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HOBBS, William, 34, electBocuted Ohio, Zb6-SGFE

"POLICE OFFICER, OFF DUTY, 15 SLAIN PROBING ROBBERY, - Hamiton, Ohio,
-April le - (AP} - Patrolman Arthur G. Sponsel, 36, died today making an
investigation while off duty. His body, with a bullet through hbke heart,
was found .efore dawn in a parking lot at the Niles Tool Works Co, on
Third street, His service pistol and flashlight lay four feet away. Hhe
pistol had been fired three times, but Sponsel has been shot only once,
Police said it appeared that Sponsel found robberys stripp@ng cars in the
lot, that the thugs set upon hiim, took his service pistol and skilled him
during the struggle,"

DISPATCH, Columbus, Ohio, April 12, 1937.

" "POLICEMAN' S SLAYER TO DIE IN CHAIR TONIGHT. William Hobbs, slayer of a
Hamilton policeman, will die in the electric chair at Ohio Penitenhiary
Wednesday nighttunless executive clemency is extended by Gov Martin QO,

Davey. His plea for clemency probably will be denied. Hobbs lost his

last hope for a new trial in the supremé court late Tuesday when an
application for a new hearing wasrejected, His attovneys had already filed
an application for clemency with the governor, The death sentence was pro- _
nounced on Hobbs’ conviction on a charge of slaying Arthur Sp6nsel, Ham- |
ilton policeman, during at attempted burglary. The body of the officer,
killed April 13, 1937, was found on a vacant lot a short timm after he went
off duty." DISPATCH, Columbus, Ohio, July 6, 1938,

OWN LETTERS, _

MILT STUBBS -

ne lhe a darn. see

the &lng, admitted, having: un?
by Hebheet Cramer sand : EL nit]

oaion cate 1 can elear up. the Jahan.
~ tien regarding the gaps.

Fred CUrgmer, whe web WoC
Shesberd represented the iheoned

“man under court eqfeititraent, ant

Bounced at neon that he wanda com 5
tinue he tarht to eave the groorer.

t hazardons miles from fivcen, Jostts,

L ‘tah, hut failed to de auc

The Assure iafed Pres, m. ate ain
patel tulas save - 2

i FOS. Andersen: af hee v nited

Cramer, alter he: ug. ant: arma. 1 that belles: Birena af Geeleecieal Survey.

the governor was in Clevetas-t ane
would net retarn te the eagica’ ane
til the evening. told a Jourual-
“News reporter. that he planuet taz

po te Columims and mahe a ea©

Mart papsrent se er

Ontlines Appeal es i

The attoney eat thar be emad 3

urce a dAV SLAY of execatioy on
the sruard that he demired fo have’
halletie evortia examine the peal)
mitt, witch the state charges Hebbs
unet to RD the Sottieer rRNEL,
ainted that altheush beliate ¢a-

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é
{

< perts examined the plete! ‘at theres
“quest af Hoesiiton policed, mer cenort

ef their finding Was Se srmilisd Lo ma

“st ; a
as far stenig te yeeint a4 tea: the hws
erie? Shalt Chatien NVincunt Woe,
Whe was with Petbs spin

of the same calilireé ag ths!
t
ah the yovernar ta slay che ofc
4
Wray Bev ans, legal plyt-or a “her :
governor. whe nande: the formal:
anneuLee mest ‘of. the eave iuat ts -dees
Lcemsior, enid that the parce. board}

“a net helece Hebbs was foo ‘drunk

a what he was dangles

~. eauee he was sober eneagh te Tet
omegver where! he Wht the run. het
Wan domi at Vie Sime: ol She se

res +
. and three cousine “who thd ror ie:

close their~ identity to reporters pe Nes Wiamilton, whe wan injured

othe tact fiat Hobbs hak

“at the’ time nt the k dng. ee hare

* Recalled Pistol Cac
Becuns said that, boat

going to. the heme? of. Ros f

_hefore the KJbng and {hep that he-

owas éeroencuch ti knew w

- der, Le
A eister of athe (pe senet, obo”

Gambrell,: 29) Race street Tamils
ton, in compan’ with anvther ester

~eonveved the news of the governor's
decision: to the condemned mans;
Thoy were informed of the decision *
when they visited the governor 'enf-

+. fiee this morsing with the inte

“of making a furthe rf plea in ek i
of Habbe, ie é

: are: expected. to-return to ‘the FTeON | 3

chamber...

- and this namber ia expected ‘to he?

: Batler county, :told Woodard he

maser: including. prison offieinle,

bite eaid that bis office: would:
ted:

- The five: Mie hoe sae mathe
Hobbs throughout the morning and!
‘ytald: pricon” “officals that they}
_ planged a sec: and vient ta the, wov-

_ -ernor’s offive later in the day: They

. for a final. sood- bee shortly ef fore
the prisoner 33 taker into $

« Permit 13 “Witnesses

EC Woodard, warden. hes it nia.
” tively act the vexer ation. fer 7-304
o'elock this evening.” Thirtess wits

rds and -newepapenmen are per-
mitted to witness exeentione in thio

t: Sheriff Charles B. Walke, :

nned to attend- with - Deputy

£ John Cleaver”. They’ wsi: bel
‘seeotapanied ‘by & representative o
be Hamilten: Paral Mewes ‘Paal:

na ‘Baden. Batler consty. prosecator.
obtained. the ~ convietion. of

Hobbs ‘was found guilty’ of the
geass! Garier by: a jery: on Juse

¥ reckae.*

statien, samt he belisved the un-

Susaelly high water of the, Colerade

forced greater @rution. and probably
retarde? the three tires baats. He
stinater it wht he July 3 when
the Kreap. arrives and he and hia:
e@repanem, AD. Piro, pondered
th. proosethe: hay of Ashine co fur 8

oe ig aarplane jf there i ne

sign of thecexperdiia: by then,
Airliners Search

the feature: at ‘the:
tilnce "last: nigh 4
atified the noon throug :
teipacope.. Kobert McCloskey. :
mer, leader, visited” ‘the:
"aet night and pave a short 3
towing the evening. megs. ©
The foliowing. cabin aan

SACO Les Angee oa WAR ano i
j

cnonceed four TOW AL tie an + Baily.

witaled slevinte tha allie nhte 25 miles A;
i from they routes while pelvta look |

ter the missing parts in the esp van:

“The Celornde river vis flow mg ¢ <-
TO6GN. peossd feet, the fighret im z
ue vents. amd th:~ caused veteran ¢
i roenien , to eXpresn srave dasht)

i far the succesg. of the” trip over he-

fore it started.
* Norman D, Nev! fty the leader. ;

declared the tach water would help.

‘gather than’ hinder’ the passaze

‘over valaras {3 hetween Apile- hiagh

Péauvon watts, -The entire region is ,

Sane ot tig staat cistdated= in the
United States, wih re bebitations '
thetween fe sre and Greed River.
ea cheering sin is that Ander-
Poon and Hansin, keepin a elise }.
watch’ on he nniker, have - _ seen no.

m4 SS ge

| ea Mrs. Roemer Sues

for: hte resolver ontv. a fort time

~ On Injury Claim |

Mer dilomabile eatin an feat Anal

a on The PErnelale ; am she, nen;
iS hos eressine resulted Wat

in the fv of two suite,?

*tutalang $5,350, in semimon: pleas
“identified. ke melt Pea ee peels $5.5 nm }

enurts ugainst Noe marly, 7284
irele: avenue, Cinejunatin®
Mere Altes. Roemer, 731. eS vines

an the aeeident, asks . damages ef
#5.000 and -her-hisbamd, Ernest Ree
inte, sivks $3009 for joes of

ee gers? TPS and $350: for’ damel :

x tothe car, - ; ;
‘Both anits charge that Farle, who,

PWG driving southward, sweryed
oyer inte the™ northbound: ‘traffie}.

Idhe and struck the ear operated by
i Mrs Roemer... She - contends ghe
‘suffered a fracture -of her left foot,
conenssions, and shock

a ne an en

GRANT REV. VOLLBRECHT
LEAVE OF ABSENCE

AL a vestry meeting in St: Paul's:

“| Evangelical ehuich, ‘Tuesday: night,

‘the pastor, Rec. William Volibreeht,
wae pranted two week. leaveof ab-
Psepee.” Reverend Volibrecht. plans
to -use the’ time oe ry mAcalion? in
Auquat roe tg ee

Hinton i

a ritaplete: lexitation: At ite
carr tomuchi, fur 1h

“North - Th: rd sirent :

pheen sequesyed.

bathe atate hizt

wii¢gh planed ‘te mini

“uyeut fies eumniee-.

The thre veh tare

with finds: Srente. wt

Platie= fur? the:

mare iwst “vear

has heen i:ejed | ra

part trent’. prograyt
Julian: Peston’

of the work les
chances in atihties cannes
prey ‘idinis rughts-of- way

ITALIANS PLAN : :
PICNIC SUND.
© A crangcprite’ Rave ,
ieted hy. the Ttalian « gorie
;Hamicton” tol reveat the
> tram) forits atnua!
July 10, in the Buti
: erode | i The” nienic,
scheduled | tou-
rained out. :

“Fred Loschinta 1s -eeneral ¢

man of the outing. *
Aone PS Gre nti ree

RAY BOWLING CITED
ON FRANK BOYLE'S:
“Rav: Bowling. age 33.
Hamil;on, was arrested W ‘edn
morning hy Patrolmen ”:
Seward and RB, A. Ston

‘Lof breach of peace ani

of Property, brough!.

1 Bovte,. 431. Nozth Fourth
Royle: claimed Bowling: bro
windshield on hie autem ile
December, Rewling wae © rele:
under. $100: bond.’ signed © be.
“Young, R. R. 2, Hanuiton, -
appearance in’ municipal ‘eonrt
orday, July 90 : 3

The” 63 boys attending” the
Children’s © Health™ ‘camp, on

Wilson Hill, gained an average® | :

Jof2 2.4 pounds during their first=-
12 days in camp, - Mins ; Helen.

Grant, aupervising © nucee, ae

ported. Wednesday... 2).

The largest gain, 5.5. eee RE :

: Waphea: ae iL Engene. Youn
ogy 13, was second with « ¢
“of five pounds; Kenneth Ho
“age 1 and Marvin Combs, «
“>, were third with gains ‘of |

- founds cach. Seven other bo
4 gamed tour pounde,: i
» > Camp leaders today. asked f

: donations of magazines, epod

"was. recorged .. by = Samael 4 cont: neneers ang material.

William, white,

*Fournal-N vews. Classified Ads reathe prac} : =
: Pages every one in ) Hamilton a vi eisinitye
. na tee word: - :

REFUSE ums. Scho ig sien

‘Governor Fotiows ‘Out Views | fea
Ot Parole. Board. :

¢eo¢

Thatee Ns fa

When ‘Relatives. cain Word:
‘Finat Plea: Was-in Vain;
One More: ‘Appeal goes

ae Y

“Trenton: One te Party me
- Grand. Cany on Exploration:

tar The: :

"gene tated Tezentie “hee

iat ie Ried peste B. af erage
a

Hod ghine 1 wd
tA
tiniane.

SAE ft bes Sik lew i

= begun ny Js he shown, a

: for. the safety “of
prieve. Pay. Cpietnered Dave
Relatives visit SIRIER of P2-

‘a

i othe: ijrard
pa scpeniifie rigeateh, trip.

riser af. the party of siz ia Miss:

; a gaRL Bamp.—
catemine: Buyesn: Joarnal-Ne

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L865 W iba RISE ste AC ashingteni and 8 ae famong: the: vast ara

Stes. Hine Ehresman *

: fae er? nf”
: : -Ratier

os rents ,.

ca ee

arse the Gee
4 hig © alors: ha riser exped: tion:
me tench Lee's Ferre, Ariz, The

eo Prison rad ids

nounced the® execution -

; easly: tonight as: oe ate i

Hobbs, “informed ofthe over- 3

por's® decision” shortly nelore 10. t
: o'clock, was. reported “resigned fo!
; Guards: said that abe Hite: the: party gathering hetanical
though ‘ke appeared highly nervous, | yepecimens for the University: of
ke. didnot: arem: to, be verging on | Michigans: Thev eapected ta arrive

ye party ie now under Alsensg cn:

Utah. hut farled te de 50,

The: Asaorieted Press in its a
patel todas gevds 55 :
OFS Andersan, af the United |
ataien Burcau.c! (iedqccal Sarvey.

