Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-03
MILITIAMAN KLEIN
IS SURRENDERED.
EationaI Guard Officers Procure
Bond for Slayer of Boy in
Kankakee

Private Joseph B. Klein of the First
Regiment Of the Illinois National Guard
was surrendered TO the authorities at
Kankallee by Captain Henry Barrett
Chalnberlin, personal representative
Of General e. c. Young.
Private Klein, who killed Earle Nell
son with a bayonet in Kankakee. while
the First Regiment was passing through
the city en- route 10 Springfield. was re-
leased in bonds of $4,000 furnished by
the Illinois Surety Company and went
TO Chicago with Captain Chamberlin,
Major James Miles, Captain Percy B.
Coffin and Signal Sergeant c. II. LEIGH
liter. He vas taken TO the First Reg.
iment armory and later permitted to
proceed to his home
General Young. in command of the
troops at Springfield, returned TO Chi
cago and discussed the Klein case. He
declared that the evidence before the
military tribunal showed conclusiyely
that Private Klein, in forcing young
Nelson from the regimental train at
Kankakee, acted solely from a motive
Of military duty.
when the States Attorney of Kan
kakee demanded that deliver Private
Klein" said General Young, Il refused
to do so. 1 exercised my discretionary
power, advised by the Attorney Gen
eral, on the ground that to deliver Klein
at that time to the civil authorities
would be destructive Of the morale of
the troops. l might as well have sent
them back to Chicago had 1 complied,
because they would have felt that they
had no right to use the weapons given
them.
Twenty more indictments returned
by the special grand jury in Spring
field inquiring into. the recent race
riots brings the total of the three days
inquiSitiOn TO thirty-one One is
against George Richardson, Svhose al
legged assault upon Mrs. MabeIe Hal
lam precipitated the uprising. The re-
manning thirty are against alleged par
Elephants in the work of the mob.
]. w. Bechtel, William w. Sage and
"Fergy' O'Toole are under arrest,
charged with completely in the rioting
and are awaiting grand jury investiga-
ton. The authorities will endeavor to
faSten the crime of murder upon Bech-
tel, alleging that he participated active
ly in the lynching of Scott Burton.
Sage is alleged to have fired five shots
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from the tree to which it had been
strung. OToOle's Offense is alleged to
have been the THROWN 2 of bricks. Will
lam Sutton has been singled out as the
| man who made the attack upon Mayor
Reece when the Mayor attempted to ad-
| dress the mob during the attack upon
Loper's restaurant.
It is understood that residents of
| RivertOn, Sherman and other villages
and the towns in the vicinity of Spring
field will be caught in the net. 1t is
said that several of them were in the
| front ranks of the rioters
The local authorities have the situa-
ton so well in hand that the First
Cavalry Regiment was sent home, leav-
| ing only the Seventh Infantry on the
ground.
The coroner's jury in the case of
| Louis Johnson, who was killed in the
| riot at Loper's restaurant, decided that
the boy was shot, but the jury is I'M
able to fix the responsibility. The be-
! lief has been that Johnson died from
| injuries sustained by falling glass