Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — Claim Made That Heilig Did Not Participate in Deadly Assault. [ARTICLE]

Claim Made That Heilig Did Not Participate in Deadly Assault.

Speaking of the assault on John Mitch, the Cedar Lake saloon keeper, who died last Friday evening from a beating alleged to have been administered by Ray Heilig and Glen Jones, of Lowell, and Albert Wyverly, of West Creek tp., Lake county, the Lowell Tribune says: It understands that Jones testified before a justice of the peace and several attorneys that he was the one that struck Mitch and that Heilig was not there at the time, and an attempt will be made to get Heilig released on Jones’ statement. Young Heilig is a son of George W. Heilig, a Lowell baker, who used to be located at Remington and is well known there:

The Tribpne also says: “The prosecuting attorney has bound all three mfen over to the grand jury and they will have to lay in jail until that body meets and decides upon their case and if they bind them over to the court they will have to stand trial for the murder of John Mitch. Deputy Coroner J. W. Iddings held an inquest at Cgdar Lake Tuesday night and his verdict was that Mr. Mitch’s death w'as caused by a fractured skull from some unknown cause.”