The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-21
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HELD IN BILLS
Of GRAND JURY
(coptinued from Tirst raes1

4 fcontinusd from First Pses.l
Looney Was slain and released
within . few days upon ~, 100
bonds. Judge Nels A. Larson, howl
eyer, upon return OF the true bills
today directed that they be taken
into custody and held without bail
The Witnesses listed on the indict-
ment follows: John L0oney. DR..
Joseph DeSilva. Mrs. Charles Down
ing. Earl Shannon, r. 8. Berry,
Hafvf Fitzsimmons, John Kinney,
James Green, Rudolph Gundrum.
william Epperson, Jennie Sebas-
tian, Frank Spangler. Margaret
Zones, Patricia "A. johnson, w. G.
Allen, James Sullivan, Howard
Klove, Pearl Carter, Charles Flani-
gan, F. J. Mueller, William Nichols,
Lawrence Pedigo, Cy Hazlett, John
Epperson, p. s. Palmer, A. Ka-
Mods, julius Duvenionck, Kath-
crime B. Tarpy, Miss Bjornbal,
George Deisenroth, w. E. Hartman,
John Tarpy, John Shean, George
Stauduhar and Frank Stauduhar.
10 Disorderly Houses.
Nineteen of the true bills name
q defendants on charges of con-
Quoting disorderly houses. The
persons include nearly all whose
names have long been associated
with Rock Islands underworld,
and number not only Looney him
self, but his henchmen as we'll.
Looney and Joe Richards, Jointly
indicted in the Gabel murder, are
held as proprietors OF a place at
1891 Second avenue, generally
known as the Rex hotel; Lawrence
Pedigo, now in custody for the Ga
bel murder, is named as proprietor
of the Sherman hotel on Seven
teenth street, and Charles Reagan,
publisher of the Tri-City Labor
Review and Mayor H. M. Schriver's
nominee for a place on the police
and fire commission, was indicted
with P. J. Carlson, business agent
for the carpenters union and prom
inent in labor circles, for conduct
ing a disorderly house at the Fed
Grated Trades pool hall in the In
dustrial Home btilding. Charges
of operating gaming house were
also made against the proprietors
of that place.
| Others named for conducting dis
orderly houses and the locations
! are as follows: Peter Lippens,
723 Third avenue; Ernie Ohlweiler.
1926 Second avenue; William 7.
| Rice, 21O7 Fourth avenue. Emil
Tank, 1923 Second avenue; Joe
Merk, 230 Twenty-first street;
Emeal Davis, 21O3 Third avenue;
George Marshall, 2221 Third ave-
nue.; Fred E. Heron, 126 Twenti-
eth street; Alberta Cosey, 2211
Third avenue; George Holsapple,
219 Sixteenth street; Nell Hill. 1906
First avenue; William Ray, 1921
First avenue; Beth Roberts, 2071a
Seventeenth street; George Will
fiams, 2215 Third avenue; A. G..
Smith, 800 Twenty-tirst street;
Pearl Lieurance, Market Square no
| tel, 217H Seventeenth street.
Cleland Most Indicted.
The most indicted man in to-
days report of the grand jury is
Police Magistrate David ]. Cleland.
Cleland is named in six
of the 80 indictments. Cleland
is charged with malfeasance OF Of
flee, embezzlement of city funds,
confidence game, two charges OF
conspiracy and one of larceny. All
the indictments against Cleland de-
velop from the alleged misapplica-
ton of his duties and powers as
police magistrate.
i John Looney, abdicated king OF
Rock Islands underworld, who has
been a fugitive from state and fed
eral warrants nearly two months,
covering a charge of murder and
lesser offenses, is next to Cleland
| in the number of additional in
dictments in which he was named
today. Looney appears as a de-
PENDANT in five of the 80 indict-
ments. He is named as a cocoon
: spirator of Cleland's in two con-
spiracy indictments, and with Law
renee Pedigo, his chief henchmen
) in a third conspiracy charge, and
: alone for attempted confidence
| game, and as the keeper of dis
orderly house.
/ Two More for Cox.
Thomas Cox, former chief of pc.
-llice, indicted for the murder Of
: Bill Gabel, and who now is confined
: in theN Moline city Jail, is reindict.
ed on two charges today-malfeas-
ance of office and conspiracy. Law
renee Pedigo. also in Jail for the
murder Of Bill Gabel, is named In
!: two additional indictments, for con.
spiracy for being the keeper Of
disorderly house. Charles Reagan
, editor of the Tri-City Labor Re
, view and business agent of the
| Pressmen's union, and P. ]. Carl
son, business agent of the Carpen
, | ters' union, are named jointly II
, two indictments, charging then
. with being the keepers of dis
orderly house, and with being thu
: keepers of a gambling house. Tit
: indictments give the Federated
Trades pool hall and billiard room
located in the Industrial hom'
building at Third avenue ant
, 1Twenty-first street, as the location
: :of the disorderly places alleged t.
. have been conducted by the two
defendants.
Nineteen Of today's indictment,
are against alleged keepers Of dis
lor5orIv hoI,coc The OffpnS0 i!