The People v. Zaransky

In the criminal court of Cook county Morris Zaransky was convicted of receiving stolen property and sentenced to the penitentiary. He is a junk dealer in the city of Chicago. On the night of September 14, 1934, a large amount of copper, aluminum, old radiators, tin and pewter was stolen from the North Side Metal Company’s place of business on North Oakley boulevard, in Chicago. Two weeks later, Nathan Cohen, Joseph Winslow and Walter VanHeulen were arrested in an attempted burglary at the same premises. They confessed the first burglary and informed the officers they sold the metal to…