ne eenranng ee
THe Scloro Gazetre te the olfeat paperiia
| Ohio, baving been eatablished in {he year inbo
— ’ A AS STS ee eae a, jee SSN eevee b> Longa continuously ever binve, It Maes
‘19 1 78 ’ \ ’ ~ y : ) & iarge and steadily increasing pirculation}p,
] a ra) r ’ m= | Southern and Central, Onto, ‘dvor.
‘ v9 87 ° ' $ \ ol, 79, No. ] 1) a= W hole N Dp, 40 é 2, | tletng wedtam offers veperian. te seemente, ae.
° “ > come a ° sueloens men and othera, | ‘« : az”
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recorded | | \
or which |
!, found | | :
» banged | |
bia wite | , ros : , ; ‘rie piusev wee t. wea Ke ae ae
owe and | HOUSE PN AVHCE DHE MeVRY MURDER WAS COMMITTED,
o . by : .
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a perth | PERRY BOWSITRR, TV MURDERER OF MR, AND MRS. MeVEY, , e
sone en-| | (FROM A FHOTUPRATI TAKEN AT. INE TIME OF Hd ALRESE
steom of jj je = ,
r degree . .
“Uoble ,
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tonately | |
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bora in
ylvanta,
sod was | |
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sof age. | |
emoved
Fayette |
4 about |
alu ed a}
0 obtaio
‘ors don, |
elatives, |
yout ere
learned |
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years. | ir
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| | , : DIAGRAM OF THE VICINESY OF THE TO LEATOUSE. *
oy, and || 5 AGRAM O! > VICT
Rg v0 | A--Toll-llouse?; B--Pracks made by Bowsher and accompli. 4 Woods shitting the ravin Ravine he-S i a
: or Culvert, Farm rdud | J--Brigye > K—-Lair) b--Bary ¢ Meo bat tence enctosit; door yard ve facie, turnpuk .
gr or! ‘The diagram is accurately drawn on a scale of tro feet to the ip hy ;
(ne yoat | The theory of the tracks, as we understand them, after hearing the evidence a Willigas Heue
rd have | from the dfrection of the lotirmary to the “lair? whence they woot reconmoitertn Uy ue N ests t
l¥, S1ace | | tracks is not continudus fy owing only to the character ot the sround. Phe traeks ooias trom tt ye hh angi fe are
ibly ex- | and went when the crimp was committed. ‘Thenee the trayh. go to the turnyah tatee dost Cod tracks got
ive been | not appear now to have finy connection with the others. : |
re. they . | . vies :
16 yeare | : | apts | !
vasiness, | pathy and active {determination to; 8peo tis grasdaother;/ ao o lady
» in part | ferret oat the murderer. The Com [over eighty yeara of age| who resides
igga.an | prisaioners offered qd reward of Eh oo at Adelphi and whom Sp would baqe
McVey. tor biwarrest.and epuviction, and Mr, hulled bat tor the lotettefebee VE pet
up to a} Coorge McVey indtracted: Me. War | sens who wary attr cted/ bw ber onthe
.t fire in | i. Mille, who was appointed aduitots for Laly. ., |
panta of | trator Of the eutaté, fo first pay Che Ws Vee vic anpe |
stood on | fow debts and fanefal expenses gf bis) Perry Bowsther, Che afeaused. is) he
ia" Com | beother, at do uee the balagce remati- | young maa of tweuly five, bat kt >
d eepa- | jog in bie bDandsjo search for the teal age ts about tweuryfa me Ife fs
it, Mr, criminal AN thesttraces left by the tive feot aight ard at RY tichea th
i bie loss, Ma saeein were carefally gathberell ap height, when be eteaihpece apy bat
ill finao- sad preserved. There werd appa: watha tn a tather sfoupefl, cout@acted
erecured lreatly dnsignitieapt jo: themselves. (way, whiel gives Line Uch) appeatacep s
$ | ) g b i
r oo the faod consisted of fwo screw drivers (at bere hue lice va feet ot at
‘arnpixe, Jad a steel punch fgund to the hogdee, | Hicotdinary weight os e tuodied
the time lead with which therdrawers Were | god thirty toone hundeckt ald Qairty
in S. Me | forced, and aome tarp pleces of dtay- itive pogode. Ilo hee [ight brow®
oabip, in nixed veet fronta, Fora piecesyot Veet tate, coll blue eves moth face
, wed hae JMalego end beok.[m emall ploge of with faust the ebadow of a light coir”
ty. They | Hack atriped goodk, & pair of @irtv ored whiskers {,imopatache. calf
velr own, jeceka, turnip pariops and e#crapse of enough to make biaehicf aod tip loog
had Bev. | lpiekled pork, fouo(t da the reddes | furey of dirty. te mbrnieog of bth
| ly neor leit’ of the murderers, frou artest be was cf a deadily palevces|
1 iwhieh they took oSeer¥ations off (he but his color bas egued retarsed id=
vae 6 girl jhouse and awaited nw favorable/mo ‘eome mteatare It ie a face whic
thirteen y nt for their work, | night be pasecd by @ Lhodred tiaed
1 |
2 DEVECHIVES without altractiog apy aiteatiua, badq
the Mc hi \ | whea one etape to etadiion it be tq
who waa ; Were secured frofa the cithea and en . are ' , Y
the pletol | \8 porad tratia werp followed, bat led eo a hectue ogviieo . eaid
creams of | (te neaghe Detective Kastmatnyef aud cnt . . ra 4 eatate eure
ont made | 'Ciselonat!, who wak the (ration fe 8 y) attlere conagh tod the cme of
\ i ‘ le whit he etande accuedd Oar en4
the mar-! | Rronnst, « ing byfspeelal ¢ratni far- Ree 4 tel
A roel, abel ie
joleted for at POT pose by Mr [jsnk Kraving givee bia at hig
Ay Sat
\ZETTE & _ eu tatthful that he weald be fteadild|
| j eater, Maater of Teqnoeportation of the euteesdt ft Helworora t 4
a8 awak M.& C ROR, examined all thelert wit bat . nif. eP WF ote .— |
i oO rat mow Ove wat toa
{ abot and jdencesa left by thé murderer, made bie *. fhe ia rval. ?
' striped cot€an ebict andthe oot wetat
carefal doqotry, anil retarned bad, °
| looking paute 'deserttapl by the grel}
|declaring that there waa abanlatels
}
rat i lady aoar
ng, ‘Oh! |
'
Altes [rear Iie deet whro eael! «
whith ¢
+ Ct Mee BPage
rialaor acidp; ta
(atious of nature,
‘Tee Toulp eo ’
aloe thas it fe al.
it. The gdetrle
bieb, laa healthy |
the food to be di-
+ not secreted io
iva, with all ite
‘The Bea Weed
he gaatrio julce
An occasional
ile will keep the
hat ‘bowel
is troubles
bite, . The
u with Sch
aro the sta
ners
bove
ok's |
dard
nok & So . cor, |
deipbia, and for
MILLS
cond St.,
fWalnit, |
ze of her olff cus.
2@.° She ha
L STOCK OF
-INERY,
Ar. Pen ns
URE in ber
DEK. |
d- Bonnets
“wy.
R ACA
i,
KENGAUST
fidence, that she
em for the Cut
| kinds df gar-
# Many J. Davie
the city, she ap-
oh and self, All
rt loarn thp Sya-
aking Establish.
lock, up stairs,
Below we yivea
received during
iber 1, 1876.
ine Street
Th:
.od can say
apeortence
1, Dublin,
Bro., of
that has ed
ale form,
“NIVEROAL
(Neos OF V
other dij
tlom and 4°
@ role, ag
sth of natyl
Medicine)
yeare of
iiseonsog
rhlete, wh
very one.
by all Drq
see for 85,
ne money
ggists
pe will
by ad-
CINE CO).
yermorr, Mich.
FL Lansigg and |
sonts, Celd
mbus,
I PR
cer, |:
ables
d Fruits
pms Olther
Quant ties.
CHILDER, -
Walmud Sti,
Sse Re neatly
TTR +)
ome |
| Jakes, aboutt
. guage, quotiog from bis test
atta
|“Let me in, .thére. is eome [person
he we aide n disturb. t |
thie eommin, be shiw weme TOE, med bao
| Hever resided ont of the county. They
! never had any childrea of thelr own,
bat’ at varioas (periods have had sev-
eral adopted eh}ldren,
IN THE HOUSE
{
}
| At (he time ot the murder, wae a girl |
— Alice Dean,. aged) thirteen
years, who bad lived with the Me-
| Veys abont three years, who waa
awakened by the firing of the pistol
of the marderer aud the ecreams of
| Mrs. McVoy. From s etatemont made
beet and pablished in the Gazerre at
that time, we
| © On Friday |onight ehe was awak
jened by the report ofa platol ahot and
heard Mra, MaVpy screaming, nd
| Dear Lord, do| pray for mie.’
| other shot was red, and all gtr
| quiets She than) jamped ont of her}
[bed and crawlep boder it, Presently |
is man came inta ber reom with a
‘light. At firgt|ahe thoaght it waa
(Mr. McV ey. a tt waa on the point of |
| asking bin what waa the matter,when }
ments that it wae not "Uncle Mac.”
'Hle went to th center table, aud
j taking opa ti silver cap, poored | |
ite contents of g¢hplla ont on the table, |
‘bat left the capion the table. He!
then commencéd) an examisation of | |
the room, beginning with some cloth- |
ing hanglog 10 |the door.
he went to the |bhrean, and| although |
(she coald see bat vory little of hie
person, she knéw from the nolee
made, that hd \was endeavoring to,
‘tores the lock df the only drawer that
was ‘fastened,| which was a email |
drawer io the opper right hand. cor-
ner. |. fea)
“After this be left the room and
.went out, going, ebe thinks, ‘into |
the “shop.” -He) retaroed presently
aqd made anot er examination of the
room, aod goiog jout she edon heard
him going down the ateps leading
from the room| adjoining hers down
into the kitchan, She then thooght
it was time to gndeavor to get away,
and crawling jont. she hoisted the
window, and gétting oat she got onto
a plank, one end) of which |rested on’
the fence, didtant aboat | eighteen
inches trom thé east side of the win-
dow, and abont|thirty inches lower
than the windaw. Reaching thie she:
soon was on the tarnpike, crossing
which, she climbed the fence on the
opposite side, god made her way. ap
the bil} tothe haase of Mr, William
TT handred ford dis
tant. ” |
WHAT YR JAKES ate
We will let hia) tell ia his |own: ian-
jmony be- |
fore the Corondr}
“Wasa called t 11:50-p. m
26/1877, by Alice Dean.
ran egainst the |door an
, October
|
hink the |
down 1n the haoree mardbring Mr.
and ‘Mra. McVay.” I shot'my gun
off, thinking to frighten them away,
and eave the lives of the) MoVeys.
The girl eaid) they bad fired the
hones, Tran down in’ company with
Woad Willis a sd) Henry Love. Tried
the front door and . found. it, fast.
Then went to thé kitchen door on the
southwest cornpr of the houke ; forod
it.closed but bot fastened. Found
the house eo dark and fall) of smoke
that I conld ppt get io. ent theo
to the front dopr aod called Mre. Mc-
vey several times. Gettleg no an-
swer, I got. a jail and knpcked the
doprin. The pnoke being) 20 dense
no person coald - have {gone in.
I closed the dopr and: atarted to Jo-
eoph Crydet's, |! leaving the|two men
that were with/me at the door. Called
him ap and bron ght him back with,
me. Sent Willis to my hoase for
matches and candle. By the time be
retaroed the sthdke was pearly all out
of the house, 8 we could enter. We
ligh the candle catia and ‘eo-
btered! Saw Mr./MceVey lyiog on the
floor behind the door, and Mre, Mc-
Vey sitting on|a chair opposite, near
the étove, ber bead hanging down ; I
think resting pn the stove, both be.
iog dead. Saw ino blond ‘about Mr,
McVey, Saw/|blood. flowing : treely
from Mre. McVey. Found the bed
they bad bedn sleeping jin on fire,
which Cryder, ‘Willie and myeelf put
ont, Previoug: to thie, Mr. Cryder |
got’ a bocket of water from ithe water
barrel at the corner of ak * ouee, and
put the fire opt that was |barning io
the room wherp the girl slept... Io the
bed where Mrjand Mra. MoVey slept,
we found, a pocket book and watch,
AY)
to oor reporter.the day af or the mar- |
|
adte;: . |
|
|
abe became sati-fed from his mMove- | |
From there |
|
|
|
|
The drawing is made ona
right, instead of the left, as»
IN WHIC
Scale of six feet to an)
mown in the diagram
;
>
DIAGRAM OF THE THOUSE He THE MeVEY MURDER
| WAS COMMITYIED.
| I—Store-room,; 2--Rogm occupied Iw th, MeVev's 3— Room ocenpiegd
by Alice Dean; 4y—Kitchdn, A—Doors; BaMWindows; BA—Window through
which an entrance was effected: Be—Win dow]) throwrh which Alice Dean! es
taped; C—Desk:) D—Coupter; k—Body ot Me MeVey; P—Chair oveupied ,
bby Mrs, “MeVey; G—Stofe, H——Barean TjCenter table; K--Bed occupied
by Alice Dean: L.--Bed copeupied by the MeVeys; M—Table at which supper
Was taken; N--Kitchen sfife; O—Fence; PatPlank over which Alice Dean
escaped, “The front door ojfens to right, instead pt Jett ay shown in diagram:
inch, The front door opens 4o the
PD great effort to get all’ the fins ont.
|We then alarmed the neighborhood.”
| THY POSITION OF THE BODIES
|
[When found ta indicated |by the dia-
phragm and striking the
face of the liver and rat
sward, passing throogh an{l
the ninth rib near the ap
jand was found lying anc
lopposite the tenth: rib,
ithree fochea from the aplo
|, Mr. McVey was abot i
the ball entering over tile region ot |
tthe heart, passing throngh the left |
g, ang right aaricle ot|the heart, a |
opr Which no doubt capeed instant | |
i eath. |
THE THEORY OF TIE J
‘An appeared from ,the @
ithe bext morplog, and as
from later asiaence int
that’ the murderet had
‘boase for the purpose of
\the back door or window
lsearching for booty in th¢
which wae ocenpied as a
awoke Mr. McVey. Mr.
Iman pt noqaestioned ba
|got up and went into -the
protect hia property. T
ithe thief, who instantly |
in death by a shot tros
|The shot or atraggle awo
iVey, who followed ber hy
'thief placed the pistol to
fired, the ball making an
itatal wound, . She sank
and then, pleading for
|flend etood over ber and
tal shot. Who the fiend!
‘po trace beblod apon wh
jectare coald be tormed. The Mc-
Veys were generallly believed. to be
poor people, who hed npthiong about
their oaes which copid fempt a rob-
ber to riek bia lite or libdrty by a bar-
Bing back- |
fracturing
nal column, |
er the ekin | |
and
the cheat,
CURDER
vrrangalige!
Btill appears |
leotered the |
robbery, by
r, and while
front room,
grocery, he
MeV. was a
aypry, and!
rocery to
here he met
hid him low
1 hie platol.
ke Mra, Mc-
aband: The
ber face and
ogly bat not
oto a chair,
her life, the
fired the fa-
wae he left
ch any con-
Abey
gisry. Buy this impreasion was soon
\
epi ened eae
qt
Bot As
| frien
! .
de by statements from intimate
dp of the family. Mr.' Wm. B.
| Millsjand a brother of Mr. McVey,
who
| State,
convex eur. |, mate
resides at. Maryaville, in
knew him to be the owner: of
gram of the honae at the Road of this | about
article. Mra, McVey bac evidently | |} ¢1.700 IN-U. 8. BONDS
bad two wonoda made by f ball from) AS cic: wma a ¢ealand
lb piatolof No, 32 calibre.| The firat, | None/of which could be foand aboat
las atoted by Dre. Scearce And French, | ithe he nee. In addition to thia, Mr.
who mado the post mortejn examina: | ca ipagl sogge, Prosident of the Tarn-
tion, “entered the face ovdr the cheek | | Mae oro hat been oneu by
bone, passing directly throngh the | r. MeVey where be had $3300) rors
iface from right to left, anc was found | | coaled behind the end of the coaster.
lander the akin over the |left cheek /This [honey was foand safe in :ite
‘bone at a point directly gpposite the { hidjng| place. A farther groea gam
entrance wonnd. At the| wonnd. on ) of #1 \ 70 waa found concealed in va-
| the right side ot the face the skin was'| rious hiding places abont the grocery
||powder-etained for a ephco of one ; when} the invoice of the niger was
linch equaré. The aecon{l wound of | being) made.
entrance of the ball was ip the apper | AFTER THE FIRE: |
front part of the cheat abpat two and | Had bden subdued in the honse, and
ia half inches from the ‘resin ine, | the nbighbora began to arrive aa the
passing throogh and fracturing the, alarm gpread, Mr. Jakes aod Joseph
| second rib; thence ranging downward | | Hf. Crypler, who were among the firet:
land outward throogh the fiddle lobe | at the acene, took measures to presprve
lof the right lang, severing] the palmo- | | everyithiog joat as-they had foond it
nary artery; thence throokh the dia-/ and.¢a prevent fresh tracks. being
about the house or the fields
and gardens in .the vicinity nntil the
aryivaljot the officers of the law. ‘The
precanfiona those taken proved after-
| ward |to have been of incalcnlable
abont | valoe
bh) colamn,.”’ ithe cnig
| Took
| follow j
dence
by th
neral
be caee, WAS) Mr, 3
Ha
The t
Rey.
three
bad
near]
life, ¥
the p
beau
quiet
Aneg
the
wher
ing
and
Vey
rible
T.
was
roun
mard
ance,
the
the ¥
fo the anthorities in fastening |
1e upon the proper person.
THE FUNERAL | |
lace on the “Sanday aftergooo | H
pg the marder. from .the fesi- |
f Wo. B. Mills, on S ath)
treet... Early in toe imorping |
of people began to hasemble |
ll parts of the country, jand |
hoar annoanced ton thd
aint atreet inthe vielnity ot |
{lls und. the sides of Cemetery
whre a living mags of people
hieral service was conducted by
EY H. Heagler, and shortly after
o'clock these old people, who
traveled side by side | throogh
vy fifty years of happy! married
were laid to reat in one grave on
orth brow of Cemotery Hill
ifal eitaustion overlookiog | the
, peaceful valley of the Scloto.
it, plain marble mooomeot marke
pot where they now aleep,/aod
jo the frienda ever paged in yieit
bia beautifal city of the dead,
ehearee the virtaes of) the Me-
while they shadder at) the! ter-
crime by which fo thalt o} age
were cut down.
1E ‘MOST INTENSE ixeritae T
dapeod throaghout all | the) sar-
Hing country, as the news of the
lerjspread. The large acqoaiat-
the innocent, inoffensive fives,
hge and unprotected condition of
i
ar
ts)
| declaring that th
}no clre, and nothi¢g apon whi¢h to
thia | and circumstance w
ithe detection of tt
{the women donble
Muloge and back, i, emall pte
black striped goodp, a pair of
socka, turnip pariogs and ecraps. of
pickled pork, fogn{l in the eeiiae
vous or “lair” of the murderers, from
which they took o}serVationa of} the
house and awaited s fivorable|mo
ment for their works | y
DETECTIVES :
Were secared from ‘the cities,) and
supposed traila werp followed, bat led
to naaght. Detective Kaatmap bfor
Cincinnat!, who. wap tha firat on
gronnd, coming by| special train fee
nished for that parpose by Mr. Uasnk:
ester, Muater of Transportation of the
M.& C.R.R., examined all thejevi-
dences left by thé | murderer, “~y
carefal inquiry, anjl! retarned h pe
ro wis absol tly
by wt,
irtv;
ae
rest a soapician ;°
the moat completels
orey knew.
| Notwithstanding thle! ‘disconr giog.
atart the search wae etill kept), op;
bat time kept pasting by until the
public was becoming diacoaraged, and
the chances ot findjng the gailty| par-
ties seemed almost to have pabaed.
Saddenly,‘on the njorning of Monday,
November 12th, a} posae arrived in
this city, haviog injeharge “" - |
‘A PRIGONER
Who had been arregted in Perry town:
ship, Hocking coanty, under sach cir-
caomatances as lead/almost to the cer-
tain conviction that he was: the jmar-
derer. From the Scioto GAzetTe of
Nov. 14, 1477, we dopy the. following
interest in .particalars of the arrest;
ia prigon Hfe, ete.; °
hat it was‘ o¢e¢ of
covered erim she
der ot Mr. E.lward |S. McVey and bia
wife have the officdre, the detectives,
or thb pablic .et ap in their lotereat
in bringing the magderer aol bie ac-
complicea, if such there be,.‘o japtice,
Men stood npoh thé street corners or
in- their offices anf! workehops, and |
turned over in their minds every clue
hich might lead to
e criminals, while-
jocked and bplted
as they sbaddered
stone, The; case
And over, and the |
at.maoy innocent
Ruepected, + Thees
bw happily phaeed |
of at least ofa of
that one dpabt-
Hereafter the offi-
kbt starting gotat,
doors and windows
sround the - heart
was conned over
Teanlt bae been th
persons have been
easpicions bave o
away in the arrest
the marderers, and
teas the priocipal.
cera, having the ri
are not likely to gb’ astray.
“Oo Monday mofning, about
fo'clock, four’ persons from Hog¢king
| county—Wm. Balfiwin, Benj. |Boa-
cher, Squire Davis pod M. L. ote
ARRIVED IN THE CITY,
having #& prisoneq in charge whom
they took to the Shdriffa office, add eat
down patiently to await the arrival of
that official. It sdon became npised |
abroad that the prikoner waa arr sted |
charged with the MeVey marder. A}
GAZETTE reporter Was oo band ebjortly | |
after their arrival, god gained thp fol
lowing particulars
eight
THE PRISONER,
who goea by the nqme of Perry Bow-
sher, was the ilegitimate son of
ho lived somb eix
mi. He bearaa bad
* Doe.” Bowsher, W
Jam,
totls, all tended to aryene bym-
|
} = pias
tiles east of Adel py
character, having
enced td the Pe
Common Pleas
county, for stealio
in that prison hea
once been sent.
hitegtiary by’ the
bart. of Pictaway
k a horee. While
tacked aod .,
|} And woald have
purpose bat for
another prisoner,
ishment for bis eri
He ececaped pao
me on the plea of |
insanity, whether deal or feigned, and!
waa sent, Mr. Baldwin—who ie his
half brother, the fr ne—to the asy- |
r
}
or to the prison hoepital, he
never saecertaloed Ppciney A which. |
After hia release ad aboat two feara!
since, he was agaid arraigned before |
the Common Pleas/Coart of Pickaway
connty on the charge of breaking toto
the store of a Mk. Coro, the Post-
Master at Leiatvillp. The plea of
INSANITY
was ralseed ty Nie attorney, P. G.
Bostwick, and resdited in bis commis. |
ment to the Athbhns Asylam, | from >
which fostitation be made hie eqcape,
as his palf-brothe anderstands, jast
>
March.’ Since that time aotil iptely,
it seome, bat little) was koown bf hie
whereaboate, }
ANOTHEM EPISODE
of bie life, and which marke hia! jebar- |
acter, js an attadk which he made
“
“At.no time sincp the horrible mar- -
{jase martied.
p with Jast the shadow ¢
ored Whiskers and
enough to make bis
fgzzy or dirty,
some: measare. It
might be passed by
without attracting a
atrnoe
leak
and ?
whi
a
recogyized from it,
wool bat, brown.
atriped cotton ahbirt,
Alice. Dean.
cared, in’ round-toed
small tracks lefi tn t
toll’ esi: i
A GREAT
‘and crowding for a
some ‘detail of the
bim,
an isene.
THE STORY OF
Baldwin, is
{
ing with
township,
has» 800 named W
Some
bad shown him
he knew he had nv
ime
chi
» The s
arrest he waa of a dea
but hie color: bas sine
is
al
ny
when ong stops, to ‘exa
with Ita dogged,
ook, bétokening
artless enoogh fo
he atandsa accus
graving Rives hint at hi
eo'faithfal that he wor
He
Ove
an
looking: paots,". desorib
Hie feet v
eh
was .remarked woald
ne
ene
Was s004 gathered aby
office, peering through
elg
‘oner, which was cons:
ing, each astival being
[ev
The prisoner re
_jand: qniet, and refase:
Atian early boar he w
the city prieon for’ g
where be atill remaipe
ing yet been set for b
examioatjon, which e
appears in od wise ope!
Mts
Aa told by his baltybr
“briefly
Bowsher basa been-reel:
a widow
Matilda De Haven, wh<
Hocking ¢
neighbosbood of the R
%
illie
Gays ago youn,
formed Baldwin that |
a
United States bood
tc
eatly, so oo Satarday
him, and Boweher shu
{telling him that he
tine.
ba:
(in Sanday alte
o'clock, Baldwin called
$300 IN UNITED
pocket, wrapped :
clined to go. Ho fe
iad been. obtained
Vey's, and kaoew ot
on his grandmother
says, led lim fo the
hia daty to
MAKE KNUWN Lit
'when Kowebee stiuwed
sta
Which’be carried in a:
oa
and wanted Baldwin
‘him to Allen cogoty.
iv ¢)
a
had heard of the ales
bis!
disposition, as exh: oe
‘-
fe |
|
|
es ge thie feeliog bh
M Davie. on wi
eae workiog, acd t old
‘las we bave related ita
Ic was 6
hia advice.
to
AMHR T
Upon. the charge u!
tesidence of
atealipg some clot
ho wae edepectad
btq.
Saaae!
bes,
A
made gp fer that par
ot the pereooe frat ae
soe)
4
;
oq
iH
ticle as baviog brought
to
ARMED AND
They started
gone to *bell™
; thie city, tage rue
fa- ered KILLED OSE OF THE ul ARDS | and Poter Mettler,
accomplished hie! eeatiog themee!vea ‘os &
he interference ot) depaty Sheriflet Muck!
t
to Mis
| where they learned tha!
a omegh
The p
}the home of the pew!
ple, surroanded it,
at
manearvering aroased |th
who iofurmed them
ite being Sanday, ag
atreat on Mooday
j patty kad beed therp,
| daced to forego theiapp:
e
igt
had gone off in the djre«
Chiloote’a, .where bh
woald be foanod.
itheir way over fivids,
ltowa to Chileote’s, of
precantione, ae the
their prey, and koe
armed, wae a good
threatened to kit 8
tempted hie arrest.
the bonee ‘
(Continued en
1
ey
&
ral
fea
abe
abk
ye
Ci
@®
» wed hae] |
ity. They |
belr own, |.
vhad sev. |
I]
}
wae a girl | |
thirteen | |
1 the Mo-
who waa
the pletol
creame of
ont wenn!
the mar-
\ZETTE at
1s awak
shot and
Ve.
6’ An
\ became |
at of her
rernently
with «
it if war
» pojot of
ter,when
ta move-
vile Mao.”
sble, avd
;
SS p>
| utege and back,Ja omall plede wt
} Wlack striped good, & pair of dirty
| socks, turnip pariogs and ecraps. of
; pickled pork, fogoit in the reddez-
vousor lair’ of the murderera, from
; which they took odservations of} the
(house and awaited «a fivorable| mo
| ment for their work. {
DETECIIVES
| Were secored fro{n “the cities,| and
| auppored traila werb followed, bat led
| to naaght. Detective Knaimap fof
,Cinclnvatl, who was the fireton "he-
)gronod, coming by/ special train| fur-
niahed for that parpose by Mr. Uank
eater, Master of Transportation of the
M.& C RR, examined all the evi
jdences left by the murderer, maie
careful inquiry, an retarned homed,
declaring that there wis absol
yno ele, and nothi
rest a sOoXpicion ;
the moat completely
ever knew, |
Notwithstanding
| start the esearch
i bat time kept pas
| public was becoming discouraged, and
| the chances ot finding the gailty par-
|} ties seemed almost to have parsed.
covered crimes Le
ag afill kept
King by notil
ap;
.
htel’y
bg pon whi¢h to}
hat it was of@ of |
thia dirconragiog
the |
ot bi alae
w light col
een we. ee SS ee
\ 2)
; With Jost the ehadow o
jored Whiskera and mogatacta, onl;
enough to make bis chidiaod lip look
fyrzy or dirty. The obrniag of bi
arrest he was of a’ deadhly palevess”
but his colors bas efned returped ic
somo measare. It is a face whict
might be passed by # hhndred timed
| withont attracting any atteption; bag
when ong stops to examine it: he id
jatruck with ita dogged, gullen, merei-
j leak took, bétokening «4 (
Paod bpartless enoogh for
(whith he stands accuad
| graving gives him at hia
)so'faithful that he wou
| recogyized from it, He
wool hat, brownl Ove
{atriped cotton shirt, and
| looking pants,’ desoribe
i Alice Doan. Lis feat w
jcared, to roundeAded etre
wus remarked woald
amall tracks left in ve 6
i toll pate,
CGRENE CKOWD 6.
the Sheriff’,
he wivdowa,
b ct the pria+
ally inerpas-
held to catch
the crime ‘of
d.:
ad be readily
eere'd-bipek
coat, ‘heavy
Ahe biueiel
I by the girl,
‘re wml); en-
8, which, -it4
vbout At the
vd about the
Was avo, gathered ab’gu
follice peering through
land crowding for @ sigh
foner, which was constd
ling
Our ‘en- ‘
beat, and fa .-
', poored ENG SCIOTOGASETTE OFFICE CHILLICOTHE, oO. ; Saddenly, on the nlorning of Monday, g, each astival being :
he table, | | » renee ves | November: 12th, &) posse arrived in | BUILDS detail ot the evi fence agaibet
ble. He} DIAGRAM OF THE HOUSE IN WHICH THE MeVEY MURDER this city, having injcharge j him. Ihe prisonyr renjained sallen
eae oft | | WAS COMMITIED, A PRIFONER | atae nen ir aaa he moved <a
ve cloth- | | | F; é 10 iT) emoved: to.
|| Wl hee q -orry town. | ; i ;
om there | | I—Store-room, 2--Ropm occupied by th MaVev's s— Room vecupied hs eg penne arrepted in : erry ba the city prison for gtbater dafety,.
although | by Alice Dewn; g—Kitchdn; A—Doors; B—-MWindows, 14—-Window. throuch |eorotances eo heed|clmont to the Cec. | ects, he attll remains,|po time hav-
satel. NG ogo Ne . ours; Indows, ndow through | cometances as lead/almost to tha cer- jing yet been set for hid preliminary
he pe Het Which an entrance was effected; Be—Window]] throweh whieh fice Dean « tain conviction that he waa’ the MOr- | examinations which ev suit Koweher
‘ : . . ? ‘ : : ra nl ‘ene ' . 7 fied : ’ oad ol
voriog to raped; C—Desk:* D—Coudter, kK—Body ot Meo MeVey, F-Chair occupied | derer, I rom the Yc1oTe GAZI Tye of |} appears in od wise anxifoa to presa ty
.wer that) Py Mrs. “McVey; G—Stofe, H—-Bareas. T4f{Center table; K--Bed oceupicd | Nov. I4, 1577, we dopy the following |an isene. : i
& emall | by Alice Dean: f.--Bed cpeupred by the Me'Yeys,; M—Vable at which supper hed in oe ete ars of the anrest +4 THE STORY OF HIS ARKKAL,
sand. cor- Wwas taken; N--Kitchen spifle; O—Fence; Pa-Plink over which Aliee Dean Bn ua sine ; the horrible (mar- , Xa told by his halt, bre ther; Willfan
> a | Fscaned. The front door opens to right, instead | deft ay shown in diagram: 'derot Mr. E.lward|S. MeVey and bia | aaa is brietly thin: Perry
le “tate | "Vhe drawing is made on af-caleof six fect to antineh. The front door opens to the | wife fiave the officdrs, the detectives, | ing wit! by bona = rs pened
’ Ls ' . . ‘ | - ; ip 3 g 1 do me BIL
, right, instead of the left, as shown in the diagram) }or thy public .et op in their interest : . han” F
— jin bringing the murderer ant bias ae- bee eragy Heeeite oe Bee ar tig
t , ,~ ax e ieg | SOWDRTIP, ” ) onoty, e
| } }complicea, if such (here be,.'o japtice, te Th
“ale ip great effort to get all’ the m ont. | set ad{de by statements from intimate | Men stood upoh th strect corners or | pelgsbs Soed 7 a re eee
re pbb |We then alarmed the neighborhood.” | friends of the family. Mr. Wm. B./ in their offices anf! workshops, aod | Some dave pa : ae rr —_
. sae aie ae . Mills|and a brother of Mr. McVey, / tarned over in their minds every clue || ) 2S OODK) SPP Bce
Pegs nl | THE POSITION OF THE BODIES who ppaides at. Maryeville,: in thin | and circumstance Which'might lead to | er ae angel as ree
ted ths [When found is indicated |by tho dia- | State, knew hig to be the owner of | the detection of ttle criminala, while United Brat i! 7 cod : i, ide ous
, van rte gram of the honee at the bead of thie} about | the women donble locked and bolted |, Ean | . he . * | saa py
Bred on| Article. Mrs. McVey bag evidently £1,700 IN UL 8. Bons | doors and window? as they ehaddered | astly,. ‘aw beastie fis eclas Ge
‘ bad two wonoda made by |a ball from), |e }around the- hearthetone, The; cage | Sess SO 08 SBTGTEaY fie Called ©
bg ery h pistol,of No, 32 valibre.t The firet, | edad H ake Per Pre pag rg | was conned over And over, and the bean pers ee — sl ps it to act
(he wn | \ag eteted by Dre. Scearce And French, | {22 Buse. 2M addition to thie. Mr) cenit haa boen tat-maoy inngeent | itog him that he had) won it gamb-
68 lower | ‘wig made the post marten examina | John | sogge, resident of the ‘Trarn- | persons have heeo puepected. - Theee | ling. $n Sanday attermoor, about 4
| a r ri . ha ; pind ats lo’cloe wat 0 called lo f
thie rg tion, “entered the face ovdr the cheek eee Tee wel — toa by | eaapicions have obw happily phssed lene ef os bale ny nh bim agalo,
“on the pone pereihe Cree) peer he | conled bebiqa the 09d St ike opeiies | away in tho arrest {of at least ona of | SUSE OWS rin iied Ciba
: © | face trom right to left, and was tound pais roaunler. | the murderers, and that one dpabt- PDO IN UNTTED oPaflks BONDS
‘ ite + "O. é 4 ice j iv , i | 7 ‘ ne f :
ards dis bone at a point directly opposite the | of 8111} 70° was found concealed fo va- | ra, having the rigbt etarting poiat, | poc ket, w raphe a in albandkercbief,
entrance wonnd. At the} wonnd on | rious hiding placea abont the grocery are not likely to gly astray. jand wanted Baidwin fo accompaoy
the right side ot the face the skin -was | . : : rrocery “Oo Monday motoing, abootkeight |4 to Allen copoty. Bald d
kg pewecatsined for A epheo of one | ele praeree 7 a | o'clock, four’ peratus teeta ‘Hed Bing | clined to po " Hie felt t rat the beads
rwo lan-|linch eqaaré. The eer wound of | . ‘county—Wm. Ballwin, Benj |Bou- | Mad beén. obtained dfehonestly, be
auny be- | entrance of the ball waa in the opper | AFTER THE PIKE | char, Sqaire Davistod M. L. Dayis— [bad heard of the miesidg-boods at Me-
: front part of the cheat ‘abpat two and | Had bden subdaed in the hunse, and } ARRIVED IN THE CITY, | | Vey'a, and knew of bis} balt-brorbher’s
October |/® half inches from the “mesial Ine, | the npighbors began to arrive aa the | having & priaoned ‘In charge whom | disposition, as exhibitell fo bie attack
ning ehe | passing throogh and fracturing the, alarny spread, Mr. Jakes and Joseph the aad ta the Shdrif'a oflles add sa jon his grandmother, al} of which, he
tiallooed, | second rib; thence ranging downward | H. Cryer; who were among the firat ae satiently to dwait the arrival of | 88y8. led bim to the belref thas it was
a [person ‘and outward throagh the jmiddle lobe | at tha scene, took measures to preserve that Meinl "re adon became npieed ihie datv to .
‘ing Mr. lof the right lang, severing the palmo- | everythiog joat as-they had foond it abroad that the yrikoner wad arrbeted MAKE KNOWN LPs PRCAvR GY
my gun| dary artery; thence throokh the dia-) and. {a prevent freah tracks being charged with hed eVey motdat. A | “With thie feeling bb called op Me
m away, iphragm and atriking the, son vex eur. | matte About the house or the fields G Azer are reporter 7 ae on havd ahiort!p Ihr J Davie 08 wi dee icc Baldeio
McVeys.| face of tho liver aod ragging back- jand gardens in the vicinity nntil the alee thelr drrieal, Lol gsiged thp tol | po pees - : , oo «au
1 ; ¥ on 3 ¢ i | b 2 , ’ | 8 1g, 80 ” ‘
ired the |sward, parsing throngh antl fractoring | arsivel ot the officers of the law. | The | lowing particulars ‘as wiehave redated it above and asked
any with | the nfoth rib near the apfnal column, | pre¢an{ions thoa taken proved after- co Gs . 4 ie an f ; ;
Ly | ; ae | . | THE PRISONER, hia ndvice. [e was fiog!!¥ determiaed
». Tried jand was found lying ander the ekin | ward$ |to have been of iocalcalable | p straw. to ol
it faet.| opposite the. teoth rib and abont! value to tho anthorities in fastening | who goce by the name of Perry [ow | ooh
the | three inches from the aplop!l colamn.”' | the crime apon the proper person jeher, was the illegitimate son of | sites t TM
ron the!) ‘ ; : : : van J lay "KR he ho lived som eix/ Upon. the charge of Urdaktog tote the
1; found ||, Mr. McVey was shot if the cheat, THE FUNERAT tee rot Adel tut. He t : bad residence of ‘Sa ya¢l Mettler aod
P . — | | tniles eaat ot Adelphi. © bears a bar SOB wa eet ot . BSS
Found ithe ball entering over the region ot ' Took) place on the Sunday afterpoon | ep e haviog| once been went. | steaiipg eome clothes, pf which crime
f kejithe heart, passing throggh the left : pee. | character, 10K
t smoke ih and rieht soricte offthe heart, a ifollowipg the marder, from .the fesi-|enced t6 the Pebitegtiary by’ the | he was etspected, A party waa thee
ent theo | lapg, ang rig | dened Of Wo. B. Mills, on Sbath! co on Pleas Coart. of Picfhway | Made gp for that purpose cocelstiog
Mre. Mc- | \wouod ¢vhich no donbt caheed instant), ; . F ob} Commo ; ,
ce 8 Peath 8 | Paint) gtreet.. Eatly in toe morping feoanty, for stealing’ a horae. While; ot the personae firet Gafued ta thie ar
; my ’ . eas . . , ;crowdsiof people began to hasemble | in that prisou be attacked and .| i ticle ae baviog brought the prisouer
cked the || THE THEORY OF THE FER DER jfrom| all parta of the country, |and | P a [to thie city, Cogethef with Aadrew
ao dense |/An appeared from the shrroundings | yy tHe| hoar annoanced ton thd fu-| NEARLY KILLED OYE OF THE GUARDS) and Poter Mettler, tte latte repre
sone. in. ithe bext morning, aod aa ptill appears! nera)} Paint street inthe vicinity of And would have accomplished hisleeutiog themselves tojbe Sherif aad
d to Jo- from Jater evidence in the caee, was! Mr, Mills und, the sides of Cemetery | Retrte bat tor fhe interference of depaty SherQot hucfiog couaty,
wo men) that’ the murderer had jentered the | pyji{ wero a living mags ot} people | another prisoner, | He escaped pan LRMED AND ebCrrrep
f. Called bonse for the parpose of robbery, by | The thderal service was conducted by'| isiment for bis crifne on the plpa of They started to Mje Deltlaven'’s
ack with} the back door or window, and while | Roy. IE H. Heagler, and shortly after | insanity, whether teal or felgued, and where they learned thet Nowehar bad
oaee’' for |'searching for booty fo thd front room, | threel d’clock theee old people, |who| waa sent, Mr. Baldwin—who ts hie! * ve 7 3 bell” en con ‘ebor whe wae
+ time he | which wae occapied ae algrocery, he | had lraveled tide by eide | throogh | half brother, informs us—to the asy [Sast esactled. The p nn started for
ly all out| awoke Mr. McVey. Mr. MeV. was a! nearlly fifty years of happy) married jam, or to the prison hoepital, he na bakes ot the bee! asiee ed ean
ter. We jman pt anqoestioned biaypry, and | tife, were laid to reat. in one grave on |\never asscertaloed| certainly which | inp ‘ ‘ieiadied it, dod efter ee eek
and ‘en- |/got ap and went into-thd grocery tol the north brow of Cemetery Jill jo a | After his releaso add about two yeara(t peuretia aroused th bridegvoa
‘gon the|/protect his property. There he met) peaafifal situation overlooking | the |aloce, be was agai arraigged belore wis ss ria these bas the eter :
Mra. Mc- || the thief, who instantly Ipid him low quiet, peacefal valley of the Scloto. | the Common Piess/Coart ot Pickaway | vo! se realy | b an . =i! 7
site, near jin death by a shot trom hie pistol. | A neat, plain marble monument marks | county oo the charyo of breakiog toto re Fete ke Pit aay ° . ee
down ; I), The shot or straggie awoke Mra. Mc- | the shot where they now eleep,/and | tho acore of a Mir. Coro, the Post-\' S hel ° Sande pera Ppree . ve pe
both be- | Vey, who followed ber hgeband: The | where the frienda ever paged in yieit | Maeter at Leistvilly, The plea bf tec ta SMeatias lene wh a aaa
. ; 3 mon a >
voat Mr. | thief placed the pistol tober face and | ing {his beautiful city of "The dead, insanary | had a he a x ; 11 2
- treely | fired, the ball making anjagly bat not f the! Me- , | RAG vse oh im (he Gitection oF Late
1g | ’ An jog and fehearee the virtaes of) the| Mc } _ Pp wires . A ‘
tie bed || gh k hai : | was raleed ty Hie attorney, #. Cf. Chiteote’s, where ha thacght they
the bed |'tatal wound. eeank joto a chair, | Veya’ while they shadder at) the ter-| Bostwick. and reagited ta bis commit: ld be found. T a 4
: h : he '. / r| 8 ck, and reasgite 0 woo 2 funod. pey en made
1 op fire,|/and then, pleading for jher life, t rible| crime by which fo theit old age at to the Athhns Asylam,| fram yy ver fbldb. BAM 4 bol
\ If pat| fiend et i over her and [fired the fa- | ir me « ap) ‘ elir way over fide, bile ao a:
beet .they| were cat do wo. | which fnatitutipa he mado hie efcape, |} to Chileate’s, otfeerviog th
cr. Cryder| tal shot. Who the flend) wae he iett | cena, y t Lichabach bet rscepunmebadet ole og ee came
the water | no trace behind apon which any con- THE |MOST INTENSE EXCITEMENT as hie half-brothet anderataoda, last, nrecautiune, as they feared to ecare
} ce
ones, and | jectare coald be tormed. The Me-| was eapsed througtiont all| the sar- March. pea eran eg peal their prey, and hoc alo that he wae
varning in| Veys were generallly believed. to be | rounKling country, as the news of the|!t seems, bat little; was koowa *[armed, wee a guod) shot, aad hed
| 3 whereaboate. threatened to ktel agdy man who at-
t.. Io the} poor people, who bad npthing about morderjspread. The large acqodaint- 4 gyisopy | d bt Cloel ta}
Vey slept, | their home which conid {empt a rob- | ance, the innocent, inoffensive fivee,| |. ANOTHER E | jtempted hie arreet.) Cloeleg ta/ oe
ad watch, | ber to riek bie lite or libdrty by a bar- | the Age and unprotected condition of | of bis life, and which marks hia} char. | the nance a
srequired | glary, Bat this impressjon was soon | the yotians, at. sennoe to arouse pym-! acter, ja an attack which be eae (Continued en Second Page.)
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- « CHILLICOTHE, OHIO, WH
LD
JUNE
NESDAY,
19, 187
8.
t
’
i
4
t
‘FARM FOR SALE,
NEE undersigudd otters ble Farm tor esle at
. @ bargain. :3¢-4e sitaated is Huntington
wnahip, Aveo miles southweet of Chillicothe,
the Leet varicties; a
ard For further information cal] on
ber on the premises,
ISAAC HARTLEY. 3
aring fruit! treee o:
nall vine
° puboort|
BLANK BOOKS!
a
Leal os ALARGE ASSORTMENT OF
‘ Ledgera, Journals, Day Boeks,
Records and Pase Books of all aisee.
Has now and willalwaye keep on band
(and wil) sell them cheaper than any
otherhouse,)afulllinoof erman Hyman
Kooks, Schoot Booke and Dictionaries
alwaysonhand, Other workin my line
done seatly and quickly,
‘LOUIS MOLLENKOPH, °
Book Binder, Ruler and Blank Book
Manofacturer, Second St., opp First
Nations] Bank, Chillicothe, Obio
ve
op lh oa ached een mpm
M. W..BLACK, |
weneral Dealer
IN ALL THE LATEST IMPROVED
ewing Machines,
il furnish Machines desired at LOWEST
; CABH KATES. '
; ; ge
EPAIRING DONE TO ORDER
AND WARRANTED.
i ed ‘
FICE, Second street, between Mulberry and
Hickory, Chhlicothe, O. °
TOMES IN THE WEST.”
‘he Jackson Land Co., of Iowa, offer fur sale
at 70,000 acres of carefully selected Karim”:
i Grazing Lands, lu N. W. Lowa, to plots to
t obarap tig at .EXCEEDINGLY LOW
ICES and on easy terms. If required, Com
Ly will build house tp each e0.acre plot, and
uk up 20 aorea Jani, ready for cropping.
eral discounts will bo mado to parties of ten
pore wishing tocolgize, Write for circular
“ALEX. PRDDIF, Agent,
Knimetssbvarg, Palo Alw Co., Towa,
oJ. Co. PLO, box 4711, New York.
REMOVAL‘
SHRADER &: BETZ
ave removed their Car
inge Factory to the
est side of Walnut St.,
Ay doors south of Wa-
r, where, they will
eepon handa full stock
»
ue
everything in their
ne, of thetr own man-
facture. —
The character of their
yt
ork is always guaran.
; ee
ed...
: \ keep @ natural healtby activity of the sy
ieriff’s Sule in Partition. |
» Ntate of Ohio, Ross County, as. :
URSUANT to the command of an order of
aale, to we directed, from the Courtof Com-
n Pleas, of Roas county, Vhlo, I will offer at
bilo pale, at the.door of the Cuurt Houne, tu
mtv af Chillinntha Voee easnty Chin, op
Monday, July 1st, 1670,
tL o'clock p. m., the following real estate, alta.
in eatd coanty of Koss, tu the State of Ohio,
{ iu the city of Chillicothe, and buanded, anu
wiibed as. follows, tu wit: ?
Seing (nm fot No. 19 and the north half of In- lot:
. & of the subdivision of out-lots Nos. 2, 3,4,
nd 6 of Bonser snd Barmann’s addition to the
ty of (*hillicothe, made by Jacob Bonser,
liam Boneer and W: UH. Thompson, May
ny, 1y43, and’ recorded in volume 44, page 437
the Koes county deed records,
Valued wt @5u 00, ees
Lo bo sold by order of the Court in the care
sorela Katie Kirsch, an infant, je plaintitt,.
d Mary Lolater and others, defeudauts.
Ex. Doc 15, page 547, g :
Verme—One third cash on day of sale, one.
ird 1a Oye year, and the residue in two, years
nu day Of sale,” deferred paymenta to bear
terest from day of ealo, and-to be secared by
ortgage on Che premises alt.’ ’
Joun C, ENTREKIN, Atty’: tor plaintiff,
Stay Oth: phta 5
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SANFORD'S
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| For CATARRH
| A purely vegetable distillation entirely
4 unlike all other remedies.
| JN the preparation of thie remarkabio remedy
every herb, plant, tad bark ta sublected th dis
tlation, whereby tue easauual mediegl prigcipes
$a obtained In Vapor, condenscd and bottled. Mhat
Temaius ji the etill ta inert, Valaeless, and t tali¢
unit sor use in an Organism 80 delicate as the aes
passages, Vet ail enuge ere tagoluble compgundsa
of woody fibre; ai) Lujctures, saturated solus{uus,
SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE
Yaa sodal and constitational remedy, and 1s arintied
‘tothe hase passages by ingumledon, tuo ai dy ig
Iuflaminzion Bye gue Av at ouca cortcgiing,
Cleansing, and purifying thdaceretiood Litedn
| wdiidister od, acts upg tbe organs cletrceuidt
1 keepa th in inet aud neutralizes thel acts
' poison UyaPhas found ito wav into the stomach and
hence Bito the blood. This acure prog: er)
both dire gions, and 1% does not seem possllps ior
hunian leaawiy lo dcvieo & Diss Fallon ficab
Meal an
+ SURPRISING CURE.
Genemnen,—About twelva fea ago,
treve Ning with Father Kemp’s Oil Folka Cotcert
Troupe sé @ tenor buuer, Ltook @ pevere cold and
Wuslsid up at Newark, No, Thiacold brousgut on
Asuvere attack of Catania, Which I batgled, with
every known remedy for focr weeks without ball,
}o and wae finally obliged to give up a uivat desiFublia
ally
dun
a
while
Soe HE 2s9on and Fetarn hore, unable to sing a pote,
‘or tbres years atterwarde L was unable to eps at
all. The firet attack of Catarrh had ich my Bash on
wank Bod (irOat eo ROSE Chat tho ellylitesd cold
weed Ria es @ fresh attack, leaving ma pros,
trated. Ja thie way Ucuptioued to gutter. ‘Php last
attack. thasevercet Dever bad, waaterrible. J eure!
fered the moet cacruciwing pain fu my head, was’
#o hoarse ag to bo ararccly able to apeak, and
conghedincessantly, (Lthought Towne gottig¢ foto
quick consumption, agd] finaly belicye thal hag
‘these syinptoms continuvd without relict ithey
wouk! have rendered ne an easy vietln. Whea
Ja this distressing coadition, Tcoimmenced tht use
othaxvown's RapioaL CULR you CaTaRnit, very
reluctantly, Lcoufeas, nal had tricd all the altyer-
Used remedies without benent, The aret dose of this
wonderfal Inedicine gave 19 the wreatest relies
Jt is bardly possible fur one whose head acheajeyce
ache, Who can scarcely articulate distinctly da ac-
count ofthe choking accumulations in bie
to realize how much relief obtained from thi
opplication Of Sanroan’s HapteaL Cunn. t
{tsintluence, both Internal anid external, Ira
recovered, ond by an occasional nae of the re
whee. have been enurdly treo from Catarrh, £4
j Mit tine da iweive years.
‘ Ligepectfully yours
. Gbo, W. HOLBROOK,
Wanrrase, Mass., Jin. 8, 1976, i
‘shoe P purchased foo fanroan Cong of
bm lwouLis, Uruggist, Muinfocd Builuiig.
| . Fech package contains Dr. Sanford’s Imopri
Inhshog Tube, with dull directions fur ise
Canta, Prive, TL00. For sate by all Wholcaald
Tietall Prue throughout the Untted State
GConwinag, WEEKS & POTTER, General A
!
feud Wholesale Draggiats, Bostoo, Mass.
‘An Electro-Galvanio Battery comb
On-
ums
are
taining the choleest medicinal G
’
and Caisams knowa to modern Pk
macy. ; Z
These Plisters have now been before the p
for two Yours, and, notwithatandiog the tan
bisnver of renmcdies ta the form of haimen
Liga. Min-curers and ordinaty plastera, they
vif uly Increased ja eAlG wid Waet With univereal
approval, as evidenced by over ope thousand ube
Boueied testinonials In Gur purseceion, Manly re-
burkuble Coscs huve been certifed to by well
kyown citizens in all parta of ths United Stptes,
cupiea of which will be seat frea Of charge toy auy
oyodosiring them, Jinprovements, in maoy ys,
have been made, ad puggested by experience! aie
use, untilitis believed that tuey are now perfdct in
CVETY Teapect, aid the beat piaiter Os the work of
mmedwtne, Ail we gak trom every sufterer ia the
fend dda 6inwle tual, The price i925 conta, gIthd agh
the eothie double tuat oC any other plaster, [But,
notwithstanding the efforts of the proprtetots ta
make the best plaster da the world for the jJenst
Money, any similur remedy can be bought, Buin.
bers of unsecrapulous dealers willbe found ready to
pip represent then for sess rooteres aud eudchver
lu puLetitule oluers. If yuu bee for
bie
ead
By iu.
ren
COLLINS’ VOLTAIC PLAS
fiave itifyou have téeend to us for it,
Py al. Wholegaia and Netall Drug
it Tuat stesund Qunadas, ane by
Doty, Boston, Muss,
Tathe ring
the summer months, the lethargy recy hy
the heat takes away the desire fur wholekome
food, and frequent poreplrations reduce bpdlly
energy, particularly in those. sutloriog from the
effects of debilitating disoisea, Ta order
atmosphere experienced d
this
WV of
ethts
Od Ys
rys{-
cau
are
we must resort to artificial means. For
purpose Sebenck’a Sear Weed ‘Tonle is ver
| footive. A fow dosed will breate an apy
and give fresh vigor te the enervated
For dyspepata it is invaluable, Mang >)
lane bave doubted whothor dyspepaia
be permanently cured by the drugs whic
sonorally employed for that purpose. , ‘Th¢ Sea
Weed 'lontd ja totaly piirereue (uu muon abuge
Tt contains no corrodive inatertala or achdp; in
fact ft assiata the regular operations of nakuro,
and supplies her deficiencies, ‘he Touift
much resembles the gastrio juice that it {a aly
moat identical with-abat Maid. - The ga
Juice isthe natural solvent which, toa he
condition of the budy, causes the food to t
gested; and when this juice is not secret
uffidient quantities, indigestion, with a
‘distressing results, The Sea
Tonle perform@ the dnty of the gastric
when the latter js deficient: An ‘occas
dose of Schenck 's Mandrake Pilla will kee
liver dnd bowels in ordes, nu that ‘bowel
plaivte” may bo avoided ; much -teoables geners
ly proceed from an exceav of bile. The dbove
named medicines, in connection with Schopck's
Pulmonjo Syrup forthe lung’, are the stakdard
BO
althy
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Veod
fulee
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tremedy for Couansiptio:
RADICAL CURE)
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VOLTAIC PLASTER
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SHER.
PERRY BOW
The Full History of
His Crime,
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Arrest, Trial and Sentence
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Por the Murder of Edmund ;
i. Sand Ann MeVey. - |
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On the night of Friday, October 6,
11877, ovearred in this county one of
ithe most horrible marders recorded
jin the annala of crime, and for which
| Perry Bowsher has been tried, foand
| gailty, aod sentenced to be banged
next Friday, Juog 21at. \
THE VICTIMS :
Vere Edmond S. McVey and bis wite
‘Aun McVey, two old, well known and
respected citizens, who resided at the
toll bonse on the Colambus taropike,
ocrth
'Green township, five miles
‘Joyed thd confidence and eateom of
the commanity in a higher degr¢e |
;than did ‘‘Anntié Mac”-and ‘Unatle
‘Mac’? na they were affectionately
called by every botly, |
Edmand 8S. Mé¢Vey waa born in|
“Washington county, Pennaylvania, |
sofne time in the lyear 1300 ‘and was, |
‘therefore seventysaeven yeara of age. |
Tn the year 1812 dia parents bomgurd |
‘to thia State and, settled in’ Fayette |
‘county. When Edmand waa about
' seventeen yoara of age he auatained a
physical injury aud in order to obtaio |
‘ proper attention, he went to Corydon, . |
Indiana, where he had aome relatives. . |
Ife remained therg probably about five |
years, doring which time hd learned |
‘the trade of ahoe making, which occa: | |
pation he followed fur many ,yeara. |
In the year 1822 he came to Chilli
cothe, where he went into the employ
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with’ whom he remained for several ; |
years. i_|
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While working for Mr. Chan- , |
‘dley he formed |the acqnaingtance of |
» Mies Ann S. Dawley, and io the’ year; |
/ 1828 they were jmarried, and have;
‘lived almost, if{ not entirely, since |
| that time, in this city, poadsibly ex-.
‘cepting only the time they have. been |
‘living at the toll-gate, whore they |
ue resmcinc
of the iate George W. Chandley, and ||’
PERRY BOWSITRR, THE MURDERER OF MR. AND MRS. MeVEY.
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[FROM A LHOTUPKALIO TAKEN AT.IUE TIME OF Hd ANREST.| | +
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DIAGRAM OF THE VICTN!
Ce-Woods sh
fence enatos:
A--Toll-LHouse?; RB"
Culvert; H-=Parnn rdud
‘Lhe diagram is accuri
The theory of the trac
from the direction of 4
tracks is prot contingidus
and went when the crim
not appear now to have
‘racks made bv Bowsher and accomplice ,
J--Bridge ..K—-Lair 1 L--Birs : M
ely drawn on a scale of tro feet to the ipeh,
sy as we understand them, after hearing the evidence anc
¢ Infirmary te the “lair,” whenee they went reconnoiterin
> oWing only to the character of the wround ‘The tracks
Was Committed ‘Phenee the trayhs po to the furapike s
ky connection with the others. :
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“Rival
| met their death.) After some yeare
he engaged in ttie grocery business,’
add wak fora term of yeardin part
nership with the late John Brigga, an
der the firm name ef Briggs & McVey. |
>This partrerehip: continued op to a,
vehort time prior/to the gredt fire in |
/1832. They were both occupants of
the block of buildings whigh stood on |
Paint etreet, and way koown aaeCom ||
\ mercial Row,” aa partndra ard eena- |
rately, and were! barned oot, | Mr. i /
McVey never recovered from his loa, | |
i aod gradually went down hill tinaa-, |
jeially. In the year 1872 ba recured |:
ithe position, of /gate keepar on the | |
| Colombosa and Portamouth Taropixe,
‘north, where helresided at the time
fot thamarder. Hia wife, Ann S. Mo
| Vey, waa born in Union towpebip, io,
‘thie eodate, be the voor 108, mad hae
nover resided ontof the county. They
‘never had any ¢hildreo of their own,
‘butvat varloas [periods have! bad sev.
,eral adopted children. | i|
Ce IN MIE 110USE |
' At (ho time ot (he marder, wae a girl
‘named’ Alico Dean,. aged | thirteen
'yeard8, who had: lived with the Me-j|
,Veys, about tres years, who waa
‘awakened by the. firing of the pistol | |
ef the niarderer aud the ecreams of |
' Mra. McVey. Proms eta’emont made
| to-oor reporter the day afer the mar-
; der, ane pablished in the GAZETTE at | |
‘that time, we qaote; - | Bt)
i. -8On Friday [night ehe wha awak |!
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pened by the report ofa plato! ahot and |
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““gilk Handkerchiefs, in a Magnificent Stock of new AS Colors and Designs, at Bowlby & Co., the One Price Clothiers’,
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ALLEN COUNTY DIRECTORY. om ALLEN COUNTY DIRECTORY. 143
. ay
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, th ‘e nothing to say.” Then from the scaffold S venerated forms, the more imposing and sublime appears the adminis-
jibe oes wtaag ite th pe sll i prisoner’s “favorite hymn 4 tration of justice.” The Sheriff concurred in this view, and the Judge
te request, (seven long verses), while the dying wretch stood with a then proceeded to drill the officer as to the true method of opening
iff a in his fetters, leaning against the Sheriff's shoulder. - Court. He learned ‘‘ his piece” well, and next morning Judge Met-
; The “ hiseetetin! of the Man's soul to -God; and then the ‘ey calf, the bar, and the spectators were electrified to hear the new Sher-
Sheriff eke hat stood close to the prisoner, half supporting him, ¥ iff, on being ordered to open Court next morning, proclaim, in sten-
ae d the latter’s hand and said, in a voice whose suppressed feeling aes torian voice, as follows: ‘Oh yes! oh yes! oh yes! All manner of
ees bs: Ale he stedld de tis duty “like a man,” he must also om persons having anything to do with this Court of sf prius held in this
psig Pega tel “Andy, good bye; God bless you,” and descend- ra County of Allen, will draw near and give attention. God save the
, ee % 7" Pris ‘en otatisia: he prisoner staggered slightly as he left ial Queen.” Lawyers and Judges were jolly fellows in those days when
ng ey. ly f in cpiiiind position of his feet. Then ‘young “a legal business was scarce. An oldcitizen says: “ Our jail was a small
apse, coneie. kee gaan an eet grew cold,” and Sheriff Colbath, a log hut, with only two rooms, one above the other, but scarcely ever
“nee hg his init exclaimed: ‘It is twenty minutes past ten— a had an inmate. , Our court hardly ever lasted more than two days.” —
looking at ant alled the releasing rope, the drop falling instantly, . The first that went from this county. to the Penitentiary was Alexander
ane ¢ a AR epee out with a heavy thud as of a stone thrown a Hofman, for horse stealing. Robert Bowers,’ who remembers. from
and the rope = 8 8 a 1834, furnishes the following: ‘* The early settlers suffered much from
_ pings SO there was no quiver, only the usual swaying.’ At es ' milk sickness, and other malarial diseases of the country. We started
or ’ ‘
yenty ds a very slight convulsive movement of the legs and an
eit “of aed. Then the hands which had remained quietly
clasped as during the prayer, relaxed and began to fall gently down-
ward, and while the attendant physicians, Drs. C. J. Neff and S, A.
Baxter, approached. to watch the phases of the fast ebbing life, . the
Sheriff pulled down the black cap which had become partially dis-
laced. In five minutes the wrist-pulse was strong In eight m.nutes
from the fall the wrist had ceased to throb, and in exactly mine min-
utes the heart was still, life was pronounced extinct, the dread majesty
of the law had been vindicated. After eleven minutes more of gentle
swaying, at ten minutes of he o’clock the body was cut down and
in a plain walnut coffin.
ea ve a universal verdict of all present that Sheriff Colbath
had well and nobly performed his whole duty in the matter of the first
hanging in Allen county, The day of the execution saw Lima °
thronged with people from the country for many miles round, while
ivi = He warfs” —* 3
shows of “‘living skeletons,” ‘‘fat women,” and wonderful d oem
i iving business.
“a oe hiery of the Court proceedings of Allen county oe a
something of the humorous. In 1857 a new Sheriff was ha ge
into office. He was a practical joker, and plumed himse = is
success in that line. Judge Robb, who habitually takes giree ing ts
good humor, and had been in several instances his victim, gio the
following retaliatory scheme: .He informed the ‘new official t reg
few Sheriffs really understood the true form of OprnE ele
said Robb, ‘‘ while our pease ee oe eae ns _ heal
t altogether it must, nevertheless, be adm hat
ae et eur Britis ancestors for the fundamental priasei ad recy? se
mirable system of jurisprudence. “Ihe more closely we adhe
New Styles of Collars and Cuffs, at Bowlby & Co's.
"a grave-yard at an early date, without the necessity of killing a man to
accomplish this end—the State gave us one. The first burying place
has long since been vacated, and all but a few of the bodies have been
removed to what was called the ‘‘new cemetery,” further out of town,
and the old one has been grossly neglected ; but still there is an old,
leaning slab-stone there that marks the spot where Mr. Elijah Stites
was buried on the 6th of January, 1843, his age being 85 years. He
was.a Revolutionary soldier, anda color bearer at the surrender of
Cornwallis, and afterwards a Baptist minister. I was Orderly Sargeant
of a company called the ‘‘ Tigers” here, at the time of his death, and
helped to bury him with the honors of war. Gen. Blackburn, whose
remains are now lying in the then new Cemetery, was out in full uni-
form.” ged
The progress of Allen county has been steady-yet rapid, until
now it ranks as the wealthiest and most prosperous of the north-west-
ern group. In 1830 the population was 578; in 1840, 9,079; in 1850,
12,109; in 1860, 19,185; in 1870, 23,623, while the census of 1880
will show nearly 40,600. The surface is rolling in the eastern’ por-
tions and level in the west. A curious formation is the ‘ Devil’s
Backbone,” a ridge of pure gravel, extending for some distance be-
tween Westminster and West Newton. It was undoubtedly thrown
up by the wash of some great inland sea, and is in curious contrast to
_ the surrounding soil. Near this used to be many large ** sloughs” or
mud pits, seemingly without bottom, but they have nearly all disap-
peared. j im
Too much stress cannot be laid on the magnificent school system
of the entire county. Prof. G. W. Walker, the Superintendent of the
schools in Lima, who has filled the position for many years, is a man
,.. All Kinds of Heating and Cooking Stoves, at Derwort’s, Delphos..~.
= Sewer rae see
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THE GALLOWS. |[?“qcce mum ,
: ~ . oie vsarns~-Then you were not jafraid of being | meeting ef Female Safragiots Another Coe-
ane vention, ‘at Which Ben Batler Wilt Speak.
inger, for bRANTLINGRA—NO, sir; they knew! had a charm,
Execation of Acdrew Brentlinger, [7 gy} ee tocy satendcd vo Rill y knew! hives, ‘That | The women who maintain that the ballot ts the |
1d, they were | g-eat panacen for ail the fils that fiesd ia hetr to, and
¢ Merger of His Wife, Vas . ia the best anipow. One night, sno
going to gill me, You see iam man that gets nt nent above all other
Cea ile « ” Vers mad when | am croeved—so maid | never KDOw claim it as their right—preem!
Allen nty; 0 4 what | am dé@ug. So { struck herjiu one of these | rightés—held their usual weekly meeting yesterday,
Nits, because sircrossed m0, aud, 00) help me God, 1 | g¢ their rooms, corner of Broadway and
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dou t remember what Bappeued Galt} wasarrested | 5 et, at three o'clock the meeting was called 10
THE Past HOMENTS 0" Tm CONDEMNED. It tz uac less to follow this further. The wretched | order by Mrs. Somervy. .
; ff | lave to the |moat bitnding hiss Howanp, chairmen of the committee who
man‘was: evidently & 8 t me nding
superstition, Whatever mind he have in charge the preparing the crumbs to feed the |
Cw
i cloc@ed Inat\.t 1s questtomavie wheter
f Virus, Onta, April 7, 1871. ceived tae treih, snd ne amount of ning could | chickens that gather at these weehly assemblages,
hallacinations of which the 8bOVe | scarog that, having failed to obtain any one willing
‘Dat for the ogeFation of the new law requiring the free hj trom the
apes of a RArdred daye between the sentence and copvernation 1s an slustrelons to give any wheat’ or corn to satisly their hunger,
had brough “se
2. ihe ot etimingis, Andrew Brentinzer, tal type, ; a eaaay BY PROFRSSOR WUXLEY, — oO ag
; whe so@ay the lam penalty pf tne law, | dered man. het pl ia eres which sbe thereapon to read.’ The as-
‘ Bave Decal in sembly listened a8 as ible while the
would Rave ving in @ murdorer’s grave since | with any epnooling quajtes. Alwsys steeped roo ge weer as gerny A ol Poaiag Ro ed
Rearal } | : by -
the 20th of January last. All the preparations | tgpurance, it waa no wonder that bh Being Dictate permon not one of the chickens bad been able ap-
E peoepeary ior tis execation in the seciasion of the lousy. propriate a kernel.
‘were made for that day, but the. mandatory a pees co wife ie = ASA. ROE sald abe bg me aoe
order of Gevernor Hayes stayed the proceeding and secnan by | James W. Gerard bad sald thas the women who
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ave the doomed mat & respite cnt the 7B Of | in. name ef Howitt brothers, | went about the country holding conventions and | sehr Theodore
10 G "It is. t asking for the bailot were pct the women who were | Schr Sarab:
Agri. Dane aud George, It is'tg be ho) that these are | aaiae any. practical rorewwolent Work. She main- | wha brick.
ballucinutious ef the sa ind with his belief io
charms, bui sofar as the otuer charges of adul- tained that if woman had tue ballot abe would be
THE STORY OF THR
a: which be has now explatea, 15 brelly as follows:—
SF Ay t 0, expecially the ca tn connecitup with ge | better able to protect her own interests and wou
@u the 24th of October Idat, about noon, Brentiinger | 1117," - enperiasty the CBTHG In Coa tTeC ewe. there, | Bot need this protective ss potion’. 4
and his wife left work on the:r farm, where they | seems to be corruborative lestimony, fur the ehidren A paper signed by Mrs. leabella Beecher Hooker
xd were building a fence, and entered the, welling, say the mother sometimes ad alued it, thongh cn | Was read. stating that the question of
3 ae ; . f Oiuer occasious she indignantiy denied It, The most THB CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF WOMEN
evidently with some purpose ic view; for they BUP | charuabie concius on ip the whole 1g undoabt- | to citizenxhip, and the satrage having becc me tn ite
man was out of bis mind. politica! and legal relation a question of great and
TEE
ried the childrea ‘out and locked the door. A few 4 edly .bat the unhappy cpediote int Ree; and as t is as the 4
aainutes only eiapecd when loud and angry Words | aay scdechmeer Ta checuied in the county | seat Lume demand in beth poiltical parties tor oe Rebr A'T Miner ¥
were beard by the children, and very seon the | jajjim this place to-day by Sueruft bath, an the 7 Vital iseuea, there isa special Opportunity for babe hee bore, F ns
mother appeared at the window trying to escape | preacnce of about thirty witnesses, inciuding tue ; tuis qnestion to assert tis claim 648 political One Rebs Kate
Grom the clutches of hef iniariated Busband. Sue | Dewspaper report, t upon the attention of the whole conntry. ven.
ts ‘astk f 4 a THE OONDEMNED INTER A vention for the discussion of this suh, wi Bebr Otpeny
@ecceeded in gett ng out upos the porca and run- The HeRaLp reporter was aimitted to an inter. , be hela tn toe city of New York on the 1ith and 13th j| Beha ‘patie,
ming 0 litrie distance toto the yard; ba: Brentlinger | view try trentiinger lent night, a enna bas poke y Bevois at Apollo ple? yey the —— avie cane Marta Jane &
eating hig sapper, He ate heartily relish, qaised speakers that xXpected to take |.
peeling gion, apt angel pome scamTung, 18 | Soa then sat oll the ade of the tanie aad amncked bis | Par) Mt Unis discussinn will be the maa whobas | 5-07 Cocuue's,
hich the woman fell, he stabbed ber repeatedly | pipe in a very cool, unconcerned and | commeuplaco n oo many sides and played many parts in te | gene WD
with @ common penknife. Finaing this tusut- uaner He preraet & checry fone, ana baie panes’ Gocmse ws ene tl Hatce reveal seme eo Wass
Setens, however, he shonted to one of the | bus visitor fond megee out any change of tone or : ee pm
ae i. Me slept well at and é 00 Lamea the good time right along. |
sar awd rng, o go tn | Sai at nese | a | Bese
m e. c re- THE FATAL MORNING, Ww T CONFERENCE. Bebr Ave Terest.
fesed, bat we brutal faiber swore he would kill ner | The npechanies, wets admitted to alla litte " ——— Behe Dovid
after niue o'clock. bBrehtlinger was cell en- Poccaxssrste, April 7, 1671. Senr Daniel
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v. Mr. Bal- | atthe Methodist Eptecopal Oonierence at Peeks-
$f she did not obey, and, in terror, the cnild van 89d | gage-t with bis spiritual adviner, "he
kill to-day, T. W. Chadwick gave a glowing Gescrip-
-. geongnt tae weapon ‘and put it in his hand. | tholumew,
prostra and bleed man. THE SCAFFOLD.
si ae fons The scaffol.| stood in south weat| corner of the | tion of the work/of Methodism in she Prattville pobre:
aroand the neck, vegged, prayed | celj room. 1+ was a si piatfurm) with @ single | aserict. and A, B. Ferguson at length of the Martes
ema screamed, “Ob! for God's sake, Andy, do | trap, apprvached by six or seven pe. A cross- spoke : ’ Ld
cause in the Filenville dwtrict, tm whioh thou Rane Pexenew vay of
ons 3
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got ‘kit me,” but the sppeal was in vain; beam overhead rested upon two stro! Sve
|. hte. The rope dan,ied from an iru sand pursons have been cunverted in four years.
fer again and again th¢ glittering blade was raised Hecane of the crusebeats. Rev, J. b. Wakeley spoke eloquently of the Orange
4m the murderer's st rignt hand and plunged ere gs 10 1H qaLLown, <a eS aoe <a tee have all | #2 101, a4
“with frrestat! na few miautes niltager sp berween e young men in the conference classes
‘boty, eat bie force into the wretched womad’s | ye herid and the mintaler. He. was|dressed in @ | pas-cd a rigid examination. = .
