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+4 VOLUME XXXVI--NUMBER 30. waukee, Wisconsin. luluuq stop after hitting the man and the car in the rear pursued him and dvertook him and wmade him go basck and pick up Johnson and take him to were arrested and 15 cars damaged according to reports submitted to Bherift Lawrence Doolittle by Dep uty George Heckinger, head of the county motor patrol. Btate Bank, ,Chicago, driving an HRilcar sedan south on route No. 41 about one mile north of Grand ave-- nue Sunday stopped wnen the traffic akead of him stopped and Walter pital where she wi® attended by Dr. Beck and after recelving Iirst aid went home. Mrs. Ross and daughter and husband were considerably shak-- en up and elightly cut. Mr. Werener and son were slightly cut about the face. In the Buick were Mre. and Mr. Henry Classen father and mother of the driver, and Mrs. Schla-- gel none of whom were injjured. Mr. Schlagel received a cut on the mouth and was taken to the County Ho# Pedestrian is Knocked Down -- by Vampire Driver Who In a week--end marrea by minor accidents through the county 17 peo-- ple were injured, some tadly enongh In one case a man charged with hitting a man and then trying to run away was caught --by another autoilst who forced him to take the man to a hospital. The accidents, covered by Heck-- inger and Deputy William Klarkow-- the West End garage. All other cars were able to proceed. morth by W. L Gee, Jr.. Waukegah. August Peterson, Elat Peterson, Al #red EKckberg and witeo and Mrs. m'mhmmmau cuts and brulsesand were taken to the Victory Memorlal hos Schrieber senior received a minor cut on the head and was gtven Airst aid by Dr. Beck at the Lake County hospital. Fred Gull, riding with Erickeon was thrown between the two cars by the impact and had hbis Back injured--exact injuries not as yet determined. Erickson was taken in to the sheritt's offtite where he avenue, Chicago, driving a Buick se dan, routh on route U. 8. No. 41, just south of Seott's dilling station, Bunday hit an Elcar touring, being towed north by Lioyd Hanks of the Winthrop Harbor Garage, Winthrop Harbor. in the Elcar were ~Neil Muligan, 122 E. Washington st., who Aidel Huys, 2116 California atre -p.wmo.drjflncnbomm ster, north on route 42A, about a mile south of Belvidere street, when an unknown car in front of him smtlowed down and forced Huys to stop sudenly. A Buick coupe driven by A. Dowaele, 126 North avenue, Lake Bluff, which was ip the rear of the Huys car brought his car also to a.uick stop and a Star sedan, going in the same direction by Wal-- ter Klenner, Startford, Wi., could not stop and crashed Into the rear of the Buick. : No one was injured. -.':».ummaoramm as as the tire carrier were bad-- Iy damaged.. The Star sedan had was placed under $2,000 bond and trial set for July 24th before Justice Coulson. Three bottles of Hquor, one entirely full and two partly full were found in the Studebaker. Sizx Are Hurt _ Fred Classen, 7015 Harper ave nue, Chicago, driving a Buick sedan south on route U. 8. No. 41, about Sunday <collided with a Studebaker sedan being driven north by Roman Ross, T21 Sixth avenue, ,Milwaukese. pital where he was attended by Dr. Beck. Classen was taken down to the sherift's office where Mr. Ross signed a complaint against him, and he was placed under a $200.00 bond by Justice Tallett. being towed and Mizm --Elsie Lind-- Stedt, Winthrop Harbor. Both oc eupants of the Elcar were taken to the Lake County hospital where they 17 HURT, 3ARE _ ARRESTED FROM _ 1 ACCIDENTS Krickson of Kenosha, driving a Studabaker touring was in the rear and. was unable to stop and ran Into the side of the Eicar and danm was taken to the Jake --County hosw were attended by Dr. Beck. Miss Lindstedt had five stitches taken under her eye and Muligan suffered eelved a severe cgut on the head and Incerations -- about the face. Miss Kendrick, riding in the Buick was Injured but refused to go to a doc-- Three Cars Damaged Three More Hurt Two Are Injured is Caught. a -- Buick Coupe , Roosevelt avenue, to the judge. Witnes§E@s had put lntl;:rl)- pearance to furnish a record for the court and prison offictase. The sherift had hoped to get rid of the prizoner because he had at-- tempted suicide three times. Cole lice, Coleman repudiated it. Follow-- ing that he made a second confession to police and then followed through by making one to. the sherifft and special detectives of the St. Paul railway. Morrison had been an em-- ploye of the St. Paul "He's just having one of ~his spells. | He'll think better of it later. 