- Grepets Or ebine gatainet that
3 station, sand he believed - the: nn-

> Cleveland. and.

“would not return to fhe caritol an- *

tt the evening, told: 8

“News reporter that ve placned te) petarded the three tiny boste. He

> to Colnmbie and “make a2 \nats j estimated it: mich) he Jaly 4 whee

vee ‘he groan arrive: and be and -bin/.

srpyrsian, Ac J. Hanan, “pondered

: possbtlity 6 -axking for a

rehunge sania if there. 19 .n0-
he expediting by.

“se Outlines Appeal 3
The reat eaid Shah fe - we a
urye-a W-fay

Cansop un Janes he? i

eas of Ernest Jaret

: Foar Ten ane twc women pantie

at Lee's Ferry on July 4, alter:300 1.

hazardous miles fram Green= River,
: riod of: the. AV38: 2

g-| the Hamiton Yo Moc
: Campbell - (ard. ou tue Great Mi-

‘usually high-water ot the Colorada t:.
Suurnsl-} foreed xeeater caution and probably.

the. party whieh =
‘st arted| asen the Colorads. river, —

fehl’ w hent
ted alah:
é : Estimates: Vary |
Estimates. ef Ham one repre: ;
3 Eats an: earied -betwers oi} aad =

: > tiahs

» electrocuted 0,io (Butler) 7-6-1938,

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Seme- pissed 2 ioe hand
te Bhemzeises > Gthesa} 7 :

te Tene! ed titeete, } hall

have their, wave
fearrg) s: Miers: |
feerdy!

- <4 Haken "

pep Dent her spate ba ice
peas ed on ape Sunday.
_ Mayor. Sricet "Actend |

“sere! Fisteile

ene oh Was
by Sagar
Hurke apd City

cs rept TzsE red. >

Bas

ate peTiiae were |

£ Wamitan ;
Uhawhail fene who wire able to reg, |

counts, ‘ barrow: or steal fickets, sini ts ate ms:

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to!

am eae

zany heres 5

“tur fs er ta es bas $ plane of

te;
attend.

Seteral ta. Hamiios: see

Shae, i ‘3
eos beeeh BAN

ae ating “pare hasers
malate ovate,

thaw mosid ase the teckets, "them-t
Stes unless the aseing price was _
mer, tes cans: tg fron. $3 fer ‘ott
er oytend pawiian iwate to #15 fora.
tand pas cberd

mewsahi ity of an uurplane srarch for e

A reereativn jerk one
aul ‘ercond pe
" aAtgeon att

SAD Camp

caf “Woada: fate.’
an fsiep. LOS ‘ee i

amr river; south”
j Fifty-one} hayes at

Faience took +
place «fast night. when campers
étadied: the noon:throuch the cama
t telescove... Robert Metl:akey. a for-
merleader> visited, the eampere =
cleat night and gave-a short talk fol,
jowing the evening: mesic >: ;
p The: following: cabin Ranigaraeste

io LW ard arj-

were ms. Te Tatefey. sore 2
at Ubsrie HH. Kier:

i alis vetor: “and eanize. slendent
“Calin Na oN
{enter Mie rkev ieee
Rosh Rise, der Si Ziman, Dee % Rs
y ald ‘Kineh, Rosbert Ward, Dourlias wees, $3
Sam Madield oc e :
2. faa Lot, eader. | winter 3
John Speeri, = Sam. Spuerl, -- Thet wet mt sade 7
Pehaeugald, » Jun. New waa, Daved |
Tits -avd Lee Pagebler. . BES USO arias
Cabin Xo 35 Beha Brigeinan
Vendor, Dun. Koskinen, en, fasy!
Tareea Rice. You W faster, dae
We: she Bar jeen dea Arichs, Tee Baers

Cabin: Ne,

: ane. Bui, Mise, merie,

# HOBBS, William, white, elec. OH& (Butler) July 6, 1938.

William Hobbs (inset)
stayed drunk most of the
time and was abusive to his
wife, investigators revealed.

police
curb 17
was al
climbe
The
recent
on this
happer
mob \
cafes
had
Calhou
each
Sponse!

}

free lar
lums.
“Gue
said in
row
works.’
At at
a hapy
accust
waved
tendant
his per

Halt
sel Swit
time.
In the
for the
there \
of their

Dow:
sion,
Arthur
would

She lo

vas found
vn above.

ee his face.

ced grimly.
\

trained his

ead, partly

’ he cried.
of crusted
midsection.
“You get

”

D it would.
5 consterna-
Sponsel ex-
n the force,
in ten years
gster opera-
had been
‘alhoun.
»p, the chief
ninutes, just
atler County
ozen officers
t with flash-
er mounting
ient.
roner grimly
dy, the serv-

himself with
tered. “He
hlight as. he

ed over the
t,he: satds

Looks low
3 heart,” he
iough. Been
ie body of
o. His mind
fore his com-
mmon occur-

£8 ee

rence. Hamilton, with its big steel mill
payrolls, gaudy bootleg joints and wide
open red light district, was dominated in
those days by a ruthless underworld.

Ten years before, the better element
had induced Calhoun to leave his post
at Daytona Beach, Florida, which he had
purged of gangsters and con men. He
pledged himself to clean up the town,
and did. For ten years, crimes in Ham-
ilton were strictly of the minor variety.

How could he face Sponsel’s widow
with this terrible news? What was to
become of those two children? He him-
self had assigned Sponsel and Schick to
find the annoying mob of stickup gang-
sters who recently were taking small
amounts from gas stations and cafes.

At a motion from Calhoun, two uni-
formed men silently loaded the mute re-
mains of the efficient officer into a police
emergency truck and left. The chief
picked up the dead man’s pistol, quickly
broke it.

“Four shells fired,” he observed with
surprise. “Do you fellows
mean to tell me_ there
wasn’t a report this morn-
ing from anybody who

(Continued on page 81)

Hobbs called his wife to
come out of the house:
and they drove off. ©

| picked for a holdup attempt.

Rew eS

are

ae =

| Det. Sgt. Herschel Hain
kept a long bu successiu

tT 2:30 a.M., Monnay, Apr. 12, 1937,
Patrolman Arthur E. Sponsel, one
of the most popular young of-
ficers on the Hamilton, Ohio,

police force, slid his prowl car to the
curb in front of headquarters. No one
was about. His partner, Chester Schick,
climbed out.

The zero hour for Hamilton’s most
recent robbers had come and gone, but
on this balmy Spring night nothing had
happened. For a month a mysterious
mob was filching all-night gas stations,
cafes and chain stores. Although there
had been no shooting, Chief John C.
Calhoun and his men looked forward
each night with grave foréboding.
Sponsel and Schick were on a floating
free lance assignment to catch the hood-
lums.

“Guess they laid low tonight,” Schick
said in parting. “Which means tomor-
row night there’ll probably be fire-
* works.”

At about 3:00 a.m., Sponsel, humming
a happy tune, snaked the cruiser into its
accustomed berth in the city garage,
waved a cheerful goodnight to the at-
tendant and drove out of the building in
his personal car, headed for 884 Forest
Avenue, his home.

Half an hour later, Mrs. Minnie Spon-
sel switched on the light and noted the
time. Strange that-Arthur wasn’t home.
In the dead stillness she cocked an ear
for the sound of familiar footsteps. But
there was only the measured breathing
of their two children.

Downing an unexplainable apprehen-
sion, Mrs. Sponsel arose. Sometimes
Arthur liked a snack before retiring. He
would tell her the events of the day.
She looked forward to those intimate

few moments in the dead otf the night. ,

They were like littte honeymoons.

The minutes ticked on, but Arthur
Sponsel didn’t come. An hour passed.

At 4:45 a.m., Patrolmen Herschel
Seward and Leit Justice turned their
cruiser into North Third Street. Both
noted at once a black sedan just ahead,
parked in the middle of the street, head-
lights glaring. Slowly they approached.

Both officers reached for their service
pistols. With mounting excitement they
knew this might be the much-hunted
mob in action, although the gang never
had operated this late. As the prowl car
gradually neared the parked automobile,
they were ready. But, to their amaze-
ment, the machine was empty, and: the
motor was shut off.

Seward and Justice leaped from the
prowl car, still cautious, and threw flash
beams inside. But here was nothing
unusual.

“The owner’s around here some
place,” Seward declared. “The front
door here on the driver’s side isn’t closed
tight. He got out in a hurry.”

The officers looked furtively about.
All was quiet. Opposite was the Niles
Tool Works’ parking lot. At the rear
of this a solitary overhead night light
partially illuminated the vacant space.

Suddenly Justice exclaimed, “Look,
there’s somebody lying on the ground
there.”

He pointed to a spot in the lot twenty-
five feet from the street. Warilythe of-
ficers spread apart and converged on an
object that looked like a human form
lying prone. Several feet away from the
form was a tiny dim light.

“Speak up,’ Seward commanded.
“What are you doing there?” :

One battered
bullet sends
three killers
to conviction
for a crime
of cowardice

By
J. HOYT
CUMMINGS

<-~

D Lying face downward was the body of

But there was no answer. The officers .
rushed forward simultaneously and in
the next moment both stood frozen in
their tracks, speechless.

a uniformed officer. Three feet from his
outstretched hand layhis .38 service pis-
tol. Nearby was his still burning flash-
light. Justice leanéd over to feel the

Downing an unexplain-
able apprehension, Mrs.
Sponsel switched on the
light and got up. She’d
never heard then of
John Agnew (above).

Officer Sponsel’s body was found
in foreground of lot shown above.

man’s pulse, still unable to see his face.

“Stone dead,” he announced grimly.
“Cold as a clam.” \

Seward stooped low and trained his
flashlight on the officer’s head, partly
turned to one side.

“Why, it’s Art Sponsel!” he cried.
Then his eye caught a pool of crusted
blood near the dead man’s midsection.
“He’s been shot,” he added. “You get
headquarters. I’ll stay here.”

F A BOMB HAD EXPLODED it would

have caused scarcely less consterna-
tion. Not only was Arthur Sponsel ex-
tremely popular with men on the force,
but here for the first time in ten years
was a return of wanton gangster opera-
tion, of which the town had been
cleansed by Chief John C. Calhoun.

Awakened from sound sleep, the chief
reached the scene in a few minutes, just
as Dr. Harry F. Deubel, Butler County
coroner, arrived. A half dozen officers
already were combing the lot with flash-
lights for a clue, their anger mounting
with each unsuccessful moment.

Chief Calhoun and the coroner grimly
noted the position of the body, the serv-
ice pistol and flashlight.

“Made a perfect target of himself with
that flash,’ the chief muttered. “He
dropped the gun and flashlight as. he
fell.” ‘

Dr. Deubel gently turned over the
body.

“Shot in the left chest,” he said.
“Probably a .32 or .38 bullet. Looks low
enough to be through his heart,” he
added. ‘“He’s dead, right enough. Been
dead for more than an hour.”

Chief Calhoun eyed the body of
Sponsel with silent tight lip. His mind
raced back to the day—before his com-
ing—when this was a common occur-

rence.
payrolls
open re
those di
Ten *
had ind
at Dayt
purged
pledged
and did
ilton we
How
with th:
become
self had
find the
sters w
amount
Ata
formed
mains ©
emerge!
picked 1
broke it
“Fou
surprise
mean
wasn’t
ing fr

(Conti

TALE RUSTY «GUN

and I had gone to bed, when there was a knock on the ir.
was John Agnew. I Jet him in and sat on the edge of the ona
talking to him. Agnew had only been there a short time wacn
Vincent Rose showed up. He had a pint of whiskey with him.
We all sat about drinking some more. Pretty soon Agnew ead
to me: ‘Let’s go out and make some easy dough.’ ”

John Agnew was one of the few really tough guys around
town whom the police had not been able to chéck completely, but
who fitted better into the picture as a plotter in a rubbery than
either Hobbs or Rose. Thirty-three years old, just a year older
than Hobbs, he had been in plenty of trouble.

