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BOY DYING FROM BULLET WOUND OF DRUNKEN MADMANWaller Wielgorecki of Burr Oak, I Victim of Kage of .Joseph Michalak Sunday; Latter Fires Bullets into Former's Body.Joseph Michalak, aged 26, soft • drink parlor owner, 126th and Wood Streets, Village of Burr Oak, while alleged to have been under the influence of moonshine, opened fire with a |revolver into a group of 5 boys, i standing on the sidewalk at 121th; Street and Ashland Avenue Burr Oak, Sunday evening about 9 o’clock.Seeing the gun levelled at the boys, Walter Wielgorecki, jt brother lt;f Attorney W. Otto Wielgorecki of, Blue island, 17 years of *tge, who was in the group, grabbed tlie barrel of the madman’s gun. MicRalak pulled the trigger and the bullet! pierced one of Wielgorecki’s fingers, He let go ofthe gun and Michalak fired again, the crond shot hitting young Wielgorecki in the region of the heart, the bullet passing through his body and coming out near the right shoulder. Michalak then started to run, and as he did so, fired three more shots into •hr group none of which hit anybody, and escaped.At 10 o’clock he was arrested in the company with Gus H. Wolske while entering the Burr Oak Hotel, by Patrolman Paul Gragowski of the Blue Island Department. Ho is now in Blue Island jail, pending the change of condition of Walter W’iel-glt; recki, who is hovering between life and death at St. Francis Hospital.Credit must be extended for the plondid and prompt service which the Blue Island Police Department rendered in laying oul a net to apprehend Michalak.
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Blue Island Sun Standard
Blue Island, Illinois, US
Thu, Apr 09, 1925
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