Jackson Advocate

Chief Of Police Indicted In Cicero Incident

CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-Chief of Police at the suburb of Cicero was indicted for misconduct in public office Tuesday in connection with last July's anti-Negro riots.

Five other persons were indicted on conspiracy charges. Indictments were returned by the July Grand Jury investigating the disorder and handed directly to Chief Justice Thomas E. Kluczynski in Criminal Court.

The five are: Attorney George B. Adams; Attorney George Leighton; Charles Edwards; Mrs. Camille De Rose, and Norman Silverman.

Chief Konovsky is charged with
"failure to do everything possible
to prevent the rioting" that forced
army veteran Harvey E. Clark,
Jr., a Negro, and his family to
flee from an apartment in the
all-white suburb.

The five indicted besides the
police chief were charged on three
counts: Conspiracy to destroy
property,
conspiracy to lower
value of property and conspiracy
to incite rioting.

Adams, a Negro attorney,
is
owner in trust for the building in
which Clark sought an apartment.

Leighton was Clark's attorney.

Edwards is real estate and rental
agent for the apartment building.

Mrs. De Rose is former owner of
the building. Silverman was iden-
tified by two Cicero police alleg-
edly as "helping incite crowds."

First Assistant State's Attorney
Edwin T. Breen said the July
grand jury will remain in session
to hear further testimony. He
said it is the first to remain in
session consecutively for more
than a month under a recently en-
acted law.

The rioting flared up when
Clark. a CTA bus driver. attempt-
ed to move with his wife and two
children into an apartment (at
6139 West 19th St.) in Cicero.

Violence occurred on July 10, 11,
and 12.

, Clark's personal belongings were
destroyed. flung from windows and
burned.

Order was restored after Gov.
Adlai Stevenson ordered Illinois
National Guardsmen to the area.