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-- La®>e County Independent -- "Counsel for Jeske called Spen Jorgensen of the Sun staff a liar and 'pointed out to Jeske and McQueeney the detectors, as hon-- est and thoroughly reliable men whese word couldn't and shouldn't be doubted--the jury took a good look at all three and the verdict shows that they thought Jeske's counsel had been wearing smoked glasses when he was talking. The verdict spoke. § If that jury had awarded Jeske even one cent's damages it would have cleared him of the charge made in court that he con-l spired to "frame" The Sun in order to collect damages, Accord-- ing to jurymen there never was a chance of a verdicet of any sub-- stantial amount being awarded him--the four men who voted for a verdict of guilty on the start favored just sufficient (possibl $1 or 1 cent) to disprove The Sun's claim that Jeske had conspir-- ed. But finally the twelve agreed on the conspiracy theory and didn't even décide 'Jeske was entitled to recognition even to the extent of one penny's award. Jeske no doubt and ; were praying for at least a cent verdict as that would have been a technical victory for them; even Just and Judy hoped and plugged to get that sort of a verdict even if no real sum might be awarded the plaintiff. To & . & The jury in the Jeske case was out for some hours--BUT, on the first ballot it stood eight for the belief that The Sun had been "framed" by Jeske or somebody else----and four for the finding of a verdiét for a small amount 'of damages; and then came.--the vote nine to three for not guilty; and a little later twelve men spoke that they believed a conspiracy had existed. We are glad that the evi-- dence proved that The Sun was fair, honest and straight--forward. We hoped for THAT more than to have merely been Pliged to pay Jeske a few paltry dollars which he was seeking and which his employer McQueeney intimated a few weeks ago would be ac-- ceptable to him, and which, if paid, would have saved The Sun the expense and time for the trial which ended Friday. We're glad that we again fought for PRINCIPLE and again won cut and thereby once more proved to our readers that this paper stands out for PRINCIPLE no matter what the cost or worry may mean'to The general policy of the Sun has been to entirely ignore Frank H. Just and "Judy" Bidinger of the Waukegan News in their con-- tinuous and vicious attacks on the editor of the Sun and his pub-- Aications. We would not make mention of them *oday --were it not for the fact that we desire our readers to know that the venom of those two men, shown by their continuous reference to the pending libel suit which was finished in the Circuit Court yesterday with the Sun as defendant, marks an epoch in lllinois Newspaper cricles which will go down as one of the treasonable actg in that profes-- sion comparable with the treason of Benedict Arnold in national affairs. » 2. us. We could have SETTLED the case for a few measley dollars but our reputation for fairness, honesty, etc., would not have been proved and retained as it has now--and THAT'S WHY we in-- sisted on the low--dawn which McQueeney indicated could be avoid-- ed by payment of money in a "settlement" out of court. The Sun's position in the community is strengthened by the outcome of this case and PRINCIPLE continues to be the key--stone to the con-- duct of this newspaper. > _ 0 . ' W# We 7 For, an unwritten law in the newspaper game, one that is gen-- erally accepted, is that newspapers no matter how bitter their ani-- mosity in other respects, never make reference to libel suits filed against the other paper for the simple reason one never knows when it is going to strike home. However, the Waukegan News directed by Just and Bidinger not only inspired 'the filing of the _damage suit in question by calling attention to the untruthful arti-- *gle the day after it was printed and intimating that Jeske had am-- ple ground to recover damages, but often since they have had some reference to it in order to keep it fresh in the minds not only of Jeske but of the public, the prospective jurors perhaps that might be called in the case. This wasn't the SUN'S fight alone--we were fighting the bat-- tle of the newspaper as an institution; we were fighting in this case the possibility of unscrupulous persons to conspire to create libel in a newspaper and then sue for damages on the thing they 'have created. And a fair--minded jury said that we were right--that the conspirators were.not entitled to even sufficient damages to take care of the court costs. C o o me 7 be called in the case. -- ] And therefore, it is a lot Oof satisfaction to see that despite their efforts to create prejudice, that despite their efforts of doing it almost daily, they again have