Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
LILITIAMAN KEN
IS SURRENDERED.
1-ationa1 Quad 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
Cham5erlin, personal representative
of General Z. C. Young.
Private Klein, who killed Earle Nell
son with bayonet in Kankakee, while
the First Regiment was passing through
the city en- route to 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 was 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 conclusiveIy
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 1 deliver Private
Klein" said General Young, II refused
to do so. l 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
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, whose al
legged assault upon Mrs. Mabelle Hal
lam precipitated the uprising The re-
manning thirty are against alleged par
Elephants in the work of the mob.
J. 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
into the body Of Burton as it swung
from the tree to which it had been
strung. OToOle's offense is alleged to
have been the throwing of bricks. Will
lam Sutton has been singled out as the
man who made the attack upon Mayor
Reece when the Mayor attempted to adj
dress the mob during the attack upon
Loper's restaurant.
1t 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
grOu"1.
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 IN
able to fix the responsibility. The be-
lief has been that Johnson died from
injuries sustained by falling glass.