Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-05
Grand Jury Report Shows Nc
Caskrin Has Not Been lg>
nored Anyway
AS TO TRACK DESTRUCTION
Charges Against Policemen Passed Up
Terry and Suttle Seem Also
In Net

circuit court. The jury S report shows
that 81 different matters were investi-
gated by the grand jury, and that 81
true bills were returned. During the
session of the grand jury 155 witness
ses were examined. Cases against %
persons, who were in Jail or out on
bond were ignored, including the
charges against the six police officers
who under the orders of Mayor Nc
Caskrin took up strip of track of the
D.. r. l. & n. w. railway at Eleventh
street, July %. They were bound over by
Justice j. H. Cleland
Mayor Evidently Indicted.
AS Mayor McCaskrin was arrested
at the time, and with the police officers
was bound over to the grand jury, he
evidently was indicted by that body.
for in the list of matters ignored, his
name does not appear.
The track removal episode was the
second incident in which Mayor Nc
Caskrin with a squad of the police de-
partment removed several sections Of
the railway track on the levee. The
first time he was stopped in his work
by an injunction. which was later dis
missed by the company as an evidence
that there was no i'll feeling against
the city. At that time the city council
passed a resolution stating that that
body would not be responsible for his
actions on that line When he remov-
ed the tracks the second time he was
arrested, as were the officers. and all
were bound over to the grand jury on
a charge of impeding railway traffic
without due process of law.
Terry is Held.
1t would seem. by the same reason
ing. that Henry Terry, the colored man
who killed Andrew Parks by blow
intended for Herman Jansen, has also
been held by the grand jury for the
death of Parks. 1t will be remember
ed that Terry, becoming angry over an
incident in a saloon on Seventeenth
street and Fourth avenue. struck at
Jansen on the sidewalk in front OF
the saloon. The blow was Warded off.
and caught Parks, knocking him down.
He sustained fracture of the skull!
and died instantly. Terry was held TO
the grand jury 1.-the cOroner's jury
which investigated the case.
SuttIe Matter Not Ignored.
The list of ignored cases does not
include that against II. A. Suttle, the
Peoria real estate man who was bound
over by Justice G.. Albert Johnson on a
charge of obtaining money by means
of a confidence game. preferred by H.
L. Dooley. Suite. it will be remember
IN, IN hart tho
case there, which carged embezzle-
ment. was dismissed, and complaints
made here. charging the operation of
a confidence game. The defense here
was that the Rock Island courts did
not have jurisdiction in the matter.
The complaints arose from mining
deal which Suttle carried out for the
Cypress Gold aud Copper Mining COM
pany in Arizona, and by which it was
charged that he obtained 5000. In
the case at Peoria the embezzlement
of $4,000 was charged.
Think DeFouiIIOux Insane.
In regard to the complaint against
J. c. DeFOuillouX, who was bound over
on a charge of assault with deadly
weapon as a result of a disturbance he
made in ST. Mary's church and threats
TO kill the priest. Father A. Geyer, the
Jury recommends that an investigation
be made as TO his sanity. and ignores
the charge against him. He was today
sent to the county infirmary, and later
inquiry as to his sanity may be made
in the county court.
Matters Ignored.
The cases against the following de-
PENDANTS who were in Jail were ig-
lored:
Charles Mortier. burglary and lar
ceny.
Louise Reynolds, robbery.
Charles Bell. larceny. !
J. c. De Fouiloux, assault with Il
leadly weapon.
Cases against the following who
we're under bond to await the action of
he jury were ignored:
William Weaverling, adultery.
Mary Fuller, adultery
William Grafton, abandonment.
John Oscar Anderson. larceny.
Fred Anderson, larceny.
Harry Orman. assault with deadly |
w. G. DeGroot. malicious mischief.
Nicholas Phelan. robbery.
Herbert w. Gates, violation of me
,hanics' lien law.
Joseph Connolly, refusal of officer to
rrest
Fred Harvey, larceny.
Tom Cauuels, burglary and larceny
Mrs. Julia Ellis, malicious mischief
John Page; Dennis Mccarthy, Chris
ian Vogel, E. p. Kcll. James Goh. and
ohm Kinney, impeding operation oil
ailway.
Indictments Not Given Out.
The indictments when returned
-ara taken nv Judge Gest and are not