The People v. Rooney

Plaintiffs in error were found guilty in the criminal court of Cook county of the murder of one Stanley Gross, a watchman employed by the firm of Goldblatt Brothers. Plaintiffs in error John H. Rooney and Henry P. Berry were sentenced to the penitentiary for life and plaintiff in error Rosalie Rizzo was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment therein. One John Jilson and one Herbert Arnold were likewise indicted with plaintiffs in error for this murder but were not apprehended.

About 3 :oo o’clock in the morning of May 23, 1933, Stanley Gross, while seated in an automobile in front of…