Re: Mystery!
LIPPON, KOSKOVICH
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: Mystery! (Lisa Mann)
Date: 9/19/2012 at 20:23:54
I located two newspaper articles regarding the Lippon family. John Joseph Lippon died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on October 7, 1964. The articles are from 1927 and 1928 when the family lived in Westfield, Plymouth County, Iowa.
JOHN J. LIPPON IN JAIL FOR 8 MONTHS OR SO—EXPECT FAMILY ADDITION
Plymouth county taxpayers were handed a nice bag to hold when federal and state agents raided the home of John J. Lippon, in the southwest part of the county, found some corn mash, and hauled Lippon into the Plymouth county district court, refusing to take him into federal court. Lippon is now in the county jail, having waived to the grand jury, and his family is about to begin drawing on the county for support for the next eight months or so. The Lippon family has been playing in hard luck lately. Some weeks ago, while they were down in Sioux City in a truck, they hit a bump and a small child was jarred out of Mrs. Lippon's arms and fell to the paving, receiving injuries from which it died. The federal and state men did not raid the Lippon home on a federal warrant, because the federal courts are particular about issuing warrants and it is easier to raid under the state law. The only trouble is that the costs of handling the cases all go on the county taxpayers. Local officers discussed the possibility of turning Lippon over to the federal court but the federal men didn't want him in their court, and as he has had three previous convictions in federal court in Nebraska, he would have to be sentenced at least a year in the federal court at Sioux City, with Plymouth county supporting his family anyway. The Lippon family, subtracting the child which was recently killed, still includes three children, and another one is expected in about a month or so. The expenses incident to that happy event will be borne by the county, as the father is in jail. The Lippon family has absolutely nothing. Everything in the house was recently sold at a constable's sale. The wife and children have absolutely nothing to live on. Besides the mash barrel nothing was found at the Lippon home. The still and other apparatus had been removed. The Officers said that in all probability the still and other equipment is furnished by some Sioux City capitalist, who lends the equipment to various "assistants" in Plymouth county. The stills are moved frequently, first to one place and then another, so that by the time the neighbors get suspicious the plant has been moved elsewhere. In the mean time the federal courts to conduct their raids on poor assistant bootleggers while the principle booze bosses are unmolested, and Plymouth county supports Papa Lippon in the county jail and his unfortunate family outside the jail.
Le Mars Globe Post -- Lemars, Iowa
Thursday, January 12, 1928*******************
CHILD HURLED UNDERWHEELS
Run Over and Instantly Killed When He Falls Under Auto Truck
OTHERS ESCAPE INJURY
Machine Skids on Loose Gravel Causing FatalityGeorge Lippon fourteen month old son of a Westfield farmer, was killed almost instantly last Friday on the Broken Kettle road, when he was thrown from a light truck, a rear wheel of which passed over his body. J. J. Lippon, the father, hailed a passing car and took the infant to a Sioux City hospital, where he died just as the last words of his baptism were being pronounced. Two other passengers of the five who were riding in the truck were hurled from their seats into the ditch alongside the road, but escaped injury. These two were Mrs. Lippon, mother of the dead infant, and Mary Lippon, six-year-old sister. Helen Lippon, another sister, and Andy Karras, 115 Eleventh street, Sioux City, also were riding in the truck.
Loose gravel Responsible
Mr. Lippon, who was driving, said that he was going about twenty miles an hour down a hill one-half mile from the end of the pavement on the Broken Kettle road when the accident occurred, Loose gravel had been heaped in the center of the road by a grader; When the truck struck the gravel. It skidded nearly into the ditch, and as Mr. Lippon swung the machine back into the road, the baby and two others were thrown out of the car through an open door. There rear wheel of the truck passed over one leg of Mrs. Lippon without causing serious injury. The body of the baby was crushed. At this hospital it was seen the child would not survive and Rev. T. M. Coghlan was called to administer baptismal ceremonies. Just after being baptized, the infant died without having regained consciousness.
Never Drive Truck Again
The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at Blessed Sacrament church in Sioux City, Rev. Father Coghlan officiating, and interment made in Mount Calvary Cemetery in Sioux City. Besides the parents and two sisters, the infant is survived by one brother, Edward Lippon, ten years old. Mr. Lippon formerly resided in Sioux City, having been employed at St. Vincent's hospital. About five years ago he moved to a farm near Westfield. Following the tragic death of his son, whose loss he mourns, the father asserted he would never drive the truck again. "I will walk before I run that car a foot farther," said Mr. Lippon, according to an account of the accident contained in the Sioux City Journal.
LeMars Semi Weekly Sentinel -- Lemars, Iowa
Tuesday, November 29, 1927
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