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Libertyville Independent, 21 Jan 1926, p. 6

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é _clety had ended, qbviously, at. the y ~ohancds The bis e Herata en aiitann in BF --_.~**~ ------aost "unusual in t46_ShnYiM_book sof [x**~*~--" sended TEHVEAH "TEAM _ :.';' * s wVC! Rr.>-- | / . . Dewn -- y .=, Ing at 9 Ei.: a s. : __'%.... _A done 2>----.---- ~deguatly. se ---- v_huhnu. + w en io ... . ... Semmelder, then 34 years old, Sinished ~> «~&--tem--year stretch in the "big house" Rt Jolist. He contended when con-- ; w'l:'uoh:t. Il.:. f k a 0 ~~**~~~* S0cisty 16 higher strata than himself. And, when he was released, he swore solemanly and unemotionaily that as long 'as society had declared . war on him hbe had taken up the : challenge and would continue to war , . ». Rawn ° Saturday reveakled a--~ body . ~Mprawled on the steps of a flat bulld-- Ing at 934 South Robey street, Chi-- i ~It was not until T--o'clock that Dan-- lel Cresta, roomer in the second fipor flat at the Robey street address, eame out, on hbhis way to work in --~p--the Florsheim Shoe company plant. --__--MHe all but fell over the body. . He . . stooped and looked closely.> -- .--_ _ "*Jt's Schneider," he gasped. . Then he telephoned and within. a ; short space of moments there was ._---- the clanging of a police squad car. Lieut. William O'Neil took one "struttian Trom the Uunderworld of the In tWe Valley Gang were two **<ds." Terty" Drakkan and Frankw "Por dowble -- crossing the gang" Bmith said, "Wisniewski was killed The valley gang #ot him. | don't P' who, but it was done by them." . On June--11, 1925, Morria and Da Punn, members of the gang. 4i# beer. vn?' n .htum- ie & © DEATH SECRET 18 On the morning of Lake cgounty authorit aof "Big Steve" with builets, bushes along the P m was an invest! unt!! in June / course of instruction. He iaught the pickpocket "mobs" how to crowd their victims, switch the "leatbers." in the actual taking of the pocket book "do the arguing with thwB vic-- tims while the 'rea} "camnon got away." His organization has stood the test of time for a score of I'm going to square accounts. in the penitentiary !| studied crime from men who know. And Ive'® thought out ways and means to do things better than the old--timers did them." In tWe valley gang. then large!y Aevéted to . wiagon thievery~ and pioking pockets, Sclinelder beliiew Llake. _ The 1&:»-.«;:" con-- kidered them ing. t Drug gan inststéd Im-"bo didn't need a arreal. iUtuggan succeeded to lead atuwhip In the "Valley" and thers do + OFFERS RYAN PLAN Bchneider came to the West Side. "Paddy the Bear" Ryan was then Jjust coming into power as the hbead was all but forgotten, DEATH SECRET 18 AEVEALED _ On the morning of July 19, 1921, Lake county authorities found the aof "Big Steve" Wisniewski, with builets, in a clump of bushes along the Half Day road. m Was an investigation, but no unt!l in June of 1925 State's Attorney Smith of Waukeekn an-- 1' be had unearthed the secret L Steve's" death. He declared that Wisniewsk| nad E worker for the Drugzgan-- beer . running syndicate, ob tor them inflormation of the "rackets" "to the almost erclusis business of hijacking and later of eaches of other beer. runners prosecutor s:a a'h'tlt' *A j # , Um ef @ infNuence Of cash, taken to telling other Bi-- wn where Druggan and Lake was hidden=for shipment: rusning and finally manufacturing work of tracing back on the record Of the man whose fight against so A¥@ the men be named when hbe squawked are the men we want to --"It's the 'schoolmaster,'" he-- said. "SCHOOLMASTER" is DPAD "We've waited, for a year now, to find just this situation," continued the lieutenant. "Schneider taught ecrfime. 