been beaten by the verdict of twelve judicious men sitting as jurors who heard all the evidence. In fact, in view of the verdict of the jury which plainly stated that the twelve men believed that Jeske and somebody else con-- nived, it would take:a lot of argument to convince The Sun and others in this community that somebody connected with the Daily News office didn't have a hand.in the conspiracy brought about for the one purpose of laying the foundation to bring the damage suit against the Daily Sun. _ _ .Just and Bidinger after trying for many months to prejudice the public's minds and make everybody believe that The Sun had wrongfully committed a libel against this so--called detective Jeske, find themselves again in the position of absolute defeat and repudia-- tion.-- 'They tried to prejudice public minds in a pending case, they did. something never before heard of:in this state or any other, namely, that of conducting a campaign of vilification against the other newspaper with direct reference to a pending suit in the hope that damages would be obtained against their contemporary. Unscrupulous as Just and Bidinger have proved tHemselves to' be every time they have showed their head above the 'surface, it doesn't take a stretch of the imagination much to fill out the cross-- word puzzle created by the jury of twelve men and insert the names of the individuals whom the jury did not MENTION in their ver-- dict. By the verdict the jury held that Jeske and somebody else conspired against the Daily Sun. And you have a right after read-- ing the continuous articles in the Daily News in which Jeske was In newspaper circles all over the world there is one »ethical thing generally observed, namely, the avoidance of making --refer-- M" to libel suits against the contemporary, In Waukegan, how-- Au different, In fact, it is different in Waukegan every nvfid on in his damage suit to fill out the blank spaces and indi-- tate the men who you believe conspired with him. + ANOTHER FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE SUCCESSFUL tvville Independen AS TO NEWSPAPER ETHICS. Waukegan Weekly Sun Yix \___ Good newspaper men have aregard for newspaper ethics. Un-- successful and unprogressive newspaper men disregard ngewspaper ethics entirely. Just and Bidinger have never had sufficient con-- tact with the world to know what newspaper ethics are, therefore they. should be pitied rather than criticized for their unpardonable violation of one of the rules of newspaper ethics, Our only hope is that some bird who, may be laying for a charice to sue those two unfortunates for libel will have his"mind encouraged to perform stich an act through the publications that the News has been carry-- ing--on against The Sun. , But we'll tell you right now that if any individual has been encouraged to that extent, the Daily Sun, re-- gardless of the crocodile policy of the Daily.News will not print a line about it for the simple reason that the Sun' staff is comprised of men--who know newspaper ethics from A. to Z.and it wouldn't be our:policy to forget those ethics even to the point of assisting somebody to succeed in a possible damage suit against the unfor-- hmiates in the other office. _ _ > -- 3y aR+ * Our tegard for newspaper ethics is so much greater than a de-- sire to f:' our inferiors that we could not forgetthe former to gratify 'the 'latter. tss d had a sob4 s# It is significant that one--juryman today admitted that the jury did not mince matters in its deliberations and that a number of the jurymen in arguing for a verdict of not guilty 'declared with force that they believed the whole thing started in the office of the Waukegan--News and was carried on by Jeske et al. and tries to inject his ideas and policics into the <community, ~------ There is no question in our minds but that newspapers, maga-- zines anrd.other periodicals devoted to newspaper work will com-- ment on the Waukegan situation and point out with deep sorrow that Waukegan is a spot where the ethics of newspapers generally accepted over the country are so far forgotten and ignored that the situation ¢existed in this city as is did with reference to the suit against The Sun. t £ # t However, what could one expect of men of the calibre of Just and Bidinger? -- They did exactly in the pending litigation of The Daily.Sun what they do.in other local matters, namely, act the part of the black sheep and then get bumped in the finale. * COur natural modesty compels us to blush profusely; we blush because Just and Judy say that 'the SUN--has such/ an influence on Lake County folks that juries are afraid to give verdicts against us; that judges jump at our beck and call, in fact that our pen is so mighty that we have the public jumping sidewise. > It isa't so! v $xf . | * Although Just said it was in his Saturday's paper, we insist it is NOT true; although he gives us this laurel which many would assume if they could only get somebady to give it to them, WE de-- cline the bouquet, we insist that we're most insignificant. in our asperations for power and influence, that we. merely want to con-- tinue giving the public the best local paper they've ever had and we want them to read it and believe in it--that's our greatest de-- sire; we don't want to accept, we do not want to possess the great influence which our most vicious antagonist, Just, gives us when, in his Saturday's paper he said: 3 s 2 > _' . "ROBERT JESKE, suing the SUN for libel, was proffered so: nuch moral support and so * little practical aid, it set him 46 wondering.> He\ . ~~~ fells me--most everybody in Waukegim'is afraid of > *' . the Smith brothers, didn't dare openly assert. the>; _ good will and hope of success they extended him: : : l -- _ lest the SUN 'ride' them, in other words perséciite _' 6 them . by means of vicious publicity, _ -- > © f§ 4 "It's a funny situation, but.I've sensed the _ _ sanie feeling as regards the Smiths even among red blooded citizens, fellows courageous in every other encounter, yet fearful--of the possibility of : just such attacks as that suffered by young Jeske. How often have you heard this: 'I don't ; want that pair of birds riding me, They're the % limit." 1 His paradoxical antics are amusing--one day he gays the S\m1 possesses no prestige and influence--and the next he says that: everybody does as we say and suggest. It can't be both ways; when aré we to believe him and his deductions? He ought to be right in one or the other case and we're anxious to know just which it is. We blush at his latest recognition of our prestige but, hon-- estly we know he has overdrawn it materially although we do ad-- mit that the greater part of the community 'this paper serves DOES believe in our honesty, ability and sincerity of purpose in conducting this newspaper, a prestige which would not obtain in case we abused that confidence so flagrantly as Just and Judy have ever since they've been in the field.. We presumg we should thank Just for the credit of influence and prestige he has credited us with but we're afraid to; we're 'dra}d there'd be found a drop of poison gas in the bouquet he gave us. ' C Any possible value which the McQueeney "detective agency" may have been to State's Attorney Smith in Lake County in the collection of evidence against bootleggers, blindpiggers, or to local attorneys who may have hired the agency in the past to collect evidence against husbands or wives in divorce actions, is automati-- cally eliminated by the verdict of the jury in the case'of Jeske vs The Daily Sun, wherein Jeske, employed by McQueeney, sought damages on the charge that he had been libeled by the printing of an article in which a misstatement of facts was made, because the jury by 'its evidence declar }in no uncertain terms that it belisved that Jeske or McéQueeney or gomebody connected with him--or it, conspired to lay the foundation on which to build the case in--ques-- tion. > Had the jury NOT concluded that the conspiracy WAS fram-- d and EXECUTED, the verdict must have, been otherwise be-- cause the only instruction Judge Shurtleff gave the jury which allowed that sort of a verdict was in substance like this: . "IF the jury BELIEVES.that Jeske or others--conspired or connived to WE BLUSH AS JUST GIVES US TOO MUCH CREDIT, ENDING THEIR USEFULNESS TO LAKE COUNTY BY TAKING ONE LONG CHANCE TO MAKE EASY MONEY. _ about the situation whereby the basis WAS CREATED for Hc don't think the attitude he cxiéountgrs is inspired so much by actual skeletons in the closets' of the fearful which the Smiths might rattle by means of retaliation, as by fear of being subjected to subtle misrepresentation and innuendo without the Jeast provocation. LE P.*= § # a libel suit, then the jury: can find the defendants (The Sun}y NOT G¥ILTY.* °. & * x ; ts YR 'And the verdict being NOT _ GUILTY, it means that the jury DIED conclude that a conspiracy WAS EXECUTED, namely, that Jeske, or McQueeney or somebody, "framed" the original stories printed in the Sun on which they based the action later for dam; Twelve men reached the verdict after hearing exhaustive evi-- dence in which Jeske was pictured as the arch--conspirator who plotted and schemed to get the Sun in position where it COULD be made a defendaht in the damage action. "AND SO, after twelve men have, by their verdict openly de-- clared that Jeske or McQueencéy carried through (this conspiracy, it Ammediately makes their services as "investigators", in Lake county no longer reliable or of value to Col. Smith or anybody else. Being proved by the verdict of having done