Newspaper Clippings for
May, 1928
3 May 1928
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Martin and Richard spent Sunday with relatives
in Chicago.
Earl Slocum of Marengo spent last Sunday with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. L. J. Slocum
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Rowling and children of Grayslake and Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Harmer and children of Waukegan were Sunday at the W.
M. Bonner home.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Denman and Elvin of Waukegan visited at C.
E. Denman's Sunday.
Mrs. Gladys Ames of Gurnee spent Friday with her aunt, Mrs.
Bonner.
Clarence Mayer of Chicago is visiting a few days with his
cousin, Mrs. Carl Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Torfin motored to Chicago Sunday.
Miss Grace Holdridge of Waukegan spent the week end at Lewis
Bauman's.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Garby and daughter of Chicago spent the
week end at Robert Bonner's and motored to Kansasville with the
Bonner family Sunday.
The Christian Endeavor business meeting will be held in the
church parlor Friday evening, May 4.
10 May 1928
MILLBURN MAN DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Funeral Services for Peter Anderson
Were Held at Waukegan Tuesday.
Peter Anderson, 25 years of age, died Saturday at 5:00 p. m. at
the Lake County General Hospital. He had been ill for more than
three months. He is survived by his widow and two small children,
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gorm Anderson and three brothers and
five sisters, all of whom reside three miles west of Millburn. He
was born in Antioch and had lived all his life in this
vicinity.
The funeral services were held Tuesday at 2:00 p. m., at the White
and Tobin Funeral Home, Waukegan. Rev. S. E. Pollock of Antioch,
officiated. Mrs H. B. Gaston and Mrs. L. R. Watson sang
accompanied by Mrs. Wm. F. Ziegler.
Interment was in the Millburn cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Chope announce the birth of a daughter on May
1, at Victory Memorial hospital.
Mrs. Earl Edwards and son, Mark, of Forest Park are spending a
week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Webb. Miss Helen
Edwards and friend, also spent the week end at the Webb home.
Mrs. Harvey of Grayslake spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George
Edwards.
The Wimann family of Chicago spent the past week at their
summer home here.
The funeral services for Mrs. Badendyke, an aged resident of
Wadsworth vicinity, were held at the Millburn church at two
o'clock on Tuesday with burial in Millburn cemetery.
Clarence Mayer returned to Chicago Sunday after a week's visit
at Carl Anderson's.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bruckner entertained company from Chicago the
past week.
Miss Sheehan and her eighth grade class of 1927, were very
pleasantly entertained at the W. A. Bonner home Saturday evening
in honor of Ethel's McGuire's 14th birthday.
The teachers and officers of the Sunday School will meet at the
church Friday evening for a business session.
The "Gleam Followers of Tower Hill" will present a Sunset
service on Sunday evening, May 20, at 7:30 at the church. Special
music and refreshments.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bonner called on the latter's uncle, John
McGuire of Waukegan on Sunday. He is critically ill form cerebral
hemorrhage.
17 May 1928
ROBBER'S SHOT IS FATAL TO LAKE VILLA MAN
WM. BECK DIES IN HOSPITAL AFTER GUNMEN ATTACK
Masked Man Leads Bandit Gang in Looting Farm Home.
"INDIAN CHIEF" IS SOUGHT
Sheriff Lawrence A. Doolittle and deputies today were
investigating the death of William Beck and searching for clues
leading to the identity of the men who shot Beck at his home
three miles east of Lake Villa at eight o'clock last night. The
victim of the shooting was taken last night to Victory Memorial
hospital, Waukegan. He died at five o'clock this morning. Today
the body was removed to the White & Tobin funeral parlors where
the inquest was to be held this afternoon.
Beck, 45, well known farmer of Lake Villa township, was at his
home last evening when three men, one of whom was wearing a mask,
knocked on the door. Refused admittance, one of the men shot
through the door, the bullet entering Beck's abdomen and causing
him to fall to the floor. Entering the house, the robbers bound
and gagged Beck's aged mother who had come down stairs to see
what the trouble was. Her husband, Andrew Beck, 85, who had
retired, was too feeble to come down stairs to assist his wife,
and the men proceeded to rob the place of money and bonds that
Beck was known to have possessed. The masked man, who was
evidently the leader of the gang, seemed familiar with the
premises and the three lost no time in removing the valuables
from a dresser drawer where Beck kept his money and securities.