1 guees he can stay' here rather than at Joliet if he wants to," Deputy Tyrrell declared in talking man has been the "white elephant" of the jail. #» COLEMAN BALKS The scene had been laid for his plea States Attorney Smith and Sherift Lawrence Doolittle had con-- ferred with Circuit Judge Edwards ly filled courtroom ne was morose and sulky, As the time dragged on he came out and declared that he would not plead guilty but that he would fight. Attaches at the county building are of the opinion that fellow prison-- ers in the jail encouraged the man to rely on an insanity plea. After he made his alleged confes slon of the crime to Sergeant John state prison at Joliet Friday night on a plea of guilty changed his mind at the last moment and was taken back to his cell in the county jJail. brought the defendant into the part-- DEERFIELD LEGION TO HOLD CARNIVAL ucu.um?_-lhlm in case of rain these events. Nu merous ~rizes for various events are promised and a great time is in prospect. m John G. Coleman, $3, charged with the--slaying of Thomas Morrison at Rondout 13 years ago, -- who was Goes Back on Alleged toHeadé.tgnyjolor;-'?'s E COUNTY INDEPENDENT Lake County's Big Weekly -- WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN lssn y t o ts S oo t s on 2 ie k o kn n oa n o en sns Sn se e in L taa t o oo c e n hn 1. Seat i o 4 To map j 2. 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"mnmrrlod.tho bill showed, in The firm of Runvard & Behanna acted for the complainants in both cases, ; Bernice Scrogging, Waukegan, filed bill for divorce against her husband, : m disposing of furniture was ordered. A writ of ne exeat was issued in the case of Josephine vs. Martin Dwornick, Waukegan, in which the wife charged the husband with @runkenness. She complained that Thomas Yateman, Chicago negro, Monday was fined $25 by Justice of him when he cautioned him about| _ Ja¢tk Durand, foster: son of--the F. he was going to leave the ~country mfl:'m'fli::.fioc tholur"thmkehll ' uh Jc-w. Decree:was entered for Mildred against James Bearce, Zion. Drunk-- enness was charged. the Pdace Hervey Coulson on a charge of disorderly conduct. Deputy Walter «Gansberg, highway -- con, James FKhaim, aged 17 years, of Oak Park, I11., drowned at noon Sun-- day in Lake Zurich, when he lost his hold on the back ofo a rowboat on which he was clinging while being drawn through the water by his brother, who was rowing the small The accident occurred at a point where the water is unusually deep anad the search which was started mmrl;mdnvudvuum in progress Monday afternoon. -- . The boy with his brother came to Lake Zurich early Sunday morning to spend thé day. The two boys had Been bathing and rowing about the lake, seemingly thoroughly enjoying The youth sank beneath the waves for the last time before he could be Decree Granted Lewis Brad ley, Waukegan Real Es-- RUSH E. HUSSEY, LAKE VILLAS HEAD, DIVORCED YOUTH DROWNS IN Oak Park Boy Sinks Beneath the Waters of Lake at DRAGGING FOR BODY LIBERTYVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1928. Noon on Sunday. tate mpmm{nmmw cariots by the Mid.| where he served two to "I cannot und@®@stand the motive of the city council in the matter," he stated, "when it was generally known that the government was in-- tending to use this site for the new postoffice building. In my opirion it was a thoughtliess or vindictive act on the part of the council. ¢ *"In other cities where the govern-- ment has erected new postoffice buildings the city council has alded rather than impeded the government in obtaining sites for the proposed buildings. This action of the coun the goY lent to erect a building M$vo have 3." striv-- ing for five years." since the purchase of the site by the government in an even more mud-- dled state and indications are that it will mean much delay in the start of erection of the proposed postof-- fice building. The city purchased tke land at the cost of $100,000 after the govern ment had refused to pay this sum for the property. The government however intended to raze all of the buildings on the tract while the city will use two of them for city office and council chamber purposes and rent the third. . . Postmaster Taleott, who'* arrived in Waukegan from a trip to Macki-- nac Island returred to the city some what irate over the action of the city council in purchasing the tract of land which the government had selected as the sith of the proposed months on a government has fur thered its steps in federal court for condemnation of the property in question. The action fer condemnation of the property was filed in federal curt after it be-- came known that the city had pur chased the property. Added to this action it was also stated today by Mance) Talcott that be had been informed by the Schue neman, assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of United States