Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1915 — W. W. HILL ROUGHLY USED IN CHICAGO [ARTICLE]

W. W. HILL ROUGHLY USED IN CHICAGO

Man Whose Grain Office Here Went Kerplunk Beaten Up By Chicago Police Officers. W. W. Hill ,who ran the grain office here for some time and whose establishment came to a sudden termination several weeks ago when A. W. Graham, who conducted the office ait Lafayette through which Hill did business, claimed to have failed, met an experience in Chicago this week that makes him regard city police methods with a degree of suspicion. Hill' lost something like $3,000 by Graham’s failure and there is an indication that Graham did not actually fail but simply took flight with the money. has been trying to locate Graham since that time and has had a warrant issued for his arrest. Sheriff MoColly made several trips with Hill in an effort to locate Graham.

Recently Graham’s son, who is a carpenter in Chicago, wrote here to try to find out what the charge was against his father. Hill decided to go to Chicago and get officers to watch the son’s house with the belief that his father would show up there. After arriving in Chicago Hill was himself deputized as an officer to watch young Graham’s home. Other officers saw him shadowing the house and arrested him as a suspicious character. He tried to explain but they used Chicago police methods and rejißed each time he spoke by hatting him over the head. He was taken to the Englewood station and after being hit a time or two by the officer in charge was thrown into, a cell. The next day by appealing to the officers who had deputized him he was released. When he returned here he showed the effects of his rough treatment and he is still somewhat the worse for his experience. He expects to return to Chicago and enter suit against the city for the beating he received. In the meantime it is reported that Graham, the Lafayette grain dealer who got away with the money, has been trying to make settlement with Hill and the others here who were caught in the reported failure.

Miss Myrtle Erikson returned to her home at Crystal Falls, Mich., today, after a visit of two weeks with Miss Harriett SJiedd. Mrs. Grant Wafner’s condition continues very encouraging and the recent blood transfusion is expected to prove a splendid temporary aid. She has made a splendid gain in red corpuscles of the blood since the operation and it is hoped to bring her home in about two weeks.