Take $16 in Money
Sixteen dollars in cash was all the money in the house, according
to Beck's mother, and this the robbers took. Officials today were
unable to make a checkup on the amount of bonds and other
valuable papers missing from Beck's effects, however, some $1400
in registered bonds and U. S. Treasury notes were not taken. It
was reported that about $3,500 in bonds had disappeared, but the
report could not be confirmed today by any officials or by the
murdered man's parents. No records can be found about the house
or in any of the banks patronized by Beck, showing what bonds or
other securities were in his possession. It is known, however,
that Beck invested considerable money in cattle recently, which
may account for the small amount of cash in the house last night.
Mother Gives Alarm
Some time after the disappearance of the robbers, Beck's aged
mother who had been bound hand and foot and gagged, managed to
remove the bandages from her feet and made her way to the home of
Wm. Hagen, a neighbor, to give the alarm. The sheriff's office
was notified at once and the wounded man was taken to the Victory
Memorial hospital, but his wounds proved fatal and he died at
five o'clock this morning. The bullet found in his body was of
.38 calibre.
"Indian Chief" Sought
From description of the men and from the masked one's apparent
familiarity with the premises, officials have reason, they
believe, to check up on the whereabouts of one Nick Henry
Bresette, who claims to be an Indian chief, and hails from
Bayfield, Wisconsin. Bresette, a wanderer, and broke, was given
shelter at the Beck home for several days about a year ago. Later
he obtained employment at Wedges corners. Recently Bresette has
been seen in this locality, in dire need of funds as usual and
applied to acquaintances for financial assistance. He has a
brother living in Elgin, Illinois, it is said.
Efforts to locate the "chief" have been futile thus far.
Father Not Told of Death
Beck's aged father, owing to his state of feebleness, had not
been told of his son's death at noon today. Mrs. Beck, however,
seemed in full possession of her faculties and told officers and
newspaper men all she knew of the tragedy and expressed a hope
that the guilty ones be apprehended at once. The aged pair posed
in front of their home for Chicago newspaper men who had come out
to "cover" the story of the slaying.
Slayers in Hiding?
It is thought the bandits escaped afoot after the slaying and
robbery, for no car tracks were found when deputies from the
sheriff's office arrived on the scene about ten o'clock last
night. It is quite possible, authorities believe, that the
slayers of Beck are hiding in the neighborhood.
Mrs. Carl Chope and little daughter returned home from Victory
Memorial hospital Friday.
Mrs. Earl Edwards and Mark have returned to their home at River
Forest after a week's visit at the D. B. Webb home.
Miss Marion Edwards spent the week end with the Scoville family
in Kenosha.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Gorham of Waukegan were entertained at the
Clarence Bonner home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kaluf of Druce Lake spent Sunday at the Frank
Edwards home.
Mrs. Ahling of Wawatosa, Wisconsin spent Sunday at the Anderson
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bonner and sons spent Sunday with the
latter's parents at Kansasville.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Crawford and daughter were entertained at
the J. T. Crawford home Sunday.
"The Gleam Followers of Tower Hill" will present a sunset
service promptly at 7:30 o'clock at the church next Sunday
evening. There will be special musical numbers and refreshments
will be served.
Dr. Ward, dean of Chicago Theological Seminary, and Mrs. Ward
were entertained at the parsonage on Sunday. Dr. Ward gave the
Mothers' day sermon. There was special music and each mother was
presented with a carnation, a gift from the Sunday School.
Mr. and W. A. Bonner and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bonner attended the
funeral of John McGuire at the White and Tobin Funeral Home
Saturday afternoon. Burial was in Millburn cemetery.
Mr. Pierstorff is suffering from a fractured shoulder, which he
hurt in a fall several weeks ago.
