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-- ELECTRICCHAR -- -- --FOR CHILD SLAYER MAN ARRESTED AS . ROBBERY SUSPECT FREED BY POLICE A. Tirse . of \Vwkawn Con-- vinced Police that He Had VOL. HIS AUTO WAS USED A. Tirse, aged 39, of 601 May street, was arested Tuesday night at six o'cloek as a suspect iz the . recent robbery: of a Libertyville tailorshop in which clothing to a value of $3,000 was taken, was released this morn ing after having been beld at the po lice station over night. 'Tirse was arresie statemment made by riguez, proprietor of on Market street wh om a charge of | en property. Tirse reported wese EP€BC@ en CC C Tirse reported to the police Jate last week that he bad loaned his car to a Market street man whoue nam» he did not know. This man, he said, had failed to return the car. --_ aaweae AEERERHE CCC EC This same machine was picked up in Chicago by the police. In it were Rodriguez and another -- Waukegan man, together with some of the clothing that bad been stolen at Lib értyville. The license number -- on the tar showed that it belonged to Tirse. At the same time Rodriguez made a statement to the police that the owner of the machine was the man who had robbed the Tibertyville tailorshop and then sold the cloth-- ing to him. B | To the police this morning Tirse Efluvoly denied this. He said that s car had been stglen from Mar Ket street and figured that the man who took it was the thief at Liber tyville. The stolen car still is being held by the police of Libertyville. Armed with a letter from the Waukegan po-- lice sbowing that he is. the ownet Tirse went to Libertyville today -- to Libertyville today to obtain his prop erty. Crown Point, -- Ind., OCl . 19.----<A eriminal court jury which deliberated less than two hours today found Peée-- ter Vergolin!i guillty of first degree murder for the slaying of Anna Tom-- acich after an attack at Gary, Ind., and he was i=mediately sentenced to death in the electric chair. * The verdict and sentence came ex-- actly 20 days after Vergolini lurenq Anna from her home, drove her to a deserted field at the city limits, at-- tacked her, choked her to death and buried her body under some sand. The trial l"hM two days, Vergoll-- ni pleading guilty. His claim that be was crazed by moonshine at the time of the slaying was offered in mitiga-- tion by defense counsel. BRITAIN'S HEIR TO THRONE SPENT SEVERAL HOURS MONDAY IN LAKE COUNTY, No Part in Robbery. rtormmot Wales s1 over here, we haven't LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT But Where Are the Medals? ide by Emaouel . Rod-- fetor of a launch room} treet who is being held of having recelved stol arrested following a esn en en Ei C 0C NC 0 20 1 0 P o 0 2 TCOW F T KO. 42 SECTION TWO LIBERTYVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, t Wales spenids considerable of his time on the lUnks, D1 we haven't heard of him winning any medals on his gol, Oct. . 15--A FIERY CROSS AT _ LION PROVES A REAL SENSATION Hundreds Gather to Watch FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLED was taken just after ho had killed his mother and sister in a fAt of rage with an ax on the family farm near Cordova, Tenn. His name is Aquilla Redditt, He is 28.. in Zien Tuesday night when a fam-- ing eross was placed opposite the Meth@dist church on property owned by Wilbur Glenn Voliva. The cross, standing perhaps fifteen feet high, was wrapped with which-- had been saturated with oil. It was ignited about eight o'clock. In a remarkably short time a crowd of several hundred péople had gathered about, attracted by the unusual sight. Someone sent a call to the Zion authorities and in a few minutes.the Zion fire department had responded and extinguished the flames which had practically consumed the cross, The Zion police are conducting an investigation but h"'f been unable to learn the perpetrators of the act. They threaten to make arrests it they can locate the gullty parties. They are wondering whether or not thero is any connection between the burning of the cross and the fact that a national lecturer of the Ku Klux Klan is advertised to speak at the Zion -- Methodist -- church _ on Thursday night of this week. h A real sensation was precipitated Blazing Cross Opposite Methodist Church. study It TYVILLE INDEPENDENT FOX LAKE ENJOYS FEVER HEAT FROM wILD GUN FIGHT Warrant Charges Frank Koz-- oski Staged Miniature Bat-- tle Saturday. PUT FIVE MEN TO ROUT Fox 1P¥fe, the birthplace of thrills worth while, breaks forth today with another super--thriller that bas set the unatives buzzing in anticipation of a new criminal action that prom-- ises to-- afford them winter enter-- tainment in the courts. _ Charles D. Goodman, a highly re spected citizen in the community, Saturday became the target for a fusillade of shot while he was work-- ing in the gravel pit near the village. Frank Kozoski, described to States Attorney A. V..Smith