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14 MEN CONVICTED TODAY IN LIQUOR CONSPIRACY TRIALEleven Defendants, Including Edward Newberry and... ........ — * - * -.........-••-—-I- 'OrW. Kempster Are Absolved.Peoria, HI., Dec. 12.—(I. N. S.) —Edy/ard M.' Newberry of Chicago, reputed Capone gangster,and 0. W. (Buck) Kempster, state highway police sergeant of Sterling, 111., were free today with nine others, while 14 men were to receive prison sentences and fines, following verdicts in the liquor conspiracy case here. . •Judge Louis Fitzhenry, who has been hearing the case in. federal district court, .was to hear motions for new' trials today.Most of the convictions were in •connection with the operation of a huge still at Carbon Cliff, near Rock-Island, III.-— , -, Coin and Lathrop Guilty. . Nick Coin and Ed Lathrop, both of Davenport, la., identified during the trial as leaders of the ring, were found guilty on six counts and were liable to .maximum sentences of eight years in prison andpossible fines as high as $22,000each.Mijce Radovlch, Sam Sideris, both of Moline, 11., and ^Harold Reed, East Moline, were found guilty on one count; that of manufacturing liquor, and are liable to five yeara-imprisonment-and-nuix^ 'irfrunrffinbB oi $10,000;'’Nine others were held guilty on the conspiracy count and may draw two years in jail and fines as .high as $10,00.. They are: Michael Blumbergi Clinton, i Ia^; Jack Wall and I. G. Lucchesi, Davenport, la.; James . Andrews and Mike Polois, East Moline, 11.; Sam Karas and James Strathis, Silvia, 111.; and Dominic Leonetti, Des Moines* la.Thoae Acquitted;•Those acquitted,' besides Newberry pnd Kempster, are: Willium E. Sackvillc Jr. and James Hitas, East Moline, 111.; Frank Smith and ^]-Harry-.Fusasr’-Roek5y-Iflland,--Wrt JLouis Spridgen and Ralph Knight, •Muscatine, la.; and Florence Ozias, Emory KeRh and Mike- Tal-.arico, Davenport, la.Andrew J. Andrews, East Moline, another, defendant who entered a plea of guilty after the evidence had been submitted,^Cvill be sentenced with the others.
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Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Sat, Dec 12, 1931
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