Mrs. Louis Schwicht of Waukegan is spending a few days with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. John Chope.
from the pages of the Lake County Register 19 May 1928
MAN KILLED BY BANDITS AT MILBURN
William Beck Jr. Dies Of Gun Wound
Inflicted By One Of Three Robbers
Seeking Valuables In Home.
Because he resisted three armed bandits, William Beck Jr., 35
years old, who lived on a farm near Milburn with his aged
parents, was shot in the abdomen and fatally wounded Wednesday
night. He died Thursday morning at 5:30 o'clock at the Victory
Memorial hospital, where he was taken in an ambulance a short
time after being found by deputies from the office of Sheriff
Lawrence A. Doolittle, in a dying condition.
After shooting Beck, one of the bandits who was most familiar
with the premises went into a bedroom and opened a bureau drawer
and removed $3,500 worth of registered United States bonds. Beck
although wounded fought stubbornly for some little time with one
of the bandits in a desperate effort to frustrate the robbery,
but was finally overpowered and was hurled to the floor. His
hands and feet were bound with cord.
Mother Is Gagged, Bound
Mrs. Anna Beck, 75 years old, mother of the dead man, who was
asleep in a room upstairs with her husband, William Beck Sr., was
awakened by the scuffling on the first floor and went downstairs.
When she saw her son being abused, she started to run towards the
door, intending to call for help. One of the bandits who was
standing at this door grabbed the aged woman and threw her
heavily to the kitchen floor. She kept crying out for help and a
handkerchief was thrust into her mouth, gagging her. The bandits
then tightly bound her hands and feet with cord.
After taking the registered bonds, demand was made by one of the
bandits, on Beck to tell where he and his father had hidden their
money. He told them he had but $16 in cash in the house. The
bandit told him he was lying and threatened to kill him unless he
gave the desired information. Beck pleaded for his life. He
begged the bandits to free his mother, but they only jeered and
kicked him and then left by the way of the back door.
Seek 3 Men
Sheriff Doolittle and Deputies George Heckinger and William Kelly
were told by Beck and his mother that two of the bandits were
Mexicans and the third a half Indian. They are believed to be in
hiding in the vicinity of Milburn and an all night hunt was made
for them by the sheriff and his men. Sheriff Doolittle was of the
belief Thursday morning that the trio would be located during the
day.
The bandits came to the Beck home around 9 o'clock and it was
some 45 minutes later when a report of the shooting and robbery
was made to the sheriff's office. William Beck Sr., 86 years old,
who has been quite ill for several days managed to make his way
downstairs after the bandits had gone and removed the gag from
his wife's mouth and also unloosened the cords which bound her
hands and feet. She went over to the Hagen house, a short
distance away and told of the happenings. Mrs. Hagen called the
office of Sheriff Doolittle.
Sheriff Doolittle was away at the time and Elmer Hudson, night
turnkey, sent Deputies Heckinger and Kelly out to the Beck home.
Arriving there they found the aged couple in a highly nervous
state and suffering considerably from shock.
Dr. Jamieson was called to attend the wounded man and his aged
parents. The White & Tobin ambulance was called and William Beck
Jr., was taken to the Victory Memorial hospital. The Beck home is
located on Bonner road, a dirt road about a mile north of the
Ernest Lehman estate in Grand avenue. The heavy rain Wednesday
made the road so muddy that it was difficult for the ambulance
and the sheriff's machine to get through to the Beck house.
A fast trip, under prevailing conditions, was made to the
Waukegan hospital and Dr. W. S. Bellows was waiting there to aid
in the treatment of the wounded man. It was realized from the
outset, however, that there was no chance to save his life.
Former Employe Suspected
A short time before he died, Beck was questioned by Detective
Sergeants Bart Tyrrell and William MacDonald. Beck told the
police sergeants that he felt certain that the half-Indian bandit
was the man who formerly had been employed on the farm by his
father. He worked on the farm up until about a year ago and was
then believed to have gone to his home near Marshfield, Wis. The
half-Indian bandit was masked, having a handkerchief over his
face. He was the one who went right to the bureau and took out
the United States bonds.