such a reprehensible thing, their status in future litigations, whether they be bootleg cases or divorce cases would not be accepted by juries as being re-- liable or within the actual facts. For instance, if these same men should present what they called evidence against 'a woman involv-- ed in a divorce case or against a' man charged with bootlegging, after what has happened in this SUN case, juries are sure to think back of the conspiracy against The Sun and ask themselyes the question:--"If it was done in the case of the Sun, isn't it likely that it was repeated in the case under consideration?" -- . : _ --State's Attorney Smith trusted these men--and it remained for the test case of the Sun wherein they were shown up, to prove that they stooped to a nefarious plot to damage the reputation and reliability of one of the best and most carefully edited daily papers in the state.. By executing the plot which the jury said was plan-- ned against The Sun these men undermined their own standing, they established themselves as unscrupulous and willing to go to any extent in order to create a case, And, the natural conclusion is that if they did it in one case they'd DO it'in another. : Effitiency in sleuthing lines is valuable before juries of 'the present and future only so far as the reliability, record and truth-- fulness of "the "investigation'"' goes. * f ~ McQueeney, who made himself a part of the Jeske prosecution by his presence in court and his constant advice to counsel for Jeske, has lived off Lake county for some years; he has collected huge bills for "sleuthing" and the "evidence" collected by him and his agents has sent many a man to jail; it has broken up homes Showing their willingness not to protect the man who has given them employment for a long time (Col. Smith), these 'de-l tectives" in court this week were willing to constantly drag the pros_ecuto"r's name into the case and tried by every possible means; to make him a part and parcel of the damage case when he was. in reality not the least concerned in its outcome; they tried to-- make it appear that they were fighting HIS battle whereas folks know he is entirely able to handle his own affairs to a fineness without their solicitude--all of which showed beyond question that they'd even involve the state's attorney in a bad mess which the jury said they created for their own possible financial advantage. via the divorce route, and now, with the showing made in the SUN case, one can't help but wonder if the same sort of conniv-- ance was resort»d to in collecting their "evidence" in other litiga-- tions. * f . We think--to much of the state's attorney's wisdom to think that he can longer continue these men in the employ of Lake Coun-- ty because of the reflection their connivance in this recent case would bring to him in his desire to handle matters fairly and on the square even with possible law violators of the county, for, no matter who the latter may be they have a right to expect honest prosectution, honest collection of evidence--and the prosecutor wants them to have that constitutional right which wouldn't be theirs in view of the jury's verdict in the Sun case if these men continued to "detect' in this county. ~*_~Twelve men say Jeske et al created a conspiracy to collect damages from "The Sun; they worked up a glever case but they didn't get away with it.. How many cases in which they have been the principal witness were prepared in the same way? 'They killed their possible chances of being of further value to the county of Lake in prosecution ®f any sort of law violators because--~future juries wouldn't believe them when on the stand, for, the jury which heard this case, by their verdict, plainly said that they felt that both Jeske and McQueeney lied when they were under 'oath on the stand telling about their knowledge of the facts. If they have help-- ed Col. Smith in any cases in --the past, they would do him more harm in future than his own efficient handling of law violators would be-- able to overcome? } They took a chance to make some casy money, went a long foute to do so--and LOST!~ t hy * *f l The Sun doesn't regret the action now that it's all over be-- cause again we have done a service to the public; by our own de-- fense of our case we have seen proved to the satisfaction of twelve men"that the conspiracy which we said was executed by Jeske or somebody else, actually took place--otherwise a verdict of guilty would have been> returned. 