The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-30

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noticns for c1lanGe d vsnus IN The
special stats oesss presented for
heaEins this morning h the circuit
court. Changes o. venue IN all the
cesss naming DAVID ]. Clslsnd. po-
lics magistrate. wsrs allowed from
gudge N. 4. Larson Of the cireuit
eourt and Judge q. o. Diets Of the
Moline city court. In this connec-
ton Inward Simmons. indicted
( 1ointly with Cleland on . charge Of
larceny, also took . change from
/ these two Judges
Cyrus =. Dietz OF Moline, counsel
for Thomas Cox and for Anthony
W. Billbury, also secured changes
Of venue for his clients from Judge
Larson ana Judge Charles J.
Senrle. The change for Coz was
granted In all i've Indictments
against him, chief Of which is the
charge Of Application in the MUIR
der OF William Gabel. Billburg ID
under Indictment for the murder Of
Conner LOoney. All motions for
change Of venue are based on al
legged prejudice OF the Judges nam
cd towards the defendants.
Seek Writ for Blllburg.
An early move on the part Of At
torney Dietz to gain the release Of
Billburg. nnder bond by habeas cor
pus proceedings was seen this
morning. M. Dietz announced that
he has a petition for a writ Of ha-
beas corpus prepared and directed
to Judge w. T. Church Of Aledo,
since change of venue has been
taken from Judges Larson and
Eearle. Mr.. Dietz was delayed to-
day in bringing the question OF the
writ to hearing before Judge
Church by the presence Of the Aledo
! jurist in Chicago. Arrangements
had been made for Special Prosecu-
tor Hadley. Mr.. Dietz and Billburg
to 60 to AledoN this afternoon 70
gain an immediate hearing. but
word of Judge Church's absence
from the Mercer county seat was
received 1t noon. It y likely thai
the matter will be considered
Tuesday.
BY writ Of hapeas corpus, Mr.
Dietz seeks to force the state prose
fcutors to produce all the evidence
against Billburg in court and prove
II possible that the evidence war
rants his further detention without
bond, The petition relates that Mr.
Dietzk as counsel for Billburg, per-
sonally interviewed all the wit
nesses whose names appear on the
indictment as having given evidence
to Me grand Jury. and that from
their stories 1t appears that the de-
PENDANT has been unjustly indicted
1t Is represented that NO substan.
tial evidences was received by thu
4 grand fury connecting Billbur1
with the shooting of John Conner
Looney in the Market square street
battle of Oct. 6.
January Grand Jury.
4 The January Rock Island count,
grand jury will be sworn in Mon.
day morning. New Years day, b,
Judge Charles ]. Searle in accord.
ance with the law, which makes M
provision for holidays. The worl
OF the new grand jury will not star,
until Tuesday morning, however
While 1t Is admitted that the Sen
TENDER grand Jury struck into tn,
core Of the Rock Island vice situa
ton by returning Al indictments. Il
10 believed that there are othe,
matters remaining which the new
grand Jury will be asked to con
slider. The September grand jur,
declared upon adjournment tina
there Is still work to be done befor,
the evil growths Of 20 years hay,
been entirely eradicated. Chief In
vestigator H. 8. Mosher this morn
Ing stated that he does not know
whether Attorney-G General Edward
J. Brundage plans to take charge q
the new grand Jury. Since his re-
turn to Rock Island early this weel
Mr.. Mosher has been concernet
chiefly in perfecting the evidenc,
to be used by the state in the prose.
cution Of defendants already unde,
Indictment.