People v. Billburg

Plaintiffs in error, (hereafter called defendants,) Anthony Billburg, George Holsapple and George Buckley, with Daniel Drost, were convicted of the murder of John C. Looney, in the circuit court of Rock Island county. Bill-burg’s punishment was fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary and the punishment of the other three at fourteen years in the penitentiary.

John C. Looney was shot and killed about two o’clock in the afternoon of October 6, 1922, in front of the Sherman Hotel, on Seventeenth street, in Rock Island. Seventeenth street runs north and south, and the Sherman Hotel is on the…