". Coronér Taylor asked biff why be called her "Fritz" and Hitch-- they did it; they did it; I didn't do it, they did it; there was a pact.. . . didn't go through with it . . . I went alone," were expressions of the burned girl which she would not explain fully and which strength-- ened the murder theory. } Charles Hitcheock, night police-- man in Lake Bluff, instructor in public speaking and in the psycaiol-- ogy of salesmanship, insurance agent and a former movie actor. who taught Elfrieda sa anship, . was named by the girl her "psychic lover." She told members of her family and the authorities while on her death--bed that Hitchcock was the object of her "great epiritual love" for which she sought to "pur-- ify herself by fire." [V. Smith, Sheriff Lawrence A. Doo-- little, Detective George Hargrave., and Charles Hitchcock, 'the last named doing so at the request of the authorities She claimea sur.ag most of the questioning that she tortured herself, but occasivnally made statements which she refused to definitely explain which indicat-- ed she may have been the victim of an énemy or a moron. Detective Hargrave has insisted right along that Miss Knaak was murgdered, maintaining she could not have in-- flicted such terrible burns on her-- self. j Miss.Knask was found shortly he-- iore % o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, October 30, by Christ Lou-- is, a street worker in the village of Lake Bluff, leaning against the tur-- nace in the basement of the Lake Bluff jail, with her.head, arms and feet burned to the bone. She was unclothed. The« girl was taken to prosecutor said that all of the evidence known to him had been presented to the--jury. The investi-- gation attracted a large crowd. there being ower 200 persons in the court-- room "I wonder, I wonder, I wonder why cuit courtroom in the cour lasting from 9 o'clock in the ing until after 5 o'clock in the noon. State's Attorney A. V. and Coroner John L. Taylo: $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. well known Lake Porest men. A. Duaneé Jackman. John Kr=~rberg, George Anderson, H. L. t:amer, Thomas L. Eastwood and J E Pitz-- gerald. The inquest was he" in th> Cir-- fhe came to her death by burns, whic" appear from the evidence pre-- sented. to have been self--inflicted " is to be continued and detectives will be kept on the case indefinitely. The Knaak family is also. believed to have engaged a Chicago detective agency to make a private investiga-- k22 20 a¥ eilh "eeeiad t t e dsn t c : W 12 the verdict rendered late Saturday afternoon by the coroner's juy. De-- spite the finding of the jur, how-- ever, State's Attorney A. V Smith _su.ted'_llond?y tllat the investigation Miss Elfrieda Knaak, 30 years old. a Sunday school teacher in Deer-- field and a former Waukegan school Coroner's Jury Bases Finding On WGirl's Story And Testimony of Witnesses; State Continues In-- vestigation The , burned herself, according t> greater portion of courthouse of _ six men. A. efter -- Smith €3