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P"WATES ms . NOL. XXXI.----NO., 42. Walter 'Walkowski, --26 years old, § Ubland utreet,: Chicago, and Max Ms#,° 31 years old, 415 Siegel street, io of C made ~signed . con-- wlons to the police late esday : afternoon, of their lempted robbery of the J. H. Pe-- kon clothing store on: the morn-- g of October 3. These confes on mm in %'M of gist Chief Isaac Lyon, Captain homas Kennedy and Desk Sergeant v'_f E!u.y repudiated the con-- sion when eramined by Assistant ites Attorney 8. H.-- Block, assert-- § that it was made under duress. e charged" that he made it after i brow beaten by --the police. ;._xfllm his arms to the assist-- ht prosecutor. They were black and According to Stets this condi-- on was brought about through be-- mg flogzed with a plece of rubber :. _ He also exhibited a discolored _ he ralsed hbis right hand. Walkowskt, on the othef hand, de-- that the confession he made P ~was 'truth in all respects. ' ~LIBERTYVILLE INDEPENDENT _ ays-- He Confessed to Avoid Further Coercion by Police-- Department. "t""eonfessed to the '= ';i': he denied having par-- iston told of meeting Stets in ko last Sunday morning. Stets, a says, told bim he was coming r 'Waukegan to "pull a job" 'and iked. him to come along. He said iey came here, drove around all y and as soon as it was dark en-- red the a"~y back of the Peterson ore. -- He says -- he remained-- on rfi while Bmurtod to break tha rear win: . Told of their frest --and escape of Stets. Recording to Walter. Walkowski, ie first robbery of the stqre was Itted by his brother, Frank 1, allas Frank Casper, alias _ Rose, and Albert Peribersg, of whom are under arrest in would rather go to prison than beaten any more, but so help me pank .Walkowski and Albert Perl-- irg, knowing at the time they had en stolen. Ha says that ten of ie suits bore the label of the 'local othing store but were torun out by im to prevent identification. _ He Be paid $12 apiece for the suits, tC of $950. 2 | "I knew they, were stolen, but I eided to. take a chance," Siegel Ad the assistant -- prosecutor. Bloge!l was taken to Chicago by ) local police, accompanied by J. 'i erson. and Dr. H. J. McKean, Wfietors of thie» local store. He BC : contrc t the two men being o1d |. DF . the m' police 'and his tatetment, it is hoped, may cause ient to confess their participation. U «are: hopcful olneonn'"ao the clothing stolen s *# 'An effort will be made to induce i Chicago polite to turn Walkow-- and [Perlman over 'to 'them so At they can be prosecuted in Wau-- fan. Both men are alleged, be oatied convicts. Warrants tor.:s.ui west have boen loft. in M} | the local authorities so that If not possible to hold r on. 'the itges there they can be re--arrest« * bonds of $5,000 --each. t on a charge of having robb-- 'a clothing store in that city. % signed -- confession --of ~Stetz out the principal facts in Wal-- | statement _ but when it me to repeating the same confes-- on to the assista~t states attorney, * repudiated it. * Sam Siegel, Chicago, proprietor of tailor shop where the Waukegan alice recovered 71 suits stolen from &il'etm store, told the police "that he purchased the suits of UND TO-- GRAND -- JURY (hs. Kihien Shelly, geq 95 yeark, m ' mjen sar oo t 3oe FARMERN ARRESTED er son in Wadsworth. She 1 Anl ed to have been the oldest f _NOM1 Mn n nase 000| ~ > ---- INSCHOOL ACT f Curry Mra:;: Louis |-- Rrnost Pott, a realding at E dy'n:om. ll.r'q.' benanis C "mo.."m u?n':y' on .u,._a"cin. Funeral was |dren u_qbd.~zlo was arraigned TO LOCAL POLICE Walter Taylor. They were removed to the county tion and werse bound to the iry in bonds of $10,000 each ST RESIDENT : OF COUNTY DIES LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT *"* Stets swore be rearrest:|| How pbople who drive Phey-- ate un-- M'qn aware of the ch. that . the speed Himt is six m _« : ~]an hour. when around an structed " corner? . feature . _ |the stato. law pointed. out w _|day by m&lfl Hatry -- war mruia|strom as one --is most terson has been missing for TWo J & Joseph Oltusky, ~x professignal bondsman, is surety in this case. He spent a lot of dough hiring de-- tectives in an effort to find Pe ~There is considerable speculation as to the reason why the bond has ndt been ordered forfeited long ago. Bids for 'the construction of a bridge over the Des Plaines river on the Rockland road have just been tabulated and all the figures are above the engineer's -- estimate 6f $19,717.98. The «Bids for a large amount of grading, however, < wére under the estimate.' * * The bridge bids were as, followg: _ A.