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XXXII--1 SMALL REVEALS JONES PARDON REC-- ORD IN STATE Governor Replies to Destruct-- ive : Criticism -- and-- Invites Constructive Variety. _ In a statament 'ssued today, Gov-- Bmail replies to what hoe terms "slanders and assaults in the primary ecampaign, and--which have been re peéeated by the Democratic nominee for govermor," and hurls at Judsge Norman L. Jones a fow pages from that jurist's record on the #ubject of pardous and paroles. C PROVES FACTS BY RECORD In the statement letters of recom-- mendation ~for clemency, written to the paroles board by Judge Jones are quoted in-- full Amgg the cases in which the Judge intervened tho fol-- dered three persons, Charles Ezard, Everett Crain and the latter's 4--yoar-- old child, the latter being sbot while knoeling pver its father's prostrate body. ~Jones sat as trial: judgeand MHenry was convicted of manslaughter for killing Ezard, the sentence being .one year to life Honry then 'pleaded m to manslaughter: for killing and the child. -- The sentences were fixed to run consecutively, one after another. Within eleven months étter. Henry was received at the Thester: penitentiary, Judgo : Jones wrote the pardon board and Mlz: board, _saying "there 'secemed to lack of motive for the crimes," and recommending that ho be paroled. . After considering the case for several months the board entered an order *passing Henry on his firwtneo for twonty actual years. -- Sipce 19%5, the statement says, many drives have been made for a pardon for Henry. lowing aro cited: & John W. Henry, central figure in the celebrated "Woodson tragedy" in Morgan county in' 1914.-- Heapry mur-- Jefferson Wells murdered 'a young negro on the streets of Sprifgficld in May, 1915. Wells previousiy-- had been : sentenced . to ;Jolict-- for murdar, mm.mmtvatu«ol that date. ~Judge Jones wrote the pa-- r8lgs board from Springfield. in De-- cember, 1921, apcording to The state~ ment, saylng --ho had. known Wolls since boyhood and "aside from_the two convictions for homicide, be has m life. Ho comes 3 In .Greans 'cgunty. where 1 Hyre. e board -- declined to accept . the a. recommenda-- olhn and 'dhm in the Ches-- ter penitentiary. e o e e Ctee Others refeérred to are the John An-- derson 'Incest cass, also from Sanga-- mon county.«Jones was the trial judge and the late C M.'Mortimer, state's attorney, -- ~Circumstances surround-- ing the case, the statement says, were "so revoiting that it could not be carriéd in the public print.'"--And-- erson served his sentonce. despite the fact that Judgo Jones recom-- mended his release fourteen months after his incarceration. 'Eg'..fl..'"' Ellsworth Pires is another case cited from Morgan county. The paroles board now hnas a lilG 0% PP ** cations for clemency in his case. In the file is a bitter protest from the state's attorney, Carl E. Robimson, of Jacksonville. Judge Jones, according to records quoted in the "statement, wrote a letter in which he said he did not desire to opopse commutation. There is a long: list of simfilar in-- stances incerporated in the statement concerning which the governor makes this comment: "In the light of Judge Jones' record in these cases, why talk about the Cusicks and their sentence of one year in the house of correction? Pa-- role under the laws of Iilinois u_ not an executive act, but delegated to the Department of Welfare, of which the parole board is a dtvision. The board's personnel has not changed materially in seven years. <Con-- structive criticlem is welcome. Out of it comes betterment to the public welfare -- Destructive criticism tears down and destroys. Many have tried to walk into public favor over the Bbleached bones of unfortunates. Each have falled, It cannot be :done." RELATIVES ONLY : ---- AT LOEB FUNERAL Chicago, Oct. 29.--Funeral. services for Albert H. Loeb, vice--president. of Sears, Roebuck and Co., wore held here today while his son, Richard, tolled in the shop of Jolict state pen-- itentiary, an exile from 'the rites be-- cause his family feared his prosence 'v'v:'nu bring too much distasteful pub-- ty. * _ Only close relatives attended the services and police were on duty out-- side the housea to keep the idiy curt-- ous from congregating.> Dr. Gerson Levi of Temple Isizh Israal, oficiated. DESPONDENT, Horrin, I!Is., Oct. 29----Joe Sowerly, forty, formerliy of Thayer, NL, fit-- teen miles south of Springtield, shot and killed himself in the kitchen otf his :.oero' nrro." ":'t:nbody was 'ship« mcv'-lo :ol"hnd to have um act Not all deoad towns werse "lald out" KILLS HIMSELE LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT NO. 4 ------ BEOCHON.TWO ---- LIBERTYYVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINQIS, THURSDAY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1924 has a file of appli-- HIGHT DENIED _ _ CHANGE OF VENUE Mt, Vernon, Ills., O 39.