Chester Herald-Tribune from Chester, Illinois • 1

On of the escaped men is an automobile expert who serving time for automobile stealing I On! Jury Trial Last Week Plain-jf Geu Verdict Sleinkraua Ac-intted- Coulterville Case On Steinkraus Acquitted SITUATION I aSTLIm INMATES ESCAPE A committee of the MiiiAnri tnj 7 Illinois shippers and Fourteen inmates of the asylum ested to the renewi i fr0m th th I iC wentTS1 ')Tt 'cIock Wad- Chicago dey evening of lest week Eieht of for the toansfer'of th rrn'mr'u th fourteen were recaptured up to HAPPENINGS IN COUNTY Item General Interest Citiaee of Randolph Cenety leased Frees County Paper Hr A Stephenson had some the largest Elephant Ear" ever seen to Sparta The leave measured ttt -T- 4 7 EIGHTY-SIX YEARS OLD On day last week Mrs Mm Mid-dendort reached the eighty-sixth milestone along her journey through life In feeble health she spent the -w pqrw IU day in bed to which ahe hu been qhi- fort in lerth and IH feet in width fid for the part three weeks A Sparta fisherman landed Mrs Middendorf was much pleased at the Country Club lake on day last on this occasion by the visit of a few week that weighed five ponds and four old friends among them Mrs Min I ounces This is the largest fish Boeger and Mrs Ahrens both of caught In the lake during the see whom are about Mrs MiddendorPa son age The aged ladies spent a couple Adrian a a of hours talking over old times and Jntd 5 refreshments of ice cream were Serv ed Mrs Middendorf partaking with fZL i the vacancy a real relish Wring up in her bed Mr Middendorf i one of Che ter oldest citizens a lady who hasi in bnk Woodriv HL ptofed a splendid part to the history thrty-thlrd degree in Masonry of Chester during the past sixty I ffWerred upon Gngg of years Her friends wish for her 1 8PM Chicago one dny last week peace and pleasure in the days of the This is the highest degree to the edd dU 'R0Ch'1 justic of the peace court for damages which he sustain dndTrUrd juWt lor dam- waa PPaled by Mr TOtle but a compromise was effected before it came to tnfil In ten of the iwenty-eight eases for divorce on the docket Judge Ben-center rendered decisions Four dV07rrntd on the ground of Willful desertion two on the ground of adultery and one on the and repeated cruelty In the desertion cases three wives were plaintiffs end two hus-onds In the crueltycasea one wife one husband were plaintiffs In fth Cse ft ennounced the husbands and wives had kissed and made up pnd that -the stream of domestic felicity was again running smodthly The suit of Wm Morrison colored against Randolph County was taken up Tuesday afternoon and the trial progressed all of Wednesday Morrison seeks damages from he county fbr the burning of his house by an alleged mob at Coulterville some time ago State's Attorney Riesa for the county was endeavoring to prove by witnesses that there is a doubt as to the being set on fire by the mob the evidence intimating that Morrison maF have set fire to the house him-jfSlf The property lost by Morrison according to the evidence js yalued at about $2500 The jury had not returned a verdict when the Tribune forms were closed Wednesday night setting of her lifes sun company orgsnixed to operate the road The new company is composed Ud Company the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co and three other concerns on the Missouri eidt of the nver which have raised $900-W for the purpose of purchasing the road And paying the accrued taxes The Illinois cities along the line' of the road at a meeting of those inter- toivi in the roads operation in St Louis last Monday pledged subscriptions to bonds of the road in the amount of nearly $300000 These bonds are to run ten years and bear seven per cent Interest with redemption privilege at any time after two years The proceeds of the sale of these bonds will be used in putting the roadbed ih operating condition They will be secured by a first mortgage on all the property of the road The quotas of the bond subscriptions assigned to the different towns of this county were as follows: Coul terville $70000 Sparta $57000 Evansville $50000 Chester $12000 The remainder of the $300000 to be derived from' the sale of the bond issue will be raised in