as a bad actor, is wanted by the sheriff. A warrant charging him with assault with in-- teat to kill has been issued, accord-- ing to Mr. Smith. _' Goodman, with four other mep, it was learned, were working at the grave! pit Saturday. The man, whom they knew as Frank drove up in & Ford coupe. Some of the vorknhc& shouted at him and he haited _ car and alighted. j Frank, it was reported, started to ward them with a gun in a manner that is alleged to have been threat-- ening. Goodman's men took refuge back of gravelpiles while they all deployed and stirted tb retreat, At this point, it is said, the man. fired mat one of the men behind »a gravel pile, or attempted to fire. The gun clicked, but the shot was not ex-- ploded it is said. _ * Goodman had taken to his «hoels by this time and was some 40 yards in --the direction of safety. The man is said to have taken up the chase, tiring twice. Neither discharge found a mark. Goodman took refuge in his home and the man is alleged to have fol-'- and the man is Aalleéged iq HAT® i7 lowed him there and even started to enter the doorway. ¢ EXPECT RULING _ _ ON GASOLINE TAX Indianapolis Ind., Oct. 15. --Decision of the Indiana supreme court on the constitutionality of the law enacted by thel923 legislature placing a State tax of two cents a gallon on gaso-- line, was expected within--a fow days when the court, after hearing oral ar-- guments today took _imder udvlumzn( y Ee en P ie ie C ds gt the litigation brought by Bruce Ga-- fill, of South Bend, to mandate Rotb ert Bracken, auditor of state, from collecting the tax which amounts to almost a balft million dollars. -- . State's Two Capitals * Connecticut had two capitals, Hart-- ford and New Haven, during the years 1701--1873. P . eate . "" s +9 oo duiig 4e Ahe s ar Lork and Lady Mounibatton, coustca ot King George, aro making the trip ,wmmmmwuu Prince o Wales, Cousins Circulation Greater than other Wez'slivs is County Combined Lake. County's Big Weekly _ WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN REV. HIGHT AND MRS. SWEETIN IN-- DICTED, IS REPORT Mt.. Vernon, HiL., Oct. 15. --Reverend Lawrence Hight, unfrocked minister of Ina, and Mrs, Elsie Sweetin, con-- fesseqg "love pact'" poisoners of their respective mates, have been indicted by the Jefferson county grand : jury according 'to' rumors emanating from the grand :jury room, just before court adjourned at noon until to morrow . The jury will formally report to Judge J. C. Kaern of Carmi, who is bholding the coufrt sometime to-- mortow Since the jury was convened Mon day morning, it has been examining scores oi witzso=ses in the Hight case, States Aitorney Frank Thomp son said. Court was adjourned today because Judge Kasrna was forced to return home to attend to pressing business. This reécess will enable the stenog-- raphers to complete their voluminous true bills which are said to have been voted by the grand jury against the minister and his paramour. NEGRO CONFESSES TO SLAYING MAN Bt. Louis, Oct. 15.----Frank Smith, 31, negro who last night confessed to taking part in the murder of W. L. Funkhouser, 70, a solicitor for the Mattoon, Tllinois, TJTournal--Gazette, on September 30, in Shelby County, Iil» Jnois, was turned over to authorities at Shelbyville, Ills., last night, Chief of retectives Elias Hoagland -- an-- nonuced today. Smith, who was picked several days ago for investigntion, told how he and two other negroes, one of uiom was Davis, he' asserted, club bed the old man to death when they met him on a lonely road about nine milées east of Shelbyville. They hid the bedy in some bushes, Smith con-- tesed, and drove Funkhouser's auto-- mobile away. Ibs was this automobile, | chiet Hogland said, that caused Smith's downfall as it was found in his possession. Sheriff Harry Riley of Shelbyville, took Smith back to Illinois. _ Gas City, Ind... Oct. 15.--The loss in the fire which cost the ~life of Lewis J. Baldwin, 53, who was en-- gaged in the coal business here 20 years, was placed at more than $1,000 today as investigation was made of the explosion which occurrel while Baldwin was filling the gasoline tank of a motor truck, setting lfire to ;Blalewh'l clothing and the truck KILLED AS GAS ___ TANK EXPLODES shed. The Prince of Whies is a cregulat fellow on board ship. He atwayi ean be found vight out on d@ecH mingling _ with the other passongers ARboard Ship T¥ --A ' 6 ;; a E _LLXOLS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1924 R. F. Chapina to E. M. Laing WD $1.00'° Lot 6 and 10, Oak Knoll E. h. Laing's Subn Of --Lot 36, Deerfleld E. M. Laing and H. L. Fromelt and w1f, jts. WD $700. Lot 10, Oak Knoll, E. M. Laing's Subdn, Deerfield Twp. Mathilda Wilke to W. Klepper. WL $300 St. $.50. Pt of Sec 10, Ela Town ship. . § W.