The People v. McLaughlin

Eugene McLaughlin was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for an assault upon Walter J. Neumann with intent to commit robbery. A jury found McLaughlin guilty of the charge and he was sentenced to the penitentiary. By this writ of error he seeks a review of the record.

On March 22, 1926, Walter J. Neumann, a salesman employed by W. R. Neumann and Company, wholesale jewelers, left the firm’s place of business at Chicago, in an automobile bound for South Bend, Indiana. He had in his custody two cases containing jewelry worth approximately fifty thousand dollars. When he reached…