The People v. Heywood

Plaintiff in error, Harry Heywood, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the murder of Adolph Skoff and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment.

The brawl and assault which resulted in the death of Skoff occurred about one o’clock in the morning of December 3, 1923, at a roadhouse known as “The Green Corners,” located on the Joliet road outside the city of Chicago. Two buildings are located at this corner, — one a saloon and the other a house of prostitution. During the Sunday afternoon preceding the trouble in the house of prostitution, Adolph and his brothers, Frank and…