People v. Sweeney

James Sweeney and Harry Bartlett were indicted in the criminal court of Cook county, together with Albert Peterson, Samuel Gibson, Thomas Corcoran, Jene Coleman, Andrew Kerr, Joseph Bangora, Charles Borigan and one Sullivan, whose first name was unknown. The indictment in two counts charged a violation of “An act to regulate the manufacture, transportation, use and sale of explosives, and to punish an improper use of the same,” approved June 16, 1887. (Hurd’s Stat. 1921, p. 1072.) The first count charged that the defendants did make, manufacture, compound, buy and procure dynamite,…