--Circuit Judge H. C. Kern today oyertruled the motion for a change of venue tor Roverent Lawrence M;. Hight un-- fesed wite poigoner, in his sanity hearing and ordered the jury sum moned, to pass on Hight'® mental condition. 'The cburt wHl proceed with the hearing this 'afternoon. scratch. A good race horse should be call-- ed Exzoma, for it usually starts from PERSONAL PROPERTY oF COUNTY GIVEN AT $20,215,629 Total Full Value of All Proper-- The Board of Reviaw today com-- pleted its work, the total full value of all personal property. beinglisted as $20,215,0%9. Pra "L hugn os 457 REVIEW BD. CLOSES BOOKS The total value 'of &il real estate, and: all other property Rad"hot hbeen tabulated but it will, be somewhere near $99,000,000, slightliy more than one entire county, and the total number :;5 q'I_'u::ondo and jowelry is listod at the:real estate. Thé tetal' value of lots will amount to: slightly more than : $20,000,000, * * Only 840 dogs were listed for the -- The most interesting items in list of personal property, were As lows: llmi in banks ........> _ °| 4V%,400 C of Bank, Banker, « Broker, Stock Jobber #6,240, Money of other than banks 2,480,030 Bonds or Stocks ........ 1,144,840 Capital Stock of Corp.... © 123,650 Property of saloons and e tan Household and office '> furnitur® --....}>>>> Full Value $20.211,109 Assessed value .....}..+ 10,108,855 Value Axed by Board of Review ....... 2....... 10,377 475 No radios were listed. One of the reasons for this was the «fact that there was no separate space On the schedules and they ar* included -- in 'Aqusehold goods." Most of the as-- sessors no longer list sewing ma-- chines separately, which, accounts for the low fAgures on that article found in nearly every home. v The total assessed value ot all per-- sonal property & year ago was 310 2%60,265, -- which would bring the amount of the full value up to prac-- tically go same fAigure as this year. The incompleto figures for all the property in the county'Indicates that ina full valus will be about $4,000, ty in County Will Be Near $90,000,000. _ _ the full, valuo will DP ®7""" 900 greater than a year AZO. STEEL COMPANY IS BEING SUED went in daobt $109,000. FLVE PASSENGERS KILLED IN CANADA Winnipeg, Manitoba, Oct. 29.--Five woo.r:' tlll';d and to urteon njured y "'n""' in a firast class mmh C# nadian Pacific railway. the Nelson-- X:neouvol' expross near. Farron, B t alaries ADd 4) . wi payment --of T Te wil its 'm standing in a petition | candidatos teel Co-' with w. Mr. Chicago . and | FO0OYd i9 FO. b' m We Skfesions 21,8680 1,82%,540 fol-- LAKECO. BETTER _ PLUMP FOR "WEISS" _ It has devéloped .. that . legisiativa. candidates from other counties of this District, working quietly, and un-- der cover, are putting out the insidi--, ous propaganda: "Weiss is safe; vote for me or I will lose." o 'This is a skillful line of pohon"flnt has for its the stripping 04 "Weiss of hig vote in Lake County, and would, it not exposed, , defeat Weiss. t Boone. and McHonry Counties take mighty good cars of their candidates and then send them into Lake Coun-- ty to spread this kind of stuff to elect their men at our expense. . _ ""U.r ?;l;l 13 not safe unless Lake County votes for him. . 2 k CE W P C t s He will get uo suport from other counties, our past experience with theseo -- low--voiced, -- smooth--working gentlemen from over West has provy-- en that we must take care of our-- selves or we will be sad on election Me * There are three counties in this | _«2aue c Mtcc. o he aas should be clected TWB' om each county. vots We in Lake County ard willing the of the other countios should select thoir states representative,, and Tell that --wo states, -m do the same. nation «G#feiss is safe" trick is an The m., not many over here will be twont; by it, we know what our duty deduc our county is, and we will do that zens ( uty. Weis.is our Lake County can-- about didate, and Weiss will get the Lake ized 1 County vote, and with that voio he | °n | will win. Without it he, would loge. under We will not jeopardize our county's states standing in the House by yoting for Kor candidates whoso whole Ifihl':ll are | home in other ?.nua except on election | abson day. -- Mr.