The People v. Kelly

A grand jury in Cook County indicted Edward Koch, Lawrence Kelly, and Edward Prendergast for the armed robbery of John Williams on May 8, 1948.. Prendergast obtained a severance; Koch and Kelly were tried together before a jury and found guilty. Kelly was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of three to ten years and is the only one in this court on the writ of error.

The afternoon of Saturday, May 8, between 3 :3o and 3:45 o’clock, two men entered Williams’s real-estate office at 6610 South Halsted Street, Chicago, when the only occupant was Eugene Giuntoli. The latter subsequently…