'Then he furned stool}pigeon. *"Drunk,"* said some disinterestedly. »And othérs who said nothing went ahead on the theory that "it doesn't pay to mind other people's business." Crime "Schoolmaster" Who Gave Col. Smith Inside In Big A dozen work--bound tollers looked imgaily_--ayd --went. on ; about_their Steve Death, Murdered a time "the Schoolmaster" BY HIS ENEMIES was Dbever an SQUEALS the Fred Collins, principal of our gram mar school, has been appointed a ru rail mail carrier on Royte No. 2 out of Prairie View, beginning work i|st Monday Jan. 16. James Mxon, of Oshkosh, Wis.,. succeeds Mr. Collins at the school."> ' Mre .lda Smith of Libertyville is at prekent émployed by Mr. ay,4 Mrs Griffith, as a nurse. ------ * The Adult, Bible Class will.hare the next monthly meeting at the bome of C. J. Herschberger on Feb. 1st All members cor,jially Invited . _ --*"Phite-- old world we're living in Is mighty hard to beat; . ~ We get a thorn with--every rose, But ain't the roses sweet." Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cook are the bhap py recipients of a brand new baby girl, born a week o last Sunday. Welcome, little m\nor, who makes our hearts so glad. 4 P, tronite the Auditorium Theatre nM tor good, worth while the winter. ° On iast Monday eveniag a host of friemds rongregate dat the home --of Mrs. Mamie Holst, the occasion being ber birtbday. An ey,, joyable time w4 s had by all present. will talk to us about conditions in his mother country, which will be very in-- teresting. as well as instructive. Let's greet him with a large audience. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Meyers left last Friday on a special excursion trip. to Texas. They will be gone a week or to extend the young couple our most bhearties t congratulations . A little girl (who has been named Dorls) arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Griffith on January 12. Mr. abd Mrs. Griffith have rooms a< There is a rumor afloat that Miss Cinderelia Wells and Eunile Ladd Another larre force of men is em-- ployed erecting stee} towers for over-- head constrection. Th's work is about 25 per cent. completed. Four new substations hare been erected and the machitvery and equip ment of each is being installed. We will have the privilege of listening to a student of foreign birth from the Offictalse, of the North Bhore line expect to see the new Skokie Valler line opened to traffic tn the spring, it was announced Friday. = The entire atrétch of track has been laid, one of the tracks ballasted 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o SKOKIE LINE TO START IN SPRING 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chief of Detectives . Schoemaker, Capt.. John Stege and the aces of the detective bureau started to work to round up valley gangsters, and see, perhaps, if they could 1f6)-- low through some thread of ev+ dence to a solution. "I thought it might be a backfire from the car,"" be satd. Anyway, it was none of my business and | went buck to bed." HEARD SHOTS FIRED Joseph Cordino, who lives on the first floor, said he was awakened about 4 o'clock by what sounded to him like a fusillade of shots and the roaring of a car as it sped away. --The body -- was cold,. and it |was evideat -- the --"Schoolmaster" J had been dead for hourk. ~*~C~~~ ; ~ His wife, Rosie, said she had last seen Schneider at 9 o'clock . last night, when be abruptly said he was "going out." Roomers in the build-- ing, <several of whom said they re-- turned as late as> midnight, said there was nobody on the. porch at that time. -- When his body was found Saturday there were two bullets through the head and one through the abdomen. Four others were imbedded in the woodwork of the dgoorway. . _, .That was all that was said then. But in gangland it was a common se cret that Harry Schneider was a marked man . +. "Harry Schnelder, the schoolmas ter, squawked,"* a Waukegan: official declared. _ "He said Drutun and Lake had ordered the death of Big Bteve, and bhe named the men who actually did the killing." ? -c-bzn of the ?l. were and the -'to%' came ou?or ..%'5'&?; '0}_" elptmd. , Serfaiened io met fofusr 'IT- who eufer with aar it in foikee Py mar l he mn- «o h age fnn flrogier .. d ralied from fever or pain in evary part ol the _'.'