Prisoner Mistreated Claims Hover in Grundy County Court
Marilyn Barton, representing Lester Sellers, alleged mistreatment by the Grundy County Sheriff's Department in Grundy County Circuit Court. Sellers, 35, faced three counts of indecent liberties with a child and testified about requests for pain relief and medical care. Judge Massieon refused bail reduction, denied dismissal motions, and continued the case to the next jury calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Staroscik
Grundy County
Robert Malmquist
Sellers
Button
Barton
John S. Massieon
Secretarial witness Testifies in Watergate Hearings
Sally Harmony, secretary to G. Gordon Liddy, testified she typed wiretap logs and a forged Democratic document as the Watergate hearings resumed. She denied telling friends she lied to the grand jury or receiving a Florida trip as a reward.
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Washington
Senate
Watergate Committee
Nixon
Sally J. Harmony
Watergate Grand Jury
Florida
Archibald Cox
Sam J. Ervin
D-N.c
Cox
Ervin
Watergate
Sally Harmony
G. Gordon Liddy
Harmony
Robert Reisner
GOP
Jeb Stuart Magruder
H. A. Post
Weather looks warm with showers and storms today
Partly cloudy, warm and humid with showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s. Tonight partly cloudy with a chance of showers. lows mid 50s to mid 60s. Wednesday mostly sunny and less humid. highs in the 70s. Monday's high 75 at Dresden Island Locks and Dam and low 60. 7 am temperature 64.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dresden Island
Brothers Plead Guilty in School Break-In Case
Two brothers Chris Bermingham 18 and Clifford Bermingham 22 of Hazel Crest pleaded guilty in Grundy County Circuit Court to two counts of criminal damage. Judge John Massieon sentenced them to six months in jail to be served at the Illinois State Farm Vandalia. They had been held on $20,000 bonds stemming from an alleged May 1 break-in at Saratoga Grade School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chris
Clifford Bermingham
Dixie Highway
Hazel Crest
Grundy County
John Massieon
Illinois State Farm
Vandalia
Berminghams
Saratoga
Lifesaving course offered by Red Cross at Morris pool
The American Red Cross will run a lifesaving review course at Morris Municipal Pool from 6 30 to 8 30 p m Monday through June 15. The course is open to those who completed senior lifesaving in the past three years and to Grundy County lifeguards. Instructor Mrs Wanda Weatherly can be reached at 942 5773 or by leaving names at the pool. Defender George Black and Clifford Bermingham pleaded guilty to a negotiated plea on two counts of criminal damage to property in Saratoga Grade HM and Grundy County Jail. They were charged May 31 with an attempted jail escape and bail set at 50 000 by Circuit Judge Robert Malmquist. The charge states they tried to pry a stone block from the jail wall. After the guilty plea, Judge Massieon sentenced them to six months in jail at the Vandalia State Farm on each count, to run concurrently with time already served.
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Massieon
Sellers
Cook County
Wilder
Harmony
Liddy
George S. McGovern
McGovern
Gary Hart
Hunt
Watergate
FBI
The
American Red Cross
Morris Municipal Pool
Grundy County
Wanda Weatherly
Morris Pool
George Black
Clifford
John Zerboglio
Saratoga Grade
Robert Malmquist
Berminghams
Chris
Vandalia State Farm
Missing Kenneth Edison Report From Grundy County
The Grundy County Sheriff's Department says Kenneth Edison is missing after failing to return to Vandalia from a furlough. Edison, 25, of Gardner, had a 1 to 3 year sentence for burglary and theft related to Carpeting Drapes from Gardner Development Corp. property in Grundy County. He and his wife pleaded guilty December 1972. His whereabouts were last reported at his Gardner home before leaving for Vandalia with his wife.
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Grundy County
Edison
Gardner
Edisons
Gardner Development Corp
William Button
Vandalia
Ground breaking for Newark First Baptist Church
Ground breaking services for the First Baptist Church of Newark set for 11 30 a m Sunday at the new Liberty Street site. The brick edifice with English basement will be financed by bonds at 6 4 2 and 7 percent maturing over 16 years. Bond committees are led by Cliff Thorson and Lonnier Hertenstein. building committee includes Walter Huffmaster Jerald Vega John Murphy and Rev Tom Winchester. The church seeks 10000 more funds after years of services in the Legion Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
First Baptist Church of
Liberty St
Cliff Thorson
Lonnier Hertenstein
Walter Huffmaster
Jerald Vega
John Murphy
Tom Winchester
First Baptist Church
Legion Hall
Tax mandamus suit filed against Grundy County officials
H Dale Barr superintendent of Morris Grade School District 54 filed a mandamus writ in Grundy County Circuit Court against Tom Parks county clerk and Pauline Coleman county treasurer. He accuses Parks of failing to estimate and determine the tax rate and full cash value of property and Coleman of failing to collect 1972 taxes due in 1973. Barr says county taxing bodies lack funds to operate and seeks court orders to fix the rate or direct reassessment and to require tax collection once books are turned over plus related relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Dale Barr
Morris
Grundy County
Tom Parks
Pauline Coleman
Barr
Parks
Coleman
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99Th
MCHS
Daily Herald
Illinois
Morris Community High School
Richard Schweighart
Raymond V. Ansell
Daniel Wacks
Ann Marie
Halterman
Shirley Allison
Allison
Mrs. Barton
Malmquist
Magruder
Mitchell
Valvoline
North States Oil CO
Rte
Kenneth Edison
Sgt
Ron Fox
Bookwalter Woods
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