Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16
News Of the Day in Moline and East Moline +.
Police News

Alex Waislo, 40 Sixteenth street,
believes a jury of six men will find
him not guilty. of speeding as
charged by Pleasant Negley, Mo-
line motorcycle officer.
Waisle's jury trial was to be held
in police court this afternoon. It
will be the first speed case to be
| tried by a jury in more than a
year.
Waislo was arrested Saturday
noon on Fifth avenue near Thirty
fifth street He pleaded not guilty
when arraigned before Magistrate
GustafsOn Saturday afternoon and
asked for jury trial.
Eight motorists were conducted
to police station Saturday by
! Pleasant Negley and there charged
with violation of state motor yehi-
Gle law. Six were arraigned SAT-
urday and pleaded guilty or else
were found guilty. The six are:
! F. f. Miller, 1416 Twenty-eighth
avenue
Ed Vose, Rock Island.
Arnold TorseIl, 344 Fourteenth
Fred Lundahl. 213s Fifteenth
street.
Carroll Eckley, s412 Eighteenth
Harold steinhagen, South Mo-
line.
Emanuel Johnson, 1881 Thir-
teenth avenue, and Henry Klinge-
bell of East Moline, were to be ar
raigned this afternoon
Tom Lulic and Mike Suzick, both
| familiar characters in Silvis police
court, figured in a little fistic en-
| counter the other evening that cost
them $3.50 each before Police Mag
| istrate George Stephens. Tom and
Mike became involved in a con-
troversy over a money matter. It's
said, and heated words led to blows
and blows to arrest.
The Ford car which followed T.
H. -PIetsch of the Harper house,
| Rock Island, Saturday evening,
was persistent if nothing else, ac-
cording to police reports.
Mr.. Pletsch declared that the
Ford coIlided with his machine
twice on Twenty-second street be-
tween Fifth and Sixth avenues.
PIetsch's care was only slightly
| damaged. The Ford got away.
| Edward Hardman reported that a
car, said to be driven by an intoxi-
Gated person, collided with his
automobile on Bridge lane near
| Rock river Saturday evening.
Hardman's car was only slightly
damaged and no one was hurt.
Nine motorists were arrested in
Moline Saturday evening and last
night on charges Of speeding. The
details, according to Officer Negley:
John J. Casson, Rock Island.
reckless driving on East Fifth ave
nue..
A. D. Mier of Rock Island and A.
Jacobs, Moline, racing on Sixteenth
street at a rate of So miles an hour.
| Robert Benson, Davenport, 35
miles an hour on Sixteenth street.
Albert Lindquist. Cambridge, 81
miles an hour on Sixteenth street.
Fl. a. Severhill, Davenport. %
miles on Fifth avenue near First
street
c. o. Olson. Moline, 35 miles on
Sixteenth street.
A. E Cederlund, Moline, 35 miles
on Sixteenth street
| Roy McCorkle, Moline, 30 miles
on Sixteenth street.
Majority of the alleged speeders
will be arraigned before Magistrate
| Gustafson this evening.
Judge G. o. Dietz Saturday after
noon issued an injunction restrain
! ing \. J. BlaCkman from selling
or otherwise disposing Of prop
erty said to be worth $4,000.
! The injunction was issued at re-
quest of Blackman's wife who al
legged that on May 10 her husband
deserted her and has since failed to
! contribute toward her support.
Mrs. Blackman asks for separate
maintenance She claims. in bill
| fled by Attorneys Kenworthv,
Dietz. Sha1lberg. Harper and Sin
nett. that n. Us income is 1925 a
month.
The alleged desertion. according
to the plaintiff, occurred just three
days before the Blackmans'
fourth wedding anniversary.