Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-14
ORIGINATOR Of EGG.
SUIT IS JAILED AS.
CAR Thief.
MAN WHO ACCUSED LOCAL IN
TERURBAN AGENT OF CALLING
HIM LIAR NABBEO WHILE LOTT
ERING IN ROCK ISLAND YARDS
AT PERU.

j O. Swarts, Princeton porduce
merchant is booked to appear befor"
the law in a new light as the result
Of his being under arrest at Peru for
robbing Rock Island freight car.
Swarts is the man who pressed
charges against Station Agent Clyde
Allen, of the c, O. & r., after he al
legged Allen called him a liam. Wheth-
or the crime was committed or not
the local man came out of the trial
mot guilty and the public was left
to Judge for itself after Judge koenig
had rendered his verdict.
The dispute, it Will ne remembered
followed l. wrangle over a crate of
eggs. Swarts said there We're so many
sick ones" in the crate and Allen
took issue with him and forced his
point to successful termination.
But now Swarts appears to be in
deeper trouble than ever before as
the following dispatch from Peru in
dicates:
! Peru, H., July II (SpeCiaD j. O
! Swarts, Princeton produce merchant
and who last week attracted atten
| ton with his appearance in the Otta
wa police court and pleaded for pro
lection against an assailant whom ht
declared was plotting against his life
today was bound over to the grant
/ Jury by Magistrate Dauber when III
was arraigned on a larceny charge
| SWarts has been a prisoner in the cit.
| Jail here since late Saturday nigh
when the police nabbcd him in con
nection with freight car robbery
The officers assert they arrested
Swarts as he was in the act of loot
ing a merchandise car standing il
the Rock Island yards.
SWarts stoutly protested his limo
Cence following his capture, but later
further evidence gathered by the po
lice linked him with the robbery anC
today Magistrate Dauber decided
Swarts should be held pending actor
by the grand jury.
Discovered by Gateman.
It was gatcman employed by tn,
/ Rock Island at the Plain street cross
/ ing who first detected the car burg
/ larry as it was in progress. The met
/ chandise car was standing on sid
/ ing near the coal chutes at the Hi
nois Zinc Co. mine and as the gate
man passed near it he noticed sacl
of sugar lying beside the track Hi
curiosity aroused. he listened intent
ly and was rewarded by hearing
man moving about inside the car.
\ telephone call 10 police hcadquar
tors was followed within shOr
time by the arrival of the patrol am
officer Hawkins When the police
man reached the car Swarts is sal
to have been on the right of wa
close to it. Swarts was taken int
custody and removed to the station
Maintains Innocence.
NlHtNIitHtN dll'I ne HdI tttll lDtf
ed up at police headqpartcrs th
Princeton man stoutly maintainc
his innocence and told several yaric
stories to account for his prescnc
in the vicinity of the car
one story he related was that h
was passing through the yards an
herad some one in the car. He d.
, cded TO investigate, adding that h
had been working under the dire
=, tiOn Of Rock Island detective.
Hat Found Inside Car.
Throughout his stories SWarts mali
tanod that he had not been inside {
the car, but the police upset this stat
mcnt yesterday when officers made
further examination of the interior ,
the freight car and their scare
brought to light SWarts hat.
, On the day of the hearing la
Friday SWarts appealed TO Chief {
Police Grove OF Ottawa for protectiC
from mysterious assailant wi
, Swarts said was threatening his lif