People v. Walczak

Plaintiffs in error, together with Gus Rath, were indicted by the grand jury of Cook county at the December, 1919,-term. The indictment consisted of six counts, the first three of which charged the defendants and other persons to the grand jury unknown with conspiring to extort money from three brothers doing business as Stamos Bros, in South Chicago, and conspiring to prevent them from conducting their business as a restaurant by means of boycott, and that defendants obtained the sum of $1000 from them by means of the boycott. In the last three counts the defendants were charged with…