Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-27
Total of 115 Indictments
Reported to the Cir
cult Court.
SHAKING UP FOR CITY
Chief of Police Darne11
One of the Parties
Held.

ROCK Island, was one of number
who entered the circuit court this
afternoon i'll response to notifca-
| ton served upon them by a deputy
| sheriff to give bond upon indictments
returned by the grand jury. The
| charges against him include some So
counts and are Incorporated in 100
pages of typewriter foolscap. The
bondsmen whom the chief had secur-
ed were not at hand. so he did not at
once enter into recognizance
The amount of the bond was fixed
by the grand jury at $500. The
charge. as mentioned on the back of
the Indictment, reads 'palpable omis-
sion of duty as city marshal of Rock
Island" The witnesses whose names
appear as having given the Informal
ton to the grand jury are Mayor
Knox, Police Magistrate G.. \. John
son, Night Captain b. J. McCabe and
Officers George PAIL, Herman Sch
merit, Dennis Mccarthy, Sidney Pear
son and j. w. BOwes. The species of
| lawlessness that are given as having
flourished with the cOuntenance of
the chief include keeping of houses
of ill-fame, gambling and running
slot machines.
The several indictments go on to
recite that certain parties were gull
ty of certain violations of the law
and that one of the various city Off
GERS above named informed the chief
| that such was the case. They fur
Ether allege that he not only failed
to take personal action. but that he
instructed the policemen under him
~ pfr-.i 1 ir,,r
complaint against the guilty parties.
Many Appear.
This afternoon upon the ccnvening
of court there were perhaps twenty
present who had been notincd to
appear and give bond. When the in
dicted parties were called forward il
was found that many of the bonds
men would not be accepted and the
defendants went out to lock for other
surety. States Attorney Weld object
ed to accepting the bond of local
agents of the brewing companies on
the ground that they had no authori-
ty TO sign for their concerns. He
also refused to permit one party to
go on more than two or three bonds
at once. and men who were them
selves indicted were not allowed to
go~on the bonds of others.
Those who entered into recogniZ-
ance at the opening of court are all
residents of this city and were as
follows:
Gus Stengel. renting house for gam
ing purposes and running slot ma
chine. bond $500.
Frederick Luchmann. perjury be
fore grand jury i'm maintaining under
oath that there was no slot machine
in J. w Dressen's saloon. bond, ST.
500.
James Given, renting house for
gaming purposes. bond $500.
John Schafer. keeping house of i'll
fame. bond $500.
Herman Banker, allowing females
under Is years of age to frequent sa
loon for immoral purposes, bond ST.
900; also keeping disorderly house.
rond 81 500. ~
Fred Hildebrandt, keeping house of
ill-fame, bond $500.
The jury reported to Judge Ram
say late, Yesterday afternoon after
having, been in session for a period
of three weeks under circumstances
that have led to great interest being
attached to that body's proceed
ings. and the outcome is not
altogether surprising. w. y.
Hubbard. foreman. turned over
to the Judge a bundle of indictments
numbering o. and the jury was then
excused for the time being.
OF the indictments only two were
made public, the remainder being sup
pressed for service. The two made
public were of minor Importance, one
being against Edward Patton, charg
ed with assault to commit rape, and
the other against Emma Nohaert, of
Moline, charged with larceny. Both
were i'm Jail at the time.
Many Saloonkeepers In Net.
The other 95 indictments, together
with a number that were suppressed
at the time the partial report was
made something over a week ago.
were understood for the most part to
be against gamblers. parties charged
with operating slot machines and
others with harboring women for i'm
moral purposes. AS soon as the pa
pers could be examined i'm court 50
of the cases were certified to the
county court. These are understood
to include all the slot machine cases.
The others. including cases of gam
bling. running disorderly houses and
harboring girls Hnder Is for immoral
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