Demented Bandit Dies After Wilmette Bank Try
CHICAGO July 25 A revolver duel with police left Arthur F W Slokerman dead after attempting to rob the State Bank of Wilmette a Joliet former patent medicine maker had fled the scene and was wounded five times the last self inflicted with his final bullet He had claimed to be “Peter Swanken” and told officers I did it all for the little girl in Chicago An emaciated unusual crime ended with Slokerman dying in a hospital identified by cousin William Middendorf who said his kin may have been mentally unsound
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Chicago
State Bank
Wilmette
Arthur F. W. Slokerman
Joliet
Ill
Slokerman
Peter Swanken
William Middendorf
Middendorf
William Leary
Bank Robbery Fleeing Suspect Shot Self After Fight
Witnesses recount a dramatic confrontation as the fugitive and officers fled from a taxicab and hid behind trees. A resulting revolver exchange ended when Sloker man shot himself. Potter Holst, a paying teller, compared the gunman’s body to one who last week demanded money with a threat to blow up the bank.
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Slokerman
Potter Holst
First Trust & Savings Bank
League to Enforce Peace Explains Its Stand on Treaty
New York July 25 The League to Enforce Peace and its head Mr Taft declare they support ratification of the peace treaty as is with no reservations or amendments. A New York meeting of emergency campaign committees affirmed the league will not seek reservations and Taft agrees, though he suggested possible future use of ideas that do not affect ratification. The league remains opposed to any reservations that would impair ratification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Senate
Will H. Hays
Taft
League
Mr. Taft
Executive Committee
Friends of
League of Nations
Steamer Muscatine Passes Quincy Downs River With Stone Barges
The steamer Muscatine went past Quincy at noon Thursday on a river trip downstream with two barges in tow loaded with building stones from around La Grange Missouri. If lumber is available, Quincy Sand plans a new hull for the engine taken from the old tug Columbia wrecked after a collision with Kinser weeks ago. The Columbia hull lies up the bay in dry dock.
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Muscatine
Quincy
la Grange
Quincy Sand Company
Columbia
Kinser
Miss Bertha Steffen Leaves For St Louis Visit
Miss Bertha Steffen departed this morning for St Louis after a ten days visit with her father C. H. Steffen and sisters at 1125 Washington. Harry Watson of Cherry between Ninth and Tenth streets was arrested on a peace disturbance warrant by Mrs Rose Reed of 814 North Fourteenth Street. H H Heidbreder was arrested for failing to use dimmers on his car and offered to pay the fine.
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Bertha Steffen
St. Louis
C. H. Steffen
Washington Street
Harry Watson
Cherry
Ninth
Tenth Streets
Maas and
Nicky
Rose Reed
North Fourteen Street
H. H. Heidbreder
Jerry Akers
Heidbreder
Prize Given For Swimming Contest At Local YMCA Race
Robert Gunther donated a prize for the long distance swimming race to be held Friday evening in the river under the YMCA. Prizes will also be awarded for boat tilting contests run tournament style after the swim. The course runs from the river bridge to Hampshire street, about twenty minutes’ swim. Boats will accompany contestants for safety. O. E. Anderson starts the races with Jack Lusk and Harry Donovan as judges. The event begins at 7:30 with strong expected turnout. Fred Dinkeller entered Thursday.
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Robert Gunther
Hampshire Street
O. E. Anderson
Jack Lusk
Harry Donovan
Fred Dinkeller
Company E Triumphs Over Electric Wheels 9-3
Company E baseball nine defeated Electric Wheels 9 to 3 Thursday at Athletic Field on Fourteenth and Jersey Streets. Honacker and Sanders starred with the bat while Otte pitched and Dinketter caught for Electric Wheels. Sanders yielded nine hits, fanning two and walking one.
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Company E Baseball
Electric Wheel Company
Athletic Field
Fourteenth
Jersey Streets
Honacker
Sanders
Company E
Otte
Dinketter
Electric Wheel Nine
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Denim
Chambray Koverall
League TO Enforce
Ada
Quincy Gas, Electric & Heating Co
Electric Wheels
Morris Shoe Company
An. Co. E
Eeen
Ieee Ates
Charles Anderson
Detroit
Atherton
Walker
South Side
North Side
West Side
East Side
Walker's
Victor
Zyuc
Fast
Bac
AIC
Ene
Pgry Ene
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