Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-11-30
STREAT0R YOUTH IS
BROUGHT TO TRIAL.
IN CIRCUIT COURT
WALTER WOOD INDICTED
FOR ALLEGED BURGLARY
FACES SHMENT-PRES SENT
CASES WIND Up STATES AT.
TORNEY WllEY'S OFFICIAL DU-
TIES.

| Walter SmallWood, a Sireator youth
| charged with burglary went to tr!as
I in the circuit court this afternoon,
1 This is the last case to be tried by
s ate'8 Attorney George Wiley be-
fore he retires from Office next week.
Smallwood IS charged with having
stolen $5gS2v worth OF automobile
accessories ynd other M marchandise
| from the johnson garage IN Streator
! last April He was arrested during
| the summer, and was indicted by the
/ October grand jury on burglary
| charge { T. Johnson, proprietor OF
| the Johnson garage. is the complain
/ ing witness against him
/ The trial Is rather interesting
! one, in that the fran Of Kelly, Kelly
& Kelly of which the aext states al
( 'orney is a member is defending
cmailwood
! After the close OF the first trial Oh
! tho calender the same defendant,
! who was indicted in June under the
name OF Walter Woods, will be ar
| raigned on a larceny charge. Small
wood went under the name of Woods
when he first arrived in Streator last
/ spring. 1t is claimed that he and
1 Harry Burns stole an auto truck val
/ ued at 81 500 from the Streator Bey-
! erage Go. Burns entered plea oi
/ guilty and is now serving time in
! the state penitentiary, SmaIiWo0d
was indicted under the name Of
nhi nj
ed was his name,
/ He then changed his name using
! his true c0guGmen. and is alleged to
! have committed the second Oftense
! He was indicted by the October grand
Jury for the second olfense under his
/ ri"htful name
/ This morning Attorney II. NJ. Kelly
! maze an tEo't to nave th' ,rn'e Vt
! jurors quasted and rev venire cali
/ cd. Deputy Stedman, the first as
ais'ant to sheriff Ayers, was called
TO the stand to explain Just how the
/ jurors Were summoned
/ lie testified that to save expenses
! fer the county, the jury service sum
mons, and Il postal card We're place
/ in a sealed envelope and mailed 10
/ each man whose name vas on the
/ venire The printed post cards we're
/ filled in by the juror upon their re-
/ ceipt and returned TO the sherin's
office.
Twenty-niue of the cards which
/ we're rCtgrnel to the sheriF's Office
! were brought upstairs and presented
! in evidence
Following Mr. &;ndm2n Deputy
/ Circuit, ClerH Glnim Nas cJllcd ~ Il
stand, He explained the unmber Of
jurors out of tn yenre OF forty who
were in court yesterday.
After hearing the evidence Judge
Stough uverruIed the motion. The
work of selecting the jury was then
started,
The last trial on the calendar will
be a burElary charge against Harry
James Schmidt. Schmidt was arrest
cI in July, charge with having burg
, larizod HE Richard Nuyl photograph
gallery in his city, and stolen $52
worth Of property belonging 80 Mr..
Kuyl tie is desnrter from the L.
: s. navy ana the government will take
charge of him to prosecute him, as
b soon as the local courts are through
wth him,
Both Alege intideIity.
Mrs. Hazel Rich, Of Peoria. was
granted divorce from her husband
, Melvin Rich, on a cross bin fled to
{ his original suit in the circuit court
, yesterday afternoon The icoWdo were
, married January 81, 1916. aud lived
tDpGi hpr until Spnta,o hpr 4 Ipl~