= 'eiss has made a splendid od at reacord in u&.ww He. is | elocti Chairman of t Bv Committee ! was | on Rducation. was chairman of away the Republican Caucus of the House diana of Representatives and one of * the at--ho! leadars on the Aoor. He has been & x;c'n"to our District and : we will ; our appreciation of his spleon| Tw did sgervice by a good majority next | sippi wraat U. S. TO FORCE DEATH PUNISHMENT Washington, ~Oct, Z9 _« IBCTSR®TU'G pressure is being brought to bear on Persia by the United States for car-- _ out the death sentences im Yon the murderers of Major W. --Imbrie, ~ American Vice it was admitted by the state ent --today. _ No formal note has been dispatch ad, howover, the repregentations hbe-- Ing conducted by direct contact w# T men were convicted and son r. to death for Imbric'a murdet, ounly ons of them has bean oxe: outed, -- It has bean rpeorted to this W that tha othar twao have commuted to short terms of This Hallowe'en Stuff Isn't Scaring Anyone Much Ocot. 309 ~ Increasing NATION--WIDE CAMPAIGN -- TO "GET OUT THE VOTE" --~~This was the situation: For every 100 votes cast there were 96 stdy--at--homes or absentess--the total stay--at--home vote reaching the vast aggregate of 20:705,0803. A 'l"hqy brought the nation very close to government by minority. Unjless the people awaken to their duty of minority. In .:i' .ururt to awaken the public to its duty, the Independent wift join in a pation--wide "Get.Out--the--Vote" cam paign. This campaign, which will _ be strictly nonpartisan, has been en dorsed by the three presidential can-- didates, scores of prominent citizens and patriotic organizations. The vast army 'of not--voters can cledt or defeat any candidate--if the vote can be polied, If ten per cont Of the stay--at homes in "rock--ribbed" atates were colonized in "doubtful states," they would decide any close national contest. . 1# The stay--at home total _ Of over twonty--five million is arrived at after dodncun' 8,4167,625 disqualified citt zens of 21. years and over, including about 6,200,000 alien or unnatural ized foreign borns and over two mil-- lion flliterate citizens, distranchised under election laws of 1% southern states. -- * SURUTE® Kentucky has the loast stay--at-- home voters. There were anly 24 absentoes for each 100 votes register-- ad at the polls at the last general election. The second best record was in Delaware, where 33 remained away for every 100 who: voted. In diana was third with only 85 stay-- at-- homes. 'fwolmt."l ot the alppi Valiey, known :# woest, make by all 0 LUTHERANS HEAR ROUTINE MATTERS Chicago, Oct. 29.--Routine com« mittso repor;gwol various ; church departments pled today's se@sion of" the blennial convention of the United Lutheran church in America-- 'Tha progtam was arranged so as to 'complate theso reports, permit the taking of unfinished and goneral business and the appolntment of standiAg : committees before . tomor-- row evening whon the convetnion is echeduled to close. Today's re ports inot 'with litte discussion, the majority® of theom being unvanimou«ty adopted. While our joys may naot exCo®{ it -- expectationa» oar expensos al waye do.----Uhartleston Caprier. will vote this fall. we will have government Nonpartisan Effort Make Best Showing 's Big Weekb» WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN » upper Missi# as the middle will be of over the by * pvgs showing for any gbographic section. Ohio, Inmdiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wistonsin show 65 stay--athomes per 100 totes, while three middle Atlan-- tic states--Now York, Now Jorsoy and~Pennsylvania--had 94 absentoos for the same ntmber of votes. _ But the best showing is made by Minnesota, Ilowa, Missouri, and South Dakota, Nebraska -- and Kansas--59 stay--at homes compared wllthd 82 per 100 vottés in New En-- gland. _ hss mA o ntie | mWb '. Pennsylvania has the worst show-- ing of any large state, casting 1,851,-- 248 votes for prosident in 1920, while 2,479,000 voters falled to. reach the polis. -- For @very 100 persons who did voto, there woere 188 who did not. A similar condftion prevails in Vermont, classed a "rock--ribbed Roxubuen" state, ateh stands so¢-- ond to Pennsylvania in the percent-- age of the stay--at--homes--113 -- for 100 votes. This is the same percent-- age as that of Arizona, where vast distances and a large transiont cow-- boy and Moexican element affect--¥vot-- ing efficiency. is 5 Whils apathy of the voters is dt+ rectly responsible for this neglect of citizenship dutles, election laws also contribute greatly to the stay--at-- home vote. Most of the states have roe.ontl! PR O C OTWCY Most of the states have recently tried 'to overcome the loss of at sentee votes by enacling absenteo voting laws. But feow of these ll"l E) 11 BcA -- deceaclh are efficient in ruual:g the . result desired, for the sim reason that the absentees are required to WI in petson in order to vote by