The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-05-04
SOLVING OF PLOT
TO Clear MURDER
KILLING OF PEORIA SCHOOL JAN.
IToR CONNECTED WITH SAFE.
BLOWING SCANDAL.
PROMINENT CITIZENS
MAY BE INDICTED
States Attorney SchoIes Declares
City Will Be Stirred When Facts
Become observation-disclosures" Rob.
Der Tate Returned to Jail.

per dte returned TO Jail.
Peoria, ILL.,. May 2.-"When we solve
the robbery of the Peoria school board
safe, in which evidence discriminating
Newton c. Dougherty, the convict, was
stolen, We will clear up the mysterious
murder of John Porter. Just now /
can not reveal all the information that
we possess, but with the clearing of
the safe robbery we will announce
who murdered Porter
Such was the startling statement
made Wednesday by States Attorney
Robert Scholes of Peoria county.
The murder Of John Porter, janitor
Of the Peoria high school, is one of the
unsolved mysteries of Peoria. Three
years ago Porter was found murdered
In the basement of the Peoria high
school. No weapon of any kind was
found in the building, but it was clear
ly apparent that the aged janitor had
been murdered while at work.
For weeks the police worked on the
mystery. The building was carefully
searched. Investigation revealed that
every door and window was in proper
condition and locked. No trace of the
mysterious midnight assassin was ever
found.
Unknown to the citizens of Peoria
detectives connected with the states
attorneys Office have recently been
working on the murder mystery and it
10 declared that the solution is near.
Grand Jury May lndict Leaders.
While States Attorney Scholes' men
have been at work other detectives
have been gathering evidence incrim-
mating those said to be behind the
robbery of the school SAFE Within a
fortnight evidence will be presented to
the Peoria grand jury that will con-
meet prominent citizens of Peoria with
the 81 100000 Dougherty scandal and
the safe robbery.
The evidence tn possession of the
states attorney will be presented to
the grand jury, and if indictments are
revelations.
II am confident that we can indict
Eddie Tate any time that we WISH"
said Mr.. Scholes. "He is not the only
one that we wish to get II. our grand
jury net. Tate was nothins but a tool.
If we send him to the penitentiary we
are not accomplishing anything.
Law After Big Men.
"The men that we want to get and
the ones that are slowly being dragged
into the Swallowing scandal are the
ones that we want. They are big men
in Peoria, men that have held the best
of regulations, and before We act we
must have sufficient evidence. I am
convinced that Tate knows something
of the robbery. Some of his tales are
lies, but he knows enough to warrant
his Indictment
Mayor Tolson of Peoria refuses to
talk about the school-safe scandal, de-
claring the matter was in charge of
Chief of Police Wilson and States At
torney Scholes, and that all the infor-
nation he received was only second
hand.
All Peoria is aroused by the scan
dial. Nearly every citizen declares
there is something wrong some place,
but no one seems to know where to
place the blame for the trouble.
Tate Returned to Jail.
Chicago, April 2.-Edwin Tate, the
youthful convict and safe blower, who
it is charged was freed from Joliet
penitentiary to engineer the safe rob
berry. appeared before Judge Smith
Wednesday. The writ of habeas cor.
pus on which it was sought to secure
his release was dismissed for tech
nical reasons and he was returned to
Jail.
Herbert Cowdry, detective who
appeared for counsel for Tate in the
absence of Attorney Charles E. Erb-
stein, announced that new petition
would be filed. directed against the
she Tiff. At the same time an attack
will be made OH the indictment under
which Tate is held. BY means of this
attack Tate hopes to escape the peni-
Tertiary because of glaring faults"
in the indictment.