Wednesday, July 19, 2017

1949 1949


                                 NORMAN  V/  KELLY

 

in 1949  The Peoria Grand Jury indicted:

Earl Shelton    Jack Ashby   Ray Walker    Ted Link (St. louis)

 

They were never prosecuted…

 

ALSO  indicted For Official Corruption

States Attorney  Roy Hull

Investigator:   Charles  Somogyi        Sheriff Spainhower

Jack Ashby  ( Shelton’s pal)

 

All of this was because of alleged  Bribery from Bernie Shelton  25 K  No evidence all political bull.

 

 

CRIME:   20 rapes     13 murders   2  manslaughter

Aggravated assaults   125

Robberies     145

Burglary   699

Sex cases  not specified    699

 

Larceny  1,364            Car thefts:  306

Police brought in the unbelievable number of 9,298

 

Keep in mind they would make sweeps violating everyone’s rights and holding people  just for that reason  very few of these people actually ended up being charged  tried  or convicted.

 

FINES:  City received about $125.000.00  in fines of all kinds in 1949

 

 

Murders that were often reduced to manslaughter or justified homicide but included in the murder number of 13

 

Scroll killed Green    Tucker killed his wife  (Princeville) Hattie Welsch shot her husband with a shot gun  ( in the eye and face)

Frank Walker found  shot 4 times

Czar shot a guy named smith

Cord stabbed fisher

Lane killed Scott

Clark stabbed Henry

Lester shot two at the union office

Foster  knifed  Laws

 

12-9 47  BU student  Richard Yednock  missing  assumed dead in 1949  never found

C Eagleston killed by brother

Nail knifed  Dale Cotton

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