4* Pe So again, The Sun paid the price of fighting a battle for the public in revealing the real garments beneath the cloak worn by private detectives, one of whom, Jeske, did not deny in open court that he was so drunk in Aurora, that the police locked him up and kept him in jail for two days and his release came only because another city official appealed to the police to be charitable to him because he had been brought to th; city for the purpose of helping detect other drunks and booze sellers and buyers. And so the jury held that he wasn't damaged even to the ex-- tent of one cent but instead, by its decision held that HE was part of a CONSPIRACY to collect damages for a wrong that never existed. | e --__ Lake County bids Mr. McQueeney and Mr. Jeske a fond fare-- well and regrets that their exit is made necessary after an exposure of such a villiarnous, such a vicious and infamous attempt to frame a wholly responsible newspaper like The Daily Sun, LARRY SEMON TO . wED. MISS DWAN New York, Jan. 20.--»--Miss Dorothy Smith, whose film name is Dorothy Dwan, is expected to arrive hotra from -- Hollywood Thirsday moraning, when, after visiting: the Hcowse bu-- reau, she in to proceed to the Kittle Church Around the Corner to wod . Miss ESmith is the \aughter of: the late Liout. Col. George Smith. LAtry "discovered" her whon he gelected her Whototranh from a gronp of 6-- Larry Semon, film laugh producer, her photograph from a gr0 tras shown in a sercon and made arrangemonts (« work wlth'hgn In comedy his leading womak in h soreon maghtine PW She 18 Boston, Jan. 21--The steamer Y; uke . ton of the Boston, Halifax & & Johns Liue went 'on the rocks off | Nixe# Mate Light early today as s ® | was leaving Eoston bharbor, «_ ~~ ~ to The Yankten has a crew <of 23 of ficers and mon, carries a genoral cargo and no passengers, / dig WAS KING EDWARD'S BOAT Tugs are standing by, and. an at-- tempt will bo--made to haut hor'g the rocks. . > > $ e t 90 a> in . oo oi Fear "Yankton" Will Go Down . Uniess Removed from the. . -- ~Rocks Soon. © _ .. _ JAN. 17, 1§25. a 8. WolIf et al to~C. W. Thompson W.D. $10. St. $20.50. NW ar of NE ar of See 28, Libertyyl'#»., °> 7 O. B. VonLinde to. A. G. Lindquist and wf jt tens WD $10. Lot 33, 0. B. You Lindes Subdn. + . J. Grifith and wt to Zengeler Mon-- ahan Co. WD. $10. St. $3. Pts of Lots 341 and 332 in Lake Forest, C. J. Jones to N. Nelzon Deed $10, 8t. $8. pt of Lots 10 and 11, Bik 28, Org! Town of Lt Ft. f E..Snl%nuul wt to Channel Lake Pavilion $600. St. $1. Lot 7, BJk 2, Sunrith Second Subdn. s 4 B. F. Naber ard wf to J. Wiilie and w1 it tens WD $10. St. $1. Lot 3, Blk 2, Nabors Subdn. 3 E. M. Schoen and wf to F. W. Mar-- tin&d;fi&%%&&fl-l'! Of 9. > + © " ", * ¥. B. Imomurudvf to ; H. Wold and w{jt tens WD $2.50, 8t. $50 Lt 54, PJeasant View Subdn. _ .. _ Lo mct d t 2 B h ccmmaresrercnttiendratn nc ingcadt tdR B. Lowenm@yer to M. A. Stockley and wi'jt tens. Deed $1. St. $1,. Lot 06 Bonnie Brook Subdn. ° ° e H. J. McKean and wf to°C. Andert son WD $1. Lots 62 and 63, Grand Av, C. VanNevel and wtf to A. Hein WD $10. St, $4. Ipts 23 and 24, Browns Subdu. ie * *A X O."E. Nelson®and wi to F. E. Strom and wt jit tens WD $300. St. $:50, Lot 45 in Duells Shore Wood Subdn; .. _ 0.' E. Nélson and : wf to R. Schur-- man and wf it tens WD $545. Bt. $1. Lot 134, Duelis Shore Wood Subdn. -- OO. E. Nelson and wf"to A. Nelson and wf jt tens WD $400. st. $.{0.'Lot &1. Duells Shore Wood Subds. _ ---- > _ C. M, Johnson and wfi to A. T. Fare and wf Jt tens WD $10. St. $6. Lot 11, Johnson Subdn. 15,000,000 LAKE -- .. TROUT HATCHED .« AT SPRING GROVE Springflield, Ii1., Jan, 20.~--Fifteen million lake trout are being 'hatched at Spring Grove, according to. Wilk liam J. Stratton, chief gaimne and fish warden, who says the hatchery n-ns one Oof the largest in the Uni States. It is one of the few % to hatch pike,;pickere!l,-- wh and trout by artificial means, as well as bass, crapple, sunfish and othervaricti¢s under natural condi-- tions. : ROCKS OFF BOST IN HEAVY W Deep-- water Tish--whitefish and lake trout--spawn during November and early December. When this hbatch is completed, that of pike is begun. These fish spawn in April, thus mak» ing a continuous operation of the hatchery possible. ¢ Mr. Etratton has not only w than doubled the number of. turned out at Spring Grove: f his~ term "h chief m% iah warden, but has eomtrm ad» ditional hatcheries in sections of the state. He has also ® | the distribution of -- fish-- to.. streams and lakes of Hlinots + 156 ~cars por year to 190 cars ' 1924. STEEL FMPLOYES IN ON STOCK | New York, Jan. 21.--The B. B Corporation today 6 d 4 offering 100,000-- shares -- of og stock to Its employea at $135 & under the annval cubseription: Tho stock sold on the open 1 ouey anprnt 1if -- A year ago tho same sto tered «t' o&qo. More than . ployes gubscriptions veat's offeving. Jy* ya PLANES ~BOMBARD -- Taniger, Moroceo, Jan Spanish batticships assin actroplanes, today began Andjera, Ee <! +3 nly more -- * of: fish ;. e during --~ : and fish _ 1 five ad-- . . -- sections . _ t * t'.' ; é ¥x4