: under repeated stabs, resistance ceased, | plat, common sult of dark clothes) He wore a | Dt. T. J. Peck made an address to-Cay Im behalf Mant 3 =a
@nd the victim sank down motivuiess in death, Ie hite shirt, without cravat or tie, | His face was | of the Byracose Universiy, bat the best address | w" tir Guves a
\ {HB ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL THE CRIME, sensi, uber rr ped ruddy. H rng tipo tne -_ made last nigus by Dr. Ferris, of New Yor’ | ca the Sonenen et eee
; . . scauo.d uvassi-ted and upon ace one cor- . >_< | tee
Bremtlingsr atvemp a temporary ouncegiment | ner. The phen occupied @ seat be: hig), and fo-aay Bishop Clarx, the presiding officer, bas not | ern ry ,
been in attendance, incon equence of ilpess. It ts
of the corpee, and hovered d thd grim | afew w.nutes’ prayers omy Inte:
witha king his seat and tne dual act,
expected, however, that be will resume his seat to nr
ki taking
presence antl pete eas My a, oe ag rent neeeans | THE DEATH WARRANT. morrow. wh
* re : Inger foun minister ijrepeati : Bue
eeed eixteen jears Was Working, and loos wast: | Lord's prayer, and at dawn again to aguaTic. reports, 0s ute, ah Oh ow
grer money he had, and theo wid Bim rot be ne! | warrant read by the cher. This — exoes ote, started cargo,
* Be then directed Paiee rie: mast be bune@, | some mindtes, Waring which Brent! Nautilus Beat Club—Election of Oficeore. molasses, sprung bend
ip @othes to a aa lace bs , oe ae his arms jolded acruss ute bpeas!, The election of oMcers for the Nautilus Boat Crab other damage. ean
4g 88 dircoted wea there weet bis (ainer end another | once was ace nxed upon the face of. tb Yor the took last night at the | jot se8. fon ios W, whe rene
Sea Serahans, Who wah also bired oun. Th Cee | ee eee ne wart agper Aitia = waced Wee Wite uh foemsebe
Sion erdated the bayete ee ee sthe nbtose father | o1 apprehension. When the warrant | rooms of the club, The following are the names of apelin} ~ Band
thar mother. Ther rye ty oat [ay ig Aevocr omagerng eer ote rae eting {0 s4y- | the oticers for tne next twelve months:—President, ewearuuatindaies
sent and horror. but be revleraied, his command, | coviiag \ouey” , firm vpice, “1 B8VO | Richard L. Neville; Vice rresident, D. W. Harring: | ‘for win becig
gad, y tesa aucune t samy beter i a sho ary in $ . PLACTX@ THE KOOSE. ton; Recording Secretary, Dr. McEwen; Fipaactal peepee gmp
SE ee oe ee ee kil ieee too nor do | The sheriff told nim to stand up. Whe eld man | Becreta y, W. U. U'Dwyer; Treasurer, Dr. Joseph | gees Lute a W
ae matenension ene phan ar regis opoi pin ed | arose with alacrity and Was placed upon the trap. | O'Dwyer; Trustees, Frederick G. Geduey, George ta, repurte she hee ~
gag a bow five leet deep in tothe | Not @ murcle pf tis face moved, bat ite color | Gormley and L. K Quin. Dileup tes Delownre Beg hy
Deor'tp Mod, going to the tempotu bd Leche ft 9 dcepened into @ warta glow. "Thp expression 7 about § fathoms of water.
eoni@ent, lifted the rigid form my chaazed a litte, losing Its apprehentive look tor TWE ACCIDENT OR THE OCEANS. Some
qouna and threw 15 in, fluted a ve : prye quivered. Te Fe wuERNS o mates | Oe vere =
she tail cows armly, to mace the surface even ana arms to his .a The physictan of the steamship Oceanic states that | (0! Sew wee, Rented,
fifee Rerrow.d K over wo remove the traves of the the lady who fel! Aown the after steerage gAngway | ark for rope ear oa
did pot sustain serioas injuries, and Yat she was ne Guardian,
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able to leave the vesed an Rout after horde Kew york, in 0 gale
physician was promptly on haed, and Sosa Burd, enemas
Pa attention from the 4 -
received kindpess and
board. e j ae Bee hf meng mgt
ee wonber
Saskels
SHIPPING NEWS.|=‘o=sce
catty of the
aner the murder before the pews the Laot was pidced under and .
Sascaed the village, It's imposaine to trace the | the saouder, et Ue TOPO MN
ton wo ropucd by inviting — soa Wrcsam rs Olle
. ‘a peniteniial bymn. A Al eo fer New Yerh-This Day. Cape hart
7 Sun rises....... 583 | Moon rises....eve 10 27 | #¥: ~
mas, now exhiviiing signs of
Sun sets, ....... 682 | High water.mora 10 82 ieee ES
at
fone exncimod eee and, elinough buried wiiboat cover. | Ca sccgent os tee Sy ae epee
or Grossing ovber than the bloody clothes, the | goor and on tne landing of an iron sta’ , leading OCEAN STEAWERS. ; ppreetaglare
poor vo gay, ey ue death wounds was soon | to the apper tier of cells in front at him, and only &
gunisted Nie enmpaakalte oe on few feet distant. A dim hght ouly reached the grins
eae ote: hea villagers pA aed of | ecene throngh the heavily grated loopholes tn tne
; ee ter we atm lea ene? lagers wer: Bor- | massive Luestone walls. A sense of suffocation "Reamer.
A coroners inquest was beid, and tt prt roy —— Po hen Pa fr belgie one | Chy of Bronk \. rh 6
vie , a : . ; rom several brows, | C&Y ot Brook’n.! Apri 6..-{
proved, by the evidence of Martha E. brent- apa the heavy breatuing ed pulsation of the i | Haeerecee-ee- (Apr 6...
|
DATE OF DEPARTCRES FYROM KEW YORE POR THB
ee : and sprung ©
MONTH OF APRIL
shepherds ees cline oe err quenniy wowed + ania
burtig | lem fate,
that the Seuine wee eat by Mane bs tes 2 rep Aer emo tie abeass rome he pears. St last, the
: . , aberid drew the biatk cap over |
& of ner husoand. Peter Breniliuger, and {| tne soomed man's eves. shurene ont he ‘ene vl i
ma, Alien county; ana
murder before the pews
It. ts impoesitie te trace the
dwmeuvery. The chidren andonubiedly
to do WiTR it; Dat, at all events, the
abroad, and @ seli-consututed
stated for Bronilinger’s
with the muruer.
Coun (enance
be muttered
nically, however, he led the
ana, in an abstracted sort of
@ barial spo.’ The body was
&
5
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am
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exbamed, although beried witho3t cever:
x @renaing thea the blwody clothes, the
obaracia’ death weunts was s00n
wae considerably swol-
womistakable ouor of
iH
'
of Martha
prone ber (ther tne dirk
eman was killed by stabs at the
usoand. Peter Brenilluger, and
testified to the acknowledig-
ther father that he dil the
barying the corpse. Brent! t
custouy and lodged ip we Lima fall
by the
giri
fim to mardér his wife were given, nut in
8 manner, but logtoali "aid me.
ebocking <detatia, J
coniorm With the new
‘ h E to, he made a “dlean’ breast of
* dad eakgerieised that he killed her because
sorry
. td lem month. My grandparents were Lota Ger-
make; '
years old I was moved into the San-
Piains, into what was then Crawiurd) but is
yandotte county. hen we woveu to liipots,
then back to the beighburbded of \my
farm eno the A ize river. It \is
eight or nine south of Lima,
road to 6t. Johns, J was inarned twice.
who are ali @rowB up. She died
0, aud then in about a yeer after
Sarah Howlitt. She was a
widow, about thirty years of age, and had ome chtid
were Marnea. A neighbor of mine recom-
to me, but I mistrusted per from the
ber w stay with me, but aie
offered her money, but aftill she
‘% and tuen,! married her. Sue was very
i thought she would ve Lad, but
was pot rignt; and tneo 1
her. There was always some.
with ter, and ‘bat Newfoundiend dog
with her. She used tw give me
af night, for I felt bad and sleepy in the
and bed dull pains shooting tuough my
coll ery ee MS a hand that last day,
me ewasindanger. —- _
Rarexrss-—D:d you kul your wife intentionally *
BRENTLINUKR (hanging bis head)—Yea, I did it. aod
an 80! or it, and I hope no utber wan wil
8 tu eufer as i have suffered ever
mace,
Rerogrza—What mide you kill her?
BasnvTLincxe—W ell, you see I lived with her ix
and she had three children since our mer-
> bat as God te my judze! don’t believe them
} a my children, My wile was never true to me.
a bed, bad woman.
Raroxrrr—but why di¢ you ki!l her?
BeexrTiincen—As I said, my wile was untrue to
gas. She recetyed the visits of other men, afd sve
fen tol€ me they had to do with her. 1 beleved
this then, and | believe it now. They wanted vo kil!
sme and get me out of the road.
Rerostexr—But did they atiempt to kill you?
Buxwriinese—She raid they would; but they
eould nut shoot me (with en alf of confidence and
@ueurance)
Rerorfas— Why #0? c
ll
deere
Pee:
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E
te
the hoot was placed UNder abu ® Wie UTMiMe vu
Jet ear. and the slack of the rope let banging over |
the shoulder, i
THE BLACK CAP. }
The black cap was put on bat not yet, drawn
n. “lave you anything ri 5 a
pte ‘iequired ino Sberid of the mini-
inviting all presegt to join io
lied, and
over
out he light of
Gay forever, apd
THE TRAP FALLS.
The of the drop was hidden eath the
scafuld; bat it was @ simple bolt withdrawa by &
ed to keep
through
trout, relaxed and fell a
eight minutes the pulse ceased to
eeuae miaute tae heart throbned nol ia The
body was catdown at tea o'clock andipiaced tn a
black walnut cofin. When the biack
moved the features wore @ composed
dete! pre
Lima was filled with the peop!
the country surrounding ; the atrect
crowded with men, Wumen
to catoh a glimpse of tne at
ety dispersed, evidently weil Red
Srocee of che Sretexecation is Alem op
r)
Discharged asd Are Refused by
Beliom has there been witnessed su
anxiety as Was evinced yesterday at
Wesichesyer counly, re g the p
of the jary, which retired the previous | ev
Geilberate on a verdict in the case of Jsaac \. W.
Buckhout, the two-fola wurderer, who terrible
-erime and recent trial have been eet forth in
these columns, After rematuing out all @
hitherto hopeless task of arriving at Woanin
opinion, the jury, at thetr request, were irou
cuurt yesterday morning, and, through th
asked tw be relieved [rom further oop
Of the case, beseving that it Fas
anything like ap agreement of sentime
themsetves.
dustice Barpard promptiy denied U
the jary, and touk ovcasion to remark
baving been most fairly condacted, and
stances of the casé 80 thoroughly set for
But, consistently wit justice aud the
Tents, Olscharge thom uuu a More ex
) to agree apon a verdict.
Cp toa late heur laat evening tne ja
, Without a verdict, it oeing understood eleven
were tor convicuon, while the remal one heid
out peraistenuy for acquittal, ;
THE CAMDEN PARAICIDE RESPITE
Monday next was the day appointed the exe-
cutluop at Camden, N. J., of John W. for the
ever, has respited him for thirty days;
@xprauon of which the Court of Par
ang consider the quesiion of commutat
tence. The gallows intended for the
bredgnt from the Saiem cvunty jall,
had becn eugazed for to-day In We e.
CAUSHED TO BEATH.
+-—-gworner-camuutty Gt2UPed 08 “the
Ratiroad, at the depot in Jersey City,
Joun Conover, whose busine.s it was to
was caught between the bum whe
backed down, aod w the
man was extricateu it was fuund that
wae crasued in, He spoke not & word
wough the spark of life fickered tor
hour. He was turty-live years of age,
wi.e and turee culidrea at Freeboid,
county.
A WORRIBLE BEATH.
Mary Jane Gilroy, a chilg between two gud three
years of age, was left alone yesterday mm by
ita parents at their residence, North Sixth and
Seventh streets, Williamsburg, and oefore they re-
torned 1k waa burne, toacrnp. The fortunate
cblid’s cloth! wok fire froma stove, amd its pile-
ow cries fur heip were unhearé by the ofper .0-
BRENTLINGSK--Hecuuse | wear a charm which
Ausns aside the bulictg, be Chet 1 cunpot be phot 2
‘
ad ™ .
« ate
SHIPPING N
AEDT
Alusasec for New Yerk-This Day.
———
Sun rises....... 583 | Moon rises....eve 10 27
Sun sets. ......, 682 | High water .morn 10 32
OCKAN STEANEBRS.
DATB OF DEPARTURES FROM NEW YORK POR THB
MONTH OF APRIL /
Reamer. | Sete | Outen | Of
{ Brook*e. | Apri @.. .|Liverpeol......'18 Broadway.
angie. vlapett &.:' Bremen; “4 Broad st,
Fences 1 Abe 8... Liverpool. 8 ,
Wteconede..oo.. | April 18. ..| Liverpool ¥
Towa. .....00+-- Aprii 1b.../Ginegow. Bowing Orese
a saweweus yoy 18...) Laverpool. is '.
: Feseayivanis... Aprti t:: Liverpool. t-4 Seetaees: .
Ww wos coco JADE 16...) Bremen. |e a...
City of B'Rim're| April 38. ..| Liverpool ¥ way.
Wyoming....... Apri Bg *| Liverpool...... Broadway.
AUMTFAUA.g000-. {April 2] Giabgowe sei. Rewitag Grees
Pereire......... -|Apri 82... Haere..........|58 Brosoway,
Minneoots......| April 38... |Liverpool......|50 Broadway,
PoRT OF NEW YeRK, APRM 7, 1871.
CLEARED. ‘
Steamship City of Liverpeci—Joba
Poem tp Cy of Brooklyn (Br), Brooks, b
teamehip Angiie (Br), Cra’ - Heederscn Bree.
Bark Czarina (Br), Kiekeis, for ordere- BP Bock &
Park Br . Cork admmonth ordera—
Peabody, Wife Se: Wo maa enpets
ly B!
Bart Marie Magen ( Pwiane, Venice—Fadbri &
Bark Alsadin (Nor), Kvensen, Sentanéer—Vunch, Edye &
Duley: Courter (Br), Barteti, WI
&
Pea arta nacre Feed a an oom
REPORTED BY THE HERALD STRAM Y
Seamente Morro Caste, ptome, Havana vie
RKassau, NP, at3 PM mdse aad
Atlantic ali ntcnmuettp bo, —
ie rermae,
Lewwgpeey 2 George B 4 overta, Richmond, Cty
Fels aa ortoux with mdeo ani passengers to Washing-
Teresina (Ital\, Viola, Palermo whh
Lawrence, Giles & rr rirmae pe ‘ed 14; Faby
hotel MBL 3 14 days north of that potat with
Bark Ade‘aide Pentergam ( Re BS
. Wry wollen o Pendereaat ce pe yy renting
ho
arch — : Par r te lat 30M, since then
3
z
i
iB
iit
ui
toP J Nev
bas been
Son &4Co.
7 days sorth of that point wih heavy
oor Eva XN Jobnaon, Job |
gE 0 jetantas 12
f
3
;
he
$
i
NE end NW
3
Mer
chant &
Brig Haze (of Providence), H » Baltimore 6 days,
with coal to the Consuiidation Coal to master,
Bcbr J A Grifin (of Wilmt U 2
days, with moiasees to poco nitagenoe vensel rt —— i -
&® succession of beavy NK and 6E gales; has been Sve days
mortn of Hatteras.
Sagua 18 days. with ce-
* Pride Br), Marti
Heney & Parker. Moen bday B of Hatteras with
dar, ke to
bees winds. je ‘ai nee
a! or biargie Pastport’, Weruddes, Zaza, 19
} geopsic poe ped order— vease| to Brow, a= &Co. Has olx
of Hatteras, with beavy
wil side baie c 1 Malt "7 _—
Wi biden, bc, ory & Co—vessel to John Boye-
Had extremely violent gaies duri pas
betwoen Capes Florida and ewe.
Ban ve north of the latter point; éth inst,
on the edge of the Guil Stream, piokea Bp & wooden duos,
in Lack and white, with “Noa” painted on tee nn”
Scbr Enchantress, Phititps, Savanaeb 6
to () Russel! —vesael to Fv, Ball
New Yi
6chr FH Clark, Wiliams, Virginia.
Lugion ol tay bouse Jn tae te by ef hy ilin
6che Hannah Champion, Taylor, Virginia,
kghy Ue Rayoons, Bennet, Virginia
EWS.
BALTIMORP, Apra 6,
ports, Havane ; babra Y
oq iympb. 9 H
fg om —* «ir
eathia (Be,
,CAPARRA, Vincenzo, white, electrocutkd Ohio SP (Jefferson County) June 2h, 192le.
a Dey a lactitete: Me
jon: Hible: sehool
Ba as 7
4 ae ha” pee tres 1, Fa
a Shes
2 OF ‘Good.Will ‘In. Contentions
yay" 5 r a ‘ 2 Mg eet
meet Wa ae Ue > ose
7 Sgatatel se : ride + Pea
po ag 6 OR CR ee
‘ bY apes
“secesimnninnsamnaicieiasaoentan
.*) eR chat you'va
jgald the vsorters,:"‘we: think 0.
litical ¢ontection . fg the sweetest
and. dearest talag: that» wren Bap}
Slayer Electrovate
— a 28% S :
Bae 3 a eg
Je
‘ & <i “+ 2 3m pty § re
Sa Lert ee pe? ae nee ea i Fechst eA
: a kag me + a t%
rs aS ,
oe A, ‘ te ee a og a 5 rate ites ie + ke
fc Whe., hal long
1S LN era NS
: * coLumnva, 77 3a ~94.s0Paytng;
atthe Sis ifs for: the _murdet of @
weecte acsted. gt-the penitentiary here
‘Lahortly after 1 o'clock this morning.!,
The boty was to. ‘be removed to
Steudenvills today. for burial.
"» Chartes Thomas, 24, and i
occupies a fell fn Goath row at the
‘ennso.
Caparra,. 33, Of . aeeatiin was
“Amorican mistogisien who have
bees under seige at Kweli,
‘petweed ‘ths:
canter pt.
£
e J ~
Pa 3 “
f 2 iat .
SPT ae en, SS
ee HL see aot fy
i663 “3 " t ‘. 5 wy
e"
heen @
yChina, has. Bose Rilled,
ja nkmen,' | i The latest
9 an tm Pekiag. ae: 4
oi yaw >’s caterer
widerstcod). how avery ret
a tones wound a:
sen cert fF
ro MERCHANTS 7 70 F
ie me = THELR OV Ut
Qaex’\ Moore, | ore
Akron Morohants ‘asa
| been appointed editor 0
sj Merchant”, & monthly
ee EE TS
4 Bouth Chins, are cate und
rt réeeired |
re “Wilson, |
penitentiary here following his .com
_ fat victiop last nicht on a charge of
April
2 a —
aying Ms Pepa Tier c. Stewart,
oy . . .
“ . >
5 ° ‘ *
1. ey
bE mS ee
Rirtion, Fas “ree F. x a ed aes
PAAR GH See
Silt 2
: mar {FEE ste
Ct a.
se
frag toe Tbe
—_
cere a. airy
fo
tical righte:
wrptiom ef this ¢on-
- vorter.
‘une 24—Poliyanpa,
lady world ¢ham
inésa,. arrived in New
1 at once proceeded
‘al view of the whole
ention sttuation, thus!
in opposition to that.
ned lilerary obaracter
Vhito'of Kansas, who
ar the papers is de-
matiers 8s rum and
ald Pollyanna, in he:
the Duilding of the
ne seciety,. “that the
1@ Protestants in this
showing a most com-
1 rard each other,
n endeavoring to'
sav & position of
alatively to itself.’
1 make that out?”
y clear,”’ sald Pally-
smith is elected pros-_
e scared to death tu
lic to-any office any-
shington. Look xt
1 Chicaguv. Being 3
inot give any of the
¢ in the Chicago city
«, He base to appoint
wegue, a Protestant,
niesioner of public
to appoing young F.
esfant, to be his cor-
l. These gre the two
o his cabimet. -
ipows it will be the
Nr. Smith if he is
at. Not one really
1 Washington will ‘n
nees gO to &@ Catholic.
QD, being a Protestant,
int’ a eepighalys Parad
bia private secretary.
ws that Al Smith tn
s6 would dare to do
He would have a
or Seven-Dey,
He
iY |
a secretary.
‘pnd Harmony |
s between a Catholic:
will cultivate the |
a Protestant presi-,
utivate the Catholics. j
stancea I call your
¢ awectly and consid- |
tember an Babine nm mammal
is
look at Mr. McAdoo’s own proposed
The really
sage of the eight-hour Adamson law
(costs, cat freight rates and insure
me : < i New; ont ca
_ th we rere Sid
‘Govacemeate: ok ee
{on ogaintt the Kian Se caren
RStional qomyention is<just.. simply’ |.7
golden dust in the ayes, it makes |
life look ‘brighter. It -saakes you
e oss
+think ae sommthiog yeu'lahorily afier ty
Ne pa
baat at gh rain ts
ne while the
it makes yor know wea't hateman 13
rain today, it’s rainlag ticles, It'a
@ beautiful tribute to me, ° I take it)
‘s2t makes Yeu think any
getting somewhere ovegg' Pit z
sab
a8 a personal compliment. IF call
ye TRH = ©
r: ; A te ‘gnty ey
K obit ite Pear es ee:
aes . auiee
ey
atiary |
this ern
removed to
rial.
it @ real true, sweet, tender, genuine,
Pollyanaa plank, Aji eonventions
you know are fall ofthem. .
“The antiKlan resolution to ni
barrass Mr. McAdoo is an iustra-
tion. It is pure blue aky. Aad yon
| Chief OF |
plank about railroeds.
princtpal critical convention fe rgil-
“Where did you bearu that?” in-
Wuginesrs, has teen
me )
Aceuiiat New Title
_ CLEVELAND, Jauae
8, Stone, for many years
of the Brotherhood ot
84. —Werren
rand chief
omotive
usanimouely
elected to the newly created position
was seeres
resident of the organization by
terrupted a reporter. oar Pars ine ogee re
“py tooling at LaPofisite,” sala | omrentio® here.
unicn convention will meet in Cleve-
lasd rext week. The Democratic
party, last time it carried the cous-
try, in 1916, carried ft because it
had the support of the railroad trade
unions in consequence of the pas
by a democratte congress. This ag 74
the demecrats ebeolutely hate
have the big railroad trade anes
vote. But LaFollette is out to steal
it from them. They have got to get
it back so Mr. McAdoo bas a railroad
plank. Have you read it” I is
beautifal.”’
“Repeat tt,’ said the reporters,
aubmissively,
“Well,” said Pollyanna, “‘in this|
plank Mr. McAdoo announces the
sort of raiirqad transportation law
which he would have congress pass
if he were prosidont. He defi be
simply end suecinetly. He {nl health giving and
siinply and perfoctly that the prea- | cerving powers of Tunl
ent Jaw is a bed one and that if he; Westioned.
ig elected president he will have a
new law, the method of which he
keeps to himself, but the resailt of
which will be, as he reveals, to elim-
inate waste, reduce .ransportation
Ree ee cee
ach Troub le.
OP ss eee me me
mén of unqwestioned ;,
scores of new witnesso
ardent advocates are
West Virginia, among.
“oP, Bg. anley,
1437 Seveath
Mr. & anley says:
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“Carter Meets Death In Chair Without Word Or Emotion;. Repentent, Priest Reveals.
“Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 8.-Without a word or the slightest sign of emotion, Frank Dudley
Carter, convicted of the murder of Sgt. Anthony Overburg of the Norwood police force, went to
his death in the electric chair of the Ohio Penitentiary tonight. He was pronounced deat at 7:16
p.m. by Dr. John Eckstorm. The body was claimed by a Columbus funeral home on behalf of
relatives. ,
“Carter had his last dinner tonight with two prisoners, George Pierce, Franklin County
murderer, whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment a few months ago, and John
Maslove, serving a one-to-25-year sentence for unarmed robbery. Carter was accompanied by
two priests in his last walk. They were the Rev. Louis Kelly, chaplain, and the Rev. Paul G.
Corbett, Columbus. Carter gave a smile of recognition to the Rev. James Kiefel, Protestant
chaplain at the Hamilton County Jail, who accompanied Sheriff C. Taylor Handman. Clifford
Wolfe of the Norwood detective force also witnessed the execution. Meredith Dockum,
Norwood detective, drove to Columbus but did not enter the prison.
“Carter showed emotion when he received a last visit from his wife this afternoon. His
family and friends made no attempt at final intercession at the Governor’s office. Carter’s
brother, a Louisville engineer, bade farewell Tuesday to the condemned man.
“Father Kelly, who administered the last sacrament, said later that Carter asked for
forgiveness for his offenses and said he hoped firmly that those whom he had injured would
extend forgiveness. The priest said Carter asked other prisoners to embrace religion.
“Tt was reported tonight that Carter’s mother in kentucky was not informed of the fate of
her son prior to the execution. Carter’s body is to be buried in a Catholic Cemetery near
Columbus.”-Enquirer, Columbus, OH, 11/9/1945.
“Carter, who was convicted of shooting the Norwood detective July 8, 1942, in an
attempted drug store holdup, entered the death chamber at 7:02 p.m. and was pronounced dead
14 minutes later. Before going to his death in the electric chair, Carter arranged to donate the
corneas of his eyes for transplanting to a blind person.”-Dispatch, Columbus, OH, 11/9/1945.
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Apparently '
a
ISTOL pressed against the hold-
up man's belly, Sergeant An-
thony H. Overberg, of the
Norwood, Ohio, police, snapped
a command, “Lay that gun of
yours on the counter—and make it
fast!”
Facing Overberg, hands upraised,
stood a surprised youth. A moment
before he had started backing the
drugstore’s proprietor, Howard J.
Lawson, toward a rear room where
the robber knew there was a safe.
He hadn’t figured that an armed
policeman would be concealed there.
Overberg was only one of ten
Norwood officers hidden that night
NEAL
The Irate citizens of Norwood, Ohio, raised a fund to aid Overberg’s
widow and her two children, Carole Ann and Kathleen, pictured above.
of the KILLER’S
CALLING CARD
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of July 8, 1942, in as many local
establishments—lying in wait for
the boasted return of a bold young
thug who had been terrorizing mer-
chants in the greater Cincinnati
area.
The trap had been arranged by
Chief of Police Charles Fritz at the
urging of Mayor Allen C. Roude-
bush and business leaders, following
visits of the bandit to Wester’s and
Hein’s pharmacies on Section and
Sherman avenues respectively.
On June 27, the thug had taunted
Hein as he relieved the druggist’s
cash register of $200 receipts. “When
you see your cops,” he had said,
A. GREGORY
“tell them this town’s soft pickin’s.
I’ll be around some more.”
Now on this July night, it seemed
as if the egotistical youth had fallen
victim to a snare of his own making.
At Sergeant Overberg’s command,
he put down his .45 caliber auto-
matic pistol on the glass counter.
Looking on were Lawson and three
customers—Mr. and Mrs. M. H.
Burroughs and Joseph Coors—
rooted to their positions near the
soda fountain, where the thug had
ordered them to remain.
Occasionally they would. shift
their eyes toward the two large
plateglass windows, but it was 10:30
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H. Ventress, police surgeon and
deputy coroner, an ambulance from
the Good Samaritan Hospital, and
every available officer. He dashed
to Franklin and Courtland avenues,
site of the Lawson store, and an in-
tersection not far from the business
center of the city.
Sizing up the situation, Fritz
spread a cordon.around the neigh-
borhood. Obtaining a description of
the thug—about twenty-four, five
feet eleven, 165 pounds, light curly
hair, suit stained with vanilla,
trouser leg torn—he ordered it
phoned -back to headquarters and
then flashed out to all squad cars.
“That guy can’t get away!” he
snapped to Detective Lee Kiley, one
of his veteran officers.
Then he turned for a look at Ser-
geant. Overberg, who lay uncon-
scious. Dr. Ventress shook his head.
“Hit in the chest, groin and leg,”
he said.. ‘“‘He’s in bad shape. Blood’s
going to be needed right away.”
Fritz snapped an order to Kiley,
who dashed into a phone booth and
notified headquarters to rush a
squad of blood donors to the hos-
pital where Overberg would be-
taken.
' Overberg was then loaded into
the ambulance and rushed to the
operating table. An hour later he
was dead.
HIEF OF POLICE FRITZ was
stunned as this information
reached him at the Lawson store,
where he was still directing the
work of fingerprint men and inter-
rogating the witnesses.
The .45 caliber automatic had
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Mrs. Carter, the wife of a suspect, fainted when
police officers confronted her at her home.
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This scene, between Frank Carter
and his wife, took place in courte
room as a murder trial finished.
P.M. and the streets were deserted.
There was no further help in sight.
They then saw Overberg make a
move toward his handcuffs. _ -
In that very instant, the bandit
snaked his hand back toward the
counter. He seized his .45 and at
the same time hurled himself at
Overberg. His left hand got a strong
grip on Overberg’s gun,
The momentum of the thug’s leap
sent Overberg plummeting back
against the prescription counter,
where a cascade of bottles tumbled
over the pair of struggling men.
The .45 went off with the boom-
of a cannon, its slug ploughing high
into the woodwork of the partition
at the rear of the store. It sent
another shower of glass down upon
the men.
Overberg was powerful,. but his
opponent was lithe and tough. And
the sergeant gradually felt his own
-38 caliber service pistol being
pressed back against him.. -
Then, to the horror of the watch-
ers, it exploded violently three
times. Sergeant Overberg loosed a
deep groan and the .38 slipped from
his grasp. Now it was in the pos-
session of the thug, whose own big
automatic had been knocked from
his hand during the struggle.
As Overberg slumped to the floor,
blood gushing from three severe .
wounds, the bandit whirled and
brought the policeman’s pistol level
with the awed quartet.
“Don’t make a move!” he snarled.
“I’m getting out.”
The left leg of his trousers was
torn. His suit was smeared and
_reeking with vanilla, which had
splashed over him from one of the
bottles that had showered down up-
on him while he was struggling
with Overberg. :
Lawson and the customers
watched him race into’ Franklin
Avenue, run up the block and turn
the corner of Alison.
Druggist Lawson then rushed into
a phone booth. :
Chief of Police Fritz, Mayor Rou-
debush and Herman Buse, President
of the Norwood Taxsavers’ Associa-
tion, were among a group of city
officials waiting at police headquar-
ters for the results of the bandit
trap. Lawson’s message deeply
shocked the group.
Fritz hurriedly summoned Dr. W.
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been gingerly lifted from the floor,
dropped into a cellophane bag, and
rushed down to the laboratory.
Fritz held high hopes of obtaining
usable impressions from this gun
or a serial number that might point
to its purchaser.
The chief was flabbergasted when
his detectives and the squad officers
began reporting back. Although
plenty of passersby had seen the
bandit run into Alison Avenue, none
were able to say where he had gone
from there. The police found no
further trace of him, and figured he
must have made a getaway in a
parked car.
According to the accounts of the
witnesses, the bandit’s routine had
varied little from the scorés of other
crimes he had committed in the
Cincinnati area. He had walked in,
ordered a soft drink, looked the
situation over carefully, then gone
to work behind his big, black, .45.
Lawson,
Coors were certain he had run out
with Overberg’s pistol, and since
this was missing, Fritz knew it
would tag the youth as the killer
if he could be found with the
weapon.
Further, if he attempted to sell
or hock it, the pistol might lead to.
his ultimate undoing. But there was
a possibility Chief of Police Fritz
feared: the bandit might dispose of
the gun in the Ohio River. However,
he made a mental note to put his
pawnshop squad to work tracing the
weapon on the following morning.
Overberg’s gun was not an ordi-
nary pistol, a fact which Fritz con-
sidered noteworthy. Special grips
Sailor Frank Carter was arrested
just one heur before he was to go
overseas, for requested duty.
the Burroughses, and _
for the weapon had been designed
by the sergeant himself, and Nor-
wood’s_ ballistics expert, Harold
Davis, had built and installed them.
Furthermore, the weapon had. a
trigger guard rebuilt by armorer
Oakley Wilson,
Word of the killing had been
flashed to Cincinnati, where the
bandit had been active before in-
vading, adjoining Norwood. As soon
as he heard the news, Detective
Chief Emmett D. Kirgan rushed his
night staff out to comb the resorts
for a. youth who smelled of vanilla.
Fritz, speeding back to his own
headquarters, directed the activities
of a crack detective staff, which in-
cluded, besides Kiley, such seasoned
homicide investigators as Joseph
Flower, Meredith Dockum, and
George Schultz.
These men were directed to shake
down stool pigeons and _ other
sources of information for a line on
the thug, and to raid several gam-
bling dens which were known to be
openly flaunting the law.
Fritz also notified the Staté Police
and the Hamilton County sheriff’s
office to watch the highways for a
lone youth smelling of vanilla,
whose trouser leg was torn, and
who, possibly, was in possession of
Anthony. Overberg’s specially de-
signed service pistol.
The .combined efforts of these
agencies filled both the ‘Norwood
and the Cincinnati headquarters
with people. On hand to view pho-
tographs and suspects personally
were Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Bur-
roughs, Coors and Peter Hein, the
latter being the druggist victim of
the bandit on June 27.
None of them were able to recog-
nize the killer from pictures. And
the negative shakes of their heads
rapidly eliminated the numerous
suspects caught by the police net.
By morning the haggard, sleep-
less police of both cities found
themselves empty-handed in more
ways than one. Not only were they
lacking a definite suspect, but the
fingerprint men had found — no
worthwhile impressions. either in
the drugstore.or on the .45 caliber
pistol dropped by the slayer.
Fritz, before retiring for a few
hours of needed rest, dispatched the
weapon’s serial number to the man-
ufacturers, asking for the name of
the dealer to whom it had been sold.
By nightfall, back on the job, he
learned the gun was part of a con-
signment to a Louisville, Kentucky,
sporting goods establishment which
had gone out of business within the
past year. Contact with a member
of this firm revealed that no records
of gun sales had been kept.
Fritz was disappoined.
To make his disappointment more
keen, Fritz’s pawnshop squad re-
ported no results:in connection with
the Overberg pistol. The bandit ap-
parently had made no effort as yet
to dispose of it. Fritz ordered the
weapon’s description circularized to
police departments throughout the
middlewest.
By this time, the Sergeant Over-
berg slaying had stunned the city of
Norwood and brought its 35,000-odd
citizens rallying to the raising of a
fund to aid Overberg’s young widow
and her two small children, Carole
Ann and Kathleen. :
In addition, rewards totalling $700
were immediately offered for the
apprehension of the slayers. Soon
business firms began contributing
sums until the: price on the killer’s
head went over the $2,500 mark.
FLOODING of the police depart-
ment with tips was the result.
Fritz kept Kiley, Schultz, Dockum,
and Flower always available to run
them down. These particular tips
involved only Norwood and its en-
virons.
As they fizzled, the officers began
spreading out. ‘hus on Friday, July ,
10, Fritz, accompanied by Flower’
and Hein the druggist, raced to
Middletown and Hamilton to view
suspects and’ check possible evi-
dence,
In Hamilton the police had de-
tained a youth whos shirt was found
bloodstained, but he laid it to a
nosebleed and produced a perfect
alibi for the night of the murder. -
At Middletown, a pawnbroker re-
ported the recent sale of a .45 cali-
ber automatic, giving the name of
the purchaser. But the buyer, and
he was .not the wanted killer, still
had the gun.
A military prisoner at Fort
Thomas, just across the river from
Cincinnati, was investigated by
Schultz and Dockum, but this youth,
returning AWOL with a blood-
stained uniform, could not have
been involved in the crime.
The weekend was the busiest ever
put in by the Norwood and Cincin-
nati police, but no trace of Sergeant
Overberg’s killer was’ found.
The Monday morning teletype,
however, brought Chief of Police
Fritz news that a police officer had
been slain in Oklahoma City on
Saturday night.
According to the report, this offi-
cer, Patrolman James A. Long,
thirty-two, had been shot four times
while attempting to arrest a youth
who was molesting a girl in the
Municipal Park. The weapon used
had been a .38 caliber revolver.
By this time Fritz was in pos-
session. of an autopsy report sub-
mitted. by Doctors Ventress. and
Frank M. Coppock, the coroner, and
the three bullets taken from Over-
berg’s body. Overberg had died of
internal hemorrhages, and the bal-
listic tests revealed that he had
been shot with his own gun—a
thirty-eight.
Fritz telephoned Oklahoma City
for the slugs taken from Long, and
these were dispatched airmail. Al-
though Fritz held great hopes that
the Oklahqma City killer might be
the youth they were looking for
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in Norwood, examination of the
‘slugs revealed that they could not
have been fired from Overberg’s
gun. They did not match the bul-
lets removed from the sergeant’s
body. :
The Cincinnati police were also
aware of the Oklahoma’ City crime.
And on Monday night, July 13, De-
tective Chief Kirgan arrested three
youths driving a car which bore
Oklahoma plates.
The trio had no good reason for
being in the Cincinnati area, and
their replies to Kirgan’s questions
were suspicious. He notified Fritz,
who hurried over with Lawson and
Coors, two of the drugstore murder
witnesses. /
. When they failed to recognize any
of the youths as being Overberg’s
slayer, Kirgan held the trio for the
Oklahoma City authorities. Even-
tually they were absolved in Patrol-
man Long’s death, though they were
convicted of other charges.
Immediately following this inci-
dent, Fritz was without a definite
lead of any kind for more than a
month. Then the police of New
Philadelphia advised him they were
Lee Kiley, Norwood, Ohio
detective, searched ‘the
Carter home for a gun.
Joseph Coors, who saw the
fatal struggle between
Overberg and a murderer.
holding Ralph Straka in $10,000 bail
on charges of attempting to kill a
railroad detective.
Straka not only resembled the
Norwood slayer, but he was carry-
ing a .38 caliber pistol with special
grips.’ But when Fritz, Flower, and
Hein drove across the state for a
talk with him, they soon realized he
was not their man. Ultimately,
Straka was found guilty of assault
and theft charges.
All this time the police through-
out the midwest were closely co-
operating with Fritz, having re-
ceived from him numerous circulars
describing the slayer, his abandoned
-45 caliber weapon, and the .38 cali-
ber pistol he had stolen from Over-
berg.
A number of robberies through-
out northern Kentucky, which state
adjoins Ohio, kept the authorities
there particularly busy, and in many
instances they obtained a good de-
scription of the lone gunman who
was committing the robberies. They
found him not unlike Norwood’s
killer—young, tall, slim, and light-
haired.
Then a crime occurred near Cov-
ington, late in November, which
shocked the entire state. An armed
thief broke into a crossroads store,
held up the aged woman proprietor
and sought her money.
When she protested and said she
had none, he brutally held her hands
over a hot stove until, agonizingly
blistered, the woman was forced to
reveal the cache of her savings. Ob-
taining the money, the thief then
beat the store proprietor insensible
and escaped.
Police Chief Chester Fee and De-
tective Al Seiter and Leroy Hall
worked on this case for weeks, but
all they could obtain was the vic-
tim’s description of her tormenter.
This tallied very closely with the
description of the Norwood bandit-
killer.
QTILL more violence lay ahead.
On New Year’s Day, 1943,
Thomas Conry, 65-year-old proprie-
tor of a liquor package store in Cov-
ington, turned from his cash register
to find an armed youth standing in
front of him.
Conry, previously the victim of a
holdup man, decided not to submit
again. He dove for a pistol.
The bandit’s gun exploded and
Conry fell dead. Pursuit of the
killer started almost immediately.
Citizens were joined by police, and
in the roundup of suspects was one
Oliver Thomas Minch, a Kentucky
“bad boy.”
Minch had no weapon when
seized, but witnesses identified him
as the youth who ran from the
Conry store. Plus this, the suspect
had no alibi for the time of the
crime.
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Chief of Police Fritz, on Prosecutor
Hoy’s order, wired the Federal Bureau
of Investigation in Chicago to arrest
Frank Carter at Great Lakes. He also
asked the detention of Mrs. Florence
Klawson as a material witness.
Then Fritz dispatched the Overberg
pistol and the three lethal bullets to
the FBI laboratory in Washington,
asking for an immediate report. This,
received the following Monday, con-
firmed the fact that Overberg had
been slain with his own pistol.
In Chicago, Frank Carter, arrested
just one hour before he was scheduled
to go overseas at his own request,
made no attempt to deny the crime.
He told the FBI men, “They’ve got
plenty on me, and I know it.”
On Tuesday Martin, Fritz, Dockum,
Kiley, and Hein reached the Windy
City. Hein, the Norwood druggist,
immediately picked Carter from a
lineup as the bandit who had held him
up on June 27, 1942. Carter admitted
this holdup and more than fifty others
in the Greater Cincinnati area.
Furthermore, he readily confessed
the Overberg murder.
“I had to shoot him,” he told Martin
and Fritz, “or he’d have shot me. He
was a game guy. I’ve never forgotten
his face.”
The Klawson girl, in Carter’s pres-
ence, told how Carter had com-
mitted holdups while he left her
waiting in her car, and how he had
threatened her life when she became
engaged to another man. Carter
laughingly agreed that she spoke the
truth.
The Naval authorities released
Carter to the Norwood authorities.
They also discharged him dishonor-
ably on the grounds that he had con-
cealed his criminal record when en-
listing. Carter waived extradition
back to Norwood, where he was iden-
tified by Lawson, Coors and Mr. and
Mrs. Burroughs as the Overberg
slayer.
Now the Covington police became
vitally interested in the youth, never
having been fully convinced that
Minch was the actual slayer of Conry,
the liquor store proprictor. Chief Fee
and Detectives Seiter and Hall ques-
tioned Carter about this crime, and
although he admitted several Coving-
ton holdups he denied the shooting
of Conry.
On January 24, Prosecutor Hoy
went before Judge Frederick L. Hoff-
man and requested the convening of
a special grand jury. The court issued
the call. The next day two indict-
ments were voted against Carter. One
charged commission of a murder dur-
ing a felony, and the other the shoot-
ing of Sergeant Anthony H. Overberg.
Carter, immediately arraigned be-
fore Mayor Frank J. Ward, sitting as
magistrate in Norwood Municipal
Court, pleaded not guilty. Subse-
quently, through attorneys, he claimed
insanity, but on February twenty-
cighth two state alienists adjudged
him sane. ;
Carter went to trial on March 20th.
Eight days later the jury brought -in
a verdict of guilty without recom-
mendation of clemency. ‘This meant
a mandatory death sentence for the
erstwhile holdup man whose vanity
in retaining the pistol of the man he
killed resulted in his undoing:
The name Florence Klawson is
fictitious and is used here to protect
an innocent person—EDITOR.
DETECTIVE
Charlotte Robinson conceal the fact
that she’s lived in Washington for
more than a year?”
Crooke shrugged. “Maybe she was
trying to hide something,” he haz-
arded. “I think we ought to visit the
offices of the War Recreation Com-
mittee before we hit that University
Avenue address. It’s on the way out.”
“Okay, let’s go,” agreed Perry.
At the slain woman's place of em-
ployment they learned her past from
the files. Her real name had been
Emmi Mallwitz and she had married
a Brown Wiley Robinson in Crown
Point, Indiana, in 1935 only to divorce
him in Chicago two years later. Pe-
rusing further, they were in for a
surprise. Charlottc Robinson remar-
ried her first husband in Cleveland
in 1939 and divorced him for the
second time in 1940.
“ft wonder if he’s the guy who has
been bother her?” mused Crooke.
Perry nodded thoughtfully. “Strang-
er things ‘have happened. T’ll call
headquarters and ask Barrett to wire
Chicago and have ’em check on this
Robinson’s whereabouts. If he’s in
Washington, we might have some-
thing.” ;
Before calling their superior, they
delved further into Charlotte Robin-
son’s activities at the>War Recreation
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(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23)
offices. They learned. she was of high
moral character and always obeyed
the strict rules governing employees
of the organization.
Perry called Barrett at the Ninth
Precinct headquarters and briefly ex-
plained their success in identifying
the dead woman and their subsequent
trip to her place of employment.
Want us to go to the University
Avenue address, Chief?” asked Perry.
“Yes” replied Barrett. ‘Follow it
up. There’s nothing new here. Her
fingerprints matched nothing on ‘filc
anywhere: and her clothes gave us
nothing, either. What's the name of
the people where you're going?”
“Crooke found the name Frederick
C. Mergner listed in the directory for
that address,” replied Perry.
Perry went on to tell Barrett about
the slain woman’s two marriages to
Robinson and her divorcees. The chief
of detectives promised to contact the
Windy City authorities at once for
word on the man.
The detectives set out for 3328 Uni-
versity Avenue, situated in the beau-
tiful and exclusive Spring Valley sec-
tion of Washington.
“T can’t understand how the mur-
dered woman could be living in a
swanky section like that,” said
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as the vic- agingly unlike the Norwood bandit,
tormenter. was later found hopelessly insane.
y with the Often, when alone at his desk,
od bandit- Chief of Police Fritz would open a
drawer, remove the .45 caliber au-
tomatic and the three leaden pellets
lay ahead. and study them. He wondered, with
May, 1943 a shake of his head, whether an op-
id proprie- portunity ever would come when he
ire in Cov- might tie them np to a callous killer.
sh regi
candi te TH year 1945 arrived, and on
January 18, Detective Kenneth
victim of a Vassic received a visitor at police
. to submit. i. a al in Louisville, Ken-
stol. ucky.
loded and _It was a friend who during war-
uit of the times held down the position of
‘mediately. auxiliary policeman. He had a prob-
lice, and lem which seemed to demand pro-
-S Was one fessional attention, and Vassie was
Kentucky = “aces to whom he could talk
reely.
on when “It's about a fellow who's threat-
itified him ened my life,” the auxiliary officer
fr sald.
Rijent Vassie’s brows knitted. “Why
ne of the don’t you grab him’ and bring him
in? We’ll cool him off down here.”
aged wo- The friend shook his head. “It’s
‘rossroads not as easy as that-—he isn’t around
him as the right now. Anyhow, I am not so.
her, on a concerned for myself. I could han-
just past. dle the guy. I’m worried about my
¥ ”
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verbiees “He threatened her, too. Rather,
Liley ape he threatened both of us through
‘oors and her. I’ve never seen the mug face
rj to face.”
view the “ 4 .
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store.
The bloody, disordered scene of the fight climaxed by cold-
blooded murder that eccurred in Howard Lawson's drugstore on July
8, 1942. Then a hunt for an elusive, bestial killer began in carnest.
to pick the bandit suspect from a
lineup.
Minch admitted the crossroads
store robbery but emphatically de-
nied he shot down Conry. However,
he was put on trial for this crime
and convicted. On May 13, 1943, he
received two consecutive life terms.
The youth went to prison still pro-
testing the Conry conviction.
Although Fritz was disappointed -
that Minch had not proven to be
the killer he was after, he had rea-
son to rejoice shortly afterwards
when Kirgan’s men caught a bandit
red-handed in the Cincinnati water-
front area. As Detectives cornered
him on a dock, he tossed an object
into the river.
“What was that, a pistol?” Kirgan
demanded.
“Find out,” the bandit sneered.
He identified himself as Howard
Rann, twenty-one, of Covington. Al-
though about the right size and age,
he lacked the Norwood killer’s curly
light hair.
Fritz’s witnesses could not make
up their minds.
“That pistol would settle it—if
we could get it back,” the Norwood
chief told Kirgan. :
“We'll go after it,” the Cincinnati
. detective chief replied. ;
For a week a squad of officers
used electro-magnets on the bed of
the Ohio and eventually recovered
a revolver. But it wasn’t the Over-
berg weapon.
Rann was likewise convicted, but
it wasn’t in connection with the Nor-
wood murder. And so Chief Fritz
had suffered still another rebuff.
In spite of these disappointments,
Fritz had been keeping the promise
to himself and Sergeant Overberg
that he would overlook no lead in
the crime no matter where it took
him. Although other. duties en-
croached on his time, the officer
was ever ready to plunge back into
the murder mystery at the drop of
a clue.
Thus it was on April 25, 1944,
that Fritz, Flower and Hein rushed
to Colorado Springs, where a prison-
er, seized in a $3,700 diamond rob-
bery, had confessed he once killed
about?”
“It’s a long, story, but I’d better
go back to the beginning. I guess
you know my girl-—she’s Mrs, Flor-
ence Klawson.”
Vassie whistled. Mrs. Klawson,
only nineteen, was a Louisville so-
ciety belle. She had made and dis-
solved an unfortunate marriage.
This was no hysterical woman, Vas-
sie decided, but a well-educated,
poised post-deb. His friend’s story.
increased in importance.
Several questions were on the tip
of his tongue, but the auxiliary
policeman was already launching
his story, so Vassie allowed. him to.
continue.
“This girl of mine,” Vassie’s
friend said, “met this fellow about
a year ago, right after her divorce.
He was a young chap, with good
looks and apparently a lot of money:
She had a convertible coupe and
they did a lot of driving around. _
“Every once in awhile this fel-
low would tell her to stop the car
and wait for him. He’d get out and
leave her for about half an hour or
so; then, when he came back, they’d
resume the evening activities—visit
night clubs or roadhouses. As I
said, he always had plenty of money.
“Well, one night the coupe was
stopped in a police search for a ban-
dit who had just robbed a store.
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Scheepers cautiously got down from
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“I wouldn’t do that if I were you!”
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The youth’s hands went up over
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The commotion was growing in the
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seemed to sense the excitement and
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“Looks like we got something
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“Here’s our man, boys!” the police
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cuffs on him.” .
EADWILEY was taken imme-
diately to the hospital at the
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was removed from his arm. A short
while later, he confessed to the rob-
bery and the slaying of Dunn and
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Nowitsky, Hume, Griffin and Walker,
and before Commonwealth Attorney
J. Hume Taylor.
The confession ran truce to form.
The youth had gotten in deep water
with his “hot” gun and being AWOL,
so he figured he might as well get in
a little deeper. Away from the base
for a week .he had gotten bored and
broke, so had crashed his way into
the drugstore to obtain whatever
money he could. Then the two po-
licemen had caught him in the act of
robbing the pharmacy and started to
shoot. Deadwiley fired back, and the
first bullet stopped Davis. The fright-
ened gunman ran out of the store in
time to see Bob Dunn heading toward
oo pe car to call for help, so he
fired.
Deadwiley didn’t wait to see what
happened after that, but fled until he
met Reese who helped him to his
home.
“Was there anybody else in on
this?” Deadwiley was asked.
“There was nobody else in on it,”
the guilty man replied. “I did it alone.
I’ve been mighty foolish, but I Fen
that won’t do me any good now. Okay,
I’m in bad for keeps. I’ll take what-
ever’s coming. to me.”
He laughed a little bitterly. ‘Not
much choice’ for me, is there?”
A short while later the superfluous
report came through from the labora-
tory that the blood on the newspaper
found in Deadwiley’s room was of the
rare type O—exactly the same as had
been found in Granby Strect.
On September Ist, 1943, Paul N.
Deadwiley was given a life sentence
for the murder of Patrolman Bob
Dunn. He is still to be indicted for
‘the slaying of Officer Davis.
The names Eldora Gough, Morton
Reese and Joseph Barron are not ac-
tual, but fictitious, and are used in this
story to protect innocent persons—
EDITOR.
,
DETECTIVE
cops approached, this fellow said to
the girl, ‘Tell them I was with you all
evening.’ He backed up his words
with. a pistol, which he stuck into
her ribs.
“My girl-gave the fellow his alibi,
but before the cops left she realized
he was the bandit they were after.
He admitted it. Furthermore, he
showed her the pistol and said, ‘I got
this from a fellow I once killed. I
call it Tony in his honor. Not a bad
idea, eh?’ ;
“Mrs. Klawson was horrified. After
that, although he kept persisting, she
never went out with him again,
“Then she met me. This fellow be-
came jealous. Last week, when he
was on a furlough, he came around
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seat some night and bump both of
you off.’” .
Vassie rubbed his chin. He had
heard plenty of stories in his day, but
a was one of the strangest of
all.
“You said something about a fur-
lough,” he declared. “Is that bandit
in the armed services?”
“Yes—in the Navy. It seems things
got a little hot for him about three
months ago, so he decided to hide out
in a uniform. But how he got in, I
don’t know—seeing he told my girl
4 as AL Killer’s Calling Card
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13)
he’d served time in the Texas State
Penitentiary.”
“What's his name?”
“Frank Carter. He’s married, and
his wife lives in Middletown, right
near here.”
Vassie knew Middletown as a tiny
village with a population of not over
fifty.
“What do you think we ought to
do?” the auxiliary policeman asked.
“Keep your girl away from this
fellow and let me know if he comes
back to town.”
“My girl’s in Chicago.”
“Then there's nothing to worry
about.”
“But he’s at Great Lakes.”
“That’s bad. Anyhow, keep your
eye out for:him.”
Vassie didn’t know anything he
could do, since the alleged bandit
named Carter was out of the state.
That night, however, he went to
the Louisville criminal files and dis-
covered a record for Frank Dudley
Carter of Middletown.- His _ prison
sentence in Texas was included = in
the file.
Vassie recalled a few sentences
from his friend’s story, “‘I got this
from a fellow I killed. TI call it Tony
in his honor.’”’ ,
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tims of the unsolved Kentucky mur-
der cases, put could recall none whose
name was Tony.
Casually he walked over to a stack
of wanted notices supplied by out-of-
town police agencies, and after con-
siderable desultory reading he came
one the Norwood, Ohio, crime in
19 ‘
As he read the victim’s name—
Anthony H. Overberg—the Louis-
ville detective wondered whether, by
any stroke of coincidence, this could
possibly have been the death referred
to by Carter, the self-admitted mur-
derer.
Reading the circular further, Vassie
saw that Overberg’s gun was wanted
almost as badly as the killer.
Tony! Missing gun! The course he
must pursue began to shape up in
Vassie’s mind.
RITZ regarded Vassie’s telephone
call with the same skepticism he
had been viewing all leads of late.
Even the nickname given the gun
failed to impress him.
But he appreciated the Louisville
officer’s ‘thoughtfulness in relaying
the information, though he put little
stock in the tip. However, having
vowed to follow up every lead, Fritz
told Vassie he would send some men
down.
“They can go out and talk to this
Carter’s wife, anyhow,” Fritz said.
Vassie told Fritz that he knew two
of the three principals involved and
they were trustworthy people.
“The only convincer,” Fritz an-
swered, “would be Anthony Over-
berg’s revolver. If this Carter’s got a
pistol, it isn’t likely he took it into
the Navy with him. Maybe his wife
knows where it would be. It’s worth
taking a chance on.”
That noon Kiley and Dockum, on
orders from Fritz, took the train to
Louisville, about seventy-five miles
to the southwest. By 7 o’clock they
were in a car with Vassie, heading
for the home of the Carters in Middle-
town, just outside Louisville.
The cottage was lighted, indicating
someone was there.
“It’s his wife,” Vassie told the pair.
“I made one of those ‘who is this’ tele-
phone calls this afternoon and Mrs.
Carter admitted her identity before I
hung up on her.”
Kiley and Dockum got out of the
car. “This probably won’t take but
a few minutes,” the veteran Kiley
told Vassie. “You want to wait in the
car or come in with us?”
“’@ better wait here, We don’t
want to scare the woman. If she’s
not frightened by us, she might make
some admissions.” ‘
Kiley pressed the door bell. Soon
the porch light went on, the door
swung open and a young, slim woman
stood before Kiley and Dockum.
“Y’m sorry to disturb you,” Kiley
began, removing his hat, “but we're
police officers from Norwood, Ohio,
and—”
That was as far as he got. The
woman's mouth dropped open, her
eyes widened, a painful expression
crossed her features, and she col-
lapsed in a heap.
“Fainted, by gosh!” Kiley ex-
ploded, “And all I said was Norwood!
Hey, we're hot! Oh, Vassie!”’
The last was a call for the officer
in the car who had witnessed the
scene in the lighted doorway. He
came running.
“This gal’s out,” Kiley said, “and
we've got the chance of a lifetime.
Norwood means plenty to her. That
gun could be in this house. You ‘and
Dockum take a quick look.”
The two officers went rampaging
through the place, using their train-
ing to single out the obvious hiding
places of so incriminating a piece of
evidence as a murder gun. But they
couldn’t find it.
Then Dockum. spied a_ suitcase
which, when picked up, seemed fully
packed. He pried its lock open, rum-
maged through an assortment of. men’s
clothing, and finally struck a hard
metallie object with his hand.
The Norwood detective drew out
a fully-loaded 38 caliber revolver:
Familiar as he was with Anthony
Overberg's .38, the officer could not
believe he had it in his hand after
two and a half years.
It took Kiley to verify the discov-
cry. “Sure, there's Davis’s special
grips and Wilson's trigger guard!” he
exclaimed. “Wait’ll Fritz hears this.”
Mrs. Linna Louise Carter, wife of
the ‘suspect, was revived and taken to
Louisville headquarters, There, shown
the weapon, she fainted again, With
a doctor now in attendance, the wife
refused, between sobs, to talk. But
she did agree to go back to Norwood
the following morning with Kiley and
Dockum.
Her arrival on Saturday, January
20, was an event, what with half the
city already celebrating news of the
case’s solution. Flashlight — bulbs
popped and Mrs. Carter fainted twice
more.
At headquarters, Dr. Ventress, the
deputy coroner, restored Mrs. Carter.
Waiting with questions were Prose-
cutor Carson Hoy, Assistant District
Attorney Royal Martin, Fritz and his
detectives, :
Mrs. Carter realized the hopeless-
ness of the situation, but she refused
to speak. She seemed overwhelmed
by the crowd around her. Martin
was aware of this and that she had
taken a liking to Detective Dockum,
so he urged the others to leave her
alone with the officer.
It was not long before Dockum was
able to summon Assistant District
Attorney Martin into the room. Mrs.
Carter then confessed to the assistant
prosecutor that her husband, Frank
Dudley Carter, had murdered An-
thony H. Overberg. She consented to
make a full stafement before Prose-
cutor Hoy and a stenographer from
his office. ‘
“Frank told me he had killed the
officer the night it happened,” she
began. “I went to the movies and he
left me. &’m going to knock over a
sucker or two,’ he said.
“Later, when I met him again,
he had a bad cut on his left leg, his
trousers were torn, and he smelled of
vanilla. When I asked him what hap-
pened, he told me of getting into a
fight with a police officer. He said a
lot of bottles were broken, his leg
was cut and vanilla spilled on him.
“He showed me the officer’s pistol,
saying he had lost the one he usually
carried, ‘Then Frank said, ‘T had to
shoot that fellow when he was get-
ting the best of me. I guess he’s dead.’
“The next morning we read in the
papers that he was dead, so Frank
and I skipped to Louisville, where we
used to live.”
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BOwonait, Ferry
Hanged, Chillicothe, Uhio,y June 21, 1878
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HISTOLY Ui xOSS AND HIGHLAND COUNTIS, UiIO, Published
1880, by Williams Brothers , Cleveland, Chio, PP 71-72
BOWSHER, Perry
began ransacking fo Mr, McVe i
‘ Y Was awakened by the noise of
& desk being pryed Open and rushed into the room where Bowsher Shot
and killed hin, Ms, McVey then went into the room and began begging
the bedding and some clothes before making his escape. He returned
to Hocking County where he displayed the bonds .to his half-brother
and to a woman who promptly turned him in and gave .evidence against
_ him at his trial for the $1,000 reward that had been offered for his
capture. The evidence against him was so conclusive that his attor-
ney's only defense was one of insanity and ,ZK& while they
Succeeded in convinting a number of people that their
cliant was mentally deficient, the Jury, after a two weeks trial,
returned £ a verdict that he was not only guilty by sane as well
BISTORY OF ROSS AND HIGHLAND COUNTIES, ORTO published by Wilijans
Brothers, 1880, Pages 71-72 |
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. Brate Bowsher Hanged. .
(With Portrait. }
| Catnticorag, O., June 21 —Perry Boweber, the’ :
brutal murderer of the McVey family at the tol-
house on the Chillicothe turnpike, a few miles
from here ewang from a gallows into eternity -
to-day. Although the prisoner was abandoned |
by his relatives, eeveral attorneys, who were con-
vinced he was insane, were noremitting in their
efforts to secure a respite in order to hold » com-
miesion in Junacy. Governor Bishop positively
declined to interfere and ordered the execution
to proceed. On Thursday morning as _Bowsher
was being removed from the city prieon to the
new county jail he resisted desperately, striking |
and kicking the guards aud painfully injaring
Officer Kemer, . He was partially carried a short
distance between two persons. After reaching
hie new quarters he became quiet, and has fre-
qnrently confessed himeelf the murderer of the -
McVeys, but pereieted | that he would Dot be
hanged. ©
At five minutes. past. eleven Bowsher was. -
brought on the scaffold: His face was pale, but
not from fear, bis long confinement in jeil being
the cauee of it. He smiled as he stepped on the
ecaffold, eyeing curiously the preparations for
death. He made no resietance as hie feet and
| 4rme were pinioned. He fefused to allow the
clérgyman present to pray, and when asked if he
had anything to day he eaid he was still living.
The rope was adjusted by Sheriff Becbe, of Day-
‘ton; Sheriff Mackey pulled the black cap over
Bowsher’s face, and the cold sarcastic glitter of
his eyes 1 and the set smile of bis livid face were
hidden from view. At six minutes past eleven
Sheriff Mackey stepped back and touched the
spring with bis foot. The: doomed: man fell
shroogh the drop Jike 9 flash, and the black ‘cap’
fell from hie face, revealing horribly contorted
features, bie eyes widely glaring and his mouth
wide open... ‘The cap was quickly replaced and a
few convulsive movements of the body followed.
After hangivg nineteen minutes it was cut down.
It was foand that the neck waa cadena’ and that
death Was instantaneous, ©. - +
amounting aly ton few bemleen, Dan, cs re ca, Atta a |] DOtES Be Cade Of late Ne AEGRMDORS FRR TETOESELIOR GOO tr ee eect 7
. a coupla sn sep ali ee vend eetaes:/ icgnaueh oo fosnally, aod Mr. Conley left bim. | do these spote reflect apod the ques | atreete were in a bad condition et QO
y friends nup-CoNDUCTORE: FICNIC. wm vhenring ‘At sheep he, eat fle Wools) |. eg: nest day, Tharéday, be made |'tion| jot his sanity? After | stealog | body conjplaingd anil as soon ad
The train which started for* Oakley | &¢tting five cents per pound above the . i
a for the . belt price. He has a75 head, whichi| ® mere fall and connedied accoant of | tothe various learned opipipos, We | action was taken looking to thelr
qT) | wei morning to carry folks to preg a $763 Ie hie rec lamba forl| bis life in the East jhet previona to | thinkg it jfe. still a matter fo ancer- | pair thenbomplaint was mado of t
¢ Conductors’ .Pionio, lengthened | which he is offered $21 the marder, Front that statement it | taloty, the probabilities beligithat he Smart thonght that i¢ wap
tuathisdoor, This] 26m i Pp os belitB fs om g
the eml-| out tolten cars, The engine was hand-| with his sale of wool, will, bring him $4385,|| appeared that his arroat at Dedbam, | wasidane., The thin places like thove | negesear to put on 20. ‘mneh ‘gre
, will ba|somely decorated with flags and tri-| a pretty! good‘ return for three months| Mass., which he bad spoken of to Po- | in B weber's ekall are someth|ng sel: | Ia. thought thé ‘proper, way Ww:
sereottenla ‘colored strips of muslin, and engineer | Work. Ile reports Charley Rouzer as|| eeman Conley the day before, was | dom|jf ever seen before. Thp adbe-| haye ‘to: have trimmed up
' ||!) Rah, Walters looked as proud asa suc- doing well. Pearl expresses himself as!| as an accomplice in aj highway rob- slou} pf the dara mater to tt ekall } Alljng ap|the boles and patting c
THT qqasfal enndidate:for Council. Grice | MTorstily satisfied: with his experience! bery, ad murder In {hat-town, the | woald indicate inflammation, (bat the | cont where needed.» Seis
receiving and DpCamp's bands were discoersin thus far. cake a || principal being a man| named Balley. | healthfat condition of the Ue a iadi- Tr, Stijes eatd Capt, Pitosw, wh
from To- delleblfal music when'the trala-ets : ‘ THE CEMETERY. il] He indirectly acknowledged bia guilt, | cates that it was nataral. Bokh'sides | go e grayeling done on Bridge st:
ithe V a o , Gamdiaier Thi ny ciearedlet nah The Cemetery on the hill is a beautiful) bat got clear on hia tri 1, after a three ‘of th broin and skall ‘bein alike, | between Main and Second.
pistol one: a as “i ies ven place this season, the lot owrers having! months in prisonment.| He continaed | would alep indicate that it : natu-' ouncil, couldn't’ see.{t, howe
| Many took advantage | 1.41 | sel} hi iv to Qetober 10th, at | ral. «|The. brain, at tho spotd, pressed | thought ik was not needed.
: year set out large numbers of choice) his carrative ep M ’ p ag by
- present | of the cheapness of the trip to use it} roses and other flowers, which are this|| which time be reached) hia old home. | ap into the cavitien reterred |to, and r.. Sopart said the’ ‘pipe: fos
_ the Hat] for business purposes in thd city year in full bloom, and while there is not|} He then invited Mr. Hirst ‘to return | was & quarter ‘of an inch abpro the | from the anal. to the Main street
and car-{ nian a profusion of varieties there are enough) the’ next morping, when he would | earro nding brain tiseae. Xe} ia Im- | torn was |not working ‘as well’
Sam. Taggart, on opening a gate at! to produce 4 good effect. ‘continoo his narrativg, at the same possible to say what effect th is phe “| ahonld: ' He thought that in ord
a A the rear of his Main street lot on Mon- ‘The Company is now engaged in mow-|| time telling him that/in any state-| nomena woald havo, ifany, upon thé | teat’ whether or not It) was wot
in strae day orning, had to remove a piece | ing the grass on a portion of the grounds! ment he would make he would inrpli- | mental condition of the many ‘lau riglit,. that. the ‘clatern thon
v he is Not! of sewer pipe belonging to tho city, | ~that most occupied, On the remain-| cate no other person. It} 1s a matter of regret hat the} ‘pamped gat down to thé pipe. »
‘curity in'| snd discovered therein four ket. | oe" where it is thinly set, they propose to) Daring the night Bowaber was sick bod lwaa not obtgined degall y, as. it]. . Me. Entrekin. ‘argoed: thhe it
| ha Igave it uncut, tl th being that it ; i
"Age, || books+-all empty, and evidently a few ay sed | : “a mabe d 7 ns ' ;|| and the next morning |waa' in an ill-| might have been, if tho partjes had | wae all right, from the: fact’ thal
of the many that were picked from ven we tse aie Sari el al hamor aud refased ta-est. He de-| been aware of the provisio sjot the | water. w 8 now: otoraiee ate )
_— bkecuietrabirasad ‘at portion ©"! clined to continae the narrative and | law wf 1870, Io such cases, which per- | with that in the.canal. ;
ket Frid !
pocke on riday - Jast. On the] the grounds will not be very much en- a : : sda awntt
|) groan were some papers belon ing | hanced this season by pursuing this course said he was not the aame man he waa! mita bodies. to be used for: igsection On motion of Mr; Sati, the {
bine : ‘|| the day betore. when they are not claimed. (| Engineer lot the Fire Department
but will be the handsomer next year, if
their theory proves a correct one.: As the town clock jatrack eleven,; — | prone , instractes te make the necessary
vere bee. ag of rap on i Baran Mr, Haret remarked t Perry that his Mbrehal Wibly was ee ype dt *. Mr. Mebane ‘called Attention t
the Fiat Natlonal Dank fof 860, #90] rp poRMzAd AND SPRING: time was ap, and thoy) mond anon be ee eer dh | ceed) af the eroisloe whe
. . ; oo ” .
