Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1914 — KILLS MAN TO SAVE GEMS [ARTICLE]

KILLS MAN TO SAVE GEMS

Prisoner Confesses Shooting, but Says Victim Was Attempting to Rob Him. Chicago.—Fifty or more persons went to the county morgue but none was able to identify the body of the man shot and killed by George Hassel, 113 Bast Thirty-fifth street, in an alleged attempt to rob. A number of men living in the vicinity of Paul Peveska’s saloon, 1901 Canalpc/t avenue, near which the killing occurred, said they had seen the victim in that district, but did not know his name. *5 Kassel, who is forty-five years old and says he is a diamond dealer, is held at the Caqalport avenue station to await the action of the coroner’s jury. The police prepared to have the inquest postponed pending further investigation. ' Hassel, the police say, admits the killing and asserts that the man now dead and three others tried to rob him after be and the victim had left Peveska’s saloon. He had about $1,600 .worth of jewelry in his

when captured after a pursuit of nearly a mile. sj