!"". o« pain in every part of the Theise mareelous tabiets work Whe a charm. Amixzing New Treat-- ment for Headaches HALF DAY of Mrs. M. A. Knoll during time after time and this is one time We are going to be with him." At the conclusion of the meet-- Ing dozens of men went forward and deposited checks anywhere from $50 up to $2,000 as the starter in Perbhaps the speaker who received the most applause next to Mr. Lun-- din was John Walker, president of the lI!linois Federation of Labor, who ernor--*Len Smail." c > The governor's {followers . were warned in no uncertain terms that if the Supreme~ Court-- dectsion--remain® ruin, the loss of his home, and povy-- obtain personalpledges of from gne to five dolMars from every citizen who believes in tMe governor's in give all my encrgy and ln? of frieAds of the governor was held for the purpose of starting a | fung to carry on Smail's fight in the * courts. -- The ~governor:> was not at the meeting--but 250 friends whre ; there. They organized the cominit-- | tee whose purpose it is to collect | money to "fight the attack on Gov--| ernor Small because this Isft nt-' tack on him was not for the (pur | pose of collecting money for, the benefit of the state but for the pur-- pose of breakihg his courage, abil-- ity and fortitude." LUNDIN LEADS FORCES The leader in the fight and the first speaker of the meeting . was Chicage, Jan. 14..--Friends, appotn-- tees and other-- office--holders under Governor Len -- Small continued to-- day. a drive for contributions to a fund for the next steps in his de-- Sfense on charges of . misappropriat-- ing * pubHe funds when he was state treasurer. The goal, it was said, is $100,000, half of which has been subscribed. Denial was made that the goal is $1,000,000 with which to pay to the state, as ordered by the courts, interest on@state funds which the governor is alleged to have re tained, ~but which a Lake county jury held lhim not guilty of. A memorable meeting was held Wednesday -- noon in the -- Palmer House, Chigago, when the first meet-- Notable . Meeting in Chicago Starts Move To Raise Money to Win Final Battle "Governor Small has been with us PALMER GRADUATE Jffice Hours: 10@ a. m. to 6 p. m 7 p. m. to 8 p. m. ew180P 8 AC73( Health Service TO PROVIDE FUND : IN SMALL DEFENSE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY You can easily finish an eight hour ironing in two hours--while you sit down. This new model ironer fits right into your kitchen. Not only does the tedious flat work but iroms shirts, dresses, lace curtains, frills and everything. Gives T hor--30 Folding Electric "Yes, it's really --fun to tron _ avith the A\ preie a Phone 144. W Ironer OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS l(i & Lake county, who declared with force that--he had never asked 4& favor of 'the governer, that he wasn't going | to and that Be was in the fight for Bmall because he felt he was ma 'llnod and persecuted and the time had come when his . real friends must gird themselves and chalienge his enemies to a final battig. Mr. ; Lundin, unusually silent b@t active, | proved himself a master at oratory ! and held / his audience spelibound Only $5.00 down. Telephone for a You may, for a limited time, pur-- chase a Thor--30 Klectric Ironer'at the regular cash price and pay for it . on the Little by Little plan. No obligation. Purchase it "Little by Little" Assortment of Radio Parts 2 Dosen Oil Mops 100 Dozen Rubber Balls . 