P ely. Also a note 'R. R. CASH IN COURT. after him. ‘There they are now,” he wathod ti Salle ‘bins robtied lhe ‘the Sciotd Valley Railway crosee:
for $1 The papers were teturned to] | -ry,, Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy added, ae he heard the outer. doors } ean streets’ apd -alleys. © 'Thé Com
their dwner. Railroad Company, on Synday,, June 16th,|} aolock, “They will [not hang me vad 4 cher and the aki Niche, had failed to cémply' with the
“A. 0. UL WW. with a force of three hundred and fifty] now,” said Bowaher, “It ia after | op Pelot street, near Diaio- | nance granting the right of way
Therp were two of the strang ra, 80d | +, anderbtood it
eleven o'clock; they might have done they were t
it before.” When the oflicera arrived
be made no resistance, and offered no
protest, bat quietly submitted to be
led to the scaffold, dpon which he step-
ped at 11:05, pale and haggard, led
by Sheriff Mackey, Officer Conley and
Depaty Sheriff Raaton of Columbus.
He was placed upon |the fatal trap,
and Sheriff Mackey adjasted the rope
around bia neck and placed the black
cap upon bis head. Mr. Hiret then
asked the prisoner if he should offer
up # prayer, and Bowsher replied,
“No; nothing {¢ goidg to happen."
men, entered the premises: of John M.} |
Ferneau, in Paxton township, without any
condemnation of the land or the permis-
.sion of Mr. Ferneau, but ag.tinst his}
solemn protest, tore down fences, and
with plows, shovels, etc., dug, e:tcavated)
and filled up his land, for the purpose of a
road bed to be permanently uscd fora
railroad,
‘A petition was filed in the C ommon
Pleas Court of this county on -the 2oth
day of June, by said ‘Ferneau, asking, for a
temporary order restraining the Spring-
field, Jackson’ & Pomeroy Railroad from
any further work or labor, on or. over, or
any use.or occupancy: of sald lands for
railroad purposes, until full and adequate
compensation is made to said John M.
Ferneauj. as provided by law, and updn
the refusal or neglect of said Railroad
Company to condemn gaid land, and com-
pensate said plaintiff, that said Railroad
Company shall be perpetually enjoined
from the use and occupancy of said land,
and be required to restore said land and
premises to its original condition for the
use and ,enjoyment of said plaintiff, by
removing said obstructions, and filling
and levelling the surface as it ‘stood at the
time of the commencement of said inter-
ruption, .
On the same day the Court, Judge};
Steel presiding, issued an order restrain-
ing the Company from any further work,
labor,‘or occupancy. of the lands,
The case came on for hearing 6n Tues-
day, and the defendant, the S., J. & PLR.
R., by its attorney, made answer, denying
in great part the allegation set forth in
the. petition, and claiming that the plain-
tiff, Ferneau, had subscribed $2,500 to the
capital stock of said company, neither any
portion of the preeictpal nor the interest
thereon having yet been paid; that he
had maade an additional subscription of
$500 conditional upon the completion of
the road from Jackson to Bainbridge, and
apt p-Marsbal was making) |
acroas Palnt street the yo nger one
of the party seized hold of Bird and
callgd apon the Marshal ‘to lt take him
also The Marshal was about to com-
ply when Bird reaching to ad Inside
‘ pock bt of his vest, discovered what he |
claigied as the missing monb}. The
parties were all released, bat if abont
_foar afterwards, Marshal Wibly
again called to afrest thd etrao-
for an aesaule cpon Bird.| They
¢aught Charley in one of the al-
below Fifth etreet and gake bim
Sheriff Mackey then aaked dim if he! * 8° od drabbiog. Charley w s found
rather worse for the encoanfer, bat
had avything to egy, and ho replied . if hd ci
firmly, No, sit; and added some $ Se Ceres | city.
words which are differently reported,! Charley Foreat js the pan e of a
but which indicated that be did not | yodbg man .who came over fto Day-
think the eontence would be execated. | jaa he anid, “to see iI owsher
Immediately the black, cap was drawo ” He ia only aboat de oteen
down over his fac, and Sheriff} years of age, is quite talkati Le and
Mackey stepped backwart. to the apphrently bright in the waya of the
trigger, presacd his toot opo.1 ft, sod | world, He soon found that | Bpweher
Boweber shot down through “he trap | would be anked without bis! p reonal
into etervity. There was sca.cely &| preggnce, as the Dayton 44's of
movement of the body after the fatal | pasgea had about rao oat. Whsh the
‘drop. The neck ;was broken 804 | restiof the visiting strangers be bang
death was almbat jdetantaneoas. | aro ad the Court Honse equpre the
A few seconds after the tall, Dr. | bes ‘part of the morning, an}! atter
Miller, of this city,|Dr. Noble, of | the execution had been annpanced,
Hilleboro, Dr. Foster, of Washington, and the hoar of dinner was approach-
and Dr. . Dteabach approached the | jing, bie Luoger called him to |action,
body, and on éxamioation reported | and |he quietly slipped bis hanf lato a
tle paleations as follows : First 'mio-|jady’a pocket and took her pocket-
tite, 56 ; second, 52); third, 65 ; fourth, | book! therefrom. {The Jady |herself
150; fitth, 165; eixth, 117;: seventh, | caught him in the act, and the Mar-
72; eightb, 48; ninth, 60; tenth, 60; | apallof Cireletitle, ataodiog npar by,
eleventh, 41. Atthe eod of nineteen | pat hie hand upon Charley a0 turned
minutes —at 11,28 — the physiciane; him| over to Chief Dauschly. The
atated that all indications of lite bad | waypor held a little reception oy Satar-
ceased, and the body-was taken down day] and. Charley, was sent td the
aodyremoved Into the kitchen ot the grave! pile over the river for twenty
whore {It was placed in a
la way
the faltowing gentlemen were
as Officers for the ensuing
‘
Woodrow, ' Master
| Work an; Samuel L.. Fleming, Gen.
|| Foreman; Theodore Spetnagel, Over-
‘Iseor; |John S. Anderson,, Recorder ;
|| Albert E. Culter, Financier; Felix
|| R. MeClean, Receiver; Ferdinand C,
Washburn, Guide; John Neuffer, In-
side Watchman; Samuel H. Fultz,
Oatside Watchman; John I. Throck-
mortod, Trustee; Charles H. French,
Examining Physician.
making alchack-bole. . +
The Clerk sald be bad eerve:
notice on {he Company aa direct:
the Coanpil. . Mr. Chapman ‘aa
sopposed |it had been dove, an
mediately, telegraphed to (he p
parties ondering tt to be done |
diately. |He' expressed bimee
roady aod willing to do anythin,
Council desired in this reepe
they woald let bim koow what
wanted.
On mojion “a Mr. Doty, the
was inetracted to again notif)
Company|to plank all the croe
the foll width of. the streete
alleys, anf! to comply, io all ree;
with the grants made.
Mr. Ep tine called attention t
hog. ordinance. Nearly: all o:
anembers prpressed themselves
voriog anjordinance, bat not 80:
6 of its provisions s
one before the Connocll. No e
waa taken, however. ‘
' The City Engioeer sald some
ought to be done ase to the ba:
of bis office. A record shoo
kept of al} bis work.
Oo motion of Mr: Enotrek:
City Eogipeer was instracted t.
av nbstra¢t of the title of all pi
parcbased or condemned by.1!
and aleo tp aecertain on what .
the gradeg have been establish: «
to make a record of the same.
SIGHT-SEEING~
From a letter received by Mr. Nick
McGirr, ‘we hear of Maj, Poland and |-
‘Dr. Mjesee se Jate as Jone 14, The
Major|gives a grapbic description of
his sight-seeing delights, in which he
visited St.Panl’s, Westminater Abbey,
the Tower ot Londan, Kensington
Maseum,etc. ‘The party are highly
pleaseil with ‘everything they have
ecen a 4a heard, are in perfect bealth,
with gopd appetites, and ¢njoy. their
asual hours of reat. ree were to
leave the city, which the Major terma
'}the “ miniatare of the world,” for
Parise the next day, where they are
|| to remain a week.
win the
informed
State law
iow being
trim for
‘as on the
eparatio}
ity and
‘Sheriff Beachert of. Pi ® county
|| passed up on the Valley toad on Mon-
. | day morning, with two ptieoners in
gs 81NCe.| charge for the Penitentiary. Bepja-
ficers and | min Urie, on trial for marder, at Wa-
cvangelical verly last week, wae fonnd guilty of
fraitlens a madsladghter, and sentenced to five
N10 and
|; || youre: He je a etont, bearty looxing
|
08, | gra
bility ‘says
he hermit,
at Athens,
| te ad
m the
o the
rmbrus dr, |
jth’ exp
months jn)
elieved en:
|such jobe
it | ter half. |
young man, seemed ordinarily cheer.
, | fal, and remarked that the sentence
wae all right, bat that one of the wit-
nesses in the case was s cousin. of
Governor Bishop's, and that through
his inflaence, be would get = pardon
before the year was over. There was
nothing esid about groceries... The
other prisoner was Abram Shaltz,
sent-up for three yeare for. bigamy.
| Abe was anything bos, prapossessing
| 1m appearance, and the wonder ie that
| any one could find persopal attrac
j tions about bim: safficient; to enter
bannos In which he figated a the bet
ie
- ' Paes 9 Wick.
that his efforts at restraint in the present
case could prevent such completion, and
the consequent estoppage of said last sub-
scription. The defendant asked that the].
case might be dismissed and the com-
pany be allowed ‘tovproceed. . |_|
On motion of the plaintiff, the applica-
tion was continued until Monday, July
ist, at 2 o'clock P. M., and the iadatit
was given leave to file additional affida-
vits in support of the motion by. Wednes-
day, June 26, at 10 o'clock A. Sf., and the
defendants: until and including Saturday,
June 29, to file additional affidavits, The)
restraining order.was so far modified as
to allow the defendant to ‘run its trairs
over said railroad upon the plaintif’s
ises, to carry material and workmen
yond the sammie; but the said restraining
order in all other respects to be continued)
vontil heneasihids Be
x
-——-
new, jail,
plaio black coffin by the andertaker,
Mr. Jobo Howard.) |
' The streets bad .been crowded all
morsiog by a vast ‘concourse of peo-
ple, who had.come to |the city from. a
morbid curiosity to see the banging
or to get a sight of the corpse. To
gratify them in ths latter particalar,
a file of the Sill Gaards took tho body
out iato the middle of Main stredt,
where it’. wes expored for a short
time; bat the crowd coald not be
managed, or made to understand
what was expected ot them, and it
was necessary to agais move’ it iato
the fall,
ids
Afterwards two boards were 1
dsy4 and aseessed a fine of
conte,
| C4
ban appeatance at the
on yesterday as he wa
in the aam of $800 to do
that be “lit oat" on o
taken with him a fall ect pf jew-
eleria tools.
Obr Balobridge eg sh nt falle
meto time this week, owing to
other duties which .reqaired| attea-
tiom, bat writes wa that wo may look
for a ** bashel of news” from that
ity next week, :
bt. Jas. 8S. McCommon fatled to-
ayor’s
under
It-ia
aboat
ay Of last week. He lejeaid to
| bas pike,
Qoenell|tben adjoarned,
Up to |nioe o'clock last
morning pver five hbqodred tc
bad passed throagh the toll-¢.
the eity go the Ciseionati Pi
going to |the Bowehber neckt:.
7:15 A. Mj ovér two bandred bt:
had come linto the eity by the (
Read the Man Miiliner’s ads.
ment. Be Midd ae
Read M. R. Bartlett & Son's
tisement.
i, Oa Boe
Pe Agent) | Sadie haat
perate, | Nw es i i |
Ohio eet | Bd colons rEOR| Dll
ersa lk Aika "a scene
heat ree R Teeeee optage ee, Pp e havff
io RbADA le of Twee Raed te “ pecs oc '
nat -¢| }One Ye oy igen oe Uavive tar, ack | 1
pointe rooted | Ww ay, Pouaespe soon see Ci i hatte er & 60 Pest
Seouabiciie toed Tove peat un peer i . Sar enoee!o on e
aroennce matte | he *Vevp Man noftve, | Cc ' Ss
sine th por year, pos iY palsy Mer sted Schaed ufactor AMP BE bape
, me hee | ond «i wot Ha ef D " wid ‘contiuuing rame y | pra “Ab aw
etorsereloes ving | = wit scale uh F pe Daud will tes nennde | it tun LL & Cc :
tele of Se ie ae sensed wil ADDO at | ( Ar pie
¥ egies N ekana wal rinyware © VELANI
tye ee Dearb nue rest he ha WEIR’ st By | > 59 ame Ny; |
ed eae dant rasa oandco Clee "Fin ee toe D’s|
| si cette i. 3) B31 ’ b9 Ss prema d
Pere Rag Car, wy, USu & Cl 7 0 EST. r1iwmxr ‘| pny
ia me, aren rpass [OF . RS) ; od & 1: | Cc Et sa ve!
i alowentyenelt sed by ny ‘Ch onl 00 . 1 4 | Magee
h, olesale : ' . ’ He. e ‘o be
eae e mt eape IN THE M. king or] pllet
} bthan. MARK Stor tute
AN had an MARKEWS S| ee
CALL El | ery a Ex. D
| ENAM ; sewh : ALAS terme
. : q INE A e . 4 , z 3
| ND LEARN re in : zm
ARN ! n t ay %
a PRICE: bere 8 é
| S. es) at yw
} oon
of f.
|= iv 0 GAZETTE rycen
| _ i] .
| ca _ CHIL — es : t- P ;
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B..| WE piace, | SHER. Tee dies
DNESD eh it (Conti — | girl th ;
eet . =— iio SDAY, J var ‘ ‘ontinued ° ‘ad at lived
) = DAY, JPNE 19 2 from first co Bt c
re my e bar ——— 19, 1878. | TI first pay | the atat sobstenti ‘a U An ee
ae ‘+gince Jai made | | eee! | Perry 1EY SAW pe the d ement mad ally the er evi- | bas i eee
a] G ast yea some wt een | y Bowsh THEIL b ay after e to game 4 bet: ne
us | Grosvenor # r, At Clev progress Pree fiddl er, engage cme dl | bet came Mr thp marde rong wegortar aoe ys a the log of 1
StU aie: passes ily Von Mau land | The two gened in olahiog | pivonl Gorbaet der. Folowi0g rt tame that
. Pred ot igor or Pr kicker | 8°¢ pide tie crest’ Bt iW W. sare jary siarement found fe sa fel rates ing hap P a
coches cigil ‘ eddor |to 4 as the o mak —Aodtew shal |W heelaod, r, Devi have .* dade or sie doin n ih as o emre
tH hervice 86- pen th work e th WwW Thor . Ada ad Co box of rope, A m the in gree . | 2oUdo
at Cine) ayes. 1 police | disar e doo of bat arrest mA pton m Falt yle O Natral abd at five or af the gfocery a. | iff a
clonati bla 5 y of jal m bim r, rosh ad {neta at M of llen H Addiso er, Ma »| He bad ‘and , aud foa x dolls en the fi he at?
porter i i, and ear fe wa | moat, be - He wa in, epi at {r. abd Mr’ arpeter o Ume r- | bad bee meast va"banioa ae °| Th
paver inven fae eae at cok Fe ire hd Cage stead, | sain an tga (ten
‘ y analifedly convent om the -¢ oaths ‘Xirntanco mae bat ned he sed | ota a6 to sig me Um: ol aad ge ci tha has mat atler one ore *
y edndet aod alble om te | fri . o © eitusti orp, whe tony 0.8. b rete} sn od
vice . ndew He j testi on ade ends aboat the itgatl , who it to y U. 8. mie oe to todia h .
potic n¢d,tb no- | ng part hia p , io fact ‘| theh onse on of wit hin}, Loo ent 1878 | wi tinct. ande
“bamb y of the e civil |: y. procee art, ao was cribéd ous, al aod the She ate dae a ‘oe 27a wstizet. | whi
bambog.” 60 President — SEARC ded t the'ar | the fi more fal 1 of wh tracks pourra might’ ha, fegeh as webs e cent. ob
4 welt as ae a thd Presi ent as 8 Boer bonds HOHIS pnese | by: ate page t wl in the jee le de- alee ig a ha at ee aaree “The
te ee ule cadens ti ted etree ove hava yea ees deen als | tae tie |
} ia.” ‘ os
sae tose te cote eared Ese arse eStats ety
ghtsot oficels abd pow hia c = the ial . orty b ve boo " odaciog ‘ore deec estified to rg, | number dere of te fn +1 DP ate 4 me y
this othér A the ordi |H oat wre side br ond—w fcVey' the }ball ribed, the the | 66 nd oh up tha bb ere of the as
time merlean cltizes inary! e also t pped i remat po ere | perf y's pere s taken. elatter|, > ' Just as pk; here. Mine of the
of indi: next year cltizens | pondin had a ee da baad ckeat of b ect in , one p from M t Poe dage q lua le) with the T
og the G we ar . By; tb g io cali ven-et erchi rois¢ ebape,” ot tbe a ba recital tay that fi the he
: istratio 6 Geoe e iqt | e fatal alibre oote ief. | fo ¢. The , with m bei m wy the of thls +s sine | With
: on j ral | hopes | ha al wo td th , corres- re a8 apsic! oat wei or wan tos fo ryof °
athe naka 7 in Lamia. | pr agi of ie henna ich po honeg ea een mentioned be ook mites: wh fuel pow bn
a —the Sodtb bat othe lin the woald b and emal igate, ® entified »6 (mard air andi cle t; |the bo soner am court nterest | a! Dn
The P ccpleee era polir ria ba tillot = e likely t chang Jota BA erere .we o the ith endotio nscles of ning hwith nd jory. torr
Mi sess catiae Hava y. . sah ot toll-ho o tle f e, | titled! ridg re aleo the prod 0, and os bile faca" guy lees | ings «
selaima” ooth B! | | they at keys oge, & onod toh ot And grea action the were|tw a | tri
(Mr. N ade talks . itt tarted After TpZor place) aviog! see ereo t tage of the tory'paluyts iehte rial
stona! ° r. Neal alke of t ne with immedi ert aod and ithe eve een Bo neville, t I he tried a were roll hpated «/mo
joe aoaiatin [We Er any aes nay fig ae stag pee ee slog meal Sethi (ear
sisi © or any ot e don’t tt - lia fettler went to bi ,exbept Mr. recti wo, which oo th marder, ich were ry br repres js \faoe, which Belo H
- poo her m ' Miok | entif ,to b a brot tr. on af MeV was e road , | bis carp found oda 4} | Mr. M 6 E
claime the di ‘man bas lin y som ave bi er 8S Job cVby’ aleo j to | > let aac at the 1. of the a ills ay
of atpict any jee the th salting the tilew and goat D. Norte. s p the Y provi i and which b apd bo articles | #)
those the pa ,and th aa th shoe af the pri ‘bey bed fe and xarioation ortie di. | article cena eage Lavy thicpe f =
of s rty are at the © fact the pri ey by tern ation re de'éc . eajbe b tnesles aa! bee’ wend ta that
perace'ef the © are. Righer- we ware mule coomected with ioaod | patta ed Prodnced «paper bie wat sabe mia olan of loge
; paigo the C .. The i if at ¢ own t he o| Wa viden track per ' fall o of n um of | 6°
h thie 5 do groesi ; im- ‘or the he ca ere, © arrest m. Bal ce. 8, whi pat- n @ sepled the vart ty prion per woen bh ea)
4 mated yoat cae sional va Mr prison to looked erybod called dwip w jah all oie ve pack ous driiclte, h Hp had e | that
.* jt tb pot be ™- ht . Mettle er, and yery 4 y wy ot He te asthe’ tri ey wore age at tb $4, had|k had could
} ceasfal | e Depp over-eatl: | ooked-for aka y dark | k live i Need tae wi wpe gered ping » thes Chbkey Baste
-t a ocrac at{. | tb for anxi the rrival now o Ho — itoes he b: called far th oppt addr
; will carrying 5 are #0 ought w nxioas! ind of| bal o Bow cking 8 | w ad] mad them © parp4 y Bank | be t
Kea) . - save both the H auc | ! onld f y, whi awa f-brot sher al coant ule hr. 2 at off frock aoe of for.
A b ous | KERMA oro ch t 8 | esc ber ; 1 bi yi ih fi aga a me cob
; cate [ rarkche re, the INING tel: th t wa ape f ; first a life; ; have rom hi ile w time) of morand ouel
\ Ntieal oacew ss of Coo yx) Mr. W i LINK hat a | Satartd rom ¢t saw bim ; am bial) om, ‘ p memors: as callin; thejr u am | held
5 com Gfatri JQO grees MeV mo. B IN THE | M ay, th @ ines im aft ia)» apd th adam ng of epost.
; Avene piexio ct, and \ cVey Mille EVIDEN re.| . the rt oe & er his Det © paper . the j the ar’ been
| ed fo vo fia hk ite po- i tran one of -whob ner. | CO {iltie I th of Oc aylom with bctive J aren og ee waale icles |]
‘ pleet r yeara ely t4 action. the bo ad piv anty; pHa tobe , oD the sb oba T. X of the xamini arge
ri lection thie Hy the b be tn vandaag o, and t nde in eo Mr rindi fell hist venia r last aif esa: Rewehe Xorri thick pg ib
j , in- > Mr. ws 8 idm . jo .at foand owsh ,¥ med y bi
i, sitaati Fall. JE resolt of | and 1 of the vad tak basine after): saw eis th Hock The | to fit, et had as} com e | bad t
. oo calls svery tit the | 00 waited at bomber eo p Mm on | ere Oem him aga! ore, ae ing | dom Yrincipal ie whep pared ad t
‘| ee onealt fod pee san for tba sr waa ara rember int vagin atnt ewe dante bon, tr vidlbece wor
i: pat fo ooht fee! lcane rived eantl val of fice ti | on og of th owas e9.hb ek | large t, a load the] to | MUMs) mens or
¥] Thed rward jog © | so tke ait Mr. M Mn. Mf nt | 08 the 9 be/lIth arrest of No- | P penis set ht cal Of i aedy meer
4 letrict! ode 8 or favo | and taili e cit . Mott! ettler.| th he . Ww ed o kely of oma plver of a of
* etli¢ tron rid ailip y abo ie b r. nt with. ae Wheo n the|™ b be f Wcbho of cali gray wi
etoarv s Rep nb gest m | trec gto fi atele ad ar- wid ith m at wid Ileaw ° ized ‘ound ja gels bre #2 j
é ote licao a0. | ted te od Mr. Mi velo o'clock ow Det |aod ow F bim | fron pants of » toll bod ao o0 ae) Uae
etronges oat. { ; if w ped a » bie resi . Mille clock a sop gHaves’ Ben ox'e; te,» P the sam ac, & woald be wh
“ . tand MrN ©.can | & od ijoqai esiden bad t +] brot of D o's: Hes. Bowahe: be | 224m! air of b © koods paic of Ie!
oe say 80 beat . Neal i pressed quired en. HHT ili datd oc} Bor en. el sher.to| yt Per uaitestegs Dan the tora toot zeal
a | atthe C han, let 8 oor hon regt tor M 8 sto thr of } owabe aims t { wdead Lf soled feralls, a torn te re
.: . content . Canvpat ’ the me, as ) et tha r. ill p e¢-qaa rry' : er and o be der; y Boweh shpes, ; dark ov at their
‘ ; ntio people. parti 16 wi t he gutic rter 8; D mts is or befi Theold eroost,
Re aay” bat we d pb, and & ) cular b ebed whe 0 be ro of a eHav alf osegh aa ee and ldthio vent
i lain” op't b wen now asin to ‘ee ot at tle b ad o mile f en's i kee Areot after gvee|d
i 4 teat claim’ apo etieve: re} nox nto Mr oss, wt bim bon yohiod er Perr com Fox’ is}, porjin thd rong teat the. mar oub
& loo unless o (bem for he bas | ke joua,to re ayiog he w on bond, askio and bead dropped ox's; as ra be a hed that ai beolt
i mente vt tb hecho fi!) the nom tt pt by Mr. M Af the g that he ade Llecked gmeoiflk ed me a lit- a ir to ber 21 Hp Mittocal wan book taroi
og tog t nn om the reqated: ve number hie comvesedés wae) 00) Be oe ky bcamaa es a $100 Talied Seetee bee anda ede are ean: (ite e
4 sal o be po ebild dion. Ther jalre- — Mr it? the ape ig poe eae pat be the beaten sae it wae 40,081 begen nl guia oo a ity ec
4 gothie F ‘d play i © le go m on o. Mifle sai od jo ii with | or if od,"Ir id, “Wh said, “I showiy 40,062.\ sla vee wee fivetw ra | MeV.
. povente all oa qb a the ¢ into tt that poi daboc 2 pepsee-| "ld t wae eplied at te T | with kan ent be | book aly, |186 eaty (tbat |
: 6 “am- se bo vint if sonld i him ood . Het wer’ the abo ry, on ‘ was 4 7, Noe. at!
r they This te part of o second’ 006, a be eatisfy ao ti I ea —wo bena Joba ve.” ‘phage 25 Pemnaead. io
Pe will uéof ar op- | record. o Mr. M ould w o me posed rth an asked | Co Tomit #35, In, neo nse gt
a bo fight fo the distri e word of th _ bad atop as!’ . He it w ythio aoty Na naon, th . da track
it pes of cart r] aod t stricte | to be er, op e ba made be Asked replied as—! gi from > tional B o | Cash | noe | p
i? too tyto i nave | used | the w m per 7 kiod him vl voked | *° pads Ni ank, prod ler of | ous
; , are th g| The etrap | wemor Oo case allio , since mé a ot | whe koew hadj cas ©. 33, 466 Hrod.qoed {the R i :
F | ate at a indi Pare anda be he bo b nd said aghed re he it | mer bed th , 40/06 oth say | Pee
} ‘ ongeet ney wil cations y-acel m book shoal cee, | bimbo b d and got i a ae iver. { gnd 49, meee |
4 we mak man, | 1 pick _jeolf & dent shoald have i love bis body 6 ought gotitxe winked t3 | pete, » MeVey anq time 4 , and ma beers
H eno tuee ; thelr ithe fire. M ould ha tietoleo 8) bo y; said t to mb'id at wablie, teeta ‘ ariog th aia tot th
t ‘ mietavo coto itt H comt ithe appe ,or dy— bedi show g. Te pera a AY wee od thatlahe ba oA fre som #5
i . hat Mott! ver 9 poloted to bi abo that dn'tat it to old | Detfs he day ian Aras she bad _ ny
; REPU — } w er prod o the ont to m- ont it.” Un owt every: | ov M area Ae pe yes pa the ow der
i j BLIC . . o° ere rdaced t wall him aid! T eedn't ttoeg A abe ks De od she elect 10th) d. m Per ef
: t ’ ve a iH bad oa; a ry | OF
a anydraTm co _| roux to yee Gorter bad sara be ere wae ett arsthlog sed nqareed ecenai sola ir pr
eo Ke rIpN. NVE CORRE oy | nae r to ch m wort: ; Toft agatalon Cheeea Wh voortng | cet
whleb pablican |S N- PSPOND & . heat at bon eo that DeH ore | wb ps one resere ajon T ont wae thors t
Stat Th 53 408 EX ALT atd it ds b ot aven’ on jhe on on yoad fow re | Shre
bad « met at C e Cot \ ere cou 4168 TLY— at at A ad bee the m 43 Mrs. De retar about thd on ay befo ays e
herec joploge sveotion ty th old be . . NO.1 ad Mra. D elphi n tak order came Toe th daybreak aia the that «
ees alaue U leet w _leord © samo no = aught elikven’ . Staid eon. H oeabe =” tnd told net was ann 2 Minded A, | DEV
mination of earlons week, | Ha od at tt figares atake ab ing (Sete Shw Bos I all ol * yords pach, hice that horse hie. Penyeees |) se
cagdidat o faras th “yt ok the 10 Rose C werg al ont | to Satard Bowat married ght | {a je *y aad trey penta ble rvtura : he Doar,
tes © het leat Youn ‘lea re. tr. ay). er e b k yard ve J leocee, of te mi b cop
wae. eon ep ebi pes soe Mr. : Nations Perty Evarte), m I then — sare! bed pl october of red vol = ot serine i el
eat di MdV al sbo yh e 5 ked od ab Hoo al bree b
e chalf tl Sayoud cepa a! ge Seed of the . clash a wel dene Heosh eit Thed b rhea Sy eke the p
“fn jee qacatir of the | t Mey, at Hen ot tt saw pike a eeelpegtctey 4 dtp erard ; that he peop!
a) ina trom = Ito see Mira. Novemt afvers pine: he fucee pty = tas bp mierder wear ie
Al Neal ee ae loses feet meg ad Efe ane 0 oe tad nil oni | png
: e . a e o. ,
oof fiftee tated. there. Tete Shaner atuboorbe — 7
a mi back. j vaod obair r again t shut d forjher the aid lant aod fi
: nates Per Prine there pa Yall over in eo t x ite 4 the lady, idenc
rry went wp tthe ay bol to id ade wen by a they ure,”
there 7 ey broks ope for hes piteue arm sent
Peary thore w a bat in the I or, ba e girt | & ei
ary cleat fi Mid tule Wd 6 didn’ ime
ewan a pack ge eth rawe a’t .
a teat a ta the any ahd on ment
P re’ that ney “le
| the «
‘rip
|
*rioes to
tionin.
salt the times.
OMP'Y, OF LI}
‘VER $20,0p
ou ae!’
Building,
CORN
AND
0,000.
R OF MAIN
PAINT STS.
y
‘ERPOOL.
mains WEEN
vr, Tombstones
ats of| Marble vnc
iOFMUNER'’s MART
reet. .
marty z
oR RENT.
Granite, call
WORKS, on
tf.
of our bonses on Paige atreat, south of
| Fifth atroet
ANONABLI
NR
orbonanit
sooly tn
ad Agua
sce, Dr.
jean in
ea of uy
tats.
fallible
0OD.NE
the 4
6 here soup
1G
eyer,
PD, &|S.
enger
2,” -between
re ling.
Vicket
:d, oth
ced,”
Ei.
erwise
‘ARD
in atr
gl.0
ret, BI.
0.
NoTIC
uly If
RR.
hat excursid
Tickets
Stations, a
‘hintype
EPsT
the mont fertild Ȣ
become @ scoW
Tanren's Feva
remedy
alarial disorder
any 8
TEROSINS, -
NE & HEC WT.
sections that Fe.
rgeo. Happily for
# AND AuvE Sre-
for all forme and
For sale by all
WS.
clentifle ‘Opti
hgain, with his
ryatal Glaeses,
ted that they
ar vision. and
Kl eight.
ene |
Co. will ‘carry
n rates, Tlalf
tations on the
full
ill be on sale at
must be pro
fare. will be re-
(rand attractions at, Dayton.
J, EB, GIMPERLING,
ee v Geh'! Pass, Agt.
‘, Sedaane. Sec’y Ja and Aud.
75
PIOFURES tthe N.P. G.,’
er dozen, or six
25 cente. .
CHE
city
CHEAPEST
be N.P. G.
GALLERY
Main atm set.
VANT,
n
TO KNO
—-—- Why will
plug wh
a
oy Can. buy Frit Cake: at
stchi¢ss from nekhriy all lead-
oo common.
4s Grocers and Tpbacconists in
a city at Tic. por pound, two
mces for 10¢.
000
at Da
orgs,
hd 24 cents each} oKoqair
FLEE ETWOOD WARD,
‘potatoes, &c.,
Administrator.
CARD
ipg m
i MA
mde att
ix for
oW.
he
$i.
PHOTOG! APHS are | atill
»P..G." gallery
N STREET for 81.75 per.
0.
JVintypes at
tha! he
nsw
mirec
autifnl
DS HOLDS THD RIGHT
and anchang-
bon Photogtaph exod Porcs-
uch need onlly to be seen to be
aud apprecta‘ed.
ee et oe
ALL: oF
UMIMER
TH
J
AT |THE MEN
a can et your
gee
VER atthe Now Millinery
yea to goto the new
arante@d. It wil
ore. |
‘ DYARMAN
faiw Nt., bet.
one
a een eee
TRIUMP
—— ,)
*McfORME
1 pay
A
Pal
HANT!
= VICTORI-
it
LAT EST
LLINERY
ILLINERS!
DiES!
Chip: Tat MADE
Ruore. Satiefection
WEIST, |
pt and Walnut,
iety AS USUAL.
°o ‘ou Rm AGE
fame
We arg jast ta receipt
NTS
o
ps
(wicaao, May 9, 1878." «
snd Mona.
“ourth,
FLOUR BARRELS;
HITABLE ‘for shippin
of the following tele.
lodges
Miss Allie C. Garfield
as married, i
the 13th inst., to Mr, Gearge D.
sey, of th
one of
ments,
will be
next.
the sca
benefit
young
city. ©
Mr.
Spring
Ten
‘Portsmou
Valley
tera of
Mr.
say tha
The
in fron
wrote
might
streets
made i
thing:
other
We
‘mens of
ing the
in yarig
bunch
the
being
parent
which
Ww.
the Y
The Bo
ers for the
meet next Saturday.
ment elsewhere. ,
| eae Ses
. Dufett bas ba
Deputy Gtand Master I.
this distrigt, which consis
Mr.'0
this city,
Ttas ru
returned: W
the past
“Ulegitime
Mayor
that no ata
tween Pai
Harry 4
leave to-n
where the
ton’s daug
7 Mr. Mitts
cursion w
umbus. -
the musid
sten celel
AS Aline;
verly cor
is penciled
“bread.o
Gessler's
th
A rumor was very
and bine
Downs,
destroyed
probably;
destroy 1
fary
other frq
Mrs. De
specimens as ever
fields arp ready for th
The-
branches of the pub
been md
the teac
This: hi
disappo
by. tho
in this county,
city.
the
year
te”
Db
p4
ffol
on
friend, Frank
hter,
field armory.
cay
RIT,
tl
a\.
ti
ration;
need in tho
cspondecane;
t
r blood”
bakery.
get all three of
on yesterday,
nq
ta
pdints in regar
hhve had somo ly
past week, ta
from a thirty-fi
n of Alex. R
m an eighty-f
genschutz's f
v
ored that
precincts of;
Il the children
in his
Mick . request
nds for the sa
r obstructions
rmitted on M
ht and Walnd
Friday next w
a schoolmate, at one
loads of ex
h_ passed ov
on Saturd
hs in the interest of the Sis-
e (ood Shep
H, DeCamp
was his band
for Henry, Lorbach’s| Pfing-
instead of ITuynter’s,
seription “m4
d on one of t
f. Bartlett's warehouse, and
ona
it
em would ¢
er purchased
‘df Green town
1 the night. 7
uiry but coul
confirm tha
H' to th
machines of that kind,
ee
wheat laid on
us parts of {
ve acre
enick,
ive acre
hrm, are
ke saw.
b harves
examinations
t ER Te a
[s of Fasaiog of Teach.
public schools) in ‘this city
Seo advertise:
en app inted
4), 0. ‘ ‘for
ts of al the
former y ot
Chicago, | on
um-
io
thie Asse or in
this county
born during
us tc say
e of refresh-
of uny kind,
in street. be-
t, on Hriday
\dams, for whose taking off
1 to be used for i
/ Lowsher’s
ag bui t, was
time our
Cahill, of this
S!} D. Stratton Cs daughter
orrow for Spr
y go to visit the Mr.
Mrs.. T
is Ordnance Bid
‘Ws.,
Strat-
hos.' J. | Mitts,
tjat the
|.
hey
bursionigts for
r the’ Scioto
ay. | The ex
ingfield
nity f Col-.
wishes} us to
that furnished
Register[s Wa-
at or Hopd \"
ho salt barrels
() posite
man whd
work he
fence
th
b to
them.
current on the
hat the | reaper
by MrJ James
ship, hail. been
dd
figld on
|
-ag- fine
|| Both
hers.
: nll
in the
re rigid than
onducted in
s doubtless
F
roughness in
is Jaid down i
5. Cappeller,
O OOF, a
lie -schoa
zach bra
her in the next highe
een a 8d
ntment in some cases
nd pupil, but nothin
the ‘cou
rand
scorbpanied
have
year,
ogh by
grade,
arce of
to both
is lost
g: that
rse.
ls
sual this
learnin
Master of
hy Past
ae see
bailiwi¢dk ai)
an wy, Ty
Scott, her brother- in-law, started In
poranit of Ritter, to seo who he was,
heading him off as he came oat of the
engine room of the paper mill. Rit
ter put bie hand back to bia bip pocket,
as if to gota revolver, saylog if Scott
bothered him be would get hart.
Scott called George Beard and George
Richardson to’ his assistance, wheo
Ritter ran away. The defendant was
under the {nflaence of liqaor, bat not
eo drank bat be hoaw. what he wae
aboat.
On the part’ of the defense, Col.
Gilmore stated he would offer no tes-
timony now, and only asked that the
bond be fixed:as low as poseible, and
the Mayor fixed it ae above atated,
THE BND.
The time appointed for the execution
of Perry Bowsher is near at hand. Day
after tomorrow his soul will be launched
into eternity, Throughout his imprison=
ment he has maintained a sullen silence
as to, his crime, except in unthoughted
moments when he has made acknowledg-
ments which showed that his guilt was
preying upon his mind. Just after his
trial he acknowledged that John Bridges”
testimony was true; a”few days since he
said to’ Policeman Conley that he had
killed those people and_ then, hesitating
‘and catching, himself, said he “did it spir-
itually; 3 "he confessed the crime in ‘more
direct ‘terms on Monday to Ehijaly Ste-
venson, and on the same day he told Mr.
Waddle of the Advertiser that the testi-
As the end
t
mony of Baldwin was true.
approaches he shows more signs of res
lenting and confession, but those who
have bee n with him most hardly hope for
a fall and. open confession, *
The preliminary work, for the execu~
tion is now in active progress. A cell is
being prepared for him in the new jail,
and the enclosure for the gallows is being
erected between the jail and the Court
House. The gallows ‘arrived yesterday
evening from Dayton by Adams Express.
A very large growd is antic ipated on the
day of the execution, and while no disor-
derly or unlawful demonstration is looked
for, the Sheriff is taking all necessary pre-
cautions. ‘The Sill Guards, with an effi-
cient police force, will be on hand, and
the gallows is so situated that it would be
easily protected ©
Bowsher’s aunt and
Good and a: Miss Ilaines,
yesterday to bid him good-bye, and he
was visibly affected by the interview. The
aunt and cousin could not. restrain: their
tears, and Perry bid them good-bye in a
a cousin, Mrs.
called on him
subdued, broken voice, leaning his thead
down upon the bars of his cell.
A number of stories are afloat as to his
insulting ladies who have called to see
him. Mr. Conley assures us that they
are untrueg that while he has sometimes
used vile and offensive language towards
men, he.has invariably treated ladies with
politeness and na é
PROB ATE COURT.
Sune t1th—John C. Entrekin was ap-
pointed administrator de ‘bonis non of
the estate of James Graves, deceased.
John Sigler, aes of J. E. Devese,
filed first account, ./
Sune 13th. —The matter of the Dayton
and Southeastern ‘Railroad Company
against Joanna Steel et al. was continued,
David Moote, administrator on the es |"
‘tate of Philip A. Redes, deceased, filed
final account. .
The sale of Sands
Bonner, administrator on the .estate of
Samuel Vanscoy, “deceased, was con-
firmed.” y ‘
fume t4th. —A.M, Mackerley, assignee.
of Daniel J. Klein, filec! a motion tor leave
to correct a deed. :
Fune'15th.—James (cryder was recog-
nized in the sum of $500 for his appear-
ance at the next term of the Court of
Common Pleas to newer’ the. charge of
bastardy, John Kellhofer: is surety. ,
Sune 17th RK. W. Thacker, guardian
of Clarissa Vest, filed first account. f
‘The last will of Rebecca 1. Mace, de-
ceased, was filed: and probat ed. W.E.
Evans declined to accept the trust, and
the administration with the Will annexed
was committed to Jane Mace, who filed
her bond as residuary legatee in: ‘the sum
made by M atthias
| By prying the #hatte
had deen done in grading the iat
of the papils they .were matters that
wonld be apparent and coold read}ly
be corrected. | He thought thoagh
that It was right and proper, and|io
accordadce with the rnips of be
Board, that the grade.ip reviews
aboald be considered; it waa the w tk
of the last quarter ae laid down In the
couree of stady. | In cases where po-
pile have failed heretofore jin, pacsiog
from one grade to another,|they have
been given another opp rtaoity | iat
the beginning of the next haol er
He waa willing these pupils sho id
have the same opportunity, and if
they conld then pace, thas they aho Wd
e-granted diplomas...
oo Klelo thought thea thon of
‘Principal of the High Sqbvol fo wv
‘matter of examinations was aowar-
‘ranted. . The papils bad teen kept fin
perfect terror thrboghont tbe echool
year by the Principal, wt bed! oked
each epitheta toward thdm as' ud
‘turtles’ and ‘polly parrot.” A mao
who would ase such epithpts wae pot
fAit'for the position, Hb had injhis
own family an exhibition jof ite efffe’,
hie daughter being sick from me tal
excitement and worry.
Mr. Patterson saggeate
Klbin’s remarks were not in order,
‘not berog apondhe point ju qoestion,
Mr. Story thought if rdview wae a
part of the work of thp’ ‘year, the
whole matter was {o-the bands of |the
Priocipal and Saperintendent, hod
that they bad done what was right.
ahd proper in the premiaba. ‘
Dr. Waddle said the c abe grad
‘ing and the class entering the I
School were aeked tho/same q
tiona.- '
After tome farther d
matter was diamiared wi
standing that Jadge Std
tion ehould prevail, and
the gradoating class who had failed
to eecore the reqolred grade have
other opportunity for examinat{o
the commencement of the sext sc
year. ;
On sortes' of Mr. Pattereon,
Board of Examiners of teachers wete
requested to bold an | examiogtidn
next Monday ,in order to epuble telach-
era who wished to go away tos
the vacation, to do eo. ,
Oo motivo tle Boa
journed. .
hat-
igh
To
the
Her-
acnssion
htbeuo
ne’s sugpes-
members of
nat
hool
the
rd: wben
BURGLARIES.
r. R.H. Lan-
Friday night
og from] the
peo a shatter
breaking the
The widdow
Pntrance | Was
outelde |with
i by anjiron
a, center pin,
tiog into iron
the shuftere,
r, the hehd of
theee catches
6 an entfance
4 ;
The drog etofe ot D
sing was barglarized oo
last, the thieves enter
back yard by prylog a
of a back window and
fustening of the sash.
through ‘which -the
made is covered on the
sheet ivon sod secare
cross-bar turning. on
and, when fastened, fi
catches bolisd througt
the bolt securing ove of
‘wae broken off, avd tha
made es Oe : °
- The esfe, which was) |asiceked
contained no money, belog only
as a receptacle for papers, Was OF ened
and the contents strewed about the
ftboriathesearch tor valoablee, whieh,
proving fraitlese, attention. wae given
to ‘the drawere’ of the desk ip; the
counting room. One) of these aeed
as a cach, drawer, had pieces! eplit
aff both ends in their endeavpra to
force it; in which, however, thay did
not succeed, the lock realeting -all
their efforts. The’ till in. the cigar
atand wae rifled of ita ¢ontente, |prob-
ably some two. or three dollars); aleo
the till ia the front of ithe storg used
for general cash parpores ;_ thiy con-
tained some ' money smonst not
known. The till: wae afterward found
fo the back yard ip the tarnace
used . for , manafactoring oaling
‘and
ased
wav. and the emall| brasa: jeighta |‘
ad that Ir]
an+
ae the time, for “an-
Ueipeting’ comes arpund it will) have ‘melted
away ike the miste of the morning. The fire
with foba., There ie
the expense fand off broad expanse’ ‘for the
tion and book-seratob-
nh Infinitely better if a
four, thousand dollars
those two fande, and
”
display of mutual ‘conellis
bee:
or
b of
coipmon ‘Jabor! = ht
it in
Hebt
ing... It woald bave
street fund ef three
had been carved (ou
some chance given t4
Tho genoral tery fo
quate, The ren
as follows:
terest 16 largely” {naile-
‘of the olty 1a $260,865,
=p
lery, ’
The levy for the ain i‘ fand ‘ ‘fer the pee
pose. of, providing f payment of bonds,
which are. matario time to time) "The
eity generally keeps six to ten ‘thousand
dollars on hand for th pose,‘ ‘The propriety
of thia te questionad)d,) byt, then, it involves) |»
vemorable ispne of ¢ sides. ‘The expense fond
paye for running the pral affairs of the’city,
Clb were’ baiged out | P:
‘tn’ it) Both rhis and |.
Weis WE Sei ba00, 663
‘Of the “Local” heads there are $7, 100 dna,
September let, which. reprosont anticipated
taxes, and which will, be gald off by the same
profligate process, apd henoe are to all intents
acd purposes like ally other bends, and belong:
to the [nterest-bear}ng abilities. The wharf
bonds are taken card of by the wharf, aud so do’
not draw from the genotal levies.
The debt then upgn which general taxes pay
interest, amounts to #240, B65, Of thie §236,065
pay 8 per cent. interest, and the remainiag $4,"
80,6 per cont., and togpther make the azaual
Interest $19,173.50; (Now, the interest fand, ne
sulting from the gerjeral levy, is oalou lated te
yield §11,577.09, whibh Ip too email, by $7,596. a
to meet the faterestclaims. °° 34 ghe s
This deficiency is to be made up by an assoss-
ment of 6 mills upon property on the line of the
water pipe. The taxable value of this property”
ie nearly 1,300,000, \or. barely sufficiént to net
the'amount required’ to meet the intorent defl-
tiency,
‘rotate
eewerdeeen
— : “|
SOLDIBRB’ MEMORIAL ABSOCI-
mt ,
M mei Association
y évening pursuant to
The report. .of the
The Soldiers
met on Monda
adjournment,
Special Committee. on Soldiers’
‘tember, published ast week, was again
read) and unanitnously adopted.
Prof. Dague was appointed Chair-
man of tho —
with power. to!
bers.. The Ch
fo inouy the ro
expenses’ incide
committee.
The time for 1}
the Association w
last Saturday) in
tor's office, at 2 0’
The following
pointed a comtaitt
Association at am
to be held in
against the action
‘ture in re- -organit
Sailors’ Homo at, Xenia, Ohio, td-wit:
H,C. Taylor, Lepnard Berg, Warren
Chhpman, John T, Raper, b.. F’. Stone,
J. 1. Throckmorton, 8. II. Hurst, F.
I.- Rehwinkel, ‘], Armstrong,
Thomas J. Dagug. In the event that
any of the committee are unable ‘to
attend the meeting. 4 was resolved
that they be irequested, to Procure a
substitute. §,| |
: The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted :
Resolted, That the thanks of thie Association
be, and the same ard hereby tendered to the
ladies, military land | ¢itieens generally, who
aided us on Decoration Day.-,
“An invitation jto attend the parade
and celebration on July 4th, of the
Teutonia Si ing, Society, ‘was’ read
and accepted a ,
airman was authorized |
nsdn
nt
¢ next: mecting of
flock p.m. |
persons were ap-
ecting of ex-soldiers
Dayton, to protest
of the last Legisla-
cobne HEPORT.
PREPARED FOR [HE GAZETTR. BY W. KE. KVANS
| ATTORNEY AT LAW.
In the matter of Jeremiah McOon-
nell, Assiqneé of: the Chillicothe Agri-
cultural "Works. The areignee asked
for instruction as to the manner -of
computationjot interest on the ofnim§
presented againat the estate,. He was
at ot et
Re- |
union, on the 19th and 20th of Sep-
ittee provided for, |
select two other mem- |
abla: and -necpssary | |
o the labors of said |
|
'
as changed to the
uly, at the sAudi- |
be to represent this —
ng the Soldiers’ and:
directed. to pompnte and allow inter:
+ 8 S4cn2eeetes
‘The
Mr.. Hiram Yeo is in Kslosan.on 8
visit/to his brother.» |
+} gare gnemstaniabairte
Dr. R. B, Hall returned
Washington county last F
ad‘ gone for the be
‘home from
riday, where
health.
—_-_
Dr. B, F. Miesse had ta make sey-
eral ttempts before he cuuld get his
meals to “stick,” whilst ¢rossing the
big pond,
Prof. John W. Dowd hws been
unanimously re-elected as Superin-
tendent of the public schobls of Troy,
Ohio Success to you “Kikers.”
Cal. A Bb, ‘Johnson, of Richmond,
W. Ya., was in the city last week, in
the igterest of an oil company, which
has jts headquarters at Parkersburg.
*. M@asrs. Jacob and John Kaiser and
Ferd! Marzluff, Sr., returned on Mon-
day from their European trip. . They
report ‘themselves as having’ had a
pleasant time,
Horace C, Lansing is|at Newark,
Ohio! the guest ‘of Major Robert Lan.
ing, |of ‘the Lansing House of that
city. | He accompanied his “cousin,”
who was here on a visit last week.
—_——
Ridhard Nevins, jr., of th
Capital, came down tothe
of Friday, but ba’ dope
city on the eleven o'clock,
ped himself at the Emmitt
ten minutes late.
e Columbus
“dropping”
led into the
and drop-
House just
eer acannon
$ TO PORTSMOUTH. .
vi of our citizens who have
| never|visited our neighboring ‘city of
Portsmov:h, the excursion on Friday
next wi I! vive a good chance to do so
at a (small expense, “ should be
availed of, oar
Prof. W., L. Smith, . formerly
held the pusition of teacher of music
in the| Public Schools of this city, and
latterly the same position in tho
scbaohs of Saginaw, Michigan, has
*| just been elected Deputy Shperintend.-
ent off Public Instruction, st Lansing,
in that State. .
Migs Anna Knopp was treated with
an enjoyable surprise at her residence
on .East Second street on Monday
evening: last. It was the anniversary
of her birth, and the young lady was
sent {to the country. to: yeturn at 8
o'clock p.” m., and find th¢ house fall
of jolly and walitating lads|and lasses,
who made things merry till near the
hour of midnight. . |
||
_. | JUNION SERVICES. ,
‘Tha congregations of the Walnut
St and Main St, M, E. Churches unite
next Sabbath in Union services, morn-
ing anid evening. Sermon at 10,30 a.
m. at Walout St: Church by Rev. A.
C. Higst, At 7.45 p.m, Rev, KE. WH,
Heagler will preach at Walnut St.)
Church. All ate invited to these ser-
vices.
|
—_—_——
A bia pauper named Jacobs was
wandering through the halls of an up-
per story at the Infirmary on! Monday,
and mistaking a door for ono: leading
into an adjoining room, fell down a
pair. of back ‘stairs, “It was at first
thought that he had received serious
injuri
Miller| being-called, on, examination,
found |that his injuries wero slight,
nefit of his’
4 for a meeting of the stockholders of the
| Kinnickinnick some years ago, and en-
in a dislocated thigh, but Dr. |.
A GOOD DAY'S WORK. |
On Friday of last week, the Seiotd
Valley Railway Company brought to thiy
city 1535 passengers, all paying: full fare
Cardinal we We Bond was in the city
fruit farm, and making preparations for
harvesting his crop of blackberries.
eee
SALT CRERE. VY. VALLBY. RAIL
: ‘In another column will be found a call
Salt Creek Valley Raitway for the elec}
tion of seven Directors. |
Mr. John T. Jones and his daughter,
Miss; Alice, of Chicago, IIL, are visiting
relatives and friends on Kinnickinnick
and in the city, at present the guests 1
Mr. John Umetead.- Mr. Jones resided at
joys an occasional visit to his old home.
SSS
‘ CRYSTAL WEDDING.
The congregation of the Walnut St. MJ
E. Church surprised their pastor, Rev. A
Cc; Hirst, and his wife, on Monday even-
ing by acall en masse, the occasion being
the fifteenth anniversary of their wedding,
A very pleasant evening: was spent, every
one retiring feeling that it was good to be!
there.
———
‘The many friends, in this city, df Miss,
Alice M, Wolfe, formerly a teacher in
our Public Schools, but. for the past year
in the schools at Delaware, Ohio, will be
pleased to learn that, after a year’s trial
in a subordinate position, she has given
such general satisfaction to the Superin-|| ©
tendent, Board of Education and the pub-
lic, that she has been rewarded by an elec-
tion ito the Principalship of one of the|
Buildings, one of the best positions in the
schools of that city. .
A RBLIC HUNTER.
On Saturday afternoon last, we met!
Mr. Frank L. Cross, of the Columbus!
Dispatch, wending his way to the depot,
to take the train for home, A happy ex-)
pression was on his countenance, and af
ter greeting us in a very cheerful manner,
he said he had a “relic,” and quietly un- |
folding his duster, he exhibited to our as- |
tonished gaze—one of Bowsher'’s well-
He then carefully rolled it
up again, and went on his way rejoicing,
apparently the happiest man in town.
worn shoes!
COAL FOR THE SCHOOLS. |
On yesterday the Committee of tlre}
Board of Education opened the bids for’
supplying the several school buildings
with coal for the current year. ‘They
were as follows : .
Reutinger & Fullertonas.ssesseee J P-10C.
Jacob Sry dera.cseccsseescerenscreeeees 67 ,KCc.
George Lewis....... » 7hyc.
Union Coal ‘Yards...ccccccccree sow Ce
All to be delivered at the buildings.|
Mr, Peter Hayden bid 6 cents per bushel
delivered at the canal, and his bid was ac-
cepted. The cost of delivering will be 3)
of a cent per bushel. i
The Government should regard it as its
first and paramount duty to devise some
effective means for protecting the Repub-
licans of the South in their right to ex
press their sentiments concerning the po-
litical affairs of the States and ofthe coun-|
try by pen, on the rostrum and through
the ballot-box, If citizens are bullied on
“the right to cast: their votes in perfect
freedom, through fear of persecution and
violence, they ure no longer freemen, but
slavés, compelled to groan and chafe un-
der a yoke: imposed upon . them. by the}
lawless and corrupt manipulators of party
machinery.
On our fourth page will he found ani
interesting ‘account (entitled Bah-Bah)
of the Kansas Sheep Ranch of our fel-
low-citizen, Mr, Wm, If, Allison,
That other sheep raiser, Mr. Pearl P4
Denig, js also making a success of. the)
¢ $?%@s &
yesterday, looking after his Massieville|.
account of their opinions, . and robbed ‘of |*
business, as we learn from a letter received
‘|
| BOWSHER |
Pays the Penalty of |
- the Law:
£32. Autopsy.|
Anda Phen enal Brain. r
]
Oor parrative, “thet | leesk, of Perry | |
Bowaber, the mardbrer of the MeVeys, |
beought us up td the Wednesday | ;
morning before the execation, fo
Wednesday afternoon he got io a
talkative mood, and while he revealed
a part of bis life from the time of bis
escape from the Athens Asylam to
his arrest for the murder, a GAZETTE
reporter eat within bearing and. took
notes. Very med of the conversa-
tion was unimportant, bat abowed
that he had, part ;
life of a tramp, had traveled with
O'Brien's show, anit bad gone a-toot
through most of the Enetern Staten,
and was known indir the name of
Thomas. He cio to have worked
two mooths jo M rylaod for a man
named Taylor, who had turned him |
off withoat payidg. bim. He said
Taylor had two gona, William and
Charles, the latter » physician, and
two daughters, ong of whom attended
schoo) at Pailadefphia. He thooght
Baldwin didn’t infprm on him for the
porpoee of ifjaring him, bat to save
himeelt; thought it unkind in Bald
win to say anything abont bis eteal- |
ing chickens, as ho had not seeo him
for seven years, and he (Baldwin) |
ought to be thankfhl to him for giving | |
bim a chance to get | the reward for |
his apprehension. He had never
been before any Court bat what he |
got the worst of it. Prosecuting At-
torney Douglas ought jto be ashamed
of himeelf, and had no mercy an a
man in hie fix; he daght to show aome |
sympathy. Ir. French had testified |
taleely ws to the direction of the ball
ia McVey's body slit conld not have.
gone from sbovs’ downward, for the
man. who ehot McV ey |was down and
ved opward. He eould have sbot
Mettler if be had kbowno what he was
after when the arrest .was made;
Mettler bad said he wanted him tor
stealing and comu ittiog arape. He
couldo’t eee that ‘ 8 clothing in bis
valise, correspondipg to the clothidg
he‘had on and tho pieces’ foand at
McVey'e, signified] anything; there
‘was plenty of clothing in the world
that wae alike. : |
He. says there spre otter bonds in
Mre, Fox's house {for thres or four |
woeks before his arrest, aboat which 7
she eaid nothing. Her testimony |
abont his coming from Chillico-
‘the that night ‘waa |faleo, bat he|
{
j
!
up toit., He knew all that took place |
there; he bad as good - memory ‘aod
never forgot anytbiog ; bie dida’st re-
member names; He dido’s waot to,
bat ‘he remembered faces, Some of
the people here thibk (f he got oat of
jail be wonld kill the witnetes and
othore engaged in tila prosecation, bat
he wouldo't; he |woulda't fool his
time away that way. A tan found
gailty of marder ought tohaog. That |
book pretends to {tell about Perty
Bowsher, bat they didn't know any-
thing about Perry Roweher At thie |
i iff Mackey ee
the time, led the |
| ning, when it. was learned that the
| body, had been removed daring the
i beld by those having the bod
l este in the annexed diagram
knot
between the jail and Coart |
ra h. he had boon hang,
w the remains, ©: Ak
. Baldwin! and Bea.
ball brothers of Bowsher, wh
j his rest and were witnesses against
ne re
to dqliver it
to him, saying, ** You hold biq blood ;
bat you will never sali hia bolly with
onsent.” At the aame Rime he
ibdipated hie willingness to surrender
‘it tothe father if he ehoaidt flamand
it, bat to no other member] of the
tamily. At530 the body wa4 baried
in the Station grave-yard. ;
There waa an’ iminence jc
the city, bat no disorderly denjonatra-
tion|was made, except when ie body
was expcsed ou the street, and that
was. ‘only the anreasonabie cyowding
always iocident to such a co bgrega-
fowd jn
tion of people. At this time ia the
day it ie eappoeed the pick pockets
work.
got in the greater part of thei
It wae the general impredsipn that
Bowaber would not bg allowed to rest
in the grave to which Sheriff Mackey {
had donsigned him, and there jwae no
surprise, therefore, on Satard y mor-
night. Where it bad gone t wight
be regarded as au open'eecre}. The
extinguishing of the light on the cor-
ner ot Water and Walnat atrepta was
the pointer which pat those who have
noee for news on thealert. Thé body
remaioed hidden in that Incality aotit
Monday night, when an autopsy was
y. He
a atate
pb only
h slight
Yotes-
was fonod to have been io
of almost perfect health, th
thing indicating disease being
congestion of the lower emal
| mediately, -
tinged, A marked pecaltarity “was
; fouod tn the ekall, it beiog i pao |
spote, |
r dime, |
pre the |
wafer,
be in-
ch the)
bly thio all over, with tw
wach about the size of a -silve
oo the top of the head, wb
skall'was not thicker than a
there being an lndeotation in
ner eide of the ekall into wh
brain preseed. These spote rere ad
thinlthat whea the skull was beld-ap |
to thle light, they looked like a pair of
; the light beiog plaiuly r¢flected
hgh them. ‘They were dituated
t one incl: to the rearjof the
jab eutare =6and an foch
the eagittal satare, | where,
vellevd, the phrenologista locate
eyes
thro
abou
coro
from
we
seat of veneration, of hope.
e wae an adhesion of the dura)
r, or outer coverlog of thp brain,
se ekall at these pointe, Jodicat- |
ithe. probability that pt one
there was inflammatiog there.
The! brain, however, was foahd in a
healthy condition, perfectly [normal
io every, reepeet. The locatiob of the
epote referred to is correctly indl-
of the
the
The
mate
to t
ing
time
‘pf the ekall or “ekall-cap.
s fHoNnt ™
B, thio
| C, sagittal sotare.
"A, toronal butare ; spots 5
asthe pa
| ion P
progress
Hoe
sn attes
diver p iding.
On mo' on, the readloget the \s-
aie need
preaented. » When ‘the Standing ‘om-
mittees. Were called nove esponded,
. Btiles, from the ment ike
repairs
comoleted, and also to make a
mendatioh that as soon as the repair;
ing of t
done that all the bridged be painted,
eeded it badly. .No-
rekio wanted to know
beiog done, or, proposed to
on Rosé atreet.. Ia
bmething ehould be doo
as that street was -
very bad pondition. bowed
The City ‘Eogineer sald that he
contracted with Mr. Thos. J. Gai
the necedsary stone for the ca
basin, ‘at|a cost of @25. .They were
bow ready to fix the gutters, and
wonld grade the etreet ae soon ag the
Stioto Valley Railway Compan ‘Te:
moved ita track. ~ ,
‘Mr. Doty said thé new conne¢tiog
track wod!d probably be pat iso | thie
week, wh n the present oo6 on 08e
street ‘wotld be taken up.
‘Oo motion of Mr. Entrekin, the
Street Commissioner was jostrdcted
ta immedjately. proceed to placa the
gatters oy Rose street in proper \con-
dition to
what was
be done,
optaion a
carry off the water td the
eaqwer, ‘ |
Mr. Daty called attention ta the
cdndition| of the Rose street eqwer.
'Itlwas etopped up at Che -river jend,
caused by the earth caving in.
odeded a
| tido, the
rected to
Me. S:
dy to
Street Commissioner.was di-
latteod to it. Z|
lea anid Mr. Blistain| was
pave ia front of hie) new
building jon Ewing street, aod asked
thlat Coagcil grade the pavement,
Mamberra thoaght they had no{biog
tol d@e with gtadiug the pavement, a and
on metiog ot Mr. Entrekio, the gutter |
wha ordeded to ba boaldered as soon.
rement was completed
eaident joqaired as tb the |
made by the committep ap-
pdioted {to revies the by lawe of,
Cyaneil,
nathing
pilebed.
mittee, 4
atlention
Mr. Eo
Light Ce
Mr. Smart, "from the
mpany, of Cinclaonati, | bad
ple lamp for the red pet
trekin sald they very evi-
ald be more troablese
ke a mach better light.) He
ered that the police were
t, however.
atine sald it gavo a.
|
lpood
ho thought it was foo E
om -
Spotine eald great com
It!
me protection, and of | mo- |
od it was developed) that |
whatever Lad been accom- |
om: |
id it eboald recelve ‘proper |
rekin sald the Globe Gas. |
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let
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| Williae 1 6 $3 John P
ich: therman, 6 years;.:William Downing, years ; a Fe
Hike. often, R. R. Littlefield, 1 year; S. J. Brower, 6 years; D.
1 ey Trt ne.
ae Fidges These who have occupied paces coe ie ce
ion’ ffice under tbe constitution of 1851, ave been suc
Pn &. Base. Michael Leatherman, ‘hos. M. Robb, Charles M.
Hughes, L. M. Meily, and G. W. Overmyer. sw Ge
”Sheriffs—Henry Lippencott, John Kellar, Alexander sea ys Pa
H Williams, Hiram Stotts, Mathias Ridenour, William Tisele. eet
1 Buckmaster, Samuel Collins, Isaac Baily, J. A. Colbath, eh
Miller and John Franks. To Sheriff Colbath fell the mange ty
of officiating at the first execution in the county, which we take spa
ibe. nee. :
q “This was the visiting of the majesty of the law on Andrew, Brent
is Wi i April 7th, 1872.
«ii der of his wife, on Good Friday, Apt
‘Onis pyter Gctober, 1871, Brentlinger, who had resided in Allen
county for thirty-six years, without being thoyght other poh
citizen, killed his wife with eng age eri Se oF oe pa
sld: she was his second wife, twenty- \ ha pues
ett On the retina given was jealousy, he accusing her of Netgear
siviey with several of the neighboring farmers. On ay — es
thee a violent quarrel, he stabbed her with a pen knife, but is 6
th yon too small, he made his little daughter bring him a dagg
f : hy. ones giving her the key to unlock it. Receiving Poe
pe: the terror stricken child, he drove it five times in sea e en
i d the bloody knife on the saddle cloth, mounted his hors we
réae away, rode as one pursued by fiends. ba i ee oe
is ons to bury the corpse in the pota A
a ee ee and harrow it over ah reyes kt sage eee: os
ighbors that he and his wife had gone away. |
oe uae children, nearly dead with ee Se al
er was dispatched for ) ‘
ee cee. fifty-five feet from the house, where
i: found in a grave fifty-five
she ood na been plowed and harrowed over - if a ae
e
sown. The murderer was found ae LBs 2 Zip ae daa
saved his life, and he was committed to jail. The ia spe
Lima, in the month of December, 1871, eer Je Be oo
“It lasted ten days and resulted in a verdict o em Yl ae aid
fense being insanity. The prisoner was stolid < = pola cane
seosiving the death sentence. The date first fixed for ot: a
January zoth, but Governor Hayes granted a pi ne tian
“as bringing it to April 7th. The Wednesday be 5 sd toe
val rand children of the condemned called to nee oe o .
He vai the least affected of all. Neither his aged fa sme ican
ever went near him to the last. Qn Thursday evening
For Inks that Freezing Does not Damage, go to Marmons.
i .
_ Brentlinger responded simply ‘‘Farewell,”
elbows—leaving him free to clasp his hands,
New Goods of the latest Styles Come Every day to Jake Wise’s,
ALLEN COUNTY DIRECTORY. I4I
Hon. Isaiah Pillars and Judge C. M. Hughes, bid him farewell. Hon.
T. E. Cunningham, who assisted the prosecution, called with mem-
bers of the press, after which the condemned man retired for his last
earthly sleep. He had abandoned all hope. The iron gauntlet of
the law was being closed upon him. The sounds of hammer and saw
came faintly to his ear through the barred door of the cell, from the
corridor where the scaffold was fast approaching completion. There
had been talk of a mob, but at eight o’clock, and within the walls of
the strongest jail in Ohio, there silently gathered a guard of fifty men,
the light of whose lanterns revealed the glitter of musket barrels. On
the morning of the fatal day, the prisoner rose early and ate a hearty
breakfast.
At 9:52 Pp. M., Columbus time, the prisoner, Mr. Bartholomew,
the Sheriff, and his friend, mounted the scaffold-steps, while the on--
lookers from the iron platform previously mentioned, and from the
east end of the hall, uncovered and stood in the awed silence, which
even men accustomed to sights of human agony, assume in the pres-
ence of coming death.
With a firm step, and calm air, Andrew Brentlinger mounted the
fatal steps and sat down upon a chair provided, crossed his legs,
_ leaned over and spit, subsequently moving his jaws slightly as if chew-
ing tobacco, which he used. He was dressed in a suit of neat black
clothes, white shirt, without collar Or cravat, of course; white socks,
and coarse, well-blackened brogans. A white handkerchief showed
from his left breast pocket, and altogether he was the picture of neat.
ness, and quite a comely old man, looking little like what one would
imagine the butcher of Sarah Brentlinger. :
After a reading of Scripture, a written prayer was read, durin
which the prisoner stood erect, with piously clasped hands, and when
the ‘‘Our Father” was solemnly said, he followed the prayer ina firm
voice. Mr. Bartholomew then delivered benediction according to the
formula of his Church, shook the prisoner by the hand, and said
‘‘Farewell, and may God Almighty have mercy on, and save you.”
. and the reverend gentle-
man descended from the scaffold.
Sheriff Colbath sat down by the prisoner, and with a voice deeply
moved, read the death warrant. During. this painful ceremony
which lasted nearly eight minutes, the condemned sat, and seemed to
listen with respectful attention. When it was over the: Sheriff rose
and proceeded to tie the arms of the doomed man to his side, at the
which he immediately
did—and his legs at the knees, using strong bridle ribbon for the pur-
pose,
Then the noose was carefully adjusted and the black cap fixed so as
_to be easily pulled over the face, and the Sheriff said firmly: ‘*An-
drew Brentlinger have you anything to say?” and Andrew Brentling-.
“Stoves and House Furnishing Goods, at Jos. Derwort’s, Delphos,
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, Pere weewe Fe Sg
Mr. and Mra, Moy.
guo off, thinking «
ada Hy and save the
pall. On the blade appears the tame
of the makera, J.:S einer & Co.; 8
blackemith of tiuner’e pnoch, made
pomiooito which the body of Mr.) Mo-
Véy waa fdand wo think ‘the fallow
had endeavered to make his er ape
with the oniy liviog peraon
any knowledge of the fearfal t
Mr. Soha. Kopp has | received
atl
Yi tHe appointment from Wa LL, Col- aed,
pay,
“ tin, the Grd Chief Contluctor, to peter deo Pik ap YM either by the way: he came 14: or | from ao old file, iq 5% inches long, the | V°7"#. The girl a
south ico maint: act as his fon’ for the Southern| Altice ao, who has been | living | troogh tho door leading oat ta the | ®1%are part being about one-half Inch the beves. a ar :
Division of Ohlo in the-Co ductots’ | with thp MaVoye tor ha | three tarnpike, moet likely the fatter: ‘across. Tho point Is. nicely roanded, Tried the Aibirl
-d Conl [ptherhood, The territory mbraded years p Part. |. Her statements ‘made | When be fired the fatal shot he mast belong a quarter of an inch in diame. | fast. Then want to
n ever before. | c. the district comprises all of the| to as at that Hime and sabseqgently, | have been standing near the front | ter. Tthas the appearance of neving hh ey faond to
"| State lying isouh of* the ||National | 8" abdat ‘an followe:||' She was door as Mr. McVey; when he fel! fel! | been aved for panching tron very re- wheas Fovad ihe
_ Road. Mig ‘duties aro to. 4ee to the igi years). of age, Jaet]) May At aly fo ai aod’ ira, — nao penity. se It is bright. Aleo, m'emall| tall of amoke tha) T
’ otdanization lof ‘ine a Friday night sho wad awakened | “tempt to arrest tho villain. This | serew driver, six inches long,-with &| Went then to the tro
mom eee = iret fide: sive by the! feport oP a plat! abdt and ere cepeseleg Mra. McVoy| she aw thank, beech handle with brans Mr: MeVay sera
ine [0 ORD og eee a general suporviotea He gen heard Mra. MeVey ecreaming “Oh! # arteon trotm her bed and ent ting | fertule... The haddile je ‘cbipped ig the door hit aha
: | Dear Lotd, do, pray tor|ime."}. Ao- the room was met as she entered the | two places, as thdagh cat or broken denre no person, cor
Drawers The Chillipotho Cemetery Company other ehot wae fired, aod/lall tecame — the pistol placed very neat ber ont, We havo given this description | 1 \closed: the | dur
have contragted with Mr, Benjamin quiet. |Hhe théa jampediont bf hor | lec and Bred, cansing her to sini into | ot then tools in daft hoping thet tt ieent Piso
1O ‘| Grove ml T bed aud crawled under itl! Prepontly | ‘He chair at the side of the door. It|may lead to nome clue to the person’ | Meo that, were: yt!