the towns along the line of the road outside of Randolph county It was understood by Chesters representatives at the meeting that no subscription for bonds would be raised here except under the provision that regular daily freight and passqnger service over the road be given this city Present indications point to the re newed operation of the I road to ita entirety within a few months a lodge Mr Grigg I said to be the only 88 rd degree Mason in this congressional district and there are lea than 2000 in America The Randolph Club at Sparta is considering a proposition of the International Shoe Company to start a SC still at large The men who escaped were all confined in one of the south wards of the institution on the ground floor It la not the custom to confine the pa-tiente in their cells until nine oclock et night and up to this time they ere permitted to roam about the ward at pleasure According to an evidently prearranged plan about seven oclock several of the patient rushed upon Attendant McCormick who waa to charge of the ward while others attacked an assistant on the ward who was bound and gagged The keys to the ward door leading to the rear of the institution was taken from Attendant McCormick The door was opened and fourteen inmates of the ward made bolt for freedom The alarm was immediately given but the men had scattered in all direction and disappeared in the darkness The escape signal the unearthly schreoching' of the prison siren and the blowing of the prison whistle announced the escape to the inhabitants of the country for miles around and keepers of the institution were sent scurrying over the country along the roads to automobiles and tracks in search of the escaped patients Several of the fugitives were seen in town a few hours after the escape one of them asking 'the way of -era! citizen to the railrosdj Three of the escapes were eaptufed Wore they got off the asylum grounds and three were captured about thiw miles in the country One of the ecr negro waa captured at TS Landing in Missouri he having crossed the river in a skiff below Rock wood Officers on his track learned of his crossing tha river end followed close upon his track He was caught in a little wood on the Missouri side of the river The eighth patient was captured in St Louis tost Monday -The police of St Louis were notified by the asylum officials of an address to which the patient had been writing and the patient went direct to that address where he wet arrested On of the ocpC jfter serving year in prison and either year in the county jail foL conviction on a charge -fcf ordering Otis Welshans' a 16-year toy at Sparta on July 20 1918 5-j Steinkraoa waa acquitted by a ct in the circuit court on Tuesday One boys Lawrence Wiley Emil Sankraua and Otis Lehnherr were toiti of the deliberate murder of tbhans in a Junk yard at Sparta gnfdmght for- the purpose I rob-' pi him of money he had in his possum Wiley plead guilty to the nrr and was sentenced by the not to serve twenty-five years in Southern Illinois Penitentiary itinherr plead guilty to mere comint la the proposed robbery and sentenced to an indeterminate ms at the St Charles School for jtgp Steinkraus refused to plead pity and was convicted by a Jury (beh imposed a penalty of forty jnn in the Southern Illinois Peni-hsry Selatives of Steinkraus got busy ad the case -was carried to the su-pate court which granted Stein-kus a hew trial He was brought ba the prison to the county jail at (all Hu case was continued at March term Lehnherr was really paroled from Pontiac and mt to Kansas from where he reused to testify at the trial of Stein-bus on Tuesday The prosecution depended fchiefly ma the 'evidence -of Wiley and Lehn-rr Lehnherr testified at the trial May that Steinkraoa took an ac-su part in the killing of Welshans at his evidence waa weakened by the ict that previous testimony he had pm was to the effect that Stein mas was pot active in the crime Wey provided the sensation of the ml when he deliberately refused to wtify at all Judge Bemreuter rep-saaadsd him ut still he refused to wtify W'lth the states best eor-donting witiness refusing to testify ad the presentation of evidence on to Part of the defense supporting an ito