The People v. Schraeberg

On November 17, 192y, the grand jury of Rock Island county indicted Max Shapiro and Irving Schraeberg, alias Irving Stone, for burning a store building on October 7, 1927. On December 4, 1929, the defendants entered pleas of not guilty to the indictment. Shapiro was represented by Peter R. Ingelson, and nominally, for the purpose of keeping the record during the trial of the case, he was represented by Thomas P. Sinnett. Schraeberg was represented by Thomas P. Sinnett, and, likewise, Ingelson was Schraeberg’s nominal attorney of record. A jury was selected and sworn to try the issue. A number…