9: of Louisville, Kentuoky, Cem-' was thie shot probabl 1 h Catled pintepigde |
otery Engineer to furoish wlans fi a man ¢ame Idto her room ith a probably, that jawa. | who ased them on this occasion, We with me
CHER’S, shal aceih ’ Hians for} hight. At iret, she thanpht iq) waa kened Alice Doan, and it was/then | aoderatand that th y will be left at| for matches and\d.
age poreeme sity poeirh olen Be he Com- Mr. MeVby,/and was.on the pdint of era heard Mra. McVoy's ser¢ame,’| the; Auditor's offige tn this olty for se be pe de a
a. : “i pK eir ntention asking at | what was the thhtter, when nding |that the abot throngh the identification.’ 4) Beary selling 0) es
1s died chet = ify thé entire pu sida fronting | sho became | ‘eati-fied from hiv hove- face did not kill ber and thinkiog’ ' THE ’ cris. <l patalde tad’ batelea
whilp Denig’s the! city. ments that te as not’ UWucle Mac. | that dead people tell mo tales, hp then _.We cow come to speak of the vic- | Vey: Iyiph on ithe
tien remedy, The Company have heret fore ex- | He went| to the center table} and | Placed (tro pistol to.her breast whilst | tims of thie ‘atrocious crime, and in. door, and Mra. Me\
© pleasant, hibited much taste as well ad liberal. | ‘eking apa email. aitecr in ppored | *h@ was pleading for her life and | doing so we feel that. the worda we chal. opposite, npar
remedy for your] ity in the arrangement and decoration | it# Contents of hella out on tholtable, | fred the fatal shot, rbtel Most) may ase will bat feebly express the on tester ies I
sexe ety Apo of their grounds, and have made this bat left {he cup on the table.| He | Dave killed het instantly Hp then | feeling towards them entertained by|| 2° blond abont Mr
and odr word for bea| tifal city, of ‘the dead a'place that then commenced an exathination of: pid into jthe room occupied by those in this commuvity who kvew | Dlvad flowing freely 4
Neg phia wea ia. | elicits the praiso of str } the room| beginning mlingpome flor; | Alco ae stated by her. The shot | them. Edmand § McVey, the has- Pood the: bed ties
Ox pple and in i dod P angers who visit ing banging on the door. From|there tNat entered the face was aydoubt- and, was boro in Washington conn-' ing \ia-on fire, whic
te. mie " which our citizens an yates be went to the borean, add althoagh edly'made whilat she was staniling as | ty, | Penteylvania,’ some time in the. ae seat ne!
pride, ; | | abe could’ ace bat very Nitie f hie | '8 piatoty le ca by: ita djreotion year 1800 aod was therefore seventy- the water barrel he,.
> person, ahe know from! the {noise | *°¢ was|made while standing very soven yoara of age! In th honep, and daghen |
fel lgy barony } non bad ‘hell ert of 0 tbe ite vedenrosite to clove together, aa her tace whs pow: | bis penn tatene d to thie Sais aa roesh § otk can
oe ope orce the jock of the aoly drawer that | °° : es |" settled in Fayette “connt
he he ppemc one lof his le badly mashed y being | wae fastened, which was a |small From the testimony of Mf. Jakes, Edmand . aniete ea. dee! ainett“ielshe sid in
veh Lape ‘caught by a broken car while making | drawer in the dpper right hand cor we, fadgo that a great deal of valuable | Of age he enetained a phyeical injary MeVdy y slept, we ton
SE ac upling, t Zaleski; on: Monday | ner. mile this/be left tha room and | ie was lost before any person and’ in oder: to obtalo proper atteb- and watols. whith we
exponent of | Morhing, about 9 o'clock. ‘The bones} Went ont,going, ehe thinks, Info the | 'eached the house after the nlarm was| tion, he went to Corydon, Indiana the te nee * rots
wad in: the of the leg ere badly crus ed, and “shop.” | |Hle ref{aroed presently and |given, The first move madeby' Mr. where he bad somé relatives | He pie nelgiberhond 1
cing | up the’ tho flesh tora from the cal Dr. mada: another ‘examination of the | Jakes, elthcagh his intentibos were mained there ped bably about five Jolep W..Or a
| ' | Becarce’ was ¢ slegraphed for i ampy- room, aad going oat ebe boon heard good, was'to! isay the least of it, au un- | Yeats, during which time he, learned — mg Mr | J
| " Fite - | tatelthe leg, but on his arrival Bader rim cot hale ca aes be pan one, If instead of |going out the \trade of shoo making,-which (0c. poh wi patron hat.
»-Rey, A. C.] requested to He brought h oom blog hera own | and fir uo off hie gan, antl then re tapation he followgd for many years, Vey's watch and par
idutha of the ih elas a te sey! oot . the k fg She then thboght | turoiog to Nis honse and! roesing || Id the year 1822/he cume to Chilll- band} and. 90, réfldori
held) in this | was brought home on the trai “ artiv- peel bol ‘n aa . mee iad Miletonr He had first dresspd himaclt | othe, where ne went into the employ " Vice wi ne
| a howe Ie d 3 y, f crawling out she hdisted | and takeo Wilis and Love|with him, | of the late George|W. Chaodley, and | Mr Jakea Live i
: 1g. abou » and on trip up the window, and getting ont shp got | wo think they woald have ifoand the | Witt! whom he remained for several | ship, Jackson cohn y
ill, be fonnd ‘rallibd somew a but at this ti © does | onto a plank, one end of which theted | Men or men atill at the Noone, or it} years. While’ workjog tor Mr. Chan | bere.| Been ¢ v the
he ‘|Ancient not | seem | to improve mudh, and| on the tence, didtant about eighteen | out there, they could not possibly | dley he formed the acqoaintance of since Jast Sunday.) |
m the aes yet be nevessary. ee al hon tb aay aa the oti ee pair very far away in 0d short [Misa Aun S. Dawley, and in the year sariy thie ae nd ‘a
onta ps ‘sorne- e lsuffers but’ little pam cdmpara abon rty in¢bea owen | 4 time ae/thetr movements aboat the 822; they were married, and bave | by M . Jakea :
| ilt rdpay the | tivell . whed t e severity of th injury than the tHindow, Reachigg thip she! house *ppear,’ to bave tidy very de- | Ibved almost, if not entilely, since wlachtol dows ¢ Hae
Ie'hy is ta on nt POP RNG soon wae on the taropike, cropelng | liberate. | Bat the opportunity for ef- | that! time, in this elty, possibly ex- 1 eanio| oat | of ' a
mip at pore | | Which, sh6 climbed the fence ob the | fective wark was lost and no effort of epting only the time they have been shad fired off bie ga). «
is ndwi run- opposite iiés. aod made ter way ap | any moment was made by/any, of the i at the toll-gate, where they
tc) the bill to! the hoare of Mr. William | parties gathered there engage in| met their death. . After some yoare |,
CO. at’ Maus- Jakes, abot three handred| yard4 die: | any eearch. Everybody! seemed to| te engaged in the grocery basiness, ‘atared i Jakoe ad C.
ill be found tant, giving the qlarm | be dazed and not able (h rise to the | and was for a term of yeare in ‘part. a Lovewth | ™
e| this What curred fterwarids will be | requirements of the occasion. . nership with the late John Briggs, an- sbenth. mo :
aa seen by r foretce to the ‘tonti opy Immediately on receipt of the iry- der the firm name of Briggs & McVey. present workin
aes ‘given ctl Corgher’s jary. | She} aye | tormation of the marder,|our Coanty This! Rartoership continaed ap to a'| Mearing the state
nil was [parte pri " Pie on the fiack Kp i offered 4 reward: of short time prior to. the great fire in’ Jako! say bad:
byl the at. wha aks Le 1 pea bead) eat hice tend a eben mn th — Neu ary is Sore Seenpents of |' hw Atkinson
, : aod telegraphed to Cincinnati tor a | the blogk of baildiogs which atood on | in 00 towas
Es er, on she was dressed{ baviog do all] her | detective, and also oi W. H. | Paint street, and wasikanwe as"Com,,)A@ "oe ah
ers ‘|will re- clothiog wheo vip went ap!to Jakes’ | Lankester, Master of be osportion on | Meérclal Row,” as partoere and sepa. months boarding
th Mr.) Me- hoase- Thies ehejasenres opis almia- | the Marietta and Cingingatl Rajlroad, rately, and were burned oat. | Mr. aniiog work
te “df elec: take She asyathat she had of, In asking for an engine in which to con cVoy never recovered fram hie lous, Koox’é| house,.
the| matter i levep hace ie oe 7 Ws vey the detective to this city, Mr, | 994 gradually weot down pill finan- aft eg? t oe
the|. Court. ch ahe js in abit of retaipiog | Lankester, instead dhé inlyiog with cintly Io the year 1872 he secared ; eppone thes is lary
: eal tans } on her pereon |when she reifres. | thie request, heli the gular ‘tale, the position of - “gate keeper on the Pavvunoe i the
; When she crawled ander the bed|she j which leaves that city ‘at 9:15. A M ,| Colamboe and Portemoath Taropike, | wooda!: Think b vd ae.
_| dtew her stockings with bet anc jPat | and going| out, foand Mr. L. Kush. north, where bé hae since reaided. five of thirty yard. f,
who, works them on, od tbht she did not bave | man, pat/him on the train) and it left His wife, Aon'S, McVoy, ‘was born Thooght It was Joa:
ips, on his |’ — in. ' She aleo catried with | that city fifty Ave minatds late, bat in| Union townatip, in this county, in Thooght {gol 8 =
iB, stopped | her! ightoe hai afterwards) pat oo arriving mt thie city, {¢ was only the year 1805, and has Hever resided | P somal beocey't @ toll
Hhmmell, In| bie is her story, and ghe told it twenty mig ates late. Mr. Laokester, odteide of the coanty. thing wae qaiet. |Di io
here| he was o pach ob honest, straightforward | for this generaue action, id entitled to | Théy never had soy children of, want ia the hook
all og no et carries re pera ith | and 18 rece ving, the war thaoks of | their own, bat at varions periods pep lla A tad
sted brite of all the (cirea ate bib as | te people of thle com avity, who’ bave bad several adopted children. | one o’elock ‘by Mr| (rs
tala, wikaastes whi p = oy : t a have heard ot bie conrés. med Clocinnati Gazette of ‘Mohday got cit eg reqa me
ho: biel ' P me of njind acre epee Ingt, there is a statement that Mre, his wife
0, |he| was aod bravery on b rpart. |Howler-| . le ° “T ; n. B. Mille, ‘of thie elty,/ wae an bens yh Saith ad
Ogm| ich | rible maat/have been her |thoa te | The object of the entrance into the am pted daoghter. Thia fe ¥ error, heving tated te _
ing him in when the man wak in ber room, feel | house was/robbery, the murder not we hope Mr. Clegg. will. make Mr. aud Mra. MoVey ba
| Tags |and far rood sda peci- ing that. jf be ree ie ath | being Intended, bat./was probably i Proper correction. The error bag} dered.”| Called> my |t.an:
vefore they | ivibg of religious instrac- wae certain, - Few person re | committed [for fear of idgntifteation. | probally occurred throagh the fact gas. of theta Adar =
oman. | He | ti oat the : a y.boyn and rt ‘ahs orate: e bat woald ve | What amoqat bf property| was taken | that the late Mies Nannie W, Mille, MeVey,. Fonnd J wi
ditd | now habiéchs dur stroets.om Sa bath: 0 5 hg t and “a ea deat ne will probsbly ever kgowa. ide. after the death other mother, reelded tome two ort otbe
¥ well al- | Farn re ‘Chr i ig wilat ° ta | aa c we Wh te McVey. was very eccettrid in ble ac: for a fow years with the MeVeys. of Qa. the dead of M
FD oh Wie ’ or THe MURDER, tions ia regard to Gpancial: affairs.| It ie seldom foaod that two people. WeVey o the 00 8
meats from | now most ne in Mission Stnday| ‘The groubds on which to'base py | As will be seen by reading the state-| have ved so lapg a life as they have 2 [ase a meted and rs des
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arly Wayne History Includes Hanging for Mura
BY RHONDA EMERSON [than his share of the punish-|associates and comrades of| The trap was considered ‘‘a!Catholic Church at 7 a.m. as soon as he was dropped. Dr.
In 1880 a judge pronounced Ment since his accomplices had, happier hours, of the good dimes peste machine and was con-| During the forenoon the ladies|W. C. Moore, official jail
the sentence, “to hang by the been saved from the. death/he had passed with them, and|structed in portable form.” of the Woman’s Christian) physician and assistant, Dr. E.
neck until dead’? and John penalty. ‘wanted to be kindly remember Public Views Gallows |Temperance Union distributed|D. Pocock of Shreve, announced
Callahan, 22, became the first! Sheriff Coulter had the sadjto all.” | No visitors except for the pas- circulars _Teading ‘‘December his pulse rate minute by minute
man to be officially hanged in duty of delivering the message} Callahan often expressed his|tor, relatives, and representa-|3rd — Whiskey did it.” _ {and Dr. J. C. Bucher recorded
Wayne County. . the next morning. Mrs. Coulter,|gratitude to the Coulters andjtives of the press were allowed) Throngs of people gathered in jt.
Callahan and three others. a the sheriff's wife, had prepared'the others who tried to console|to see Callahan after Monday,'the streets to look at the bleak; «At 12:16 p.m. just twenty-
Saddler and two McGowans, a special Thanksgiving dinner:/him and make him as comforta-|but the public was allowed to| walls of the jail and later to Wit-| seven minutes from the moment|
were convicted of the murder of for Callahan and the news was/ble as possible. jinspect the gallows Friday and' ness the execution. By 9 a.mM.'the trap fell, Dr. Moore of-|
John Tormie at the old not reported to the prisoner un-| “In regard to his future ,Saturday. ithere was an estimated crowd/ficjally said: ‘I pronounce John
fairgrounds Oct. 2, 1879. Only:til after he had eaten. state,” the Democrat added, | Governor Foster feared = 5,000. The crowd remained or-|Cajjahan dead!’ ”
Callahan was condemned to! Fr. Ankly, pastor of St./Callahan ‘‘seemed_ well disorder on the day of the oy a h W Dr. Moore examined the body,
death. /Mary’s Catholic Church, spiri-!prepared for the other world,;execution and. ordered _ two) a — poi a then had it placed in a casket|
A detailed account. of tual adviser, was elected to tell/saying ‘I am preparing andjcompanies of _ the Eighth r. Ankly stayed with the con-| 34g conveyed, without publicity,
Callahan’s last days and death)Callahan that he was doomed tojhope I am ready to die,’ in a/Regiment ONG to march into demned giving him Last Rites.i4, Gayahan's residence in East
was printed Wednesday, Dec. 8, |die. The pastor advised and con-|firm voice, seeming fully Wooster to _ assist Sheriff,Physicians, reporters, andiwooster, as was John
1880, in The Wayne County |soled the prisoner, until thejresigned to his fate, and hopeful Couiter. ed es ame in tone caet ak Callahan’s request.
Democrat, one of the* dailyjexecution becoming his grea-ifor the future. pV RBSOr Ue Came” Isler City! sheriff entered Callahan's cell Body Taken Home
. a : ; gi i the
ing at test friend at this time. Cautions Friends jgiven quarters in ‘ ; eat:
pg mete serving the area at. rare Uisitahiad dimmed t6:.tield’ aa Gumeda: Aieuer. jand read his death warrant. After the body. was removed
that time. Remains Compose At 11 a.m. those with tickets,;from the gallows, at least 5,000
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— +4 ' grudg nd never uttered an Callahan was up early Thurs-!. 2 meet e
Circulate Petition | At 3:20 p.m. Callahan capil. He advised 74K morning cad tecaieod last cluding the press, sheriffs,/people filed through the hall to
Callahan's execution was.received the news. The con-| : , | ‘ : sly ang 4nd physicians, were adinitted|look at the scaffold. The next
reprieved for 100 days and dur-,demned prisoner was calm. aber Noe wate Salace taee giver x tet diner, into the jail. Witnesses and/day about 3,000 came to see it.
ing this time his family and parents and friends, as well as\ +04 ronowing in his footsteps. Intimate friends were permitted physicians completely filled the; The funeral took place at St.
friends petitioned for mercy andthe press, paid him many visits zohn Callahan was. born in to visit the prisoner, and the SPace in the upper and lower | Mary’s Catholic Church Satur-
tried to induce Governor in his cell and he met every one Cooperstown, Wis., Aug. 24,,wife of a merchant sent him a (halls. Spectators could watch day morning, Dec. 4 at 11 a.m.
Charles Foster to commute the courteously stating that he was jo... 15. family moved back to|large bouquet. jthe execution by looking up!A large funeral procession}:
death sentence to life imprison-| prepared to die. Wave County, locating at| Callahan selected three through the grated floor. | proceeded from the residence of
ment. Two thousand citizens| In most churches in town,|/p.-,gice, and then moved tolfriends to be present at his|,\¢ 11:40 Sheriff Coulter ac-/Callahan’s father, to the church,
: ; : . | : 2 : P “ek ied by two _ other ic ,
including clergymen, business-|prayers were offered UP. CON-|/ Wooster in 1875. He was six feet/execution. They were Dennis choritte then to the Catholic cemetery on
men, newspaper editors and tinuously for ene sake| +311, weighed 160 pounds. Lenders, 3aceb Mougey and! sueriffs, shy lag Pega maets cell, the hill south of Wooster, where
jurymen who had served at/and the public attitude was| 7. father, Michael, was a na-|James McCanna. Sp. Ankiv. thes batdeuted hin i Calla 5% was na: :
4 5; ‘‘Democrat” records Fr.
Callahan's trial signed this peti-; mainly sympathetic. ‘tive of County Clare, Ireland. Friends Give Assurance | :
tion. _ |) The young man was placed in| who had Scnlivated to the Unit-|. His friends urged him to keep en A. gg the procession to) ankly stated that Callahan had
The governor delayed his a cell apart from the other'ed States in 1852, where hejup his hopes but Callahan did|” Gajjahan kept his eyes on an|..00W. atoned with his. young
decision giving careful con-: prisoners in the side front of the;pecame owner of a small farm.jnot expect a last-minute ebony and gold crucifix carried life the crime of which he was
sideration to the pleas, but didi building where he was out of|John was the second child ofireprieve. His whole family|hy Fr. Ankly and said nothing, Convicted, and the supremacy of
not withdraw the -. sentence.|sight, but he could still hear thejfive. ©. - “stayed with him from three to!~he condemned man stepped the law is vindicated. It remains
Wednesday ~ evening . Sheriff/construction of his gallows. || Monday morning under/five o’clock Thursday; this WaS!ypon the platform, looking pale ifor us to forgive him, which
Coulter, who. held the young; The Democrat described the;Colonel Asa Mattice - oftheir last time together. ,but calm. His hands and feet|Means, in regard to him, to for-|
man in- custody, received ajprisoner: ‘‘His‘ face was sad,|Cleveland work began on the| Friday was known as Black! were bound and the noose was/get.’
telegram from Governor Coulter|and his eyes had a mournful/gallows. - The. scaffold’ was|Friday throughout Wayne ginned over his head. Callahan’ “Rev. Fr. Ankly pronounced |”
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saying, .“‘Let the law. take its|look, pitiful in expression, He/finished on Wednesday. The|County. It was Callahan's last!<said he had no last words, the benediction, and thus closed
course.”’:* » - a : evidently makes a strong men-|gallows was constructed at the|day. Callahan was dressed in|kicssed the crucifix. and theithe funeral rites ies entnr. : eae
Citizens - were divided on|tal effort to.. bear up. He wasinorth end of the upper hall of|the new black broadcloth suit!njack cap was drawn over od baa aa veut Callahan,” _ ARTISTS DRAWING of the early —
opinions of the . governor’s|calm, patient, not talkative, but|the jail inside the two-and-a-half/and shoes purchased for the face - \the newspaper account conclud- was graphic representation for readers of the
decision; many believed that|seemed to like to be talked to.|foot wide corrider railed off in|execution. Si Instant Death ~y oot. .
Callahan. was receiving. more He said he often thought of his|front of the cells. =. Mass was held at St. Mary’s' Fr Ankly began reciting the-—~— ~ ——~~~ ~~ —~—————--—-- —
PRA a ees Se a Rivers ae ~~" \Lord’s Prayer, Sheriff Coulter! -
: : ;stepped one pace to the rear!
ae eye i ae . ‘and sprung the lever. “John!
J raugne, Corwisclez Kbicde t aie x Cite A ALLY ’ 'Callahan’s ody.” recorded the}
4 ray Bore putieli 4 eee | i“Democrat,”:-.‘‘shot - down}
ppoecr_épraees) IP ha x Cre, aay jthrough the space for six feet).
: f* AK ‘and stopped with a dull thud of!
the rebounding rope.” . !
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Callahan’s neck. was broken‘ / he Ped bene? AL fice QUAL KK vee
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and death was practically in-:
.Stanlanéous....The - physicians ®
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Type SUVAES 0F MOKPER,
BOSTON ‘ : 38
and Hugh Montgomery, soldiers in his Majesty’s 29th regiment of foot,
for the murder of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James
Caldwell, and Patrick Carr, on Monday evening, the 5th of March, 1770,
at the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize, and general gaol
delivery, held at Boston. The 27th day of November, 1770 by adjournment.
Before the Hon. Benjamin Linde ... taken in short-hand by John Hodgson.
Boston, printed by J. Fleeming and sold at his printing office, MJDCC,LXX
11770}. DLC, MH-L.
217 p. 19.5 cm. sewn. appendix: p. 211-17; index to witnesses: p. 210;
errata list: p. 209. There were reprints in 1807 and 1824.
Boston, Patience
A faithful narrative of the wicked life and remarkable conversion
of Patience Boston alias Samson; who was executed at York [Me.]...
July 24th, 1735, for the murder of Benjamin Trot of Falmouth . . . a child
of about eight years of age, whom she drowned in a well. With a preface
by the Reverend Mess. Samuel & Joseph Moody . . . . Boston, printed and
sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green... , 1738. MHi, MWA. .
2 pl, 1-35 p. 16.5 cm.
Patience was part Indian, twenty-three years old, and a life, according to her
confession, of swearing, lying, and drunkenness lay behind her. She ended it ~
with this senseless murder.
124 Bowen, George
Report of the trial of George Bowen, for the murder of Jonathan
Jewett, who committed suicide on the gth of November, 1815, while con-
fined in the common gaol of the county of Hampshire, under sentence
of death for the murder of his father.... Printed at Northampton, tMass.1, a
1816. MWA, MH-L, NHi. a
56 p. 22 cm. sewn. By Fred A. Packard.
Bowen, a prisoner with Jewett, who was under sentence of death, advised Jewett
to cheat the gallows by committing suicide. Jewett did just that, and Bowen was
tried for inducing him to do it. He was acquitted.
125 Bowsher, Perry
Life and trial of Perry Bowsher, convicted of the murder of Edwit uy
S. and Ann McVay, who were brutally murdered at the Toll-House, 0° a
% 126
BRADLEY 39
the Columbus Pike, five miles north of Chillicothe, on the night of Oct.
26, 1877. Chillicothe, O., Edward Kauffman, 1878. PCMc.
16 p. illus. plan. 23.6 cm. pict. wraps. cover title; port. on cover.
The double murder of an aged couple by a youth who was robbing them and
who had been twice confined in insane asylums. He was sentenced to be hanged
for this crime.
/126 Boyd, Jabez
An account of the arrest, trial, conviction and confession of Jabez
Boyd for the murder of Wesley Patton. By a gentleman of the neighbour-
hood. Philadelphia, T. K. & P. G. Collins, printers, 1845. DLC, MH-L,
NNF.
15 p. 23cm. plain wrap.
The victim was beaten to death at Westchester, Pennsylvania, while being
robbed. Boyd was arrested in church “with a hymn book in his hand, and from
which he was singing with apparent composure.” He was hanged.
127 Boyington, Charles R. S.
A statement of the trial of Charles R. S. Boyington, who was in-
dicted and executed for the murder of Nathaniel Frost. Written by him-
self. 'To which is added a number of fugitive pieces, in verse, also written
and composed by him. Mobile, printed at the office of the Mercantile Ad-
vertiser, 1835. CSmH, CtY, DLC, NHi, ScC.
40 p. 22.5cm. plain wraps.
Boyington had the misfortune to be seen walking with Frost shortly before the
latter was stabbed to death and robbed. The evidence seems slight and almost
entirely circumstantial.
128
The last hours’of Charles R. S. Boyington who was executed at
Mobile, Alabama for the murder of Nathaniel Frost perpetrated May 10,
1834. Mobile, printed at the Commercial Register Office, 1835. AMob.
44 p. 18cm. plain wrap.
Bradley, Edward E.
Report of the trial of Edward E. Bradley, indicted for the murder
of Lucius H. Foot, before the Superior Court of Connecticut, held at Litch-
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From the Si Cioy Cuzeltle
( Chillicothe Ohio)
Case of Perry Bowsher , /878
Fi fe with Ohio.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
July 7, 1899,
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SHANGMAN RECORD. _ ee
| is Number of. ‘Watens Pay the Poualty. bad
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€ TNCINN ATE: Ji ay aero Boweter,, who
raunbered ‘en's yeas, keaper aud his
@, last October, eS
hanged tteday at “Ch Weoibs ar the
etice ofa darge erawde: He went quietly to
the seaffuld, refused yellgious cdremouies and
inaintalned a defiant attitude to the last. :
Charleston News
and Courier June 22,1878
re that we have @ tariff bill pening
leon, Suche ab ALE CAMP DPOB wey
intended to reliews the distread of the
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dle of Napoleon’) son, painting and bust
of Napolgon andj the entire family ; also,
Napoleon's military carriage, used in his
Russian ¢ampaign and captured on the
eve of the battle of Waterloo, The
Chamber! of Harrors contains many an-
cient relids, amohg which is’ the original
guillotine) (knife pnd lunette) that decapi-
lie fuduatriee are all paralyzed] ‘Totm-| tated 22,900; ajnong the number were
a tarif bill now only adde to tiie agita; | Louis XKI., Refbespierre and others, I
. makes things worse. 7 anpyjose i tonk occapion to feel the edge of the knife,
ste Vom”
Belgum, etc. h ae ee
1 lave been at so many plakes of inter:
est that I can not give a detail in so brief
The following} ate the chief
Palace and Gardena of Luxem-
, Tuilleries, Louvre, Hotel Dea In-
valides, (Napoleon's Tomb), Versailles,
(to the Fountains play), and, its gar-
dens| and palaces, St. Cloud, Cathedral
St. Denis, (where over thirty Kings |
ucens are contained in Vaults under
vurch), The Madeline, Notre Dame,
con, Pere le Chaise, (Cemetery),
1 Dieu, (rgest Hospita in the city),
Triumph, Column Vepndgome, Grand
a House, (cost $12,000,000), Fort
tt Velerian, Mont Martre, Theatre
Heville, Hippodrome,/ up and down
arious Boulevards, Squares, etc.
bin about ready to leave; Will stop
ashort time on my return. There
lome five or six places} which I desire
lo see. Everything is\very expensive
There is not one thing as cheap as
America, except it may be wine,
er is very scarce. here—I almost
sh for a drink of gopd{ cool water,
sa very scarce article hae fact
ly to bg had at any, price. Every-
thins seems cheap, but ypu et so little
that) it makes it very highin the end.
Gold watches are not as cheap ar as good
as American, Infact American watches
are | entirely superceding | all others.
Strdwberries are very plentiful; I never
saw|them so large as they ard here. ig
sell| for 40 centimes (8 cents) per half
kilo] (about one pound). Potatoes sell by
weight. : |
PS May eer ee Sf ee
by bande of music compored of drame
mado of barrels, and tio horas, with
immense basa viols keeplog ap &
great nolee and dast. These were
followed by wagons contaiolog carl-
catores of the various branches of
trade, sach aa opbolsteries, clothicg,
dry goods and hat stores, cigar manu-
factories, saloons, etc. Bat perhaps
the most lacgbable was the caricature
of the Dayton police force. Thies was
a wegon, or dray, bearing = large
chicken crate with a man inelde, and
the police with their immense|billye”
goarding the cage on the -oatelde
The akill with which they were got-
ten up elicited general applanse from
the crowds of byatanders. a
After the procession of the * Tade”
there was another general rosb for
the Home ‘and Fair Groand, which
partially cleared the streets. The
races at the grounds were very good, |:
Cepeciaily the chariot race, wbich,| will be made from the price marked
from its novelty, attracted more at: | Gas NS iatatea ti yD tea
from us and not proving satisfactor)
FROM OUR,
Have Been Ablo (8 Supply
IMME
Shen
ight) And what'kind®of a tarjf! DUI f
pretended that it ls to increase ho} rel
ut Teay it will redace the rev pours ©
ory. (Of all times, thie la the lant whe
Id agitate @ change of the- thrift. | Th
| isin a state of Aisquistude and want
om perhaps for the next two wepke dis It is still Quite slharp enough to do injury. |
cio tariff bill Bat the people| do no June 1pth,—Visited Westminster Ab- i
I will ventare to say that therp ta not | bey this 4, m. Divine service way being
“ip. tables @ petition coming fran) thp| held. ‘Phe gran}! old organ and binging
-f£the chantry asking that thqre Ie b gave us Helightful music. After service
) the revenue laws, Iwill vettute t buildjng was thrown open to
there is not «desk in thie hall that d the publi¢, I ean not do justice to this
ain lettere upon letters begging Cou- | building. Like Phe Queen of Sheba once
to interfere with the question | ” | said, “thejhalf hag not been told.” By pay-
ed (addressing Mr, Wright, wlio spokt ing six p¢nce we were conducted through
Republican side of the Hons), You | the chap@ls cont
hining the remains of the
4 part of your padionce with you
B We 3
do'so at once, while out assortment
We. hark all our goods in plain
9 —.»—
the enti
ila advise tho who have
, royal fanfilies. Jt was a very solemn and
right. ° I came‘over hore in ordpr to gat | impressive foccmion to me, England's
conragoment. {Langhter.] When se
b of Congrena is called to the chaosiders-
s change in the tariff laweby petition,
ie our daty to Hetén to and dbey the
will, bat in beaven’s namp dd not dip-
Dusiness of the conatry with gn agita-
rulers for centurles back are all collected
here in this immense building. The dif-
ferent kings and queens, with their chil-
dren, all,-are here in vaults, “Outside of
the royal chayels are~ hundreds and
hundredd of th¢ remains of England's
thls kiod, when !¢ ts fa & worge condi: most fan men and women, I[ was
1 it baa been at any {period for] thd abt much interested: when at the vault of
yeare, Can not you permit |the man Join and Chafles Wesley. Here we
engaged in the industries of {he conh” also found the tomb of Major Andre,
‘ave @ voice in the formation] of |laya Lyell, (gtologist ; Dickens, (vault covered
otonly affect them, but the whdle doun- with fresh flowets); Grote, the historian;
{tthe part of wisdom to keep quem ina Hallam and others, requiring too much
. atate of ‘alarm? ‘They kfow) not space to pive thm, It seemed to me as
to step-or p 1 Yow to buy oe hol though | was | ving in the dark, bygone
y * i) aves. Here England honors her illustri-
Better for the trade and proaperity Pf) 00 dead My living. Iti
le did Congress never assomble. | The Cys dead As ws las living. 2 is &n ine
anelement totdietarb. Tt eda not be centive and stimplus to her people to emu- \
vie . late these noble Head. Our country cer- |)
to let woll¢nough alone, Trade, man: i: wht to} take example from this. |/174
+, labor, and all the Iadbstried arp the _—. one” hgieveley i Ly by “WWyuh
itp. m, I]visited’ London Tower. Ue
ort of political adventare. Itivstabilily | ‘Phis stricture if’ said to have been com- | era
lisposition not to change that amsares | enced by Caesar ([ulius)—so says Shak- ave
tty amd gives laber to the un speare ; |sonie aifthorities say William the Ga
» our people engaged in the | Conquetor. «‘I'its structure is in the east- jexe:
he situation and conform to it, ern part| of the|city, quite separate from ma
moans constant trouble, and w the busy life of the city, by what is called bie
sa desire to voluuteer ina ma Tower [Ii 7 covers twelve. acres of knd
thoowseolittiot or. ground and is suprounded by a deep ditch, put
gentiomen on this side must no now. us as a gyrden. On the river side pay
de, because Ihave come over is an entrancd called Traitor’s Gate, ‘
| apesch, thiag I have abandoned through] which persons of state were con- pal
ete tir Pram tl veyed &fter thpir trial, Within this wh
4 nds with gentlomen. on
tention than the others The balloon
ascension wae.an ¢ntire any ‘The
balloon is said to bave n the |:
largest ever made, contulolog 40 000
feet of gas. Ppa age} ;
One of the greatest attractions at ;
the Fair Grounds was the phono- "|
graph, which was po exbibition there, rae ast
and which we “took in.” Thin little
inetrament seema very simple, bat i
the wonders the operator mado it per-| .
torm for our edification, io the way of O N
hard
money refunded. a bai
+ o
—~_-— 0@e _)
_ [Dedham (Mfase.) Trangcript.}
PERRY BOWBSHER.
re received the following through the
', under date of Chillicothe, Ohio,
b 26th, 1878: “Publisher of Dedham
nscript. We send you jby. this day's’
1 a copy of our paptr,) (the Sctoro
berre,) containing an account of the
tution of Perry Bowsher,. We have
kéd a point in which he referred to an
irrence in your neighborhood. If you
w anything in relation) thereto, and
lish it, please send us ajcopy of your
er. Raper|& Wore.’
aturday afternoon's mail brought the
er,a large and well prepared sheet,
ch contained a long report of the last
rs of Bowsher, and an dccount of his
talking, were traly marveloas, and E .
more than worth the admiseton fee. |
The Home, seen at night, and lit ‘|
up with: 15,000 lights, was a tcese
that surpasses our powers ot descrip- af
tion; the conservatory and garden Sn me Coa
being lit-ap In the forme of stares} 0D.
circles, crossea And various other
pretty devices. The fireworks were ;
very grand, and were considered the AND Ol
. ‘ . ¢
PRICE
27 | Pp
1 a
piv?
pdugtrics
Constant
by should
ter her
init 6
hete |to
ay dolgrs
arfghtor.j
this| side
best ever displayed there.
Another very interesting part of the
roceedings wae the parade of the
ittle folke, which was postponed
ontil Friday on acconnt of the death
of one of their number on Thareday.
stricture we firid numerous buildings, hoy
fey join me in opposition tos
yntalos in it no‘featare which q
Upon that subject I am, with ¢
carlossly, and earnestly; and fo
Webster arid on one occasion,
as come‘up from the tand or th
achangd or an interference w
evenucs of this country by the
a bill to remodel the tariff. .
1o avch application, No petit
understand, bag come from tbe
yontry asking for a change of.
of * That ts so!"'}
Dwight, Is not thie change prq
mooratio majority of this Housed
Wright. Lhave no hand nor pi
That I aseare the gentleman of
he
6 Be
Irnor
jp os a
tariff bil
an affard
jem hans
p thé reas
iat (no
bh abk.
th regard
introdac-
0. has
n,.|ao far
t
peapla of
be 6 sa
|
\>y
~-
rt nor lat’
a thie party, thas arral
of itexown members, no
ical Qdampaigo has com
ite the intelligence of “th
classes” by mock tend
rmest sympathy,” aod
encdd,
labdr-
raf ite
y fresh
rises ot relief. “upon ite] ascend
_to powor.”. Bat let aa
bat this is the party of
retrenchment! Having
revenues ot the Govers
atening legislation, they ryyatd
eaary to redace expenditures.
s they attempted by.catti
for-
omy
ripipled
ent by
it
g down
riee--not thé. $50,000 stipend |of
President, of the $8
inet officers, or the $5.0
: of Congress, or the. $i
OO of the clerks and ba
of-the
of mem-
200'| to
an offi-
. .No; they foand. th¢t under
ablican extravagance a
agement iaborera and
he Government service |
J $720 per ‘year. Her
nee to sconomize; aod. t
aof Congress who. say
idall’s apesch on back Ff
y can not live in Washing
five month’ in the yea
wo $5,000, cnt dowa: the
se mea to $600, And.¢
rmest aympathy ts extend
d | mis-
latclinien
pide Me.
ay)! that
toa four
od leed
pay | of
till “our
bd to tbe
namely {| Barrac
St. Peter's Tow
Tower, (where
nephews), the,
the Duke of Cl
butt of Malm
(where | Lady ]
the Begucham}
Anna gel
warriors and s
soned gr murd
walls. [We we
armorigs and. j
extra sijilling: (t
acted fpom each
that in} Londo
you arg expect
you ser eat, ore
nothing, free ir
subject} In the
lection jof arm¢
the cighteenth
beth’s armory i
ics. Ith stone w
It cbaehiad the
Scott was im
which [Lord L
seen here. Th
the crown jew4
contained inal
which we must
description. Af
of ‘the liewels: i
Queen Victorial
The ehtire vd
amounts to mil
June) 13th.—)
Palace /this moq
don Bridge ; fa
mission, first-ch
secondtclass, t
one sijilling si
people} travel
ferencd is
seats im the ¢
in third:class.tl
tances|I woul
class. | The v
of the finest’ ir
gardens and
lakes, tropical
bwel-house, for which an
,
hirmory we tind a full col-
room in which Sfr Walter
i pass and listen to their
thi}:
h prefer first or second-
ew. from Crystal is
Walks, statues, fountains.
ks, Armory, Jewel-house,
rr, White Tower, Bloody
Richard ITY. murdered his
Bowyer Tower, (where
rence was drowned “in a
by’); the Brick Tower,
ine Gray sas confined);
Tower, (the prison of
Many ; kings, queens,
atesmen have been poi-
red within these historic
e conducted through the
venty-five cents) was ex-
I might say right here
‘and England generally
d to pay for everything
rink. There is absolutely
free England, To our
r fromm the thirteenth to
century, Queen Eliza-
filled with arms and_rel-
alls are fourteen feet thicks
ured. “The blotk upon
vat was executed is also
Jewel-house contains all
ls of England. They are
urge circular case, around
nong the most prominent
the coronation crown of
worth if” gold $600,000.
jue of all the jewelry
ions of dollars.
tisited Sydenham Crystal
ging. ‘Took-gars.at Lon-
@, including price of ad-
ss, two shilfings six pence;
vo. shillings 3 third-class,
k pence, Nearly all the
tird-class. » The only dif-
in, the first-class the
ars are , cushioned, while
ey are not.: For long dis-.
xdcution, which took place in the prison
at Chillicothe, forthe murder of a man
uamed McVey, the purpdse being rob-
bery. ‘The ‘prisoner | was convicted
through evidence furnished by, bis brother
brother-in-law, resididg in that place,
Appears that: Bowsher’ made a visit to
astern States as‘a tramp, and had
traveled with O'Brien's Circus under
name of ‘Thomas, and stated that he
k arrested and confined in Dedham
as an accomplice in |a| highway rob-
¥, the principal bein man named
3ajley. Their victim, (nd name given,)
wak killed. He claimed tNat) after three
months’ imprisonment he Was tried and
c uitted. ‘He indirectly acknowledged
iis guilt.” The account says that he re-
turned home on the roth of, last October.
uiries have been made of Mr. Turnkey
rite at the prison, who has no remem-
dnce of any such case, and a consulta-
1 of the books revealed po such name
(hotnas as a prisoner | fdr the last five
is. = ‘Ihe only two undxplained mur-
3s we remember as happening in this
pnty are the Messengef murder and
bery at Norfolk, and|the supposed
nicide in Walpole, the femains being
erwards identified as| those of an old
n from: Boston, who | wandered away
irdin home. ‘Take the fact that the man
ave Dedham, Mass., as |tlie place of his
tarceration in prison, and the fact that
he jailor, we
“Sheriff Thomas was
ve atheory that the fellow, was some
hmp, arrested by Constable Bailey and
ht over for three months| and got things
xed just before his final }'taking-off” at
nillicothe. ti :
2
[Tronjon Regtéter.)
Last Friday, Rev. E. V. Bing was.
fore the Probate Coort on a writ of
aQne
Great Britain—delightful
rees and plants, Egyptian,
1an sculpture, copies of al
r. Forgey ae bis lawyer to resiet the
Hort to’ prove bim) mentally de-
racged. Eot. Nigh app red in the at-
rmativé. . There were! aboat fifteen
itneeses examined, anfi the ioqairy
took about four houra.| The general
ift of the testimony was that Mr.
x lunatico inguirendo., He employed
¢
fi
children ander eight yeare old, and
some little ones who had to be hauled
in small open carriages. They were
dressed in various coatames, to repré-
sent the different characters whictt
they assumed, and made a very bril-
liant show. Atter the parade they
were served with ice cream and cake
by some of the kind mammas who
had helped to get up the thiog, and
they all seemed to enjoy the evening
very much. .
There wos very little drankenness
in the city considering the immense
crowd of visitors (which wae estimated
at 25,000); and althoogh every one
was at liberty tojmake all the noice
he cuald, and fire every kind of fire-
arm, trom’ cannon down. ‘to fire-
crackera and torpedoes, there whe
not a eingle fire ib the city daring the
|
day. .
Most of the extursioniste from over
the narrow guage left Thareday eve-
ning by the 5o’clock train, although
some atayed antil Friday, and even
Satarday. The trip was very enjoy-
able, and satisfactory to all who went,
eapecially eo to
One or THE Boys.”
ir} 3 O° e
AS BECOME OF THE
TRAMPS ? -
To the Editors of The Scioto Gazette : ;
Ao army of tramps have infested
our neighborhood up to Jane 15, wheo
all at once they disappeared No
farmer, eo far as, am acqaaloted, hae
had ao application from soy of the
gaog for labor or food since harvest
commenced.. Laborers have been
scarce and the harvest abandant, Cao
it be possible that’ all thore pitifal
WHAT H
it be that they did not want labor?
If they really did, where are they now
that labor is abandant? Are the citics
blessed with. their refloiog social in-
pleadings for labor were a sham ¢ Cao]
QE
This was compdsed -principally of | SI LZ
|
WE NOW
Having Determined to
SUMMER Cl
~. For Men,
—l or —
Boys al
OFFER . OUR
; . AT SUCH
LOW PI
f .
As to assure the ready salejof them in tim
stock of Winter [Clothing now |
Alpaca and Li
SUMMER UNI
Fur
hin
.
nis
Gooa
Sam A Tem
JED~ Byuly /OS878
Greek Ror
the maAstérpiec
ancient times
somewhat disa
the Phlace.
and v4cant pla
tine and kept i
In the eveni
rvoring classes!"
svéclingarcipaence wemie
The—Waverly Watchma
her Jadge Harper or. Gdn, Huret
It be the Republican nofinte for
ogress in this diertlet. Nelther ot
eee gentlemen regard thempelves
candidates or are ecekin
bs of all the sculptors in.
Is well as modern. 1 was
ppointed in the exhibit at
t has’ many vacant rooms
res. ‘The aquarium, is very
r excellent conditign.
ng 1 paid a visit to the Lon-
don Aquariun}. © Itis a very large build-
ing-ndar West}ninster Abbey,. The dis-
play Of aquatig life was very meager and
‘wak: very jmuch disappointed. “The
aquarium at. $ydenham Palace was far
superior in variety and taste. The Lon-
don aqjvarium {has an amugement hall in
ite cegter whidh seems to be the great: at-
traction.
| In ie t
ba | sae
everybody dri
tea of} canted, are fi
and genteel,
oblished | men | Beggarp
in London,. 3
vit tee ht
ing had for many years shown symp-
me tbat did not beldng to a sane
an, and that latterly [bese had. be-
me more frequent god alarming.
is talk was wandering and incobe-
nt, and bie gesticalations were wild
nd often very fantastic. He was
ery fassy, disposed tojeoter toto all
inds of: bargains and never.thiokiog
t them. afterwards.) Several minis-
era, and many of bis) peigbbore,.ap-
eared as witnesses, & yews belief,
ithout exception, waa that Mr. Bidg
as more or lesa derangdd and anit
or the transaction of the ordinary af-
aire of life. And, eo the Court re-
arded him. He waa ordered to be
aken to the Athens Asylam, and
tarted last Saturday... | |
DO fleet
NATIONAL BLESSINGS AND
PYBLIC BTA
flaence? Has eome pestilence ewept
them all to glory ?
b bie
North Union.
BARGAINS ATT NO.
——o0—
{Waverly Repablicas.) \
TheS8..J. & P. road tast approaches
completion. The ends of the fron|
from this side are withio one mile of
the completed track from Springfield,
with two- bridges over Palnt onder
constraction, the one nearly fisished
and the abatments of the otber ander
way.* : .
Gen. Jones invited ae to ride oat ae).
far as the road goes from this place,
last Tuesday, and after atartiog wo
learned that the Commlesionere of
Clark county were to be met at Bain-
bridge, coming to. view oar Waverly
sandaione, with) the idea af’ asiog it
on a court-hoase aboat to be con
stracted at Spriogfield,-at a cost of
er Dress Go
——— 0 =
bs selected 30 pieces
ioh will be sold att
h 30 centa, Just rec
it “50 Pieces of Sum
aad
lare, Caffa, a
Parsecis tm Silk, Alpaca Ln Gingham.
Drees and Domestic Gingham, Shirting, Stripes, Chech
Prices always as low.aa the lowopt. J
ake a strong canvase,« ‘3
rd make weefal. members.
Pale ah ve ntne (aie
A thoroagh whipping has bad
e effect on the eecossaion Heri
|
Ae era ODE
yg
>
>» my hotel I met many
enon the streets. Here
ks. ‘Fhe bars, as they are
hl of women—well dressed
nany of them—as Well as
I have met none thus far
hoe-blacks and newsboys
oor tat , 7 o ke evar *
lowers.
he ance: '
A
1 lia alae ENG tke 1S
TM Sc10 TO ¢ GAZETTE.
| bee bia fadaey we odd stadia,
other property, cara’ wan taken -/to
Pero a Southeastern QUSE IN WHICH THE W'VEY: MORDER “ms 1
|road ‘Time T ble. : $300 referred to was fonud ft’ the | and confdene
WAS. COMM weat end of the counter, wrap pped In | which: thes' live:
’ , Pp
.|®@ paper and thraat sbetween the. up-| than’ Edman 8.
tight pleee of ecantling sapperting | © The Cleciqra’
URNPIKE ‘the cowhter and the wall, and jras no: | asaya of them
taken from the wall, aa) hap. ‘heen.| ote, MaVey hwa
a “tated Tre fact of ‘ita hein: thera ‘eboda tite: jbo poe
| bh wae koown ‘eply to three, ereoca, voosa tye hath vt
| Mr. McVey. himself, bis brother.) Mr. | Vey," and to aptak
| Rs George McVey, whom he Informed mens on. apa? fe
>. 7 " 9 agi. Xenla Junctton of 6.42 abont a year ago, aod Mr Sahib ads Ttstentectian: bat ba
ls 7 50 1 121 “ Ceear'e Croth. rl ees President of the Tarnpike’ Company, | congratulating then:
fl eee 7] 6.08
\W STY # on | 2 [Edgefield , .).. the old man having stowa him where mannerin which Pr
: ‘ LES Me bee = 37 | Allene Supe. 6 bi] 3 34 it wana fow montha ego. When, Mp, | domes The twa ho:
| lie etme ah otis | two handdewe exfftiv:
Crad we 910 11190 e |Wastinge ii 6.)5) 4.55 » Boggn arrived at the houen on Salar-| of Me! Melis The «
Ade, 33 Tatepesdioep.. | day morning, be went immediately tay | Howers —
4 k ; | the i‘ {hands of each pela
~ aif 133), } 0 Froshanit. 4 Oe I 353 $OM . nad, - draw 16, .Sete | SCN Asan Imnvense| thro
KX oer |Meematmen'al-- || 3 49 $7870 wae foand in the & dren” hears, taking s|ipat
: ——e_Chilicetbe - 4 3.15 drawer, which was broken open; and | rene faces, one goati
; |] wer aonb tere effect from and sted Meaday. Oote- was in four separate packages, i nl scene to the gu'ifa «
conmhreysinesiienaanc 4 be waa { ? s : ‘} had been fondlly|loe
{| Hayx oa Saws Ghlemtinh oon. “ overlooked, by the thief.) ih.'4)] nad been prepatipg *
q MORE. AMMU r ject helng larger game, As wo lewith.| aaa the eadject pras
9 I MUNITION than anv lathe: ‘explain farther along: The allwer) faneral sermon. | ‘I
\ ; ouee fn the city. The rensoniia, bin watch 5 «Velock yeaterd4y a!
k q atch and the pocket hook gontain- h
eops THE BEST that! mondy can > firge, enterteingd £
J? - ‘buy; eel Ant bt ‘ | "8 838 in, bank notes, was fonnd in’ prv'ased by the dager
; mee b at reasonable prices sells Re the “bed under or pear the pillhve, boa'les of peopld ¢ve
Che ab. pa mt Dever miareprepenta Laat Those soma make » total of #416 7 70} ‘he asnetnibes
| . ¢ aiwaye accommodating tp ea: - “On Monday last, Me. Wm. B, Mi: ‘a, ‘of ths largeaq bh
Hotel) | _— Hirest; oper Bader’ ‘ae administrator on the éa'ate tdo'e | eean in Crilvigot
ie.M rket ! : ad ‘ ‘with him three anpraisere, and ap: thon. On Saya
} aia praised the property, In going | @rtl! the ret.)yv
through the atock of groceries and the hoare, the
portion of |Phi:
o'clock the Ct oer)
| | HILLICOTHE, ‘duo. ‘ search for eoms government honda
‘hwhich it wae known ‘that Mr. McV ey honee, tut ha nel
fa a health. WEDN ESDay, OCTOBE R 31,|1877. had in hia possecaion, avd whilaex-; Ver alroady ‘
tured by een rt tacanpercrs wa Suen money > amining.the eteck in the ator at the’ cemeter
mc 9 room, , .
. Im, a LO AL MATTER S: ite additional lota’of tr oney were meee at ahi was
‘ ' an ound, $5.80 mixed in. with packages | SPAE sacha frye
| we lite son of L. B. [Armiey died of gronnd vepper in » bor, $1445 in | MOM in thia le t
ety suddenly of a brain} diseade on silver, in two packages, hid away on | 99. |
“J i ; -
P am se aie i:: Sunday night. He had been troubled a shelf, bebind some buxea, and 86.71 Mr. aa Mi
it x epee: ren with a spinal affection for 4 long time, Aagnjekels and coppark in a stocking | D4 wife and idh:
e ut went to bed on.Sunddy: erdning ) foot on the flgor, ander'some rope, &e at the faneral ,
poner ithout boy appearance | of ‘being 1. poset m. i ir ema by the MeV ey's, 3.—Room oc culpied ‘And row aa to te main object. of ville, Ohio, imi
"’ gallery | Worse, and soon after expiged without by Alice Dean. 1-—Nitchen, Abe Dpore. B—Windows.— the thief . Thies was undoubtedly to of beg.
1.73 per strugeld. Bo—W indow [Prous mt wh entrance wae fected. Be-- Window -through | 89¢ Possession of the bonds alladed J “ne Mra Mes \
‘Iptypes at cn | which (Alice Atean escape C--Deok. D—-Counter, E—lody | to above. It has been known to'n he funeral} ep
e | The fir t grand excursion on the D. | of a ¥ eM. F}—Chhir occupied) by Mrs.| McVey. G—Stove.-- | few ot his friends—and bat few—thac Hy tho’ Rev, y
PERTY |: 8, E/ Ri It, in which Chillicotheans | !—Bureau. |) 1-C\ nter Table, K—Bed: occupied by Alice Deia,— Mr. MeVey had aboat $1.700 of thar | Marks were! bt
ave had we opportunity to pantici- L—Bed occupied by the MeVe S. M—Tble at which supper was taken, class of eecnrities. Ie'was alwaye in and made a gd.
Fr. ate, co | 2 off. next Thi eday It N—ki nea Safe. O—F ence ’—Plank over which Alice Dean reathed | the hablt of pleading poverty in order audiente. |
EN I A peed th Yayton and thel Soldjers' the turnpike. a \ | | to keep the knowledge of bie having eee ort | has
| Molbprrv and Hick- | }Tome, an . ° | |, iute. ai any movey trom being known. Of their long bone
a mh convenl- ie ’ many persons, 4re ma King it i DELS y nh | jo which the crime was cominitted | bot one bond, a $500 teu-forty can } Were apending
ae @0 feet, fron. ie arrangements to take in |.the | | 1| are few, and are ‘all necessarily bf 4 | any knowledge be Sea as to whon or livea jn a quijed.
ath eee ont mon oh of the Narrow jauge| on | | circamstantial nature. —— taw he became possessed of them that happiness '
a ' j | c i ‘
"at low. > Len at day. | | ; | | . oe of the premises wo) The history of this bood Jia about as | Sealy by the bh
Srey f ; ave come to the conclusion that the Me me ,
reo. W TAYLOR. Joseph |Knaup, enginesy of enpine ' » (follows: Mr, MeVey, anme yenra since | MAY come to} b
ned 30, oh thd fi ra R Ri whilel at E.S. McVey and his\Wif Mur mee as ies a rae? asi/any | borrowed the adm of ong thousand sakura» aby
° ; ry 8 been advanced: It isjwell] dollars trom his - that at somy fi
‘ i . m his nephew,IMr. DN.
nding td some ‘duty on! he engine, dered i m Cold ‘Bloo aettled that an entrance wae ior Dawley, who now resides ia Logan trlended blun or||
: n ia ri : on Friday lapt, had | bis | elther throagh the wiodow on|-the|Qbio Foatead of giviog,« mortgage Below we give |
td i :
ot caught between the pilot and'the south a de of the kitchen, marked Bb | he sold to him the propetty on Water | (ll am elicited
r il, fractuti ing the lower bone of the Mrs; McV ey Shot D wn While on the tagram, or throagh thé door street in this city. in which he teslded: qacst,
lag, and) sgverely injuring his ankle. along side of it, which coald be very | for the sum of #2000 and ab agree Allie Dean.-!
a a 4 i . | r : ;
Under.the bare of Dr. B.. F. Mecca is Ple ding for he Life easily opened by raising the window | ment was madé between them that | 2th dav of
i¢ doing. vary well. . | | | and rebkching throagb, elip the bolt. | the McVoys were to rémalo as oceu Mr. and Mr.
riers i | P the distance between the window/aud pante ander certain conditions Me B els a
Contmo Pleas Court cobvened| on| NO CLUE YET|TO TRE MURDERERS. door belong only abouteighteon inghes. Dawley needing money, wrote to hia |p i iene '
Tpeedey, lier Minshall | presiding, . | : | | ae of the se and imme diately uncle asking if he could not got. som dear L rd,
r a wonder, all the Grdad Jurors On Ftiday night of lant weet es rc ue window is a roagh wodden one to take the property uff hie hands asd ery ‘
suminoned were present, and promptly toll-gats on the ‘Colamijas ttenpike aye o even coming pretty well UP | Mr. McVey broached:the matter to bent wore
r t .
ER ON, ptoceeddd to business. Che day was| in Greeh township, abont toariand a Me ee | fy a . | Mt. Wan. B. Mille,-who eotered inio a,| cooter table
0 cupied i calling *the dacket, and | half miles porth of thie clty, there po- eb entering, gar opinion je. that | correspoodence ‘with Mr. “Dawley, pail
iwineer. héaring.|t case. of * Mrs}, Samuel | carred gne of the moat d eadfal mar ne (or, (ey) abe. ee pper at 7 omah ta~ | whieh resulted jo & (rnaster of ‘the bor saa de ‘
singel: 4 Cline, wife lof ex-Commissipner Cline, dere ever heard ot in the anpals of | = ee = winduw at/tte/ property. As: part’ pay ment’ ot the ing on the-d
L for alimo Y: The evidence was crime {| . ee wost end or side of the kitchen, where | pntchaee ,money, Mr. Mills gave to| his bédy, @
Working’ Draw . A Lt | : . 1é
overs ‘ie furnished, | hdard, and the case taken ander- ad- . Earlyjon Setnrday moroing me ‘ore — anne) rave (eons OS: Mt. McVey the. toa- forty United Me fuel. :
ay ates Sag eee visement by ‘the Court. | | ; | terrible! news| lreached. this city that Sie prepesnng to) S eek ex the foot, |S:siee Bond-reterred, to above. Ac sas "eciak
" given to Mapping, : |.) tpbeermeeeninesierree _| | «| Me. and Mra, 5. 'g MeVily had part: of the honse. :Atier wating. te | the time of tte delivery he took. a hid abe
vate pte aes ny a _ A number of arrests in the McVey marderdd. At ja nanal dh each occa- (we payne for to our miada it Ia bet memorendam of the namber and date | of dark c:
CY BUILDING, | ©#Be have been made‘in vari pus parts sions, varions| famors were 8 ris dling oad: thorase lene len sane: whieh may. lead to {ts aa ‘
(ft, OT ofthe country, but as in mq case has | Tegard|tp the articalarn)pf th rant rome) parsed: through | the identification. Of ‘the other bonds, | S70P- }
fa eet there b dwrenldat bet in ono point thie tl toom o¢capied by ite McVeys which | bothing is koown ae yet. + Safad peel
laabu & Edginge ro beon gufficient evidendg to impli- . g pot Ney ia bo 8 higher Jeve) than the kita! The too! df j Hearing bin
tr’s, Sdcond at, cate thein, |the “partion ha HH be were both deal. Repait}ng: ; s ‘ q'eo foe we weed t6r forcing the ba- toto the kis
a all been . and is reached by three or four stepa, [rean drawer were a actow-driver, 1:3 | the hoo
ecend, we fined al
4 .
DK Aine ia
PS Magy seme er | : 7 fe eters ny ‘}. . aT :
-DaYr's WORK. | WwW : : \ , kno¢ked ‘off each dad of the iqclosere| — ; 'e Ake Jo, ig
£ last week, the Sciotd “BO SHER | wot dade the jait and Coart Hpuee, in C ry COUNCIL. ‘Nine
Company brought to thi Pome i +: Fie bla bh. he had been hang, gnd the . Ea SS wae ‘otet “were. mace Iaatdor tice
gersyall paying full fare a. waa allowed (o pasa jhrongh lk . 9 | Mallow ‘of Concord tdwoehip, losing |are yialtin,: f,
ni ther | a Quict Soalcin: $5.00. He bad just bjade a “alepbeal conabates u
W. Bond was in the city
ing -after his Massievilld |. — [-t# in bani: of $60, or
T°. | Cagae ot Batobridge,
lar: meetiog of the |City ge
as held on Monday eve ning!
0; Joe. W. Me- | the way and
12 in’ money, somewher. i
and an order for’ $100; Andrew Pon: |) id
tious, of Green town P, $25 00, and):
George Morrow,| of Upton owmebl, Pe
a watch, ‘he ; Wid.
Pays the Penalty Of sat) view the remaing. } :
Mahe Law! | “Waele Baldwin’ and Ben. ‘Bbwaber,
making preparations for ‘prothera of Bowsher, whd caused
‘op of blackberries... | | his Arrest and were witnesseslagainat
a eal | _
ATL- bim|| were to the city. The former
Eyyauiay..n an Autopsy fae anded the body of Bowsher, bat
* | 8h etiff Mackey oat to d¢liver it}
umn will be found a call |
of the stockholders of the to him, saying, ‘ Yoa hold big blood ; |
bat you will never celi bis boty with
The r
Council
Mr, Vestor 0: ‘Loofb arrow, A poe
mer r::tdent of. this flty, ts Yn the | brain and necro
!
And a Phenol enal Brain. |
ley Railway for the elec
tors. ” pame time he
= re ie d Med bh ant “ich to sqrrender city re. ewing old acqu4intances. si ra ee pale
Jones and his daughter odi ate ia willing board I at Loofbc arrow left here. in 1856; ieee Rivese ie
Chicago, I., are visitin ; it to. the father if he ehoa: eman which time be. sételo d' a6 ssipclate ne pay ph
Olr narrative, laet lweek, of Perry | it, bat to no other member] of the
Bowaber, the mardprer of the MeVeys, | family. At530 the body wa’ baried
beought ns up td the Wednesday | in the Station grave-yard.
morning before the execation, Qo! There wae an immence cfowd ja
Wednesday afterdooa he got io & the dity, bot no disorderly a petoty
+} ment x: guard Jo the|Obfo Peniten- } sch: sam
tlary 5¢ Colambas, opder Mr, Jobn'| Three doses
Ewing of this city thef: Wardeo, and
has be nin’ hal setvice until legis-
lated out aj fow week alnce.. Perry
Boweb or. was under bi care for three
yeara . f hia term.
| vends on Kinnickinnic
, at present the guests o
—ad.: Mr. Jones resided a
ome years ago, and en
al visit to his old home.
SEE as
AL, WEDDING,
ion of the Walnut St. }
the Mill street bridge as
comoléted, and also to make a recom-
mendatioh that as soon as the repair-
repairé and Walter (0)
talkative mood, and while he revealed | tion/was made, except when the body ‘THE Nov
's part of bie life from the time of bie! wasioxpcsed on the street, apd that
Second street bridge was Are made ot
ing of t
escape from the Athens’ Asylam to : a iv
ised their pastor, Rev. A, hie arseet day the deeuder: 0 Gaterve was only the anreasonabie cjowding done that all the bridged be painted, mt They mre a
. wife, on Monday even- Lies nat withtel b | ‘we 2 . always incident to sach a copgrega- as they deeded it badly. No action Mr. joseph Carsol, jof Circleville, }-them. Gan
nasse, the occasion being nak AVery. mee ae _ we tion of people. At this time] in the sick : “ dhad bis pocket picked on Friday to | tive, old or
versary of their wedding, edie 1© Conversa-| day jt js sapposed the pickpockets ie ode t, Lah “yf they will ot
eee eee 8") tion was unimportant, bat showed 4\ a | if Mr. Eafrekia wanted to know pe to | Refextont of a gold watch, The rob-| seein ot ii
evening: wes speatcvery!! that he had, ae red the BOs, 12 the greater part of their Work. | JS lysing done, of proposed to | Dery vas committed: jast ae he W#8 | ghoatd ca! 5
. wh o i i
that he part of the time, led the’ J: was the general impressipn that | 8 g In bia | Steppin yon the traic.fpr home. The | them.
ibe done on Rose street..
opinion spmothing should be doo¢ im-
mediately, as tbat. street was jo a
very bad pondition.
ng that it was good to be;
| life of, a tramp, nad) traveled with
O'Brien's show, an
throngh’ most of the
and was known
party «ho did it was Afterwards as-
certain d to be a re
Bowsber wonld not bg allowed to rest
bad gone a-toot) in the grave to which Sheriff Mackey
astern States, | nad gonsigned him, and there |was no
ndér the name of surprise, enemies, on Saturdyy mor-
nds, in this city, df Miss
, formerly a teacher in MARI |
ner, rv arded the cam Jomee, Mo
een rewarded by an elec-
icipalship of one of ‘the
the best —e! in the!
| epmeemmeeneenlliil
ris, but. for the past year . .
lo wi ‘Thomas. He claimed to have worked ! The City Engineer said that he bad ;
‘Bes Sea omen cette a ob eon ume ten an |e"
position, she has given|| named Taylor, who had tarned him body Where it had vente tel wight | the necedeary stone for the cateb- palpate cin Sel aed ee Altred Ii, 4
sfaction to the Superin-|| off without payidg. bim. He said | 5, regarded as au open’ secret. The | basin, at| a cost of #25. . They were : 7 A e shige ko See fate rps :
f Education and the pub- Taylor had two gona, William and extinguishing of the light on the cor- | now ready to fix the ‘gatters, | and . TO PUT-IN-BAY.. | Sapene # *
Charles, the latter » |physician, 90d | nor of Water and Walnut etrepta was | | wonld grade the street ae soon ag the the | Po those who desire lto. go, the ex- | ©. Wiliams. u:
two. dacghters, ond of whom attended
the pointer which pat those who have | Stioto Volley Railway: Compan cursion to Pat-in-Bay on Monday
. He thooght |
noee for news on thoalert. The body moved ita track. ‘Joext affords a eplendi@. opportonity.
‘Mr. Doly said tho new conneéting ; The tickets are good for eix days, and:
school at Philade|pbip. !
on him for the
Hs Baldwin didn’t ofpr remained hidden in that localit
——== : ‘ y anti? \ othe tn sa
<6 aaa porpose of isjaring him, bat to eave! sonday night, when an autopsy was ty track wodld probably be pat io} this | eng price @ reasqnatiic one, ‘The FS ade
afternoon: last; we met himeelt; thoaght It agkiod in Bald | neg by those baviog the body. Le | week, whpo the present one on Rose meeting of the State Teachers’ Asso. | SCHROT:
} a Jeane dD
street wohld be taken up. ciation promises'to be doe of the most
interesting’ evet hold} Mr. W. 0.
Chapman desires as ty say that the
purchase. of tieketsis ¢ot confined to | |
school tenchers alone, 4ny pereun can
have them.
win to say anything a boat his eteal-
ing chickens, a8 ho had not seeo him
for seven years, hod he (Baldwin)
ought to be thankfhl ¢ him for giving
him a chanée to get the reward for
his apprehension. Ie had never
been before any Court bat what he
was found to have been, in|a atate |. : P
of almost pertect health, thp oaly |’ On ich of Mr. Entrekin, the
thing indicating disease being p slight | 5ireet Comme lnsionse iia sen eee
congestion of the lower smal] Totes- I fttere 0 ately. proceed: to praey the
tlood| era ot} Roge street in proper |con-
A marked pecatliarify “was [87 en ‘
found tn the ekall, it being r4marka- ; dition tol carry off the water tq the
bly thio alt over, with tw
HEDRICK
Mrs. Jveeph .«
stn ceeeeneeeieen eet
‘ross, of the Columbus!
ig his way to the depot
for home.. A happy ex-
his. countenance, and af-
. a very cheerful manner,
.“rélic,” and quietly un-
v, he exhibited to our as-
tenn
Wrsr-f
. - ; : . ‘eelerrerrkren, ton gf the\
apote, | eawer, ! . wee - yeart
one of Bowsher's wells got the worst we id. Prosecutiog At-) avon avout the size of a-silver dime, | Mr. Ddty called attention tq the | Our cotemporaries, the Gapetto and Register: | COTTER
e then carefully ‘rolled it|| rornsy Dooglaw ought |to be ashamed \ i candition| ot the Rose street edwér, | 2te masters of journalatie enkerprise as it were. | Mr: aud Mrs
-nt on’ His way rejoicing t hi If. and hed po mercy on a on she top of the head, whpre the | ‘y oh 1 t the -ri a Thoirzerpective reviews of the. murder of the} TIMMON-
soiest nian: In town; = eer 4 y okall|was not thicker than aj wafer, | was atppped up at Che river /00, | woveyé, the capture, trial and conviction of | apoplexy, J
pa a man in sag si ph % a ne pee there being an indeotation in kbe in- ic caused by the earth caving io. Tt eee ae about = ion oe reading as wt aceak
. { ~ | last year's alm — r ot tom, Kebex. J
t THE SCHOOLS. pees y ss ai ibeeth a he a ner eide of the ekull into which the | geded me bala ae don ah The Gaverte’s re oa F stihe Bow sher : a
aleely as to the direction of the ba tibo, the Btreet Commissisner-was di- : nek S res ow she
the Committee’ of the y brain! pressed. These spots frore iad, : wl tesciness: was of Enuugl) Tterest.to the —
public to cause a sale of over five hun-
‘ion’ opened the bids for
ceveral school , buildings
GROCER: :
“ft MoVey's body ; [it bon not have ht a whon the ekall wan held-up tepted.tomttged t8:r.
dred extra copies, and 0) a6 no telling [wave, Rets
gone from above -" ward, for the} 1, ¢ light, they looked like a pair of Me, Siflea naid, Mr. Mistaia wae
man who shot MeV jey |was down and ready tol pave in front of xihew
vase sold for
how many more we coufd
ne current year. They eyes, the light being plainly r¢tlected i ' P
ees, || fired apward: He eould have shot through them. ‘They were dituated bailding jon Ewing street, and asked |). one Sue eswled, aa ed Hes Maiatne, y
OTRO Tyosgyeseseeoen tee Mettler if he had pov mhat be veg about ooe inch to the rearjof tbe that Cougcil grade the pavemeot mand still continues. “Iq made the Ads] Stee”
SS aes after wheo the wre veg made; | corofal eaters and — an! toch | Mem bejrs thoaght they had nothing | vertiser so’ sick that quey’ got out an Cgedion. bn
d8. 40s pee TCs Mettler bad sald ” acted bim tor) /, the eagittal satare, | where, | '? de with grading the pavement, aod | extra purporting ty be al confession, and Uhocent
ivered at the buildings. stealing and comn ittlog a ape. He we believd, the phrenvlogistd locate | °4 motion ot Mr. Eatrekin, the ghtter | sold it on the streets, when they well Hawt deg. °
en bid 6 cents. per bushel coulda’t eee that. fhe clothing ‘a ble the neat of venerstion,. of hope. wha ordeted to ba bouldered aa jsoon knew Dowasher had madf no confession, ook tag .
canal, and his bid was ac- -valise, correspondibg to the clothing Thete was an adhesion: of the dura agithe pavement was completed. cecaken (hGet | . Wn, Kia
The President ioqaired as to the
progress |made by the committer ap-
Tallow Canii-
Sergham Mois
ieces found at
he*had on and tho mater, or outer coverlog of thp brain,
tof delivering ‘will be 3
& “4 June 18.—Daniel Rérobart, execa-
hel. I, McVej'e, signified) anything; there
cnt should regard i te os ite ‘wad plenty of, clothing In tho world (og etait ah these, peta podieat pdinted [to revies the by-laws of tor of the vatate of, obo Barthbart, lng OU ey Ts
int duty to devise some} that wae alike. > - timd| there was ioflammation: there. -Coapeil, nd it was developed that arm hae ree ra wey accoant Frist Sd
or protecting thé Repub- He. says there were other bonds io The| brain, however, was foahd in a nathing whatever tad been acconi- a. Conar ee dat 1 - * eb Geatest Fea
outh: in their right to ex+ Mre, Fox's house /for| three or four!) 1 hy condition,” perfectly [normal plished. |Mr. Smart, (rom the com: > , “ neo .a i: ojstra *t on ve wokatN a.
aentsconcerning the po- weeks before bia, ms t, aboat which in every reepeet. The locatiop of the | ™ ttee, aqid it should recelve p ican Setate (fF Simon res mman, cecens * | 800; Kye Qe} t
she eald nothing. ler testimony atiention}. Gled Gual account. . : pels yy
June 20.—Edward
dian of Henry aod
filed account.