~C. Jensen, Racine, $20,431.55. ° ) Garvey -- & Weyenberg Const, Co., Appleton, . Wis.," $21,791.170. * ALL BIDS ARE TOO _ MIGH ON ROCKLAND ROAD BRIDGE J0 Coun of Highways Tagdati'sm&ids for g'idce GRADING UNDER ESTIMATE Chernus .Consgt. Co., Minneapolis, Minn., $23,466.63. _ 000 _0 0 _ Triangle Const. Co., Hobart, Ind., $23,058.20. ho 4 2o ie ue sn Root Bro#., Waukegan, $24,570.10. J. P. Cullen & Son, Janesville, Wis., $25,738.10. . . los'h. bids for grading were as fol-- $:00 C $ Triangle Const. Co.. $23,251.60. Root Bros., $21,237.47. Dufftey® & -- Jutten, Milwaukes, §$22,2714.16. _ 1. $ h k ks $18,861.36. .. How "m vm; d;ln'n M aware of the fact :a the speed limt. is six miles m'm around an ob-- structed un.% feature of the ~stato: law . pointed. out to-- ::". by m&m Harry Ab} as one --is most® fre-- strom as one quently -- violated, NEARLY EVERYBODY ~ VIOLATES RD. LAW Finley. Bros., Janegville, Wis., {;mmm-i.w'm;m'm.mm have brought her in Londog.. She has opened a cymnasium and 'caters to esclusive trade. +7 T. ranng! pcy ---- and Grading. /'dlal'h ' LIBERTYYVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1923. The three: soldiers, Edward Holt, Ra Thomas and Frank Ulickey, wore mrrested by a Milwaukee detective when they endeavored. to sell the stolen car to a garage man for $400. The garage man became suspicious about the saie and engaged the men in --conversation while he caused the police to be notified. . The fourth man escaped but Inas-- much as hbe-- will hfi' to return to Fort Sheridan or charged with desertion it is felt that little difi-- .culty will be encountered in estab-- lishing his identity. t the police of Milwaukee who arrost-- ed the three soldiers a rourth made Una --Noewell, -- <twoand--a--half--year old daughter. of Mr. and Mrsg, Frank I» ~Newell of South Sheridan road, was scalded so badly Sunday, that she was pot expected to liveo. 'The child pulled a pailful of boiling wa-- ter over her body accidentally, The mother had been cleaning chickens and the. pail of scailding water hap BABE SCALDED; MAY DIE FROM BURNS of the child. _--She was rushed to the Victory Memorial bospital where the deép burns were @ressed by Dr. Benja-- min Goldberg. Deep burns mark the head, chest, left arm and left leg. Although her case was serious, the Ernest Potts, Grayslake, was given another OApportunity by Justice: Her-- vey Coulson today to send his c¢hil-- dren ~to school, County -- Superin-- tendaent of Schdol; T. A. Bimpson in signing the complaint, held that Potts had been kreping the children out of school in violation of the ;mu law. -- oPtis® admitted that 'he had the boys working for a farmer lthm at the rate of & Aollar and last reports that were available be-- fore going to press was that the little girl was in .a "fair" condition. POTTS IS GIVEN . . ANOTHER CHANCE a half a day. . He declared that he would send the children back> to school. John Witosek, who resides on the Stolzman farm near Libertyville, will lot the threshing "nu go thirsty next year, ey came fost hi crof ns yeat ns tried ts i drisk reatoned trom' is sute thia & , a argument sounded® so !':oqd to & THRESHERS® NIP . :. ~~ COSTS $100 FINE to be placed within -- reach TN Thursdiy -- that Circulation Greater than Lake County' s Big _ Weekly BIG BARN BURNS; ORIGIN A MYSTERY; wIND FOILS FLAMES A large barn on the C. N. Rich-- ards farm, formerly known as "the #1st street Farm of Zion," was de> stroyed Thursday night about 9:30 o'clock. The fire originated in the east part of the structure gnd had the wind been from mothA' direc-- tion, especially from the north or northeast, several other large farm buildings as well as the house would probably have been edstroyed. As C..N--~Richards Property at West Limits of Zion Sus-- tain Severe Loss Thurs. MANY BUILDINGS MENACED it was the wind was from the south-- west and carried the flames away from the other buildings. A small amount of machinery was destroyed including an old touring éar. Next to the structure burfied was a .large barn filled with oats and but a--{ew yards from that were several stacks of bhay all of which had . they ignited would have caused a> most disastrous . blaze. -- A short distance. away {from the haystack was a barn of unusual size filled with implements and farm products. _ Mr. and Mrs. Richards and fam-- fy . were in bed when neighbors came --running to their home and told them that their barn was afire, Word was sent to the Zion depart-- ment and the full equipment was soon on the job but the shortage of water in that distant part of the city made it rather difficult to do much with the flames with the ex-- ception that the firemen were able to check their progress toward the oat--filled portion of the farm barns. : According to Richards his place was fally covered by insurance. He has no idea how the fire atarted. DEPUTY ARRESTS _ _-- 30 AFTER CARS > ALMOST COLLIDE T I FFAN Y IS-- OFFICER -- Kenneth MeCormick, delivery driv: er for tho Hoentges ~meat market, Lake Forest, was releaged <in bonds of $100 late yesterday by> Justice Hervey Coulson ~on a chargo of speeding brought by Deputy Lester Tiffany.