The People v. Maertz

A Cook county criminal court jury found Homer H. Maertz, Fred Pokorny and Douglas Campbell guilty of malicious mischief and that the value of the property destroyed was in excess of $15. They received sentences to the penitentiary for from one to ten years and have sued out this writ of error to review the judgment of conviction. Joseph Schimpf and George Heppner were tried with them and acquitted.

The malicious mischief charged was that defendants broke plate glass windows of Goldblatt Bros, Inc., a Chicago department store. The breaking was done at about 2:3o o’clock in the morning of…