The half-Indian is described as a man about 40 years old and has
dark features. He is 6 feet in height and weighs around 190
pounds. One of the Mexicans is described as a man weighing around
140 pounds, but further than that no descriptions of the Mexicans
could be obtained by the sheriff and his men.
Sheriff Doolittle attended the boxing exhibitions Wednesday in
McHenry and upon learning of the shooting upon his return home,
he hurried to the Beck place and assumed charge of the
investigation. He is of the belief that Beck went to open the
door and that upon noticing the trio of armed bandits, tried to
close the door, and that he was shot in doing so.
Sheriff Doolittle found $1,600 worth of United States treasury
bonds and two $100 school bonds and some war savings stamps in
the house. He is at a loss to understand why this was not
included in the loot taken by the bandits. The sheriff notified
all police departments between Milwaukee and Chicago of the
killing and robbery. He was endeavoring to get the numbers of the
registered bonds, so that if any attempt is made to get money for
them, the capture of the men can be brought about.
Sheriff Doolittle learned Thursday morning that a new section
gang on the Soo Line had located near Milburn last night and he
is of the belief that the half-Indian and the Mexicians are
connected with the outfit. Members of the crew were to be grilled
by the sheriff.
The elder Beck, according to information of Sheriff Doolittle is
known to have been opposed to putting money or securities of any
kind in banks, preferring to keep them at home. For many years
the aged man is said to have kept bonds, money and other
valuables buried in the ground on his premises in tin cans.
Sheriff Doolittle says that Deputies Kelly and Heckinger found no
automobile tracks leading to the house when they went to Beck's
place last night. This leads the sheriff to believe that the men
had no automobile and are still in the Milburn region.
The inquest into the death of Beck was started Thursday afternoon
by Coroner John L. Taylor.
Because of his enfeebled condition William Beck Sr., has not been
told of the death of his son, the sole support of the family.
from the pages of the Lake County Register 23 May 1928
PAIR ADMIT KILLING OF GURNEE MAN
3 Others Sought
In Death Of William Beck Jr.;
Ex-convict Fired Shot,
Police In Chicago Are Told.
Two men, and Indian and a Negro are under arrest in Chicago on
charges of having murdered William Beck Jr., 35, a farmer living
near Milburn and of robbing the Beck home. They confessed their
guilt Thursday night to police of the Maxwell station in Chicago
and later repeated their confessions at the Chicago station to
Sheriff Lawrence A. Doolittle and other Lake county officers.
They named three other accomplices, all Negroes, and the Chicago
authorities are strongly on the trail of the trio.
The pair charged with murder and robbery gave these names:
Clifford Bresette, 30 years old, an Indian chief at the LaPointe,
Wis., reservation.
John Brown, colored, 40 years old, 3652 Indiana avenue, Chicago.
Seek Ex-Convict
Claude Clark, colored, a Chicagoan and an ex-convict, fired the
shot which fatally injured Beck, the Chicago police and Sheriff
Doolittle were told by Bresette and Brown. They told the
authorities that Clark had not divided the loot taken from the
Beck home, keeping it all for himself. On information supplied by
Bresette and Brown, the Maxwell station police raided a flat a
3201 Dearborn street, only to find that Clark had left just about
five minutes before their arrival. The Chicago detective bureau
was enlisted in the search for Clark and the other two men, whose
names are not known and haunts of the trio were raided throughout
the night, but with no success. Lieut. Sylvester Cotter of the
Maxwell station had charge of the search Thursday night and he
reported to Captain Daniel A. Lynch, who is in charge of that
station Friday morning, that police details were scouring haunts
of Clark in various parts of the city and he expressed the belief
that Clark would be in custody by night.
Policy Theft Brings Arrest
The capture of the pair who confessed being implicated in the
Lake county murder and robbery was a matter of sheer luck.
Bresette went to the Maxwell station shortly before 6 o'clock
Thursday night and reported that several colored men had taken
his life insurance policy from him and left him some old clothes.
He told the police that John Brown was one of the men who had
robbed him and furnished his address.