June %2.—-Jobo B, 8
| referred to is correctly indt-
cated {in the annexed diagrany of the |
top pf the ekall or 'skall-cap.]’
opinions;. and robbed‘ of||‘dida’t blame her ‘fot it, as she way pat P | P+.
daa. ite, Pete
tee, Maple M
tirasa, #2 oe) /
ai es
Hoffmas, guar;
Mary Whitman, }
e
he Stated and of the coun-
the rostrum and through
If citizens are bullied on||/!the ‘that night ‘was
Mr. Eotrekin ‘sald the Globe Gas.
Light Cdmpany, of Cinctanati, bad
sett a sample lamp for the -inepection
abont his coming from Chil!ico-
falee, bat he
Ith, adminle-
st- their votes in perfect] ap to it. He knew allithat took place | (1. BOTS | of Counc}! which they desired t) put cine
1 fear of persecution and|| there; he bad a good memory ‘aod ' / a aplin'plae of the wil lamps naw tn trator on the estafe of] Jobo “H. Wil-
eno longer freemen, but!| never torgot anything; We dido't re- he \ Peay liama, deceased, madd report of sale on
1 to groan and chafe un! member names; He Gidais waot to, Mr. Eqtrekin ‘said they very! evl- of realty, which was confirmed. doade, ete;
rosed upon them: by the! hag he rememberdd faces, Some of ~ | dently wpald bo more troablesome to Henry Johnson wa} scateated to ores
pone i of party
i
eee
h page’ will tHe found an
ount (entitled. Bah-Bah)
Sheep Ranch of our fel-
Wm, If, Allison, :
heep. raiser, Mr. Pearl P4
making a success of the
the people here think fhe got oat of
jail be wonld kill the) witnesses and
he wouldn't;
time away that way.
guilty of marder ooght/to hang’ That
book” pretends to |tel
ern froma letter re
-cived
thine ahant Perry Rowsher. At this
othere engaged in Nia prosecatioa, bat)
he | woulda’ t tool hie}
A man found |,
about Perry |
Bowshber, bat they didn’t know any pbronal satare ;
Ve |
Cy, engittal agtare.
B, thin] e
down on t, however. |
Mr, Egatioe said it gavo a. lgood
light, bat he thonght it waa too com:
plicated. :
{r, Epatine aaid great complatot
war beiok made against the wholesale
the Reform Farm at L
June 14.—The matier of Wm, S&S,
Pricer, assignee of S moe! Beaver,
againet the creditore qf eald Bonner,
waa continned to Jalyj22, 1878.
BOURNDBVILLE [THMS.
Rounvevulte, June 24,
Tw the Baitora of Phe Sevaty heette,
HUTTER.—T
baa been very d
tetatlieg dema
packera whe we:
sarplas withdre
AMGa Soeman of yon city, and Mra
het end atocke
+ ear of persecution ang
no longer freemen, but
| to grean and chafg un-
osed upon’ them’ by the
pt manipulators of party,
1 page will be. found ag
unt . (entitled Bah-Bah)
Sheep Ranch of our fels
Wm, If, Allison,
cep raiser, Mr, Pearl P4
iaking a success of the
arn fron) a letter received
friends. Hae is located
vy, Cass county, Missouri,
sheep he sold his wool,
ts pee pound above the
‘fe has 275 head, which
He! has 140 lambs for
d $atoathisdoor, This
vool, will bring him $435,
eturn for three months,
ots Charley Rouzer as
arl expresses himself as
ied with his experience
pe
CBMBTERY. '
on the hill is a beautiful
the lot owners having
large numbers of choice,
flowers, which are this
a, and while there is not
rieties there are enough
never forgot anything; We didn't re-
member names; He 7 want to,
bat jhe rememberdd facer,
the people here think {f he got oat of
others engaged in his
time away that ay:
book’ pretende to |tel about
Bowsher, bat they didn’t know any-
thing about Perry Bo sher,
point he oom off; {n
on {osanity, and Mt. Conley left him
The next day, Thareday, he made
a more fall and connected accoant of
hia life in the East jist previona to
the murder, From that statement it
appeared that his arrest at Dedham,
Maes., which he bad spoken of to Po-
leeman Conley the day before, was
as an accomplice in aj bighway rob-
bery and marder In (hat:town, the
principal being a man|named Bailey.
He indirectly acknowledged hia guilt,
bat got clear on histrial, after a three
months imprisonment.| Hecontinued
his carrative up to (Qctober 10th, at
which time he reached) hia old home.
He then jovited Mr. Hirst to return
‘the! next morning, when he would
{ effect. ; |
is now engaged in mow-
a portion of the grounds
ipied, ©. On the remain-
ainly set, they propose to
ieir theory being that it
id come up thicker next
wrance of that portion of
not be very much en-
aby pursuing this course,
handsomer next - year, iff
es a correct one.) .
AU AND SPRING-
KSON & POMBROY
IN COURT.
ld; Jackson & Pomeroy
oy,on Synday, June 16th,
three: hundred! and fifty
e premises of John M,
on township, without any
the land or the .permis-
crrieau, but: agitinst his
tore: down fences, and
els, ete., dug, e:tcavated
land, for the purpose of a
permanently used for'a
4 |
as’ filed in’ the C omman
‘his county ‘on the 2oth|:
aid 'Ferneeu, asking for ry
«'réstraining the Spring-
Potneroy Railroad from
. or labor, ‘on/or. over, or
pancy| of said lands for
8, until full and’ adequate
imade to said John M.
vided ‘by law, and upgn
reglect! of said. Railroad
demni gaid land, and com=
iintiff} that said Railroad
be perpetually enjoined
! occa ancy of said land,
to rest
original condition for the
ent! of .said ‘plaintiff, by
obstructions, and filling
+ surface as it‘slood at the |
mencement of said inter-
« day the ‘Court, Judge
issued an order restrain-
1y from any further work,
incy. of the lands...
ve on ‘for hearing on Tues-
fendant, the S., J. & P.R.
vey, made answer, denying
1¢ allegation set forth in
d claiming that the’ plain-
ad subéscrihed $2,500 to the
‘continue his narrativd,
Mr. Horet remarked t«
at the same
time telling him thatjin any state-
ment be would make he woald inrpli-
cate no other perean.
Daring the’ night Bowaber was sick
and the next morning |was' in an ill-
homor aud refased taq-eat. He de-
clined to continae the narrative and
said hoe was not the same man ho was
the day betore. |
“Asthe town clock |strack eleven,
Perry that his
time was up, and they| would soon be
after him. “There they are now,” be
added, as he heard the outer doors
aolock, “They will |not hang me
there; he bad a good memory ane)
Some of |,
jail be woold kill the witnesees and],
rosecation, bat |)
he wouldn't; me wouldn't tool his ||
A man found |,
gallty of marder ongbtito hang. That}
Perry |'"
At thie |
an argament |
4
i
spots ;
B, thin
' C, sagittal antare..
16 dtereattog question | ih—How
© qude-
stening
A, cpronal suture ;
mn
4
‘tion| jot his sanity? After }
to-th various learned opipi
thiok it :is still a matter of] uncer-
tainty, the probabilltios beiitgithat he
wasidane. The thin places lio those
in Bowsher’s skull are something sel
dom! {f ever seen before. Thp adbe-
sion bf the dara mater to the ekall
woald indicate inflammation, jbat the
healt nfal condition of the braja indi-
cates|that it waa natoral. Both sides
of the brain and eknll being alike,
would also indicate that it woe natu-
ral. .|Tho brain, at the spots, pressed
up idto the cavities referred |fo, and
was quarter ‘Of an inch abpwe the
sarrounding brain tissue. Ic} is im-
possible to say what effect’ this pte
nomeca would havo, If any, upon thé
mental condition of the man.
_It}is a matter of ‘regret that the
body|waa not obtgined legally, ax it
mig ot have been, if tho parties bad
been |aware of tbe provisionsjot the
law laf 1870, In soch cases, which per-
mits bodies to be used for didsection
when they are not claimed. |
do 1c spote reflect apod ity
pas, We
M rahal Wibly was called’. ypom to
arrept a stravger on Satorday |Iaat on
complaint of. Charley Bird, ,who
claimed to have been robbed. "The
alleged robbing and the urrpst was
madé on Paint street, near Main.
UP I! Plare Of pa a aye eee
a |
Mr, Entrekin ‘sald they very) evi-
dently would be more troablesome to
wisi to|than those now in nso) but
waald mgke a mach better light.) He
hall discovered that the ake jrere
down on jt, however.
{r, Epatine said it gave. a, good
light, bat he thought it was foo com-
plicated.
fr, E
war bein
graveling
atreeta w
batine asid “ak complaint
y made againgt tho wholesale.
-of tho streets. When the
re ina bad condition every-
body conjplaingd and as soon ag any
action wade taken looking to their re-
pair thenjcomplaint was mado ofthat.
{r, Smjart thonght that i¢ wap not
liama, deceased, mad
‘Quarterly meeting
last Sanday.,
large aadiences wer
report of aale |
ook place | here
a pleasant day
"present both:
neceseary to put pn eo much gravel.
thought the proper, way would
I
hayo be
filljng op
2. td have trimmed o
cost where needed. ~, |
{r. Sti
os said Capt. Patnam w
somo grayeling done on Bridgo s
between Main and Second.
ounci
thdaght ip waa not needed.
from
te
te
al
pamped ¢
augald
it whet
Mr. Sobart aaid the pipe leading +
the fanal to the Main atree
rn was
right,
Mr. Eo
not working’ as well.
that the cistern shou
at down to the pipe.
trekin argoed thht it
the boles and pntting 4
conldn’t see it, howe
p by
thio
anted
reet,
ver;
cla-
aa it
He thought that in order to
her or not it was wo
king
d be
wasall right, from the tact ‘that the
Ww
w
E
in
&
condition
the Sciot
at
had failec
now,” said) Bowsher
“tL ja after
nance gra
ater wh
ith that
On mot
ogineer
stracted
Mr. Mc
reets a
a now standing fet a
in the canal. eo
fon of Mr. Smart, the
ot the Fire Departmen
nd alleye.
to comply with the
to make the necessary
Lane called attention tp the
of the crossings whe
Valley Railway crossed the
‘Thé Company
noting the right of way.
level
Chief
Was
tost.
ever
ordi-
As
was.
morning .and evening. | Rev. * As
Windsor, our pastor, elivered an ex-
cellent sermon in thp morning and
Eider Creighton in thejevening.. Quite.
a pamber from: a. i¢ tance were Let
attendance. eat ett poe te
Will. Parker | was no o over Saturday
tight... ce tok wets
‘Job Trimamore hasl a. now t baker:
and Prank MeKinzie as had! bie re-
painted. Par) hf
. The Glee ‘Clab. met{at: Mise Mollie
Jones’ on. last Wedopeday evening.
Ice cream and cake were in abund- |,
ance, Will meet in| two -weeks at
Mies Allie March’s, SBA bs, fare
The Misses Cryder] of Hopetown,
-are visiting their coopia, Mise Lena
Coover, this week.
A great many pe: ple ‘frow this
vicinity were pt the ‘t Bawaher mat-
ines” one Fektas Jaqt, — From
looks of the crowd thht wae present
the-coanty was well rdépresented from
ail pointe.
Rev. Z. Wharton -p eached the fa--
neral sermon of Mrj| Timmons at
Clarkabargh last Sabbath.
George Grimes has 4 ‘* boss’? new
reaper, lately parchaec}l of Pardam &
Reed, of your city. Ip works like a
cbarm. Mr: G. has ajhondred acres
the |.
“The following
of realty, which was confirmed, bonds, etg,:
_ Henry Johnson wa sentenced to Golds as.
the Reform Farm at Lhocaster. C1 Ua monte ss
June 14.—The matier of Wm. 8, U8. Bonds, 5.2
‘Pricer, assignee of 8 meel Benoer, | v8 8 per cant
againet the creditors df ‘enid Bonuer, | Sandy ness
was continued to dale, 1878. © Ops 4b perc
2h say er st U.B.4 per cont.
BOURNBVILL trp iS. si: 4 BUTTER: —<T
.. Bounsevitx, June 24,” 1 rertling aces.
To the Biditors of The Seioto @yzette: . ! Laie ‘are ta
- Mia, Sosman, of yo reltysana Mra, kot and stocks
Richart, of Lancaster] O., have been | 5077, ttle doin.
visiting Mra. Jaa. Bro ning: y algo the vo at lle
“Fountain Farm," thelhandsome rest; bach gor Range
dence of Samue¥ Sum: era, ais - | BEANS.—Ch
at G1 65agi zi
Aphite dali at 66
HQGGS—Thes
woak with a)
priest !
‘FROUITS—
, toinebe r bo!
Oranges, Moanit
Aaah r _
ni; per lb
Pranes, now,
Dried Gurrante
Dried Apples
os roves
““FLOUR—ITa
‘} ket throughout
resacs! tock a
as been upim
the close, We
family, 4% 21
3). Kved ar
rbarrel. ia
amily at ¢. Ww
extra, $4 25
| WHEAT -1
tled conditio.,
| and new, an: 0
ze s of new ¢
sald low
bat eboice o} 1
Tanges down
sold at Bl Oo «
mitted eold at
sold at Yoo act
the beet bid or
CORN—W as
celpts were ut
and at the
whito selling
sold at dtc
sales of 16 va
arrive, at fic
Arado, ‘
KYE—Has b
have wet beot
fered at Sc ie
by samples Ss
OAIS—Weot
kot wae quiet.
the demas! t
“held at Das inc
lore said land and |
eleven o'clock; they might have done
it before.” When’ the ofiicers arrived
be made no resistance, and offered no
protest, bat qaletly eabmitted to be
led to the ecaffold, apon which he step-
ped at 11:05, pale and haggard, led
by Sheriff Mackey, ‘Officer Conley and
Depaty Sheriff Raston of Colombas.
He was placed upon |the fatal trap,
and Sheriff Mackey adjusted the rope
‘around bie neck and placed the black
cap upon bis head. Mr. Hiret theo
asked thé prisoner if he should offer
up a prayer, aod | Boweher replied,
“No; nothing fs goidg to happen.”
Sheriff Mackey then asked him if he
had avything to say, and he replied
firmly, “No, eir;” nnd added some
words which are differently reported,
buf which indicated that be did not
think the eentence-wod!d be execated.
‘Immediately the black|cap wae drawo
down over his face, acd Sheriff
Mackey stepped backward, to the
trigger, presacd bid foot apo. It, aod
Boweber ehot down through .*he trap
jnto eteroity. There was scaccely &
movement of tHe body after the fatal
‘drop. The neck jwan broken aod
death was almost ibstantaneons.
A few eeconds after the tall, Dr.
Miller, of this city,|Dr. Noble, of
Hillsboro, Dr. Foster, |c
and Dr..Dresbach approached the
body, and on examigation reported
the pulsations as follows : First mio-
tte, 55 ; second, 52);
third, 65; foarth,
150; filth’, 165; sixth, 1175: seventh,
72; eighth, 48; ninth, 60; tenth, 60;
said company, neither any
pejacipal nor the interest
yet been paid; that he
additional subscription of|
a] upon the completion of
Jackson to Bainbridge, and
‘at restraint in the present
vent such completion, and
estoppage’ of said last sub-
¢ defendant ; asked that the].
: dismissed re the com:
a to proceed. .
f the plaintf AC app lica-
relaventh, 41.° Atthe pod of nineteen
minutes —at 11,28 the physicians
‘atated that all Indications of !ite bad
ceased, and the body was taken down
acd removed Into the kitcben ot the
new jail, whore It was placed in
plato black coffin by the undeftaker,
Mr. John Howard. |
' The streets bad been ‘crogded all
morting by a vast ‘concourse of. peo-
ple, who bad. come to |the city from. a
morbid brepleec to see the becane
naved until adatt July
aleht af the sores
/ poe ot of his veat, discovered What he
There were two of the strangra, and
aa the Marehal was making }ia way
acroas Paint street the yoank ber one
of the party seized hold of Bjrd and
called opon the Marshal*to tdke him
also}! The Marshal was about fo com-
ply ben Bird reaching to aq inside
ed as tho missing money. Tho
) about
Wibly
etrag-
celal
parties were all released, bat:
ao hoor afterwards, Marsha!
again called to afrest the
for an aesanle upon Bird, They
had ae Charley in ono af |the al-
slow Fifth street and gabe him
od drabbiog, Charley wala found
rathér worse for the encounter, bat
strangers escaped from the city.
Charley Forest ja the nanjo of a
youbg man who came over fro Day-
aa he anid, “to see | Howsher
2” He ia only about fe enteen
8 of age,is quite talkatilye, and
rently bright in the ways of the
world, He soon found that Bowsher
would bo panged without his ppreonal
mi as -~ Dayton 4 qo'a of
Wiiph the
, eo bang
arognd the Court House eqapre the
part of the morning, aol after
bxecution had been annpanced,
andthe hoor of dinner was approach-
ing. his Lunger called him to action,
and he qoletly slipped his banfi into a
lady’@ pocket and took her pocket-
boo | therefrom. {The lady jheraelf
caught Him in tho act, andthe Mar-
of Circtetitle, ataoding npar by,
‘is band upon Charley aod turned
lover’ to Chief Dauschid. The
he underbtood it, they were tb be
pl
fa
a
centre of
anked
be entire width, whil
ct is that in no case.has more
ten-foot
crossing been patin
the atreet, and none
6 the
thao
the
hat-
the
‘was pot on
members
Ms or held a littlo reception oF Satar-
day jand. Charley was esnt |to the
gravel pile over the rivér for |twenty
dsys and aseossed a fine of 410 and |.
cost |
cipt Sea, Sc MeCommes fied te.
patio an appeatance at the syer's
office on yesterday as be was ander
bond in the sam of $400 tod: It is}
sanpoead that he “toot: 1
heat | i
Pe
over on the pavement lines.
station rdad crossing a single
each side of the rail
track
lank
eav-
peo,
ote
ing the ¢eaotre of the
making alchack-hole.
The Clerk sald be bad eerved the
notice oa Khe Company aa directell by
the Coanpil.. Mr. Chapman ‘saifi he
supposed |i; had been doce, and im-
mediately, telegrapted to tbe proper
parties ordering it to be duno imme-
diately. |He’ expressed bimeelf as
roady an willing to do anything the
Council desired jo this apa 8 it
they woald let bim koow what they
wanted. : ‘
On motion of Mr. Doty, the Clerk
was instfocted to again notify) the
Company|to plank all the crosdinge
the fall fvidth of. the streets | and
alleys, anfi to comply, in alt reeppete,
with the grants made., - |
Mr. Epdtine called attention to the
hog ordigance. Nearly all of | the
pxpressed themselves ap fa-
voriog anjordinance, bat not so strio-
gent in some of its provisions a4 the
one before the Coancll. No agtlon
was taken, however. ‘|
The Cisy Engioeer eaid something
onght to be done as to the eo ere
of bis office. A record shoald be
kept of al} ble work. | !
On motion of Mr. Entteklo, the
City. Enogipeer wae iostracted to thake
an ‘abstratt of the title ef all property
purcbased or condemoed bp-the city,
and aleo to ascertain on what stteeta
the grade¢ have been established, jand
to make record of the same. |
Qvenell|/tbea adjourned, |
— = |
Up to|nise o'clock last Friday
morning pver five handred buggies
bad ps d through the toll-gate to
me city gn the Cinclonats Piké, all
At
a@w te the Rawsher nesktla
of eplondid wheat thie
RICHMCNDALB
HicuMONDALE, Q,, .
To the Editors of The Selote @
ings from this place a
neighborhood.
hand; wheat in this lo
eral thing, is good; se
yicld twenty bushels tc
The Sons of Temper
pering nicely in this
God speed the time wh
ale will became a temp
Harv
and the youths of ouf land shall be
saved from the drunkag
Guess Counts is hap
is pappy.
Miss Davis, from
visiting friends in this
S:monthenes Swanho
to the depth of sixty
a bed of frogs; no one ¢
them. The general
that they have been
“nesthiding.”
Richmondale. is ser
string band and the J
old Tum cats every moc
Sisrer V
BNOOGH
To the Mditors of The Sevte Of
’ Morethan seventy th
have been spent’ for 4
in the eastern portiog
doring the last few yea
year. ,
GROKME
st is now at
lity, as 4 gen-
the acre.
place. May
en Richmond
brance village,
d's grave,
»y because he
oeality, .
feet, and found
an account for
kupposition is
Moder there
naded by the
ideous yell” ot
light evening.
(NGOBBLER,
—_
Le
Loe tte,
dasand dollere
hool parposes
of thle city
re. And now
the Board of Edacatio
on apeodiog eixteen
for a fence that is
present, the one in nee
sound and atropg ; bat
prove the valae of pric
the immediate vicioity
pelled to wait.
Edacation atop a mom
cil, with commendable
fe calcalating
andred more
og perfectly
o order to im-
te property ta
lof the Eastern
fetermination,
ate trying to redace o¢r taxes. Let
the Board of Edecatiog
do likewise,
TaxPayen
SOUTH SALBM
To the Editors of the Beiote Qaiette
«The town oxpibicied.
thea Apes?
> viaasedt &
ITDMe,
ssnbeted by |
eaeen we aelet?
Fre. on .
BAKLEY 1
of new were li
treca a
eral fidlds will
nee are pros-
ortsmouth, is!
bper dug a well |
lot needed at®
I.
{
day at }S<.
WAY—Deca
otby aeliing at
mised Mount
ad Wy more tim
. POULTR4
chickena se. a
bid i pring ch a“
hs ES N
out the wea
vanced, ant
aod lard we i
marketart:;
Qlively actir«
MESS PO oD
bing lutese: o
LaAkD—!
Carteut mas 8
was Wilfor. »
the extent ‘
at Thy the
Bacon ter 4
light Sho
aud cinar, ©5 ot
stUGAR~
Unanes atir. |
fer choweai ch
at the ‘eet Pp
demacd et iis*
Clachanua
UNiiag
Cattle .....0.,
Huge
Sheep ... 7
CaTYTLe 1
foitowing 1. %%
teas). mea
tcadt tSats
Hoi Mar
range
Cem me o8
Fate ta gow! it
Fair tu gees po
SHEEP-in
for fair tect om
Baltimor
REEF cat
Week wee mh. ty
higher, Vere
the; dret qualt
$3 tent ale of
maat sales © of
Neowipta duis
Sales were = at
HOUs~ The
Prices ‘rere fi
as tt Sad © »
the werk ene
SHEEP ANI
the week wore
more petire. 4
Migher, Qeotat
“New Wert
CATTLE- in
Mat hat en tra ot
HOUS—The
; head, makteg '
34, 199 heed, axe
market wat dal
ene carioed, ave
ae J
Byrd: Execution earlier; lawyers scrambling
From Page B3
has the legal authority to hold Mr.
Byrd’s execution any time within
the Sept. 12 death warrant. Ms.
Dean said several states execute
condemned prisoners at 12:01
a.m. — the first possible moment
allowed by death warrants.
“The Federal Bureau of Prisons
executes at 8 a.m.,’”’ she added.
Despite the shortened sched-
ule, Mr. Meyers remains optimis-
tic the Ohio Supreme Court, a
federal court or Gov. Bob Taft will
take a long look at Mr. Byrd’s
innocence plea and stop the exe-
cution.
The Hamilton County Court of
Appeals, however, ruled Mr.
Brewer’s confessions cannot be
heard because the public defender
waited too long to use it.
Mr. Byrd’s lawyers first heard
Mr. Brewer’s confession in 1989,
but they decided not to use it
while they were pursuing other
appeals. The Public Defender’s
office got a second written confes-
sion from Mr. Brewer earlier this
year after Mr. Byrd’s guaranteed
appeals ran out.
The appellate court judges also
sided with a Hamilton County trial
court and with Prosecutor Mike
Allen, who call the confessions
unbelievable.
Mr. Allen argues Mr. Brewer is
lying to help a fellow inmate es-
cape punishment. Mr. Brewer is
serving a life sentence for the
robbery and murder and cannot
be tried again.
As the case shifts to the Ohio
Supreme Court and possibly the
federal court system, even Mr.
Allen agrees a court-ordered sta
of execution is still possible.
“I’ve pretty much given up try
ing to anticipate what the publi
defenders’ next move will be,
Mr. Allen said.
In addition to the legal appea
Mr. Byrd also hopes Gov. Bo
Taft will use his clemency powe
to commute his death sentence t
life imprisonment. The Ohio Pa
role Board is expected to releas
its recommendation on the cle
ency plea Friday.
CALLAHAN, James, white, hanged Wooster, Ohio, on December
¢ =
4
y, one time running clear
of the gate pur 3 ;
th ?
"9 ants were vehement and fright
as ‘Give .
‘and Michael Malrady:
theirs right: hands, him,
ormey. then :
There a are at this tiale apy
“students enrolled upon ‘the
| University for ‘the current
[sessing 3 Jarge’ endowmen
ae ne « of Wooster: tay
a firm, basis, and is enabled
id to command ‘the services.
| best and ablest instractors
‘ ‘and to ‘Successfully compel
“and Foldest and best known: “of «
POE Jeges. - ‘The Faculty. is ores
es (unease & cor]
: hav eggshaescnor brane!
_ iso brome ve
Srietnokia Paageae the defendanta |. of hi
; Were guilty of: murder’ in the first: de- |
| free lunch * will “be ‘preparg
‘| ground to appease the inner §
| the multitade who- sttend.:
edt the. wise is generally suffi
| now a rare chance is about -
Dear that thriving city of SV
‘| sores eactt,, ‘08 the 224. day fe at
| next. Free excursion tfains Ee
= g | ot the day of ths sale, ‘and Be
i
%
©.
gi
‘etowd all. Bice tines exclaiming, "Show. ve
me. them man that str
wer in the pdacations!
ore aot ee
ight of July 8th,
ard J. Lawson,
y, in Norwood,
oor opened. A
ered and moved
of the counter.
drink. With as-
» marble counter
showcase.
d at a peep-hole
binets which di-
room.
redhead, Wilma
arion, who was
ling his druggist
yresentative had
a friendly chid-
vo men who
Lawson nervously polished the clean counter
and fountain. ;
The front door opened again, and a tall, be-
spectacled man of forty came in and sat down
between Mrs. Burroughs and the blond stranger,
with one stool separating him from each. He
was Joseph Coors, a trucking company executive.
“A pint of vanilla ice-cream, Howard,” he said,
“and give me a bottle of Coke.”
The blond young man finished his drink and
began rubbing his hands up and down the out-
side of his glass. Then, as Lawson rang up the
sale to Coors and came back, the other customer
swung from his stool. -His left hand swept from
under his coat and up over the counter, holding a .45 au-
tomatic.
“Stay right where you are; this is a hold-up,” he said in
low tones.
Coors sat still, nursing his drink. The others: froze like
Set. Tony Overberg.
“The bravest man”
fm. As the hapless druggist whispered,
|. “He’s here, Tony,” the sergeant saw
the bandit entering? Quickly he
: tossed a magazine over the service
ao revolver which was beyond his reach
statues. Moving crablike around the end show-
case, the gunman rifled the cash register; then
backed around to the counter again, the gun cov-
ering the customers but hidden from any passer-
by on the street.
“Pretend like nothing has happened,” ne
warned. ‘“Where’s the other register?”
“It’s over there, behind you,” the druggist said,
pointing. “Help yourself.” ;
The bandit complied, silently; then moved back
down the north aisle along the cosmetics counter.
“You’ve got more money than this,” he told Law-
son. ‘Where’s your safe?”
“The safe is in the rear, over there,’ Lawson
said, pointing toward the prescription window.
“Go back and show me.”
The druggist started along the south side of his store,
gaining speed as he went; and the bandit moved parallel,
several steps behind, along the north wall.
loved her—one of them a murderer—and a gun called Tony, named after a policeman slain with it
Sf aiepal
|
.
\
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: 7
BY Cc HARL E s P I EF E R T WAS STEAMING hot that Wednesday night of July 8th, | Lawson
1942. Back of his soda fountain Howard J. Lawson, | and fount:
youthful proprietor of Lawson’s Pharmacy, in Norwood, | The fro:
Ohio, looked up nervously as the front door opened. A |. spectacled
r4 r4 blond, hatless man in his early twenties entered and moved between \\
| * over to the second stool from the front end of the counter. | with one
* ’ “A fountain Coke, please.” was Jose}
Lawson’s hands trembled as he drew the drink. With as- “A pint
sumed casualness he took the coin from the marble counter “and give
and moved to a cash register at the front showcase. | The bk
On his way back, the druggist looked hard at a peep-hole_ | began rul
8 window on the left of the tall, medicine cabinets which di- | side of his
: vided the store proper from the prescription room. sale to Co
j Seated on the rear stool, a vivacious little redhead, Wilma | swung ir
a be) Burroughs, prattled with her husband, Marion,.who was | under his
; behind the counter polishing glasses. Finding his druggist tomatic.
é friend short, of help, the oil company representative had “Stay r
; volunteered for the job and was undergoing a friendly chid- low tones
’ e ing from his wife. | Coors s:
v : ‘ : |
s a }
a That threat led to the unfolding of a strange story. It concerned a pretty blonde, two men who | loved h
} ‘ |
' 16
NJ ™~ ‘
be vitally important.
vestigati pac
gating a suspected fee. th
ese:
’
he ex
act add :
scene of the crime. Tess or location of the
ae is date and the
: oe on the premises
a en n€
cee ame of the person w
i
| exact time that hee
|
:
| 5. Medium used for sum
m
Phone. radio or other } oning
6. Probat
homicide method
E i : Positio ; °
J | 8 Condition ae clothing of the body
| in the hands. 1¢ hands and any object
(tele-
of committing the
pee ie
HA ize and condition of bloodstains
Rack time <w
pow ime when death occurred, if
Eis ll. Ma ,
: nner in whi
dus access ich th :
Us] | Ress to and left the premises,” "4
ed 13, eee and addresses of sus oe
fi i 12x Ss and addresses of wj pects. 7
. eas escription of weath witnesses.
2 1-98 ln oe golden rule of h Be conditions.
aid, | Is never to touch omicide investigati
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St. authorities” of 1942, and a check one
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still unrecovered, the alibi was
airtight.
the truth all along. But
the consequences of his Cincinnati robbery
attempt and ultimately went to prison.
Cc FRITZ and his staff swore they |
the case.
at stake. : |
tion of tips throughout the rest of the year. |
criminals and running
berg dead almost two years, a
arrested in Colorado Springs, Col.,
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of once shooting a policeman and leaving
| his gun behind.
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_ another false lead.
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had read about the killing of Overberg in
the papers.
balanced in the meantime,
to him in Colorado Springs
if it had actually
perience.
was sent to an
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found to be
Tait apparently had been telling
he could not escape
would never give up until they broke
The honor of the department was
There was an endless investiga-
They grabbed at anything, questioning more
down all leads.
On April 25, 1944, with Sergeant Over-
4 man was
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Cincinnati in July of 1942,
Having become mentally un-
it had occurred
to mention this as
happened in his own go
1€
_ Eventually found demented,
institution.
On January 18, 1945, Detective Kenneth
Vassie of the Louisville, Ky., police, was
walking through the business section of the
town when he heard his name called. He
turned and greeted a_ man he knew to be
an auxiliary police officer.
After a friendly exchange, the auxiliary
officer, whose name never was made public.
told Vassie, “I was kind of hoping I'd see
you. I’ve got a problem and don’t know
what to do.”
“Shoot! Maybe I can help you.”
The auxiliary policeman then went on t
say he had become afhanced to a forme
Louisville society girl and expected to }
married soon. |
“Congratulations,” said Vassie.
“Not yet,” the friend replied. “It seem
that in becoming engaged I’ve incurred tl
enmity of a tough hombre named Carter.”
“Vegh? What's wrong?”
The auxiliary officer continued, som
what embarrassed. :
“My girl used to run around with a felle
swho was always well-heeled. She’d go ©
riding with him, then sit in the car and w:
while he went off on some errand. Ait
he came back, they'd go to the night clu
“Tt wasn’t for quite a while that she ;
wise to what he was up to. While she
waiting in his car, he'd: be pulling holdu
Of course, when she found out about h>
she gave him the air. It was then he =
nasty.”
“Tn what way?”
“Threatened her—and me too, although
to my face. He told my girl that
didn’t give me up, he’d hide out in the rur
seat of her car some night and bump |
of us off.”
“Thats =
Vassie thought a moment.
Where's the girl now ey
“In Chicago. I just got back. She’s «
ing home in a few days.”
“Where's the bandit?”
“He’s there too.”
“Ion't that dangerous
“T don’t think so; she’s
him.” :
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a bum steer. . Not that he suspecte:
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just trying to keep her fiance from ti
to this other man. After a moment's !
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Vassie started. “Where can this guy be
found ?”
“Well, his home is Middletown, Ky., but
he’s gotten himself into the Navy—at Great
Lakes—and I hear he’s aiming to get sent
overseas.
When Detective Vassie left his friend, he
turned the matter over in his mind. Be-
cause he was bent on another errand, the
officer was compelled to put the problem
But it kept recurring to him through-
| out the day, and that evening, back at head-
quarters, he sat down to think over the
points of the story.
The angle that kept impressing itself upon
him dealt with the gun named Tony. Vassie
reached for a sheaf of wanted notices and
began thumbing through them. It was some
time before he reached one circulated two
years before by Chief Fritz of Norwood.
Then Vassie went to the phone. and put in a
call for Fritz.
“What's that bird's name?” Fritz asked.
“I only know it’s Carter and he lives in
Middletown,” the Louisville officer replied.
It had been 30 months since Overberg’s
death and Fritz’and his men had traveled
thousands of miles running down false leads.
Since the police chief had made a vow to
investigate every clue so long as he re-
mained in office, he summoned Kiley and
Dockum, the latter now a detective.
“Middletown’s a burg of only 250 popula-
tion,” he told them. “You shouldn't have
any trouble finding a family named Carter.
down there and see what they can tell
| you.”
OUISVILLE was approximately 80 miles
southwest of Norwood. The officers
took the night train, arranging their ar-
rival in Middletown for midmorning. They
promptly discovered
that the wife of a
Mrs. Linna Louise. Carter, 20, admitted her
husband, Frank Dudley Carter, 25, a former
convict, had killed Sergeant Anthony H.
Overberg on July 8, 1942.
“I went to the movies that night,” she said
tearfully. “Frank left me, saying, ‘I’m going
to knock off a couple of suckers.’ When I
met him after the show his pants were torn,
there was a long cut on his left ‘leg, and
he reeked of a sweetish odor.
“Tl asked him what the smell was. He
said ‘Vanilla. IT had a fight in a drugstore
and some bottles broke. I walked into an
armed cop and he cornered me. I had to
kill him.’ The next day the papers were
full of the story, and so we went down
to Louisville to live.”
Fritz held Mrs. Carter as a material wit-
ness while he and his detectives thoroughly
investigated all the angles of her story. This
took three days. He had communicated with
the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chi-
cago and G-men already had taken Frank
Carter into custody.
The arrest was made at the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station, where the seaman
was packing his duffel for a trip overseas.
In exactly one hour more he would have
been on his way.
On Tuesday, January 23, when Fritz,
Martin and Detectives Kiley and Dockum
reached the Windy City, the FBI agents had
also taken into custody Marian Corning, 19,
a Louisville divorcee and. fiancee of the
auxiliary policeman whose fears for her
safety had led him to approach Detective
Vassie.
‘The young woman, a stunning blonde, ad-
mitted having been Carter’s companion on a
number of robbery forays, but protested she
had not known the purpose of his trips. Her
story, as related to the Norwood authorities.
tallied at all points with the one her flance
: had told in Louisville.
Carter frankly ad-
Frank D. Carter lived
there. Dockum rang
the Bell.
A youthful, dark-
haired, thin-faced
woman opened the
4
“Pardon this intru-
sion, madam,” the de-
tective began, “but
we're police officers
from Norwood, O.
We...”
The woman blanched
and fainted.
The two officers
looked at each other in
surprise. Then Kiley
bent down. “Brother,
we've run into some-
thing hot!” he told
Dockum. “T’ll take
care of this dame—
you start looking
through the house.”
Dockum dashed up
sideration.
gles.
the workhouse.
The Voice of Experience
When Francis A. Yost was incarcer-
ated in the Allegheny County jail in
door. Pittsburgh back in 1935, he escaped
by sliding through a couple of tunnels
to the courthouse and walking away.
Yost: came up before Judge Henry
Ellenbogen recently on two larceny
charges and a bad check count. Judge
Ellenbogen took his record into con-
“I want you to make a survey of the
jail,” he told the prisoner. “List the
means of escape from it. If your re-
port is satisfactory, I will take it into
consideration when I sentence you.”
Yost studied the jail and reported
back a number of possible escape an-
The judge first recommended
that they be taken care of, and then
gave Yost from ten to 23 months in
mitted the killing of
_ Sergeant Overberg,
and .agreed to waive
extradition back to
Norwood. There he
was. promptly identi-
fied by Mr. and Mrs.
Burroughs, now living
in Springfield, and by
Coos, the building con-
tractor. Hein also
picked him out as the
bandit who had robbed
him.
A handsome, debo-
nair youth, Carter, told
his story of the rab-
bery and murder ex-
actly as detailed in this
Narrative. He placed
the total of his holdups
at 50, but later raised
it to 200. “I got a kick
out-of them,’’ he
boasted.
Asked why he held
on to Overberg’s re-
the stairs as Kiley
went to the kitchen
for a wet cloth. As the
latter began bathing Mrs. Carter's face, he
heard a shout from one of the bedrooms.
Kiley joined his partner on the second floor.
The latter was standing over an open
trunk, the tray of which was exposed. “Take
a look,” he said.
When Kiley peered down he saw a .38-
caliber revolver with homemade handle grips.
“Tony!” he exclaimed.
“Right!” Dockum snapped. “We’ve heard
enough about this gun from Davis and Wil-
son to recognize it on sight.”
Mrs. Carter agreed to accompany the two
detectives back to Norwood. They left im-
mediately.
That night, in the presence of Fritz, As-
sistant District Attorney Martin, a number
of Norwood city officials and the detectives,
volver, the youth re-
torted, “A carpenter
keeps his saw, doesn’t he?”
On the following day the grand jury, hur-
riedly impanelled by Judge Frederick 1..
Hoffman, voted two indictments against
Frank Carter, who is now awaiting trial.
One charged murder in the commission of
a felony, the other the killing of a police-
man. Both carry the death penalty.
That night the Norwood officials staged
a celebration in the city hall.
“IT can quit now,” announced Chief Fritz,
who hasn’t the slightest intention of doing so.
“T’m a happy man.”
Eprtor’s Note: To spare possible em-
harrassment to an innocent person, the name
Marian Corning, used in this Story, 1s not
real but fictitious.
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18
At the center of the prescription coun-
ter, hidden from view from the front,
stood Sergeant Anthony Overberg, a big
man in plainclothes, engrossed in a
magazine. There had, shortly before,
been two other hold-ups of drug-
stores in the city, and he had been
planted there for just such an emergency
as now faced him.
“He’s here, Tony,” Lawson said in a
loud whisper, noting with a sickening
rush of fear that Overberg’s gun lay
two steps to his right,. under the closed
window of the prescription counter.
Lawson saw Overberg glance side-
ways, alive to his danger; saw him toss
the open magazine over to cover the
service revolver as the armed bandit
rounded the corner; then the druggist
darted back up the aisle.
From behind him came sounds of
scuffling, and the blast of a gun. Mrs.
Burroughs had vanished. Coors was
poised by his stool. The druggist ducked
low behind the fountain, pulling Bur-
roughs down with him.
Coors, unaware that an officer had
been stationed in the rear to wait for
the dyugstore bandit’s third foray in
Norwood, sprinted for the front door,
and out.
Mrs. Burroughs was down under her
stool, hidden from view of the prescrip-
tion room by an island display in the
center of the store. She heard the
crash of shattered glass, and a volley of
shots; heard agonized cries, then run-
ning footsteps; and she crouched there
on the floor, too scared to move. —
Silence settled for a moment over the
drugstore. Then, from the rear came
faint calls for help. :
Lawson and Burroughs ventured back.
The prescription room was a shambles
of shattered glass and splintered wood.
It reeked with the odor of vanilla from
a broken jug of the extract. At the
north aisle entrance, bathed in the sticky
liquid and bleeding copiously, lay Ser-
geant Overberg.
“Don’t try to move,” Lawson told
the groaning officer. To Burroughs the
druggist gave a few terse directions for
first aid, then grabbed the telephone by
the prescription counter and called the’
Norwood police.
Ten minutes later a police ambulance
was rushing the wounded officer toward
the Good Samaritan hospital, in Cincin-
nati. Kneeling at Overberg’s side was
a uniformed lieutenant, George Schultz.
“Take it easy, Tony; you’ll be all
right.” ;
“No, George; I’m dying,” the sergeant
gasped. “Let me talk, while I can. It
wasn’t Bruce. This guy has a long,
narrow face, with a square chin. I think
he got my gun. I took his away from
him. Did you find mine?”
“T didn’t go into the back room, Tony.
What happened?”
“I was early, and Lawson gave me
a magazine. In the back room I took
my gun out and laid it under the peep-
hole. I moved over under the light to
read,” ae
Overberg’s voice trailed off into silence.
He fought -hard for breath and lunged
up, throwing his arms around Schultz.
The burly lieutenant exerted’ all of ‘his
strength to hold the wounded man on
the stretcher.
“He was early,” Overberg continued —
doggedly as he became able to speak.
“The first thing I knew, Lawson was at
my left, whispering something and
pointing. I looked around. The guy was
between me and my gun. He had me
covered. I dove for him.’.. .”
-Again the sergeant’s vdice failed.
They arrived at the hospital then, and
the unconscious officer was rushed to
_ the operating room.
‘Schultz helped. strip off the blood-
stained clothing. In the right breast,
right groin and right leg were three bul-
let holes, in a straight line, up and down.
A ring on his left hand was badly bent.
Doctors and nurses used the inhalator.
“He'll need blood before we can work
on him,” a doctor said.
“Ym ‘type four,”
weakly. ;
Meantime, even as the ambulance left
Lawson’s, a score ‘of Norwood’s uni-
formed officers and detectives converged
on the little drugstore in response to
emergency calls. Chief Charles Fritz,
Tony told him
‘his usually pleasant face grim with
anger, barked orders. Prowl. cars
searched the area; statements were
taken from each of the four witnesses
and a composite description of the ban-
dit flashed to Cincinnati police and other
stations surrounding Norwood; and,
following a call from Schultz, several
officers were dispatched to the hospital
as volunteer blood. donors for ‘the
wounded sergeant.
* Fritz moved through the opening
where Overberg had lain. On the pre-
scription counter was a. gun, partially
covered by a handkerchief.
“T put the handkerchief there,” Law-
son said. i
A lingering smell of powder mingled
' with the vanilla odor, indicating that
the gun had. recently been fired. There
was an empty .45 wedged in the barrel
‘and five loaded cartridges in the clip.
The automatic had jammed on the first
shot, otherwise the empty cartridge
would have been ejected and a loaded
one automatically shoved into the bar-
rel, Fritz knew. :
A statement of Mrs. Burroughs that
the man was sfill carrying a gun when
he ran out, together with the failure to
find any trace of Overberg’s .38, con-
firmed the theory that the gunman had
taken the sergeant’s revolver.
Squad car officers reported back that:
no trace of the bandit had been found.
“He probably had a car parked near
here,” Fritz told Detective Kiley. “Did
you find any prints, Lee?”
‘The detective nodded. He led the
way up to-the soda fountain. There, in
the thin coating of dark powder along
the: side of the drinking glass that the .
bandit had used, was a single fingerprint.
The telephone rang. It was Schultz,
calling again from the hospital.
“Tony’s dead,” the chief told his offi-
¢
cers, as he grimly hung up the phone.
“He was like a brother to me,” a tall
patrolman said quietly. ‘We’re going
to get the guy -who killed him.”
“You said the truth, Dockum,” Fritz
agreed.
As the hot night wore on, in ad-
joining Cincinnati, squad cars combed
that city for suspects. Several blond
youths were held for inspection, but
were quickly cleared by Lawson and
the others, and released.
At Station X, in Cincinnati, the wit-
nesses who had been in Lawson’s drug- .
store at the time of the shooting spent
several hours looking over photographs
of stick-up men, but found none of the
soft-voiced killer.
At the hospital, on the following morn-
‘ing, Dr. W. H. Ventress, deputy county
coroner, performed a post mortem, re-
covering three bullets. All were of .38
caliber, apparently from the victim’s
own missing gun. They were turned
over to Fritz to be kept for comparison
tests if, or when, Overberg’s gun was
recovered.
Death was due to hemorrhages, sec-
ondary to gunshot wounds of the thorax
and abdomen, the doctor stated.
After work that day, Patrolman Mer-
edith Dockum visited the
pharmacy. Taking the part of the
bandit, Dockum moved from the cash
registers back along the north wall into’
the prescription room, a gun in his left
hand, Lawson retraced his own route,
then impersonated Overberg. :
They knew that Overberg had at-
tacked in the face of the .45. The bent
ring on the officer’s left hand indicated
that it had caught in the safety as he
had grabbed the bandit’s gun-hand,
causing the automatic to jam. It meant,
Through thug’s abandoned gun (above )
Det. Dockum proved truth of a theory
Lawson,
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Overberg was found mortally wounded after death struggle with armed bandit
Norwood was and, when he proved the
bloodstains were from a nosebleed, he
was cleared by Schultz and released:
In Norwood on Saturday, July 11th,
while hundreds of friends lined the.
streets in mourning, a long line of cars,
under police escort, moved from the’
funeral home to St. Elizabeth Church
for a requiem high mass for Sergeant
Overberg, passing within one square of
the drugstore where he had met death.
That same day a Norwood detective,
accompanied by druggist Peter Hein,
who had been a robbery victim, went
across the river to Newport, Kentucky,
where a youth resembling the killer’s
description had been picked up in a
stolen car. The suspect was not the
drugstore bandit who had robbed him
five nights before the murder, Hein
stated. ° ~
Simultaneously, Schultz and Dockum
had taken Coors to Fort Thomas, Ken-
tucky, to view a blond soldier who had
been AWOL on the night of the murder:
and had no alibi, except that he was
drunk “somewhere in Cincinnati.” Coors
said he was not the man he had seen
in Lawson’s drugstore and he was re-
leased.
Then, late Sunday, July 12th, a wire
came from police at Oklahoma City,
800 miles to the west, which seemed to
indicate that Overberg’s killer had struck
again—this time with Overberg’s- gun.
On Saturday night a 32-year-old city
patrolman, James A. Long, was shot
four times and killed instantly when he
attempted to arrest a masher who was
annoying an eighteen-year-old girl in
a municipal park. The killer escaped
in an auto. '
Three bullets recovered from the
patrolman’s body were .38-caliber. Ap-
parently the murder gun was a revolver,
as no empty shells were found at the
scene. The girl had described her an-
noyer asa blond, curly-haired man of
about twenty-three, five feet, nine or
ten inches, and weighing around 160.
The wire to Fritz followed.
“Send the. bullets for comparison
tests,” the Norwood chief suggested; and
an Oklahoma officer arrived with them
late Monday night.
On Tuesday, while ballistics experts
were studying the separate sets of
bullets, a telephone call from Detective
Chief Emmett Kirgan sent Fritz racing
to Station X, in Cincinnati, accompanied
by three of the witnesses to the Over-
berg murder.
Three men, driving an auto bearing
Oklahoma plates, had been stopped and
questioned as to their reasons for being
in Cincinnati. Their answers ‘ were
vague, and they were arrested. Viewed
in a line-up, none of the three was
picked up. by Fritz’s witnesses,
All were subsequently cleared’ of the
RE RE ST A ROME Roe
From Chief Fritz (left) TD’s author, ‘Charles
Pifer, gets the facts of this story firsthand
“It’s my good luck gun,” killer had said. He
was wrong; it brought him death sentence
killing of Patrolman Long and were
released.
In Norwood, ballistics tests disproved
the theory that the same gun had been
used to kill both Long and Overberg.
Meantime, police in Norwood and
Cincinnati cooperated in a thorough but
futile search of places where the drug-
store bandit might have pawned, sold
or traded Overberg’s revolver.
Then, from Louisville, Kentucky, 100
miles down the Ohio, came word that
a letter had been received from a Cali-
fornia girl that might shed light on
the Overberg case.
On July 9th, at a Louisville hotel
where she was stopping, a handsome
blond “wolf,” who had struck up an
acquaintance with her, had asserted that
he was. the drugstore bandit the papers
were headlining, and that he was “head-
ing south to cool off.” She had refused
an invitation to accompany him. The
writer did not want her name publicized.
A subsequent check at the hotel had
revealed nothing.
“That sounds like our man,” Fritz told
his detectives. ‘“He’s the type that would
brag to women. If he told this girl,
he’ll tell others. “Sooner or later some
woman will put the finger on him.”
“Maybe not,” Kiley reasoned. “Ac-
cording to all three druggists he robbed,
the guy has a way with women. He
‘sends them’ with his velvet voice, and
they might tr
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bandit’s gun-hand,
ic to jam. It meant,
too, that Overberg had hold of the ban-
dit’s left hand with his own left, possi-
‘bly pivoting to throw the killer over his
shoulder. The gun, when fired, would
thus have been pointing farther to the
killer’s left and towards the floor.
Sure enough, in the door of a cabinet,
about a foot from the floor, was a bullet
hole, slanting downward. Inside the
cabinet was a cardboard carton filled
with jars of salve; and, far down in the
carton Dockum located a copper-jack-
eted .45 caliber bullet.
It seemed as though the entire popula-
tion of Norwood—35,000—was aroused
by the killing. Tips flowed in, and each
was thoroughly investigated as the police
force worked around the clock.
Meeting in’ special session, the City
Council voted a $500 reward, and with-
in twenty-four hours it had been greatly
increased by private subscription. Over-
berg, married and the father of two
small children, had been a popular
officer. .
Comparison of reports showed that the
technique had been the same in all
three hold-ups thus far. The two pre-
vious hold-ups had been at the Wester’s :
Pharmacy on June 27th, and at the
pharmacy owned by Peter Hein on
July 2nd. At each place the bandit had
simply taken the cash at gunpoint but
no one had been shot. One of his tricks
was to wipe all fingerprints from every-
thing he touched. He had slipped up
at Lawson’s, leaving a print of one
finger on the glass.
Another clue was the abandoned gun.
It was an Army automatic. Fritz im-
mediately contacted the manufacturer,
giving the serial number. The gun had
been shipped to a Cincinnati retailer.
A quick check revealed that the weapon
had been sold to a war plant guard.
This man was above suspicion. The
gun had been stolen from him months
before and he had reported its loss.
‘Late Thursday a Cincinnati cab-
driver reported to Lieutenant Otto W.
Eschenbach, at Central station, that at
ten-thirty on Saturday night, four days
before the murder, he had picked up
a fare who asked to be taken to the Bus
‘Terminal. According to the cabbie, the
passenger had produced a .45 automatic
and asked: “How do you like this?”
“Nice looking gun,” the cabbie told
him nervously, expecting a hold-up; but.
the passenger merely remarked that
he had just bought the gun.
At the station, the fellow remarked he
‘had just twenty minutes to catch a bus.
However, he failed to enter the station,
but walked east on Fifth Street.
“He answered the description of the
Overberg killer,” the cab-driver said. “I
figured he was headin’ for trouble, so
I copied down the serial number I saw
on the gun. Hereitis.”” . ;
Eschenbach telephoned Fritz. A check
revealed that the number was nothing
like that of the automatic abandoned
by the killer.
Early Friday morning Norwood offi-
cers received word that a Middletown,
Ohio, merchant had recently sold an
Army .45. “I could identify it, if I saw
it,” the Middletown man stated. Schultz
went there with the automatic. It was
not the gun.
On the same trip, Schultz stopped at
Hamilton, Ohio, where city police were
holding a seventeen-year-old suspect
they had picked up driving a stolen
car. The boy resembled the bandit’s
description, and had blood on his shirt.
However, he _ didn’t know where
Questioning by Prosecutor Hoy
(above) disclosed slayer had
boasted of crime to three women
Det. Dockum (above): “We're
going to get the guy who killed
Tony”—a pledge he helped fulfill
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murder of: beloved police sergeant occurred—a crime which aroused the entire city
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“Money talks, too,” Fritz asserted
' grimly, “and our $2,000 reward may turn
the trick.”
The first ‘flurry of “red-hot” tips had
added up to nothing. A lull followed.
Fritz prepared circulars containing the
‘description of the crime, the bandit and
‘both guns, and featuring the $2,000
reward. On Monday, July 27th, the no-
‘tices were mailed to police departments
throughout the entire United States. .
On July 29th, Desk Sergeant Richard
Stone received a telephone. call from
Sheriff Bearhs, of Pomeroy, Ohio, lo-
cated 150 miles east, up the Ohio River
and was informed that a robbery sus-
pect, who had wounded a railroad de-
tective early Tuesday and was now in
the Meigs County Jail, was a “cop-
hater.” Also, the prisoner answered the
description of Overberg’s killer, as given
on the poster.
Fritz hurried to Pomeroy, accom-
panied by a detective and one of the
witnesses; They studied the prisoner,
noting his dandified appearance, es-
pecially his well-kept hands.
“Get your hat; I’m taking you back
to Norwood,” Fritz told him, as he
watched the suspect read the ‘‘wanted”
_ dodger.
“At what time on July 8th did this
happen?” the prisoner asked.
“Between 10 p.m. and 10:30; as if you
didn’t know.”
“At 10:30 that night I was holding
up a filling station in Columbus.”
A check with Columbus, Ohio, police
confirmed this. Ironically, he had been
forced to admit a lesser crime to es-
tablish an alibi against a charge of
murder, as he did resemble the killer,
according to the witnesses.
Hardly had the party arrived back
at Norwood when Fritz left again, on
August 2nd, with Sergeant Oakley Wil-
son and a witness, bound for Pikesville,
Kentucky, near the Virginia line, to
view and question a 27-year-old ex-
convict who had escaped from a Mary-
land road gang on May 27th, while
serving two years in that state for
assault. ‘
While being questioned by Police Chief
T. M. Stratton, of Pikeville, following
his arrest in a stolen auto, the prisoner
said he had been in Cincinnati recently.
Noting that he resembled the description
given of the killer, Stratton, to get his
reaction, had casually accused him of
killing Overberg. The suspect denied
all knowledge of the slaying. The wit-
ness quickly cleared this man.
Ten days later word arrived from
Detective Inspector Frank W. Story,
of Cleveland, that a youth who fitted
the killer’s description had been. arrested
in a war plant there when his car was
identified as one stolen following a
gas station hold-up at New Castle, Penn-
sylvania, on June 30th.
For the second time, by a quirk of
fate, admission of a lesser crime cleared-
a murder suspect, as one of six Cleve-
land restaurant robberies had been
committed by (Continued on page 83)
ao =“IS ZAT Solr W
RANK COSTELLO, by popular
belief, the “Underworld King” in
New York City, of whom so much
has recently been written in ‘the
newspapers, named “Owney” Mad-
den in 1943 as a bookmaker with
whom he placed bets.
Two years later, in 1945, “Coley”
Madden (not “Owney” Madden),
a self-styled “patron of the races,”
probably in need .of relaxation and
with more money in his pocket than
he knew what to do with, went to
the Aqueduct Race Track. But, be-
lieve it or not, “Coley” Madden
was denied admission. Why? Be-
cause of the mistaken belief that
he was Costello’s bookmaker, the
notorious gambler and underworld
figure, “Owney” Madden.
Being barred from the race track
made “Coley” very angry. He
brought an action against the owner
of the race track in the Supreme
Court of thé State of New York,
requesting a declaratory judgment
that he has a right, as citizen and
taxpayer—upon paying the re-
quired admission price—to enter
the race course, and to patronize
the pari-mutuel betting there con-
ducted. In effect, “Coley” asserted
that no one can stop him from
losing his money. But, the Queens
County Jockey Club, Inc. defended
the action and said, in effect, “Is
zat so? We can stop you. We have
an unlimited power of exclusion.
We, can pick our customers.”
Pending the trial of the action,
finding that “Coley” Madden was a
citizen of good repute and stand-
ing, the Hon. Algernon I. Nova,
Justice of the Supreme Court,
‘issued an order which restrained
the New York Jockey Club from
preventing “Coley” from entering
the race track and attending horse
races and patronizing the pari-mu-
tuel betting conducted thereon.
“You see,” said “Coley,” “I told
you they can’t do that to me.”
But, since the Jockey Club was
not lacking in funds, it was able to
take an appeal to the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court from
the temporary restraining order.
As set forth in 296 New York
249, the Appellate Division did not
agree with Justice Nova. It said
that the Jockey Club was at liberty
‘to select its patrons at the race
track. It pointed out that racing
is a private business and that those
in private business may refuse to
sell if they please. That was the
rule, said the Appellate Court, at
common law and the rule has not
been changed. It held that the
Jockey Club has the right to ex-
clude any person at its pleasure and
dismissed “Coley’s” cause of action.
We can conceive that “Coley”
could have been’ happy in his de-
feat—being barred from the race
track and compelled to keep his
money. But, humans are humans.
“Coley” did not feel that way. He
must have had some lucky days at
the track; he had some money left,
and with it hired an attorney to
take an appeal to our highest court
—the Court of Appeals of the State
of New York.
It was for that Court to decide
whether the operator of a race
track can, without reason or suffi-
cient excuse, exclude a person from ~
attending the races. In a unani-
mous opinion, written by Judge
Stanley H. Fuld, that Court said
that he can; he has the power to
admit as spectators only those
whom he may select, and to ex-
clude others solely of his own
volition, as long as the exclusion is
not founded on “race, creed, color
or national origin.”
A race track, said Judge Fuld,
is normally considered a place of
amusement and—with the possible
exception of ancient Rome—amuse-
ment of the populace has never
been regarded as a function or
purpose of government. Horse rac-
ing does not become a function
of government merely ,because
in sanctioning it, the Legislature
anticipated an advantage to the
public in “improving the breed of
horses.” Recognition of a public
interest is neither recognition nor
acknowledgment that the State is
a partner in the business of horse
racing or that the race track op-
erator is the State’s administrative
agent to collect revenues.
“Coley” lost his case. But, in my
opinion, (perhaps not yours) it was
a victory in disguise. To be barred
from the race track, a loss? Would
that long ago I had been barred
from the race track! :
—JOHN ELLIOTT.
21
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84
the police in their investigation.
Kiley had learned that at the time of
the robberies and murder the suspect had
been employed at a Cincinnati laundry
and ordinarily left work at about 4 p.m.
“He has no alibi, so he must be our man,”
one of Fritz’s officers reasoned, during a
discussion. “Lawson wouldn’t finger a man
unless he was sure.”
“He could be mistaken, and I think he
is,” Fritz said. “The man we want is a
‘slicker,’ a ‘lady-killer’ type. This boy is
a rough-handed, honest, quiet kid. The
very fact that he offers no alibi because
he can’t remember where he was, shows
he is honest, and it’s in his favor. I believe
he is innocent.”
It was a courageous stand for the doughty
chief to take. as newspapers were calling
the case solved and the demand for venge-
ance was growing.
* * *
Unknown to Norwood officers, at that
very moment, parked in a fashionable resi-
dential district at Louisville, a handsome
machinist who worked on the night shift
at a gun plant in that city, was declaring
his love for a shapely blonde with whom
he had been “sharing the ride” in his
convertible for several weeks.
“I want you to know all about me,
Dottie,” he told her.
She listened silently as he related the
story of the hold-up of a drugstore and
the shooting of a policeman; told how, dur-
ing the struggle with the officer, he had
upset a bottle of vanilla; and how his
wife, Louise, had driven the rented car
back to Louisville when he was too nervous
to drive.
“I’ve pulled a lot of jobs before that
and since, but that’s the only time I ever
had to shoot my way out.”
“You mean youre still pulling hold-ups,
Frank?”
“Sure I am. Every time I lay off work
I'm out doing a stick-up or two. I get a
kick out of watching them squirm. Be-
sides, I can use the extra dough.”
“What if you get caught?”
“I won’t. I play it smart and case the
places first. And I’ve always got Tony
alone, for good luck.”
“Who’s Tony? Is that another girl
friend?”
He showed her a long-barreled .38 re-
volver, patted it lovingly, and shoved it
back under his coat. “That’s Tony.” he
said, boastfully. “You see, Dottie, I killed
that big policeman with his own gun, and
I’ve been using it ever since. It’s my
good-luck gun. I’ve got another, but I
always use Tony.”
Some of the man’s bravado seemed to
infect the blonde. Long since, she had
forgotten her vows to her husband, who
was somewhere in the Pacific. The fact
that Frank was also married was foreot-
ten, too, as she had known it all along.
Even the story of murder changed noth-
ing.
“You ought to get rid of that gun,” the
girl said. “If they catch vou with it, they’ll
charre you with murder.”
“Not now, they won’t,” he laughed; “that
druggist I robbed has identified another
guy as the killer, and that let’s me out.”
But the “lady-killer” was wrong. A lie-
detector test, given at the Indiana state
police headauarters, in Indianapolis, on
January 13th, 1944, showed the accused
war-plant worker innocent: and when
Fritz, Kiley and two of the witnesses
told the grand jury that he was not the
drugstore bandit, on March 6th they
brought in a “no true bill” on the charge
of murder, ignoring the robbery charge
filed by Lawson, who had, however’ acted
in good faith.
More months passed, Then, on the night
of December 23rd, 1944, a grim-faced
man in a sailor’s uniform waited in the
vestibule of an apartment building in
Louisville. It was Frank.
At midnight an auto halted in front of
the building. The sailor looked out. Two
cigarettes glowed in the dark. As he
walked down to the car, a girl got out.
“Dottie? It is you, isn’t it?”
“Yes,” the girl answered, then hurried
toward the house.
The sailor moved to the door of the car.
From the dark interior a man’s voice
greeted him uncertainly:
“You're Frank, I suppose.
plain everything.”
“No explanation is necessary,” the sailor
replied in tones that sent a chill through
the other. “Just get going—and don’t come
back.”
As the car pulled away, Frank followed
the girl into the building and on into her
apartment.
After a long embrace, Dottie broke the
silence: “I missed you terribly. Why
didn’t you let me know you were coming
I can ex-
“They’ll never take me to the chair,”
said killer (l.), about to be fingerprinted
by Technician Lee (r.). He was wrong
tonight? Your letter said your furlough
started on the 24th.”
He pushed her away. “I wanted to see
what was going on behind my back. Who’s
this boy friend?”
“Don’t be like that, Frank; he’s just a
guy I met tonight at a party, who offered
to drive me home. He means nothing to
me.”
“See to it that he doesn’t, Dottie; Tony
wouldn’t like it.”
The blonde shuddered. The words
sounded like a threat.
Sitting in that same swank apartment
at six o’clock on Thursday, January 18th,
1945, the girl heard the Sailor’s voice
again, as she answered her telephone; and
again it frightened her. That very day
she had written Frank a letter saying that
they were through.
“‘T’ve been in sick bay, and I haven’t
heard from you for a week, Dottie.”
His voice was petulant, with a mixture
of tenderness and censure,
She determined that she would give it
to him straight.
“I haven’t written.”
“Dottie, if there’s something wrong it’s
only fair to tell me.”
“O. K. I’m going out with the boy you
found me with that night before Christmas
eve. You tore up his picture, remember?”
He was silent for a moment, then: “Are
you going to give him up?”
“No. I’m going to marry him when I get
my divorce.”
“Tl kill him, Dottie—remember that!
Nobody can take you away from me. I’)
kill him.”
“No you won't, Frank,” the girl] shrilled.
“And why won’t I?” he demanded.
“Because I love him; and I won't let
you,” she sobbed.
‘Tl call you again at six o’clock to-
morrow evening, Dottie. If you haven’t
given that guy the air, Tony will put
some bullets through the both of you, and
I ain’t kidding.”
On the following morning Fritz received
a telephone call from Detective Kenneth
Vassie of the Louisville Police. As Vassie
talked, the Norwood chief jotted down
notes and asked an occasional question.
The Louisville officer repeated a strange
story told to him by a merchant policeman
whom he knew; the story of a pretty blonde
whom the special officer loved; of her
former lover, who was threatening to kill
them both; and of a .38-caliber police
revolver called Tony—named after a po-
liceman the man had killed with it.
“I spent several hours searching through
fliers here at headquarters in Louisville
and came up with yours on Sergeant Over-
berg. That name, ‘Tony’, fitted. It’s been
thirty months. Are you still looking for the
killer?”
“We'll never stop looking,” Fritz snapped.
“What’s that guy’s name, and where can
we find him?”
“Frank Carter’ is the name. He’s in
the Navy; but his wife lives at Middle-
town, Kentucky, east of here, on US-60:
and the gun is supposed to be hidden
there.”
“Are you sure your friend wasn’t spoof-
ing you?” Fritz asked, recalling the many
futile trips he had made.
“He’s scared, Chief: not for himself, but
for the girl. Carter’s calling her again
at six o’clock tonight from Great Lakes,
where he’s stationed.”
“Good!” Fritz said. “Pl make some con-
tacts up there. Better see your sheriff and
get a warrant to search Carter’s home. I'll
send down two of my men who know all
about the case.”
At noon that day, Kiley and Dockum,
the latter now a detective, left by train
for Louisville. There they joined Vassie
and two county officers and drove out to
the little town of Middletown, halting in
front of a small cabin, vointed out by
villagers as the home of Frank Carter.
There was no one at home: but in front
of the house stood a car; and in the dash
compartment the officers found a handful
of .38-caliber cartridges.
“Funny looking bullets,” one of the
county men said. “Why the pointed tips?”
“Whittled down. probably to fool ballis-
tics,” Dockum reasoned. “Would that work,
Lee?”
Kiley shook his head. “No; it wouldn't
make any appreciable difference. I won-
der where the gun is?”
“Probably in the house. Let’s have a
look.”
Inside the little home they began a
search, soon eliminating every probable
hiding place except a man’s suitcase. The
lock yielded to persuasion and, from be-
neath items of clothing Dockum lifted a
.38 revolver.
“That’s Tony’s gun,” Kiley said. “I know
that gun well. Sergeant Harold Davis
made those hand grips. The raised part
on the right side is a finger rest.”
The weapon was fully loaded; and each
of the six bullets had been scraped down
to smaller size.
It was four o’clock. In two hours Frank
Carter would be telephoning his blonde
sweetheart. Vassie and Kiley rushed back
to Louisville to enlist the aid of Federal
officers in nabbing the killer.
Dockum, remaining at Middletown,
learned that the sailor’s wife worked at
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on the night of July 8th.
On August 19th, Fritz again headed for
the eastern part of the state. Sheriff John
McIntosh, of New Philadelphia, was hold-
ing an ex-convict who, as in the other
case cited, had wounded a railroad de-
tective. He had used a revolver snatched
from another officer at Dennison, Ohio.
McIntosh, in a letter to Fritz, said his
prisoner admitted he had been in Norwood
in July. Hein told Fritz that the photo-
graph of the prisoner sent by the sheriff
resembled the drugstore bandit more than
any picture he had seen thus far. How-
ever, upon arrival at New Philadelphia
with Fritz and a detective, the druggist
said the suspect was not the bandit.
Tt remainder of 1942 passed with a few
more dispiriting false leads. Then, early
in March, 1943, Fritz made a long trip
to Asheville, North Carolina, when the
sheriff there telephoned Cincinnati police
that he was holding a 2i-year-old man
for auto theft, and that the prisoner’s
girl friend said he told her he had killed
a policeman in Cincinnati in 1942.
It sounded like a hot lead, as a check
showed that the man being held had spent
three days in jail in Cincinnati during
October, 1942.
Druggist Hein, who made the trip with
Fritz and a detective, wasn’t sure. How-
ever, for the third time the date of the
murder served to clear a likely-looking
suspect. On July 8th, 1942, he had been
in the Ohio Reformatory for unlawful pos-
session of an automobile and was not
released on parole until October.
Early in April, 1943, St. Louis, Missouri,
police forwarded a photograph of a
26-year-old former Cincinnati man, who
federal officers were charging had taken
$7,000 in stolen jewelry across the state
line. Lawson and Hein agreed that the
picture resembled the drugstore bandit.
However, the fact that the suspect had
natural red hair weakened their identifica-
tion, and fuller investigation confirmed
his alibi for the fateful evening.
Again came a lull. Then, late in Novem-
ber, 1943, the case appeared to have been
broken wide open when a Cincinnati
private detective and a captain in that
city police force brought a brown-haired,
youthful war-plant workman from St.
Bernard, another suburb of Cincinnati, to
the Norwood station.
Lawson, who accompanied the officers,
positively identified the prisoner as the
man who had robbed his store.
Fritz, who had traveled far and wide
viewing suspects and listening to alibis,
weighed the excited druggist’s positive
identification, and the claims of the reward-
minded “private eye” that all of the wit-
nesses had confirmed the identification,
against the calm statement of the mild-
mannered suspect that he had never been
in Lawson’s store.
The prisoner was from a large, hard-
working and respectable family. He had
no police record and none for juvenile
delinquency.
Asked by Fritz to account for the night
of July 8th, 1942, the youth said he couldn’t
remember but he thought he had been
working nights as a clerk in the office of
a railroad at the Union Stock Yards, in
Cincinnati. A quick check on this by De-
tective Kiley revealed that the suspect did
not start to work for the railroad until
July 21st, 1942.
The private detective pointed out that
Lawson was ready to press charges; that
Mrs. Burroughs said the suspect looked
more like the bandit than any she had
viewed, and that Hein said there was a
resemblance. “What more do you want?”
he demanded.