mall. _ It may be as difficult for the al» sentes to go to his honte preocinet to roshtorutommmqndm.u a consequence, at le&st 76 per cent of the value of the absentso voting law is nullified by stringont regiatration FATHER SAYS IT IS BODY OF SON Bpringfleld, IIIL., Oct. 29--A decom-- posed body found near here Sunday was today positively identified by George Fowlor, 8r., of Kansas City, Mo., as that of his son, George Fow-- ler, Jr.. 20. Identiftication was 0#-- tablished by articles of clothing and a watch. Police wera confident young Fow-- ler was killed when ho attempted to hold up Edward Maisel here Octobor §. A builet would under the heart :ndlcated ho died almost immediate 9. "COry" means 5 cents for candy "weep" means $69.85 tor a sprin coat Are Hurtful ed to| Soidier, Ia., Oct. 29--A sonsational 'tobor | raid was made on this town urty! heart|this morning by a bandit gang be-- diate | tteved to number eight or ten travel ing in two automobiles. 'They cut all | wire communication lines, autround-- andy : .od the Soldier Valley Savings Bank, spring ! blew open the vault 'and escaped with | 34,000 _-- g ; | Winnipeg, ¥an., Oct. 22--in a run-- ning gunlight with Canadian nount.-' ag'o"" and immigration authort-- John Pearson, an American, was ) to death Tuesday, at Emerson, on;, the international bordg@r, at: a dash for fresdom following his on a Winnipeg--bound train the line. N is known of the dead man, his attempt to avoid the immi-- :authorities lead them to be he is wanted in the States, MOUNTED POLICE . KILL AMERICAN Lpolloo John to & on t *4 Nothihg his a ' he i ALLEGED "BRAINS" Brent Chicago, Oct. 209--Breat Glasscock, a mild mannered, soft--spoken, calm .pngtu man, charged with being the "brains" of one of the most sen-- sational mail train robberies since the days of Jesse James, was brought back to Chicagotoday, with his wife, MAKES A COMPLETE DENIAL Avis. -- It was Glasscock, federal: officials charge, who directed the $3,000,000 Rondout mail robbery and shot one of his own men who failed to obey orders. His wife, they charge, was an accomplice. . 2 . At the detective bureau, Glasscock, :z::dklu in a well modulated, cul-- voice, denied everything. "I had nothing to do with it,". he mld. "My wite and I were in Bat Creek because of my health. This arrest and charge is all a frameup. I do not know any members of this g'gfld of train robbers. Everything come® out all right." + (Glasscock, however, did not explain why he was wearing a bullet--proof vest, carrying a revolver and $30,000 cash and $50,000 worth of: unset s when police arrested him and wife in &# raid on their fashion-- able apartment at Battle Creok. OF TRAIN ROBBERS --IS.BROUGHT BACK CLARENCE HUREBUT -- TO TRIAL NEXT 1 MON. FOR MURDER Zion City Man Charged With Killing of C. B. Dicks Jr., Lake Villa Youth. FOVGHT OVER WOMAN CHG. Clarence Huribut, Zion City young man, will go to , trial next . Monday in circuit court on a charge of murdering C. B. Dicks Jr.. prominent youth from Lake Villa, it was an-- nounced today by States Attorney A. V. Smith. -- _ Cl Hurlbut, it is charged, stabbed Dicks in an argument in Channel Lake road, just east of Antioch, last spring. The fight is alleged to have started over a woman, Mrs,. Adeline Farnik, companion of Hurlibut. -- : The defendant claimed at the time of the alleged stabbing that Dicks made advances upon Mrs. French and that ho engaged in an encounter with Dicks to protect the woman. _ After the alleged stabbing, Hurlbut and the woman went to the farm of a man near Trevor and remained un-- til morning. * ALLIED TROOPS TO PROTECT RY. Washington, Oct. 29.--Allled troops in China, including the American 15th Infantry stationed at Tien Tsin, have been ordered out to protect the rail-- way line between Poking and Tien Tsin, the state doptr'nt was ad-- vised today by Chargé d'Affaires Fer-- dinand L. Mayer. _ 00 _ _ Back in Chicago to Stand Trial on Charge Along this line, Feng Yu Hslang, the Christian general now in control Oof Poeking, and General Wu Pol Fu, Comamnder of the Government forc. as, are massing their troops for bat tle. -- The diplomatic corps have Invoked the 1901 protocol in order to keep g:.rpllny line open through use of ign troops, Mayer reported. Brit-- ish, Japanese, Fronch #ad Italian troops will aid American infantry in the work. All rolling stock n_oeoluz for the patrol will be commandeered. BANDITS INVADE TOWN, LOOT BANK and Wife $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE ALLEGED MURDERER TELLS HOW NE SHOT GARCIA Declares He Shot Pool Hall Owner When He Refused to CURSE, DEMAND APOLOGY David Hermosilio, 28, took"the wit-- ness stand today and told the jury of