It was reported that the Indian went to the police station to
tell about the murder and robbery at the Beck home. Sheriff
Doolittle says however, that such was not the case. He says that
the police grilled him about where he had been for the past few
days and that Bresette told of the robbing and shooting of Beck.
He was unaware that Beck had been killed and in fact said he did
not realize the man had been hurt to any great extent.
Bresette said that he was familiar with the Beck premises, having
knowledge that Beck had money hidden on his place in a molasses
can and that he kept all of his valuables at home, feeling that
banks were not safe. Bresette said he was discharged from the
United States army at Camp Custer the latter part of last week
and was bound for his home in Northern Wisconsin, when he met
Brown in Fond du Lac, Wis. Bresette said he had run short of
funds and that Brown had but little money and that he suggested
the robbery of the Beck home near Milburn and Brown agreed to go
along with him. He said that neither of them had a weapon, so
they agreed it was best to go back to Chicago and get someone
having a machine and a gun to accompany them. On the way back,
Bresette said, they stopped and spent Monday night as stayovers
at the Waukegan police station.
They drove out from Chicago early Tuesday night and had a tire
punctured near the Ernest Lehmann estate in Grand avenue, about a
mile north of the Beck house and the five of them left the car
there and walked through fields to the house.
Forced Into Robbery
"When we got near the house I did not want to go through with the
job, but Clark, the only one carrying a gun forced me to do so,"
said Bresette. "Clark rapped at the door and in response to a
question by Beck about what was wanted, said we had had
automobile trouble."
Beck opened the door and when he saw a gun pointed at him, he
tried to close the door and Clark shot him, so Bresette said.
Clark, Bresette and Brown went inside and the other two men
remained on guard outside.
Bresette said that Brown and Clark grappled with Beck when
resisted and that Clark finally felled him by striking two heavy
blows over the head with his revolver. He said that Clark then
tied up his hands and legs. While they were grappling with Beck,
his mother, Mrs. Anna Beck, 75 years old, came downstairs.
Bresette said he put her on the floor and tied her hands
together. Mrs. Beck told the sheriff that she was knocked down by
the Indian and that both her hands and feet were tied and that he
also struck her on the side of the head. He denied these
charges.
State's Attorney A. V. Smith announced that he will make every
effort to send Bresette, and Brown to the electric chair. He said
that if Claude Clark, colored, and the other two colored man, who
are alleged to have been implicated in the murder of the Lake
county man, are captured, the death penalty will also be asked
for them.
States Attorney Smith may ask the court to call a special grand
jury to investigate the murder of Beck, rather than wait until
the regular body meets next October. He has not made a definite
decision as yet, however, waiting to see if Clark and the other
two Negroes can be captured.
"It is a case of cold blooded murder, and all five men are
equally guilty and I will do everything within my power to aid in
the capture of the three fugitives and to have all of the men
given death sentences," declared Col. Smith today.
Funeral services for Beck were held at 1 o'clock Saturday
afternoon at the White and Tobin funeral home. Rev. McNair of
Milburn officiated and interment was in the Milburn cemetery.
Sheriff Doolittle reported Saturday that Mrs. Bonner, who lives
in the rear of the Beck home near Milburn, had found about two
dozen shells from an old rifle on her premises. It is believe
that shells were dropped there by one of the five men who
participated in the Beck murder. Bresette and Brown have claimed
so far that Clark was the only one who carried a gun. The weapon
used to kill Beck was a revolver.
24 May 1928
COUNTY POSTS $1000 REWARD FOR THREE IN BECK KILLING
Search Renewed for Missing Killers;
Two in Jail at Waukegan
The board of supervisors of Lake county will pay a reward of
$1,000 for the capture or information which will lead to the
capture of the three negro fugitives, wanted on charges of having
taken part in the murder of Wm. Beck, Jr., a farmer living near
Lake Villa. Two accomplices in the murder and robbery are now
under arrest and have confessed the parts they played and have
furnished the authorities with descriptions of their three
companions.
At the same time Co. Smith mailed a check for $100 to Capt.
Daniel Lynch of the Maxwell street station, Chicago, whose men
arrested two of the murderers.
