Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-01

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| court house be convenient, shall be
| held therein. A regular meeting of
the board shall be held on the sec
ond Monday of June, each and ev-
cry year, at the county seat, and at
such other times as may be prescrib-
ed by law For special meetings,
! the statute provides no particular
place, but does require that the place
and time for a special meeting be
stated in the written request for the
meeting and that the clerk shall
publish the notice and transmit to
each member notice of such meet
| ing Necessarily, time and place
must be stated in such notice. Mel
Their the notice published in the
newspaper nor the notice mailed by
the clerk to the members states any
place of meeting. Both fail to COM
ply with the requirements of the
| statute and are therefore of no valid
| ity. In the case of Marsh VS.. the
People, 226 Illinois, page 464, the
supreme court says: We do not
think the members of the board
could, by getting together at a time
not fixed for a regular or special
meeting, lawfully select a grand
jury; there is a difference between
members of the board and the
board. 1t is only a board of super
visors when convened in session,
either regular or special County
boards can only exercise such pow
ers as are expressly given by law.
or such as arise by necessary impli-
cation from the powers granted as
are Indispensable to carry into eff
feet the object and purpose of their
creation. To authorize a
special meeting of the board of sup
ervisors the statute requires that it
shall be requested by at least one
third of the members of the board
and notice thereof published by the
clerk in some newspaper printed in
| the county. These requirements
cannot be dispensed with. The
statute above referred to requires
not only that there shall be a publ
cation by the clerk of notice of the
special meeting, but also it requires
that the clerk shall transmit notice
in writing of such meeting to each
member of the board.
at afirmatively appearing that
these indispensable requirements of
the statute have not been complied
with, it must be held that, in so far
as these motions are concerned, the
meeting of March IA, 1910, was not
meeting of the board; that the ac-
ton taken at that meeting in Sc
lecting a grand jury was not author
lied by law, and was and is void;
that the indictments in these
causes were not lawfully found and
must be quashed, and such is the
order"
Those Freed BY Ruling.
The persons freed by the ruling of
Judge Gest are:
DIR. A. L. CRAIG, Chicago, former
supreme examiner of the Tribunes;
'embeZzlement and conspiracy.
c. F. HATFIELD. Chicago, insurance
agent; ENLIGHTENMENT and conspiracy.
MAX ]. FRANCKEL. Chicago, bank
err and holder of alleged dummy note;
perjury
S. S. McILVAIN, Auburn, Ill, bank
or and former treasurer of the Home
Circle: perjury.
MARGARET McILVAIN, Auburn, al
legged holder OF dummy note; perjury
K. NJ. WHITMAN, Aledo, former su-
preme Tribune; embezzIement and
conspiracy.
THOMAS W. WILSON, Washington,
D. c., former head of American Home
Circle; enlightenment, conspiracy. and
stealing records.
MICHAEL B. BARBER, Springfield,
former secretary of Home Circle: en-
bezzlement, conspiracy and stealing
records.
DIR. H. c. WALTERS, Springfield,
former medical examiner of Home Cir
Gle, embezzlement and conspiracy.
GEORGE W. KENNEY, Springfield,
ment and conspiracy.
o. L. CALDWELL, Auburn, holder
of dummy note; perjury.
Recently the indictments against H.
A. Weld and Robert Rexdale, who
were held by the grand jury also. were
nolle pressed upon a motion of States
Attorney L. NJ. Magill.
Merger Wrecks Tribunes.
The Fraternal Tribunes was a fra
ternal insurance society having it's
headquarters in Rock Island. 1t was
organized here IA years ago and had
a membership of 1900 when its Off
GERS merged it with the American
Home Circle two years ago. The
Springfield crowd, who differed the
American Home Circle, paid the Off
GERS of the Fraternal Tribunes to re-
sign and thus give them complete con-
troll Of the local society. After the dis
solution of the Fraternal Tribunes and
American Home Circle merger, the lat
ter order was merged with the Royal
Benefit society by the same men who
are charged with having taken down
the $4,000 reserve fund of the Fra
ternal Tribunes. which was afterwards
returned, as well as approximately
SCI, 900 realized from premium assess
ments, which it is charged, was drawn
from the treasury of the Fraternal
Tribunes during the merger and di-