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Joyce Ann Hawks was granted a divorce from John E. Hawks, Jr. by Judge Robert S. Hunter Friday morning in circuit court. She charged her husband was a convicted felon.
Mrs. Hawks testified that on Oct. 13, 1959, Hawks pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny in Clay county circuit court at Liberty, Mo., and was sentenced to two years at the Missouri state farm in Algoa. She was given permission to resume her maiden name, Joyce Ann Rorick.
Source: Quincy Herald Whig, August 12, 1960.
Are Surprised by Neighbor Who Holds Them For Police.
Surprising two youthful bandits as they were about to enter the Richardson filling station at Fourth and Spring streets. Elmer E. Wagner, second-hand dealer, held them prisoners at the point of a gun while his mother ran to police headquarters for aid, Sunday evening.
And on Monday morning he saw the pair—Roy Howard and Leo Rorick—arraigned in police court, and bound over to the circuit court.
Police believe that the capture of the pair may solve a number of petty robberies in the north end of town. Howard and Rorick, however, have admitted none of the jobs of which they are suspected.
Continue reading “Two Are Caught About To Enter Filling Station”Mrs. Carry Perry-Rorick had the police court to herself yesterday morning. She was arraigned on a charge of intoxication and was fined $5 and costs. She was unable to pay the fine and was sent down to the workhouse for 10 ½ days. The Rorick woman, who was only recently married, is addicted to the booze habit and was arrested on the levee Thursday morning by Officer Tom Ryan. It was thought best to send her down to the workhouse and give her a chance to sober up.
Source: Quincy Daily Whig, October 7, 1911.
William Hayden and Charles Rorick were charged jointly in a warrant with having been guilty of destroying private property but when the case was called Attorney Coon announced that he had been retained to defend Rorick and therefore wished the defendants to be tried separately. The trial of Hayden was then proceeded with and when it was concluded and the defendant had been fined $5 and costs, $7.25 in all, Attorney Coon took a change of venue in the case and it was taken to the court of Judge Mays for adjudication Hayden admitted that he was in the company of Rorick when the latter went into the unoccupied saloon building, 218 North Front street, yesterday morning at about 9 o’clock, and testified that he and Rorick tore off the copper facing of the wash board behind the bars and tore out of the lining of the bottle box. This sheet copper they placed in a sack and were about to take it down to Rupp’s when Officer Tom Ryan, passing through Commercial alley, in the rear of the scene of depredation, saw the two men bearing a sack and dodging quickly out of view in the building. He entered and questioned them and found that Hayden’s left hand had been painfully cut. Both denied that anything was wrong but when the officer came upon the twisted copper they admitted that they had torn it from its fastenings. Rorick has a barber shop and restaurant at 216 North Front street, adjoining the vacant saloon building – formerly occupied by the late John Grave – has had access to the vacant room. The witnesses for the prosecution were Officer Ryan and William Binkert, of Binkert Bros., real estate agents. The officer testified to the facts of the arrest and Mr. Binkert testified to being agent for the building looted and that he had given no person permission to take away anything from the place or to destroy anything that was there.
When the attorneys and accused arrived at the office of Judge Mays the city asked for a change of venue and the case against Rorick was finally taken for trial to the court of Judge Bonney. There was a fine of $5 and costs was imposed on the defendant.
Source: Quincy Daily Herald, October 11, 1910.
Ed Ryan was fined $5 and costs before Justice Heckencamp this afternoon for assault and battery upon Charles Rorick a barber. The trouble occurred on May 17. Rorick is a barber. He said that Ryan who is a cripple came to his place to be shaved. They had some words about 25 cents that Rorick sa’d Ryan owed him and the latter took off his wooden leg and beat Rorick on the head and shoulders. Ryan admitted the assault and said he did so because Rorick passed a remark about his sister.
Source: Quincy Daily Journal, June 10, 1902.
Miller, S.D., March 19.—The sheriff has brough in Willard Davis, charged with store breaking. Dave and John Rorick have also been arrested. It develops that an organized band has been operating here for some time.
Source: Madison Daily Leader, March 19, 1894.
On Sunday while Mrs. Charles H. Rorick, who resides on Spring street, between Tenth and Eleventh, was at St. Boniface cemetery, she was struck on the right arm by a rifle ball. The ball passed through her arm, making a severe wound. Mrs. Rorick did not hear the report of the rifle, and no one knows who fired.
Source: Quincy Daily Whig, March 13, 1894.
MILLER, S.D., May 24.—Today the sheriff arrived from Butte County and arrested John Rorick for grand larceny, but Rorick made his escape after his arrest.
Source: Minneapolis Tribune, May 25, 1894.
Ada Randall and Eleanor Walling, a pair of young women masquerading as men, who were arrested recently in San Francisco on suspicion of robbery, are believed by the Sacramento police to have committed several robberies in that city. Proprietors of three drug stores partially identified the girls as the “young men” who held up their place of business.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 1932.
Pair With Police Records Arrested in Drug Store Holdup
In the arrest yesterday of Eleanor Walling, 27, and Ada Randall, 24, in a hotel at 473 Ellis street, police believe they have two women who have masqueraded as men and staged a series of drug store holdups over a period of weeks.
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