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GALESBURG, Tl. (AP) — Ar thur Lawrence Stickell, plagued with financial legal entangle ments, has been removed as exec utor of an estate to which a church is beneficiary. The affiet was taken Tuesday by Knox County Judge Daniel J. Roberts, who gave Stickell 10 days in which to file a final re port on the estate. The former Galesburg lawyer was removed as executor of the $93,000 estate of Clara Beacham Swanson after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 22 times to questions put to him by David Shanks, attorney for the First Christian Church of Monmouth. The church is one of the bene ficiaries. Two beneficiaries of the Swan son will had petitioned for Stickell’s removal. He was to show cause Tuesday as to why he should not be removed. Stickell was turned to Chicago after the hearing by two deputy U.S. marshals who had brought him to Galesburg for the hearing. He has been in federal custody under $10,000 surety bonds since Sept. 9, when he was released from the East Moline State Hos pital. He had entered the mental institution Aug. 19 when he failed to keep scheduled court appear ances in Chicago and Galesburg for observation on an emergency court order requested by his wife, Julia. A federal warrant in Denver has charged Stickell with inter state transportation of two frad ulent checks in the sum of $93,000 drawn on the Byers (Cole ) State Bank. A deal for purchase of the bank by Stickell and associates is under investigation by a fed eral grand jury in Denver In Chicago, the chief deputy US marshal, Edward J Sullivan, indicated that Stickell would be taken to Denver soon.
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Moline Daily Dispatch
Moline, Illinois, US
Wed, Sep 18, 1963
Page 18
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