Judge McCully Indicted on Usury Charge by Grand Jury
J L McCully a justice of the price in the Brown blow birth and Tharp shire streets was indicted by the grand jury on a usury charge alleging excessive interest on loans. Prosecutor witnesses claim McCully foreclosed after Secher fell ill and signed a chattel mortgage under hospital conditions. Receipts show high interest payments and a new note to a relative. The case centers on alleged loan practices and foreclosure of Secher’s business. If convicted, penalties include a fine up to 500 dollars and up to six months in jail.
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J. L. McCully
Birth
Tharpshire
Chicago
Jake Secher
United States Army
Hampshire Street
McCully
Secher
Joan
Becher
McCantry Pe Ion Oof &S
Motule
Lecher Tat
Warhamschlagenhaus
Schlagenhaut
J. Secher
Schlagenhaus
J. J. Mitchell
Soldiers Home
Venter
Wiig
Coltest
Grand Jury
Fourth
Witth
Peirson Friend of Successful Aviator Crash Confusion
Fragmentary copy reports a Pierreon friend of aviator Justin Crehore, claiming shot down a German plane with a fatality Jan. 19 and ties to Secretary of Commerce Truman. Text notes Crehore’s ear defect hindered air service. French dispatches seemingly confirm him as truthful, amid remarks on physical culture versus coal transport duties.
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Ustin Crehore
Westin
Joan Serivan
Truman Tr. Piesen
Chammerce
Piessen
Coreheore
Syssouu
Yackle Sentenced to One Year and a Day for Disloyal Remarks
Pred Yackle, an employee of Electric Wheel wark, was sentenced by Judge Otis Humphrey in Springfield to one year and a day in Leavenworth for disloyal remarks about the war. He had pleaded guilty after arrest in Quincy and admitted statements refusing to register and opposing U S involvement.
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Yackle
Leavenworth
Otis Humphrey
United States District Court
Springfield
Quincey
United States
Walter B. Martindale
Draft Drafted Men Seek Enrollment at Fox Company
Company E has launched a drive to enlist drafted men with high serial numbers to meet the current quota. Acting Captain Walter Brown and Lieutenant Clare Irwin ask all interested men to report at the next drill Thursday in the armory, already crowded with soldiers.
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Company E
Mwhoowill
Walter Brown
Clare Irwin
Local drill night includes Company E and guards
Thursday night three local companies drilled including Company E Otis home guards and the Illinois volunteer training corps. They conducted platoon movements and planned an officers school next Tuesday night, though no officers school occurred Thursday as previously planned.
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Company E
Otis Home Guards
Illinois Volunteer Training Corps
Five New Members Join $1000 Club in Quincy
Postmaster Elmer Lummis reports the $1,000 club for sale of savings stamps in Quincy is growing. Five new members joining Thursday are Rudolph Tenk W J Singleton J W Sinnock L R Hetherington and F M Carpenter. John E Wall county thrift chairman will address the High School Parent Teacher association at 4 PM today seeking support for the thrift or War Savings stamp drive.
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Elmer Lummis
Quincy
Mr. Lummis
Rudolph Tenk
W. J. Singleton
J. W. Sinnock
L. R. Hetherington
F. M. Carpenter
John E. Wall
Parent
Railway workers hope wage increases after talks
Representatives of 450000 railway employees in the mechanical trades met with Director General McAdoo and expressed the belief that wage increases would be granted. No definite demand was presented.
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Washington
McAdoo
Confession Admitted In Plotters Trial In New York
The transcript of an alleged confession by Ernest Becker in a plot to plant fire bombs on ships in New York harbor was admitted as evidence. Becker, linked to Franz Von Rintelen and 15 others, claimed to have made the tubes used as bombs and named German chemist Dr. Walter P. Scheele as supplying materials.
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New York
Ernest Becker
Franz von Rintelen
New York Harbor
Becker
Friederich Des Grosse
Hoboken
Brophy
Walter P. Scheele
Carl Gustafson
Marseilles
Spectator James W. Gerard Observes Court Session
Former ambassador James W. Gerard watched portions of the session as a spectator in the courtroom while Gustafson described sensations in his fingers that felt like burning.
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Gustafson
James W. Gerard
Germany
Artillery Actions in Mountain Areas
The war office reports lively artillery actions in mountain areas astride the Chiese and the Adige and along the Piave. Small enemy patrols attacked Capo Sile, seizing an advance post and capturing arms and ammunition.
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Rome
War Office
Chiese
Adige
Montello
Piave
Asiago
Cavazuccherina
Capo Sile
Mines destroy two German destroyers in Baltic action
Seventeen German sailors landed on the west coast of Jutland after their destroyer A-70 struck a mine and sank while A-73 also hit a mine and sank. The remaining ships fled southward. the A-73 crew perished and only seventeen of the A-79 survived with nineteen later dying.
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Copenhagen
Jutland
Helgoland
Fourteen Spies Shot in America Tells Audience
C S Thompson, chairman of the American Defense Society press committee, said at a New York luncheon that the United States has executed fourteen spies since the war began. He claimed at least two were from Detroit and urged informing the public of America's wartime actions.
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Fale
New York
C. S. Thomson
The
American Defense Society
United States
Germany
America
Mr. Thompson
Detroit
Chicago Art Critic Facing Internment
Chicago art critic Count Albrecht Montgelas was arrested on a presidential warrant for being a Germany enemy alien who is a menace to the United States. He is to be interned for the duration of the war. His father, Count Edward, was Bavarian minister to the Saxony court until his death in 1916.
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Chicago
Albrecht Montgelas
Germany
United States
Montegetas
Count Edward
Saxony
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