People v. Selknes

The plaintiff in error, Charles Selknes, was indicted, tried, found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of thirty years for the murder of Boleslaw Abarowitz, by shooting him with a revolver.

The defendant and Abarowitz were Lithuanians and partners in. a business conducted in a building at Willow Springs, in Cook county, called Zenlc’s Hotel. In the front of the building, on the first floor, there was what the witnesses called a soft drink parlor, with a dining-room back of it and kitchen in the rear. On the second floor there was a sort of parlor in front and a hall and…