October 17, 1933 – The first man to be jailed for
attempted piracy on Lake Michigan is sentenced to six years in the federal
penitentiary by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson. The United States District Attorney is able
to show that the 28-year-old man, Joseph Pennick, boarded a boat at the Wrigley
building and rode it to the Century of Progress World’s Fair on the lakefront. On the return trip, at a point about a mile
off Roosevelt Road, Pennick pulled out a revolver and ordered the pilot of the
boat to surrender his cash. The pilot,
James M. Nester, and another passenger overpowered Pennick, but not before he
got off two shots, one of which grazed the passenger’s head. Pennick’s plea was that he had been drinking.
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