Hobbs related how Agnew, Rose and himself scouted around,
finally arriving at the restaurant where Sponsel surprised them.
They had parked their car ona side street a block beyond. Acnew
remained in the car and told the others to enter the place.
~ Hobbs and Rose walked back through an alley to the rear of
the restaurant. They tried 2 window and found it tightly shut,
when Patrolman Sponsel saw them.

It was Rose who broke and ran, drawing Sponsel’s fire. Hobbs

half-knelt, rested an elbow on his knee and deliberately aimed

and fired at the officer.

Rose was arrested. He made no attempt to resist. Agnew was |

surprised at his home. He, too, surrendered without resistance.

The three were brought to trial in June. The jury returned a
verdict of guilty without recommendation of mercy for Hobbs,
and the date of his execution was set by Judge P. P. Boll for
October 22.

Agnew pleaded not guilty. The jury recommended mercy
and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Rose was found
guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to life, with hope,
however, of pardon.

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HOBBS 3

Villiam, white, electrocuted Ohio (Butler) July 8, 1938

2 Se ies
ff: From: 1600 ‘TRU CRIME STORIES, by
e Sam D, Cohen; 1946: New World Publishing
Company. sent by Carlo Mele,

LHE CASE/OF

The Rusty Gun

S apowy ficures hovered in the darkness, outside a little res-
taurant ‘Ge of them was straining at the window. An automobile
approached, and a uniformed police officer, service pistol in
hand, leaped out. The figures froze; tense and motionless they )
wired tor the officer to fhake the first move.

The officer walked toward them, his other hand pulling a |
flashlight out of his pocket, then playing the beam on them.

This was enough for the men. One of them broke and ran toward
the back of a deserted parking lot at the rear of the building.

The ofncer called: “Hey, there! Halt!”

But his order went unheeded. The officer’s .45 rang out
through the night. Again and again it spoke, but the man was soon
swallowed up by darkness. Another, lighter sounding salvo
rang out.

‘he officer stopped, one hand clutching his chest. He stag-
- ered uncertainly on his feet, then fell foie ard on his face! His
gun and flashlight fell from limp hands as he lay still.

Another officer had died in the performance of his duty. Shot
Cin the back!

Two and a half hours later—it was now five-thirty a.m.—
Patrolmen Herbert Seward and Levi Justice, of the Hamilton,

¢ Ohio, police department, were looking for Patrolman Arthur
Sponsel. The missing patrolman had signed off duty in his radio
car and had failed to make his routine report to headquarters.

At length, Sponsel’s radio car was sighted. The lights of the

auto were still on when the two officers pulled to a stop beside it.
394

THE RUSTY GUN | 395

The missing police oficer was not in sight, so Seward and Justice
searched Oe cape
Across the street in a parking lot a dull heht clowed en the

sap) vt o

ground. The officers made for this spot. Here they found Sron-

sel’s body. The flashhght that had rolled from his hand still
glowed feebly. Both men stood for a moment in silent respect
to their fallen brother-officer. 7
In one breath they both muttered: “We'll get the rat who
did that!” r
The pledge was taken up by the entire police department. The
killers could expect little mercy from the slain officer’s buddies.
Sponsel’s chief, John C. Calhoun, said of him: “Arthur Spon-
sel was the kind of man any chief would be proud to have en his
force. I placed unlimited value on his services. He was :ntelli-
gent, fearless and clean clear through. He never drank, he
used profane language. He did not even smoke.”
Sergeant Herschel Haines, head of the detectiv
several of his men combed the scene of the traged

e€ never

Looks like Sponsel tried to stop a robbery,” he said. Tas

window seems to have been tampered with.”

He examined the rear building closely, then began digging ar |
a bullet hole in the wood with his pocket knife. After a moment.

of prying and picking a slug fell out. He handed it to his chief.
Haines, who had made something of a study of ballistics, stated:
“Tt’s undoubtedly a .32.”

The investigation began. The police had a theory about the
burglars. They began tracing the movements of all persons
known at any time to have been housebreakers or questionable
characters of any sort.

At length the Jong list of suspects came to include petty
thieves. It was learned that a local hoodlum named Wiliam
Hobbs had been doing some petty stealing in company with an
out-of-towner by the name of Vincent Rose, 2 young thug.
Sergeant Haines was interested in Hobbs as a suspect.

About a year ago, he had picked him up when he found him
carrying a gun. But Hobbs had proved that he owned the gun,

and police had been compelled to return it. The gun was a .32— |

the same caliber as the murderous weapon that had killed Arthur
Snonsel.

Haines decided not to approach Hobbs direetty, bur to titk |

e bureau, and.
ly.

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ReCLe) ONE. HUNDRED TREE“ CRIME STORIES

vasual.v to people who might know him. :

Phen Sergeant Maines reported to Chief Calhoun: “Hobbs
has been drinking heavily since Nlonday morning. We’ve been
watching him, and we've got a good lead. He left that gun with
a woman. Let’s go and sce if she’s stil] got it.”

The woman was nervous and apprehensive. She admitted
Hobbs had left his gun in her custody, but—here the officers
winced—he had taken it back. But the woman had some
information. Shue

“He was drunk,” she said, “and he was going out to get some
money, and he said if any one got in the way, he’d do some
shooting. There were two other men outside. I didn’t know
them. Honest, I didn’t.” ‘Woe!

The police had enough on Hobbs. They now wanted to know
who his two companions were. Hobbs was not an eNperienced
enough criminal to suspect that he was under suspicion. He was
not piaced under arrest, but he was under-the constant eye of the
police.

When he left his house, a police car always moved along just
keeping him in sight. Sometimes it Was Sergeant Haines, some-
times one of his men, and very often it was Chief Calhoun,
himself, who took his turn at the wheel of the car,

One day Hobbs went to thé home of his mother-in-law. His
wite Was With him and they packed some tools and some clothes

eto toy car. ss they swung south out of town, four police cars

eg so ,s Sis ne be 6 bea bys 9d a a )
ae ee cae ae at iad Tol tE0N.,

Tabhs yrs sopped. The police searched the car. In the back
= AY an aauliees papery they found a 232 revolver. The eun was
races of dirt were found on it, leading the police to
bel elit-had. been bored a-d recently dug up.

alice Were convinced that this was the gun that killed
Oricer. Spunsel Hobbs was separated from his wife and
Wuestloned. 7 shin ARAM:

He was not long in breaking. He was told that he had gone
to the Woman for the gun before the shocting, and that the police
had connected Rose with the crime, thus leading him to believe
that Rose was under arrest and had confessed,

This subtlety served its purpose.

“All right,” he said. “] Gd ft Tt was my gun that killed him,
II] tell you about it. J hed been drinkine that moht. My wife

—= =

—~enh,

ROWSILY lifting his head from the pillow,
Alex Selangowski lay staring into the dark-
ness, straining his ears in the still, dead silence

that precedes the dawn.

Perhaps he thought, he had been dreaming when he
imagined he heard a whimpering voice in the night.
Sleepily he put his head back on the pillow, Then
suddenly he sat up straight.

Eagerly stretching his hand out in the darkness, he
lightly touched the form of his son, Raymond, 11.
who shared his bed. Since the disappearance of his
oldest, 16-year-old son several months before he had
been obsessed with fear that his other boy also would
run away.

Finding Raymond peacefully asleep the father
breathed with relief. He had done his best to keep

Streaking through the night, the
automobile, top, proved a coach of
death for 7-year-old Dorothy Se-
langowski, right, who was spirited
from her bed, above. She was
sleeping with her three sisters in
the room marked by the arrow at
right when the fiend carried her off.

TYRE Stee ces cere ae oe
DYNAMIC DETECTIVE, June, 192

by Ralph Goll

his six motherless children together. Maybe, next
year... es!

The tremulous wail that had awakened the big Polish
laborer broke into his meditation. It seemed to come
from the bedroom across the hall where his four daugh-
ters slept. Furtive footfalls sounded outside the door.

“Stella! Who is that crying?” the man called
hoarsely. It was his impression that Stella, 14, the
oldest girl, was up and caring for one of her little sis-
ters—Dorothy, 7; Leona, 5, or Caroline, 2.

There was no response, though the crying and move-
ment in the hallway stopped suddenly.

“Stella!” The father arose and fumbled for a light
at the head of the bed. “Answer me!”

As he turned on the light and grabbed a dressing
wrap he heard a slight noise on the stairs and as-
sumed that Stella had gone down to the kitchen to
get a glass of water. But he was angered that she
did not answer him.

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Toledo’s Dracula and the Missing Child

[Continued from page 21]

Brought to trial for the most heinous crime ever perpetrated, the monster

shielded his features as newsmen trained their cameras upon him.

Left to

right: Leroy Hunt, prosecuting attorney; Clarence Irwin, his assistant; Toledo’s |
Dracula, and Deputy Sheriff John Michalski.

specially significant, remembering that
he had often run afoul of the law. The
second search of the premises ending
in failure, the detective decided on a
bold stroke.

“Open your mouth, Charley,” he
commanded.
Hoppe grinned.
idea?”

“We'll ask the questions? Just open
your mouth.”

Still appearing to be amused, Hoppe
showed his teeth to the policemen.

Not only was his upper left incisor
missing, but teeth on both sides of the
vacant place slanted in accordance with
the imprints in Dorothy’s body.

“O. K., Doc,” gibed the suspect.

The detectives walked out of the
house and went into a huddle. Though
Hoppe had now become a central figure
in the case, it was their opinion that
an arrest made on the strength of the
teeth marks would be stupid.

They were none too. sure of their in-
éxpert comparison between the man’s
teeth and the wounds. ;

Leaving one of their number planted
in the neighborhood, the detectives went
to the undertaking rooms for a third
look at the body. Meanwhile Hoppe,
due to work at the Overland plant at
6 p.m., reported at his job. Within‘an
hour, however, he complained of being
sick and returned to his home.

His actions meant but one thing to
the detectives. Innocent or: guilty, he
was worried. It seemed a psychological
time to strike,/so, risking censure, the
officers stormed into Hoppe’s house late
that night and carried him to head-
quarters. He was booked on a technical
charge of suspicion and lodged in a cell
far from other inmates of the city jail.

Work on the case was renewed at an
early hour the next day—Memorial
Day. Through Coroner Kreft, who had
taken more than official interest in the
murder, the detectives arranged to have
casts made of the suspect’s teeth.

“What’s the big

ecnnee > eNANLY LNNRE O

_returned from the mur

Dr. Edmund Paulinski, a Lagrange
street dentist, took impressions of
Hoppe’s upper and lower jaw, the
prisoner opening his mouth to the
modeling compound with a wolfish grin.

Even before the casts had hardened
the coroner, dentist and arresting of-
ficers were en route to the undertaking
establishment. It was a grim-faced,
silent group. that gathered around the
table’ on which the child’s torn body

lay.

Dr. Paulinski produced the moulded
teeth and approximated them to ‘a
wound in Dorothy's breast, his, hands
nerveless. The detectives breathed
sharply. Then the plaster of Paris
jaws touched the raw flesh.

The ‘casts fitted the bite perfectly!

Other tests were made with the same
result. Dr. Joseph D. Sullivan, a dental
surgeon and authority in his field, was
called in ‘to observe the experiments.

“Not one set of human teeth in ten
thousand—perhaps a hundred thousand
would match those casts,” Dr. Sullivan
said, “You have the man who killed
this child.”