the incidents which led up to the time he shot and killed Peter Garcia, Market .street pool hall proprietor. Hermosilio, on trial on a charge of murder, declared that Garcia called him names and forced him out of the pool hall with an automatic revolver on the afternoon before the evening Garcia was shot. He told how friends came to him and asked why he let Garcia call him fighting names. Hermositlo said he met two friends in North Chicago, where he worked for the North Shore electric railtoad, and was asked by them about the names. The two men' asked him to come to Waukegan to their room. En»« route he learned they roomed at Gar» cia's and said he did not want to go there. $ % ; & ( "What are you afraid. of?" one of his companions asked, "You've got a right to go to our room--we pay rent and can ask anyone to come there.", He said he wanted to avoid any trouble. . One of the men said that Garcia dglured he was looking for Hermosillio ansd gave the latter a gur to defend himself in case Garcia was looking for trowble. i uk Hermosillio said he went there that night to demand an apology from Garcia and had uo intention of hurt-- ing him. He said that Garcia told him to wait untH he had closed his place, and that was the reason he sat down at a table to wait. o nuoed He declared he saw Hermosilio try-- Ing to load an automatic revolver and ordered him to drop it. Whenrn he failed to do this, Hermosillo shot him in the arm which he was using in try« ing to push the safety device on the gun. Ho declared Garcia then tried to push the device by pressing ~ it against the counter and when he or-- dered him to drop the gun a second time and the>proprietor failed : to do it he shot a second time in an effort to <cripple his other arm, but that Garcia moved and the bullet vn' apoinagt d tian ol d $ to the air. This shot, it %w is the ane that prob-- ' ~bit: mirror. .-- MHermosiliq ~planned to . aurrender but friends told him, Atty. James G, Wolsh, coflul for the defense ex~ plained, that Garcia was woll known and it would mean trouble for him it he remained. & Atty. Weich said that according to the evidence it was cither Garcia's life or Hermosilios, and that it Gar cia had succeeded in pulling his gun he would fow be on trial for the murder of Hermosillo. -- ° -- >« f Edward Peres, who worked -- for Garcia, testified to facts concerning the shooting. He declared he was in the place ail day, that women in the rear of the place had complained about Hermosillo coming into tha rooms and that Garcia had told the defendant to. stay out.= Garcia® did not let Hermosilio come in. ~ That was in the morning. He saw Her-- mosillo come in at 10 p, m., sit down at a table, pull a bottle out of his pocket and start drinking. Ho sat there 45 minutes and Garcia did not say anything. About 10:45 Hermosilio said: "Well Pete, are you about to go to sleep?* This was when Garcia started count» ing the money preparatory to closing the pool hall. Pete said "Yes." Her mosillio said: "Throw up your hands; I'm going to finish you. Peres said he heard shots -- saw Hermosiilo shoot Garcia. The proprietor walked around the counter and sat down i£ The closing arguments were to be started late today, it was predicted. Then the police arrived. Neithoer Capt. Thos, Kennedy or Policeman John Mets were able to find a gun wh:n they searched the promises cas ually. a chair, as the blood was oozing out of his chest near his heart. ~ On cross examination Peres admit= ted that Hermosillio came into the place in the afterncon and Gagela called Hermosillco fighting names. He also admitted that he heard fellows in the hall say that Garcia had & _ Capt. Kennedy went to Lortrain, Q., and brought Hermosilio back, with-- out extradition. . ~% (A m '_i'o'lfe;ia Metsz noticed & bullet holo in cash rogister and a nearby mirror. _ is Louis Delia Valle, intarpretar and Investigator for the states attorney's office, testified that he wont to Mex» lco in addition to various states in the Union at the erpense of the county looking for Joe Rodrigues, wanted as a witness in the case. _ Miss Ann Turner testified concern« Ing the . confessional record -- she made for the 'state. 'e's 1M wite o The confession stated that Hoer mosilio borrowed $2 from Garcia and gave his watch as security; that Gar« cla kept stailing him off about re« turning the watch, finally admitting he sold the watch: Later Garola gave him $5.50 more, #% Hermosiiio was the last # Assistant States Attorney 8. W Block made the opening ment early© this afternoon. € ',"3' fffi sPONTANEOUS COMBL Decatur, Inl., Oct. l'---fl combustion shused a fire today which deatroyed the 1 by tha Fornax Milling Co. Drop Revolver. e P