“J want the absolute truth with no guess-
work in it,” Fritz told him; “and I intend
to get it.”
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robbery was signed by Lawson. The youth
was arraigned in the Norwood police court
and was released under a high bond, bound
over to the grand jury. Prosecutor Carson
Hoy assigned one of his assistants to aid
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were waiting.
“These gentlemen want to talk to you,
Louise,” the proprietor told a_ slender,
dark-haired girl of twenty.
She regarded Dockum with dark, scared
eyes as he introduced himself. “Tm an
officer from Norwood, Ohio. Does that
mean anything to you?”
Apparently it did. The girl gave one
frightened gasp, then collapsed in a dead
faint.
At six o’clock that evening Frank Carter
was trying to repair his broken bridges.
Over the long-distance telephone from
Great Lakes he was pouring on the charm
to Dottie.
“I just wanted to tell you I wish you
the best of luck with your new affair. I’m
leaving for immediate sea duty. Never
tell anyone what I told you. If you ever
loved me, give me a chance to live.”
Carter could hear the girl crying as he
hung up. It was true, he was assigned to
OGU (outgoing unit), scheduled to leave
on Monday for California and the South
Pacific; but a week-end pass was promised,
and he had plans—plans that involved
“Tony.” He was determined to take care
of both the girl and her lover.
But other plans were working against
him. As Carter walked out along the path,
a Chief Petty Officer blocked his way.
“We have an urgent wire about you,” the
officer said. “Come with me.”
At the barracks, Lieutenant Colburn, of
the Navy, was waiting, along with another
officer. “An FBI Special Agent is here to
ask you some questions,” the lieutenant
said.
An hour later word arrived at Louis-
ville, Cincinnati and Norwood that Frank
Carter was in custody and had admitted
his identity, but was denying the charge
of unlawful flight to avoid arrest, under
which he was being held by the FBI for
Norwood police.
On Saturday, at the Norwood city hall,
questioned by Assistant Prosecutor Martin,
in the presence of Fritz, the dark-eyed
wife of Carter told the story of her tem-
pestuous life with the “lady-killer” since
their marriage on April 23rd, 1942, follow-
ing a whirlwind courtship. She described
in detail their trip to Cincinnati from
Louisville in a rented car on the night of
July 8th. Frank had left her at a picture
show, saying, “I’m going out to knock off
a few suckers.”
“Between eleven and eleven-thirty he
came up to the show and got me. As we
walked back to the car, he said, ‘I shot
a policeman in a drugstore.’ He showed
me a gun and told me he had killed the
policeman with it. That’s the gun,” she
added, as Fritz showed her the .38 found
at her home—Tony’s gun.
Louise said Frank smelled like vanilla.
“{ asked him about it, and he said he
knocked something off a shelf in the
drugstore during the fight.”
Shown Carter’s own .45 automatic, Louise
said her husband had pawned it at the
time of their marriage and that she later
gave him money to recover the weapon.
After losing the gun in the scuffle with
Overberg, he had continued to use in his
numerous hold-ups the .38 that had be-
longed to the sergeant, attributing his
“success” to the gun he called “Tony.”
Since he went into the service in Sep-
tember, the “good-luck” gun had been kept
locked in the suitcase, she said.
This statement of Carter’s wife left no
doubt that the sailor now being held at
Chicago was Overberg’s murderer. How-
ever, under laws governing the admission
of evidence, a wife cannot be required to
testify against her husband and therefore
most, if not all, of the wife’s story would
never reach the jury, Martin pointed out.
“Well, I’m sending Tony’s gun and the
slugs that killed him to the FBI for bal-
listics tests,” Fritz said. “He can’t block
that kind of evidence. Another thing,
we've got a half-dozen witnesses who can
identify him to a jury as Overberg’s killer.
And then, there’s the blonde. He isn’t
married to her.”
“Will she talk?”
“She already has,” Fritz pointed out.
“It will be up to your office to get her to
put it in writing.”
They did. On Monday, January 22nd,
in his spacious, air-cooled offices high up
in the big courthouse at Cincinnati, Prose-
cutor Hoy, by adroit questioning, learned
from nineteen-year-old Dorothy Oster-
muller the story of her love affair with
Carter that ended when he threatened to
kill her and her new boy friend with the
same gun he had used to kill Overberg.
She promised to testify, if needed.
Pictures of Carter had arrived, with his
dossier:
Born February 1, 1920, Louisville;
5-11, blue eyes, blond hair, very fair.
formerly employed by Westinghouse
Naval Ordnance, at Louisville. Mar-
ried to Louise Carter, residing at
Anchorage, Ky. Is fireman 2/c U. S.
Navy, Great Lakes.
Criminal record—placed on proba-
tion for 24% years for MNUTA viola-
tion, Chattanooga, Tenn., 11/30/39.
During Monday, Norwood officers
rounded up witnesses. “Looks like the
killer,” Coors said, upon viewing the photo-
graphs. “I can tell for sure when I see
him and hear him talk.” Peter Hein
agreed. He had always contended that
the bandit looked and acted like a hand-
some movie actor, which fitted Carter’s
description and pictures.
Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs were contacted
at Williamsport, Kentucky, where they
now lived, and came up to join the party
on the train trip to view the murder sus-
pect.
SCORTING the four witnesses were
Prosecutors Hoy and Martin and De-
tectives Kiley and Dockum. In another
part of the train was Detective Kenneth
Vassie with an FBI Agent and Dottie.
At the office of the U. S. Marshal, the
officers were waiting when the tall sailor
was brought in. Carter, with a bored
expression on his handsome face, heard
Hoy read a warrant, signed by Fritz,
charging him with the murder of Overberg.
“Show me what you’ve got,” Carter chal-
lenged arrogantly.
Hoy produced statements signed by the
two girls. Grimly the black-mustached
prosecutor began to read the blonde’s
story.
“That’s all faked,” Carter sneered. “You
don’t have Dottie.”
At a signal from Kiley, Vassie walked
the girl by the door. She looked at Carter.
Neither spoke. She was led on.
Other witnesses were brought in.
“Hello, Finke,” Carter told Hein, “re-
member me?” Then pontifically, as though
he were a teacher instructing one of his
pupils, he said to Coors: “Never move
when a man points a gun at you. I nearly
shot you.” Burroughs brought no word of
recognition; but to Mrs. Burroughs he
offered a pleasant greeting, then started
instructing her also: “Any time you are in
a place and a man comes in with a gun,
be doggone sure you sit still; you never
know what’s going on in the guy’s mind.”
Carter asked where Lawson was. Told
that the druggist didn’t make the trip,
the bandit remarked that if he had ever
gotten back to Norwood he would have
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he blamed the druggist for the killing of
Overberg. “I planned to go AWOL and
kill Lawson, then go on to Louisville and
kill Dottie and her boy friend,” he said.
Questioned by Hoy and Kiley, Carter
told of the murder, admitting that he knew
Overberg was an officer. As Carter de-
scribed the death battle, Kiley interposed
a question: “Whose finger was on the
trigger when Tony’s gun was fired?”
“Mine,” said Carter.
The bandit said he had pulled a couple
of hundred stick-ups, mostly theatres,
roller rinks and liquor stores. He did it,
he explained, for the thrill, not the money,
as his top amount of loot was less than
$300. In contrast, he had made up to
$167 a week as a machinist.
After both he and Dottie had been fired
for absenteeism, in July, 1944, he had
made almost nightly forays in Illinois, In-
diana and Ohio cities. Dottie had accom-
panied him on the trips but had taken no
part in the actual hold-ups.
Of Overberg, he said simply: “He was
the bravest man I ever saw.”
A stenographer was taking it all down.
However, the bandit refused to sign the
statement. “I’ve talked my life away,
maybe; but I won’t sign it away,” he told
them.
Brought back to Norwood, Carter was
quickly indicted, on two counts. One
charged murder in the perpetration of a
felony (robbery); the other, killing a
police officer. Each, under Ohio laws,
carried the death penalty.
Carter’s trial opened on March 2lst,
1945. Highlighting the trial was the kill-
er’s own testimony. Using his suave
voice and manner for all they were worth,
he maintained he had killed Overberg
following a fair fight for the gun.
Obviously directing his plea to the wo-
men on the jury, Carter gave a long,
rambling account of his misspent life and
his love for two women.
“I was in love with Dottie, and in
love with my wife. I knew I had to
choose between them; but I couldn’t. I
joined the Navy to let things work out
for themselves.”
During cross-examination, Hoy forced
him to admit that he had boasted of killing
Sergeant Overberg to at least three wo-
men: to his wife, his blonde sweetheart,
and to a girl from California whom he
met in a Louisville hotel on the day after
the murder.
“TI beat up Dottie several times,” Carter
said, and added that he told her about the
Overberg killing to show her that he
meant business when he said he would
kill her, too, if she ever cheated on him.
On the morning of March 27th, in the
wash-room of his jail cell, while he was
preparing for Court, Carter slashed his
wrists with a razor blade. Later, he in-
jured his hand beating on the bars of his
cell. Then he went on a hunger strike.
All this got him was a sanity hearing and
a delay in the trial.
At 10:45 p. m. on Wednesday, April 4,
after six hours of deliberation, the jury
of seven men and five women returned a
verdict of guilty.
With his lips twitching nervously, the
25-year-old killer heard Judge Nelson
Schwab sentence him to die July 14th.
In the rear of the courtroom, on a
spectator’s bench, dark-haired Louise
Carter sat sobbing. At the Alms Hotel
the blonde girl had been waiting, ready to
appear as a rebuttal witness for the State
should Carter deny his guilt. Dottie had
made no attempt to see the bandit, fol-
lowing his arrest; and Carter had been
denied a request to talk to her over the
telephone.
“They'll never take me to the chair,”
the killer screamed, in his cell, following
sentence.
But he was wrong. On October 11th
the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the
verdict; and at 7:16 on November 8th,
1945, Carter was electrocuted at the Ohio
State Penitentiary, in Columbus.
“Well,” Fritz commented upon being told
by a witness to the execution that the
police-killer had shown no fear of the hot
seat, “Let’s hope he can face what follows
that.”
Epitor’s Note:
To spare possible embarrassment to a
person not accused of crime, the name,
Dorothy Ostermuller, as used in this
story, is fictitious. Photograph of Frank
Carter appears on page 84.
(Continued from puge 4) form and de-
posited the Luger with the sheriff. The
sheriff locked the weapon in the office
safe pending an approval of the owner’s
application. Only a few County officers
had access to this safe; it was reasonably
secure against burglary.
Then came New Year’s Eve. Late that
night, passersby saw lights in the sheriff’s
windows. They also heard strange sounds
—men’s voices attempting harmony, with
fearful results. Auld Lang Syne was barely
recognizable in the maudlin contented-
bull chorus—without music.
Lights went on and off throughout the
building, and some were being blown
out by an assortment of objects hurled at
the electric bulbs. Raucous voices in the
prisoners’ quarters were evidence of cele-
bration going on there, as in the court-
room, the judges’ chambers, the D.A.’s
rooms, and the sheriff’s office.
There were complaints and inquiries, of
course, but during the following day
some sort of order had been restored, and
when the new sheriff took over on the
first working day of 1949 he found the
place tidy, his deputies pale but steady. In
view of this, it seemed unprofitable to
pursue the complaints of outrageous was-
sail on New Year’s Eve. And the whole
thing would have been forgotten, per-
haps, but for Sliver, an inmate of the
county jail, just released after serving a
term for burglary. Sliver came home to
his parents in the Bronx, surly and un-
repentant. Moreover, he had acquired a
new toy—a .45-caliber Luger.
“Where did you get that?” his father
demanded.
The young man replied that it had been
given to him in jail. Since when do they
pass out weapons to released inmates of
a jail? the father rightly asked himself
when his son refused to elaborate. Later,
he presented the same question to the
proper authority—Putnam County District
Attorney Fred Dickinson. Dickinsof con-
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ferred with New York State Police In-
spector John C. Quinn. Pretty soon Sliver
was back in the county jail, answering
questions.
He said that he, along with other in-
mates, had been given free run of the
building on New Year’s Eve, and that he
had been sent outside a number of times
to get more liquor, as needed, for the
celebration. On one of these trips he had
passed through the sheriff’s quarters and
found the safe open. That was how he
had got the Luger. With the idea of smug-
gling it out of the jail eventually, he
wrapped the pistol in a newspaper and
gave it to a fellow inmate, Tony the Turk,
who was locked up in a cell. Tony was
awaiting a hearing on grand larceny
charges. Sliver was already pretty high
and was afraid he would pass out and that
the weapon would be found on his person.
That was why he gave it to Tony for the
time being.
It was a smart decision, because Sliver,
at 3 a.M., was drunkenly charging an im-
aginary jury, dressed in the judge’s robe
and seated in the judge’s chair in the
empty courtroom. He was demanding the
death penalty for each of the jurors when
Widman found him... The kindly jailer—
it was he who had given Sliver the money
to buy liquor—dragged him into the
judge’s private chambers and let him
sleep off the fumes on the judge’s sofa.
Other celebrants were left lying where
they had fallen, one by one. Big-hearted
John Widman took care of them ll,
eventually. Trusties helped clean up the
mess late New Year’s Day. And, some days
after, when Sliver was discharged from
the jail, he recovered the pistol that Tony
the Turk had been keeping for him.
Widman was called up on the carpet. He
admitted that he had overstepped his limits
as a jailer in throwing a wild party for
inmates, assistant deputies and others in
the County building. But he denied more
serious irregularities which investigators
had discovered.
It appeared that Widman owned a small
farm at Putnam Lake, about ten miles from
Carmel. There, state police found the
$200 electric sanding machine that had so
mysteriously vanished, along with other
articles that had been seized in a bank-
ruptcy proceeding. For more than five
years, this trusted officer had stolen all
sorts of property that had come into the
County’s custody—household goods, farm
machinery attached on writs, and even the
material evidence of other thieves’ lar-
cenies. He had stripped the County head-
quarters of plumbing fixtures which now
adorned his farmhouse. What he had been
unable to take with bare hands he had
pried loose with crowbar and wrench.
The state police also discovered old rec-
ords that proved Widman’s propensities
from away back. He had been arrested
three times as a juvenile between 1909 and
1911, and six times as an adult. In 1927,
he was. sentenced to a term of 2—4 years
in Sing Sing, for larceny. His other
offenses were assaults in various degrees.
This time, charges against him included
burglary, grand larceny, and malfeasance
of duty. On December 19th, 1949, he was
committed to Matteawan State Prison
where he is to remain indefinitely and
where he will not be allowed to send out
for liquor.
Mr. Saunders recovered his
Previously, he used to recount its war
history, which was interesting. Now he
can tell an even more interesting story—
how it figured in the clean-up of the Put-
nam County Jail without the firing of a
shot. —PavuL SHERWOOD
Luger.
Epitor’s Norte:
The names Sliver and “Tony the
Turk,” as used in the foregoing story,
are not the real names of the persons
concerned,
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place, front and rear, and came out
with a pair of rubber boots. They
were muddy and appeared to have been
worn recently. But more important:
They had the unusual grip tread and
a notch on the left heel. The boots,
the investigators learned, had been left
he by Joe Woolridge on the previous
ay.
B Bctad Suspect was shown the two plas-
ter casts and his boots.
“Sure, they’re my boots,” he said. “I
figured I’d be suspected so I put them
away. But I didn’t do it, honest!”
The investigators didn’t know either
why Joe Woolridge should have done it.
Besides, he never denied having been
hunting in the lonely quarry region.
The fact that his presence there had
been traced by his boots didn’t con-
vict him yet of the slaying.
St. John took a hand in the ques-
tioning. :
“Have you recently been inside the
stone mill?” he asked Woolridge.
The suspect very emphaticalfy de-
nied it.
“You're caught dead to rights, Joe,”
St. John said calmly. ‘‘There’s a foot-
print right at the edge of the pit, where
you pitched the bodies. It’s made by
your left boot, and it’s the only clear
print inside the buildings. Make a clean
breast of it.”
Joe Woolridge appeared in no way
ruffled by the officer’s accusation. He
again told of having seen Doerflin com-
ing down from the quarry that.Friday
afternoon.
Woolridge still didn’t lose his com-
Posure when Doerflin was brought in
and the story disproved. He had met
Woolridge in the quarry, only it was
the day before the twin-slaying. They
both were hog-hunting, chatted for
maybe twenty minutes, then each went
on his way.
Woolridge was questioned without in-
terruption for several hours. It was
4:00 a. m.—March 5, 1946—when the
officers decided to take him to Indian-
apolis and put him through a lie detec-
tor test. Whenever questions pertain-
ing to the slayings were put to Wool-
ridge, the detector indicated the pres-
ence of guilt emotions. They told him
that the test looked bad for him.
And that did it.
“Okay,” Woolridge said in a small
voice, wiping a weary hand over his
damp forehead. “I’ll tell you how it
happened.”
HE TOLD how he had met Koontz and
Mrs. Coleman at the quarry. Koontz
asked him whether he knew who he
was.
“I said I did. He came towards me
and threatened to kill me so I would
never: be able to tell that I saw him
and that woman. Then suddenly he
rushed me. I dodged. I was scared of
him. I picked up a sashweight from
the ground and hit him with it before
he came at me again. He went out cold,
and I started trussing him up with a
piece of rope I had with me. While I
was doing that I noticed that he was
dead. I got scared that the woman
would give me away. So I tied her up
too and strangled her.”
Woolridge also cleared up the puzz-
ling question of the missing watch. He
said the watch had attracted his at-
tention as he was heaving Koontz’
body into the pit. He kept the watch
but threw it away the same afternoon.
He also took along, and tossed into an
abandoned quarry, the rope and the
iron weight which he had used in the
killing.
As OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STOR-
IES goes to press, Joseph Woolridge
has been indicted on two counts of first-
degree murder. Arraigned March 26.
he pleaded innocent. His trial was set
in Monroe County for May 20.
The name Jim, or Jerry, Mrs. Chap-
pell and Donald Doerflin are fictitious
to protect the identities of innocent
persons.
“No Gun-Totin' Mug'll Make Me Reach" (Continued from Page 39)
No answer. And the officers had to
let it go at that.
Among the things they had found on
Jenkins was a watch, one that was
working. To be certain, they checked
it with Reinstatler’s records of watch
repairs, but the serial number didn’t
match anything in the book.
They put the squeeze on him once
more, but the quiz threw no further
light on the question of why he was so
touchy on the subject of the Rein-
Statler murder.
“There’s more to this than appears
on the surface.” Merz told his men.
“I'm sure he is trying to cover up
something.”
He was. Making a routine check of
Wanted circulars, one detective dis-
covered that Jenkins was a fugitive
from a Georgia chain gang. As no
specific charges could be pressed
against the suspect, and in view of the
claim Georgia had on him, James Jen-
kins was offered a free ride back to
Atlanta. And that was that.
Two weeks passed. Three. A few
more broken watches turned up in
dragnets and a few more suspects were
collared. But none of the leads took the
Officers-anywhere. With the passing of
time the Reinstatler riddle grew
darker, and as a police case it was on
the verge of becoming a dead and
buried issue. Were the killers never to
be found? Was this mystery to remain
unsolved?
Then another broken watch came
into the picture. By then it was the
end of May. First word of the watch
came to the police when Friedman's
Pawnshop, one of Cincinnati’s largest,
phoned, Detectives Faragher and Hart
sped there at once.
“Here’s the watch,” Friedman said,
shoving it across the counter. It was
a gold-plated, black-faced affair of
well-known make. The stem was
broken.
“What's the dope on it?” Faragher
asked, after having studied the watch.
“Three days ago a fellow pawned a
suit here,’ Friedman explained. “‘To-
day we looked through the pockets as
we always do before we put clothes
away. The watch was in the jacket.”
UNAJHAT'S the name?” Hart asked.
“Frank J. Stewart.”
“He didn't
watch?”
eh Oa
A wrinkle showed on Hart's fore-
head. “And you didn’t notify him?”
“No. I heard you people were looking
for broken watches. so I called you
right away.”
“Let us have the watch for a couple
of hours,” Faragher requested. “We'll
give it the routine works and then you
can have it back.” :
Once again they got Reinstatler's
dog-eared “repair” book out of the file
come back for the
room. When they opened the watch
case to get the serial number, they
found the kind of scratch marks inside
the lid by which jewelers usually tag
watches on which they have worked.
Faragher examined the markings
through a magnifying glass. Brusquely
he jerked his head up, staring at his
partner. ;
“Have a look at this!”
| N TURN, Hart examined the inscrip-
tion in the lid. And then he said,
“That looks like the code in which
Reinstatler used to mark his stuff. Let’s
check with his book.”
They went back one year in the watch
repair items, but did not find an entry
matching the serial numbers of the
watch. :
Just then Sergeant Jacob Schott
came in, a bright young detective who
had been detailed to the force only a
short time before.
“Say, Jake,” Faragher called to him.
“What do you make of this?”
He showed him the watch and the
markings and told him the strange
story of how it had been found.
Schott scowled at the watch a great
deal, wrote down the serial numbers,
and started checking with Reinstatler’s
book. Only instead of going back-
wards he started at the first page,
opening with January, 1941. Patiently
‘he went down column after column of
six and eight figure numerals. It took
a long time before his finger came to
rest ona line. -
He calmly announced, ‘This watch
was brought to Reinstatier’s on Janu-
ary twenty-ninth—in nineteen forty-
three, that is—by somebody named
Brown.”
TERE was a pause. Tense, excited
glances passed between the men.
This watch had been at Reinstatler’s. It
had been brought to the shop almost a
year and a half before. Was it—could it
be—part of the loot? Or had it been re-
deemed legitimately? And who was
Brown? How did his watch get into a
coat pawned by a man who gave his
name as Frank J. Stewart?
They phoned the pawn shop and
asked for the address Stewart had given
when he pawned the suft. A short time
later they pulled up in front of the
place.
“I expected it to be a vacant lot,”
Jake Schott said, grinning. “It’s a real
house.”
“No great shakes of a house,” and
Hart shook his head.
They looked at the names on the mail
boxes. No Frank Stewart. The ad-
_dress was beginning to look like a
phony. On the off-chance that some
one by that name might be staying at
the address> they rang the first door-
bell down the dark, musty hallway.
“Stewart?” a woman repeated, flash-
ing a gold tooth. “Ask Heber Mc-
Mahon. Second floor to the right.”
She shut the door.
The officers climbed the worn-out
stairs. Faragher pushed the bell but-
ton. Leather soles scuffled inside and
presently the door swung open. Fac-
ing the officers was a short, gray-haired
man. He looked blankly for a moment,
then his eyes rounded in surprise.
“You Heber McMahon?” Schott
asked in his deliberate drawl.
The man nodded.
“Let’s go inside.”
They went with him down a narrow
hall to a dim room with a gas stove and
just a few pieces of shabby furniture.
“We're looking for Frank J. Stewart,”
Faragher explained a moment later.
/PRANKIE isn’t here,” the old man
said in a thin, friendly voice. ‘‘He’s
my nephew.’ Something like fear
sprang into his eyes. “He didn’t do
anything wrong, did he?”
Instead of answering, Faragher asked,
“Know whether he pawned a suit of his
Monday?”
McMahon shook his head. “That
wasn’t his suit. That was my suit. I
sent him to Friedman’s.”
Steps came pounding up to the door,
it opened and in barged a scrawny
youth. He stopped abruptly, seeing the
three police officers.
“Come on in, Frankie,” the old man
said. “They’re from Headquarters.
They want to know about my suit.” He
turned his head to face the detectives.
“What do you want to know about the
suit?”
“We want to know where you got the
watch that you left in the pocket,”
Faragher explained.
McMahon frowned. ‘What watch?
I didn’t leave no watch.”
TINAAYBE sonny boy did,” Hart said,
with a glance at Frank Stewart.
But the youth hadn't put the watch
in that pocket either, or so he said. No-
body had. This thing was getting more
mysterious by the moment.
“Boys,” Hart said, “you better re-
member fast. Otherwise it’s the jug.”
The kid began to bawl. The old man
got sore and pounded the table. He
yelled that the whole thing was a frame
somebody was trying to hang on him.
He kept on yelling during the next
couple of days while detectives were
patiently collecting details on the two
men and the strange affair of the watch.
Not everything they uncovered was
unfavorable to McMahon and _ his
nephew. Information gleaned on the
old man from the neighborhood and
from various employers was neither
good nor bad. Agreement was general
that he had an intense dislike for work.
Nobody thought he’d play any tricks,
but then nobody would wager more
than a buck that he wouldn’t.
The dope on Frankie Stewart was as
much of a toss-up. He was a big breeze
and a do-little, a big shot among the
boys on the block, but from what people
generally said, not a bad lad at that.
Neither he nor his uncle had ever been
in any serious trouble with the law.
. Just the same, officers turned their
apartment inside out; looked for possi-
ble loot caches under floorboards and
basement stairs: questioned everyone
they could find who even knew them
by sight, trying to learn whether re-
cently they had been selling jewelry or
showing sudden wealth.
Bor all that was in vain. Not the small-
est shred of evidence came to light
that would connect McMahon and
Stewart with the slaying.
But in spite of that, the fact re-
mained that a watch from Reinstatler’s
store had turned up in McMahon's
pocket. How could that be? Was it
Possible that the men were in no way
connected with the crime?
There was another unanswered ques-
tion. Was the watch part of the loot.
or had it been taken from the shop
legitimately? Reinstatler’s records gave
the owner's name as Brown. The house
number was 1043. But the street name
was illegible. Reinstatler had used
a@ very personal code of scrawlings and
abbreviations to designate addresses.
The street on which Brown was be-
lieved to live spelled T-e-m, or possibly
J-e-m. That checked with nothing in
the Cincinnati street guide.
Time was running short. They could-
n’t hold McMahon and the kid much
longer without bringing specific
charges against them, and that they
were unable to do. Yet they hated like
sin to let the pair go free. because their
story was no good, no matter how one
looked at it.
They were thrashing it all out in
Captain Merz’ office, and then Jake
Schott suggested: “Give me a couple of
days, Chief. I'll try to run down
Brown's address.”
SCHOTT took Reinstatler’s records
' home and for the next 48 hours, just
about slept and ate with them. trying
to find the key to Reinstatler’s peculia:
code. Going over many pages of scraw!-
ing, Schott noticed that Reinstatier
wrote “F’s” as though they were “T's”
that he usually skipped if not the last
syllable. at least the last letter. anc
that he never dotted his “I's.”
Then suddenly it hit Schott. “Jem
or “Tem"’ could be “Fem”: the “¢
could be a sloppy ‘“1'—-the word then
read: “Flm.” But because of this habit
of not dotting “I's” it also could be
“Flin.”
There's a Flint Street in Cincinnati
Schott tore down there. The house at
No. 1043 was a tired old tenement. N
buzzers, no names downstairs. Sch
knuckles fell on the first door in
the hallway.
The door opened.
Detective Tom Faragher: He
had warned the old jeweler that
battling thugs was dangerous
be verified. Things were beginning to
look pretty bad for the punk kid. The
stuff was hot. no doubt, but did it come
from Reinstatler’s store?
The officers went through Reinstat-
ler's book of repairs. But the serial
number of Riesel’s two watches didn’t
match anything on record. Merz de-
cided to have another crack at the
suspect.
He told Riesel how detectives had
checked his story and disproved every
bit of it. Riesel held out, but not for
very long. Then he admitted that he
had copped the stuff in a house prow].
He gave the address, the time, and an
inventory of the pickings. Detectives
checked on the various angles of the
confession. Riesel was hot all right. But
as far as the Reinstatler job went, he
was in the clear.
{t LOOKED as though the investiga-
tion would settle down to slow-paced
detail work, sifting of many suspects,
watching of pawn shops and watch
repair places. But the quiet lasted only
until the next morning, until the de-
tectives heard of the pretty girl and
the queer act she put on in a grocery
store.
It started with the owner of the gro-
cery coming in and telling the detec-
tives of the incident. This thing had
happened the night before. A girl was
in the store, buying soft drinks. The
radio was on and a news broadcast
was coming over the air waves. At one
point the announcer paused, then said
that he had a special bulletin. The
bulletin was the announcement that
Reinstatler had just died in the hos-
pital. Then the girl screamed. Her
hands flew to her face and half. stifled
the cutcry. She whirled, ran out and
was swallowed up by the dark street.
She left a five-dollar bill and her pack-
age on the counter.
“pe YOU know her?” Merz asked the
man.
“I have never seen her before.”
“Can you describe what she looked
like?”
The grocer nodded. She was between
By analyzing Reinstatler's pecul-
iar writing, a shrewd officer
traced a Flint Street address
20 and 23, fairly well-dressed, dark-
haired.
“Why do you think she acted that
way?” Merz demanded.
The man scratched his head, shrug-
ged. “I—I don’t know. Maybe she act-
ed like that because she was scared.”
SCARED? Why?
“What do you make of it?” Merz
addressed several detectives who hap-
pened to be around.
Tom Faragher spoke. “That baby’s
mixed up in it.”
Merz gave him a sidelong glance.
“Mixed up—how?”’
“Maybe she was in on the killing.
She could have served as a blind, put-
ting the old man off guard. She—”
Detective Walter Hart interrupted
with: “The job could have been pulled
by her and a guy.”
“Yeah, but two guys were seen com-
ing from the store,” protested Faragher.
“I wouldn't put too much ‘stock in
the story,” Hart replied. “Nobody saw
the two kids inside the store. Besides,
even if two men did it, the woman still
could have been in on it. Like you
said, maybe she was the front in the
play, but walked out when the rough
stuff started.”
“It could be much simpler. Maybe
this girl was close to Reinstatler. She
became hysterical when she found out
about the murder.”
TH grocer who had listened silently
to the discussion,said, “She didn't
act like she was grieved, no sir! When
she let out that yell with everybody in
the store, she knew she’d given away
more than’s healthy. That’s why she
scrammed out the way she did.”
The detectives checked on the possi-
bility that the girl was a relative, or
friend, just the same. Reinstatler had
a daughter, about that age, but she
wasn’t the girl in the grocery store.
Nor did the description match any
neighbor, friend or acquaintance who
might have been shocked into an out-
burst of violent grief.
The detectives leafed through their
Captain Clem Merz: He or-
dered an extensive canvass of
pawn shops, searching for loot
files and searched their memories. bu:
they just couldn’t connect the scream-
ing girl with anyone on record. Wh
was she then? How did she fit into the
case?
The men of the Detective Squad soor
stopped worrying about the girl. Mayb«
that scream in the grocery was a bum
Steer. They plugged away at the task
of tracing stolen jewelry. whenever 1:
could be traced, but for weeks non:
pointed toward the Reinstatler job
They hoped that someday a bauble
would turn up that was part of the
take.
And in this way the days passec
The case seemed to be at a standstil.
when a couple of alert detectives
clamped James Jenkins. Jenkins wa:
another “hot goods” salesman. Whe:
they took him to Headquarters anc
started quizzing him, he went to pieces
“I didn’t do it!” he cried out
swear I didn't do it!”
“Didn't do what?’
“I didn’t kill that jeweler on Clark
Street—Reinstatler!”
“What makes you think we pullec
you in for that?”
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~~ ——
LD man Jacob Reinstatler often
would boast that he was the
toughest guy to run a jewelry
store in a tough section of Ohio’s little
Paris, Cincinnati.
Over the years he had had a number
of close scrapes in his crazily-cram-
med, shadow-ridden store. But the
couple of .38’s he kept under . the
counter at strategic places had a habit
of jumping into his hands quicker than
a flabbergasted punk could blink.
The last time a bandit had run afoul
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of Reinstatler was in the Spring of
1942. The old jeweler had sent a couple
of slugs after the strong-arm, chased
him down the street and caught him.
Detective Tom Faragher, who came
around to look into the foiled stickup,
gave the old jeweler well-meaning ad-
vice:
“You ought to go easy, Jake. No
use taking chances. There are lots of
bad lads around. Sometimes it’s better
not to be too quick on the snap-up.”
Reinstatler grinned all over his
These hammers were the ones used
to beat the jeweler to death before
he had time to reach for his guns
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By Henry Thomas
Special Investigator for
OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES
wrinkled face and waved a big hand at
the detective. “Aw, applesauce! I've
been in this business fifty years. No
gun-totin’ mug’ll make me reach.”
Eth years later—on April 10, 1944—
Detective Faragher and a half dozen
boys from Headquarters were at Rein-
statler’s Clark Street store. Jacob
Reinstatler was dying. The stickups he
always had mocked and foiled, for once
had had the drop on him. He was
bleeding from deep gashes in the head.
Two bloodstained hammers were lying
on the floor next to him. He had been
struck merciless blows.and dragged to
the rear of the store where he could
never reach his trusted guns.
The neighborhood doctor who had
responded to a call for help was say-
ing: “Maybe, if we get him to the hos-
pital fast enough—but not a minute
must be lost.”
Ambulancemen carried him away a
moment later. The investigators, under
command of Detective Chief Clem W.
Merz, started to hunt down clews, and
add up the facts that would tell the
story of what had happened.
On the counter was an
box, and there were empty
where rings and watches had ber:
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on one side, lay scattered. Or
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placed it on the glass top where it now
lay.
All the blows had been struck on the
back of the head; the first one probably
while he was stooping, the others when
he lay prostrate.
Streaks on the floor showed how he
had been dragged to the rear where
he could not be seen right away by
someone entering the store.
An always alert and suspicious man,
Reinstatler had trusted a team that
was out to kill him.
Did he know his assailants? Were
they the kind of people he thought
above suspicion? Had they been in the
store before, perhaps acting like regu-
lar customers to throw him off?
It was still too early to guess at the
answers.
ABFCHIE STEWART was finishing
with his fingerprint hunt. He had
just one more spot to work on—the low
gate that led from the customers’ sec-
tion of the store behind the counter.
And when he was through with that, he
shook his head wearily.
“Not a thing.” ;
Chief Merz threw him a disturbed
look. “Go over the hammers, too?”
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the rest of the layout was strictly
Only punks who can’t lay
their hands on a couple of guns would
beat up a storekeeper at 2:30 in the
afternoon.
Chief Merz decided to go over the
facts systematically from the begin-
ning. Frank Scott, who had found the
moaning, unconscious jeweler, was out-
side talking to a crowd of people. Scott
had walked into the’store shortly after
2:30. He came tearing out after a few
seconds, horror-struck, made for a drug
store, alerted the manager who gave
the news to the police and called a
neighborhood doctor.
Merz asked Scott whether he had
seen anyone coming out of the jewelry
store; whether he had noticed anything -
suspicious before or after; whether he
had been able to make any sense out
of the words that Reinstatler’s ash-
gray lips tried to form.
But Scott couldn’t answer any of
these questions. .
The next play was to question people
in the vicinity and try to find some wit-
nesses.
But that, too, failed. The would-be
killers had come and gone without a
sound, without being seen, without a
slip-up. : :
Merz didn’t like that. “Let’s hope
Reinstatler pulls through and tells us
By cleverly deciphering Reinstatler's handwriting in his "repairs" book,
police learned that a watch belonging to Brown, fourth name from top,
was a key to. the mystery and a very important piece of evidence
what happened here,” he said. “If not,
we'll have tough going.”
Detective Faragher said, “The loot
will turn up in hock shops. We ought
to find out exactly what was taken
here.”
“Right. Let’s make an inventory.”
BEFORE doitfg that, however, they
looked for Reinstatler’s records
which would show sales and purchases
and what was in stock. They searched
in drawers, on shelves, everywhere, but
as much as they stirred up dust in the
old store, they failed to find any such
records. They could find only one book,
enscribed “Repairs,” and that didn’t
help any, at least not right away.
The question was, had the thugs
grabbed the records to make identifica-
tion of the loot impossible? If so,
wouldn’t they have to be well acquaint-
ed with the place and with the way
Reinstatler ran his business? Was it
perhaps for that reason that they were
able to catch him off-guard?
The officers heard a sudden commo-
tion at the door and then the sound of
a strident voice. Two detectives pushed
through, and with them was a woman
who was wringing her hands in despair
and loudly bemoaning the assault on
the old jeweler.
“I saw them!” she cried. “I saw
them no-goods! Must of been them!
Oh, if I had only knowed—”
“Let’s get this straight,” Merz said.
“Who did you see?”
It took a little while before they were
able to make the excited woman talk
coherently. And then she told them
that she had passed by the store about
2:30, noticing two youths who were
walking away from it. They both
seemed kind of agitated. Suddenly
they broke into a run and jumped on
a street car. One was a tall white-
blond gangling kid of about nineteen,
who séemed to have a slight limp: the
other was shorter, dark-haired, maybe
a year older. He carried a suitcase.
Merz considered. The time was all
right; the suitcase could have con-
tained the loot and the missing records;
the nervousness they displayed and the
hurry with which they dusted—they
looked plenty hot.
Merz said, “I think I want to have a
chat with those birds fast.”
But first they had to finish at the
store. When that was done, they knew
little more about Reinstatler’s busi-
ness,
EXCEPT perhaps one thing: There
was a whole line of new jewelry—
watches, rings, bracelets—which the
thugs hadn’t touched. On -the other
hand, no objects left for repair could be
found, such as watches. And yet the re-
pair record book showed entries up to
that very day. The sluggers had
scooped up a lot of dead stock and
skipped some of the better merchan-
dise.
And that looked like a lucky break.
Busted stuff sooner or later would turn
up in repair shops. It could be identi-
fied from Reinstatler’s notes. The thing
to do was to communicate descriptions
and serial numbers to jewelers at once.
But the men might not try to peddle
the loot to local merchants. There-
fore, a squad of detectives hit the
hangouts where the thugs might try to
unload the stuff for the out-of-town
trade.
Another line of investigation was to
talk to Reinstatler’s business connec-
tions and try to find somebody who was
sufficiently on the inside to know about
the old jeweler’s books.
Another squad of detectives was as-
signed to the questioning of people liv-
ing or working in the vicinity of Rein-
statler’s store. A chance existed that
someone might have some information
on the two youths, the tall gangling
one with the limp, and the smaller
dark-haired one with the suitcase.
While officers were busy running
down all these leads, Merz kept in touch
with the General Hospital. The news
of Reinstatler continued the same, no
change for the better and none for the
worse, and that was good news consid-
ering the man’s age and the gravity of
his injuries. Merz sent a detective to
Reinstatler’s bedside, just in case an
improvement in his condition should
unseal his lips.
The detectives who had canvassed
the vicinity of the store reported first.
All their efforts had netted them noth-
ing. No one knew, or had seen the two
youths. Reinstatler, the detectives
learned, never had employed any help.
He was a strange, slightly eccentric
man, yet soft-hearted and square, and
liked by all, even those who were only
slightly acquainted with him.
[NVESTIGATORS who had checked.
with Reinstatler’s business connec-
tions. also suffered a setback. It seemed
that no books had been taken from the
store since Reinstatler never kept
books except the one for repairs. He’d
buy and sell merchandise for cash, the
officers learned, and depend on memory
rather than on paper work. Unless
Reinstatler survived his injuries, it
would be impossible to know what and
how much loot the thugs had taken.
Toward the evening, Officers Mires
Stine and John O’Neil brought in a
number who wouldn’t tell his name. He
was a small kid, gaudily dressed, his
pants too pressed, his shoes too shiny.
His face was impudent and sallow. He
had been caught trying to peddle jew-
elry on a street corner.
- When Merz questioned him he said
the jewelry was his and it was nobody’s
business if he felt like selling.
“Talk, or it’s the clink,” Merz said.
“The law says nobody can peddle stuff
without a license. Your name, Bud!”
“Benny Riesel.” His voice seemed
very smal].
“That’s better.” Merz turned to the
detectives. “What kind of jewels did
you find on him?”
“Two watches, a ring, and a brace-
let.” Stine dumped the articles on the
desk.
Merz stared at the suspect. “Well,
where does the stuff come from?”
Riesel started to say something, but
Merz waved him to silence and answer-
ed the phone that was jingling.
It was the officer at the General Hos-
pital.
“Reinstatler’s dead,” he said.
“That’s too bad,” Merz said softly.
“That really is. I feel sorry for the old
man. I guess he never came to?”
“No, never.” :
Merz replaced the receiver, turn
to Riesel in anger. “Talk fast. Now
‘it’s a murder investigation.”
An expression of abject terror sprang
into the kid’s eyes. He started to whine,
to apologize, to supplicate. He didn’t
do it, he kept saying. He didn’t’ know
of no murder. The jewels weren't his,
but he hadn’t stolen them exactly; he
had taken them from home. He offered
to put them back and would never try
any funny tricks if only his family
wasn’t told.
MERZ was fingering the valuables the
officer had plucked from Riesel’s
pocket. One of the watches had a brok-
en spring. When Riesel had talked
himself out, Merz said, ‘““That’s a bum
story. Tell us where the stuff really
comes from. And make it sudden.”
Riesel shuffled his feet, looked around
nervously. Sweat made his forehead
shiny. But the sallow-faced kid
wouldn’t open up. He was taken to a
cell and detectives got busy on his
trail.
He didn’t live at the address he had
given. His parents could not be traced.
Nor could any other part of his story
Where's the fire?” a man called out.
I'm looking for somebody by the
name of Brown,” Schott said.
The man’s eyebrows went up. “I'm
Clement Brown. What do you want?”
Schott asked him about the watch
given Reinstatler for repair.
‘Reinstatler? Never heard of him.”
ROWN'S face registered no expres-
sion. He didn’t know it. Sure, he had
a watch, and he had had watches re-
paired
Schott shook his head in disgust.
First this watch turned up in a pawned
jacket without anybody having put it
there. Now the owner of the watch, ac-
‘ording to the records, denied that the
watch was his.
At Headquarters Schott showed
Brown the watch. Brown turned it
in his fingers, scowled at it apprais-
ngly. and exclaimed: “Holy cow! This
is my watch. How in the devil did you
ever find it? What’s it doing here?”
Now it was the law’s turn to be leery
“That’s kind of sudden. What makes
you think it’s your watch?”
He said, very simply, he recognized
it. He had taken it to a repair shop
and had neglected to get it out. He
had plumb forgotten that he ever
owned the watch.
Schott called up a jeweler he knew
in town.
“Does it happen often that people
bring stuff to get fixed and then for-
get to pick it up?”
ve) FOES often than you'd expect,”
was the reply.
Schott went into Merz’ office and
told him of the latest turn of events.
“Tt’s Brown's watch all right,” he
said. ‘What are we going to do now?
Concentrate even more on McMahon
and Stewart? Since the watch was
taken in the killing—”
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Merz was shaking his head. “I think
the old man and the kid are in the
clear.”
“What’s that? In the clear? Then
how did the watch get in the jacket?”
“Somebody could have slipped it
there.”
“You think they know?” %,
“Probably not. Somebody slipped it
there, either to frame them or to hide
it. Probably to hide it. I'll give those
gents a couple of hours to remember
the names of all the people they ad-
mitted to their rooms since the Rein-
statler job was pulled.”
McMahon and Stewart supplied
practically identical lists, each con-
taining about a dozen names.
Detectives got busy on the task of
sifting the dozen-odd people. When
they were through all suspects were
eliminated but one: Haywood Thomas,
a shifty, uneasy youth of 22. When
they searched the room where he lived,
they found a lot of pawn tickets under
some shelf paper and a handful of
bracelets and rings under a pillow.
They looked up his record; it wasn’t
too good.
Merz told him, “In that batch of hot
stuff we found at your place are sev-
eral articles that come from the Rein-
statler robbery.”
It was a shot in the dark. Would it
work?
Thomas said softly,
didn’t kill Reinstatler.”
“Maybe not. Who did?”
His teeth dug into his lower lip.
guy with a wooden leg.”
“Name?”
He didn’t know the name, he pro-
tested.
“That’s all right,” Merz said. ‘““We’ll
let you look at our special file of crim-
inals with wooden legs. You won’t have
any trouble spotting the fellow, will
you?”
nervously, “I
“A
H's small eyes blinked rapidly. He
squirmed in his chair. Haywood
Thomas was not a very tough guy. It
was written all over him that he was
giving up the game as lost.
With a hangdog look on his face, he
stared at the. mugshots of criminals
with physical handicaps. A few tense
minutes passed. Was the alleged
killer’s picture in the file? Or would
this lead, too, fall through?
At last Thomas pointed to one pic-
ture. The name on the back of it was
James Brown.
Trying to hide his excitement, Merz
said, “Two guys pulled the job. Who
was the other?”
And then: “James Jenkins, He’s do-
ing a stretch down in Georgia.”
Merz’s eyes went wide. Then he
chuckled to himself. They had pinched
Jenkins some time back and obliging-
ingly had returned him to Atlanta
where he was wanted as a fugitive from
a chain gang.
By then Thomas loved to hear him-
self “sing.”
“They had a woman along when they
played that trick,” he continued.
“Johnnie Mae Gardener.”
“You'd better start from the begin-
ning,” Merz told him. “How did you
happen to come in on it? What became
of Brown, and all the rest?”
HOMAS turned the leaks on full
force. On the day of the murder he
happened to run into James Brown,
James Jenkins and Johnnie Mae
Gardener on the street. He only knew
Jenkins and Johnnie, who was Jenkins’
girl. The trio told him they had some
swell jewelry for sale, but it was hot
and it had to be disposed of carefully.
“They showed me the stuff,” Thomas
went on in his confession. “The
watches were no good. All busted. I
says, ‘There isn’t enough dough in this.’
But Jenkins says, ‘You take it to Cov-
ington or some other place in Kentucky
an’ hock it. We split fifty-fifty’.”
Thomas thought that was a pretty
good deal. But still he didn’t want to
be caught with all the hot stuff, and it
would be better he argued if they let
Charles Page and Charles Lee, pals of
his, in on the deal inasmuch as both
had some pretty good connections. So
Brown, Jenkins and Johnnie Mae
went with him, Thomas, to Charles
Lee’s place where they met Charles
Page. Conditions were agreed upon,
and the jewels and watches changed
hands.
On the following day the newspapers
carried the story of Reinstatler’s death.
Jenkins, Brown and the Gardener girl
raised getaway dough and dusted. The
fences, Lee, Page and Thomas himself,
had the scare of their lives now that
murder was part of the set-up. They
never got around to pawning or selling
the whole take. They peddled the stuff
piecemeal] and steered clear of watches.
Merz interrupted Thomas’ account
with the question as to how the watch
had gotten into the suit Frankie
Stewart took to the pawnshop.
“T put it there,” Haywood said. “It
was a Winter suit. I didn’t figure he’d
wear it.”
That cleared Heber McMahon and
his nephew Frankie Stewart, and they
both were released immediately.
Detectives hauled in Charles Lee and
Charles Page. They both turned out
to be pushovers, readily confirming
Thomas’ story.
RMED with this evidence, the in-
vestigators were ready to get at the
killers. Sergeant Jacob Schott and
Prosecutor Carson Hay’s assistant,
Loyal Martin, left for Atlanta to secure
Jenkins’ release.
Meanwhile, Merz and his men put
the heat on the stool pigeons and
learned James Brown’s address. They
swooped down on the place, arrested
him and brought him to Headquarters.
The one-legged man seemed rather un-
concerned. Merz showed him the two
hammers, the fake money that had
been found in Reinstatler’s store, and
part of the loot.
That did it. It was all Johnnie Mae
Gardener’s idea, he said. She had
cased the jewelery store and she had
put him in touch with Jenkins. It was
Jenkins ‘who had struck the first blow.
Johnnie Mae was with them, pretend-
ing she wanted to buy a bracelet. The
three of them had been in the store be-
fore, which explained the old jeweler’s
carelessness.
Forty-eight hours later, James Jenk-
ins was brought back from Atlanta.
Same story, only according to him it ~
was Brown who first had assaulted the
jeweler.
But where was Johnnie Mae Garde-
ner?
The killers said they didn’t know.
The fences professed to be just as ig-
norant. And the stool pigeons sweated
and produced nothing.
A few days later a letter arrived for
James Brown. The return address was
Canton, Ohio. Officials opened the let-
ter. It was signed Johnnie Mae.
The detectives left for Canton and
brought back the girl who was ready
to tell it all because she thought that
Brown and Jenkins had turned her in.
Her confession added nothing new,
though it confirmed all previous state-
ments.
AMES JENKINS and James Brown
died for their crime in the electric
chair on April 6, 1945. Johnnie Mae
Gardener, also sentenced to death, was
granted a reprieve twelve hours be-
fore the time set for the execution. Her
sentence later was commuted to life.
Page, Lee and Thomas received one-
year sentences each, but were all put
on probation.
A few details of the case never were
explained. Brown and Jenkins didn’t
bear the slightest resemblance to the
two unidentified youths whom a wom-
an had seen bolt from Reinstatler’s
store after the killing, except that
Brown, as well as one of the youths,
walked with a limp. It was one of those
strange coincidences which so often
happen in murder cases.
Also it never definitely was explained
if Johnnie Mae Gardener was the
woman who had screamed in the gro-
cery store after hearing the announce-
ment of Reinstatler’s death.
The names of Benny Riesel, Heber
McMahon and Frank J. Stewart are
fictitious to protect persons who had no
connection with this murder.
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RS. HELEN DUFFIELD, 24,
M a pert, slightly plump bru-
nette, tapped a toe against
the brass rail in tune to the soft
ballad from the juke box.
You seem happy tonight, Mrs.
Duffield,” said William Heimann,
owner of a barbecue at. East Erie
and California Avenues in Lorain,
Ohio. “Is it because Paul’s coming
back soon?” se
The young woman beamed with
joy. “Mr. Heimann, it’s ‘wonder-
ful! Just imagine; gone almost
three years and now he’s goin’ to
be home in two weeks.”
The barbecue manager grinned.
his appreciation of the young
wife’s stroke of luck. Paul Duf-
field, a radarman on the U.S.S.
Ucaba, prowling the_Pacific, was
to be one of the first Lorain men
mustered out,
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ready for him?” Heimann in-
quired. ;
Mrs. Duffield nodded. “Yes, I
had to ask the tenants to leave. I
By HARLEY ROBINS
was sorry about that, but Paul
and I bought the place when we
were first married and he'll want
to come: back to it.”
S= glanced at her watch and
saw that the time was 10
-o’clock. “Oh, I must be. getting et
back!” she said. “Laurie will think » |
I’m lost.” ‘ :
The young woman began gather-
ing up her bundles, and Heimann
came out from behind the, counter.- |
“Pll hold the door open for you,”
he said. :
-T wo other customers—James
Rosomer, councilman of the 7th
Ward, and ‘his brother Paul— -
watched Mrs. Duffield cross the
sidewalk to her Buick coupe park-
ed at the curb, open the door with
one hand, and start to bend over
to deposit the bundles on the seat.
She stopped suddenly.
It was then it happened. Hei-
mann, still at the door, heard Mrs. -
Duffield cry out; saw a man slid-
ing behind the steering wheel.
The man seemed to be forcing
Mrs. Duffield back the way she had
_come, Quickly the two. figures were
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Detective
Cases
MARIEALCIDE JAMESE.SMITH PATLAMAR
Associate Editor Editor ’ Art Editor,
APRIL 1946
CONTENTS
BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE A GUN? - - - - - - 4
KILLERS LIKE IV'QUIET « - --------- 6
By HARLEY ROBINS
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Helen and Paul Duffield. Awaiting momentarily the return of
her sailor husband, Helen Duffield ‘suffered a terrible fate.
THE POLICE OF LORAIN AND- OTHER
locked in a struggle, and Heimann,
edging closer, was literally thrown
back on his heels by two orange
spurts of flame in the machine's
interior, Almost simultaneously
came a brace of sharp reports, fol-
lowed by a pair of piercing
screams.
Before Heimann could reach the
coupe, the man had pulled Mrs.
Duffield into the car, reached
slammed shut the door at the curb
side.
Then, as the barbecue proprietor
attempted to*wrestle with the door
handle, the motor roared and the
car suddenly leaped forward. It
raced away from the curb and sped
down East Erie Avenue.
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mind was jerked back to activity
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boy he recognized as Harry Seig-
fried raced up and ‘shouted: “I saw
it, Mr. Heimann! I'll get that taxi
down the street and see if I can
catch the fellow!” :
The boy sped to a car parked
about 100 feet away as the bar-
becue man whirled toward his
store. He bumped into the Rosom-
ers who had been hurrying to aid
in the attempted rescue.
“Somebody shot that girl and
made off with her coupe!” Hei-
mann gasped. “Get after him! I'll
call the police!” :
James and Paul Rosomer ran to
the former’s car, parked across the
street, swung it. around and sped
after the taxi, carrying Seigfried,
which was in pursuit of the Buick
coupe. : :
Meanwhile, Heimann had con-
tacted Detective Verne Smith at
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headquarters and reported the
crime. Quickly ringing Chief Theo-
dore Walker at the latter’s home,
Smith and Acting Inspector Paul
Cleaver climbed into a fast cruiser
and raced to East Erie Avenue.
A mile up Erie Avenue the de-
tectives found Seigfried’s taxi with
the front of its radiator jammed
against a tree, and a little farther
on they came to the Rosomer car
which had skidded against the
curb. The Buick coupe was no-
where in sight. .
The incident involving Mrs. Hel-
en Duffield had occurred on the
rainy night of October 2, 1945. The
slippery pavements had accounted
for the crashes of the two pursu-
ing cars, but no one had been hurt.
Smith and Cleaver returned to
Heimann’s barbecue, where they
were presently joined by the others
who had managed to get their ma-
chines back in. commission. The de-
tectives discovered they had four
excellent eye-witnesses, since Seig-
fried had been only 50 feet away
from the coupe when the shots. ex-
ploded and the Rosomers, on hear-
ing. the commotion, -had peered
through the barbecue windows.
LL agreed Mrs. Duffield’s at-
tacker was a tall young man
in a tan raincoat and snap-brim
hat. It was believed that he had
been hiding across the street, be-
hind some gas pumps; and emerg-
ed only when the young woman
:
The Buick coupe, owned by Helen
“See that the state police and the
sheriff’s office are also notifed.”
Heimann revealed that Mrs. Duf-
field had been making her “home,
with a Mrs. Laurie Miller at. Cali-
fornia Avenue, but had recently
taken over a bungalow she and
Duffield owned at North Jefferson
Boulevard and was preparing this
for the homecoming of her radar-
man_ husband. eae
“Then Mrs. Miller ought to be
able to tell us something about
Helen Duffield’s affairs,” Walker
said. “Let’s get up there. What-
ever information we can get might:
help us to locate that poor woman
and her car.”
He had barely finished speaking
when a phone rang in one of Hei-
mann’s booths.: Detective Getlin,
who answered it, rushed back to
the group of fellow officers.
“Chief, that was headquarters!”
-he announced excitedly. “Both Mrs.
Duffield and her car have been
found in a lane near Sheffield. The
‘sheriff’s men-are at the scene.”:
Sheffield was a village on Lake
Erie, about 12 miles east of Lorain.
Soon two carloads of officers were
roaring up the highway conecting
the two communities.
“It’s. halfway between Sheffield
and Avon,” Getlin said, directing
the driver, “at a greenhouse owned
by Ellis: Hoag. Someone’s going to
flag us down at the spot.”
The police cars had _ barely
emerged from Sheffield when they
Duffield, and in which
she found a stranger who solved his problems with a gun.
attempted to drive off in her
coupe.
“Would you know the man if you
saw-him again?” Cleaver asked
Heimann. f
“Positively,” the barbecue owner
answered. “I saw his face quite
plainly.”
“But you didn’t recognize him?”
“To tell the truth, he looked
somewhat familiar. However, I
can’t place him.”
By this time, Chief Walker, ac-
companied by Sergeant Maurice
Mumford, Detective Joseph Getlin
and Identification Expert R. L.
Hirbe, had arrived.
The police chief was shocked
that such a crime could have taken
place at one of the busiest inter-
sections in. Lorain, a city of 44,000
located 30 miles west of Cleveland.
“Phone a description of the man,
woman and car,” he told Getlin.
saw a man waving a red lantern.
“That must be. it,” Chief Walker
said. “Turn in,”
Soon the two cars were crawling
along a narrow dirt lane. After
travelling about a quarter of a
mile they came to the greenhouses.
Two men were standing in the road
and there were three machines, one
of them the Buick coupe belong-
ing to Helen Duffield. |
As the Lorain officers bounded
out of their cars, they recognized
Deputy Sheriff Charles Mack of
Elyria.
“Where's the woman?” Walker
asked the sheriff’s man,
Mack pointed to a ditch imme-
diately to the rear of the Duffield
coupe. “She’s down there,” he: said,
“dead.”
The police chief wanted to ‘know
how the body had come to be dis-
covered in the remote lane, and
Identification Expert R. L. Hirbe, left, and Acting In-
spector Paul Cleaver, examine a killer's coat and scarf.
Ellis Hoag stepped forward.
“I was home reading,” he said,
“and suddenly remembered I want-
ed to leave a note at the green-
house for one of my men. He has
@ special job to do early in the
morning.
“I drove up here in my car and
surprised a man sitting in that
coupe. As I flashed my car lights
on him, he jumped out and ran
through the asparagus patch.”
Deputy Mack interrupted. “Leav-
ing a tan coat and scarf in the
coupe, The front seat’s stained with -
blood.”
Getlin went into the greenhouse
to phone the coroner's. office, while
Cleaver and Smith began follow-
ing thé plainly evident trail
through the asparagus. patch.
As they left, Walker and the oth-
ers’ clambered into the ditch to
view the victim. There was a trail -
leading from the coupe to where
the body lay, indicating the brutal
Slayer of the young woman had
dragged her. feet first to the end
of the declivity and rolled the body
in,
Sergeant Mumford had carefully
removed the tan coat and scarf
from the car and was inspecting
them under his flashlight.
“A Cleveland department store
label on both,” he told Chief Walk-
er. “They might help us to identi-
fy the killer if we don’t find any-
thing else.”
“What’s in the pockets?”
“Three .25 calibre bullets.”
“Then that’s evidently the type
of gun he used. Take a look around
for it.”
The medical examiner came from
Elyria, and pronounced Helen Duf-
field dead. There were four bullet
wounds through the body.
“Four!” Walker exclaimed.
“Those people back at the barbe-
cue said they heard only _ two.
Something’s wrong.”
The medical man remarked that
Mrs. Duffidld’s body was still warm.
“She couldn’t have died more than
half an hour ago,” he said.
Walker looked at. his wristwatch.
The hands stood at 12:30. “Then
that fiend shot her twice more out
here!” he roared. “This is:the most
heartless thing I ever heard of.”
As arrangements were made to
remove the body, the police chief
ordered Hirbe to examine the coupe
for fingerprints, saying they might
turn out to be the best clues to the
killer.
“Call the Cleveland police,” he
ordered Getlin, “and see if they'll
let us borrow Sergeant Jim Doyle.
He’s the best..-moulage man _ in
these parts. I want perfect casts
of those tracks in the asparagus
bed.” .
Cleaver and Smith came dash-
ing back, “Chief,” the former said,
“those footprints end on the side-
walk of the next street, but the
7
The Duff eld iothase at North Jefferson Boulevard, Ohio had "ete
made ready for the joyous
National Tube Company has a fac-
tory down the block and they have .
a night shift working.
“We talked with a watchman. He
said a man dashed into the place
around 11:30, washed his blood-
stained hands in the sink and ran
out again.”
Walker was stunned, “Didn't he
know the fellow?”
“In a way, yes. Says he’s either
an employee or a man who work-
ed inere up to recently. The plant’s
laid off so many men since vd day,
he can’t be sure.”
“No name?”
“None. But his description of the
fellow ‘corresponds with all the
others we've got.” ;
Walker did some fast thinking.
“Flash a radio alarm for a coat-
less man whose clothes might be
bloodstained,” he snapped, “Then
take the cruiser and start touring
the neighborhood. He could still be
around somewhere.”
ERGEANT Doyle arrived from’
Cleveland and as he went to
work on the footprint casts, Iden-
tification Man Hirbe announced
that he had discovered several ex-
cellent impressions on the steering
wheel of the coupe.
“We'll tow the ‘machine into Lo-
rain and photograph them,” Walk-
er said. “After you've lifted what's ©
there, I want a fast report.”
There was nothing else the police
could do in the Sheffield lane.
Walker, unmindful that it was then
2 a. m., suggested a quick trip. to
the California Avenue home of
Mrs. Laurie Miller.
Accompanied by Cleaver and
Smith, Walker aroused the couple
from their sleep. Upon opening the
door and recognizing the police
chief, they invited the trio inside.
“It’s about Helen, I know it!”
Mrs. Miller declared with increas-
ing anxiety. “What’s wrong?”
“Quite a_ bit,” Walker replied.
“But first, I want to know if Mrs.
Duffield was interested in any oth-
er men during her husband’s ab-
sence.’
The young friend’ 's eyes widened.
“Why, of course not,” she replied”
indignantly. “Helen’s been living
with me until about two weeks ago.
I know | she never even looked at™
anyone.”
The police chief nodded. “All
right. I'll put it another way, Who
8
homecoming of its owner.
looked at her?”
Mrs. Miller was on the verge of
shaking her head when her hus-
band interrupted the _ gesture.
“These men are police officers,” he
said, “and apparently something’s
very wrong. Tell them about Dick
Lawrence.”
The woman hesitated, and Walk-
er’s interest mounted rapidly. “Oh,
there was another man,” he said.
Mrs. Miller spoke up sharply.
“I’m sure .there wasn’t. Helen
wouldn’t have anything to do with
him. Mr. Lawrence courted her. be-
fore Paul Duffield cut him out, Af-
ter Paul left for the Navy, Dick
kept coming around, hoping to get
Helen to take up with him again.”
8 pe didn’t go out with him at
a ”
- “Not that I know of. In fact, his
attentions seemed to annoy her.”
Laurie Miller said she didn’t °
know where Lawrence lived, but
added that he“was a former em-
ployee of the National Tube Com-
pany.
“Hal” Walker exclaimed. “He
could be the fellow who washed
blood from his hands.”
His mention of the word blood
was the tipoff to the Millers, who
gasped. The woman started crying.
“What's that?” Miller demanded.
“What’s happened to Helen?”
Walker shook his head grimly.
“Dead,” he said. “She was murder- :
ed tonight. That’s why we’re here
asking questions.,
Mrs. Miller screamed and slump-
ed to the floor. The men carried
her to a davenport and began ap-
plying wet cloths to her face. A
few minutes later the woman re-
vived. _
But she was far from calm. “I—
I want to tell you about another
man who was annoying Helen,” she
sobbed. “I don’t know who he was,
but he followed her everywhere on
the street. She used to joke about
him, saying he was her shadow.”
“How'd she get rid of him?”
“I don’t think she did. You see,
he never spoke to her. Just kept
walking around behind her. when
she went shopping. As long as he
didn't bother her, she didn’t care.”
Unable to obtain further infor-
mation from the Millers, the police
chief led his detectives to the small
White bungalow Helen Duffield had
been preparing for her homecom-.
ing husband.
In the Jefferson Boulevard bung-
alow the searching police found a
record of the woman's marriage to
Paul. Duffield in September, 1943.
There was also a letter telling of
his imminent discharge.
On the bottom of this was writ-
ten: “Tell that wolf Lawrence I'll
take care of him when I get back.”
“Hmm,” Walker: mused. “She
must have complained about the
lad's attentions. He’s a good pros-
pect, all right.”
Finding nothing else, “the police
locked up the bungalow and re-
turned to. headquarters.
Sergeant Mumford reported that
he and other searching officers had
failed to locate the murder wea-
pon. Walker issued orders for a
A trial jury | will soon decide up-
on Ls man's guilt or innocence.
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search of ‘the city’s a
have recently bought a 25 care
pistol.
Hirbe said he had found pe. FF
excellent fingerprints on the-
_coupe’s steering wheel, but could
not locate their counterpart in2 his
files,”
“I’m sending them on to the Gate
police and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation,” the Bertillon expert
added.
Since there seemed nothing more
that could be done that night, the
police chief put Cleaver and Smith -
on the. case permanently, telling
them to check the Lawrences’ in
the phone book and city directory
and -to talk to the personnel man-
ager of the National Tube Compa-
ny about whether the dead wom-
an’s- admirer had ever worked
there.
Cleaver and Smith, ‘anabies to
find Richard Lawrence’s address .
listed in the directories, finally ob-
tained it at the tube factory, where
it was said Lawrence had been _
off three weeks before.
At the boarding house where. he
had been living, the landlady told
them the man, who was about 28,
tall and slim, had gone out of town
the evening before. =~ ;
Chief Walker dispatched Mum-
ford to Cleveland with the coat and-
scarf found in the victim’s coupe. -
He also delegated other officers to
canvass the downtown merchants
in the hope someone would know
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the identity of the mystery man
who kept following Helen DuMfcld
around.
At noon a woman came in and
said she knew Lawrence.
“Laurie Miller told me you were
interested in the man,” she said to
Walker, “and I think you should
be. He once told me that if Helen
Duffield wouldn’t have him, nobody
would have her.”
The chief nodded. “What else do
you know about him?”
The girl said they had corres- .
ponded quite a bit, and Lawrence
had once -mentioned having rela-
tives in Cleveland.
‘ The chief telephoned the Cleve-
land authorities, who said they had
never heard of Richard Lawrence.
However, they promised to make
inquiries.
ERGEANT ‘Mumford came back
from the Lake Erie City bear-
ing good news about the coat and
scarf.
“The department store reports
they were sold to a G. E, Wells of
East Erie Avenue, Lorain,” he said.
“All we need to do is nab Wells.
and we've got this case cracked.”
_ Walker ‘wasn’t so optimistic.
“First we’ve got to find out who
Mr. Wells is. Let’s chase up to that
address.”
It turned out to be a boarding
house, and Chief Walker's pes-
simism regarding Wells turned out
to be well founded. No one had
ever heard of the man.
“Too bad,” Mumford said. “That
looked like a mighty promising
lead.”
“It tells us one thing, anyway,”
Walker replied. “The fellow we're
looking for is going around under
a phony name. He could have a
record, though we have no listing
for him.”
The officers who had been can-
vassing the shopping district were
returning with conflicting informa-
tion. Some of the merchants-claim-
the morning to discover who might —ed to have seen a man following
Helen Duffield around, but none
agreed on his exact description. All
were of the opinion, however, that
he had worn a tan coat. ;
Then the Cleveland police drop-
ped a bombshell in their. laps.
Checking on the Lawrences in their
city, they located a ‘brother of
Richard who gave them a tip on
where they might find the Lorain
suspect.
This turned out to be the home
of a girl friend, and Lawrence was
there. Protesting their action in
placing him in custody, he never-
theless accompanied them to head-
quarters, where Chief Walker was
‘notified. He dispatched Detectives
Mumford and Getlin to bring the
_ suitor back to Lorain.
Lawrence arrived in no happy
frame of mind. “What's this all
~ about?” he demanded of Chief
Walker. a
“Helen Duffield,” the officer.snap-
ped back, “You must-have read
about her in the papers. She was
murdered Wednesday — night, . just
about the time you left. town.”
Lawrence’s face went white and
he seized a chair arm for support.
.“Murdered!” he. gasped! © “Good
heavens! And you think I-did it?”
“Why not? She turned you down,
didn’t she?” d
The. man nodded “weakly. “Sure,
but I wouldn't ‘kill her for that.
.I really loved that woman; have
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where you used to work.”
gre gulped. “He says I did
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“No. But he saw a man with
bloodstained hands. Afraid to face
him?”
The suspect stiffened. “Certainly
not.”
The question of Lawrence’s guilt
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The watchman, facing the man,
shook his head emphatically. “That
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Lawrence was then able to prove
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and they immediately turned him
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“We're sure out on a limb in this
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“They correspond with our. rec-.
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once of Portsmouth, Ohio, but more
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Inspector Cleaver wanted to know.
“G. E. Wells, of course,” Walker
replied. “The fellow who bought
the coat and scarf in Cleveland.”
all knew, and their chances of find-
ing the suspect quickly were still
remote. 7
“Phone the Portsmouth: police,”
Walker told Cleaver, “and see what
they can ‘tell you about that man.”
This turned out to be plenty.
Wellman—his right name—was a
police character with a long record.
The state police had been able to
turn up his prints because he once
{penitentiary for transporting a
stolen car over the state line:
“He has relatives here,” the
Portsmouth detective chief said.
“I'll see if they have an address
for him.”
He called Walker in an hour and’
reported’ no results.. “They say
Wellman’s been in the Army re-
cently and they kind of lost track
of him. Sorry.”
The Lorain chief immediately
put a.call to Washington, request-
ing a quick check on Wellman, He
had only to mention the word mur-
der to get action, but this didn’t
come for two hours. Then the mili-
tary people circled the police right
back to Portsmouth. That was the
only address they had.
Cleaver came up with a hearten-
ing solution. “Remember what that
watchman told. us,” he reminded,
“of the fellow with the bloodstain-
ed hands. He was either an em-
ployee or an _ ex-worker there.
They’d haye his local address.’@
“Boy, you hit it!” Walker en-
thused. “Let’s go.”
He, Cleaver and Smith raced for
the factory, where Gordon E.
Led
Wellman’s
“Who is Gordon E, Wellman?”
Wellman could be another alias, .
did a stretch in the Chillicothe-
Lorain address was
quickly produced, It turned out to
-be an East Erie Avenue boarding
house across the thoroughfare from
the number G. E. Wells had given
the Cleveland department store.
The boarding housekeeper took
one look: at, the tan coat and scarf
and said: “Sure, they’re Mr, Well-
man’s.”
However, Wellman wasn’t there.
He had checked out early Thurs-
day morning, carrying two suit-
cases. “But he said he’d be back,” .
the landlady added. “He left things
in his room.”
Walker shook his head. “I doubt
that you'll ever see your boarder
again,” he said. “But we want to
see that room.”
In. a bureau drawer they found
_ several letters and some .25 calibre
bullets. The woman told them she
had often seen a small: revolver
‘among the man’s possessions. -
One of the letters was from a
man named Brown, at that mo-
ment waiting electrocution for the
murder of Helen Katonak in Lorain
the previous January. Wellman, ac-
cording to the letter, had been
Brown's cellmate on a former rap.
Brown urged his erstwhile pal to
turn from crime and take up re-
ligion. ,
“Please don’t put Him off,” the
note. concluded, “but go to church
and .ask ‘the Lord to forgive you.
He is willing to forgive our sins.”
“Looks as if a girl named Helen
tripped both of them up,” Walker
said. “Wellman should have taken
Brown’s advice.”