for Steinkraus the prosecution ItS 1st and States Attorney Knjs Uinly told the jury that the states mieact was not suffiei to convict rond a reason a b'e do 1 it and that supreme court wrid overrule a trifflf of guilty Under these circumstances the jury few minutes after receiving the as returned a verdict of "not JsSty" and Steinkraus after two of imprisonment for the crime sled from the court room a free St a AN ALFALFA SPECIALIST Victor Wolff of Evansville was to town last Monday having been called to serv on the jury this week Mr Wolff is Randolph countys most sue- cessful alfalfa raiser has made torY place The company aska a special study of tb plant and its tha ha eWsene of Sparta erect a culture at the University of Illinois buildln cott 176000 to which 300 and has made a wonderful success of PP'a 11 be employed The propo-raising alfalfa on hi farm Isition is being considered seriously by During the past season Mr Wolff tha Booster Club he had ten acre of his eighty-acre Jacob Conrad of near Walsh drove farm in alfalfa From this ten acres Sparta last Saturday evening a he ha mad four cutting of the week ago and perked hie car to the crop each crop averaging a ton and the Lyle A Lyle garage a half to the aero With alfalfa sell-1 When ho wont for his car at 1030 it ing at as low a price as $20 a ton waa misting The night marshal Mr- Wolff will realize $120 an acre 4 ha phono to an effort to have from the ten acre During the high marshals of all ths town around Urico of alfalfa the' part few year Sparta watch for the' car Then a Mr Wolff says ho has raised enough I man 0 automobile who had Just alfalfa to feed from thirty to fifty driven Intq town gave the Information head of eattlo and sell as much a ht slw a ear answering the dee $1000 worth of hay from hit farm criptlon of ths Conrad car in a ditch at the west end of Main street The 1 wasvq era rt 14 lafwwvs Following is the disposition of the docket: CRIMINAL Popl Etc vs Juw Trier Rap Con-tinned Peopl Etc Saantl Rirrii iIIm Bed Hwme BunrUi7 and Larcenr COMMON LAW Thoouu Chu Bert 1m it JadiraMttt by arreenent for flaintH! in aum of 9400 and cotta Joaaoh OerouiN va Herfcb at Attachment Judasnest in bm af yUlstiff for 14181 Anna Sehtotmana va Jccefb Maocr at at Treaihac Plaintiff takea noaalt no fit Liyht ft Power Ca Edward ae at CertkrriN Caae tranafenred to Clair County Circuit Court tor hmrinar Oaear Witten brink Miaaoari Pae Byt Appeal from Court Plaintiff tekm non POTATOES PAID ADMISSION About 300 children attended the picture show et the Opera House Saturday afternoon the admission fee being a potato and the proceeds were about 300 potatoes of both the Irish snS sweet varieties In order to stimulate they children in bringing the largest potatoes possible Mr Sehuchert offered a pass to the eighteen installments of the serial inaugurated with the matinee to the child bringing the largest potato As a result Mr Sehuchert found himself in possession of about two bushels of fine potatoes at the close of the performance The kind of potato required for admission not being specified a few members of the audience brought monster sweet potatoes and it was to one of the donors of this variety of potato that the pasa to eighteen performances of The Midnight Man was awarded little Miss Lola Juer PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES' prqved to be the Conrad ear Rally Day in Sunday School next The crowd at the Sparta fair oa Sunday morning beginning at 9:30 Thursday waa estimated at 16000 A few of tha children will present I811 fifty-cent tickets having been the characterized exercise rolled The old Far th hr days of the fair Sons of the Immigrant" The pro-188 ticket were told The prize gram is entitled The Call to Ser- 200 or suckling colt tho vice Home Department member rl bcom th property of the especially Invited to the program 0f Fair Association was awarded to the day (James A Anderson of Coulterville Preaching service begin et t-01? aucion and waa oclock Tb termpn will not bl4 E- BMcGulr for $176 By long but will be pointed et the pree- fttt fount on Thursday of the fair lent day mistake regarding the life 'r 1618 auton'hilee perked of children end youth lnid ffound 876 on the outside will