There were five in the entire party according to the confessions.
Three staged the robbery-slaying and two were posted along the
road to sound the alarm.
Two Held at Waukegan
Dominick Bresette, 30 years old, an Indian chief at the LaPointe,
Wis., reservation and John Brown, colored, 40 years old, 3652
Indiana avenue, Chicago, are now being held on charges of having
murdered Beck and robbed the Beck home. They were arrested last
Thursday night by the police at the Maxwell station in Chicago
some 24 hours after commission of the crimes. Bresette and Brown
were kept at the Maxwell station until Tuesday afternoon when
they were taken to the county jail in Waukegan by Chief Deputy
Fred Brown and Deputy Geo. Heckinger.
"I am ready to take my medicine," Bresette told the deputies
while enroute from Chicago to Waukegan.
The fellow who did the actual shooting is still at liberty. His
real name, according to Capt. Lynch, is Clifford Pauchamp, but he
is generally known as Clark. He is called Cliff, Claude and
Clark.
The two men who drove the trio to Lake Villa and patrolled the
road are also at liberty. They are in Chicago and all negroes.
AUCTION SALE
On account of the misfortune of the Beck family the following
property will be sold at Public Auction on the Beck farm, located
2 1/2 miles southwest of Millburn and 2 miles east of Lake Villa,
on
SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928
Commencing at 1:00 o'clock
4 HORSES, 9 COWS - 1 with calf by side, 4 milkers, 4 springers. 1
sow due to farrow soon. 30 chickens. 10 tons of Timothy hay. 200
bu. of oats. Machinery and Tools.
USUAL TERMS.
MRS. ANNA BECK, Prop.
J. E. BROOK, Clerk.
L. J. SLOCUM, Auctioneer.
Miss Alice Jamieson of Racine and Mrs. Inez Ames of Antioch
were callers at the McCredie home on Saturday.
Mrs. E. A. Martin and son, Richard, and Vernon Webb with other
Antioch High School students motored to Bloomington Friday for a
state contest, returning Sunday morning.
School closed on Wednesday with a picnic at the school. Games
and races for the children and dinner at noon. Miss Madalyn
Sheehan has been engaged as teacher for another year.
Memorial exercises will be held at the cemetery on Wednesday
afternoon, May 30, at two o'clock. James G. Welch of Waukegan and
Mr. McNair will speak, also recitations and music by the children.
The D. A. R. of Waukegan will also take part.
from the pages of the Lake County Register 26 May 1928
REWARD OUT FOR TAKING OF KILLERS
County Board Acts To Award $333.33
For Each Capture
In Death Of William Beck Jr., Near Milburn.
The board of supervisors of Lake county will pay a reward of
$1,000 for the capture or information which will lead to the
capture of the three negro fugitives, wanted on charges of having
taken part in the murder of William Beck Jr., a farmer living
near Milburn, and the robbery of the Beck home. Two accomplices
in the murder and robbery are now under arrest and have confessed
the parts they played and have furnished the authorities with
descriptions of their three companions.
Announcement of the posting of the reward by the county board was
made Wednesday by State's Attorney A. V. Smith. The prosecutor
said he conferred Tuesday night with Chairman Thomas V. Murphy of
the county board, Arthur W. Vercoe, Chairman of the finance
committee, and Edward Brown, head of the judiciary committee in
regard to the matter of paying a reward and that they readily
agreed with him that it should be done. It was decided to pay
$333.33 for the capture or information leading to the capture of
each of the three fugitives.
In Jail Here
Dominick Bresette, 30 years old, an Indian chief at the LaPointe,
Wis., reservation and John Brown, colored, 40 years old, 3652
Indiana avenue, Chicago, are now being held on charges of having
murdered Beck and robbed the Beck home. They were arrested last
Thursday night by the police at the Maxwell station in Chicago
some 24 hours after commission of the crimes. Bresette and Brown
were kept at the Maxwell station until Tuesday afternoon when
they were brought to the county jail in Waukegan by Chief Deputy
Fred Brown and Deputy George Heckinger.
"I am ready to take my medicine," Bresette told the deputies
while enroute from Chicago to Waukegan.