public buildings, that the govern-- ment has the right to condemn and selze city property as the site for public buildings and that it was the intention of the government to fo} low this plan in regard to the Hig-- The purchase of the Higley prop erty at Madison and Utica streets, by the cit yrecently in its move to obtain its own city office building and civic auditorium may be set aside by the decision of the United States treasury d artment to take steps to condemn and seize the land As a site for the proposed $385,000 Move to Condemn Tract For Postoffice Site is Still Be-- Postmaster Mancel Talcott was informed by representatives of the . TAKE QITY HALL TRACT FROM CITY Circulation Greater than other Weeklies in County Combined Entered at the Postoffice at Libertyvilie, Ilinois, as Second Class Matter. The decision of the government BACK AT of '@Eu i @ ;; Jack Plans l% Actions Tues-- day Before of Re-- : view For County: at the home of a relative in Lib-- ertyville Monday afternoon to confeéer on arrangements for the funeral. funds alleged to have been hidden during the lifetime of defendants. The actions are to be taken be-- fore the board of review and the hearings will be before that body. Any appeals would have to go di rectly into the supreme court. -- Attorney Jack was retained <-- by the board of supervisors for-- the purpose of collecting this money at leged due the county. * Suits against 18 estates will be filed Tuesday for the county by At-- By delving into inheritance tax reports and tracing the amount of tazes paid by estate during the life-- time of the deceased the attorney has been ablGé to ascertain what should have been paid. . s Death, he claims, has brought out the hidden values on which taxzes were not pald, _ *imis"~st ces away several years ago. * Members of the family gathered None of the suits will be directed against© Waukegan 'residents. _ All name estates in Highland Park, Lake Forest. and Deerfleld with the bulk being from Lake Forest.. . Should the county be victorious in the cases it would be reminiscent of the old fight against the Richard While brooding over the turn of affairs in her life which brought about a divorce action after seven: teen years of married life and the subsequent marriage of her husband to another woman, Mrs. Ida Warner. aged 44 years, of 803 Linden avenue, Whukegan, swallowed the contents of two bottles of 'disinfectant, a car-- bolic acid preparation, at about nine o'clock Monday morning, and thirty father, Joseph Doubrava 'passed meditated for some time by the woman was made apparent by the fact that she purchased and-- secret-- ed the liquid preparation some days Ago. Her first opportunity to carry out her intentions came Monday morning while her mother, Mrs, Emma Dou-- brava, with whom she had been liv-- The deceased woman was born in Waukegan and her death will} bring sorrow to a host of friends. Besides Rose Kessler of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. Ida Warner of Waukegan Swallows Poison Monday 'l'b'fl'yllchllluhdtotthno. Mre. Warner was still alive: when he reached there but bad lost con-- The suilcide was the . result of many months of despondency which followed the divoree which she ob tained in the Cook county circuit court in January. Mrs. Warner at salesman for a steel company. / doubted the wisdom of her act and when--she learned that her husband had remarried several weeks ago she seemed to lose control of her-- selft and during the last week ap-- peared to be under great mental TAX SUITS FOR HIDDEN WEALTH TO BE STARTED thirty minutes. As she entered the kitchen she was greeted by the odor of . carbolic acid. Her suspicions sroused she began a search of the home for Mrs. Warner. She found the woman lying on her back on a bed and in a semi-- ot the mother, Mrs.; Doubrava hastened to the the yard at the rear of their home. Brackett, who advised her to force the poison victim to drink olive oil. ~'Because of the quantity of poison aswallowed by the woman efforts to bher !ips and on her chin and throat where the poison had flowed from hber mouth as she gulped the death DESPONDENT OVER DIVORCE ACTION:; WOMAN KILLS SELF Her former PAP yBor -- Cns > Temes o0 7. 