. Under the bed, Cleaver found a
pair of muddy shoes. “If these fit .
into the casts Sergeant Doyle
made,” he told the chief, “it’ll be
a strong link in the chain. against
this man.”
NOTHED letter was: from a
relative in Columbus, urging
pen Wellman visit. her some day
“And that’s where he could
have gone,” Walker -concluded.
According to the landlady, Weli-
man left the house about 8 a. m.,
Thursday, saying he was taking a
trip south to get married. “Could
be a stall,” Cleaver said. “We'd bet-
ter check the busses.”
While they were doing this, Chief
Walker went back to headquarters
and. compared the muddy shoes
with the casts. They were a per-
fect match.
Walker then telephoned Captain
Frank Harrison of Columbus and
advised him that Wellman, a
much-wanted murderer, was prob-
, ably headed for his city.
“Just give me that relative’s ad-
dress,” Harrison replied. “If he
shows up here, we'll take him
over.”
Cleaver and Smith discovered
that Wellman had boarded the
Cleveland bus at 9 o'clock Thurs-
day morning. By _ telephoning
ahead, the pair learned that a man
answering the fugitive’s descrip-
.tion had transferred. there to the
Columbus bus.
“Your dope was good,” Cleaver
told Walker. “He probably figures
he'll be safe with that relative.”
At 6 o'clock Saturday night Har-
rison and 10 detectives had sur-
rounded the block in which Well-
man’s relative lived. Léss than 10
minutes later they saw the man for
whom they were looking stroll
down the street with two young
women, ‘he arrest took only a few
seconds, the killer-suspect sur-
“| rendering meekly.
Cleaver, Mumford and Getlin
conducted him back to Lorain,
where Chief Walker laid all his
cards on the table.
“That’s too much for me,” Well-
man answered. “I'd better tell you
what happened.”
The man then launched into one
of the most incredible explanations
for murder that the Lorain or any
other police department ever had
to consider. But they eventually
proved it all true.
“You see,” Wellman began, “I’m
in love with a Lorain girl.” He
named her, “She wouldn’t marry
. me, so I decided I’d have her any-
way. I planned to abduct her.
“To do this I had to have a car.
I’d seen Mrs. Duffield’s—if you’ say
that’s her. name—around .many
times. In fact,.I followed her pretty
close on several occasions, hoping
for a chance to steal it.
. “Wednesday night I saw her en-
ter the barbecue. It was raining
and there. weren’t many people
about, so I saw my opportunity. I
looked in the machine for the keys,
but she had taken them with her.
The only chance I had was to grab
them away from her when she
came out.
‘“That’s what I tried to do, She
refused to give them up. We strug-
gled and the -gun went off twice.
I didn’t even remember having it. -
in my hand.”
Chief Walker’s brows narrowed.
{That woman was shot four times.
How do you account for the other
two?”
With complete indifference, Well-
men answered callously: “I threw
her in the ditch out there in Shef-
field and sat in her car, trying to
figure things out. She kept yelling
and making noise. That upset me.
I didn’t know what to do so I walk-
ed over and let her have it twice -
more.”
The killing, Wellman said, was
done with a .25 calibre revolver
which he buried in a lot near the
factory. Accompanying the detec-
tives, the killer pointed out the
spot and the gun was dug up. Bul-
lets taken from Helen Duffield’s
_body matched it.
After arraignment before City
Magistrate Malcolm Thompson on
October 29, when he pleaded not
guilty and was held without bail,
Gordon Wellman was indicted on a
charge of first degree murder on
. November 15 when District Attor-
ney Austin O’Toole presented what
he called a “complete case” to the
grand jury.
As evidence against the slayer,
Chief Walker and his men collect-
ed fingerprints, footprints, a re-.
volver, the lethal bullets, a coat
‘and scarf, and a confession signed
by the perpetrator himself.
Taking it all casually, Wellman
jibed with the detectives about
joining his pal Brown in the death
shouse. “It -won’t be long now,” he
cracked without’ remorse.
_A trial jury sometime after Jan-
uary 1, 1946, will decide his fate
and whether or not he keeps that
date.
Editor’s Note: The name Lawrence,
as used in this story, is fictitious
in order to protect the identity of
an innocent person and to save
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the ornate front doors and went to the
office in the back pf the lobby. He
stretched himself out on the couch
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me first,” McLaughlin instructed the
night bellhop. “Steer them away if
they’re drunk though. We’ve had
enough trouble around here lately
with that kind.” :
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loud pounding at the front door and
the bellboy advanced through the
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recognizing the man who only three
days before had been asked to vacate
the suite where he and a woman
companion had been causing a dis-
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BRUNO, Albert, white, 27, electrocuted Ohio (Lucas) 2-7-1934
VACCHIANO, Frank, white, 23, elec. Ohio (Lucas) 12-29-1933,
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"FRANK VACCHIANO ELECTROCUTED FOR TOLEDO HOTEL CLERK KILLING
MAR. XX¥.28 . - Columbus, Dec, 30 - Frank Vacchiano, 22, Dayton,
Slayer of John McLaughlin, clerk at the Park Lane Hotel, Toledo,
paid for the crime with his life last night at the Ohio Peni-
tentiary...Vacchiano went to the chair at 7:30 and was pronounced dead
at 7335. . He was calm and quieé, offering none of the resistance
that had been expected of him since he made. a threat some weeks earlier
to ' take a guard with him.' As he entered the death chamberm Vacchi-
ano Was mumbling a prayer. He was accompanied by Father John
Yullivan, Catholic prison chaplain, Vacchiano bumped his head on the
rest as he sat down in the chair, He winced, then smiled at
Dan McCullough, his lawyér, and said: 'Thanks for all you've done for
me.' McCullough replied: 'You're the gamest guy Ii ever
represented, Frank.' Vacchiano battled in the courts for his life dur-
ing November and December, The original date for his execution was set
aside November 6, but the supreme court after two deliberations, 8inally
set the date for Dec, 29. A last minute heafing before the
parole b oard in which Vacchiano's attorney charged that the
trial judge erred in forcing two Toledo lawyers to défend
Vacchiano without pay, filed late Friday. Vacchiano was
convicted of slaying McLaughlin in Toledo on “arch 28, The
Slaying was provoked by Mclaughlin s refusing to allow a
woman whom Vacchiano claimed was his wife to register with
him at the hotel. Vacchiano was reputed to have slain five
persons during his crime career. He was classified by the state
bureau of classification and examination as 'dangerous to
society.’ Albert Bruno, 27, Lucas Co., will go to the
chair January 11 for the same crime." STAR - JOURNAL,
Sandusky, Ohio, December 30, 19353. Page one
Ekditorial from STA R-JOURNAL, Sandusk y, 12-30-1933:3:
"THE GAMEST MAN?-Karly in the morning of a day last March,
Frank Vacchiano, ee-year-old gunman, armed with a revolver
and further protected by another armed gangster, walked into
a Toledo apartment hotel and shot down John J. McLaughlin,
the umarmed night manager of theplace, Vacchiano and a woman com-
panion had been ordered from the hotel a few hours before,
Vacchiano went to the chair in the penitentiary at Columbus
Friday night and paid for his crime in the manner prescribed
by law. Press dispatches telling of Vacchiano s calm demeanor before
the execution, say that his lawyer, just before the death-dealing
current was turned on was heard to exclaim: ‘Frank you're
the gamest man I.ever saw.' If we are to look back to that
early morning in March, when Vacchiano shot down a defenseless man
who didn't have a chance, we are inclined to discout the
admiration which the gangster's attorney professed to have for his
client and to believe that he made an unfortunate choice of
adjective in describing a cruel and wanton killer,"
"VACCHI ANO DIzS IN. CHAIR FOR KILLING CLERK: MURDERER ADMITS
GUILT BEFORE HIS EXECUTION. FOR PARK LANE SLAYING: CARRIES CRUCIFIX
MNTO DEATH ROOM: GUNMAN SMILES AS STATE EXACTS PAWALTY FO R TAKING
LIFE OF HOTEL MAN. By Russell Bremer of the Blad Staff; Columbus,
Dec. 30 - The venom in the heart of Frank Vacchiano sent him to
his death, a valiant but pitiful death in the electric chair. He
died with something of a dash of recklessness, as he had lived, at
7335 P .M. last night for the admitted ruthless slaying of John J.
McLaughlin, Park Lane hotel clerk, March 29. Only a few hours before
his death the venom still was in his heart, the venom that made him a
Killer, the venom that turned him against his prter in crime, albert
Bruno, in death row, sentenced to meet the fate of Vacchiano
Jan. ll. In the last few hours K&X¥K his spirit, which relatives
claimed was an insane spirit, changed. As he haltingly shuffled
into the dea th chamber of Ohio penitentiary to meet his fate,
the old bravado remained. surmounting it was a peace that
wreathed the killer's countenance in a not unpleasent Sm LG. 5 a
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* from the room on the
fear of waking guests. He slowly
turned the lock and opened the door.
“Sorry, Mr. Eagen, but we haven’t
anything left tonight,” the young man
said. As he spoke he looked toward
Eagen’s companion, a heavy-set dark-
visaged fellow whose cheap, flashy
clothing certainly didn’t mark him as
the type usually visiting the first-rate
hotel.
The stranger was already beginning
to push himself past his friend. The
bellboy stepped directly into his path
and as he did so Eagen
spoke for the first time.
‘It’s not a room I
want,” he said in a snarl-
ing, liquor-thickened
voice. “We’ve come to
pay a call on that man.
who ran me out of here
thé other night.”
on duty the night of
March 26 when Eagen
had entered the hotel, ac-
companied by an attrac-
tive blonde woman in
her early twenties. The
had registered and’ gone
directly to their suite.
They had called down al-
most immediately for ice
guests complained at the
singing and loud talk
fourth floor.
‘Twice during the late
hours McLaughlin had
telephoned and asked
them to be quiet. Finally
the night clerk went up
in person. It was then
that Eagen, intoxicated
by that time, became
quarrelsome.
“You say we have to
be quiet or leave,” the
man repeated. Well, I’m
not someone you or any-
one else can throw out of
this place.”
Mclaughlin had been
. He wasn’t going to
be frightened by threats
from this man who hinted
at a dark and mysterious
background. After fur-
ther argument the clerk
finally said he would call
the police and the couple
left in a taxi. When Mc-
Laughlin next saw the
cab driver he asked, only
half-interested, where
they had gone. The in-
formant named a small
hotel near by and the night c]_ gave
no further thought to the me ‘cr.
Now Eagen was back. Bui nstead
of the blonde woman he was :.ccom-
panied by another man. Both i)»eared
slightly intoxicated. The belly, ac-
customed to dealing with qua: «:lsome
drunks, stepped directly in. their
path.
“I guess it’s the night manage. you’re
looking for,” he said evenly. “Vell, he’s
not here. He won't be back for some
time and I have no rooms fer you.”
‘
. PAID THE PRICE ;
When John F. McLaughlin, night clerk of this Tole-
do, Ohio, hotel tried to oust two underworld char-
But even as he spoke the employee
heard steps behind him. He turned
around and saw McLaughlin who had
evidently been awakened by the loud
talking at the front door. The two
men took this opportunity to crowd
inside the lobby.
The bellboy, turning back, only had
time to note that McLaughlin was ad-
vancing with his fists doubled up. He
was ready for trouble. Then, even as
the bellhop faced the two heavy, dark- .
complexioned men, he saw the nickel-
plated revolver in the
hand of the man who had
registered as Frank
Eagen. ;
The next moment there
was a blast of gunfire and
the bellboy dropped to
the floor, out of the range
of fire. As he did so he
saw McLaughlin slump to
the rich carpet, blood
and neck. .
Following the shots
there was a moment of
silence broken by the
voice of the gunman’s
companion: ;
“Give it to this other
guy, Frankie! Give him
the old Chi treatment. No
use leaving witnesses
around!”
But even as he.heard
those words the bellboy
was leaping again to his
feet. In a single fluid
movement he swung and
struck out. His fist landed
squarely in the face of
the man who still held
the smoking revolver.
acters he paid the price for his bravery. Four
bullet wounds in the face and neck claimed his life. AGEN fell heavily to
the floor and as the
bellhop turned, he saw a
black automatic appear
in the hand of the other
man. The second gun-
man was too far away
for the boy to reach him
before he could fire, and
already Eagen was ris-
ing slowly to his feet,
his hand still grasping his
gun.
In the second that fol-
lowed the bellboy prob-
ably saved hie life by a
move so adroit and un-
expected that neither of
the gunmen had a chance
to fire before he was out
of the place. The bellboy
simply dropped to the
floor for the second time,
rolled as he did so and
found himself outside the
heavy plate glass doors
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recent burglaries. Gradually the con-
versation turned to crime and the
detective casually mentioned that he
had a robbery prospect cased. He only
needed someone with a fast; high-
powered car before going ahead with
his scheme.
There was a long silence. Then the
man on his right, a pimply-faced
youth with shifty eyes, muttered: “If
that’s all that’s holding you back, we
can probably get you a car.”
“I don’t want to touch anything hot
on this job,” Clark said crisply. “It’s
too big to take a chance with. Got to
have a guy with his own car and he’s
got to be a good driver with a fast
getaway.”
“Too bad Al isn’t around. He’d be
just the guy for you.” It was the third
member of the group who spoke.
Clark turned quickly toward him and
as he did so he heard the shifty-eyed
_ youth cough behind him.
But if that cough were a signal to
warn the other to be careful of his
talk, it was too late. The man was
already going on in reply to the ques-
tioning look on Clark’s face.
“Yes,” he said, “Al would be just
the man for you. But I don’t think
he’ll be back for a while yet. Things
are too hot for him—and his car, too
—around here.right now.”
Playing a hunch that he was on the
right track at last, Clark decided to
take a chance. He allowed a cunning
look to come into his narrowed eyes
as he turned to reply.
“If that was the car mixed up in
that hotel business, I wouldn’t touch
it with a ten foot pole,” he said depre-
catingly. “Those are the kind of punks
that make things tough for smart
operators like us. If you ask me, your
friend Al better stay on ice for a long,
long time. And get rid of that car.”
This time it was shifty-eyes who
took the bait. The owner of the black
sedan, it appeared, had been his par-
ticular friend.
“AY was okay,” he said in defense.
“It was just that would-be big shot
from Dayton that he had to pick up
with. I told him to lay off that guy. I
don’t mind a little gun work myself—
when it’s necessary. But to get mixed
up with a man like that who just
shoots for fun! Why, it’s nuts.”
The man quit speaking and a si-
. lence fell over the group. Clark real-
ized that the others were probably
even then beginning to sense that
they had said too much. He started
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been spillc
wasn’t win
Vacchiano
in the bac
his table.
Frankie
but the p
dence to ¢
to turn away, then muttered a few
words as an afterthought.
“Well, I guess I'll be able to get
something out of Chi. Wouldn’t hardly
want to use a local car in this job
anyway.”
“Yeah, I don’t think Al would’ve
gone for anything like that here in
town. Certainly now that he’s hot
here.”
Clark left the place and hurried
back to headquarters. There he was
met by his undercover man who had
introduced him to the establishment
four days before.
“Know a man named Al who owns a
big car and left town in it a few days
ago?” he asked.
There was no reply for several mo-
ments while the other stood with his
forehead wrinkled in thought. Then:
“That could be Al Bruno,” the man
replied at length. “He used to hang
out at that spot. Drove a big new
Buick. But I haven’t seen him around
for some time. Heard he got mixed up
with some big shot from down-state
who thinks he’s a second Al Capone.”
“Dayton?” suggested Clark remem-
bering his talk with the men in the
cafe.
“I think that’s right. But I don’t
know the guy. Only heard some of the
boys talking about Al and how he
was sure to get in trouble if he kept
playing arourid with this other fel-
low.” :
Detective Clark was elated. He
thought now that he was at last on
the trail of the two gunmen who had
murdered his partner in a fit of stupid
rage.
Clark decided to leave the local
investigation in the hands of other
Toledo officers and he started at
once for the southern Ohio city. When
he arrived there early the next day
a telegram was waiting for him.
The mysterious Al_had been tenta-
tively identified, through a study of
police photographs by Clark’s in-
formant, as Albert Bruno, a small
time thug and underworld character
who had “pent his time in Toledo,
Chicago and other northern cities. It
was believed that he had left imme-
diately following the murder of Mc-
Laughlin, for his companion’s home
town of Dayton.
With a full description of the two
men and samples of Eagen’s handwrit-
ing taken from the guest registers at
‘he two Toledo hotels, Clark went
straight to Dayton’s inspector of de-
tectives, S. E. Yendes.
Yendes listened to the killer’s de-
scription then went into another room
where he remained for more than an
hour comparing the handwriting
specimens with that of local men with
police records. When he: returned
there was. an expression of satisfac-
tion on his face. ¢ :
- “Not a doubt of it,” the inspector
commenced. “Your man’s Frankie
Vacchiano. But whether you'll get him
is another matter. We've been looking
for him ourselves for months. Want
to question him about the murder of a
young prize fighter here a year ago.
That happened just about the time
we were keeping an eye on him in
connection with still another killing
—that of his own father.” -- ;
Briefly the Dayton police inspector
outlined the history of the suspect.
Born in Dayton nearly thirty years
before, Frankie was the son of a re-
putable immigrant, Joseph Vacchiano.
By the time Frankie was a young
man his parents had become moder--
ately well to do and were highly re-
spected in the community. But from
the beginning the son had shown a
tendency to get into trouble. He had
associated with gangsters and hood-
lums, and had quit his job at his
father’s company after becoming in-
volved in an investigation into thefts
from the firm.
“The trouble was,” Yendes, ex-
plained, “the kid had been reading all
about those Chicago gangsters. He |
wanted to be another Al Capone and
even thought he looked like the Big
Boy.”
During the last week in June of
that year, Frankie returned from a
visit with relatives. Although he and
his father had been hardly speaking
to each other since the discovery of
the loss of the money at the plant,
Frankie wanted to see his parent.
Discovering the latter was not about
the living quarters of the house,
Frankie went down to the basement.
He returned ten minutes later.
“Papa’s been murdered!” he called
out.
The youth’s words were spoken in
a monotone and he showed not the
slightest trace of emotion before his
relatives. Later he went into the story —
in detail for the police. He had entered ~
the basement, he said, and found his -
father sitting at a small table with a.
bottle of red wine in front of him.
There were stains on the floor be-
side the elderly man and at first
Frankie thought that the wine had -
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the suspect.
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s of the house,
to the basement.
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is were spoken in
> showed not the
motion before his
vent into the story’ i
ce. He had entered:
aid, and found ‘his
- on the floor be-
nan and at
hat the wine had
been spilled. Then he moved closer. It
wasn’t wine but blood he saw. J oseph
Vacchiano had been shot four times
‘in the back while he was sitting at
his table.
Frankie was held for questioning
but the police had insufficient evi-
dence to convict him of the slaying.
He was able to produce witnesses who
said he had been away-from the house
all evening on the night of his father’s
death. There was no one to tell what
had actually happened during those
ten minutes he had spent in the base-
_ ment before returning upstairs with
his terrifying news. No shots had been
heard at‘the time.
But for months the police continued
to watch him and check his move-
ments. Meanwhile he inherited his
share of his father’s business and
quickly spent it.
r wasn’t until nearly two years later
early in May of 1931, that anything
occurred to tie the suspect directly to
return.
That same morning he walked into
a neighborhood barber shop in South
Dayton. The barber greeted him and
asked where Vacchiano had been.
The inquiry met with no_ reply.
Vacchiano merely walked over to a
chair at the side of the room and sat
down scowling. Two minutes later a
slim, dark-eyed youth, a local boxer,
walked into the shop and started to
take a seat. Then he saw the grim-
faced man at the side of the room.
“Hello, Frankie,” he said. “I haven't
seen you for a long time.” Samuel
Valentine, known to his pals as Little
Zippy, walked toward the other with
right hand outstretched. Suddenly he
stopped and his face went pale.
“No, you haven’t seen me in some
time. But that’s. only because Ive
managed to keep out of the way of
your friends, the cops!”
Vacchiano stood up suddenly and in
his right hand was a nickel-plated re-
volver. The blood drained from Zippy
Valentine’s face. The proprietor of
the shop was already half way to the
door. The last words he heard before
the blast of a revolver were spoken by
Frank Vacchiano.
“Well, you won't be doing any more
talking. If they ever get me for bump-
ing off my old man it won't be on any
evidence you'll be able to give.”
Then came three revolver reports
in rapid succession. Before Zippy died
he told the police that Vacchiano, his
one-time friend, had confided in him
more than a year before that he had
slain his father when the latter threat-
ened to have him arrested for stealing
the company funds. Then Vacchiano
had vanished.
BAFFLING DETECTIVE FACT CAS
After comparing notes with the To-
ledo officer Yendes assigned Detective
Sergeant Tom Wollenhaupt to work
with Clark on the case. There was no
doubt now that they had the identity
of the two men responsible for Mc-
Laughlin’s death and that one of these
men, Frank Vacchiano, was also guilty
of slaying his own father and the
young Dayton prize fighter.
Before the week was out still two
more murders were to be added to the
string of crimes which the detectives
of the two cities were spending their
entire time in trying to break.
Clark had been in Dayton less than
twelve hours when Sergeant Wollen-
haupt received a tip that Vacchiano
and Bruno had paid a hurried call to
the city but left almost immediately.
“Vacchiano spoke openly of being in
trouble but said he and his pal had to
return to Toledo to rub out a couple of
punks who were interfering with a’
beer racket they were operating up
there,” Wollenhaupt related. “They
probably stayed here only long enough
to get rid of the car they used in the
McLaughlin job.”
Without loss of time the two officers
boarded a northbound train and early
next day were in Toledo. This time the
Dayton detective, being sworn in as
a special officer on the Toledo force,
took over the job of covering the old
cafe hangout where Detective Clark
had picked up his first lead.
But the boys had become suddenly
very quiet. They weren't talking—and
when any reference to Frankie Vac-
chiano or the McLaughlin murder case
came up they were like deaf and dumb
men.
HREE days later Wollenhaupt and
Clark learned why. At7Tam., April
14, two youths, hitchhiking along the
Dixie Highway between Toledo and
Monroe, approached a car parked at
the side of the road. They looked in-
side and saw the bodies of two imen
lying on the rear floor. Both had been
bound securely with heavy ropes. It
was immediately evident that oo of
the men was past help. The oth« lay
moaning, blood streaming fron his
parted lips.
By the time state highway Pp: trol-
men arrived the second man had « ied.
But before he went out one ©: the
young hitchhikers heard him ur a
single word: “Frankie.”
That was all. After the men \ere
identified later in the day as 5) edy
Lampert and Clayton Kries, how-
ever, Clark had no difficulty in tracing
their histories.
Speedy Lampert, the man who had
spoken the name, “Fyankie,” had been
associated in the beer rackets with
both Vacchiano and Bruno, it was
learned, and was well known in the
underworlds of Toledo and Dayton.
Kries, formerly employed as a beer-
truck driver, had been heard to ex-
press fears that the man who thought
he could duplicate a Capone career,
was out to get him because he knew
too much.
Following the murder of Lampert
and Kries the police announced pub-
licly that they were looking for Frank
Vacchiano and Al Bruno to answer
for those crimes as well as the slay-
ing at the fashionable Toledo hotel.
Descriptions of the couple were
broadcast throughout the northeast
and middle west and the two killers,
who in the past had shown a foolhardy
contempt for the authorities, went into
hiding.
Among the hundreds of sheriffs’
offices and police departments to re-
ceive circulars on the wanted men was
headquarters in Richmond, Ind. The
police there, accustomed to being on
the lookout for Chicago, Cleveland
and Toledo underworld characters
who were hiding out, were on the alert
when Vacchiano and Bruno arrived
during the last week in April.
Hs. when they received a tele-
phone call from a local merchant
that there were two flashily-dressed
men of obvious foreign extraction in
his shop acting in a suspicious manner,
officers had a hunch as to the men’s
identity.
The merchant said he was calling
from the rear of his shop. The men
had come in a few minutes before and
asked to see material for new suits.
“One of them took off his coat and
I saw a pistol protruding from the
pocket,” the informant stated. “I
thought at first the man was just try-
ing to impress me, then I looked up
and saw his eyes. I knew right away
that he’d seen me glance at the pistol
butt.”
The gunman had threatened the
merchant’s _ life and warned — hi
against mentioning seeing the gun,
police were. told.
The merchant, making the excuse
that he had to go to the rear of his
shop, rushed to the telephone. and
quickly told his story.
Five minutes later two plainclothes-
men walked up to the tailor shop.
They entered, covered the two sus-
pects and asked them what they were
doing with a revolver. The man whose
coat lay on the counter replied:
“We're justa couple of salesmen. Ial-
ways carry a gun to protect myself on
the road. Carry some pretty valuable
stuff, you know.”
The story sounded convincing but
the two local officers insisted on ac-
companying the pair back to their
hotel to look over their credentials.
They left the shop, climbed into
their car and started following that of
the two “salesmen.”
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Because the man who played Capone and his
stooge (right) thought they were being crowded
out of a beer racket, they erased the offenders.
Detective Harry Clark (left above) is shown exam-
ining the interior of the sedan in which the bodies
of Speedy Lambert and Clayton Kries had lain.
before the others knew what had hap-
pened.
In another moment he was on his
feet, running at full speed toward a
garage at the corner of the street. He
managed to catch a glimpse of the
surprised gunmen emerging from the
hotel, and even as he rushed into the
garage, he heard the sound of more
gunfire behind him.
Two bullets struck the side of the
building in which he concealed him-
self in the van of an empty truck but
his pursuers did not follow.
After waiting for several minutes
the bellboy crept from his hiding
place. As he left the garage he heard
the roar of a high-powered motor and
‘saw a long black sedan careening
around the corner down past the hotel.
A pajama-clad man was leaning
out of a second story window across
the street, his eyes wide with aston-
ishment. The bellhop recognized him
instantly as a local businessman.
“Those fellows just tried to kill me,”
the man cried. “I heard the shooting
and jumped out of bed. I saw them
running toward the garage with blaz-
ing guns and called down to ask what
was happening. The big guy in the
lead hardly glanced up—he just
turned his gun toward me and fired.”
The second witness threw a robé
about him and: came downstairs. In
40
\nother three minutes he and the bell-
hoy entered the hotel lobby. Inside
fhe opened front door they saw the
body of John McLaughlin. The man
ay prone, blood still streaming from
our wounds in his face, neck and
chest.
Other residents of the hotel, aroused
»y the shouting and gunfire, had come
running and were now crowding the
lobby. A call had been put through to
police headquarters and already the
wail of sirens was heard in the dis-
tance,
Along with uniformed officers De-
tective William Clark arrived at the
hotel. It was nearly 6 o’clock.
The detective went straight to the
body, turned it over gently and looked
down into the pale face of a man who
had been one of his best friends!
“It’s Johnny McLaughlin who used
to work up at the bureau with me,”
Clark said he stared unbelievingly at
the face of his former partner. He
turned slowly to the bellhop who al-
ready was describing the events of the
last hour to-other officers, giving them
a word portrait of the gunmen and the
automobile in which they had made
their getaway.
After hearing the details, Clark lost
no time in getting over to the near-by
hotel, where he was told Frank Eagen
had registered three mornings before.
Here Clark learned the gunman. had
left after only two hours.
“Fagen came in with this blonde |
women;” the clerk at the hotel re-
called. “I could see they both had
been drinking but they were not dis-
orderly so I gave them a room. About
eight o’clock they came back down,
though, and checked out. Didn’t leave
any forwarding address.”
“Did they leave by taxi?” ques-
tioned the detective.
“No, a black sedan drove up in front .
of the hotel and was waiting for them™
when they went out. They didn’t !
make any calls through the switch- |
board so I figured they’d arranged to :
have the car pick them up before com-
ing here.” -
Checking with the taxi driver who
had taken the couple to the second
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aornings before.
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ie taxi driver who
ple to the secon
hotel on the morning they were
ejected from the fashionable one
where the murder later occurred, De-
tective Clark learned that the couple
had stopped en route at an all-night
cafe frequented by known criminals
and underworld. characters.
“The man went inside while the
girl stayed in the car,” the taxi driver
remembered. “He was gone only a few
minutes, though. He came out and
told me to take them on to the second
place.”
Clark concluded that it had been at
this restaurant that Eagen had made
arrangements to be picked up later.
And it was probable, he realized, that
the man who called for Eagen was the
same man who had been at the murder
scene.
The detective conferred with other
officials working on the case and it
was decided to concentrate the in-
vestigation on the cafe where Eagen
had stopped three mornings before.
Clark, a veteran member of the de-
tective bureau, put on a tight-fitting
BAFFLING DETECTIVE FACT ASES
sports suit, striped silk shirt anc ’ide-
brimmed white felt hat, and the
company of an undercover m = cn=
tered the midtown cafe the da. after
his former partner was buriec. [hat
was the morning of April 3.
During the next four days t! dis-
guised officer hung around the \\ \der-
world cafe. He was introduced t) other
habitués as a small-time gamble: {rom
Chicago and gradually developed a
casual familiarity with several of
them. Clark mentioned the name of
mutual acquaintances in gangla:.!. He
was convinced that the actual slayer
of his former partner was not a Toledo
man but hoped that the driver of the
getaway car might be known to those
who frequented the cafe.
Familiar with scores of underworld
characters, Clark was quick to bring
into his conversations the names of
men who could not be asked to con-
firm his supposed friendship with
them. The small-time thugs he re-
ferred to were, he well knew, safely’ in
jail in other cities.
t
Beognncnnoeeeres —
For the first three days Clark’s
new acquaintances were reticent in
their talks with him. But slowly the
detective was able to worm his way
into their confidence.’ It was during
those days that he was able, also, to
learn of more than one matter which
had been troubling the local authori-
ties for some time.
But never was any mention made
of the killing at the hotel. Clark dared
not bring that matter up himself. Sev-
eral times he made a point of display-
ing a newspaper spread to a story
about the case, hoping that his com-
panion of the moment might bring it
into their conversation. Nothing was
said, however, and on the fourth day
the detective realized that he would
have to get action soon if he were to
get on the slayers’ trail before it was
too late.
On the afternoon of the seventh
Clark was in the company of two un-
derworld characters whom he sus-
pected of being involved in a series of
(Continued on page 56)
SUCCESSFUL CHASE
Although raised in this well-kept
home, the Dayton gang leader be-
an his crime career at a youth-
ul age. It was over four years
before Insp. S. E. Yendes bal
was successful in tracking down
the five-time killer and smash-
ing the start of a racket ring.
4)
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The fashionable Park
Lane Hotel, Toledo,
Ohio, whose dignified
quiet was rudely dis-
turbed by the mysteri-
ous slaying of its
popular night clerk
HAT’S him. Let . a ee
him have it” ° By Detective ne hundred feet away
Pistols spurted a
lik a!
yawned an open door of the
Park Lane garage. Another
deafening punctua- OWEN GREEN shot. Taylor reached the
tion to that sinister door, and raced through the
command. Two men, mur-
long garage. Another slug
der in their hearts, stood in Toledo, Ohio, Police Department struck an automobile fen-
the marble-panelled lobby
der a foot from the bell
of the Park Lane apart- As told to boy’s flying body. Still an-
ment hotel, home of mil-
other bullet whined past
millionaires, in Toledo, EARL AIKEN thresh come anes yaulsed'a
Ohio, early on the morning
of March 29th, 1933, and shot to death John J. McLaugh-
lin, thirty-six, chief clerk.
Fred Taylor, twenty-two, colored bell boy, crouching in
terror a few feet.away, ran for his life as one of the gun-
men, intent upon erasing the only witness to the murder,
leveled his weapon at him. Two bullets whistled past Tay-
lor’s head as he raced toward an exit.
He couldn’t open the door. The gunman was almost
upon him. With the strength of desperation, the bell boy,
slight of build, slugged his husky pursuer so hard the man
dropped his gun. Taylor wrenched open the door and con-
tinued his mad flight up the street, running in his stock-
ing feet, having actually jumped out of his shoes in his
sudden dash for safety.
high fence to safety.
The gunman, reloading as he ran back toward the hotel,
heard an inquiring voice above him as he hurried toward
his auto, parked in the circular drive of the hotel’s Twenty-
third Street entrance.
John P. Gomph, general agent of the Penn Mutual Life
Insurance Company, aroused from sleep by the sound of
shooting, had opened his hotel bedroom window just above
the Twenty-third Street entrance and saw a man running
toward the car.
“What's the trouble?” he asked as he leaned out.
A bullet shattered the window pane six inches above his
head. Mr. Gomph ducked back into his room. He heard
a motor car being driven rapidly away.
Instructing his wife to hurry to the apartment of Ralph
THE STRANGE SLAYING AT
Carpenter,
and call pc
There he
dead. He
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Who had exacted such a terrible revenge upon another man
who was only doing his duty, then the ferocity of attack,
viciously wanton, coupled with a fairly detailed description
of the apparent leader in the shooting, caused us to suspect
a man of whom we had heard for the first time some
months before.
That was when Dayton, Ohio, authorities requested that
a search be made in Toledo for a youth who had shot and
killed another young man, Sam Valentine, in a Dayton
barber shop on May 15th, 1932, for the slightest of reasons.
That man, who will be identified here temporarily as the
Dayton suspect, was known as a “born killer, a fellow who
would shoot his best friend without warning if he felt he
had been offended; a chap who got crazy with a gat every
now and then, and who was feared even by his immediate
(Above) Fred Taylor, the Park Lane bell
boy and the only witness to the shooting.
He ran for his life, dodging the gunmen’s
bullets and leaving his shoes behind him in his
frantic haste to escape
family.” Our suspicions seemed sound.
The Park Lane tragedy was a crazy;
killing, we felt, without rhyme or rea-
son, and so we hoped for a solution
through what you might call a crazy
clue. The search was extended through
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Michi-
gan and Indiana. The victim formerly
had been a detective in the Sinton and
Gibson hotels in Cincinnati and the
Statler in Cleveland.
The investigation provided a pecu-
liarly interesting study of the slayer’s
inevitable style in staging gun-play, ap-
parent in each outbreak of violence used
in establishing his identity, and in linking
him with the Park Lane murder,
When Dayton authorities had asked us
to search for the Dayton slayer a year pre-
viously, we learned that Sam Valentine had
een shot to death while lying in a barber
chair, He had resented a friend’s idea of fun in
Detective
Squirting the contents of a soda pop bottle on his (Valen-
tine’s) new suit of clothes. As Valentine expressed his re-
sentment with a crackling oath the pop squirter suddenly
drew a revolver and shot him to death.
Some hours later Dayton detectives wired a request to
search the home ofa twenty-three-year old girl living on
Hamilton Street, Toledo, for the man they wanted inthe
Valentine murder. They had also telegraphed a description
and license number of the automobile they believed he had
used in coming to Toledo. We found the auto at the Hamil-
ton Street address, also the mother of the wanted man, but
no trace of the suspect.
There was a “Three S” description of the suspect—short,
stocky and swarthy. This “Three S” brand, as it were,
first drew serious police attention on June 25th, 1930, when
the Dayton suspect’s father, a respected business man
of that city, was found dead in his home, seated at a
table in the cellar, a bullet hole in the back of his
head, inflicted by his own gun. His son, the Dayton
suspect, was quizzed at length after the tragedy.
It was soon after this that the man later to be
known to us as the Dayton suspect first began to be
seen around Toledo. About twenty-two at that time,
he already had a reputation in Dayton as a pool
room tough, exceptionally hot-tempered, and we soon
established that he had relatives and certain connec-
tions in Toledo.
The Toledo Police Department’s first attention to
the “Three S” brand came some months after the
Dayton suspect’s father -had been murdered. We had
had rumors about his activities here for some time
but nothing definite—not until the holiday celebra-
tion in the early hours of Christmas morning, 1932.
William Duffey, residing at the Miami Hotel in
Toledo, was walking along the street in front of the
Venice Restaurant at Monroe and Superior Streets.
(Below) John J. McLaughlin, the genial hotel clerk.
He confidently opened the hotel door in the early
morning hours to admit two strangers, who shot
him before he could utter a word
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In this marble-panelled lobby of the luxurious Park Lane
Hotel, John J. McLaughlin, hotel clerk, was callously shot
down by two gunmen, who escaped. His body, lying in right
foreground (concealed by panel) is being viewed by officials.
(Left to right) Detective Harry Clark, Hotel Manager
Marion L. Tyson, Coroner Frank G. Kreft, Detective William
Rydman and a city patrolman
Carpenter, President of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce,
and call police, Mr. Gomph ran down to the lobby.
There he found McLaughlin, lying in a pool of blood—
dead. He had been shot twice in the head and once in
the shoulder.
Half an hour later we arrived upon the scene, a most
unusual one in a lobby that heretofore had known only
the soft-spoken salutations and quiet traffic of a well-
bred clientele.
Why had McLaughlin been shot down with such savage
recklessness? He had not been held up; he had had no ar-
gument just prior to the attack. He had not even had an
opportunity to speak to the gunmen.
In searching for a possible motive, our interest soon cen-
tered upon a certain F. J. Eagan, when it was revealed that
he and a woman had bc2n ejected from the hotel three
nights previously by McLaughlin when he learned they
were not married.
The bell boy disclosed that two men had knocked at the
Twenty-third Street entrance at 5:30 A.M. on the morning
of the murder. The door was locked, the hotel having very
little transient business. One of the men had asked for
McLaughlin but both left immediately when informed that
he was not on duty.
The bell boy had somehow sensed danger, he said, and
informed Mr. McLaughlin of his suspicions when he
appeared some minutes later, recalling to him his argu-
ment with the man he had ejected three nights previously.
Twenty minutes later the same two men reappeared.
McLaughlin instructed the bell boy to open the door, then
halted him with, “Never mind, I’ll open it.”
As he did so the men bolted in, one snarling his fatal
command, “That’s him, let him have it.” They opened
fire less than three feet from the clerk, powder burns sear-
ing his face and hair.
Why had McLaughlin changed his mind about permit-
ting the bell boy to open the door? Had he recognized the
men, or one of them, and for some reason. known only to
himself preferred to meet them personally? Had he recog-
nized one of them as the man he had ejected? If so, would
he have deliberately opened the door himself at that hour
of the morning without expecting trouble? He was unarmed.
What had been his thoughts? His last words had been
spoken to Taylor, the bell boy.
Assuming that the gunman who had voiced the command
to fire was the ejected F. J. Eagan, we reasoned that he had
murdered a man for a mere imaginary offense. The mys-
terious Mr. Eagan must have known that he was registering
in a hotel of marked refinement. He must have realized
that he would arouse suspicions of those in charge of a
hotel catering only to a special class of patronage, with
few transient guests.
Ordinarily such an offender would simply leave as
quietly as possible. If it were true that he was the man
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Suddenly there came a stream of
fire from the first car and bullets
thudded into the police automobile.
The officers started to return the fire,
gathering speed at the same time. Just
then the gunmen’s machine stalled and
the: two men leaped out, still shooting
over their shoulders as they ran.
Ten minutes later the chase came to
an end when the gunmen’s ammuni-
tion ran out. They were cornered in
an alleyway, taken to police head-
quarters and there identified as the
fugitives on whom circulars had been
received earlier that week from
Toledo.
Before they were extradited, the
bellhop who had witnessed the Mc-
Laughlin murder, was taken to the
Indiana city. There he identified the
two men as Vacchiano, the actual
BAFFLING
{ DETECTIVE
(Continued from page 25)
for the new Ford coupe. The car, he
added, might be bloodstained. But
by nightfall there was still no sign of
the machine.
As soon as Deputy Patton returned
from the scene of the investigation he
suggested, “Maybe the ‘killer is too
smart to try to get very far without
getting a set of license plates. We'd
better cover that angle, too.”
“Good idea,” the sheriff agreed and
immediately requested all agencies to
report any stolen plates to his office.
Almost at once two reports of stolen
license plates were received from the
police at Fort Smith.. These numbers
were flashed to all officers but the
plates were not located. Throughout
the night officers in both states
watched every highway. Ford coupes
were stopped and their drivers ques-
tioned but no suspects were found.
The next morning, dog-tired inves-
tigators gathered in Sheriff Long’s
office to discuss the case.
“Dr. Gray was a friendly man,”
Patton said. “He would have picked
up anybody who looked as if he
needed a lift. Maybe he knew his
killer, maybe he didn’t but he picked
up a rider and for some reason let him
drive. Somewhere between Alma and
Mountainburg they stopped. They
must have stepped out of the car, and
the killer let the doctor have it.”
“The hitchhiker must have been
someone from these parts,” Marlar
added. “A cross-country hitchhiker
bent on murder usually grabs a ride,
kills his man, robs him and puts as
much distance behind himself as pos-
58
BAFFLING DETECTIVE FACT CASES
slayer of the hotel night clerk, and
Albert Bruno, the man who accom-
panied him on the fatal morning of
March 29, 1933.
Early the following month Vacchi-
ano, the man who played Al Capone,
was returned to Dayton to standstrial
for the slaying of young Valentine.
Two days later he appeared before
Judge M. M. Douglass and entered a
plea of guilty to second degree mur-
der and was immediately sentenced to
life imprisonment.
But if Vacchiano thought he could
escape the penalty for his other crimes
by taking a plea in Dayton he was
mistaken. On the personal order of
Governor George. White, he was or-
dered taken direct to Toledo and there _
he and Bruno went on trial for the
slaying of McLaughlin.
sible in a hurry. But this killer went
to too much trouble to dispose of the
body.”
Davis nodded agreement. “The
killer must have known the doctor,”
he said, “or at least realized he was
well known in these parts. That’s why
he didn’t take the watch and ring. He
wouldn’t have dared to dispose of
them around here or in Winslow.”
“One thing were sure of,” the
sheriff sajd. “The killer got in the doc-
tor’s car sometime after he left the
motor company and before he arrived
at Alma. If he’s a local person then
we may find someone along the way
who saw him and recognized him.”
Suddenly Patton spoke up. “I think
I know just the place. It’s that filling
station on the curve as you go out of
town. Swimmers usually wait there
for rides to Lake Fort Smith about
that time of evening. Maybe some-
body there saw the killer get in the
doctor’s car.”
Proceeding at once to this station,
the officers questioned the proprietor
who referred them to the attendant on
duty at the time. But the attendant
shook his head. “I remember Monday
evening. There wefe two or three
young fellows waiting here for rides.
I don’t remember who they were.”
Determined to continue this phase
of the investigation, the officers con-
tinued checking with every service
station and farmhouse along the road
from Van Buren to Alma. Nobody re-
membered having seen a tall, well-
built youth, a new Ford coupe, or the
little, gray-haired country doctor.
The men had learned nothing from
This time there was no chance for a
the couple to plead to any charge other
than of first degree murder. After a
week’s trial, during which the state ~
attempted without success to’ bring
out the details of the other slayings.
laid to the two, a jury returned ver-
dicts of guilty as charged.
Still boastful and swaggering, still
seeking to establish himself as another
Al Capone, who even then was serv-
ing a federal prison term for income
tax evasion, the would-be. big shot
from Dayton went to his death in the
electric chair the following year. With
him he took Al Bruno, the little Toledo
gangster. With a bolt of man-made
lightning the state blasted their dream
of a criminal kingdom and exacted the
supreme penalty for the slaying of an
innocent hotel clerk.
their canvass by the time they reached
Mountainburg. Still believing they
were on the right track, they began a
systematic check of all swimmers and
picnickers who had visited the near-
by Lake Fort Smith resort on the eve-
ning the doctor disappeared. At first
they met nothing but negative re-
sponses until they talked to a youth
who said, “Why, that was the car I
saw parked -down here about five
o’clock!”
The officers were unable to control
their surprise.
“Are you wure”™ the sheriff‘ asked.
“Didn’t you say a black Ford coupe,
as-new as the day it came out of ‘the
factory? And there were no license
plates on it? I saw it all right,” the
youth insisted and led the officers to a
spot below the dam.
Here the sheriff and his depratica’
spread out in a new search. They
soon discovered the same kind of tire
tracks they had found on the Oliver
Springs road. Within a few minutes
they found the murder weapon, a
heavy rock spattered with blood.
On the sharp end of the stone the
sheriff discovered bits of. flesh and
several strands of hair. Two sets of
footprints and scuffed earth near by
were further evidence that this was.
the murder scene.
“Gray was killed here,” Long said.
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Oliver Springs road and dumped the
body.”
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persistent trailing that finally led to the capture of
the killers
A car occupied by two men came along, slowed down,
and one of the riders fired at Duffey, sending him to a
hospital with a bullet-shattered leg. Duffey said he had
known the man for some time slightly, though more by
reputation. He told us he understood his assailant was
from Dayton and that he was “a bit screwy with a
gun.” His description of the man tallied with the
“Three S” formula.
No attempt had been made to hold up Duffey. His
assailant had not even spoken to him.
Less than two months later, on the night of February
8th, the “Three S” brand of activity again came to
light. A young man was left on the steps of Flower
Hospital in Toledo, shot through the mouth. He re-
fused to name his assailant, declaring he would take
care of the matter himself. He died, however, a few
days later.
Word seeped out of the underworld, from a source
we had every reason to believe authentic, that the vic-
tim, Sam Giardino, twenty-two, formerly of Pitts-
burgh, had been shot by his partner in a quarrel over
loot obtained in burglarizing the Dangler drug store at
Jefferson Avenue and Michigan Street.
That partner, whose description fitted perfectly with the
“Three §” characteristics, and another man, had taken
Giardino to the hospital steps, rung the bell and fled.
Then came the hold-up of John E. Dawson, 517 Magnolia
Street, Toledo, which developed the final clues in estab-
lishing the identity of the man suspected of playing the
leading role in the Park Lane murder. :
While awaiting a red traffic light about 6:30 P.M. on
Feb. 26th, 1933, at Jefferson Avenue and Fourteenth Street
Mr. Dawson was relieved of his car by two armed men.
The machine was driven one block and turned right into
Fifteenth Street.
Mr. Dawson, walking cautiously toward Fifteenth Street,
et tne aC a et tee
saw his car parked in an alley, with a man chang-
ing license plates on it. The owner ran to a
telephone and called police but when detectives
arrived, the machine had vanished.
Officers noted with interest, however, that
the apartment house near where the ma-
chine had been parked, was the residence of
a man known to be a partner of the Day-
ton suspect. And Dawson’s description
of one of the men who had taken his
car fitted the Dayton suspect’s “Three
S” characteristics like a glove.
Tipped off that the man who lived in
that apartment was known to visit cer-
tain hang-outs in Monroe, Mich,
twenty-five miles north of Toledo, Mr.
Dawson next day enlisted the aid of a
detective in that city and together
they toured the streets.
‘Suddenly Dawson pointed out his car.
It was occupied by four men, two of
whom the Monroe official described as
“tough cookies.” The detective obtained
reinforcements and once more they
started in search of the stolen machine.
(Below) Detective Ray Sheets. With
Detective Green he aided in following
up the maze of clues that seemed to
link the mysterious “Three S’’ to the
Park Lane killing
They found it parked on a main street, with a known
Monroe hoodlum in it. Dawson was satisfied that the occu-
pant had nothing to do with the previous day’s hold-up in
Toledo but with the Monroe detectives he stepped across
the street to a pool room. .
Scanning the occupants, Dawson pointed out Sam
Sawaya, a known Toledo hoodlum, as one of the men who
had taken his car. The searchers did not know it at the
time, but Sawaya’s companion, the Dayton suspect, or at
least a man answering closely to his description, sat in the
pool room, several feet away, chin cupped in his hand and
his eyes intent upon another part of the room.
Sawaya later was returned to the Mansfield, Ohio, re-
formatory as a parole violator. However, a few hours after
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‘Let Him Have It’—The Strange Slaying
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and he had been locked in a Toledo
cell, a strange thing happened.
Dawson had returned to his home
and had retired for the night. Two
men knocked at his door. Dawson’s
wife answered the summons, but with-
out unlocking the door. In reply to an
inquiry about her husband’s_ where-
abouts, she said he was not at home.
At that instant, one of the callers,
peering through a window, backed off
a few steps and then plunged through
a plate glass window, whipping out a
gun and firing rapidly at the fleeing
pajama-clad figure of Dawson.
The other man, leaping into his ma-
chine, drove into an alley adjoining the
Dawson home and emptied his gun into
the Dawson windows. Dawson, the
object of this insane attack, escaped by
hiding under a neighbor’s porch, pro-
tected from wintry blasts only by his
pajamas.
Mrs. Dawson’s description of the
man who had leaped through her win-
dow coincided with that of the Dayton
suspect. She described the other man
in such a way as to identify him as the
person known to have lived in the
apartment near which Dawson’s car
was parked while the robbers changed
its license plates. Again, the search for
the Dayton suspect proved fruitless.
THEN came the Park Lane murder,
less than a month after the Dawson
affair.
We had checked back through sev-
eral unmistakable activities of the Day-
ton suspect, we felt, and now, two hours
after the Park Lane murder, we were
being given a description of the leader,
coinciding perfectly. And the descrip-
tion of the man who chased the bell
boy, Fred Taylor, fitted that of the
man who had aided in the attack at
Dawson’s home.
As we were checking through these
activities which ran so true to form
with the description of the Dayton sus-
pect, a bit of startling information came
to us.
Taylor, the bell boy, on the morn-
ing after the murder, observed a girl
enter a residence on Hamilton Street,
in his own home neighborhood. She
reminded him of a of he had seen
somewhere before. Suddenly he_ re-
membered. She had been at the Park
Lane, had been ejected with the mys-
terious F, J. Eagan.
This tip resulted in the arrest of the
girl on Hamilton Street whose home we
had searched a year previously when
Dayton police requested it. The de-
scription given of Mr. Eagan fitted that
of the man we had searched for some
months ago in her home, without suc-
cess.
A taxi driver revealed that he had
taken a couple from near the Park
Lane the night of the ejection and
driven them to a point near the Lor-
raine Hotel, 1117 Jefferson Avenue,
some few blocks away. The register at
the Lorraine contained the signature of
a “Frank Eagan and wife,” the hour
of entry being within a few minutes of
the Park Lane ejection.
Brought to Headquarters, the girl
finally admitted that she had registered
at the Lorraine hotel with a Mr. Eagan
but stoutly denied she had ever been
in the Park Lane. She described Mr.
Eagan, however, as tall, light-complex-
ioned and thin—just the opposite of the
Dayton suspect.
Search of her home a year ago for
the Dayton suspect, who answered the
description of the man wanted for the
Park Lane job, together with her iden-
tification by the bell boy, however, de-
cided Inspector of Detectives Louis
Haas to send us to Dayton, with regis-
tration sheets of the two hotels.
In Dayton we obtained several can-
celed personal checks in the handwrit-
ing of the Dayton suspect, signed in his
real name together with his signature
on a police statement made when he
had been questioned in the death of his
father.
The first real name of the suspect
was Frank. The large “F” in his first
name on his canceled checks and on the
police statement corresponded perfectly
with the large “F” in the “Frank
Eagan” and “F, J.” Eagan of the two
hotel registers.
The small “a” in “Eagan” tallied ex-
actly with the style of the small “a”
which formed the second letter in the
last real name of the suspect. Further,
the small “o” as made in*“Toledo” by
the Mr. Eagan was identical with the
small “o” which was the last letter in
the suspect’s real last name.
Some days later a handwriting ex-
pert in the Detroit Police Identification
Bureau looked at the comparisons
briefly and said there could be no ques-
tion of the similarity.
AFTER our return to Toledo with the
handwriting comparisons, warrants
were sworn out on the Saturday fol-
lowing the slaying, charging Frank Vac-
chiano of Dayton and Albert Bruno of
| with the murder of McLaugh-
In.
For slightly more than a week the
Park Lane tragedy gradually faded
from the Toledo newspapers but on
April 10th, a running gun-battle in
Richmond, Indiana, broke in Toledo
with eight-column lines when it was
learned that the Indiana authorities
had unknowingly captured Vacchiano
and Bruno. Search at the moment had
been extended eastward as far as
Pittsburgh, Bruno’s former home. We
ourselves had continued on from Day-
ton to Cincinnati and across the Ohio
River to haunts in Newport and Cov-
ington, Ky.
he careless flip of an overcoat
pieree the undoing of Vacchiano and
runo, and it was John Stanton, clerk
in the Dodge clothing store, 910 Main
Street, Richmond, who lighted the
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72
match that skyrocketed the slayers into
the limelight again.
Vacchiano purchased a suit of clothes
in the Dodge store on the morning of
April 10th and as he removed his over-
coat with a flourish, for measurements,
the clerk observed a revolver in one of
Vacchiano’s inside pockets.
The suit had to be altered so when
Vacchiano and Bruno returned for it
at 3:30 p.m. three officers, Detectives
John C. Vallandingham and_ Ellis
Duckett, and Patrolman Henry Vogel-
song watched them enter and leave the
store, then trailed their taxicab,
THE trail led some two or three
miles to a barbecue stand, where the
olice car pulled alongside the taxi.
The detectives searched and questioned
the men. Vacchiano and Bruno gave
their names as Joe Dalton and Jack
Renaldo, both saying they were De-
troit salesmen.
The officers could find no gun but
still were dissatisfied. Vacchiano said
they were staying at Eighteenth and
North J. Streets in Richmond and that
if the officers would permit it they
would return there and produce satis-
factory identification.
The officers agreed to that. The sus-
pects got into the taxi again and both
machines headed into Richmond. As
the taxi neared the Eighteenth and
North J address Vacchiano pulled his
gun from its hiding place between the
back rest and seat, held it against the
ear of the driver, a girl—Lena Cham-
ness, 812 North I Street—and told her
down in the back seat of a car between
two detectives, silent.
Now that they had a good look at
him, the detectives could see how boy-
ish his face was, He was only nineteen,
and there was something about the
slightly uptilted nose and the shaggy
dark hair that made him extremely
youthful in appearance. Only the hard
lines around his mouth betrayed his
intimate knowledge of crime.
Terry was locked up in City Hall
and for two days he would say nothing.
In the meantime, a strange thing had
happened in the 38th District. Melko
had been told of the arrest of Terry
and suddenly, out of a clear sky, Stan-
ley Melko “opened up.”
In future, whenever I hear people
talk of the honor among gangsters and
of the code of the underworld I shall
remember Melko. When | see young
boys going to the movies to witness
gangster films and thrilling to the sight
of a thug maintaining silence even in
the shadow of the electric chair, | shall
wish they knew the real truth.
For Stanley Melko “ratted” on his
als. In spite of all the training he
ad received in his criminal career, in
spite of the alleged understanding
among crooks that no one_ shall
“squawk” on his companions; Melko
“turned up” his comrades.
To save himself, he tried to put the
The Master Detective
to “step on it” if she valued her life.
When she attempted to comply, she
stalled her engine. Vacchiano leaped
out of one door, Bruno the other, their
guns drawn and spurting lead at the
approseiae police car, not more than
thirty-five feet away.
Taken completely by surprise, the
Indiana detectives stepped into the
teeth of the hail of lead and in a mo-
ment a raging battle was on—the girl
taxi driver almost in the center of it.
Some twenty-five shots were exchanged.
Bruno suddenly ran west, attempting
to reload. Vacchiano sped eastward. A
police dog, aroused by the shots,
plunged at Bruno, and the gunman
was forced to flee. He stumbled into an
alley, bullets whining past his head.
Kicking at the dog and fumbling with
his revolver, Bruno looked up to see a
high wall blocking his escape.
Another bullet sang past him. He
turned his head, saw an officer taking
slow deliberate aim and flung aside his
gun, pleading for his life.
Some 300 feet away Vacchiano was
raising his hands skyward, his empty
gun at his feet.
Their guns were identified by Ber-
tillon experts as the ones used in firing
the three bullets into McLaughlin’s
body. Bruno’s gun was proved to have
fired the bullet that crashed the window
pane six inches from the inquiring fea-
tures of John Gomph, the insurance man,
on the morning of the murder. We were
satisfied that our crazy clue had estab-
lished the identity of the Park Lane
slayers beyond the shadow of a doubt.
“IT Accuse Melko!’’
(Continued from page 41)
‘ blame for Wiley’s death first on Louis
Frank, who was arrested with him.
Then he blamed it on Terry.
And finally when asked if he realized
that a police officer had been shot by
the man at the wheel of that stolen
car, he said:
“Yes, I know. And if I had been in
that car no cop would have been shot.”
He then related in detail the events
leading up to the fatal shooting. And
he did not spare his pals. In fact when
it was all over, Melko had put himself
in the role of a mere bystander, so to
speak, who had been made the innocent
ii of a wild youth’s eagerness to
ill.
HE said that on Saturday, April 9th,
Terry had gone out and stolen a
car belonging to Daniel Antolini. It
was parked in a garage at 2006 Market
Street. Terry simply watched his
chance, walked in and took the car.
“He brought it to the garage at 702
Race Street,” he said, “and that eve-
ning when I happened to stop in the
garage he told me the car was fast and
could burn up the road,
“I said, ‘Well, let’s see how fast it
is’ So I got in the back with Louis
Frank. Terry was at the wheel with
Davis beside him and we started out.
“We weren’t going any place in par-
ticular, We just cruised around for a
Two juries vindicated our findings
by returning verdicts of: first degree
murder against them. Vacchiano en-
deavored to escape trial in Toledo by
pleading guilty to second degree mur-
der for the death of Valentine and he
was sentenced to life imprisonment
early in May, but on May IIth he was
brought to Toledo to stand trial on a
first degree murder charge.
Judge Robert Gosline sentenced him
to death in the electric chair in the
Ohio penitentiary October 9th, and on
October 2nd the same judge sentenced
Bruno to the same fate in the same
chair geneaty llth, 1934.
In his sanity hearing, which inter-
rupted Vacchiano’s murder trial and in
which he was adjudged sane, the de-
fendant in reply to a_ psychiatrist’s
query, “Isn’t it true that you have
killed seven men?” Vacchiano caused a
sensation when he pondered the ques-
tion a moment and then _ replied
quietly: “No, it was five men.”
BRUNO, it was who accompanied
Vacchiano on the attempted revenge
shooting of Dawson after the latter had
pointed out Vacchiano’s auto-stealing
partner, Sam Sawaya, in Monroe,
Mich., and Vacchiano it was who shot
Giardino and left him on the steps of
a hospital—Giardino, youthful pal of
Bruno in their Pittsburgh days.
On December 29th, 1933, after sev-
eral legal delays, Frank Vacchiano was
electrocuted; and on February 6th,
1934, his partner, Albert Bruno, met
death in the same electric chair.
while. There were a lot of people on
the streets and we took it easy in the
center of the city, just going along
slowly. Then when we got on a
smooth stretch of street Terry opened
the car up and we ate up the gas,
“After midnight we decided we
might pull a couple of hold-ups. We
had no set plan. We were just looking
around and finally we decided to hold
up this Petrov store.
“Frank and | forced the entrance
and we left Terry and Davis at the
wheel. | didn’t Know a thing about
the officer being shot until I heard a
revolver go off and a car pull away.
Then I knew something bad. had hap-
pened.
“T ran to the window in the second
story front of the building and could
see our car was gone. So Frank and
me dropped everything and looked for
a way out. We had masks on when
we broke into the store. We took these
off and hid them with our guns in the
empty loft at 25 N. Fourth Street.
We got into that building by scaling
the wall between Petrov’s store. and the
empty loft. We hid there all day and
finally we started out and got caught.”
On April 18th, at 2:50 o'clock in the
afternoon, Melko signed a confession,
the first he had ever made. And every
once in a while he would express sor-
row over Wiley’s death and declare
that “if!
hawe hap
h.
It t
to save h
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Friday, June 22, 1062
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“To Die. Tonight
|- = “syamned Rodney Buck wil dle tonight in the elictrtc
_ chat at Ohio Penitentiary. His last hope for life went
‘this moming when: Gov. Dt. gong refused. to grant
Foie. "ebecneney ave
Back, 24, wil be aioaiater for the gun battle
+ _ glayirg of Akron Police Oftixer Floyd Weatherholt Jt
eee ae
ot SDI Salte Bald todzys °t have —
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a “Bock within the walls at Odio
P State Penitentiary. o
J safter-ceretu! evaluation of
ees SY the faci before tmc>
: * find no supportable reason for
staying sag —
* - guck wis itonis the
313: to die in the Ohlo eee 4:
> —S— trig chal. Threo weeks ago,
"> —=-- gnether Akron murderer, Ron
& ahh George - Fenton _2),_
¥ vietln No. 312 .
_ Penton-was convicted of the
§———wexetaying “of “T-yearolt Jo
f === gene Starcher whom he stole ee fe
from her crib In August, 1560.
~E Se! ize at Pollze Bad
: ee -*.. wu to investigate _s,
.. burglary at Sides Camcra Ex:
~>"~ ghange. 451 EL Exchange.
Tea theshott followed foot
~~ prints in the gow. ‘The tral
ea in-we Sachto face “Freet-
np wee: Bare URS the SS
~~" —"“Shere was a struggle and
excharcc c? ehote. Weather!
Thess was hie three times. buck
weg hit once and was “poor”
for a tie in Akron wa Hoe-
_ pital :
<i + Se oan ae > mae 10 sap een'>
ede ame ;
i wed have appeared -in -rey =
‘office. On June 19 I talked to | ewe
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3 in anes we ee
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- -
—~— ee
tried--eppeal.after appeal ta
courts, including tha U.S. Su:
@ repeat appeal to the Oni{o
Supreme Court claiming Buck
Weatherijoit. ‘
“Thle was denied fast “May!
33 and toatghts (@xeCULOR}
‘TIN 3S messace refus!s7
=i lat DA Salie bald: -
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rep
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a eaery Yemaly rss town ox
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ss. 8 8 1
ML od, ROLOSKS, aetinc!
warder, sald Buck resisted ais7i
bind of food for his beat me:
Buck asked only «for “wn
dinky, he web. i
Buck's mother, wife and son!
thet hae le Lewaliy mad pwradtinn!
visited his Goeth, row cou |
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Dia tatiOii i Dogged
: Poles Slay
With - James Rodney Buck’s- “death:
was written the last chapter in a book
fof life that could only be be titled “Born
to be Bad.”
% snuffed ‘ out the lifé of a young man who |
7 1 naagleich 24 years, nine.months and’ i
adays on earth.
ayer ‘From Start
The executionér’s hand Friday night | aaron. bus for Dallas, Tex-— |}
local icaabecy, bat pared ~abtee
serving 30 days.
.. His parents, instead of trying to get
ich straightened out with authorities,
He had been in Texas but two weeks,
had a promise of a job as a meat éutter,
}
y, During that- ‘brief life, Buck spent rs
(4 montis in prison — in Ohio, in a Fed-°
but got a telephone call from homie: His:
father had nesta polene and. was dead.
® =.2 <<Jormatory, on a Tennessee chain |
“gary and in a Tennessee eformatory.
¥ —- Sociologists-will telk -you-that by-all}
%-.the rules of study, Buck's life was des- |
dtined-to be one -oftrials,-tregedy,- Di lestects
7 lation. and temptation. —
’ © @
_| BUCK was born Sept. 3. 1937, in
YN Nashville, Tenn., the oldest of elght chil-
7
s90N y
‘dren born-to “Rodney Jackson Buck, an}
_ Tunambitious janitor ‘in ansuto repair
- garage, and his wife, Jane.
| : His father would permit ‘him: and af
younger brother into the repair. garage
at nights. Buck. learned to drive by run-
ning cars leit for repairs around inside
ec
| AFTER his tibher was buried, Buck
returned~to -Nashville-——A- grandfather,
lwhom-he loved deeply, stopped by. to
welcome him home, then dropped: dead
of a heart attack.
—By now Buck was 16. He couldn't get
a job- because of -his~youth,-in- spite -of :
the fact he pleaded-with ae ee nt ‘
(ployers that he
ong saiormaeng alah aay ” .
cE pageanses he broke into a oe
ttempt to get enough money to
hc Nashville. Caught, -he faced re-| -
form school egain until his mother paid|
damages and talked the court into_let-|
95 Sod
“As soon as he learned how to drive,
lia éated stealing cara from dealers’
_“Ilots for joyrides. Caught the first time
= "lat 14, he got probation.
*"l. A few weeks later he stole an auto
- glagain, this time so he and his brother
- Bicould run away from home. -
-s © @ @ ‘26
.° sis WAP 10-dn. econetdiiig’® be tate
said. “I couldn't stand to see my broth-
ers and sisters go hungry four, five days
ba
“SF epee tet
ee ea an mae fale ;
eS Se ye “Te
wi SHOOTING high, Buck asked and was
permitted to take an examination for
Officers Candidate School. He passed
with flying colors.
“I thought this would be the big turn-
ing point in my life,” he said.
“J had always wanted to better my-
self and the chance to be a ‘90-day won-
atatime.” ~~ *
NP awe ee a cnigene 3
Dies Repeating Bible Passage. a ak ee
See BUCK FLED, vais
Back’s ‘Short,
oe Te ww et Or eS
‘Ends C: almly In Th e Chair an
COLUMBUS Janes’ Rodney Buck, ‘ Seadidiaaig: another eisai, ‘starting with
and violent much of his 24 years, was calm as he went “The Lord Is My Refuge.”
to his death Friday night in the electric chair of the/iiask, the Rev. Mr. Denton
=A “a gna 259 ST
Violent: Life
as
As. Buck hesitated under the
eee te oe
Ohio State Penitentiary.
Akron Police Officer Floyd
,Weatherholt Jr., 23, in a gun
‘battle on March 5, 1960. —
- AT 8: 01 p. m. 9:00 Akron
‘time) a guard rapped Hendy
on the closed door leading to
‘she tiny cell where Buck spent
his last few hours. - ------.
| The door was opened by
‘the Rev. BIT Denton of Akron,
‘followed by Prison Chaplain
(arence Swearingen. Buck
ge ig rt 8 son, Joseph: - |
The Rev. Mr. Swearingen!)
3 ‘was reading the Twenty-Third
\Psalm, - y ag ‘after - each
jientence for Buck to repeat
jhe. words, =
|. He died for the slaying ott 7)
a
Buck walked “steadily to a
small platform, stepped up to
the chair and three guards
moved {n rapidly-to buckle his
legs and shoulders to the chair
with steel clamps. :
Mr. Sweartngen began reciting)
the Lords Prayer, still fol-
llowed-byBuck- who kept. hist,
eyes constantly on. the wainis-
ter’s face..__:;
By now, the Twenty-Third] |
Psalm was ended and the Rev.| -
stepped foreward and said,
"He « didn’t hear you.”
ot tt re rt ot be Pe,
—s-——
the passage, given him the
second time, Associate Warden
ML J. Koloski nodded slightly
to a guard, who pushed a
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However, the Army
7
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’
Maneuvers provide
; some delay in Bucks’ plans.
Army. - :
- Blaming exhaustion, lack of
-__ proper diet_and time to study, - }:
ae fe failed a supplemental of-
-—ficera examination - by. two
‘points and found himself faced
~- with the prospect of serving
ihis country as a private, -
On, the next pay .day he -
civ went. . AWOL, -stole a serles —::
-——pof autos and went into the—
i
‘Mlegal = Uquor = tran
Sportation
___j pusinesa.. ------ = -- +
~,_§n..1953 that he met Shirley
... Allen, also -of Nashville, but
‘ing ashe said later, “I knew
- the anlica Dould come also,
She Eg hae: . Smale ee
system ¢
‘of training, drills, hikes and +,"
, He sald later the training
-'exhausted him to the point §:
that he was tootired.to study —
—at-night. Also, his decaying
-——+ teeth: made it next to impos-
sibl¢ for him to eat solld food.
———He - didn't explain - why— he.-
ee e @ @.
- 9 WAS curing this perlod
«
iq %.
- ts ha
+ ‘ ae
i a 4 ne r
Peay
\
~# didn't seek dental hplp in tha f°.”
IRS, SHIRLEY BUCK
o. slayer’s widow
Nashville, however. So. alone,
lonely and out of @ job, he
burglarized a camera shop,
sold what he had stolen and
sent\his wife the money g0 she
would return to him jn Flor-
ida.
Fora while they settled
down and he Janded a job as
assistant manager of a meat
market in Punta Gorda Fia..
Pais Le nw
$5 8 GAT ine, OF stay : WYP 34:
ret Rs 4 ify} woiF 4 ;
ei aes erie Jie THe
te) on ys é A v: ons ‘ nf sy
smoked. nor. drank and in ef-
fect, lived the life of arrvatniete
in training—when he wasn’t
out_nights stealing. ._
' At the health club he ran
into a gun shop proprietor
“My -biggest mistake. was. inj
taking that gun with me.” =
done
__ BUBSEQUENT EVENTS led
to Bock’s trial on two counts
of first degree murder before
who Invited him.in to “look
around.” - Pie dee
During a visit to the gun
shop, Buck saw a .25 caliber
revolver that caught his fancy.
He engineered a trade for the
guns he had stolen. in the
Florida burglary. *
a Jury In Common Pleas Judge)
Stephen Colopy's court.
’ On Oct. 8, 1960, 13 days aft-
er the trial began, the jury re.
turned a- verdict of “gullty”
on both counts and failed to
recommend « mercy, which
made the death sentence man-
4
NOW, WITH things im-
proved and a few dollars in
his_pocket -he-began to think
again. about one of -the big
«:,,3 loves of his Hfe—photography.
FLOYD WEATHERHOLT ZB.
oes UR Vv
quit his promising job, broke
intg a sports shop and stole
two diving lungs and two re-
volvers. ik i
He dropped the family off
with his wife's relatives‘ In
and searched until he found
market as a meat cutter.
In January, 1960, he brought
Ictim
Nashville, then came to Akron)
a job at a West Akron super-}
On, March 18, 19 and 22, he
stopped in at Sid’s Camera
‘Exchange and had clerk
Smanuel Lampos show him a
variety of expensive cameras
and equipment.“
“I -thought it was sort’ of
‘funny that he wanted to make
the rounds of the same coun-
‘ters each day, as though he
what = -he~-wantéd,*— Lampos
later told Police.—~--—~-~-~
What he didn’t know was
that Buck, already. decided on
a burglary, wanted to famillar-
ize_ himself with the store as
much as possible so he could
find his way to what he want-
‘leach case, and asa last re-
couldn't make up his mind)
ato EE ae,
Judge Cofopy sentenced
Buck to death on Oct. 13. -
__From that point on. court-
appointed attorneys Bernard
Rosen: and Bernard Harris
waged s long, strong battle
through the Court of Appeals,| —
the Ohis Supreme Court and
the United States Supreme
Court.