Assured that they had not erred in
picking Hoppe as the Dracula of Little
Poland, Dobzyneicki and Swiatecki,
with Kina, Palicki and DeLora, rushed
to Hoppe’s home. The killer had had
plenty of time-to destroy whatever he
Riaagnt incriminating, so the detectives
hardly hoped to find anything as they
be their third search.

xamining one room at a_ time,

Dobzyneicki and his party went through

the house to which Hoppe no doubt had

er: blood splat-

tered. Furniture was moved and walls
and floors sounded for hiding places.

With another failure in prospect,
Dobzyneicki wandered outdoors. His
companions, remaining inside to talk

- with the suspect’s wife, presently heard

a shout. They hurried to the back-
rae where: the Polish detective stood
etween a hen run and a grape arbor.

A Clue From The Embers

[N KICKING over a pile of trim-
mings from the vines, Dobzyneicki
had found a tiny pile of ashes.

DeLora sifted the debris through his
fingers. The ashes fell away, leaving a
bit of charred cloth in his hands. It
appeared to have been part of the
pocket of a pin striped blue serge vest.
Several brownish spots were discernible
on the fabric.

In itself the discovery was valueless.
The yard was strewn with old rags
that might have been raked into a fire.
The stains could not be analyzed, hav-
ing been subjected to heat.

However, the cloth pointed to the

existence of a dark suit when Hoppe,

had denied owning one for several
years. The ash pile was too small for
the coat and trousers to have been
burned with the vest. What had become
of them? A painstaking hunt about
the yard and through the out-buildings
gave no answer.

Turning back to the house, the of-
ficers peered under a small side porch.
Almost within their reach was a door
giving access to the space enclosed by
the brick foundation of the main part
of the dwelling. Dobzyneicki and
Swiatecki’ squeezed through it.

Presently an excited yell came from
underneath the house.

The panting detectives were scratch-
ing like dogs. A foot below the sur-
face their fingers encountered cloth.
Jerking the hidden garments from the
dust they found a black cap and coat
and trousers of pin striped blue serge.

Brushed and scrutinized in the light
outside, both coat and trousers revealed
stains of blood.

Jubilantly the searching party rushed
back to headquarters. Hoppe was
brought from his cell to Inspector Jerry
Buck’s office. The officers took turns
firing questions at him.

, “We've got enough evidence to con-
vict you, Charley. Why don’t you
come clean?”

“We found the marks of your teeth
on the body. Now tell us why you did
this thing. and how?” ;

Hoppe, wise enough to know that his
best defense was silence, said nothing.
DeLora displayed the bloody clothes.

“Here is the suit you wore. Do you
deny owning it?”

The prisoner had paled slightly.

“You know it all,” he cried, “I did
it. I’ll tell the truth.”

With those words he began a con-
fession so revolting that when he came
to trial on July 1, it was not read in
open court. :

Hoppe’s trial before Judge Martin
and a jury of men and women had been ©
under way three days when, on the ad-
vice of his counsel, he pleaded guilty
and admitted he was the long-wanted
Toledo clubber.

Sentenced to electrocution, the child-
slayer went to the chair in the Ohio
Penitentiary three months later. As the
black hood was dropped over his head
his lips lifted. in a grimace that showed
his teeth, the fangs of a real-life Dracula,
the fangs whose horrible marks in the

body of his last victim had brought
about his capture.

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Dobzyneicki’s co-workers were not very enthusiastic over
the possibility of tracing the killer through his teeth. The
discovery of the gray coach would be a far more vital factor
in the solution of the murder, they held.

The detectives were eating a belated breakfast in a restau-
rant in the vicinity of the Selangowski home when one of
their number, calling headquarters, learned that an abandoned
Whippet had been found. The desk officer said the car was
on Webber street near Elm, a point about fifteen blocks north
of Palmer street.

Five minutes later, at 10:00 a. m., the six. detectives had
reached Webber and Elm streets and were examining the
deserted auto. It was a coach, battleship gray and almost
brand new. One look inside it was enough to identify it as
the murder car. The rear seat was gory, the windows and
windshield blood splattered.

No fingerprints were found then or later when Bertillon
experts went over the machine, inch by inch.

Checking with headquarters again, they learned the
Whippet had been reported stolen from in front of the Over-
land administration building by an employe of the factory.

The man had a perfect alibi. He had not been outside the’

Burrowing beneath the vampire’s den at the point indicated by the arrow, De-
tective Bert Dobzyneicki (inset) brought forth evidence which clinched the case.
' ‘What was the final discovery which ran the skulking werewolf to earth?

20 7

plant except for a few minutes at midnight when he ate a
lunch in a restaurant across the street.

While they scattered and began interviewing residents of
the neighborhood, Stan Ziolowski, a reporter on the staff of
the Toledo Blade, picked up a bloody handkerchief in an alley
that opened on Webber and paralleled Lagrange and Elm
streets. The point at which he found it indicated the slayer
had thrown it away after leaving the Whippet.

The trail was getting so warm now that the police had
hopes, of learning something that would identify the murderer.
Then *they received information that seemed to darken their
prospects of success,

Mystery Piles Higher

AN AUTO had been stolen the previous night from a
garage at the corner of Webber and Elm streets.

It now appeared that the murderer had abandoned the
he only to make off with another machine, hoping thus
to befuddle his pursuers. The officers sought out the owner
of the missing car, finding him at home. He was a middle-
aged: Pole, under average height. Coatless, he wore trousers
of dark material. ;

“What is your name?” asked DeLora.

At his reply the detectives stared. Here was another rela-
tive who seemed to figure in the
case |

The man explained in broken
English that he was a brother of
Alex and uncle of Dorothy.

He said he had been at’ home
since 4:30 a. m. A night em-
ployee of the nearby Owens
Bottle works, he had been re-
lieved from duty about a half
hour earlier. Neither hearing
nor seeing anything that seemed
suspicious, he had gone to bed
immediately.

Wakened about 9:45 by news-
boys crying extras, the uncle
had sent a member of his family
to get a newspaper. As soon as
he learned of Dorothy’s death
he dressed and ran out to the
garage, intending to drive to
Palmer street.

He found the garage doors
closed, but his car, a Studebaker,
was gone. He had locked both
the ignition and transmission
after driving it the previous
day. The keys were in his pos-
session. The shed had been left
unlocked.

Examining the premises, the
officers found a big police dog
in the back yard. It growled
furiously when they approached.

The man’s wife and children
were sure that at no time during
the night had the dog been dis-
turbed.

They gave the names of sev-
eral men who were familiar with
the household, one being a son-
in-law, Stanley Hoppe, better
known as Charley. Hoppe lived
in a cottage directly across the
street.

The Polish officers knew
Hoppe, though they had not
been aware that he was the hus-
band of one of Dorothy’s cou-
sins. Charley had been in the
hands of the police six or eight
times, the charges against him
ranging from disturbing the

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G DETECTIVE

A sinister reign of terror ended when Toledo’s Dr

Sheriff Parker Emmert, he plainly show
animal stare—the out-

le theft. As he had never been
weigh heavily against him.

In one connection or another, autos had always given him »,
employment. He had been a truck and taxi operator and
drive-away man at the Overland plant. Making some pre-
tenses of being a prize fighter, he frequented athletic clubs.

The theft of the Studebaker providing an excuse for visiting
Hoppe’s house, all six officers swooped down on it. Mrs.
Hoppe was inclined to resent the raid, but her husband, who
appeared from a bathroom, took it as a matter of course..

“Charley, we want to talk to you about your father-in-law’s

car,” said Dobzyneicki.

“Shoot,” Hoppe challenged.
Guarding his questions, Dobzyneicki studied the man.

About twenty-five years old, he was of slight stature, but had
thick arms and large hands. He was in shirt sleeves. His
trousers were gray and grease-stained.
_ Charley talked with no trace of nervousness. A night em-
ployee’ of the Overland plant, he had laid off work to attend
a wedding party the previous night, he said. ;
Having no car, he and his wife had walked to the affair
which took place in a home at Webber and Pearl streets. Re-
turning on foot in a drunken condition about 1:30 a. m., he
had gone to bed and had not since been out of his yard.
Hoppe declared he had worn a gray suit and blue shirt to
the party. The suit was now in a closet. He was wearing the
shirt. Swiatecki and several other detectives went through
the house, paying special attention to the clothes, beds and
hathroom. They uncovered nothing incriminating.
‘The officers turned to leave.

ADVENTURES

peace to suspicion of automobi
convicted, his record did not

Hoppe yawned, showing his’

d. Handcuffed (at left) to Deputy

acula was finally chaine 1 f
g the vampire characteristics which gave him his name. Note the beady,
thrust jaw seemingly ready to pounce upo

n fresh victims.

teeth. Dobzyneicki, glancing back, noticed that the man had
lost an incisor.

“Boys, let’s take another look at those teeth marks,” the
Polish detective suggested when the squad reached the street.
His associates still had hopes of breaking the case through
less weird leads. They continued to canvass the neighbor-
hood, picking up information that bore out Hoppe’s statement
that he had been one of the wedding guests. Packing the ~
bridegroom’s house, the merrymakers had indulged in home
brew and hooch until long after midnight. No one who had
seen, Charley at the party was able to recall with certainty the

color of his clothes:

A Cast Of The Fang-Marks.

ONVINCED at last that Dorothy’s body held the only
clue worth while, Dobzyneicki’s fellow detectives followed

his suggestion. Early in the afternoon they again viewed the
éorpse. Studied with the aid of a magnifying glass, some of

the child’s wounds were found to bear out the Polish officer’s
assertion that the killer lacked an incisor tooth, Also it was
found an adjoining tooth mark showed a peculiar slant.

At 3:00 p. m., after another series of interviews with resi-
dents of the Webber-Elm street section, the six detectives re-
turned to the home of Charley Hoppe. He was as indifferent
to them as he had been during the previous raid, neither ask-
ing their purpose nor mentioning the murder of his wife's

cousin.

Dobzyneicki wondered at his behavior, but did not deem it

[Continued on page 58]
21

“Why, Dobsy,” she cried as she recog-
nized the detective. “Come right in.” She
held the door wide open. “Charles ‘and

I are having coffee in the kitchen. You'll Fe

have a cup, won’t you.”

Dobsy nodded. “Yes,’ thanks.” In, the,

kitchen, Charles Stanley Hoppe was seat-
‘ ed/at the table drinking black coffee. His
appearance, too, showed how ‘deeply ppeet
he was.

““T see you’ve heard about Dorothy,

. said Dobsy.

Yes,” Mrs, Hoppe sobbed, “Iey—it's
awful.”

Hoppe nodded. His voice held a note
of hoarseness as he said: “Poor kid. It
., Was a tough break for her.” He finished
- off his coffee in hurried gulps. “We ‘got’

up pretty late this morning and. just.
heard about it.”

“Of, es you didn't ty your" calles”
Mts. Hoppe.protésted) {2 sgn >

“Thanks. ‘Some’ Other ‘tithe: TU be.
back,” he ‘Promised, il

He kept. his, promise. “Within ‘an. our i.

he ‘was back accompanied, by Detectives
Kina, ‘Swiatiecki,, Hovey. - and , Palicki.
ss found Hoppe in,a. hopelessly drunk-.
en ‘condition, ‘slumped..over~the kitchen ®
table. He. was, placed: under ‘arrest as a~
“suspicious . person’ and escorted to the .

