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Show oo CAMPBELL HELD TO GRAND JURY Negro Trusty Faces Investigation Investiga-tion in Connection With Murder of Warden Allen's Wife. Officials Fear Mob Violence If Defendant Is Removed to Jail. Joliet, Ills, June 25 "Chicken Joe" Campbell, negro trusty at the penitentiary, was not placed in the county Jail today. In accordance with the recommendation of the roronor's jury he was held to the grand jury in connection with the death last Sunday Sun-day of Mrs. Odette Allen, wife of the i warden of the penitentiary While Campbell was held to the grand jury . j he was not formerly charged with th murder. Fear that violence might be visited ! on Campbell, if he were removed to I the jail, is the influence which is keeping the accused man in the penitentiary peni-tentiary where he will be safe from I possible mobs The long session held by the coro- ner's jury last night was due, it is : said, not to any hesitation about holding hold-ing Campbell, but to considering I whether others were involved in a plot against Mrs. Allen. The jury was unable to decide on this point. rw |