30 Smail Preserving Kettles 15 Granite Roast Pans 14 House Brooms 38 Sleeping Dolls 100 Y¥ds. Table Oll Cloth 90 Yds. Lincoleum Eight 9 by 12 Rugs -- if 140 EBmail Rugs size 24 by 48 6 Doz. Wind Shield Wipers | 176 O--V--B ButCher Knives 5 Automobile Tops 160 Soup and Dinner Plates 40 Women's Pocket Books 20 Dinner Pails ABOVE LIST, COME TO THIS BIG SALE AND MAKE YOUR SELECTION. MANY BARGAINS NOT LISTED HERE. 36 Boys Overalls and Jackets %5 Granite and Galy, Paills . -- 2%5. Men's Filannel" Shirts + Forks, Shovels, Bpades and s 30 Boys' Blue.Bhirts --= Handles . ° s 20 Dos. Pairs Assorted Gloves 10 Dozen Screw Drivers = +« IF YOU DO NOT FIND YOUR NEEDS IN The undersigned will sell at private sale, at the'RIEHM HARNESS SHOP, one--half mile west of Milwaukee Avenue, just east of Aptakicic,»lll., , ' s . January 22 to 25 175 Pairs of Women's, Children's and Baby Shoes ~ t * % S A _ EJ Dress Shoes The following Goods, at Bargain Prices: RALPH HUIZENGA, Prop. Men's Work and Aptakisic, Illinois /A real estate deal, with an indicat-- ed consideration of $125,000 was re-- corded Tuesday showing that the Mid-- 'City Trust and Savings Bank of Chi wago had transferred property in Deerfield township to Caroline Soel-- $125,000 Deal _ Recorded in County 3 Plece Set 5 Tables 1 Good Heater -- 500 Pocket Knives 3888 Cans Jajo Hand Boap * 14 ¥%--gal. Cream Cans Garbage Canse, Spriakler Cans, and Oil Cans ag * 5000 Harness Snaps 50 Bpray Pumps » * A 16t of Giassware 1 Elgin Bicycle 115 Bread Pans 10 Gabe 80 Water Fountains for Chickens 200 Aluminum Dippers 300 Pencil and Ink Tablets 50 GaHons of Paint 100 Dish Pans it foids up easily and urged. co--operation to Stove m Polish Office in First National Bank Building Mourts: 1 to 4;30 and 7 to 8 p. m. By U. 8. Government Veterinarian D. C. Grinnell, Inspector® in Charge Telephone 329 . LIBERTYVILLE Office With Farm Bureau ATTORNEY A T LAW LIBERTYVILLE ILLINO!S8 LVCE BUILOING Res Phone 136--M Office Phone 15 Colds, Grippe and Flu it is the most epesdy remedy wt know, Mesets First ond Third Monday Nights o Each Month at Masonic Hall Visiting Companions Corgially Invi BARL CORLETT, H. P. J B. WETMORE, Secretary. LIBERTYVILLE, ILLINOS . Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of Each --__ _ Month at Gridiey ail Visiting Members Cordially invited LORA STURM EDITH LAYCOCK Meets Fach Monday Night at 8 o'ciock FIRST NATIONAL BaANK Buoa. Visiting Members Cordialiy Invited. Mests First ind Thire Friday nmd Eacoh in Qridiey Hail, First Nationa! Ban»s Building. Visiting Neighbore Welicom»: AUG RADLOFF, _ N. MADOLE, Libertyville Te new care will be bullt at a cost of approximatély $:0,000 each. Thove. auds ol religfous dignitaries. from all over the world will attend' the meot at Mundelein which is on the North Shore line; . Reverse Charges on Business Calls Dr. O. F. Butterfield © In preparation for the blndhqg of the throngs expected 'to Aattend--the Eucharistic Concgress at Mundelein, North Shore line has placed orders IHL, near Chicago, next Juqx. the Tor 20 new steel passenger Conches and three new dining care which wit: be delivered belore.the qpening of the Congress, 4 LYELL H. MORRIS WILLIAM McCLAIN, Becy DR. J. L. TAYLOR ATTORNEY A T LAW Office at Home on Cook Avenue CATTLE TESTED FRED GRABBE FREF OF CH a#e c s Libertyville Chapter No. 272 R. A. M. _ Veterinary Surgeon _ LIBERTYVILLE ILLINOHS LIBERTYVILLA Hm1J4JNO8 Telephonse 182--J LIBEATYVILLE ILLINO!S E. W. COLBY 666 >, Columbia Lodce 5 No. 131 Mystic Workers COACHES ON N. S. _ _ ~MVW. d aA. ACME CAMP Noe. 176 _ || WAUKEGAN, ILL. Phone Central 1812 S N O W'S PHONE 306 Scientific Swedish Massage and SUITE 802 MALLERS BuLoOmae 8 8. WABASH AVENUE Phone Libertyville 145.R--120.R WILL CONTRACT to furnish 'labor and material on your house complete for a set fig--ure so you will know just what the cost will. be before starting. ' R. L GONSALVES Going to Build? Economy as we'l asConvenience Kelvinator Libertyville & 114 lilineors The Olgest Smith's Taxi Good Meals 50c¢ Phomne BM _ LIBEARTYVILLA NSURANCE William P. Whitney Architect C 1. SMBTH--Prep.. . Day and Night Service || * Night Ph. 497 _ Day Ph. 51 REAL ESTATE We Buy and Selt LAKE COUNTY AND SELLERS & PETER SE N 551 No. Milwaukee Avenue .IBERTYVILLE ILLINOIS TELEPHONE 481 ARLING T ON + HOTEL # R. G. Kaping _ _ Kellberg, Institute, Ino. A. A. Grandy Refrigeration Libertyville J 40' ayst n m agnn Lesnats on +

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