> Tiffany declared that Mc-- Cormick came out of a side street and nearly struck his car. He--then speeded past the deputy's machine. Hentges came and signed the bond, refusing to pay the fine of $15, and the' hearing was set for Oct. 23. When Justice Coulson asked Mo Cormick it he were related to the Harvestor Kings the lad replied that the family had all gone to Europe and left him to drive the truy" Hentges argued in the sheriff's of-- fice that everyore wore a star and he said he was of the opinion at first to tell his driver not to &ppear as it-- was probably a fake officer. He has changed his mind. -- HIGHLAND PARK -- | WAR VET DIES Capt. Otho Herron Morgan, civil war veteran, cofounder of the Chi-- cago Varnish e?::ny and a resi-- dent of Highland k for fifty years, died today at his homte from pneu-- monia, He was 85 years old. Gago's Lake has just ,been stock-- ed with 150,000 finger length biack bass from the state fish hatchery at Spring Grove. This is the third con-- secutive' season that the lake has Capt. Morgan was born Aug. 11, 1838, at Lawrenceburg, Ind., and served three years with the Union army during the war of the rebel-- lion, taking part in the battles of Chickamauga and in the march to Atlanta. _ been stocked. with basa and noxt ;'".1'\:""""'!'.' next yoar 'Attorney . Riapgh J. will u':"mm "hhnn!(n'h' fl pulling them out with his fTy rod. He is sruvived by two sons and three daughters and was a 324 de-- gree Mason, a member of the Loyal legion and the Union League club, and for fifty years a member of the Highland Park Prosbyterian church, 150,000 BASS ~-- _ PUT INTO LAKE Edward J. Lehman of Lake Villa, Thursday tilod sult in 'cireuit court against the Seillas Brothers Dairy Company for clloot:' through his at-- torney . Runyard, claiming al'm" due him for reat of a E. J. LEAMAN SUES *# SELLAS DAIRY CO. loss was possibly"about $3,000. of Lake Grass Lake, Oct. 15.--Frits Hein-- rich, aged 35, was drowned in. the Fox River Sunday evening about 8: 30 oclock, the accident taking place not far from "Shorty' Shobens island home in Grass Lake. "SHORTY" SHOBIN'S "MGR." DROWNS IN FOX RIVER SUN The body was recovered this morn-- ing about noon by Jack--@'Connor. . It was not lifted from the water but was tied to ths pier pending arrival of "the coroner. * Fritz Heinrich U'puts in Boat Not Far from Famous Sho-- Heinrich had been managing the Shoben place since the-- latter was sent to jail--in Waukegan for violat-- ing the prohibition law. He was out in 1 boat Sunday evening and the belief is that in turning aroudd, or changing seat.,;, he upset it, couldnt swim and went down before help ar-- fived. ° ; BODY For over a--year Heinrich worked about the Ray Pryganzi place at Grass Lake and went to Shobens when it appeared that unless somebody help-- ed --"Shorty'" out, his place would be closed for keeps. f -- dragging for the body and worked all Sunday evening without results but new methods. were followed this morning and O'Connor was rewarded by fAnally getting hoid of the body. The body of the victim was--re covered today and Deputy Coroner Edward Conrad left for the scene about noon today to hold the inquest. FENCE-- CENTER OF WADSWORTH JANGLE --~ The courts have.no respect for agoe. Nicholas F. Lux of Wadsworth, found that out Saturday when'he posted a $2%00 bond --with a Waukegan justice to be released on a charge of dis orderiy -- conduct. ~. Mr. Lux stated that he was more than 70 years of age. ~Hoe also said he had never been in a--law suit in his life, or had a warrant served on him. : Ho%wud V. Lux, and John H. TLux arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. 