_ Safety, Bullding by Hovey: and Kina, In

ota condition, it was impossible
to qu Sensi Wma Sagadrin 8
cell to sober. up. sl icing

‘Meanwhile, Dobsy, ‘Swistiecki and Pa.
: licki made: a ‘thorough; search ‘of his home ’

‘and premises .at' $222 ‘Elm ‘Street; In a:
/ chicken’ coop: in ‘thesback yard they sifted

“Yes, Charles took last night off trom jn

RTs

“made; \\ | ;

When ‘Hoppe had sti: his senses
‘sufficiently to be questioned, Inspector F.
J, Buck’ entered his cell. The other offi-

his ‘si

foislattins from which the cats had ‘beeks

‘Tiepactoe Buck pointed: to Hoppe’s

bloody’ underwear’ and asked levelly:.
“How did that happen?” ‘

Yar § got it ina fight, ” Hoppe stamcinared:
He was|.unnerved. by the cool. level gaze
of the Inspector, His eyes blinked rapidly
and his fingers twitched. :

The inspector. held a bundle in his’ ‘

“hands. ‘Slowly he unwrapped and withdrew
a bloodied: bit. of cloth, “This was found

dn your chicken coop. hede did hit burn |

‘your, shirt?” .}) Ai
a small ‘mound: of’ ashes and found '2 | Hoppe didn’t answer. He ‘ran trembling

the Willys plant and we went to a wed-
ding party,” Mrs. Hoppe opiate.
“That’s why we woke up so late,”

He stared at her ‘for a moment wh
wide eyes,

ope Willys plant! In a ‘pedis whirl-
ing rush, the jigsaw pieces swept be-

fore his mind’s eye and locked-together _

in a dreadful pattern. The Willys Plant
. the Sialagowski car .. . the dogs .

the empty gas tank .. the Whippet
Coach . .
the darkened bedroom.’

The manhunter reached: into his pock: |
et and withdrew a package of gum. He
— it putstretched toward the other

- “Have a stick of gum?” ‘.

got I. don’t want any now. Thanks, 3
, Hoppe answered.

“Well, take a stick and put it in‘ your
pocket’ for later,”

Hoppe turned his head away from the
window and reached for the gum, Dobsy
pointed at a spot on his’ upper lip. “You've
got a piece of tobacco or something. on
your lip,” he said softly,

“Where? Here?” Hoppe touched’ his

upper lip with his forefinger, ©, “

For an instant, Dobsy thought he: de-
tected a blank space in Hoppe’s» upper
row of teeth. He had to be sanp-yand
sure,

“No. Guess. I was wrong.’ It’s on your | teartlys

tcoth, your front tooth. This pne.’”” The
detective drew’ back_ his lips and’ tapped
lightly on one of his. upper row of ‘teeth,
Hoppe opened his mouth and. scraped: a
tocth with his fingertip. He drew it awa
and: looked at it. “Nothing, here,” the
laughed mockingly. “You must be seeing:
things. ”

Dobsy had been seeing things—and his

patch of cloth that appearedto be from fingers through his hair and looked help-.
“a man’s, shirt. ‘It’ bore a red. stain, ap-. lessly at Dobsy who returned his mute
‘parently: blood, Under the house they dug: ; plea with a ‘cold: ‘expressionless gaze,

"the Szelagowski home. . ¥

up @ man’s blue’‘pin stripe “suit and a’
checkered: cap. ‘This » clothing; too, was:
stained an’ ugly “dark brown... wha!

~ Mrs. Sofie Hoppe, !who ' had. eed told «'
to remain’ in’ the living ‘room during the
tayestigayion, weph spe ime Maal they

emer! ‘the Ga Ae, ing afraid ha’
did it,” she cried, ‘He got, drunk at; the
party, so.I left early, He’ came, home. .
later—a longtime’ Jaterrand shig, suit was
‘full of blood. He said. he: Bot ina: fight."

“Then you weren't with’ him for a long’:
time last “night?” Palicki” asked gently.

“No,” the nr admitted °

ie La

) igh | i pe
‘Ov. ‘helt ay back” ‘tg
the, officers picked up Coroner Kreft -
-who ‘had “prepared: the: plaster “casts: of *
the teeth: marks a Ht ‘on eal” Bey
‘body, He’ ‘exami 0 c
and> foie Sessa Soa ahs man’s et
~derwear, he Doctors
mund_ A, Pauline ae Dog ‘Sullivan

face was grim. He stood up and prepared> and asked. them to compare the plaster

to leave, ‘‘Guess I need some sleep,” he
managed to say with a light note in ‘his
voice, .

casts of Hoppe’s teeth. They did and it.
was. their unqualified opinion that only
‘Hope's Pasi ia ave: made the im-

Then Inspector Buck held up the blue

‘pin: stripe suit and the ‘checkered | cap.
' He: stepped quickly forward. “Why did
‘you bury these?” he, demanded, K

Hoppe realized it. was hopeless. “J did
it, ” he’ groaned. “T did it.”

'» {He :dictated | a complete and. detailed

yaccount “Of: his | horrible crime: In the. -

* presence of witnesses, he signed the: state:
ment with’ a trembling hand, “I’ was

. drunk,” he ‘said: “Very drunk. I Gos ;

know. what I was doing.”.

Later he’ Se radiated! his: confession and
- his‘attorneys fought to prove that he was”

subject. to fits’ of epilepsy which forced
him’ to behave i in a criminal manner. But
the evidence the state Produced was over-
-wheling The. jury was visibly moved
when’ they’, compared “the
‘made’ of Hoppe’s teeth with those made
of the bite impressions on the murdered
‘en’, legs., They were ‘identical i in Aeris

1 7 vy ‘ 4.4

Bee saw ‘the. handwriting on the wall, pas

Plaster ' casts"

“During a recess in the trial. he made an.

‘“And\I got some others, too, A lot ‘of.

On July 6th, after: Prosecutor Hunt had

built an imprégnable® case against the de-''' .
fendant, Hoppe abruptly changed his plea»!

‘guilty and threw himself on ‘the’ mercy »

heddavarte, het the court,

* There” ‘could’ be’ only" one " verdict :!
“Guilty, There could be paly’ one’ sentence:
Diath. .

“electrifying admission to an alienist for |
the state. “I killed the kid,” he told him, ,

| cers who had worked on the case stood by ; 2

/ »

tr a

, them, I guess. I: got that Croy girl,” oye) ee

ise

“OY Ke

Charies~ Stanley “Hoppe was Poses ree

cuted” at the Ohio State Penitentiary in
“Columbus, Ohio, on November 30, 1928,

And+in the ity. of Toledo, women
‘breathed ‘easier and once again walked

“safely in the streets. The Jong, horrible}

night: was ended at last.

\ Pe

“SSPOSITORY STAB BLISHED: 101,

ane

‘Called “Gamest Man Whok Ever

“PWILL MEET MOTHER”

ow SAYS AFTER PRAYER
yer Says, “His 1 Friends Are

Oe termined To “Get” Two
plank Go unty Men: ae as
is SR BY ROBERT R, HARTMAN ©

iad le grim, gray’. “walls of the state pénitentiar
seabae’ iff little room Rehan Beoded avith light, Dick He ' rat

igs

convicted murderer of Anthony Skot; icky, former city detective, |
paid the supreme Penalty: for: ‘his. crime” a gaye nutes ia lter, Ly}

oy pelctock hut day. mornin
Sy. towell went to his death with a "amile’ on his lips, one ‘of the

gaitiest men, in the opinion of Warden ‘Thomas, who ever: ‘took|.

“tis place in’ the electric chair. The condemned man. even went
90 far as.to joke. swith his guards while the straps were being. ad.

}

Haete ed rau re 2 Sa OF wes rere
se es mae ti

38
3

$ PO ap aS

Ds et A
8

THOUSANDS i have
a aS eect

Fee: Need

dor. the: msrital lag proslamation,
announced this “morning thet. 250
ofthe 460 guardamea.hera. Will. be
saat home this efternoon. i
Talsa, Okla., beter 9. By’ the! ©
A caehited Preaa.)—With do yorenk

milltia forces In ‘Tulsa eonnty, tn! 4

today, this efty, under the control | [ekerai

i an: tohabtinnyy
Lied o

se A 50 Ros

Bai! ne rs hile aCe le acl wine ahah! hid 8

Foe Boe ek) Se ee OS Ws ee Pee
“FPL A ey Sut i Frm Fo Oa Se ecb 5s
eB abs % 448 ICG OS Loo oP? aeaceil +

4? nollie . e <
th application of the death-dealing

{ ” fore * ” *
er, W tha cal y outward, alguns of

Tis a i tinw
js 318 ints

3 }

‘dled was committed in * Guniten at
; the Skotnichy

went throu gh isee I's body wa:

by ations, two of

ere de he SDTOR fnen
. e axnslgned ito release the |
be on 3 down mis said, sab reHeve did ni IW waish Was:
“s-¢ one fs slipping.” | When all ut
edjustin any fepaneik!®
4 the secret any

tant to he drawn over nN conversation. heli
, yO, With another smiie, lay with a Repository ey
ached, “3Vell, how many more ive 8 Deputy Sherijf
mint have we?’ owell Indicated that If te
tig Jaat words, &. 30-day reprieve” he
sei arden Thomas, w ri :

ave an {Interesting story to’
1

‘hig atatement, whatever it
Was fasued.

yeara,

for 1
ana wee ked to another

+h 1k

room ATENS LGV.

£ conversation with Hirk,
t! lny afternoon, the pris-
a7 wer indirectly; hreatene) tho

of two Stark county men,
-

‘
‘The names of these

fl NT TAD A lavay, ff would not divulge,
Bieta i i AS it ie | }

Wiwil iIVOARUUYU

was told that Howell's
who are sald to have visited bim

i
i
H dl
| promise. made to I
|
| in the penitentlary, have. decided

iself, His arrest finally was made

yn MAC, + teas (Ci wae } ‘ .
So easy tO GI j to “yet” Chese two porsons. Of
pes 5 CHE cials here, however, are prone to
1¢? i
Cigar, | doubt the truth of any threat of;
: t :
De RN BN. SS re erent re OP th ng kind on. the part of any of
No-To-Bac has helped thousands: qrgyeq}s friends.
to break the costly, nerve-sha uter-| During the anzious houra while,
{ng tobacco habit. -W Eouever YOu; Howell was plactng hepe against |
nave a fonging. for a smoke ot! ho

just place a harmteas No-To-! 1, give him: a longer lease on lita,
Ree tablot In your mouth instead. p his wife was with him almost: all
Westre stops. Shortly the habiti'the time. At meal times she went

Re eed .

Ruiter’ off mentally,, physically, absences returned again to Ner hus-
paancinlly. It's Bo easy, so sim-! band's side to comfort and encour-
ple. Get a box of Np-To-Bac and if; age’ him. Although it {a not«the
{i doesn’t release you from all crav-) custom of the prison to permitévis-
ing for tobarco in any form, your! fting after the prisoner: has been

pe that something might happen:

esnipletely broken, and you are’! out, but not to eat, and after short

druggist will refund your money’ removed to the death cell, she was.

without question.——Adyv, - ~—Franted permission to remain with

Btacayy aight, F poul Parting | was taben-trom Howell ab tho th tha, Louw courts,
WEARS Wire's FLOWER,

The defendant: wea tr “a ‘on ‘s Howell's body peal Claimed by’ ae
en from tho tler! charge of murder fz the first degres wife and shipped East Liverpool,
Gilast July, and a jury brought {fs 3} bis former ho

Hor

> Howcll was tab

+
; See Brews sd 4 te : dvd tae
was bighly emotional. ' 1 of his arrest, S|) Shortly” after: ‘the: execution, :
i
H

SIT. ¢ Caaeomarnn Sopstameco rd

€ 2; & geet rrr see SeOOeRnene
FLMLS AD
ha whrao¢ ;
uO Was 8i GUA Ge.
+ - = eed
sandee C 2 3S te
craa a> wR 7) ah Ames a
d was ch in tho electric chair he court of

ae ere ay
electrode.

rly large supper. |

nines in the

a a a Prerrrrnlgs

Lea Ce we Sevewuees &

Ives quick retfe

We Tes

¥ bomoe on the evening
of. November 29,1919. The former
city detective led from the effect |
of a bullet wound on December 3.
Tho shot, it was said, was fired by
‘Howell while ¢he two men were to

Sete: rote ehh
peate =

i Le eee 2. ee ee ee ee ere om

fan automobile, y, before
died, ts Ieger} to have saidvthat
Dick Howel

i shot him. fe e
CAPTURED, IN KENTUCKY. einen

Immediately follow?
ing, a wide search x

Howe!}] who provl ous!

