Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-11-15
DAN M'INERNEY TELLS
JUDGE HE COMMITTED
GRAND LARCENY
GIVEN | TO 10 YEARS
SENSATIONAL CLIMAX COMES
WEEK BEFORE TRIAL WAS TO
OPEN - HAD ALWAYS MAIN
TANNED INNOCENCE UNTIL
CONFESSION.

Dan McInerney, aged 46, former
Streator resident who was arrested
ten months ago charged with robbing
the Leonore state bank. pleaded gull
ty to charge of grand larceny in
the circuit court late yesterday aft
ernoon, and was sentenced to serve
a term of from one to ten years in
the state penitentiary at Joliet. Nc
Inerney has been prisoner in the
county Jail since his arrest ten
months ago.
The defendant was accused with
three other men Of having burglar.
ICED the bank by Dominica Bonnecci,
the self confessed driver of the rob
bers' car. He always maintined he
was innocent of the charge from the
time Of his arrest until yesterday
when he made arrangements to
plead. His trial was scheduled to be
heard before Judge Edgar Eldredge
Monday. Nov. 20.
After Dan pleaded guilty, States
Attorney Harry F. Kelly nolle pressed
the indictments against his brother,
William McInerney, and James Con-
nors, two others charged with having
aided McInerney in the robbery of
the bank. Bill McTnerney Is at the
present time serving a sentence OF
from one year to life in the Joliet
pendtentiary )o1 ia robbery charge,
and James Connors has seven years
to serve on sentence at the Fort
Leavenworth, Kas., prison. The two
men were to be brought back to
Ottawa, and jointly tried with Dan,
just as a precaution of his being
acquitted Of the charge, and when the
county prosecutors were able to
secure plea from adm without a
rying the other two men who are at
trial, they thought it was best not
to put the county to he expense of
Jail sentences
The Leonore bank was robbed of
approximately $4,000 worth of liber-
ty bonds In March, 1920 In June of
the same year Bonnecci was arrested
on another charge and confessed to
having driven the bank robbers car
He implicated the two McInerney
brothers, COnnors and a fourth man
who Is still at large, as the robbers.
Dan IMclnerney was arrested in
Galesburg. William McInerney was
located in the Jail at Rockford, where
he had been taken on a robbery war
rant He was convicted and sentenc-
ed to serve term of from ten years
to life in the Joliet penitentiary. Con-
nors was arrested in Danville for a
postal robbery, was convicted and
sentenced to serve long time in the
Fort Leavenworth penitentiary.
States Attorney Kelly secured ha-
baes corpus writs several days ago
to bring Bill McInerney and James
Connors back to Ottawa for trial.
Messages were sent today stopping
them from bringing back these men.
Alleged "Dip" to be Tried.
Harry Kline, of Peru, who was in
dicted by the October grand jury on
a charge of attempted robbery, Is
scheduled to go on trial In the cir
cult court next Monday. Kline is still
at large and has never been taken
into custody since the indictment was
returned against him.
He Is alleged to have run his hand
in Ben Mossback's pocket in an at
tempt to rob him.
Following the disposal Of his trial,
John Mcbride Of North Ottawa will
go on trial on charge of assault
with deadly weapon. Mcbride is
alleged to have stabbed John Woener,
former manager of the Consumers
grocery store, last summer.
States Attorney H. F. Kelly posted
cases today, which are scheduled to
be heard before jury in the circuit
court next week.
The third case on the list is Thos
Onarda, of OTTAWA, who is charged
with having attempted to attack Eiiz
rbeth Barlint of this city.
rhe other cases on the list are as
folhvs:
JOIN, Hynds and Howard Lewis
Mendot. robbery.
wv. G. 9osselman, Utica, assault
with intent 70 kill.
Henry Myers, La Sale, robbery.