'The position of a fence started the argument. Justice The . Highland _ Park -- hospital, claimed to be the most. modern and best equipped institution of its kind between Evanston and Milwaukee, is nearing ~completion. Already --the third floor' is furnished and occu-- pled. The lower floor will be com-- pleted --and {furnished in a --few --days. This hospital and grounds, costing $250,000, was built--not by taxation of any description--but entirely, by subscription. HOSPITAL ADD'N. . / ~ ~ AT H. PK. DONE The supremeo court of lilinois has fbeen called upon to settle the valid-- ity of and ordinance passed by the Vil-- lage board of Lake Zurich which lev-- les a tax on various lines of busi-- _ness. The tax has met with consid-- erable opposttion. Coulson will end it Oct. 19 and put the fence where be thinks it belongs. LAKE ZURICH TAXING MEASURE UP FOR TEST Frederick and Elmer Deschaver of Lake Zurich conduct an i¢e cream parlor in that willage. They refused to pay the license fee or tax levied by the city and pudgment was 'ob-- tained in justice court. The matter was appealed to the circuit court at Waukegan and a judgment of $60 in favor of the village and against the defendants was returned. Saturday there was submitted to the supremée court oi Springfield on briefs and without oral argument the caso appeasied by the Doschau-- ers from .the circuit court. . The matter was taken under: advisement by t&l'lpl'fllo court and a ruling will bw@ Yeturned at a later date. $110,000 IS PAID _ -- POR RESIDENCE Robert --J. Dunham hak transferrod the rosidential property at Crabtree Lane: and Sheridan road, Lake For-- ast, located on nine l6ts to DeFor-- tat Hulburd, for a considbration of Pucedas. Mr: froribura har. been . -- Mr. Muriburd . has" been Uving . on this property for some --Resldents of Lake Zurich arse much intereésted in the outcome & the case for it is a test which wili determine whether or not the vil-- lage bas a right to impose such a tax. There has been considerable controversy over the mattoer and the average resident of the . village would like to have the mattor sot-- ted -- definitely 'so that . they will know exactly whore they stand. ben Island Resort. region RECOVERED WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUNK * STATE ASSN. TREAS. Lake County Official, --L. A. Hendee, is Re--elected to Im-- portant Office in the State LEW HENDEE AGAIN TREAS. STATE CO. ~\CLERKS ASSN. It isn't considered good conduct to marry another iman's wife, it was decided Tuegday by Androw Jordan, naturalization examiner, and Judgeo Cl ~C. ~Edwards, in ~the ~circuit court at Waukegan, in the case of Dan Vojda, 112 Fourteenth street, North Chicago, and therefore he was led citizenship. i Examiner Jordan of Chicago had {obtained an -- affidavit that Vojda lund the woman who has been living {with him as his wife for several years went to Racine and obtained a marriage license, and that he was present when she stated under oath that she was not married, and that he knew she was not telling the truth. * .. Lew A. Hendee on Thursday was re--elected treasurer of the State As-- sociation of County clerks--in a joint convenrtion . held at Decatur for three ~days last week. ¥** is Re--elected Treasurer of State Organization; Local Officials Return. SEVERAL TO -- SPRINGFIELD The other associations holding: their state convention <at the same. time were ~the County -- Recorders Circuit Clerks, Recorders of Deeds, Probate Clerks, -- County' Auditors, and County Supervisors. -- _ --Among those who returned Thurs-- day night were Lewis O. Brockway, county recorder--and circuit clerk, A. G. Maether, of Prairle View, Ira E. Pearsall and Roy Bracher, county treasurer. and deputy, respectively. Dan Vodja . of North Chicago Turned Down by Natural-- ization Examiner. -- MARRIED ANOTHER: Mm m9 DE' ' NIED CITIZENSHIP NOT --"GOOD CONDUCT" The examiner also had informa-- tion that her first husband had followed the couple to where they were living in Ohio. > t Judge Edwards denied the petition and informed Vojda he would have to wait five years before he could file a new one. His case was dis missed "without prejudice.' ' HENRY DROWNING WAS ACCIDENT AL Clerks Association. inggest over the body of Fritz Henry, atanager of the "Shorty" Sho-- ben place at Grass Lake, developéd last night that he had met his death by accidental drowning. Th&--inquest was held at the Wetzel and Patorson morgue by Coromer J. L. Taylor, of LibertyviHMe, _ Witneases testified that Honry had been. drinking and that he went to a boat In the river. He splashed about with one oAr until he fell over-- board, and then a friend went to his rescue but was unable to savoe him. * Hmm- to the city wére to the that there was a possibil-- Ity --of foul play