The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-23
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DEATH HALTS
SMALL TRIAL
Judge PauseS to Or
der Death of
Slayer. r

waukegan. ILL.,, May 2S.-(By the
Associated Press 1.-THE trial of
Governor Len Small was delayed
almost a whole half hour today
while Judge Claire c. Edwards,
presiding judge in the governors
trial, sentenced a murderer to
death.
The condemned man is Ignatz
Patz of Chicago, who shot and
killed William Peterson, a motor
cycle policeman on March 13.
Judge Edwards sentenced Patz 70
die on the gallows, June 16.
! The prosecution continued to Of
fer records of Chicago banks as
evidence in the governors trial.
3 Howard Rice. audit clerk in the
Continental and Commercial Ma
t.onal bank, who took the stand
i late yesterday, identified records OF
! the Fort Dearborn National bank
the affairs of which were takeI
over by the Continental and Com
mercial last December.
! Rice formerly was employed II
| the Fort Dearborn National bank
which figured in transactions be
tween the late Senator Edward c
Curtis and Chicago packers. 1t Il
through some of these transactions
that the prosecution is attempting
to prove the conspiracy charg
against the governor.
| Packer Loans Still Up.
Il Money loaned to the packers, ac
cording to the prosecution, wa
first loaned by Small, state treas
urer from 1917 to 1919, to Curtis
who then made the large loans t.
the packers and failed to turn tn
: interest into the state treasury
Lieutenant Governor Fred E
Sterling, when he succeeded Small
in the treasurer's office in 1915
entered the alleged conspiracy, &C
cording to the prosecution.
Charles c. LeForgee and Verne
W. Schroeder, of counsel for Gov
ernor Small, who protested agains
admission of memoranda of Swif
& Co. and Armour & Co. into tn
records of the trial. continue
( their objections against the ban
memoranda.
AS a result of Judge Edwards
ruling last night, the prosecute
|
e system" of marking exhibits and a
= the documentary evidence whlc
r went in today was numbered col
! secutively.
e Governor Examines Evidence.
l. During the testimony of Mr.. RiC
y Governor Small examined some
il the documentary evidence, lnclu'
y ing sheets from loose leaf LEDGE
q of the Fort Dearborn Nation
q hank. on which the account or u
: Grant Park bank" was carried.
1t was this bank, conducted
II Senator Curtis and his brothe
IS Vernon Curtis, which the prosec
l. ton charges was a name only, r
i, called from the past for the pu
1t pose of the alleged conspiracy.
l. With the sentencing or the mu
l. derer, Patz, today there arose I
le probability that Governor Sms
IN will be asked to grant execud
Of clemency to the condemned mi
while facing criminal charges NIL
SELL
Patz will certainly appeal to t
governor if denied another chan
for his life by the courts.
Offers Cashiers CheckS.
Assistant Attorney General W
kerson offered a stack of cashle
U checks of the Fort Dearborn \
tional bank, and asked the wltne
to read them into the record
h. was with these checks that
prosecution says the late Sena'
Curtis bought packers notes
Proceedings of the trial becal
so dull and monotonous during
he morning session that all the sp
r. tators except three young girls
" the court room.
nd Marcus Jacobowsky and W.
on Mckee. former vice president
en- the Fort Dearborn bank, ana 1
ch gene Witzleben, former teller, WI
m ed in an ante-room to be called
\. witnesses after Mr.. Rice.
We The only breaks in the monotC
in were occasional arguments betW'
a T; attorneys over the admission
is evidence.
he Governor Small left before co
recessed for lunch.