Chief Deputy Brown says that Bresette talked but little, while
John Brown had even less to say than the Indian. The deputies say
that both prisoners realize the seriousness of the crime and seem
to fear the worst.
May Ask Special Jury
State's Attorney Smith will probably ask the court to call a
special grand jury this summer to probe the Beck murder providing
the three negroes sought are captured. The prosecutor is going to
make every effort to have the supreme penalty, death, imposed,
for all connected with the murder.
The actual murder was performed by Claude Clark, colored, a
Chicagoan and an ex-convict, it is charged, while the other four
men are alleged to have been accomplices. Clark kept all of the
loot, which amounted to around $200. Three United States treasury
bonds, one for $1,000 and the others, each for $100, which were
taken from the Beck home, were found in the yard in front of the
home last Saturday afternoon. Clark is alleged to have sold $100
worth of war savings stamps, part of the loot, at a Chicago
establishment to $50.
On information supplied by Bresette and Brown, the police at the
Maxwell station raided a flat at 3201 Dearborn street last
Thursday night in search for Clark, only to find that he had left
just about five minutes before their arrival. The Chicago police
fee confident that they will have Clark in custody within the
next week, Chief Deputy Brown says. They believe that Clark
attended the Kentucky derby last Saturday and expect him back in
Chicago this week. They say he has been arrested on innumerable
occasions and that there is no doubt but he will be found at one
of his haunts in Chicago soon.
The capture of Bresette and Brown was a lucky one. Bresette went
to the Maxwell street station and reported that several colored
men had taken his life insurance policy and his clothing from
him, leaving him old garments. Bresette aroused the suspicions of
the police and they grilled him at length about where he had been
for the past few days and he told of the shooting and robbery at
the Beck home. At that time he had not known of the death of
Beck. It was on information obtained from Bresette that Brown was
arrested.
Bresette had been at the Beck home for three days last winter and
he had knowledge that Beck did not bank his money but kept it in
a molasses can hidden in his barn. He said he had run short of
funds and met Brown and suggested to him that they rob the Beck
home and that because they did not have a weapon or an
automobile, it was decided to get Clark and the other two colored
men to join them.
31 May 1928
An announcement which will long be remembered, was a happy reunion
of Miss Una Jean Minto's friends and relatives at her home last
Saturday afternoon, when they gathered to give her a shower of
useful articles before she leaves on June 7, for her long trip to
Africa. An original poem "Why Are We," was read by H. D. Hughes
of Gurnee and appreciated by all present. Refreshments were
served to about 90 people, and all expressed the thought that it
had been a wonderful afternoon, and all were glad such a reunion
had been planned. Miss Minto will speak at the church on Sunday,
June 3, and all her friends will take advantage of this
opportunity to hear her again.
The graduating exercises of the eight grade in Warren and
Newport townships were held at Gurnee on Monday evening with
forty-eight boys and girls receiving their diplomas. Those from
Millburn school were Geraldine Bonner, Marion Edwards, Mary Luzar,
Margaret Lucas, Pearl Lucas and Arthur Johnannsen.
Mr. and Mr. L. J. Slocum spent Thursday with friends at
Ringwood, Illinois.
Miss Marion Neahous of Chicago spent the week end at home.
Master Carl Bruckner fell from a tree breaking his arm last
Friday.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schwicht at the
Victory Memorial hospital on Monday, May 21.
Mr. and Mrs. George White and sons, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Denman
and children, and D. M. White, were entertained at the Earl A.
White home in Evanston Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Beck, having disposed of their stock at public
auction last Saturday have closed their home, and will spend some
time in Round Lake, with Mrs. Beck's relatives.
There will be no meeting of the Ladies Aid this week, as the
June committee are planning something for later in the month.
Miss Ardis Scoville of Kenosha spent the week end with Ruth and
Marion Edwards.
Mrs. Howard Garby and daughter and Mrs. Byre of Chicago called
at R. J. Bonner's Wednesday.
Miss Una Minto is spending this week with her nieces, Catherine
and Ruth into at Beloit.
