People v. Dear

Earl Dear was convicted of murder and sentenced to death and has sued out a writ of error. Eugene Hartnett was indicted jointly and tried with him. He was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for fourteen years.

On the evening of January 18, 1918, Harold P. Tucker, a private in the Canadian army, his brother, Archibald W. Tucker, the latter’s wife and Miss Barbara Lessner spent the evening together in the city of Chicago. They left the Alps cafe about eleven o’clock and went to Ward & Larose’s saloon, at the southwest corner of North avenue and LaSalle street, where they…