g the shoot-
8 mada for
nd estab

Nshed a criminal rec

early in May, 1820 2
—py Marsha

4, ed

sa
eoay sds fe

runcn 4
ie St es
} bo 9 Lb bs BS §, gt fas '
tow RE i
{ 4
yee ‘ IN 5 GI RAIN. TABLE OY Y. Oaee
Nerv «= Worth Qaickiy Overcomes nd I fer! like a new man.” It fs a “ ’
Theae far Adolp. Shields. neaiee fact, but nervous and atomach | AND PpowwD
fla jally found together, andi BISURATED “Ac
bE eae they are Nkewlse the cause of much; #'5 Pema cy ea
“T had had Saint Vitus Dance, and misery. Nery-Worth’s ability. to act | Sm stelle SEE ar prcill
tt left me tn an awful nervous eon. In such cases, and act quickly, makes | S4!t. iste ay igi ay vn r ;
Ution,” snid Aldolphus Shields, a well It the Ideal medicine for those who | strous nae pant A ‘5 or
known Clarksburg, W. Va, resident. suffer from such troubles. If your! the form of are grain oh nM
“My head aghed a great deal, and. frat bottle docs not benefit yeu, yours sealed blue packages. Pci NOt, Comfise
imy siSmach was also in bad shape. l drugegist-{s authorized to refund your) with cammercial magnesia, milk

Had! doctored jconsiderndly with no money. Sold by alkteading drugg ists. j sia or citrate of: magnesia
presults, Tho vhottios of Nerv-Worth Nerv-Worth 4s sold and recommended | word BISURATED and? get

Improved my ‘condition wonderfully, by Bolender's Drug Store —Adv. from DRUGGISTR ‘EVER F
Comer POLL SLT ESP EDS PILE STE RET
63 . habe PI 4 : me é FM
setae tiicicssvden netusn ns senseahonaionseno ud oop te ee ne ee TAL joe ae RB ABR 2 gy
fa | 7 ’ ‘
an fae \ JE met ae 0.

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af m A ae nage sic it « ¢
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by : . i 4 \ ; i

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* a Lay Ye 4 a: hw de oe oh dd. dient SA. tte Oh em Le eel ks '

suprenic

lock Thursday mor Lie fae
Howell went to a his lips, one Gi ne
© be ve tor <i
gam es st men, iS, oO eve;©r -% Ox |
mat e atest
tace in the elec i man eve now ent |
to joke Ww ps were being ad-}
about A his bat A H
When Dick Howell paid th
the true ¢ ircumstances surroundin
nicky became a sealed book. er |
} [ to make any att
shooting Ww i
PACES FATS BRAVELY... ;
4 ‘ t
From_the time he recolved | ¢
RS ai Ae { ‘3 3}
Sf, death sentence eiter tMali het } Zt
last Aummer, up-to the minute oe j {
~ ba i i
ha steppe d into th dea th eharsb ajed Pee om on FS OO ES i
*tomal) never -apandenéd the nope A oa BEM eh eit
' ae Races M Satoh
st executive clemency might ines eee rae
teryveas-to eave him from death tn jh Yay ae bab a. i
the electric chair, When the heme | od er ae ,
ai | eR ~
% pain: was usa ‘ or ee
ihe ADEs ait hi? ; 2 ae Sar :
j vitos later tid wot Us
r naking at -» RA
yion, said: — 7AM? bie babe
rreng of @iec tri icity Labs aa a eet are
t of Dick Ho 3 VILL ISSUE NO
through the body-of ice well, | Bhsle has ‘
i
gs anfiicient to cause death * The} PESTRA RDER
ae ef band
rst charge of current waasatat of}
ali . ie at my, 4 3. 60 . pe ass rae
a volts, and the second of 2.200) Dlaintift buse Of
, He ba 3 o
Mick's last ferry mintiea os ‘ f
earth were spent with toy pr? PLES,
chaplain and a representative of

WEES. ess

the Volunteers of America. 0

worts of
*

ned-carefully to the

tha iplain and preven ter ext
ly. Just before tho gan at

pared ta lead him to the ei jawarded by ts
chamber, fic eatd: “E have made | t: stake 0

eae t

ce with Got:

Saliciter

ORE LEN AS DLL

5 TLL ONE II OO

SanerR tC

ymeet my mogher.
SN se who were to
tron gatherest in
1 tha
form 1 o'rhock.
3 ITAD
fitad af 5 men 3. Bran
’ Ween d sh 7 F o-
the warden my <0 : A... Beith, MART
( f Lenuts a Wirk
tT Deputy Cc. W.. Kur ti
paper men, “ER Loh: person |
‘riven a pass permitting tho:
rewrite enter the death. chamber.
EOWLLL, GUTS IN CHAT.
atroke: of Liout th
eee m..the main |:
Bens to the death} perform
her started with Mergen form an
; eA in the load. When all ¢ tracts,
She Pests had: avaam in the! i 7
oom: the warden gave/\a -stenal.; ardor izsued by — the
afd.a pair of folding doors, Wet®: Solicitor Clarenca = A.
eT = Open, Howell} walking | Wireat Assistant City Jamon
#aril ny , i etia
Aly Detween two Kuare eniered | rennisan, who reprogent the citz,
« Rinse me aw akiv) - eS ha
Snoet Immediately and ~ quick! . | agreed with tho attorneys for the
et “ AED 44439 ws
* ee re aan. ete i 7 ear t Aye ms i “fy Perey ets.
‘Continued on Pe 1) lh Re ndanta, Am an and _ .
ole a ee re it at the eity WOU d not attenaps to
t « int oy 4 3 yy acts une
jackeaye Pr. go forward with tho raigs hte ed
Rloett4 ' no ant € ¢rd thea cape wil
leeldn- of officara and /Pae b the. date of trials a tbe fom

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Saturiay a_Ari- , ‘ ited
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Bs antif } 36 panied:
SBA eG , es
tive; sany to Dr
r ‘et-| PLEADS &

KILLIN é

fetman Cos., !
AQVe Bridgeport, Cc

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ever ane a lee RE.

service and. expert
poo Earl T |

the Associate
Hutchina Nott,
with tha mard

5
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aubih

Fearavarny 20, 1969

TO: Dr. Jf. Veansutem, Paycuiaraisr
FROM: HarnoLtp J. CARDWELL, WARDEN, OHIO PENITENTIARY

SUBJECT: Psycuiarric EvaLuarion -- Jenison, $ 125-073, 0.P.

THE ABOVE WAMED INMATE I8 SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED
4T THIS INSTITUTION ON Fripay, MancH 28, 1969.

IN ORDER TO PREPARE THE NECESSARY REPORTS FOR THE
GOVERNOR, THIS OFFICE WILL REQUIRE 4 CURRENT PSYCHIATRIC
EVALUATION OF THE SUBVKCT.

THAT REPORT MUST BE RECEIVED IN THIS OFFICE NO LATER
rHAN Marncx 18, 1969.

YOUR COOPERATION IN THIS MATTER WILL BE APPRECIATED,

HAROLD J. CARDWELL
WARDEN

BIC mur )
ce ?:FiIuge-2 \

“Cuban government wartate in People pene Le _ [his yacht at San Pedro, Cal.
| Oriente: Province o¢-somesort-of- meant the Dominican Republic:

j —recognition on -of the Castro-move-/ Ma rilyn Retu ris. ae | ER tt Pry Be about ready 10)

piceobe Rona go home. His request was dé-|
at Events | of lack of foading_faciicis.

beasties ot

|. — a Orders === RF - ach ng Na ———— nares -tnaie
5 Geist Ohio Con Slayers —

: SS Gen—charer de =Gavile has | :
Die in

mern*

ordered: -his ~“brain - trust”--to-
complete within a month afirst eee : : |
aint oo qponstitsae See =guRp6cK —4- ‘TROTTER, ial Swed Jet into Bek:
= Frances “Finh Republic: fe BEY the death hous? at 7:55 p aa Shea ca oereed oa
; committee és holding aE ance ‘The bodies of Cincinnati cop- + —calmt si ee
Sings 22a Cay RL killers Lemuel S,- ‘Trotter. -and “He $4 miy and ently as — ee
5 S.A eae ae Pee Robert L.-Jackson- remain yun-| the guards hurriedly strapped) =~ me oe
3 SMUGGLER?—A Belgian “dip | claimed today — destined- for| him into the chair. He was Poo") —aut-time quiz ¢
A —--tomat. Louis -de “Sand, goes -on | burial in potter's field... nounced dead at 8:04 p. m. Bd Took) properly im;
D iciet before a-military_court_in| —Both—_men went —to their] the prison physician, Dr. Ri ~Twenty-One” Tas
“Beirot, Lebanon, tomorrow for} deaths bast night -in the wees Losi tees * “fus= Sagres
__ smuggling arms .from Syria to} chair.at Ohio Penitentiary. —- | 1.23 “while. SSBF cael Smiling t eac!

: ——Lebanese rebels. De Sand, con-}
__sul-genersl in Syria, has_no dip- “AVENGED ~ BY: ‘the: double | straps at 8:14 p.m. He showed

3 electrocution was. ~ Cincinnati evident interes. in their actions, = if
: lomatic immunity in Lebanon.” ee ie Wallet Hat weet 04 sepa abe ie ae a i lo

Keziah elections and a Stalinist} 1959. “ily had come forward to claim
—woman leader, -Hertta Kuusinen, )-— 3 third qrember of the holduy the bodies. “They were 1 =e pemoved | By HARRIET-V.
B emerged today as the Central gang, Wille Barnett, .is con-jto a- Columbus funeral home| NEW YORK, J
¥ ~ figure in national Bae “=~ | fined to the Limia State Hospital | Alvis “seid. they. ‘would “probably | oj—weeks on Te.
4 U. §s Scene be | ror the sata insane. be — “in aavten saa | ordre! of Elfrids

iz IE ID < -fended-test- night’
' iON easy ae Hilliards. Youth * Dies -
| pee a tergeare Of Cra: sh: ‘Inj uries >

E ._3g.-§.2 Leading Cincinnati-and }———- =
_£ —€leveland ‘businessmen will dis-|. Injuries es suffered in a June 30] Mr, Bechtold, who was a pas-| ee
; cuss this problem ‘when they auto-motorcycie erash took the senger on the motorcycle, died

“moet in their elties July 15. life of Peter H. ‘Bechtokd, 17, of jin Mt. Carmel Hospital of inter-

1d |

fons

; ‘The sessions are part. of. this Hilliards, Mondey.— priclsberec ad injuries. Driver of the mo-| je”
> —— — onl ee” i,
: oH ior 265 S.. Yale-av, was treated per te .
ee > zor Sha aie td “Answer to Previous, tei for bruises after the j accident, Miss Van Horne)
“actress... zs wsua’
; “ee MOTORCYCLE was bile et
_+ erent ous young sch
by a.car turning left info Ceme-! &

ACROSS _ 41 Greatest:
} Actress, "43 Harem room

“ ta te (poet.)

tery-rd from Sclot Darby “Have it photc
Creek-rd. Driver Sse ‘the car,jshe'll deposit i
Winston D. Presser, 28, Spring-|keen $31,401 a’

‘finldA wae charsed with making wee IE |

'
ae hr

JACKSON, Robert, and TROTTER,

ft: Ww
gee oe Hews cord

ep ee eee ety

lowed, racrauts crowded,
o capacity, and stores enjoyed ~
of high sales at low prices.
evident: of: the Retail. Meese wromelie® 2

Cincinnati FNOQULRER=

ds a hug

bullfrog: her’ family
From the expresston on
big.—AaP Wirephoto.—.

- streets “busier than ever”
regular customers: at . restau-
‘Fante sald’ they'd “never neon:
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.. By Fraak Weikel
# Ennures “Staff Writer
“COEU MBUS;July 7—Lemuel-

“Son” Trotter and Robert Jack.
Bon “died” in the jel tri¢. ch
enitentiary to-
night Tor the slaying of Cincin-
“nati Detective: Walter Hart.

