People v. Spaulding

About 9:30 P. M., Monday, June 12, 1922, Arthur Smith, a constable of the town of Richwoods, in Peoria county, was shot and killed on a public highway near Bradley Park, in the city of Peoria. There were no lights or residences near the scene of the homicide. Smith and another constable, Joseph Turner, were driving along the highway in Turner’s car when they came upon two automobiles standing without lights at the south side of the road. At Smith’s request Turner stopped his car and Smith got out to investigate. The two cars were headed east, and as Smith walked around the car in which he had…