in the drowning. Waukegan Lodge No. 78, A, F. & A. M. has accepted an invitation from the Antioch Masonic lodkge to put on their third degree in that village on Woednesday night of this 'week. . A large delegation of local Masons will make the trip in autos. mrvfll be sorved with supper Arst and this will _ GO0 TO ANTIOCH large delegation of local Masons will make the trip in autos.: They will be sorved with supper Arst and this will b'o followed . by m%-n;h: utnu nni, & $1.50 PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE Another daring robbery was per-- petrated early today when practically all the stock of men's clothing was hauled away from the Hook & Com-- pany store at Grayslake, the esti-- mated loss being $7,000. 'The robbery was committed after midnight. Entrance was gained by eutting &A hole~" in the glass of the front door and springing the night latch. The robbers then were able to open a back door. . There they backed up. a truck--and Toaded it with : practically~-- everything -- that could be readily disposed of. ; $1,000 ROBBERY ~> AT GRAYSLAKE; CLEAN OUT STORE SHERIFF® SEEKING CLUES A check--up made today by the proprietors shows that the robbers got about 40 suits of clothing, three dozen overcoats, a number of boys' suits, scores of silk and other high priced shirts, belts, neckties, men'a and boy's caps. There was an entertainment at Grayslake during the eevning by the Eastern Star, and a number\of persons attending passed the store after midnight but failed to notice anything wrong. It is therefore be-- lieved that tha rohbery was com-- mitted atier that time. A2 SBheriff: Abhistrom was called early today and is making a checkup of perts also are to be called into the case in an'effort to obtain a clue. The robbers cleaned out about everything of v,hle. + f --The robbery ' is similar to that which took place at the J. H. Peter-- son & Co. store in Waukegan sey-- eral weeks ago, and it is believed an -- organized I'xu of© robbers is working in county in co--oper-- working 'in Lake county in cooper-- ation with "a "fense" iu Chicago.-- Deputy + Sherift «Delbert A. Weale declared today that it may become necessary 'to Ooperate the. sheriff's office in two shifts, as under the present conditions in --many' cagses lthe deputies are compelled to work all day and most of the-- night. . ditiong}-- safeguards to . prevent : a wave 'of #obberies which appears to be coming as winter approaches. | The appeal case of the Chicago, Mil-- waukesand St. Paul railroad com-- pany from the county court of Lake County which had given judgment against the company and in favor of Ira E. Pearsall, county treasurer and ex--officio county collector of Lake County on road and bridges and other taxes, was submitted to the supreme court today on briefs and without oral arguments. 4. Pss X 873 loads of Clothing from Hook & Company Store. Tae Hook & Company robbery in the largest which has taken place in <the county in many months &nd the. sherift's .office is planning ad-- ST. PAUL SEEKS TO EVADE PAYING Take an Appeal to Supreme Court on Raid and Bridge --"and Other Taxes. _ The case is one wherein the rail-- road company contends that it is not obliged to pay certain portioned of the tax levied against it, principally the road and bridge tax. -- -- _ _ Regardless of the decision of the supreme court in the matter the issue is not a vital ong for the amount of tax involved is not &rle. Thus while the county will put up a formal fight It is believed that a Mttoryn'gt will not be waged as would be case if the sum involved wias considerably bigger. 0 § DECIDED & precedent ~ The case is an "nteresting one how-- ever and the outcome will be watched with interest because it will establish Fastened by a 75 foot clothesline to the end of a concrete pier at the edge of the James Porter estate in Hubbard Woods, the body of a well dressed woman was found floating in the lake late Friday by the Win-- notka f'""' Drawn over the bhead and hiding ber face, which was bruilsed and discolored, was a wo man's white silk stocking. : m FIND BODY OF _ _ woOAN IN LAKE AT WINNETKA SHORE From a notobook in a a&" coat found near the end of A and from the initials on & ' friendship ring which encircled third finger of; the vietim's . the police woere led to believe m mame was Anna A. King. ~=-- . _ At the end of m.} quiry the polica wore to determine whother they w fronted with a murder y an unusual -- suleide. -- lt "It is my beliet that the i hn en ¥ * OF ITS TAX Away Truck-- Finger print cx-- COURT