be a solo by Miss Bilderback TrU N'w waBta know and other specials Let each tten- popta a wtttrn rmr dant bring a roe of any color if condirionawheo everybody 1 so pro convenient Those who cannot bring Th dlor aY a rose brine an flower avail hu knows of a boy 13 years old who spent to secure two fcewpie dolls rose bring any flower available a slip of a plant A committee will CONVICTS ESCAPE PRISON Three convicts made their escape from the prison last Tuesday morning about 4:30 o'clock On Wednesday evening the men were atill at large with every Indication that they had gotten well away from the prison The convicts who escaped were employed In the officers' kitchen At some previous time they sawed the bars to the window to ths steward's office which opens on the lawn out- Frank Ecefec Chac Rats CaMam Plaintiff taka Bonuit Howcy Tbompton' hank Paynk Appeal from Court Cim eontiea! Nelli Friemaa ra JamM GiUespb Data sre Continaed Hajrh C- MeCray John Trnpm ContintMd Weir ra a BM RepWvto ruin-tiff takes noireolt Weir Be tee Atteckment FUintiff tekee non-eoft Bert Hindman Robb Waddell Attachment uitment lor pteiatiff tor I1147S and east 1 Adami oLD Jonee et at Amw It Jury Unde for nlalntl and a damaree at $1000 Emily Conner Wm Conner At-peal from i Court Appeal dnmkeed MeMiehnrf Ulnberb Appeal from 1 Court Jwtemeat by asm In foror of plaintiff for $171 Tbomom Tittld Appml 1 Court Cat mttlef Aiwmi Malone Ce A Wlleon Cm taken non-eit Willie Morrieoa et al si VlUate Cert-rrill and Co of Raadotob Tmepom oa tfc Domarmr ouetalaod to thatf Village ed Coultersiile Oserruled Butters CHANCERT Priemsn vs Nor Frieaw Divoreu dmaissed Katie Maremkowekl at Partttam TS Elisabeth Ssbslt- au Bill dkmnsrt gens whose sweet potato weighed over three pounds i be at the door to receive them Elder Holman proudly escorted his aged mother Mrs Bobbet of Fairfield to church last Sunday morning at on of tho chance stands at the fair and on Friday the earn boy spent $6 to get one kewpi doll Hun-dreda of other young people hag money to spend as lavishly at the fair and Editor Morgan looks back to the days when he was 13 years old end say he we a mighty lucky boy and the envy of all his playmates if he side of the prison enclosure On Tuesdajr morning the steward with hi force of convicts were preparing breakfast all locked in the officers kitchen While the steward was employed in on part of the large kitchen on of hit convict runners was captured and locked in the large icebox The other runner we captured and bound in the stewards office and his keys taken away from Rim The door leading from he office to the kitchen waa then locked from the inside and the convict escaped through the window from which the bars bad been sawed They went to the asylum where they took possession of Superintendent Stubblefields automobile and followed the road out beck of the prison to the Ellis Grove road beyond he cemetery They followed this road to the Scheltgen place where they turned and went down to Ft Gage passing on towards Rileyt Lake Her the Car was abandoned and the convicts took to a wood' between Ellis Grove and Riley's Lake In the meantime the escape was THE CLARYVILLE FAIR The Community Fair at Claryvilje on Tuesday of last week was a grand success There was an immense crowd present and every person who attended was profuse in hi praise of the splendid exhibits all of which cam from the farms within three miles of Clsryyill The Chester merchants closed their stores at six o'clock Tuesday even-ing to order that their help might attend the fair By many who attended both the Sparta fair and the Clary-ville fair it was said that the agricultural and poultry exhibits were superior to the Sparta fair exhibits Rev Father HiUtner deserve much credit for the splendid work he did in co-ope ration with other enterprising citizens of the community in managing the show 1 1 WOODMEN INITIATION- The local Woodmen Camp will have a big time next Tuesday eventog at Odd Fellows Hall Six candidates Odd Fellows HalL Six cmdidstes81' The esse of Adami against Jones et al was the only jury trial wart all of last week It appears tot Judgb Adami entered into a con net with Jones brothers to sell for i their coal mino located at