“Whey were turned down in
sort, appealed to Gov. Di Salle
for executive clemency, claim-
ing their client was irisane at
the time of the killing.
Their last effort failed when
Gov. Di Salle,.Friday declined
to intercede and ordered that
the execution should procede
on schedule, id
s. @ &
* DID BUCK go to his death
convinced that—he—had been} -
forgiven his many sins, in-
sae the aim of murder?
Buck's heag! 2)
}— A-yellow F iiy:
the’ chair Buk
ol sgade for the
7 in” the
$4 though he
p 4G@- his
2)" Lampos
ne te
a Buck de-
mary oun
| _BUBSEQUENT EVENTS led]
a Jury In ¢ Common Pleas Judge
{Buck to death on Oct. 13.
‘}waged a long, strong battle
mind).
./forgiven his many sins, in-
——
ices tbat gud. with
to Buck's trial on two counts
of first degree murder before
~ {Stephen Colopy’s ‘court.
On Oct.'8, 1960, 13 days aft-
er the trial began, the jury re.
turned @-verdict of “guilty”
on both counts and failed to
recommend «mercy, - which
made the death — man-
datory,* _
‘Judge Colop y ‘sentenced!
From that point on, court-
appointed attorneys Bernard
Rosen - and “Bernard ~ Harris
through the Court of Appeals,
the Ohio Supreme Court and
the United States Supreme
Court.
“They. were turned down in
cach case, and as a last re-
sort, appealed to Gov. Di Salle
for executive clemency, claim-
-{ing their client was irisane at
the time of the killing. .
_Their last effort failed when
Gov. Di Salle, .Friday declined
to intercede- and ordered that
the execution should procede
on schedule,
s * J
* DID BUCK go to his death
convinced - that- he- had - been
Continued From Page 1
button-.on the wall behind |”
Buck's head. . iB
ean, 2 _Aycllow light flashed above
the’ chalr and the snap of
the electric charge threw
Buck’s body against the steel
and leather supports.
eee
BUCK’S body remained rigid
against the supports the full
minute the charge was on,
then slumped back {nto the
chair, his left fist clenched.
After waiting almost’ two
minutes, Prison Dr. Richard
Brooks stepped forward with
a stethoscope. He checked
Buck’s chest several times.
then sald, “I pronounce this
man’ dead.-The time Js. 8:11
p.m.”
Witnesses filed silently from
the room and guards moved|
in to remove Buck’s body.
—The- body - was- released _to|+
a Columbuf funeral director,
cluding -the sin of murder?
“ST am firmly convinced that
he: did,’* said-his- close friend
Kenan. ama |!
_-~——-ja soft drink. «sss
re 4
Saturday, June 23, 1962 -
hain
| Buck Dies Ga After
‘Short-And ‘Troub
ee y oan on cep -
jand will - be ‘transported to
Tennessee for burial.
ete e*e : ] — —— -<
FRIDAY morning -Buck had
turned: down -the- traditlo:
e
his mother, his wife, Shirtey, ’
Bernard Rosen, one of his de
fense- attorneys-end the Den
his S-year-old son, Akron Atty. -=-
offer of the condemned man's
last meal. He said he: only
wanted a couple of bottles of
Late in the afternoon, he
changed his mind and said
he wanted a steak. He got it,
along with french fried pq
tatoes, salad, ple, coffee, milk,
and a soft drink.
Buck was visited Friday by
Ratterman
ee ee eee
COVINGTON, Ky. UP)—The
members -of-the jury in -the}-
trial of ale men charmed erith
tons.
oes
Scien who ‘viewed »
the execution included Chief ~
Harry Whiddon and Arthur
Adams of the Akron Pollce _
Department, and Maj. Vincent:
son of the Sheriff's Office.
Buck was the 313th person
[to die in Ohio's electric chair
He was tstelenet to the
tiny death house at the gouth- - P
east corner of the Oblo Penlé
ny ee roca:
Kinney and Capt. Alan Morrhe-=2=~-
this month. Ronald G. Fenton,-~—~~-
dicd there June 1 for the sex —
’ There are four murderers
_-- [stil in death row, waiting ¢.
thelr date “with the chair,.—\- yes:
WILLIAM BERGER.
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and the second from Akron 1 “ae
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~—-have run awa
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-~A couple Of Liviuiss sacce mae
took his wife back to Nash-
-\ville far a visit and almost
was caught. by... policeman
who knew —him._Police
Refor-] still
732 ‘Harvard St. pald a week's
rent and sat back _ with $200;
in cash and a Job. =
CIGEU LO LEY Vue ser peers eee
Kent on March 24 and test
fired it along the way. -__._
were seeking him as an ¢s-
capee from the chain gang.
_“T got away, but I knew
Ke got my license number and
that it was only a matter of
time unti} police would trace
me back to Florida” ——~
2 a
to the <
at Ashland, Ky. for
transportation of
‘stolen motor vehicles. _°
Duriag the 15 months he
spent at Ashland, he learned
the meat cutting business and
--gpent nearly a year with an-
inmate, attending the
matory
interstate
MIEANWHILE, Shirley got
a job working in the office
of a shoe company and things
were looking up. With money
in his pocket, Buck started
frequenting & health club in
Cuyahoga Falls. —-.--- z
The moody, restless Buck
“It was late when I got back
and I just stuck the gun in my
pocket and forgot it...
“You know what happened
on the 25th,” he added matter
HB RETURNED with his
wife to Pupta Gofda and in
always had been proud and
concerned about his body and
that about 11:15
night of March 24, told his
rapid succession,, reluctantly
wife he wanted some money
for gasoline and cigareta, then
left the house."
He forced a rear door of
phyaical_condition., He never
the w
at the plant, a guard
becauss
worked
Death Bela a ayed © Four Times
Sid's Camera Exchange, and
4 ns a
_ He _sald- he-took~-a-trip-toy
3 E> ipte;
i ate
and adopjed pastor, we rev.
Bul Denton of Akron. ~
At first, their meetings in
the Ohio Penitentiary’s death
row were polite, but reserved,
ts they both fed to seek the
other out. ase :
“Y’ve never tried to force re-
ligion on anyone,” the Rev.
Mr. Denton said, “and Jim
was the kindof fellow you
couldn't do that with anyway.
“In fact, one of his big com-
plaints to me was that an-
other clergyman, on talking
with him the first or second
time,. attempted to sell him
salvation overnight.”
armed with the knowledge: of
where what he wanted could
“Buck, naturally introverted
and suspicious, rebelled and
told that minister bluntly that
Krogei’s }
the legali |
sion’s pt Bia:
. is ') SU os e.-..
cee
By ck Battled Chatr_ pnresrenes
Vi i hea Tha VY SS <mmee cameras and
yi : PEE TEES |! Te ER
WV OPC. : ait= ear—- 1" As he was leaving the store
ca Ate fee —it was 2:28 a. m. on the 25th
by then—he accidentally trig-
gered-the-ADT-burglar-alarm
which went off in a downtown
ents . td e -s ~
-.” PARGLED Oct. 13, 1855, te
* .gejoined Shirley tand= they
———went to Atlanta, Ga., and were
"married Oct. 25, 1955. Their
-only child, James Rodney
he was wasting his time. hearings.
at . a ‘}.
penas agi'§
chairman; pa
me
—AS-DENTON'S” Visits in-|
creased, his relationship with,
Buck deepened until the oa on
oner,.whcther he_realized it or treasurer, |
not, beg: n to regard Denton |!"85 whic!
The death of James Rodney Buck, in the Ohio
Penitentiary electric chalf Friday night ended one‘ of
esas, HE-LATER said this effor iSzecution date. agi, tor. }
the moet intensive legal ba’
On four different occasions
Buck's scheduled trip to the
electric chair waa postponed
after legal action ‘by his court-
appuinted attorneys, Bernard
. Rosen and G. Bernard Harris
Following his-father’ulead. Po eo _¢ 9
Buck swallowed @ quantity of BUCK was convicted Oct.
- rat polsun, but quickly touk 1960, for the killing of Police
an anticote to induce vomiting Officer Floyd Weatherholt
"six months earlier. Here is
— - sertous effects result how the case progressed from
then on as Buck's attorneys
tryed to save !.is life: :
Oct. 12,.1960, Motion for a
new trial denied
Oct. 13, 1500: “Sentenced to
death by Common Pleas Judge
Stephen C. Calopy.
-Oct. 14, 1939 — Transferred
to Ohio Penitentiacy. Ferst
Mar. 1,
How: ver, Shirley, {mpress-
‘ed by his earnestness tn the
suicide attempt, stayed with
him, and he in turn agreed ta
return to Nashville.
Usiny moncy saved from his
jod in Georgia, Buck bought a
home In Nashville. :
e s
ttles ever fought here.
peals refused to set verdict
atide, Aug. 8, 1951, set as new
date for execution.
June 23, 1961—Appz2al filed
-|with Ohio Supreme Court, and
execution-stayed ase cond)
time, . 05
Oct. 12, 1961—Turned ‘Gown
by: Ohio Supreme Court, Nov.
10, 1961, set as new execution
date.
Oct. 25, 1961 — Appeal filed
with Ohio Pardon and Parole
Commissidn.
Nov. 8, 1961—Oh!o Supreme
Court granted third stay of
execution pending appeal to
U. S. Supreme Court. :
as his clcsest §
“You ralght say.” the Rev.
Mr. Denton remarked, “that
he came to look upon mie as
the big hrother he always had
wished for.” °
office. ADT notified police and
in a matter of seconds, several
crulsers were on the way, in-
cluding the Police Patrol Wag-
on, manned ~ by -Patrolman
Floyd Weatherholt and Don-
ald MacGaughey. . Sake an
--- o- ¢
he companionship of a prison
friend, Ronald G. Fenton, ex
ted June 1 for the sex-
earold Joanne
ye A
roe
the front door and si
store, Weatherholt ren to the
rear of the building and began
to follow-a set-of footprints,
leading away from the store
in the snow. .
On the opposite side of the
street he caught up with the
fleeing Buck, about lo climb a
fence. A scuffle ensued, shots
were fired and Weatherhclt
stumbled out to the street with
Nov. 17, 1961—-Appeal filed
three bullets in his body, one
Buck found solace also-in| -'
ia
with U. S. Supreme Court. |from his own service revolv-
Le ater 10°°7008 Ww WT @ Aw! eee tr Oh ea oR Oe.
wee
4.
1! @eee
rand adopted. Pastor, the — oe plating tha> clvil rights of (Glenn Family sos
y : e bed . 4 1 to fi | : ——
if "trip to! Bin Denton of Akron. ~ampbell County Sheriff ; ‘A
; At first, their meetings in Subpena Bout George Ratterman hod the Is ¢ |
2 and test
S mepe emmy &
;
OF eS SRMTEREISEY ST Geath| kend-off today from th ni ’ \
Hs : @ Ohio Penitentiary’s death weeken y from their : L,
: I got back row were polite, but reserved, Wath: FTC. _ |deliberations, ® e ga ‘
va oun in "™Y/as they both ed to seek the ns | The three women anc nine. Imping rip fee |
other out. ~ ~ Special To The Beaces Joursal | men got the case at 10:07 a. m. te |
CINCINNATI — Kroger Co. WASHINGTON UP)—Astro-
Friday. At 6:30 p.m. they filed
sald here Friday the Federal 4
back inte the court room and
r| “I've never tried to force re- naut John H. Glenn Jr. is go :
liglon on anyone,” the Rev.
“sy
=i" |{Mr._ Denton sald,” “and~Jim| Trade Commission- has with-|told U.'S. District Judge Mac|!@ to get away from ft all --—:--;f {Ht
Dp was{Was the kind-of fellow you|drawn aubpenas ‘against three Swinford they had been unable aly pee ince het ae
m. the couldn't do that with anyway. of its. top company ofiiclals to reach a decision. ae er joined Project Merev three - . ee ‘ ud bie 2 “ i: Bi
P. told his| “In fact, one of his big com-|Which kought to force them to] «e's important that this care con aa pore gs Sets f Ree Gg
plaints to me. was that an-|testify in milk price hearings |p» decided. Some jury has to|¥°2"5 go, aoe his wile, Ep : i
other cle on talking /&t Indianapolis, decide it.'I'm not going to dis- camping trip. i oie es
with him-the first_or second
time,. attempted to—sel}—him
salvation overnight.” ©
Buck, naturally introverted
—It- also-said-the- FTC has
moved ‘to seek dismissal “In
ederal.Court at Chicago of
Kroger’s request for a test of
charge you,” Judge Swinford|"
sald. “I’m going to let you go
home until Monday morning."
and two children, -—
secret, .
- “We would just love 1 be:
Han eee ne
Eut where-and ‘when. is a——
ef es
fowicaze re : the legality of the commis Pipes ce gag @ y"34 while,” said Mrs.- oe h.
nted could|#"d_ suspicious, rebelled‘ and ob WAS the first time in the rl ’ i
1p $3,662.15] told that-minister bluntly that: “adi * public. —tsvestigative memory of courthouse observ: a a Se egret ee 4
.|Buck deepened until the pris-
joner, whether_he realized it or
f e 1 police and] &
i ads, several
; way, in-
SP foe : .|he came to look upon me as
.j wished for.”
—~_jthe-companionship of @ prison
i. S ea
a sida of the
anil tha
he was wasting his time.
Be Bo
—hs- DENTON'S~ visits in-
creased, his relationship with
not, began to. regard Denton
jas his closest friend. — -
“You might say,” the Rev.
Mr. Denton remarked, - “hat
the big brother he always had
Buck: found ‘elang ‘also in
friend, Ronald G. Fenton, ex-
ecuted June 1 for the sex-
»{slaying for yearold Joanne
Starcher. * ‘4
—"They used - to. play-caiy's
wool
AistC. had issued sub
peas against Joseph B.-Hall,
chairman;- Jacob -E; Davis,
president, and Frank Grimme,
treasurer, to testify at hear-
ings which began at Indian.
upoils inApril to-took into-a
supermarket milk price war
which had ving prices by more
than half. ©
“the. eerie
Davis aid
speaks for itselz.”
-“Krogery has malatsincd] -
threughout that {ts ebslienz:?
to the new FIC preccdures]
would be sustained by the
courts. It seems that the FTC
now agrees with our pc: ition.”
ers that a jury was recessed
for a weekend In _its_delibera-
tions, ae .
The. jurors heve to decide
whether any-or all of-the-six
defendants- are gulity-of-con+
splracy and/or actual viclation
of Ratterman’s civil rights-in
connection with the former
professional football player’s
TO es om May 8,
1961.
Churge’? tA the “case are
Newport Police Chief Unsere
Whi ahd Detectives Pairivk |
Ciafardini and Josenh Quitters
Atty. Charles BE, Lester from
Fort Thomes, and the co.
owners of tha old Glenn Hotel
{quent —oamping ~ expelitions
been a bit b
~ The Glenn Ya
pull up stakes and leave thelr
sittee then”
Axlington,~ Va, home in late
July ‘or earty” August, for a ee
new home in Houston, Tex,
the penncnent site for the Na
tional Asivnautics and Space
Admiuistrution’s . manned
space centers, sions Beg ar vee
_— The Glenns used to take fre -
jbut, sald Mrs. Glean,.*Jchn's———~ ~~
nly will also
oa
e.
se 2
\
eS.
Study Ofer nde
in Building
ose
é. ao
Poems
i, OR -
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Te + “- "tee - My ELS oe «* 7
See ‘ G ees ys Sas :
Wr
-footprinte, a ig enh ! :
ly,” - Mr. Den P; b and Tropicana Night Club at
the store es é. en as I would rr es yierl lam _|Newport, * ‘Tito Carincl and iy Pr Si ir ‘Le a
kide of the {call to visit, we would hold a {Edward Bucclert. em x c a)
p with the|thizeman prayer meeting. I Qocet Som ‘Ends Ti convicted, they couid be i; aS
ee to climb a/am .cenvinced that both men eenienced to a year In prison Officials’ cof Akron crea yr
ae sued, shots|died with Christ In thelr} WOOSTER — A’ three-dayjand a oe fine on each building suppty firms we.s to. oi
hee Veat ‘erbolt |heects." - jsessiv.s of the Onlo Synod of|churge. -., Incet again today to decide
LOG sires with Fur, sone ‘months, Buckjthe United Presbyterian a . Whether to accept @ Teasoaters - .
e|wrete freguent end informa-|Chuerch came to a close at tha} THE THEI police officers Local 343 proposal for aettiing ° a
es hice aie. tive lettera to Denton and;Cole je of Wooster Fridayjarrested YMattrrin and ala‘’9cay etclke, ;
me:.ders of his staff, He al-
way’ sign ed them, ore in
Thebet “a's
with “if any action belnz taken
on w propused rexclution
Capital punishment...
[
sini ptease Cencer nacied April
Flowers in Curinel’s chee of
rag ea pore aaa
A syokcsnian said the com-
pany represoniatives met for
biriont SiVO
hours Friday
without. -
a I tna
__ only came out once,” he once] _
*. pejoined Shirley -and_ they
~~ went to Atlanta, Ga., and were
$9. —— Buck Jr, —was_ borm—@ year
_later.
' worked three yoara, but all
__” the Baby.
= ed.
— down,
- was gone but my son,” he said.
casa eb RE
\
With): wets ag WU Tid
have run away at any time,
because the whole Summer I
worked at the plant, a guard
remarked. - .
. e @ .8 %
PABOLED Oct. 13, 1955, he
married Oct. 25, 1955. Their
only child, James Rodney
Buck got. @ job as a meat
cutter in a supermarket and
was pot well with him and his
wife. She was homesick and/after
told him she was leaving with
wp Wins
Doniis, veiaved: Four “Times S|
Penitentiary ‘electric chai®
the most intens|ve legal battles ever fought here.
-On four different occasions
Buck’s scheduled trip to the
eves chair was eae
legal action'by piemer
, attorneys,
Rosen and G. Bernard Harris.
--@-— 8&8. 8
Buck Battled Chair.
More Than_Year.—-
The ‘death of James Rodney Buck in the Ohio
Friday night ended one of
peals refused to set verdict
ailde, Aug. 8, 1961, set as new
urt-idate for execution.
June 1961—Appeal filed
with Ohlo Supreme Court, and
which went aff in a downtown ans !
office. ADT notified police and|®3 his closest friend
for gasoline and Sigarets, then
Creer yy Mary, ol Waki]
—fleft the house,-—------—..-___| With him_ the first_or second
He forced a rear door of|time, attempted to sell him F,
-{Sld’s Camera Exchange, and|*#lvation overnight.”
armed with the knowledge: of
_|where what he wanted could|/#"d suspicious, rebelled and|t
~ Buck, naturally introverted
be found, scooped 662.15 told that minister bluntly that
in amen pas em and he Was wasting his time.
sipinpianeintistuityi enter
equipment. 3
As he was leaving the store|
—As~ ‘DENTON'S “visits in.
—{t was 2:23 a. m. on the 25th|Creased, his relationship with
by then—he accidentally trig-|Buck deepened until the pris-
gered the ADT_burglar alarm |oner, whether he realized it or
in a matter of seconds, several
not, began to regard Denton
“You might say,” the Rev.
crulsers were on the way, in-|Mr. Denton remarked, “that
cluding the Police Patrol Wag-
on, manned by Patrolman
Floyd Weatherholt and Don-
ald MacGaughey. ee
Sconce harstaitMR seep NI as
he came to look upon me as
the big brother he always had B
wished for.”
Buck found solace also in
ing-his-father's-toad:
Buck swallowed a quantity of
rat poison, but quickly took
an antidote to induce vomiting
and no serious. effects result-
However, Shirley, impress-
ed by his earnestness in the
sulcide attempt, stayed with
him, end he in turn agreed ta.
return to Nashville. .
trom his |2¢2th by Common Pleas Judge
job in Coen Buck bought a Stephen C. Colopy.
home in Nashville.
at homemaking was an at-
tempt to convince ‘his wife
that be wes ready to setie(with Ninth District Court of
and also to convince | Appeals.
her’ skeptical parents that she
had made a wise choice in se-|Peals granted stay of execution
lecting a husbarid’
During this period another
BUCK was convicted Oct. 8,
1S60,. for the killing of Police
Olf_icer Floyd Weatherholt
six months earlier. Here is
how th from)
then on as Buck's attorneys
tried to save his life:
Oct. 12,.1960, Motion for a
new trial denied.
Oct. 13, 1960: "Sentenced to
‘Oct. 14, 1960 — Transferred
to Ohio Penitentiary. —
1961.
Now 12, 10h apesas filed
Feb. 5, 1961— Court of Ap-
pending a hearing.
Mar. 20, 1961—Court of Ap-
tragedy befell Buck, when a
younger brother he furnish- ‘: es
ed with a second-hand auto and Area Men
taught to drive, was shot tg
Taper aiing 2 Hchaped In ‘Ade
ate
“Evers det tome nom Giving” Clinic
|
execution —stayed-4 St Cond
timé,
Oct. 12, 1961—Turned ‘down
by Ohio Supreme Court, Nov.
10, 1961, set as new execution
WHILE officers watched
the front door and side of the
store, Weatherholt ran to the
rear of the building and began
tot
date.
Oct. 26, 1961 — Appeal filed
with Ohio Pardon and Parole
Commisalbdn.
Nov, 8, 1961—Ohlo Supreme
Court granted third stay of
execution pending appeal to
U. S. Supreme Court.
Nov. 17, 1961--Appeal filed
with U. 8. Supreme Court.
Mar. 19, 1962 — U. S. Su-
preme Court refused to hear
case, April 27 set as execution
date.
~ April 19, 1962—Appeal made
to Gov. Di Salle. ‘
April” 27, 1962— Ohio Su-
preme Court granted stay — a
fourth — pending sanity hear-
ing.
May 16, 1962—Insanity + md-
tion filed with Ohio Supreme
Court.
May 23, 1962—Motion turn-
ed down by Supreme Court,
June 22, 1962, set as fifth ex-
leading away from the store
in the snow.
On the opposite side of the
street he caught up with the
fleeing Buck, about to climb a
fence. A scuffle ensued, shots
were fired and Weatherholt
stunfbled out to the street with
three bullets in his body, one
from his own service revolv-
er. He died in Akron City Hoe-
pital a short time later.
Buck, severely wounded, was
grabbed by police as he knelt
on the ground, with Weath-
erholt’s revolver in his hand:
At the time Weatherholt was
drawing a bi-weekly salary of
$159.57 to support his wife and
infant son.
Between thelr two jobs,
Buck and his wife were mak-
Ing $171.50 per week, more
than Weatherholt made in two
weeks,
- Looking back on that night,
ecution date.
Buck's only comment was,
-Ronald' G. Fenton, ex-
ecu June 1 for the sex-
slaying for pense. Joanne
Starcher, -'°: .
| “They ae _play_ carfis!
regularly,” the Rev, Mr. Den-
ton said, “then whén I would|4
call to Visit, we would hold a
three-man prayer meeting. I
am .convinced that both mén
died with Christ in their
hearts.”
For. some months, Buck
wrote frequ and informa-
tive letters Denton and
members of his staff. He al-
ways signed them, “Love in
Christ.” —
At the Rev. Mr Denton’s
urging, he read and re-read
“Dear and Glorious Physl-
clan,” the life of St. Luke. He
also was fond of the 9Qist
Psalm and read it regularly. —
It gave him the splritual
strength to tell Denton, “I
didn’t intentionally kill that
officer. Y am truly sorry in
my heart. God knows this and
JI feet that ‘He, has forgiven
the companionship of a prison}
treasurer,
ings which
which had be
Ake:
on Wednes@y i
tion whs taliey
had not
quately. eH
Delegate § 4.4
synod will
God only knows.
Muskin quid ;
Concord.
1
WASHINGTON, COUNTY, -OHIO
1=30#1978
Hon, Richard D, Ellis,
. Sheriff of wasthington County,
Marietta, Ohio ):5750,
Sheriff ¥llis:
In February, we corresponded concerning my research
on Capital Punishment in our country and, at that
time, you informed me that you did not know of any
legal executions that might have occurred in your
county.
I have now confirmed thet a 38eyearsold whiteman named
Hanson Bumgardner was hanced at Marietta on Feb, 15,
1867, for the robbery and murder of John T, Ewbanks
in the preceding September,
I am providing you with this information incase you
should have further inouiries, If you should ron
across any other legal hangings in your County, please
let me know, Just the names and the daves would be
sufficient,
‘ith best wishés, I am,
Respectfully yours,
PHONE 373-2833, AREA CODE 614
WASHINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF
MARIETTA, OHIO 45750
RADIO KQH-450
RICHARD D. ELLIS, SHERIFF
February 17, 1977
Watt Espy, Jr.
Box 67
Headland, Ala. 36345
Dear Sir:
We have researched our dockets and can find no documented evidence
of anyone having been hung in this County. However, the story is
told that there was one hanging held for a man accused of stealing
a horse. This may have occurred before any permanent records were
kept.
We will keep trying to find out what we can and if we obtain any
further information we will write you.
Sincerely,
Liew th Cla
RICHARD D. ELLIS, SHERIFF
RDE/mm. 3
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RECORD Fett Or wy thawgh if les third Gusta back +fRYhA Fo TRLG
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7 oF ’ id
7
4, LD Reel tithe Big A. acke h Ckeo, Miseriaintal ber Uy ILlAre Hwa Ducalhe
pki tlle Kheking ler ukired Joie, (ied linge chat abet belly
7
Ce reerndig of tsfcaslion sapssealial Cipetr A perils EC lowe Make Mle
Aesth fe x A faLa tte a haiud oly cet fi Alsen
of ee en B Seccatornr Wkly ke los thls “ £0 huadus Lanan’
7 7 rd A
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“UY
Aan, Lind Lezagdjeld inboard ; Aaah LB hrode thes lpere,
Nakiteset Ubl Le. Sang If ZZ Si (#84 t
FRANK NEWTON OFFICE SUPPLY-DOTHAN Oo
wi sila
He did not explain why ,
-»»— Widowed mother. war
with the problem of fixing up
is house, but suffering ‘from
a lack of funds,
e«?
~ poING WHAT seemed by
now to come natufal, he broke
into a warehouse to bepeastees
ing materials,
‘Caught, he was. sentenced
_ to six months by a jury on
April 1, 1959. The judge pulled
the surprise of Buck’s young
life when he added another
alx mouihg to tha sentence
when ciloers testified that
Buck's auto was seen parked
hear.a paraze fro:a where a
quantliy of tyes were gtolen.
-- Freé on borid pe.:ding an ap
peal for probation, he was
fired by the markct where he
~ had working, but rellred
at another market at $0 a
-- -4~week more than be — been
_making.
“=== He worked hard ak ‘. recat te
aie and was- promised: the
stora man2gership upon the
“= =fortheomiry retirement of tie
“= presenti. tage. -
After al:...t two months he
" got anothe. raise, wad Uslags}
were lookl...; up. a
But, on Lay <i, Bre 9, a
Saad yuo ja tused down
- his agpeal voy probutilos, aad
Buck wus sat to the” Tew
jdeya Comreuniags”
ducted in Columb
by the Ohlo Citizens’ Council
for Health and Welfare. ____
The affair was planned by
& committee headed by Jack
W. Murray, director of Public
Relations for the United Fund
of Summit County, Murray
also will chair a: panel dis-
cussion on the clinic’s theme,
“A.case for Adequate Giving.”
Serving. as keynoter and
moderator of the panel will be
Douglas H. Worth, executive
aacretary of the United Fund
of Cent-el Stark County. Carl
Warmt:.;ton, exccutive dire¢
tor of tue United Community
will seive ag @ panelist. -
Robert Gilmore, . executive
Chest of Massiiion and west-
eru Staci County, will lead a
group Givcuasion on campaign
and puble relations problems.
Ask Wlethodista—
LAKFS(IDE (7%) — The
North-East Ohio Methodist
Com :rence hes ‘usked {ta 600
cor ;eyations to _Btudy fn
Chclstian answer to It. +
Wend tensisns will not be
settied Law eingle uct or brict
nasice Sisie chain gary.
. e
“| CAanys insta to deterivel
_ how tercitle that) waa," he |;
v, wald. “Che guards got away |
. With murder... “beating Ls Con.
omni vely. * :
hey, by ecanrast” te ward, |
‘ speas.! ug of Olio Pemtentiary, |
Jota cus very nice. No one here
“has i: Much ad reived his
na. ”
a ll -plom! ber, oe J,
period of thraz, ihe Canierence
gaht Fricuy fin maktig ftal -
plea. Ik urged Studisa 7 Cou
penta: waa’ “pos! nat preccors, !
UbP Altus @ yeudte te te Cou
PMS SNe us Role.
anison fa ota velo. famus.”
EOeyetea at the acoousl
fereiwe aviopied « B0060. J
Mud et Tur the com‘ag yeer--
(hy Ve
Council of Sumault Coynty,| -
director of the Commurity| -
Sindy Red Way-|
and thef™ -
BLA a ore than’ tab yc ars
buds oT 4 Medd bs VG at
eo
ie Greta if "as ae: Seiatieieesil a Cn ee Me itipey
AAP eee Bs Deere Rs Be be ere eR BE. |
.
- ‘ wee em
Ad .
os a i J 10
7z "i biaee a
ait Yu eo are seid a
rt oh Shee hk a Sy one of
me
any a bao 5.15
i jal aniacdliiig «pipet ade SA:
Mea}
ia
a.
}
DEFICIENCY |
"REASON FOR FOR ACTION
|sous Ba. Not Called On As
Ee rate Is Much »
‘Tdiers, instead of 383, to Camp’ Sher Bes
‘Tman at Chilliccths on Sunday morn
ing, . The additional 156. sobiiérs Gilfeee
tbe ‘supplied by the “nerth’ Canto
board, which sent out final modil
tion orders to these mén, calling © o
(jsnem to Speedy at the courthouses :
late of che. “sAdhicasl mabe. in @
cease of the city’s 40 per cent of 1%
Tanta: ‘aYe.to be furnished by thee
north ‘district becauee the” dtstr -38
board has certified back to the norte:
board seréral hundred men in exceges
of. 40 per Cent of tte quota: “while >
Phaa certified to the south board ones)
cin excess of tts. 40 per cere
altho ‘the soath doard has ceri
Hed tothe district’ board Lestehoe % 5p
names, omeay. geld... “a
ppeals Acted Upon. : ea
The ag ns ‘td Jeate for chit <8
Jeothe Sunday will De: ‘Composed Bey
and: 190 so
Canton: mea. ’
have thel¥ figat orders, :
Phe additions) en° eho save be
called’ in: berndecy” will help A ont
: sensi Or
wuatite r for. servica |
PA rpose of th
ie Egat ea was convicted on a charge ot reckless
Mithe camp for. the driving aod, fned $10 ap phe aes He
to the left of ‘car in
rawas street Bo Mise. Lo Rahs):
iis. war. for. democ }.
I, Charles, white, elec. Ohio (Starke) 2-1-1918,
; Mrs. ‘MeCord, wife of the: company
] AtS Major. General’
quarters the Teport was palther. con
“denied, but various: ‘yest
"| pomery to et Monday for. Mont-
mery to her; husband, * she
tips that at ‘Jean.
wt remain Bs long cs the troopg ara sky fleet would sail here.
Tee compatiion” Gc: of. Steadenvill
“<The regimental colorsiot. the ted-;
Buaday morning, eralized Ohlo militia eo Sone Ui afro
of ' the Tenth | and ©, of Youngstown, are al ‘
‘ } pee: in {after the ‘soldiers bad ‘epent » wake army tén can de takento. France, | were under
te moved. Sunday
donid,” the’ first
tal-might awaiting the eventful bouts. they will be teft behind the bat-|to the New Te
Es oar: on Page Col, 2}. {tle ines. Orders.to this aglect reach- Aater divorced
ed headquarters today. iF o> ‘
ea men: who will,arrtve © eaday |}. sey oh
jas the first increment of | the 40 ‘pet i was
cont quote due this week, promised plana
: to. put aj! of the men inte camp. be: -two or three
Way hy He Had: Gun ti ang sron adr] Settee
pes a Poltee for the men, lights in, cote up, dlan- ines a
be eacamped e{/coste and prohibited from riding his} Jadge Quign Monday when arraign- neta distributed und mess balls ia} +z met Gos
Bema.
will not’ leave for motorcycle for’ $@) days.) by® Polite
ed ona charge of carrying a revol- readiness 5 s lean Hate
other ualts, was |Judge Quinn Monday’ after Faliony! ver that he heard about the Rold-a : ;
Jolonel Charles C. [Dad pleaded guilty to @ speeding jio¢ Actes bis ae iltrnctey toto os Act as 8 busi tee
<i jcharge. Officers testified Faliony wes as Bleventh “street SE Sstafiayl + King, who ¥
’ BIN YELLTD “informed: ine Be
“ imiles,
“tavern Loans, living. near
Sala: Saoee wir @ fine of 8 o end x
Rivet crocs brag Carnes Jet the éngine of his|
“eh. pear rem while we ‘maching was park- ae
stebarnant tes “ft fel and paid'a fine of $1 and costs
g “tNick Joba. C J. Evans, William Over}
new Tenth Ohio: is and RoC. Brown paid foes of $1 and}
ily, "and morally, /costa each for operating. their oa
guard organization | iwith the nraffler open.: The 315 pest ert
We are’ “golng ts | ‘of Will Dan, of Cleysland,’ chargedt
amp’ Sheridan, es-| with apeeding, was forfelted.( 9 ~ >
vee that” have ‘been } ; mera eS Wee
ee ‘Eutopean pag ih
\ tat efficiency
itiien’ initative io
Gf the oMicers ‘and? -,
ni Ohio, T'want tet
; the. people ot east:
‘night and that he dorrowed oe =
rom: his brother, because waa chiet of
jatrete to pasa the sceve of ane nata-| | United Stateaiite
up without any werkes : wronses) \ Wilson often fa
slic missions Bee
; “Two
himself.”
* Capula was. ecrvsted: Detectives , * zi8
P : 7 Means of he
mé@ and she €
which to
her divorce’ f
4 was then per
tawetl, ‘of icentoa: wae. Chis matter >
t of the county ‘com-+ often protest
p the snew influence wh:
ack and the
Tayed. in:
(awa isa Republican ‘and i now | plans. His t
serting: his commis alniost hypno
re “One day
“The: ‘other - _mém bers ot. the new informed me
ALLEGED MURDERER - béard who took nfice Monday are 2: away froni
.TO.DEN GUILT irraak Booth. of Navarre; and M.D. | husband, had!
torney Milton 3. Braucher,cout- | Crowl, for ner. I
regarding the appointment of a clerk! King. teleph
forte board. W. C. Schick, of at al hyatericalty,
ugk a Canada, say!
‘sel tor fistey Burnett, Sr a No action had been taken at nocd’ own busin
{ learned of ‘o
tog and tha
: fer to- pres
‘embers meet at club rooms at 7 “We had
pieioek: tonight ta visit home of Bro. | good friend
. EB. Boyd to pay last pecta.—-| stand thin, |
; At) oblige her.
j Bowever,'3
[DAYS Bot se
55
aie
Hi
+] €gO, election board:
$##*, | of his fate is . there will be no
eaters: Lc esaye Ee Poorman, Desio
om Jia: ef As YORE WT 8a #0 Labor - Day;
fie. 2 i hice em : Stee nigh, D > ‘ “‘Pwent ‘to Clereiand
Pred; retarning iro:
op the: evening pf Sept
pee | TOR thes Thilo wly
« gown «to
‘elpt which he ns
nf Rk Work agd be had
m | clothing auch ashe
if be were planning
:, SHe Sageacted
4 $s; “(Conttnned of
SENATOR B
Ze: ne entering \in
“Neating : a ag
On “Bight Million Dead.”
ete BE ‘
> Dentarrers: were fied and argueo |! !
im police Wednesday tn; the
we
ing (alegrama today. 4) ; ss 2
masiveten lt arson nek ei aa sare
ot
ghee ‘
‘other: dresa and sim
this @ale will be rr
$2.98, $3
ageous new tall’
eold at $4.00. Sp
Aa)
Wh gree
ar nN
Say oe
-“smart™ good: wea
rit, Seith attracti«
~ far wplior coliet
‘ASK FOR er
Sata BPECIAT
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eee. etd ; esas ey
hr SER ANT Bel Sg Ne ee er ee
’
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So Wee a
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BR ES ayn at
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4 ans, AACE oven. 02809, a _
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7
Reh -57) eae
ame Son ohZ 5
t +?
= CANTON, " OHI0, FRIDAY, FE BRU ARY 1/1988. ae
ne togtonte ew find
al
a Guihee. will
tstead Of Col- }
ol Dennis.) «7 -:
sie speiblpnmadabiliciec
LA ABOUT.
Juco oe
‘RICA IN WAR
2ig Flag With
“mblems To
Raised.
oPgS Riley and John
veteran British — off:
“whom batp secon sev-
rrico jin $etauies with
: armies, will arrive
Wridey afterncen to
war j meeting to ho
uditorlunt at & o'clock
these officers has heen}
action and has sean
the closest, most tnti-
‘© aspect. They will
<derer, paid for the murder of Jota
upon America’s part:
var
Realtor chcenetal hee ) volts lastine
Ier oo
"r 3 aro FS.
PLE NGI R EE
f 8 f= “8 ate Bs 7
“éo ae and ba! PS
pty pe Go dee. bes
- oo \s ns a ood ¥-¢ da
“TY Never Cursed You, War
Charles Burnetti
den,”
Before- Paying
Are
Tor Murders
‘With Life At Ohio Penitentiary,
- Charles Burneiti, Canton mur- |
Brien, shortly after . midnight,
Friday morning in the ‘electric
chair at the penitentiary, says ES
special dispaich to the Repository
from Columbus. pitas Ay
Rurnetti went to his ‘doath with
a emilee and showed no iconcefn
whatever, orer his fato. Prison of-!
ficlals said that he/was one of
tho coolest and nerviest mien ets
ever sit-in the chair. — Soe?
Burnett's only remark | crhen
asked if he had anything to ray.
was {o assure warden Thomas that
he had. never cursed him. >."
“Tl never said a word against
you, Warden,” ho said, ‘but d have
cursed about every /one elso here,”
They were his le st words. |
i Apply Current Twice.
Two applications of current were
shot threugh his bedy, cach of
‘Ono Minute
and |
tand pic.
at 13:69 o'clock and at 12:106.1-2
o'clock’, Dr. ‘Kramer, prison phyal-
clan, pronounced Burnett! dead.
Burnetti's: only relative to Bed
him during his last day was. a
brother {rom Cleveland. 5
Was Unconcernad. bi
Burnettl. apnpenred unconcerned
over his fate during thé “fast day,
according to prison officials, and
dif not mention cither his crime
or his impending fate: Ho spent
most of the dsy talking over -his
circus experiences, with his broth-
er and prison officials.
For his last mead, ho had fried
chicken, methed potatoes, coffee.
‘Ho was baptised at 8: 30
o'clock by’ Chaplain Reod.
After the electrocution, © the
woman who for 20 years has called
ovor ths phone to know about the
executions, mato her usual query.
When fold it was over, she sald,
ae Words Of
OUAt
QITIAs
Srr3T
A SHRIS
QOPE TaN Ty
ASSORTS!
WHERE
gitr ea
tia iad
ad
TA Rees $t>
She ¢ AINS a8 FER DSee
See Ft"
KES L
crest “Weer
OUR BOYS IN TENTS. —
GERMAN PAPE
GREATER SUNDAY REP.
‘Qeseke Assorted. Soe
‘Agate and Germee Say Style.
Qeatk Advice.
#Peev)s,”
‘Savitg Sear
a
swat Qe ipenGR
iiiaks NothinTowel
2 Coatised Movwte ila.
Stops -Fats.
Rises Ont. to Shovel Sherr,
Fistaion Ensi¢e
“Werst of All Ifell Motes,”
Capterced U. 8. Scamin's Story,
2S SAY mer
Mon Priscs.
The Garden of Gethacarane, |
Resting Flace of Christ.
“Benauedy
SLi¢tie Ms
rem “The Subme
Ian Reere’a Pete
were
rime
tire Series.
Wesker Yess 23”
By Frank Cendsa.
. “Tom Ineeyward’s Treasure.”
- *RNepsig?: 9 ‘|
A Birsierions Searies
@a the Wigh See <
By fullen Liniey.
4
Pheto na Cigtercd Dy Allica.* :
'ee- Closaly Watching, :
motes a fine Weirer™ :
RTine,**
a
sad IN TIUN. PRISON,
ED
snot >
3
ae}
«
“Mournizg Carried te Viacesa.”
Rere Gems to Save Badies..
Feeriess Youths Threrg
‘Rawhke ef Acropisce Heroes.
‘Captured Boche Fortress,
German Prison Starvation. .
Italy Tesk From Austrfa.
Aerepiane Fight to Fists...
oe
ry
*
x
-etrikors,
information’ iComi
nse Of The K:
eee
” Policeman, Inju
5 . Strikers. |
London, Feb. 1 pare
bla. y-—- Little | fresh. info
the strike movement: b
had come through ‘toda
tually all. the news in- u
| papers here had_ deen”
transmission.. Nene. ‘ors
newspapers of. “Wednesc
‘has arrived | 4n_ ‘Amst
several of them. are ng
owing to strikes: among
pores. i aes
Delegates. “represen
avcording to 4
reehinan
Poe Seer ere
oe aa Toy Qalimteentess
asa site ee oe alae
§ cnmM:
CAaTing
gitevuobs startel |
, uth Ker cwler, Anna sich
} Cochevour, I
1 Wlandt,
,Jiuth
than
Oliva
|} kmily
“Crs,
ilinued From Page
MDMA BREA we
Untied ver
RTICI >
* OF Fi
we
gays; while |:
chairn man of}
Oborimier,
department, reported | j
articlen-. during the “FAME |
R i Pe
‘Summer,
? which
eas chairinan,
y itting articles
incthe past month?
ludes 7.14 esrenters, 600
hi4 wristiots, three
and six hel-
been
~—This j
ight roses
Ai.
Louisville,
aod Wayne’
H. C. Baker,
hat 1224
iimatess
wir auxilfartes,
iu. Hartville,
}
which Mra.
report gar
cea
| iow man,
jedi,
; Marguerite
t Thoma: as
1 J4tdt,
j Ralph
ia
r
85)
t
Seniors And
|
Claccanc far cmt
Ne om ae wo wD ud om iow d
hip During First Half Of
ae eb
a
anatege aN
r of}
2 pu- ,
siser: of
honor, each hav- j
class Was rep-
and the Jun-
post grad-
the Boner 4
aed
2
ae
on
school
with 12 ‘represen-,
w
honor
ret
garet
Barr, Ma-
Connelly, Marie
lois Snyder, ;
Helen Da-
Catherine Iia- |
Teoronski,
Vearson,
safoose, isienn
team, Biartha!
Fannie. Alper, ;
Johnson, Vora Kramer, Heien
Mominuey, Alice McAnancy, Marga-j
ret Primrose, Frances Scheffer, tl- |
Hleidner, Vera: kyman, Pauline?
juntzer, Margaret Wise, Anta Wit-j;
ter, Marvin “erbe, PA acs Sy Bauhof,
Householder, Miigore,
hurtz,
Myrta Reese,
Agnes Mate, Muth Heres.
Portia © ock lit r, (irace
DeWitt, Kilizabcth Dis
Elliott, Miriam Grimes,
Seymour, Alice Stoncbraker,
Witter, CG hester Young, Elden |
Mirdie. Worlock, Gladys |
Bellin, William Giew,
a lotze, Harold Smith,
Mildred parecer: Helen Byans, Wilda}
(yreaser, Florence Hobroé/, Zella Carl,
su Fin
Hate,
Hruea Inameond,
. ex xiistier, Grace
Mitdred . Beudio Mildred
‘Low
Helen
Helen
John
(aronne
| Hilda Stahl, Margaret Haz Alice Dav-
ison,
Jah
Lucile Hagy, Paul Lamiell, Beu-
Summers, Moris Smith, Camille
Richard Buchman, Grace
Ditty, Waciie FHalbritter, Florence
Rauch, Irwin Volts, Sara ike, Vada
Moyer, Marian Crey, Alice Schwarn, |
lsonald Bestuumont, Cleo Black, Louise!
Bolger, Charies Cocklin, Bernice
Coffman,.._Issia. Gobn, Evalyn
Ross. Bliwood. Lorin Ferrall, Florroce }
David; Hopkins, Katie- Hopkins, |
Harley Jacob, Pearl Kasserman, Lu-!
cile Locker, Margaret Loliger, Gladys!
Mitgsel, Fisther Neal, Besste” Riley, !
Sebneider, Pearl » Sheppard,|
Tinkler,: Helen Uhte, Har-!
Hilda Welty, Lucille Worley, |
Adkins, Hilda Herbruck
Mranres
riet Uth
Gladys
Stump, Sie cho
Lmorn
made
{
; de
‘lent
|e
purr; through
+3
CANTON MAN PASS
oe
PENALTY FOR CRIME
bak him, poor soul”
ody was not claimed
and it will bs buried
cemetery at Colambus
&
G
CirAl © TEI
BbUu a Bs
—
Sav ce Libs Ry et
J ereruawe
®
oo *
renanir: Wry
t+ sa avy
rwcod h2
fey
feb aaid bat
according to Deputy
Cathon, who . with
Manderbaugh and William A.
to Canton Friday
he stato capital
the electro-~
ne
us
fram
oa sai
Burnetli, according
maintaine
sai seats
a attitude
that
at
d the same in-
the hour of
all his ac-
time of bis con-
Ta
ath
here
viction.
‘‘Leave me spit ou
was one of the last
before he met
red.
The de
as it
Sam
Dee ee = 3
r
hia
ae
ath chamber was
was possible to imagin
_preeeding tho.’ E dlectigsue
tion,” Ceathon sald.
of the chair and tho straining. o
the straps that bound Burnett!
the electric chair at the thme cur-
rent was sent through his — body,
lwere the only sounds that’ pene-
trated the stillness:
.The convicted murderer emitted
a peculiar groan. 43 the
application of current surged |
his bodFy they sald) The!
electrocutioner and one other at-
tendant were ullowed on, the plat-
form on which. the chair Was lo-
cated, it was said.
&38
in Common Pleas
Jane. He bad deza ta
coll at Columbas for four moanths.jed Als esate
tag-trite
Tho appeants’ court, the stats hoard
of clemency and Governor Cox re
fused to interfere with the lower
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COLUMBUS, May 23—(AP)=m
A Canton killer who spent hip
last, hours praying for four of his
brothers serving terms ‘In Ohio
{Penitentiary went calmly to his,
execution Friday night, 4. |
‘He was John 3. Burson, =4, who;
killed Ellsworth Ruch Jr. during:
& terror spree July 3, 1943.) 0 -
Burson appeared composed 33}
guards strapped him in the elecs!
trle chair. He wea pronounced
dead at 8:12 Prison officials
a. ta 3.5 . ;
gai the “grapevine” informed the
oa
:
brothers of Burson’s execution
2o0n after witnesses left the death
eee
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house.
The condemned/man
last days in religious
with the Rev. Fr C.
Catholle chaplain. Ne preyed for
the four brothers who visited kim
in death row and for his mother,
wae didn't, ae aes
ios Ghreatened. To Kn |
. Burson’s final brush with the
al
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moe th f
meditation;
his wife. HHe.went to the Genoa
home -where she wns staying.)
Pointing @ pistol, he lined up his
wile, her friends and neighbora/
with same children in front of a
garage ‘and threstened to kill
A man who protested shooting
‘ets pumped - into Un!
before the children got four bul-
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BUTLER, Betty, black, 25, elec, Ohio (Hamilton) 6-12-1954,
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT DATA SHEET
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NAME: Tet, Tha Ver Counous DOrspercl,
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SEX) Sem oate.
OFFENSE: \O edhe
_ DATE EXECUTED: > —~e_ LE WASY
AGE: AS +) 2G | ACL AEE ANAL
_ VICTIM
NAME: Evedky.. Cria-«
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F OURTEEN murderers await th:
ei to death tn'the electric chair
at th Penitemtiary, The aret is con.
demned té die Feb. 34. and the tast
May 5.7 —-
Twe'are, scheduled
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other? are. doomed
and ao -maore are.
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““EHE-WAGES OF-SIN_IS
cCuttors in-ttet dares,
HERE is a lesson for Youth tn
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alsa form Middle Age.—for all men.
* Crime. May seem alluring from a
distance. hit the reward of ¢rime
's disgrace Ane death
Some of thise
thing, =
Doyle.
ing Jobn W.
: Welter Vridhé Sames Conwell
after Thursday midnight—for kill.
Newman and Louise
WALTER WRIGHT. 28. of Steu-
benville, will die on-the same night
as Bland for > Kling | Marry Cum.
eray Jw. C. Sty ead W. OK. Fanner ;
14 TO DIE
T2.8 -{
tw Joli;
rhe.
Dayroidl robbers at Cevetan?}
stl, 1920.
EDWARD MOFFETT, o%, af
Akron. will die Murch 24 for the
murder of his wife.
GEORGE BUSH, 28. negro of
Youngstown. will die Apru t. fur the
murder of Lucia Les.
-“STRVR. MAYFGEREY.- we Me eente,
23. of Youngstown, wij doa Apr.tl4,
for the murder of Steta Kern.
aoe
oy
of
offakd
road Detectives Lewis Schroeder
and. Augustus Leng. —~--—-——~ -—
BAMUCEL PURPERA of Clevelanil
JAMES CONWELIL 72. negra ef
Columbus, will go to the chur Aprt!
20 for kiling Mrs. Georgia Watson
April 2 1921. Canwest; ald Kile}
Amanda Paxton int... came erime.
CHARLES MARKOVITCH, 36, #f
Youngrtown, will cie April 2! far
compticiry in the murder ar Stevta
Korn.
the Ufe he has forteite, ARTHUR HARDING, 38, negro, | Mins. SS. ‘s perhaps the most Intereating tn. Pritt de Aa = ta: pan
y, of Toledo, will be etectricute n the : ° PLERIAS& negro, of |. : : sevelund will die ¢ io2v far pare
Jealousy, ne and ie aboingee: 1 ectricuted on a — bh ent awe ee iMate of ¢t SE See I Ne ea ciecctein—withe- thetmecd erro =
Seven of these condem ed aa on, Murder vl Mulicemig abet am H.}uhe murder of a colored girl, treme youth He wiil not be AT] the Sty-Fanner murdere t
Women =e EN Killa | UEC meee eee. ; Net. 16 chant Feb. 22, and he Waal” JOHN VAIDEN, s€, negra, of Ca
ROY. CHAMRBIIN aged 27, of — spy. . : _ ' JOUN BURKE, “pilis MeCuire, | noe 16 when the murder for which lumbus, will ie MAY 3 fer tie mute
Partaaectr war : - heal od =. - HARRY LLAND. 2s. of Pumicro -122. uf Toledo, will gatto the chalr [he wili dfe was ‘committed. He tx der of Charles D. Raker, a totum.
Pres moral & ° © chair Will die March V for the murder fien the same night with Tyler for sentenced to meet death. on March | tae MeUrence Collector, Jee It. 3
G&—jJuat a few minutes [George W «tshinxton IK egle. Participating in the murder of Ran-110 for complicity in the murder of | 1923. :
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Byrd’s time Mi
to die
ho
By Spencer Hunt
Enquirer Columbus Bureau
COLUMBUS ~- John W.
Byrd Jr. lost 11 hours of life
Tuesday when Ohio prison
officials decided to: execute
him in the morning of Sept.
12 instead of at night.
As his public defenders di-
gested that bit of bad news,
they got a second helping
from Ohio’s First District
Court of Appeals in Cincin-
nati.
The court rejected 3-0
Mr: Byrd’s claim of “actual
innocence,” calling it unbe-
levable and ruling his law-
yers filed it too late.
Mr. Byrd’s last hope to
halt his execution hangs on
accomplice John Brewer,
who has confessed to stab-
bing Colerain Township con-
venience store clerk Monte
Tewksbury during a 1983
robbery. A Hamilton County
jury sent Mr. Byrd to death
row, believing he was the
man who held the knife.
The Ohio Public Defender
will take Mr. Byrd’s innocent
plea to the Ohio Supreme
Court, filing an appeal as
early as today. Attorney
Greg Meyers also objected
to the decision moving Mr.
Byrd’s Sept. 12 execution
from 9 p.m. to 10 a.m.
“They’re trying to make
this the mundane business of
death,” Mr. Meyers said.
“After breakfast and before
lunch, let’s get this done.”
Prison officials say it’s a
set 11
| Say morning
Jexecutions
| cut down staff
overtime and
Byrd related costs.
The Ohio
Department of Rehabilitation
and Corrections says it spent
$11,137 in overtime on two
failed attempts to execute
condemned killer Jay D.
Scott. It paid another $3,192
in overtime when it executed
Mr. Scott June 14.
“Some of those costs do
not occur if we do this during
the day,’’ said agency
spokeswoman Andrea Dean.
Morning executions might
also prevent the kinds. of
last-minute stays of execu-
tion Mr. Scott’s attorneys
were able to win. Courts
stopped Mr. Scott’s sched-
uled April 17 and May 15
executions with only minutes
to spare to allow more time
to weigh his sanity.
Mr. Meyers speculated
the time change may be an
attempt to get judges to ac-
cept or reject all appeals one
day before executions take
place.
*“T think it insulates those
in favor of John’s death from
that last full day of litiga-
tion,” he said. “We’ve now
lost that court work time.”
No one denies the agency
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Train Hits Taxi
(Special—Robert E, Preyer,
29,-was fatally injured today}
when “his: taxicab Was “struck
by—a —freight- train -at--the
{South St, crossing.<) 252")
_He had been emplosed two
peas Hive: “cents: - pea Amiga tee aes
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s cia AE — 5 prea sy. _KOGCETHS SENSO} Sas ee
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‘lestimated $7. mi*
ported Saturday;
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C: Neal, Inc., i,
The -salewas3!
burgh, Allen sai}
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Pittsburgh busi: ¢
THE TRANSA?t
also invalved _s!
burgh’ real e-
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of a foot might 3
he -idez of apalking”: see
stage. of writing is called
raphic (“idea writing’). ~ =
Weeks as a Cab Griver. Prever
was the son of the “Rev. and
est of its kind!
Twelve corpor? ' ,
Mrs. Dee Schubert. =
volved, nine in:
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bones one bottle of |
aH, you are realty ooking
2a writing today!
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gh. dt-eouls: be® ‘inter =f
fone ferent wy by > §
={B—A man identified by po}
— \. Jice as the gunman whe killed
ic Patrolman Edmund. Smith, 38,
in” Wellington, in sout thern
2_Larain County, today was. cap-,
tured shortly after the shoot-
‘ing when he wrecked his car
12: on a side road near Pittsfield.|“
= ‘Before surrendering, the
“man, ‘identified as Walter
Byori of Cleveland, fired a
7 wild shot. at “Oberlin Police:
; man 10.
—— Byomin, “40, “admitted the
2 ‘shoot ing,’ ‘Sheriff. Yernon M.
[\Smith said. ~: <- ~
Smith -was - killed safter: he
oj ehased Byomin’ s-car through
—~- Wellington, ‘according to
ws Mayor Ralph Gray of Welling-
\ ton. Byomin “fled from the
home of William Konicek Sr.,
awhen the -efficer.-arrived to,
Fire ‘Hits: Home-
NEWARK, OHTO2MAY ha
(Speciai—Fire damaged the
farm home of Stanley’P. Gar-
rabrant one fourth of a mile|
west of Utica Saturday.after-!
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“™HE TALL, biond youth hoisted him-
1 self on a stool at the soda fountain
a
4 in Howard J. Lawson’s drugstore at
Courtland and Franklin Avenues in Nor--
wood, O. “I’ll take a coke,” he said. It
was 10:30 P.M. on Wednesday, July 8,
1942.
Ordinarily. the customer would have
“excited no particular attention. But the
arrival of this chap was different. He
answered the description of a man who
was not entirely unexpected, and he acted
according to pattern,
In the drugstore’s back room was Ser-
geant Anthony H. Overberg of the Nor-
wood police, one of ten members of the
force posted in stores throughout the city
with orders to halt a “one-man crime
wave.”
Was the lone wolf bandit about to
strike again?
Lawson feared so as he filled the order.
Three other customers became obviously
ill at ease. .
M. H. Burroughs, an old friend of. the
druggist, was behind the counter rinsing
glasses. His wife sat on a stool at the
end of the fountain farthest from the new
arrival. Joseph Coos, a building con-
tractor, was standing near the cigar case.
All kept eyeing the youth apprehen-
sively, noting that he was inspecting the
HE CARRIED a gun which he had
_named “Tony” after a man he’d mur-
dered. Now Frank D. Carter faces
a possible death penalty in Ohio.
drugstore carefully over the top of his
glass. .
He slid from the stool, his eyes narrow-
ing. A black. 45-caliber automatic pistol
suddenly appeared in his hand. “Keep
quiet !”.he growled.
Lawson froze. Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs
shifted their eyes to the back of the store,
where Overberg sat behind a partition,
oblivious to the stickup. A .38-caliber
revolver rested on a shelf within easy
reach.
With his pistol the bandit motioned
Lawson toward the cash register. “Open
‘er up!” he snapped.
The druggist pressed a key and the
youth began stuffing money into his jacket
pocket.
“You’ve got more,” he snarled. “Where
is it?”
Lawson nodded toward the back room.
“In the safe.”
“Get moving!” came the next order.
The storekeeper began backing toward-
the partition, his hands raised. As he
turned the corner Lawson called out,
“He’s here!”
Sergeant Overberg grabbed his gun
and moved swiftly up behind the druggist.
He thrust the revolver into the robber’s
midriff.
“Put your gun on the counter!” he
- ordered, shoving Lawson aside.
The blond youth was caught totally
unprepared, Raising his left hand, he
obeyed the command. His pistol dropped
on the show case.
- Overberg prodded him toward the front
of the store. Then, in a cat-like whirl
the bandit swept upon Sergeant Tony,
seizing his pistol hand. Although the
officer was big and powerful, his antago-
nist had the advantage of surprise.
The pair wrestled near the prescrip-
- tion counter, knocking over several bot-
tles. The sweetish odor of vanilla filled
the air.
Then a gun roared three times. Mrs.
Burroughs screamed.
The bandit, waving a pistol in front
of him, ran toward the front door un-
molested. Sergeant Overberg, his hands
clutching at his abdomen, swayed momen-
tarily, then plunged to the linoleum-
covered floor,
Lawson ran to the phone to call the
police. Coos turned to the door in time
to see the bandit cross the street and race
in the direction of Allison Avenue.
At headquarters Police Chief Charles
Fritz and a group of his detectives, aug-
mented by several members of the City
Council, sat awaiting the reports of offi-
cers whom Fritz had detailed to drugstore
hideouts.
In six weeks 10 Shathuicies had been
held up by a lone blond bandit, described
as 22 to 25 years old, about five feet
nine inches tall, and weighing around
165 pounds. Always hatless, his dis-
tinguishing feature was a crop of light
brown curly hair combed in pompadour
fashion.
His routine never varied. He bought
a soft drink, sized up the general layout,
then went to work behind the business end
of a large automatic.
Merchants demanded action, and so a
trap was laid for the robber. Policemen
had been hidden in stores since Monday,
and.now on Wednesday night the trap
had been sprung—and had failed.
Chief Fritz was shocked by the drug-
gist’s message.
Within five minutes he, Detectives Lee
Kiley and Joseph Flower, and a number
of uniformed patrolmen were at the scene,
just off Norwood’s downtown district.
Overberg, wounded in the left breast,
left leg and groin, was only partly con-
‘scious when the police surgeon, Dr.
W. H. Ventress, arrived.
“He’s not the fellow we thought he
as,” Sergeant Tony said. This puzzled
"! GOT MY chance, but I guess I failed.“ With
these last words Sergeant Anthony “Tony” Overberg
apologized for letting the bandit escape. A reward
- of $2,000 spurred the long search for his murderer.
“Fritz, who had no idea of the bandit’s
identity. “I got my chance,” Overberg
apologized, “but I guess I failed.” Then
the officer sank into a coma.
eo: hour later Overberg, who was 35,
rried and the father of two small chil-
dren, died in Good Samaritan Hospital.
Half a dozen fellow officers had offered
blood, but a transfusion failed. .
Snes IN the Lawson drugstore Fritz
meanwhile was trying to untangle
the statements of witnesses. After speed-
ing squad car men throughout the city
in search of the killer, the ‘chief discov-
ered that neither Lawson, Mr. and Mrs.
Burroughs nor Coos could tell exactly
what happened. —
Although they insisted the bandit had
laid aside his automatic, this gun was
.found on the floor, one shot discharged.
The ejected shell lay nearby. The slug was
discovered in the partition woodwork.
; No trace of Overberg’s-.38-caliber serv-
A ice pistol was found. When the wit-
nesses agreed his assailant was armed
on leaving the store, Fritz concluded the
» youth had taken the officer’s gun.
Further investigation revealed that
Lawson had unwittingly contributed to
Overberg’s misfortune. He was to have |
left open a small window in the rear
partition through which the sergeant
could observe events in the front part
of the shop,: but through force of habit
the druggist had shut the window only
a few minutes before the holdup.
am Coroner Frank M. Coppock arrived,
lowed by Assistant District Attorney
~oyal S. Martin. By this time the squad
car officers began reporting back. Unable
to find any trace of the bandit in the vi-
cinity, they concluded he had had a car
parked nearby.
Fritz ordered another search for the
sergeant’s revolver, a weapon distinc-
tive in appearance, since it was equipped
with a hand-hewn handle grip fashioned
by Sergeant Harold .Davis, Norwood
armament expert. Another officer, Ser-
geant Oakley Wilson of the ballistics
bureau, had also done work on the
weapon. He had rebuilt the trigger guard.
The investigators could not determine’
whether Overberg had been shot with his
* own gun or the .45 automatic left behind
’ by the bandit.. However, this latter
weapon represented a possible clue. Its
purchase might be traced. There might
be fingerprints. on it. “i :
- Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs and
Coos spent several hours looking over the
files of stickup artists with records, but
gicked out no one as a suspect.
During the night the hunt for the slayer
extended into adjoining Cincinnati, where
groups of detectives combed the city for
the light-haired youth. Although several
young men were held for inspection by ,
the four witnesses of the Overberg crime,
none was identified.
By morning the entire city was aroused.
e council offered a $500 reward for the
Killer, and this was augmented through
private subscription until it reached
$2,000. Sergeant Tony Overberg had
been a popular guardian of the law.
Fritz and his officers, working without
sleep, apparently had exhausted every pos-
sible clue by nightfall. The fingerprint
men came up with nothing, and efforts
"WE'VE RUN INTO something
hot!“ exciaimed Detective Lee
Kiley (right) as a woman fainted
when she faced the investigators.
THEN HE THREATENED A GIRL WHO LEARNED.
THE TRUTH, AND THAT WAS HIS UNDOING!
to run down the sale of the .45 automatic -
in town likewise proved fruitless.
-Dr. Coppock succeeded in removing
three slugs from Overberg’s body, and
. these were determined to have come from
the dead sergeant’s own gun. Chief Fritz
began to fear this weapon had been tossed
into the Ohio River by the killer.
During a roundup of Norwood sus-
pects two squad car officers seized a light-
haired youth who answered the general
- description of the wanted man. He was
brought to headquarters in a flurry of
excitement, placed in a lineup and identi-
fied by the druggist Lawson. The other
witnesses of the Overberg killing’ were
by no means positive he was the right man.
“That's the fellow, all right,” Lawson
insisted. 3 .
Consequently the suspect was held in
jail’ for several hours, but Fritz discov-
ered this youth had an unshatterable alibi
and turned him loose.
Almost everyone
seemed, sought to aid the police. Tips
by the hundreds poured in from its 35,000
residents, and Fritz and his men ran
down every one.
Some of these had to do with light-
haired drivers of speeding cars, and the
. Norwood chief had to call on outside po-
lice agencies in four states to assist him.
NORWOOD, O., POLICEMAN EVADED ARREST.
in. Norwood, it
DETECTIVE Meredith Dockum
(left) discovered the gun taken.
from the victim while searching a
house many miles from Norwood.
On July 10, two days after Overberg’
death, Fritz, Kiley and Flower rushed t
nearby Hamilton and Middletown o1
what seemed to be hot leads.
_In the former town they questioned
17-year-old boy resembling the bandi
who had been seen wearing a_ blood-
stained shirt. He proved, however, tha
the stains had been caused by a nosebleed
and he was exonerated. we
At Middletown the Norwood officers in
vestigated the recent ‘sale of a .45-caliber
automatic pistol, but the serial numbers
did not check with the bandit’s gun.
That same day Lieutenant George
Schultz and Patrolman Meredith Dockum,
both of Norwood, rushed to Fort Thomas,
Ky., just across the Ohio River from
Cincinnati, to question a blond soldier
who had been AWOL the night of the
slaying, a:
This suspect had been drinking heavily.
and could furnish no alibi for the tt
of the killing, but Coos, who hurried (@. _
Fort Thomas at the request of the officer: five
shook his head when he viewed the you of
On Saturday Sergeant Overberg w
buried while thousands lined the str
in mourning. :
Sergeant Tony, it was pointed out
his funeral, was the first Norwood o
ever to be killed in line of duty.
acai ;
soe INVESTIGATION marked time
ee sunday, but on the following day
fe open with the possibility that
eh
. .
emote point.
saturday night in Oklahoma City,
wan james A. Long accosted a
‘sasher at the municipal park.
arrest, the youth pulled a .38-cali-
iver, fred four shots and killed
mstantly. :
Sanday the girl involved identified
anover as a blond, curly-haired man
23, around five feet nine or ten
eos tall,
pouris. This so closely tallied with the
P eription of the Norwood killer that
Caahon.a City authorities wired Fritz.
asked for the bullets taken from Long's
jecty.
These were rushed to Norwood by an
Oklahoma officer and given a test by
Fritz’ allisties experts. It was then dis-
«vered that the marks on the slugs did
sot resemble those on the bullets which
dew Overberg. 2 *
That same day a Newport, Ky.; youth
aa stolen car was seized for the Nor-
sood authorities, Detective Flower went
w Newport with Peter Hein, a Norwood
druggist who had also been a victim of
the blond bandit, but the prisoner. was
not the slayer.
On July 14 Detective Chief Emmett D.
Kirgan of Cincinnati seized three men in
an auto bearing Oklahoma license plates.
None of them had a good reason for
being in the vicinity of Cincinnati, so
Kirgan held them for Fritz.
The Norwood chief and Flower took
the Lawson drugstore killing witnesses to
view the youths, but none of the three
was picked out as the slayer. Turned
over. to the. Oklahoma City authorities,
THE DESPERADO’S bullets orphaned
these little girls and left Mrs. Over-
berg a widow. The sergeant was the
first policeman to be killed in line
of duty in the suburb of Cincinnati.
». siayer had struck again—and -
and weighing approximately-
these men later were exonerated in the
killing of Patrolman Long.
As the days went by and no further
leads were discovered, Chief Fritz pre-
pared circulars containing the bandit’s
description for circulation to police de-
partments throughout the country, start-
ing with the Midwest.
He urged all police heads to check
their criminal files for former prisoners
who might resemble the Norwood killer
and to forward to him photographs that
might be shown to the witnesses. .
He contacted the manufacturer of the
45-caliber automatic, who checked his
records and found that the pistol had
been shipped to a Cincinnati retailer. The
dealer gave Kiley and Flower the name
of the purchaser, but this man, a plant
guard of excellent reputation, said the
weapon had been stolen from him. He
had reported its loss several months
before. .
As this clue petered out, Fritz next
sent a description of Sergeant Overberg’s
missing revolver to various -ballistics -de-
partments, requesting that a watch be
kept for it if and when any armed sus-
pects were arrested.
The Norwood chief also dispatched offi-
cers to comb the pawnshops and gun
stores in Norwood and Cincinnati on
the chance the killer might have hocked
or sold the stolen weapon, but nothing
came of this.
Suspects were picked up in Ohio, Ken-
tucky and other nearby states. Fritz, his
detectives and the witnesses journeyed
hundreds of miles in the next three weeks
and viewed all the prisoners, but could
single out none of them as the Overberg
killer.
Nor were there any more robberies
in the Norwood-Cincinnati area in which
IN COURT Carter and his young
wife embraced. She told police of
his crime career and was held as a:
material witness. Two indictments
were returned against the slayer.
‘the perpetrator remotely resembled Ser-
geant Tony’s slayer. Whether he was
temporarily lying low or had gone into
permanent retirement as a stickup artist,
Fritz didn’t know. But he kept hoping a
false sense of security might lure the
- youth into the open again.
Then on August 20, six weeks after the
Norwood murder, the police of New
Philadelphia, O., a city of 12,000 in the
-eastern part of the state, flashed a report
to Fritz.
“They had arrested Ralph Straka, a
bandit wanted in their section of the coun-
try, after he had shot at and attempted
‘to kill a railroad detective who surprised
him in the act of robbery. :
The man resembled the Norwood
killer, and he had been carrying a 38
revolver when seized. Fritz did. con-
siderable telephoning before undertaking
the trip; however, finally convinced that
Straka could be his man, he, Flower and
Hein journeyed across the state to view
him. Again the trip was fruitless.
The year 1942 slipped by, but the Nor-
wood police did not forget. Using a
half dozen of his best detectives almost
incessantly, Fritz kept plugging away,
hoping for a break. r
It was not until February 23, 1943,
that-he got what promised to be one.
From Asheville, N. C., Sheriff Guy
-Robers telephoned the Cincinnati police
that he was holding John Hembree, alias
John David, 21, on auto theft charges.
‘The youth, according to Robers’ informa-
tion, had allegedly confessed to a woman
friend that he had killed a policeman
in Cincinnati in 1942.
Fritz took Flower and Hein with him
on the long jaunt to Asheville. On arriv-
ing, they learned the authorities had .
picked up (Continued on page 56)
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“| WENT TO THE movies that
night.” said Mrs. Linna L. Carter.
“Frank left me, saying. Tm going
to knock off a couple of suckers.’ ”
Later he told her of the gunfight.
ounty) on Nov. 8, 1915.
San Oe ater at ial
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to identify. Chief C. W. Fritz (left)
and Mayor Frank J. Ward examine gun.