--B. Ingvoldstaa and wfi to S. K. Iunnd. WD $10. St. $1.00. Lot 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, Pleasant View Sub, -- W. B. Ingvoldstad and wf to S. K. Lund. Deed $10. St. $.50. Lot 70, Long LakeSnbn of pt of NE qr of Sec 24 Wauconda T'wp. _ _ _ | _ _ >_ __ W. B. Ingvoldstad and wf to S. K. Lund. Deed $10. St;: $1.00. Lot 7, Long Lk Subn, Wauconda Twp. W. B. Ingvoldstad fAnd wf to S. K. Lund. WD $10. St. $1.00. Lots 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, Pleasant View Sub. Sec 24, Wauconda Twp. P. Resheske and wf to J. Kutzler and wf, jts. WD $10. St. $.50. N ar of Lot 35, Lot 36, bik 2, Nixon's Addn to Waukegan. C. J. True to A. MacArthur WD gle.SquotNquundNEqrol agar of Sec. 26, Libertyville. J. P. Devine and wf et al to A. Mac Arthur WD $37,050. St. $18.50. Pt of 'l'b'..fine University of Towa co--eds came back to school this year in a cinoe. They paddled nearly 200 milles, camping at nights. From th¢ front to the back of the boat they are: Gladys Brooker, Omaha; Josephine . Buis, Doone. Ia.. and Cecelia Kloek, also of Doone. HIS NIBS BROKEN "WING." -- First photograph of tambling Prince of Wales since his recent accident in steeplechase practice run when he suffered broken collar bone. Note his «m is in alina Cint'l Newsrsel) OcToBERr 11, 1924. They Paddled to School Bec 26, Libertyville.. Also pt of Sec. 21. _ -- on df ap o us B. H. Milier and wf to W. H. Ge-- hinge WD §$10. St. $2.50. Lot 22, W. J. Mundee's Subdn of pt of Lot 5, Sec 16, Libertyville. _ H. R. Holmgren and wf to H. Kell-- ing. WD $10. St. $7.09. Pt of Sec. 31, E. Deerfleld Twp. k W. F. MacDonald to F. B. Williams. Deed. $2620. Lot 6, MacDona'ld Subu of Sec 19, Deerfleld Twp. _ H. Denzel and wf to J. J. Peddle and wf. WD $10. St. $7.00. W 100 ft of Lot 4, Highlaad Park. feal Margaret White Denman and Jesse 8. Denman and al to P. L Hook WD $10. St. &1.50. E 100 acs of NW gr Sec 24, Warren Twp. C t C. P. Austin and wf to J. L. Walden. wWD $1.00 St. $2.50. Lots 11 and 12 in L. O. Wainwrights ReSubn of Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 of Sunderlins Subn, Sec 28, Waukegan. 2s L. N. Hall to Laura G. Hummer. QCD $10. St. $1.00. S 25 1t of Lot 3 and N 100 ft of Lot 4, Highland Park. J. W. Hipwell to Sadie Lenore Fredrickson WD $1.00 St. $2.50. Lot 7, Blik 63, Zion City Subu, See 21, Zion. 6 J. H. Clendenin and wf to W. D. White and wf, jis, WD $10. Lot 5, Blk C3, North Addition to Lake SHENANDOAHAS _ . DELAYED AGAIN North Island, San Diego, Cal., Oct. 15.--Following receipt from _ San Francisco of word that bad weather conditions still prevailed in the north the navy dirigible Shenandoah, sched-- uled to leave hbhere this morning for Camp-- Lewis, Wash., was delayed another 24 hours, it was announced at 5:30 a.*m., by the officer of the day at the naval air station here. rh.mmuvw.mmm.n'unmnm be is in action on the courts. Over in they say he aw mean racket "a M He Swings Wicked Racket $1.50 PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE LAKE CO. REPORTS FIVE NEW CASES _ OF SCARLET FEVER Only One of These Cases Was from Waukegan; 187 New Cases in State. THREE CASES SMALLPOX Lake County reported five ef the 187 new cases of Scarlet fever in the siate reported to the state Jepart-- ment of public heaito at Springfield during the last week, according to dispatches received today. One of these five cases was in Waukegan. Lake County also reported three of the forty--two new cases of amalipoxr reported from the entire state last week. Tho numbver of cases reported from Lake County is considerably smaller tx usual and would ternd to indi-- c that the situation is clearing up. Health departments in Waukegan and elsewhere through the county are doing their best to eradicate all con-- tagious diseases and their efforts ap-- pear to be--having a marked effect. _The following dispatch from Spring-- field shows the condition of contagi-- ous diseases throughout the state;: Scarlet fever is claiming -- an» in-- creasing number of victims in Hli-- nois each week judging from reports of the state department of public of the state department of public health. This week a total of 187 new cases were reported in 'the state, against 165 last week which was an incréase of about half a hun-- dred over the week before. 1 Cook county had nearly. halt oft the state's scarlet fever, with 95 cases reported. LaSalle county had 10 cases, Kane 9, Lake 5 and St. Clair 5. -- ao ts § Smalipox situation is unimproved, the weeks report showing 42 new cases in the state indicates.. Of these Cook county had 5, Carroll county 30, Lake county 3 and Winnebago coun« ty 3. he M cbd + 0 Other contageous diseases in the state and the number of new cases reported for the weel> include; diph-- theria 117; typhoid fever 51, poliomy-- elitis 21, pneumonia 183, infiuenza 5, syphilis 160, gonorrhea 309, whoop» Ing cough 116, tubsereulosis 365, méeasles 38. ASK $11,000 FROM HIGHLAND PARK MAN © Not a B«¢d Idea Be Interested in the "how" of yome job cnd the "How much?" will take caroe 06f itself.~=--Exchange. ; t A