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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1919
Page
1
Sheriff James Simmons and Detective Bumster returned from Kansas City with Fred Holtz and Frank Mason, claiming the pawnbroker Emil Licht murder case is solved. The two men, aged about 20 and 26, were shown without concern, while alibi questions and hotel register entries in Kansas City were scrutinized as investigators seek missing watches and diamonds.
Two suspects Mason and Holtz arrived at Quincy County Jail after Kansas City arrest for the Licht murder. Sheriff Simmons and Bumster delayed transport to search for more jewelry as only seven of 34 watches were recovered. A large crowd greeted them and a police photographer took their mug shots, while the pair insisted on resisting extradition without papers.
Paris April 15 The German delegation may reach Versailles by April 25 and President Wilson could remain to sign the treaty, depending on progress. Reports in French papers that he would leave April 28 were denied, with officials saying he might stay to see the work finished.
The reparations commission is studying the responsibility of Austria-Hungary Bulgaria and Turkey for damages to civilian life and property. The effort mirrors Germany’s case, but results are largely negative as assets have vanished and territories now lie within liberated states. Some compensation may be possible for Italy Romania and Serbia.
April reports from St Johns Newfoundland note Hawker and Raynham prepared to start an Atlantic crossing contest. Weather delays persist as both aviators plan simultaneous starts possibly settled by coin toss. Nearby efforts include a Handley Page bomber moving toward Harbor Grace.
German delegates to the peace conference will reside in a wing of the Hotel Des Reservoirs at Versailles adjoining the Prefecture of Police. French delegates will occupy the rest of the hotel. Meetings with the Germans at the Trianon Palace Hotel likely to continue for ten to fifteen days. The treaty will be signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
PARIS April 18 The supreme economic council decided Belgium may be represented thereon due to many questions affecting the country. It received the director general relief measures report showing 388000 tons of supplies valued at 111280000 distributed by the United States. The council discussed boosting supplies and shipping this month as well as Italy's coal shortage prompting a committee to devise immediate supply increase measures.
In London on April 15 during a labor pensions debate two women in the Commons gallery shouted you are murderers and you have not settled the last war and were removed. A third woman cried we want the soviet but left at attendants request.
ST LOUIS April 16 Ursula Broderick 13 was ordered held for the grand jury by a coroner s jury after she shot and killed her step father Joseph F Woodlock She testified she killed him when he tried to attack her Three years earlier she shot and killed her father but was exonerated for protecting her mother
William Marwitz assistant postmaster of Hinsdale killed his wife after a physician told him she had sixty days to live. He wounded his two children a two year old son and a six year old daughter who died later in a hospital. Marwitz then took his own life. The children died in a hospital.
Springfield April 16 The Illinois Supreme Court ruled the 1917 law authorizing 60 million for good roads constitutional The ruling followed a challenge by banker John W Mitchell of Mount Carmel and ended a suit that sought to block ratification by popular vote The decision upholds the act and the state control over roughly five hundred state banks with a later opinion to come.
The Whig depicted the arrest of Emil Licht's killers, Frank Mason and Fred Holtz, by flashing news photos in Quincy. Sheriff Simmons and Police man Bumster arrived with prisoners on the Eli at 1 30 am. Will Nichols, Whig photographer, provided two cameras while Quincy Photo Engraving Co, Luke J Wellman and Charles Byerly assisted in engravings to publish the story.
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