Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — MANSFIELD WILL PROSECUTE IN IMPORTANT CRIMINAL TRIAL [ARTICLE]

MANSFIELD WILL PROSECUTE IN IMPORTANT CRIMINAL TRIAL

Hon. Charles F. Mansfield, assistant attorney general of the State of Illinois, will be the leading attorney in the most sensational criminal trial of recent years, that of Joseph Clarke, of Chicago, indicted for conspiracy in the burning the Model store, on east avenue, Kankakee, 111., on November 21, 1918. David I. Bauer, proprietor of the store, has confessed to being a party to, and which Arthur ‘ Bauer has confessed to being the incendiary. The case was called for trial in the circuit court at Kankakee, Hl, Monday, February 4. State’s Attorney Dyer is being assisted by Hon. Charles F. Mansfield, assistant to Attorney General Brundage. Mr. Mansfield was eight years prosecuting attorney of Piatt county, and was an assistant of Attorney General Stead for four years. - The importance of the trial can be measured by this—State Fire Marshal John G. Gamber, of Springfield is there to remain throughout the trial, as is also Deputy Fire Marshal Bogardus, who was” active in the investigation of the fire and the subsequent arrest of the Bauers and Clarke. From the nature of the fire Bogardus was convinced from the first that it had a Chicago connection and to this end he worked. The confessions of the two Bauers, who will testify for the prosecution, was secured under assurance, of light punishment in order to reach Clarke, whose conviction is regarded as of major importance. The defendant is represented by Clarence S. Darrow, of Chicago famous in the defense of criminal trials, and A. E. Smith.