Trotter was pronounced dead
at $:04p. m. and the prison doc: -
tor declared Jackson dead 18
Minutes later.

.._The SU3earold2 4 retiecerse?
stauny -eyed and staring straight
ahead as guards Jed him into
‘the electrocution chamber and

appear to notice ‘witnesses whe
dined ‘thetdack wall
In. contrast, Jackson

“smiled defiantly as he entered:

thé room, after Trotter's body
had been! remoyedii'He flashed
a xrin att aptain of the
guard: as the’ black mask was
sted over his face.
AU 8:28 pom, Warden: R..W
vis ‘telephoned Goverto

. -ONcill's_ offite witht thé brief
See Wessage: “Sires 22, det il‘com-

pieted.”
Trotter, who had accepted

--fehgion- during his -23-month-

stay in the. -prison, murmured:
t

i Eagie'>
CafexSixth and Elm Sts.:where ‘

“Hart attempted. to 4

announced te would
_ the death penal
After each mbt was
to”. the” chair” -and
oW arden Alvis nodded his 5

The’ button signsled’a: team of

_ executioners elsewhere in the

building... who

which—eent 1950 voits: of e
tricity. through the bottles »
the men for: 10-second ethene
* The ch
by 40eecond Purrenté of, 500%:
volte: Ren 10-second Durtts. ‘of 23
1950 volts. 7) >

The electrocutions were. the
305th > and--S0e than th ee
‘tentiary, and» the first Govbie
"execution since 1983.. 2- 2.

The murder which led t6: to-
night's retribution “took place
Sept. 19, 1955, at the Grey

‘Detecti
stop a holdup staged by: Trot
ter. Jackson and Willie Ba
nett, 35.. The 49-year-pld detec-

‘owas shot dows ina Sanfight
WU the trie:

by ss

a ccmurdee with ‘no ‘recommenda.

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afternoon. shor tly

7 son this
Police ‘reported donmenn sf the doomed ‘man’s wile
and hdd made_a final visit.

The last hope pt reprieve for’
_the pair had vanished earher in

tion of; mercy, Jackson was al-

Teady in the Obio Penitentiax
ri mm ¢

Tima StaaarHispitel hoe

Crupinal” Ineth€ where:

still an inmate. eo
-Among the witneises te. a:

night's. executions were ASatp- .

_rescntatives. 8 police: andthe -

Press, and Loa. Beacraft, owner,”
the day when Governor ONeit zt H

Sam, blacks, elec. Ohio (Hamilton County) July 7, 1958.

AS} HINGT ON, ‘July 4

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Turnpike- Sets——
Heliday Records.

—BrREA—O; —Juty—7--—= The}
Ohio - Turnpike - “Commission -to-
day reported two new records | 4,
were set over the four-day July
+ 4-weekend on “the Ohio" super
highway. ———-—--------

A record 221,269 vehicles used
the turnpike over the holiday—
} 40,000_more than the previous

high set last se Total revenue
also set 8 new Migh, with $308,-
155 ‘collected during the four
days. This was $55,000 more U
+ the pe record set last
July 4

During the holiday, 40 accl-
dents were reported on the turp-
pike. Six involved property dam-
age and four involved injuries.

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—Robert L- (Hamboney Jackson
and Lemuel §S. (Son) Trotter
| must die‘in the electric chair in
Ohio—Penitentiary tenight, Gov-
ernor O'Neill ruled today.
The governor's refusal to save
the men from .death “for the
murder | on Sept. 19, 1955, of &
‘Cincinnati ~ detective > during #1
a holdup, . er he and
‘advisers had conferred at
ihe Mansion on _the ,case. for
several hours. .

Previously the Pardon and
Parole Commission and Paul
Tague Jr., executive " secretary
to the governor, heard separate :
pleas that the men vad sayed
from the chair. ~.

The first: man will 50 to the!
i chair around 8 -p.-m..-

to Warden Ralph Alvis. The
other will go shortly thereafter.

wi-a-Matic, Washet —

“= When Wew,- sold
= For $228.95 |

7 STIEL-90 p Tops.

{ STILL- Ohio’s largest- f
a selling bourbon fr

sin ny Segue te * gee monn eA ae, ©

. ginson, made‘a list of the kno

hit Art square in the heart.” ~~

one. back, and then Art let t
direct with two more. And th
» in that eve

82 =

| | perks HerscHet Haines swung his
car into Smith Street and peered at
numbers. When he reached 808% he
slowed almost to a stop.

“That’s the house,” he muttered.
Hobbs. I know him. A dirty rat if there
ever was one. Married to a swell young
pretty girl about twenty. Treats her like
a dog. He’s half drunk most of the time.”

A hundred feet further along the car
drew to a stop. Another vigil began. A
few minutes lates Haines and his partner
watched a dilapidated car pull up at, 808%.
A young man got out, cap pulled low. He
rapped three times on the door.

Then, in the dusk, the officers saw a
man’s hand stretch out through a’ broken

window pane. The visitor took something ©

from the hand and fumbled at a padlock
on the door. Presently the lock was sprung
and he entered. Then the mysterious hand
reached. out, snapped shut the padlock. .
Three hours later, the two dinnerless.
detectives saw the becapped visitor come
out. He staggered a bit, finally gained the
jalopy at the curb and drove away. -Haines
followed at a discreet distance. The jour-
ney ended at a cheap honky-tonk at the:

edge of town,. Haines and his: partner ©

entered and sidled up to the bar. Two.
hours later they left in disgust.) a.
hy a drunken punk,” Haines grumbled,
td e’

house.” i i! ae
On hyp the night ten more cars,.
manned by Hamilton’s best sleuths, were”

covering other residences, honky-tonks and .

known dives.. At daylight the total result.
of these activities was nothing. —*! Shey
“We'll keep this up if it takes months,”
Calhoun declared.
sleep.” Be Z
The chief and his assistant, Byron Fur--
{facts on

a long sheet of legal paper.

“It adds up to five possibilities,*Calhoun ’

stated at length. “You can’t figure police

work with mathematical certainty, but one

of these. five things happened:

%
a stickup, then jumped from his car and
taken after the gunman, In that case, we’re~
looking for some’ punk who’s been makin:
a living with his gun. RE
“Second, Sponsel’s headlights. may have

caught a couple of hoodlums we've been

}

looking for and he ordered thengito stop, 5

They ran and the shooting began,

“Third,”. the chief continued’
thinking aloud, “maybe he saw ‘two ‘guys*
with flashlights~trying to get into. Mike
Vertich’s place. i

safe, although it isn’t true. Personally, I:
lean toward that theory. ss : _

“Fourth, it could be that this’
punks who’ve been holding up gas’ stations
and cafes lately thought Sponsel\had the’
goods on them and deliberately® stoppec
him on his way home and shot him’do
It’s certainly ‘true that. the killer swho ‘sho!
Sponsel was. an expert marks

“What's your last idea, Chief?”
ginson queried. —

“Bill.

grab a bite and go back ge Hobbs if

r “All of you will take”
your posts again after you get a few hours”

‘within |view of:
glanced at the gasoline meter and suddenly

‘First,. Sponsel may actually have seen : ;
P r, “' ' «marked, “Chase a guy clear into Indiana

a wiles 4
‘though >

Mike says a rumor has
got around he keeps a lot of money in his —

Be
gang of

REAL DETECTIVE

that would be the one which killed Art.”

Furginson admitted the theories were
sound—all of them. But where did they
lead? If it were two Negro holdup men
they were looking for, there now were
six such suspects locked in the jail. But
they all had fairly good alibis, which were
‘being checked.

The chief’s phone rang.

“This is Haines,” the voice snapped’.

hastily. “We're headed out of town toward
Indiana, on Hobbs’ tail.”

Then there was a loud click.

At the edge of town Haines was silently
cursing to himself as he pushed the ac-
celerator to the floorboard to gain the
ground he had lost by the phone call,

“Just a wild goose chase,” he muttered
to Officer Nugent. “This Hobbs guy is
probably. going somewhere to get a free
drink. Funny he ‘took his wife along,
though. Why do these pretty young gals
‘go for guys like that?”

Ten minutes later the officers spotted .

Hobbs’ car half a mile ahead. At Mill-
ville, Ohio, they cautiously pulled up close
behind. The suspect continued on through
‘the town, on State Route 129, then through

the village of Philanthropy, Ohio, and.
across the Indiana’ border.’

A few miles
further, at Mt. Carmel, Ind., Hobbs slowed

almost to a stop, then speeded up through

the village and headed out Federal Route 52.

“Wonder if this guy’s on.the lam right -

now?” Nugent ueried.,

_ “Might be!” Haines agreed.
can. drive as long as -he can.”
. Then it was that both men ‘suddenly

“But we

“realized they were powerless to arrest
Hobbs even if they had anything to arrest.

‘him for.’ They were in another State. To

‘take the suspect legally would mean stop- *

‘ping at some local police department. This
_would be fatal, they realized: with sinking

H heart, ‘Hobbs would be long gone,

» So on they drove, well back, but always
the car ahead. Haines

‘noted with alarm the tank was almost
empty he ady & :
» “What a-laugh that would be,” he re-

and run out of gas!”
_ As‘he spoke, they saw the car ahead

‘up, A half mile further on Hobbs turned

|, Hobbs mo-
the two drove away,

“same route. | \

“Well, it’s slim, I'll admit, but then

shots in the’air to stop them, *

»came from the gun

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turn into a ‘dirt road, and anxiously speeded '

a brief report :

secret dicker

and his young wife re-entered the small

’ unpainted frame house and remained there

the rest of the day. And the next day, and
also the next.

“They're getting ready to clear out,”
Haines reported to Calhoun:

“Anything else suspicious ?”

“Nope. Except it looks funny Hobbs
would sell his furniture. He’s lived here
most of his life.”

“Cover ’em day and night,” the chief
ordered, and pulled out Hobbs’ police rec-
ord. “Just a small time punk,” he mut-
tered. “Three arrests for drunkenness and
two for carrying concealed weapons.”

On the bottom of the record was
scratched a note: ‘This man thinks he’s
a tough character and when drinking talks
about robberies and stick-ups.”

The chief's phone bell tingled. Haines:
answered it. ,

“He’s leaving for good!” he shouted,
turning to Calhoun, “Better give us some
more men, Chief, just in case. We don’t
want him to get across the State line again.”

Calhoun leaped into action. He grabbed
a handful of officers in the detectives’ room
and raced out the front door. On Smith
Street, out of sight af the Hobbs residence,
Detectives Haines, McFall, - Dinwiddie,
Decker and Nugent climbed into the chief’s
car. The others silently got into another
automobile. .

The party arrived none too soon, for a
few minutes later Hobbs came out carrying
grips and a load of packages to his car.
Then his young wife emerged and both
got in the car. he suspect headed out
of town on the famous Dixie Highway.

“Looks like this time he’s going’ down to
Kentucky, Chief,’ Haines ventured. “I
move we close in on him.”

For several miles the silent chase con-
tinued. As Hobbs neared the Springdale
Dog Track, Chief Calhoun made a sudden
decision. ; i,

“Okay, boys,’ he said. “Get ready for
this mug. He might come out shooting.”

The prowl car leaped forward. In less
than a minute it was opposite Hobbs.

aines yelled out, “Stop! We're police~.
officers !’’

But instead Hobbs stepped on his accel-
erator.. Chief Calhoun anticipated this _
move, and with his more powerful car

“swung closely alongside and in’a few sec-

~ ‘when ‘he’ could’ ‘find voice.

