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• 1 4JOHN LOONEY’S TRIAL TOISTART MONDAY AT PEORIA.FOUR LOCAL MEN GO A8 GOYERXME XT WITN ESSESSTAR WITNESS GONEcUPCjuIj Has Disappeared—Looney Charged With Transporting Car*Stolen Here Into IllinoisitlSamOtto'John Looney, proclaimed the rice lord of Rock Island until his fighttwo years ago to New Mexico, will go on trial Monday in the district court at Peoria, charged with violating the federal Dyer act by transporting anautomobile stolen from Muscatine into the state of Illinois.Four Muscatine men have beensubpeoned as witnesses for the government, against Looney. They are Charles .T. Dyche, from whose garage the automobile was stolen,Bronner, former chief of police, Maeglin and Fred Royster.Rock Inlanders SnmmonedWitnesses from Rock Island wereserved vesterdav with summons to« •the trial at Peoria. The government’s chief witness, Henry McCarty, in whose garage at Rock Island the stolen car was found, disappeared shortly after Loonev was arraigned inNR *Peoria, Deo. l. and could not be located yesterday by the officers. He is under bond3 as a material witness, and the bonds will he forfeited unless he appears at the trial Monday.Other witnesses summoned from Rock Island were Detective Dennis Bennett and Policeman Earl Shannon, of the Rock Island police force, who located the stolen car; John S. Miller Rock Island county sheriff when the case originated; Joseph Jenkins, who helped tow; the stolen car from the McCartygarage to the Rock Island police station; Harriet McCarty, daughter of Jlenry McCarty, the missing witness, and Margaret. William and James McCarty, his sister and brothers.The Looney case has aroused greatinterest here, linking up Muscatine with a series of crimes ’r. Rock Is-1 land which attracted nation wide attention and which culminated inseries « T eight killings in Rock Is-f land, including the murder of Loon-ov's son, John Looney Jr., in a gunfight on ti e streets of that city. Oct. f Ti- se events preel'•itr*ted afederal inquiry, during which Looney fled. He was the object of an international hunt for a year, and was finally discovered Nov. 23. 1323. on his ranch in New Mexico. After a long fight against extradition, he voluntarily returned to Illinois late in the past fall. Following his flight, hL scandal sheet, the Rock Island News, w as suppressed. iCar Belonged to DycheThe Muscatine automobile which was the immediate cause of Looney's downfall from the seeming immunity which he flaunted in the faces of state, count(' and city officers at Rock Island until the federal authorities intervened. The car was a HudsonInurine mode], and was stolen Aug.33. 1322, from Mr. Dyche’s garage at 413-423 West Front street. It was found Oct. IS. 1322, in the McCarty garage at Rock Island. The car had been re-painted, engine numbers filed off and other efforts made to conceal its identity.McCarty told the Rock Island policethat Looney had placed the car in his garage for storage purposes on Sept. 1. McCarty said that Looney had then intimated to him that there might betrouble over it.Po«s(In2C4zI;vrse33tvgtfIiod8PCtzfs1111I
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Sat, Dec 20, 1924
Page 6
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