Will County IL Archives News.....War of the Lawyers May 28, 1890
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The Daily Inter-Ocean [Chicago] May 28, 1890
One Joliet Attorney Charges a Brother Practitioner with Attempting to Murder 
Him

Joliet, Ill., May 27.--Special Telegram--Attorney George S. House, a leading 
chancery lawyer, swore out a warrant to-day for the arrest of Attorney David 
Gilmore, alleging that Gilmore had threatened to shoot him and had been 
following him around for that purpose for two weeks, trying to entrap him. 
Lawyer Gilmore, it is alleged, accuses Lawyer House of undue intimacy with his 
(Gilmore's) wife. Mrs. Gilmore is the former wife of ex-County Treasurer 
Andrew J. Fries. Some years after the death of Mr. Fries she married Lawyer 
Gilmore, a man without means. Mrs. Fries owns considerable property. Gilmore, 
it is alleged, tried to get control of the property and trouble arose between 
him and his wife over it. It is said that he treated his wife abusively, 
causing a separation, she dreading to file a bill for divorce for fear of 
personal harm. She placed her legal affairs in the hands of Attorney House, 
who has been managing them for some time. Mr. House alleges that Gilmore sent 
a note to him on legal matters last Saturday requireing the presence of House 
at Mrs. Gilmore's home. Mr. House's law student, C. L. Pike, went and found 
Mr. Gilmore awaiting Mr. House in the barn with a shotgun. Mr. House had 
Gilmore arrested this morning upon conclusive evidence that he intended to 
kill him. When the sheriff arrested him he found a five chamber revolver on 
him. He was bound over in $1,000, but he could find no one to go on his bond 
and on account of his violent temper he was put in a cell in the county jail. 
All the Joliet lawyers have a dislike for Gilmore. Mr. House and Mrs. Gilmore 
possess good reputations.

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