People v. Lewis

The night of April 11, 1923, a freight train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ee Railway Company was held up at Crandall, Tazewell county, a car opened and several barrels of alcohol stolen from it. The train carried a combination coach, part of which was for passengers. Crandall is at a crossing of the Lake Erie and Western railroad, about sixteen miles from Pekin. There is a grain elevator and an old unoccupied building at Crandall. There is a “Y” track there for switching cars from one railroad to the other. The alcohol was loaded in the car by the American Distilling Company, in Pekin,…