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- "MRS. MCGRAW DIES
RESULT OF WOUNDS
Inquest and Hearing Saturday;
Burial Held Today at
Newtown, Illinois
The death of Mrs. George McGraw Tuesday afternoon put theinvestigation of the circumstances surrounding her death into thehands of States Attorney A. V. Smith of Lake county.
Mrs. McGraw was found injured at her home by her husband uponreturning from work as a motorman for the North Shore line Sundaymorning. She was suffering the effects of wounds inflicted with anice pick about the head and a blow from an object such as a hammer orclub, and was taken to the Highland Park hospital. It is believedthat she died as the result of a brain puncture from a blow with theice pick.
John Mahoney and G. M. Jones, automobile salesmen who are said to roomover the McGraw residence at 114 N. First street, and George Sullivan,a friend of the McGraws for eighteen years and a roomer in theirhouse, are being held by Highland Park police as material witnesses.
Sullivan was charged with the murder Wednesday in a warrant issuedbefore Justice A.E. Smith signed by Chief of Police Maroney. Thebloodstained clothing of Sullivan was sent to Coroner?s ChemistMcNally of Cook county for analysis.
According to the theory of the police, a party at the McGraw homeSunday night with Mrs. McGraw and the above three men as participantsended in the violence that led to Mrs. McGraw?s death. It is supposedthat a ride was followed by drinking and eventually a fight.
A preliminary hearing has been called for 3 o?clock Saturdayafternoon. The coroner?s jury was sworn in Wednesday morning and theinquest will be held sometime Saturday, the hour not determined at thetime of going to press.
Rumors that Mrs. McGraw and the roomer, George Sullivan, were narcoticaddicts, was refuted by Mr. McGraw, who stated that his wife had onlyused narcotics on her doctor?s orders; and that she had not requiredany for over a year. She has been much under the care of a doctor inthe past few years. Mr. Sullivan, Mr. McGraw said, had been a friendof his and of his wife?s for about 18 years. Recently he had beenill, and for quite a while without any steady job, and had beenbefriended by the McGraws.
Mrs. McGraw, a trained nurse before her marriage, was taken to Newton,about 15 miles from Danville, this morning for burial in the lot whereher parents and other relatives are buried. Danville was Mrs.McGraw?s native town. During her years as a nurse she worked for Dr.Gary in Chicago and did much work free among the poor people of thecity who could not afford the services of a trained nurse. Mr. McGrawis a motorman for the North Shore line and has been working nights.They have lived in Highland Park twelve years.
(From the Highland Park Press, Cook County, IL, Aug., 1929 page 2)[Source: Lisa---WAVLTV@aol.com; per e-mail dated Sun., 13 May 2007;Lisa states that, "If she is buried in the Newton Cemetery with herparents, her grave is not marked. Also, her marriage certificatelists McGraw's name as Lester, not George."]
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