Coul-MHe for which eervice he was to i $1000 Judge Adami found a (or the coal mine and the mine to soU after a time The Jones' tot refused to pay the commission Judge Adami brought suit lie suit of Joseph Derousse twit Hersch et al brings up sce point which will be decided by I to appellate court Judge Bernreu-I to rendered judgment in favor of the toiaiiff in the case for $4181 The toKion involved in the suit is who pay the drainage tax on laud on I tisskia Island the holders under I Commons leases or the purchas-j the Commons lands subject to I tosses When the Commons lands ltosksskia Island were sold by the1 I tote a law years ago considerable of I toas not under lease or the tores were about to expire and have I tote expired On other portions of lands sold the teases at the time toi number of years yet to run and hare not yet expired- Tbejiyere of these lands contend na obi to fie meat mn ilMad Plaintiff watt araimt ther Cyril Bill gen ourt vnysd Wm Dlsoree of Chu Deem ful Hobb met wmeee ohLearion drainaecrt IWhrh pay THOUGHT HIM A BUG One of the men belonging to the prison who were out looking for the SALTATION ARMY DRIVE escaped convicts They thought he) i was one of the inmates of the asylum UsrUt! who escaped last weak and f- Ck effort A 5 rrcvtr nr hour He protested being rtcd of and tried to explain but the officers or i 7 refused to listen to him to every town in the Yt new system of COUNTY CLERKS STATEMENT funda Inaugurated and it On tli last Pace of this Uu will prepwd in th fotu County Clerk Boekhoff of the roceis ThwortW of the and expenditures of the county for i rat ion is a question too well known to be discussed nd expenditure of the county for Gusta Kins frrt Gllteabsis Sato for complainant Dtem Waa Saber J- Carlyle appomtrd "LwluaOhiar Vriul Oliver BiU dbmaerf Flere Verndb Deems uf ibvorm ffmatrt oa ubergu uru)l-ertn- MsW J- of vr imM ffeoertloa I Leute toF muutorfv of tfciM to piofooff -O usbrty Jlsrtm Marteto and to---ost yrejowo rtpaiuJws Dowm steward who nlirrtu eu siiuBrn- wilfee initisted -Major McDonald klUh ha4 tm the past year The statement Is at the bead of the'Spartg degree team j1 10 ITadlY th a-arm l-1 sp'erd'dly arranged With fe view 'tq do the work of initiation and affording th taxpayers of the county "-rr there gill he number cf tha Wi" oUTUty of lea re ng jun Urc til 7' Jl i I' 1)1 bresef-s the romp accompany the af our- tlul hav been to tU city and to the homa of he le3eW- 7ZJ jttaThrerL and tU (Thr refresh- tj thoold read Ih ctatement rim in St Lou hmt Suntfev miU mirmanded Taetdat nflerfwjim 1 Iandb0 i Fc'lcwmg the toi'totion 0f donr Wi Timsdsy sftcreoon evening Mre Cliben OTr a creirr fca of sand wk he andeoff Ev-funr where tne leases have Mrr c-o 'he served to at! members prerent akd to the capture r17 th 7177 tVe visors- from other camp- A th oow of 7 77 n-AXT TO RAISE THE RYTF npril 0f the Chester camp are the benefit of the levee and HA ard therefore should pay Te Llcht vutiwurs aouutu i pnb'ic phene message came to the prison had been in tbe hospital suffering from hope Via malady for about two weeks SH was taken from tha trsin to the Bar home a rot which was kauVJ low home rot whW MHFAT PRICE SU MPING heat lias been declining in 9Aappft! t9 ati for permission MARRIAGE -77 rora the decision of has been taken FTv nd the th Oougla Mr BsrW jfrete Evansville that an automobile acrompanM had been stolen there and it is sup- WiodF- Flour price Mrg CliHon hmnf I posed that ear in the meht the ron- d7t" a reduction of vkts had escaped from the wood snd barrel betow the prices qaoted-j bad mad their way to Evansville'1 wk Por ar haturaly to unfortunate that even when they A cbeau wit generally! expensive ch0F thcr minds thy change them to its owners reputation for something worse bd mad their way to Eiantwill where -they secured Cie a-rtomobie and hastened on toward St Louts Judge tK'SCwm eVrk Edard VL Heine Modoc yu fe Company mst that yreda We-gcrd Modoc of Thom are against Chester gor and ms- -He Tittle of Evansville was set- the hgh malted in vt evert Rfeelmle 1 of Court This is a rose tertol far Hud Merert out of an automobile hoffi- riousy deerrosed net Buy Wsddng rgs et Wo the road between Evansville th company I i.