The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-15
BOMBED HIS HOME
TOGET SYMPATHY
Zion Police Charge That
Ed Lemon Bombed His
Own House.
A MIGHBOR

The city OF Zion seems 20 De the
hardest place on earth to get away with
wrongdoing. Beer smugglers, holdups,
thieves, frebugs, drunks, and the long
list of crooks find Zion hard place 20
get by with such lawlessness. An eff
fieient police department, with Theo-
dore Becker at the head and George
Stried as his assistant, soon gets hot on
the trail of these criminals and they
will hound them down if it takes
months or years to do it. From the
slightest elew, or apparently from no
clew at all they will hang on till they
get their man. This was the case in
the dynamiting job done at 2910 En-
maus avenue on Thursday morning at
2 o'clock. The front porch of this
property was blown up and the report
was heard blocks away and disturbed
practically the whole neighborhood.
The house is two-story building and
Ed Lemon lives on the ground floor.
AS soon as the affair was reported to
the police they began Investigations,
and Chief Becker and his assistant
worked till daylight next morning.
1uOuSuL III w as 1NclSAUVIs
Lemon seemed to think it was a
neighbor who did the dynamiting. He
stated that this neighbor had grudge
against him and he believed he did it
for spite. The police listened to his
story but they had other ideas, too.
However, the facts looked so hard
against the neighbor that Chief Becker
was about to arrest the neighber on a
warrant taken out by Lemon.
The police still had a presentment
that Lemon had hand in the dynamit-
ing himself. Accordingly, he was ar
rested yesterday and put through Sc
we're gri1ling at the police station. A
complete confession was ultimately
drawn from him and it was learned
that Lemon did the dynamiting him.
self.
Bought Explosive in Waukegan.
He went to Waukegan, got an order
from Burke & Wright, hardware men.
118 S. Genesee street, for a stick of
dynamite and a fuse. The dynamite
was to cost twenty-five cents and the
fuse four cents. Lemon then pro-
ceeded to the Salt Docks at Waukegan
where the dynamite is stored. He pre-
scented his order and got the dynamite
and fuse. When he applied at Burke
& Wright's he informed the clerk that
he wanted the>,dynamite to blow up a
stump, SO it was with this plea that he
secured the explosive.
Even Fooled His Wife.
Lemon went back home and on We'd
nesday night he retired as usual.
About two o'clock in the morning, when
all was quiet and his wife fest asleep
Lemon slipped out of bed and went
outdoors in his fightclothes. He plac-
ed the dynamite under the porch and
lit the fuse. Then he went indoors and
waited for the explosion 1t came, and
a big report it was. Lemons wife
awoke with a start, as did several of
the neighbors, and she found her hus-
band standing at the foot of the bed
The police arrived shortly afterward
and of course Lemon put the whole
thing down as "spite work.. Lemon
moved that day TO house at goth and
Hebron avenue, west Of the electric
line.
Finally Makes Confession.
Meanwhile the police worked ST.
lently, like they did on the frebugs
who set fire to the bulletin boards.
Apparently they had let the whole
thing drop. Then like a whitlwind
they swooped down on Lemon today
and he was so dumfounded and outwit-
ted that he made full confession. He
did the job himself in order to draw
sympathy He was already under $500
bonds for larceny, and was bound over
to the grand jury5 October term. He
evidently wanted to pose as martyr.
He will now have two charges against
him for the Grand Jury to try.