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

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Thomas Holt6n. negro. r.
eeefestsd In az raid :. On r.
tDouny property. HAND srsS
sdea. two shotsu1s ma thfs
rifles and other armamesS
were found and taken to ~
polfcA headquartars, pendins'
further investifa tions.
oePetitions containing the nam.
81 l.6SS voters asking q chansS
from the commission to ~
aldormanic form Of Rover
s ment we're fled with the cit,'
clerk.
l--Sherin John G. Miller ~
State Investigator Thms.s
White raid Office Of POW
Magistrate D. J. Cleland ~
seize records wanted to verif,
fines witnesses stated they ~
paid for various offenses q
grand jury summons was ~
served upon Cleland.
ROCK Island county grand I'M,
reconvened this morning N,
recess OF a month nd LISTEN
to the presentation of the N.
dence accumulated by the Il.
vestigation Of vice, crime -
graft conditions in Rock Z.
land county.
Mrs. Hazel Schadel form..
sweetheart of John .Conn.e
Looney, is held for .examinatioe
by the grand jury.
Police officers and state inyeat,.
gators make the third raid 8
the Looney place and seize a.
ditional papers and document.
to be used as evidence before
the grand jury.
'3-Indictments against Thomas
Cox suspended chief Of police 5
and City Attorney John X
Scott, were voted by Rock Is
land county grand Jury, char.
ing conspiracy and malfeasauce
of office.
Louis Ortell, John P. Looney !
Lawrence Pedigo. Clint" Hin
pert, Dirty Neck" Kelly.
" "Gooney" and George Cah..l
We're indicted by the grand
= jury on q charge of conspiracy
to take the life of Dan Drost.
former Looney lieutenant and
editor of the Rock Island News
All are held under $25,ooe
bonds.
'4-Federal officers take dope val.
ued at $4,000 at the home Of
A. d. Harris, 504 Forfeit
street, one of the largest ha6ls
of drugs ever made in the stats
of Illinois. Harris claims he
bought the army belts at Camp
Grant, Rockford, and did not
know about the narcotics,
which were in II out of 1000
belts purchased.
George Allies, 63, resident Of
Vandruff's Island, was killed
by suffOcation when q sand
bank caved in on him while he
was working at eighth
avenue and Twelfth street
Four true bills indicting City
Attorney John X. Scott, former
Chief of Police Thomas Cox,
and dozen minor characters
of Rock Islands underworld,
on charges covering conspiracy
to. violate laws against gamb-
ling, disorderly houses, sale Of
liquor, receiving stolen prop
erty and malfeasanee Of office
were reported to Judge N. A
Larson in circuit court BY
Rock Island county grand jury
Tommy Murray. wanted sincs
Oct. 6 on warrant charging
him with completely in thu
killing of John Connor Looney
was arrested in Davenport. HI
was arraigned before Magis
trate d. ]. Cleland and re
leased on a bond of $4,000.
IA fall of Is inches of snow
the first of the season, occurred
this morning.
,S-John Looney and Thomas Coz
were indicted by the grand tur.
ion a charge o. larceny al
bailee; Louis Ortell. for a con
fidence game, and Bert DuPrei
TOR perjury.
Tri-cities are enveloped in sec
ond heavy fog of season whlcl
slowed traffic on all streets.
,9-Emil Tank, LooHey henchmal
and proprietor of bar at 1872
Second avenue, was serve
with an attachment against hi
personal property for sl,90t
procured by Mrs. Blondin
Case, owner.
The LeClaire canal, from LIE
Claire, Iowa, to Smiths island
eliminating rapids which 70
many years have been a men
ace to river traffic, was form
ally opened with an elaborat
program.
to one OF the police sta
ton safes, which have bee
held by Thomas Cox since q
was suspended as head OF To
police department. we're turne
in by him to Acting Chief 9
Police William H. Fltzsln