The People v. Thompson

Richard Thompson and Harold Whitaker were indicted by the grand jury of Cook county for robbery with a gun. Isadore H. Gross owned a drug store at 4656 Wentworth avenue, Chicago, and on the morning of February 23, 1925, the store was opened about eight o’clock by a negro porter, Haywood Bell, eighteen years old, and Edward Weber, a white boy fourteen years old. Shortly after the store was opened, somewhere between 8 :oo and 8:3o, two men entered the store. After remaining there a little while one of them inquired where the proprietor was. He was told the proprietor was not in at that time,…