70 00 wnee eE en Rese She died a few minutes Morning. husband is believed of P + 0n 2 P ty in it s gre in Fdward Zipf, president of. Zipf Bros. Coal Co., one of Chicago's pio-- neer eoal dealers, has purchased the timberland estate of Virginriia L. Fitz morris, near Libertyville, for a re-- ported consideration of $50,000 ---- This announcement was made by Austin R. Schnaebele and Jay Cairns | local Realtors, who tepresented the. contracting parties. ' This estate known locallq, as the-- Dawson farm, is considered one of. the most beauntiful spots in and a&round Chicago, because of its dense Chicago Coal Man _ Buys Estate Near Village Of Libertyville house set back in the timber and completely hidden from passers--by on Route 21. The_main house is a modern colonial type structure sur And the McNeill Farm at Fox Lake where James Weinand is said to be the proprietor. : » All'were charged: with violations of the prohibitory act except Prestsa who wa scharged with disorderly conduct. #%." Rogers paid a tine of $200 and oste and Latz the same amount !:otm Justice of the Peace Hervey timber and its scenit frontage on t:nThl:utha River. at Foay ' property consists & t mately 50 acres, with a wtzhr'l house near the road and the main Coulson. bonds pending appesarance at an inquest to be held in Highland Park at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The collision occurred at .the corner of Glencoe avenue and Har-- bor street in Glencoe in the midst of havyy traffic. Both cars were lice believe that Roth was at fault in the accident. & Roelandt was ruched t6 the hos-- pital in a dying condition. Fatally injured when an auto-- mobile in which' he was riding crashed with another in Glencoe Bunday afternoon. Edward Roe-- landt, aged 47 years of 2513 North Campbell avenue, Chicago, died in the Highland Park hospi-- tal several hours Ilater. Raymond Roth, of 118 Pleas-- ant street, Highwood, driver of the machine which crashed into the machine occupied by Roelandt was arrested and released under Raids in the> lake regions and North Chicago, were made Sunday by the sponge squad according to reports given out by States Attor-- ney Smith today. : Constable George Stried, leader of the squad, listed the following raids with the prosecutor:;: -- FOUR RAIDS IN COUNTY STAGED BY SPONGE SQUAD Lake Region and North Chi cago Hit in Beer Raids DIES FROM FATAL Edward Roelandt of Chicago Passes Away in the High-- land Park 'Hospital. *( very ramny: gurar Q!'_'!'!'.&'_WM" our on m;&ma"m« A FORREI@H) LAWND i8 A menura, AND PHY8iGaL 'rome worm : FRAR MORKE "HAN it Costs Mike Behm Says AUTO ACCIDENT Over Weekend. the Victory Memorial hospital yes-- Baxter was arrested on complaint of his wife who charges in a war-- rant that Baxter assaulted her with the intent to take her life. from Portsmouth last Friday and ammediately looked up his wife who is employed as a maid at the Veterans' Bureau hospital Armed Bhe fought him off and escaped, running back to the hospital where she called the police. In the mean-- time Baxter leveled the gun at his own chest and fired. He was taken to the hospital with a bullet below clump of trees near the hospital arnd, she says, he tried to kill her. terday suffering from a selt--inflict-- ed bullet wound in his chest and was immediately arrested and taken to the North Chicago jail. his heart, and was released yester-- Ia., who on July 13, Friday attempt-- ed to kill himself and wife near the U. 8. Veterans' Bureau hospital at with a rope, a bottle of carbolic acid Police expect that the assault charge will develop into a sanity héaring for the man. 'While apparently normal in jail, police believe he is mentally de-- The body was shipped to Chicago Monday morning for burial. Riseley who was single and an electrician lived at © 5725 West North avenue, Chicago. BIND MAN OVER Edward Baxter Held in Jail After Being Freed From Hospital Here. WOMAN HAS MATE ARRESTED IN A -- MURDER ATTEMPT uke, also a resident of Chicago |pronounced at this time and in this when he was stricken. event death of the young woman is His friend turned to look at him, feared. The bone in the leg pro-- just as Riseley reeled in his seat truded through the skin and became in the rear of the small boat and |tovered with dirt and gravel The with his tongue protruding from|leg was broken in two places, one his mouth and his eyes rolling, he|section of the bone becoming im-- toppled headforemost into the "wa--| bedded in the earth where the young _ Tore of his companion The tour their way home orts to grasp were on way the victim before he sank beneath|from Channell Lake where they had the waves were unsuccessful and been attending a dance. They state apparently in a coma, the mthttdnwmmhgatadw man sank to the bottom of the lake Tate of speed due to the heavy fog. without a struggle. Miss Kennedy injured in the ac-- Five or six other resorters who|Cident is employed as a stenograph-- had been fishing from boats near--| °T at the Abbott laboratories while by aided in the attempt to rescue| Miss Orvis is a student at St. Mary's the young man, but they worked Academy at South Bend, Ind., where for two hours before the body was | She is preparing to study law and then extinct. The body was found| °* long one of the outstanding law-- in 12 feet of water. yers of Waukegan. After attempts at resusciation ~«=~~«~--~mimoomumge failed : the-- body ~was taken-- tol s....luit.0 ; kE 0. 0 _ Strang's funeral home in Antioch where an inquest was held under the direction of Dr. J. L Taylor, county coroner, Sunday night. Following the inquest the coron-- er's jury returned a verdict finding while afflicted with epilepsy or a while apparently suffering from an attack of epilepsy or a heart affec-- tion, George Riseley, Jr., aged 26 years of Chicago, drowned in Petite Ldke, at 2:30 o'clock Bunday after-- Riseley -- had been fishing from the boat in company with R. O. Beh-- STRICKEN WITH FIT; FALLS INTO LAKE AND DROWNS Chicago Man Victim of Ac-- cidental Drowning in Lake er April, 1928, an increase of four percent over April, 1927--the U. 9. Geological Survey repors. Illinois has erected monuments on Civil War battleflelds at Vicks burg, Shilo, Getysburg, Kenesaw Mountain and Chickamauga. Illinofs' 959 high schools have an enrollment of 251,212 students. The old Metamora courthouse is the last remaining courthouse in Illinois where Lincoln practic ed law. t they did in 1921. Edward Baxter --of Portsmouth, The "Piasa Bird'--a carving high on a cliff below Alton, Iili-- nois, is the work of the original inhabitants of the state. _ Illinois public autility generating stations produced 534,482,000 kil}-- owatt--hours of electricity during Illinois electric light and pow-- KNOW ILLINOIS A VMAVWILIAL/L | .The apple crop of lilinois is esti---- _ * i1 VR lv t v o s hal a million over 1927. 'The com-- -- R Lusk, auconda, mercial movement wil} approxrimate® z Nee i y es' . Mo There were several well sharp ened pencils in one pocket and some notations on paper in another. Among other books he had a copy of the new testament and a small dime savings bank which was emp-- ty. An identification card stated that he was born on February 7, 1908 in Chicago. Several cards issued to him by a labor agency in Chicago indicated that he had been following the vo-- cation of a laborer and that he had worked at various times on a sur-- facing gang, and an extra steel lay-- ing gang on the St. Paul railroad. o'clock-- Sunday morning. The bod<y'._ . =" as immediately wemoved to the .. J. _ ~ /. A.. Treptow 'funoral establishmen t _ °_ -- in Libertyville where an examina» -- é tion was made. by DPr: J. L Taylors 3 county coroneér," * w oP §~ "< Relatives of<the man were kz 3 ted at the Chicago address by .. Treptow, and they came to Liberty-- 3 ed for removal of the body to Chi-- :% cago for burial. ~gs Aspired to be a Writer A search of his clothing disclosed a number of cards, books and other notations on paper in his pocket which gave his name and address and which also indicated that hbe had literary ambitions. On one piece of paper he evident-- ly had started to record his experi-- ences in stealing of rides on trains at the same time defending his ac tions. "I am not the only one who does it," the article stated. track. The skull was fractured and the right shoulder was crushed in-- dicating that he had fallen headfore-- most striking a tie. * found that Miss Kennedy was ser-- ijously injured. Miss Orvis received a severe cut in one knee in which six stitches were taken, while Riggs to his death at a point about one half mile south of the Rondout sta-- tion, some time during the hours of Saturday night. His body was found lying on the right of way along the north bound zhcnuotmchflcloudmy while Miss Florence Orvis, aged 18 years, daughter of Attorney E. Y¥. Orvis of 29 North St. James St., received cuts and bruiles and Riggs Manford, aged 20, driver of the car and Herbert Furner, aged 21 years, both students in LAke Forest uni-- versity, were cut --and bruised. . Blinded in--Fog. The accident occurred when Man-- ford lacking knowledge of the road, blinded by the 'Hghts and Griving in the heavy fog which existed at that ho'tr failed to make the turn in the road. The antomobile went Believed to have fallen asleep while stealing a ride on the top of years, 530 8. Genesee 8t., Waukegan MEETS DEATAIN , _ FALL FROM TOP _ Four persons, two girls and two young men were injured, one ser-- jously, when an automobile in which they were riding went off the pave-- ment at Wedge's corner on Grand avenue, about nine miles west of Waukegan at two o'clock Thursday Miss Violet Kennedy, aged 19 Lake County hospital where it Isadore Marantz, of Chicago Believed to Have Fallen Car Overturns on Curve When Lights Blind Driver in Heavy FOUR INJURED; ONE SERIOUSLY, IN AUTO CRASH __ _ Found by Train Crew * Discovery of the body was mad e OF FREIGHT CAR nags e l $1.50 A YEAR It is last year. Con-- ref E;