“> tective said, Rae uate cai ay 8h
__ Hobbs, now in handcuffs, '‘eyed the. -
weapon glumly, erie 3 sige

~ onds nosed the fugitive car almost into

the ditch and to a stop. At the same

‘time; the second police car swung around

both and braked to a halt, completely’
blocking Hobbs. ‘epee?
Pistols drawn, Haines and McFall leaped
from the chief’s car and raced to either
side of the surprised Hobbs. oe
“Come out with your hands up,” Haines
commanded. : :
Hobbs. did so, a. look of complete be-
wilderment covering his features, while his
young wife sat watching the fast mel
drama, totally expressionless. :
“What's all this about?” Hobbs demanded
_“T Haven't
‘done anything,” - * EE
Ignoring’ the remark, Calhoun © and
Haines frisked the suspect with practiced —
fingers.’ He wasn’t armed. But a-moment

~ later, another officer exclaimed, “Here it.
~~ is, Chief.”

“In his hand he held a 32)
Smith and Wesson revolver. It was’ fully
loaded and had recently been cleaned..* ~~

-“Found it under the back seat,” the de- :

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peas |

“Come on,” ordered Calhoun, “I kno

good spot near here where’ we can

this’ gent without being bothered.” :”

‘In a few minutes the three cars pulled

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DETECTIVE

heard all these shots? Anybody at all?
- The officers who had been at headquar-

- ters since midnight shook their heads.

Fig a single report, Chief,” _ they
agreed. ce

It was unbelievable! Immediately ad-
joining the lot and facing North Third
street was a two-story frame structure.
alhoun knew Mike Vertich, cafe oper-

“ator, lived on the second floor. He

operated the cafe on the first floor.

~“Go wake up Mike,” the chief com-
manded. “And you two,”-he added, point-
ing to a pair of officers, “you two scour
the neighborhood. Somebody heard these
shots. A .38 makes plenty of noise, espe-
cially-at night. Besides that, the killer
did some shooting, too. What’s this?” he
exclaimed, pointing his flashlight ‘at what
remained of an automobile, completely
stripped of tires and accessories. “Now it
looks like we’re getting somewhere. Spon-
sel saw somebody ‘stripping that car as he
passed and stopped to investigate. He
never had a chance with that flashlight in
his hand.”

But this-theory soon was tossed to the
winds. Mike Vertich, who had put on a
coat over his pajamas, approached the car
with an officer. ;

“That’s mine,” he said. “Some dirty
rats stole everything off of it last Satur-
day night.” e i

He declared he heard no unusual noise

during the night or early morning.

~ “But I’m a sound sleeper,” he explained,
as Calhoun eyed him narrowly.

Impatiently, the chief pieced together the
known facts. Sponsel left police headquar-
ters at 2:30 a. m. At approximately 3:00
a. m. he drove his own car from the city
garage and was headed on North Third
Street for his home. The murder, he
reasoned, must have occurred shortly after-
wards. Sponsel, he, reflected, lay dead for
almost two hours and was discovered only
by accident.

“Chief,” Detective Herbert Crowthers
broke his thoughts, “here are two men can
tell you something. They’re night watch-
men at the Niles plant over there.”

“What’s your name?” Calhoun tersely
asked one of the men. ;

“William Dillyard,” he replied somewhat
shakily. “I think I heard the shots, Chief.
There were four loud ones right together
at first. Then there were two more, not
so loud.”

“What time was that?”

“Yd just completed the rounds of my
end of the plant,” Smith answered. “So
it must have been right before 3:00 o’clock.”

“Why didn’t you investigate, or call po-
lice headquarters?” Calhoun inquired.

“Well,” the man replied, “I was at the
far end of the building, away from here.
At first I thought it was automobile back-
fire. Then I figured it was Joe Smith here
shooting in the air to scare somebody away
from the plant. I didn’t hear any more
noises so I thought everything was all
right.” :

Smith, the other watchman, declared he
thought he heard noises that sounded like
shots, but wasn’t sure.

As gray dawn gradually altered the

scene, neighbors began to gather. With’

disgust, officers returned to report that no

one could be found who had heard or seen

anything unusual the whole night long.
Then suddenly an officer shouted. from

“cop

the rear corner. of Mike Vertich’s cafe.

| “There’s a bullet here in this siding,”.

he called to the chief. - -

Soon he had prodded out ‘the femains
It was no. -

of a badly battered .32 slug.
use whatever for ballistic purposes. . But
it ‘did establish the killer used a 132 pistol
or revolver. i he
“And that,” Chief Calhoun announced
with disappointment, “is our only clue.”

ACK AT HEADQUARTERS, Calhoun sum-

® moned the day and night force and

snapped out commands to .his men, who

he knew would leave nothing unturned to

find this killer or killers who had shot down
a’ fellow officer. ;

“I want you to check every doctor’s
office, hospital and sanitarium in the town,”
he ordered. . “Sponsel was a good shot.
Certainly one of his four shots hit some-
body. Also, interview everybody you talk
to on whatever they know of an injured
man.”

To a small group of picked detectives.
he said. “We haven't the slightest clue to
go on. So we'll start the hard way.
want you to compile a list of every man
who’s been arrested for robbery or toting
a rod in the last five years. Speed is the
main thing. Whoever did this job is most
likely in hiding now. The chance of get-
ting him or them is one in a thousand.”

Bertillon Sergeant Joseph McFall en-
tered the chief’s office. In his hands he
carried the ill-fated officer’s uniform.
large dark brown splotch across the front
of the coat told its own ghastly tale.

“The killer was .a tall man,” McFall
announced briefly. “Look,” he added, point-
ing to the coat front. “The bullet entered
here, just to the right of his badge. Dr.
Deubel found it near-the surface of. his
left hip, which means it went first through
his heart, then his. left lower lung. e

died instantly. And the man who shot him.

had to be taller than Sponsel.” He laid
a badly mutilated bullet on the chief’s desk.
“Look at that!. This is no amateur killer.
He filed the nose of that bullet so that
it spread the moment it entered Sponsel’s
body. It would have torn’a big hole any-
where it went.” . :

Chief Calhoun fingered the ugly death
pellet. Not a chancé of identifying it with
any weapon, he reflected, so thoroughly
battered was its surface.

News of the: murder caused immediate
consternation among citizens of Hamilton,

‘who for ten long years had been free from

the terror rule of mobsters and racketeers.
Almost at once, a group of Hamilton busi-
nessmen, at the instance of Alexander
Thompson, president of the Chamber of
Commerce, held a meeting and quickly
pledged a reward totalling $5,000 for in-
formation leading to the capture and arrest
of the killer.

To this was added $300 from the Police
Mutual Aid Society special fund, and still

another $50 from an anonymous donor.’

Never in the history of the town hada
reward of this proportion been raised to
solve a crime. Most cestainly it would
spur the investigation on the part of the
public.

Tips poured in by the scores. Most of
them sounded valueless, but Chief Calhoun
was overlooking no bets and ordered every
clue run down. At the end of-the day, the
investigation had gained no ground,

KILLING CARO

| (CONTINUED FROM. PAGE 43)

to check

USERS

> +

_ Meanwhile, Calhoun had before him a
list of more than two hundred persons—
suspects. and. those actually arrested for
robbery and possession of weapons in the
last few years. These he parcelled out
among a dozen of his best men with orders
every one and bring back a com-
plete report of their whereabouts at the
time of the crime; also a detailed -history

“of what each man had. been doing in recent

months,
In 24 harried hours the list was pared

down to 50. By Wednesday morning, with

still not a clue, it was. reduced to 20.
Calhoun’s “hard way” system> was slowly
progressing. But was it getting anywhere?

By Thursday the list of ‘suspects was

down to an even dozen. Chief: Calhoun
rubbed his hands and for the hundredth
time carefully. scanned the remaining names..
On that piece of paper was success or
failure. Newspapers anidipublic were clam-
oring for results. :
- Amid this fevered activity at headquar-
ters, the remains of Arthur Sponsel headed
a cortege of uniformed policemen and hun-
dreds of Hamilton citizens. At the grave, a
dozen keen-eyed detectives, who scrutinized
everyone present, vowed eternal vengeance
as two of their number tenderly held the
arms of Mrs. Sponsel, convulsed in sobs.
Crying hopelessly by her side were the
two children of the slain officer. So pitiful
was the scene that scores of onlookers
wept unashamed.

Direct from that scene went Chief Cal-
houn, his chief assistant, Byron Furginson,
together with a group of picked men—
Detective Sergeant Herschel Haines
Detectives Charles Nugent, Robert E. Din-
widdie, Oscar Decker, Reginald Stone,
rir ae Joseph McFall and others.

ordlessly they fell into pairs and drove
away in private cars, which would not be
spotted. Each had his own assignment. No
clues. Nothing whatever to go on. Just
suspicion. Suspicion based on past histor-
jes of hoodlums and underworld hogwash.

Two of the grim-faced officers headed
out Deerfield Pike. Presently the car
slowed down as they passed a modest farm
house. A man of about 35 in blue denim
was carrying a milk pail toward one of
the outbuildings.

Detective Decker fished hurriedly in his
pockets and brought out a police “mug”
photo.. Underneath it read, “John Agnew,

’ married, three children,” and then a long

list of suspected robberies. On the reverse
side was a detailed account of Agnew’s
history when but 17.

- His father and mother had been brutally
murdered in their home, their heads and
bodies battered by some heavy instrument.
John had been questioned: but had insisted

' his parents were attacked by a strange in-
» truder.

-“That’s him,” Decker said. “But we
can’t park here, Better drive on a piece
and we'll walk back through the fields.”

The two officers, under cover of dusk,
gained the farm buildings unseen half an
hour later and took up an all night vigil.
But nothing unusual happened. Agnew
performed his few farm chores, ate his
supper and retired at 9 p. m., as did his
family. Wait.and watch, wait and watch.
That was the byword. It might take
months. Maybe Agnew wasn’t their man;
only time would tell—and patience.

HOBBS, William,

vhite, elec. OH (Butler) July 6, 1938

“WE'LL GET THAT Wee

By CHIEF OF POLICE
JOHN C. CALHOUN
as told to
CHARLES L. BURGESS

brought the squad car to a

fast stop. Picking up the
flashlight which lay on the seat
beside him, he stepped to the
sidewalk.

Playing the beam along the
front of the restaurant he with-
drew his service revolver from
his holster. He walked toward
the alley between the restaurant
and an empty two-story building.
A fleeting figure suddenly was
revealed by the glare from his
flash. Sponsel's pulse quickened
and his finger tightened on the
trigger.

Again he played the stab of
light along the walls of the
alley. It caught another figure,
who darted into the inky black-
ness.

“Come out with your hands
up!" barked Sponsel.

His only answer was the snap
of a pistol shot and the angry
spitting sound of a bullet as it
hit the wall above his head. The
cop fired at the flash. Only the

Perwont the Arthur Sponsel

sounds of the machines at the
Niles Tool Works and the rum-
ble of trains in the distance
disturbed the night air. Again
he played the beam through the
alley, more slowly this time. A
figure darted from behind a di-
lapidated car at the end of the
alley. Sponsel fired twice at the
wraith-like apparition.

A shot answered his as the
bullet whined close to his face.
The lines of his face set grimly
as he walked slowly, fearlessly
into the stygian blackness of the
alley. :

A sixth sense seemed to warn
him. He wheeled and flashed the
ray of light at a figure crouching
in the darkness. Two shots,
sounding as one, ecohed in the
damp night air...

Sponsel, his body weaving
drunkenly, staggered from the
alley, tottered across the rail-
road tracks, and then fell head-
tong. The flashlight, its beam
suddenly extinguished, rolled
from his relaxed fingers.

Once again the sounds of the
machines;at the Tool Works and
the hoot of a train whistle rever-
berated on the night air. Then,
from out of the strange silence,
came the hurried starting of an

automobile engine, the sputtering
of the motor as it caught, and the
faint hum of a car disappearing
into the night. It had sounded ter-
rifyingly loud as it seemed to dis-
turb the Angel of Death which
hovered over the inert form of
the brave policeman.

I received the news of Sponsel’s
death shortly after five o’clock, In
20 minutes I was at the scene of
the shooting. Sponsel’s body lay
about 15 feet from the tracks. The
two officers who had found him,
Herschel Seward and Levi Justice,
were standing over the body which
they had covered with a sheet. A
small crowd of early morning work-
ers were grouped nearby.

“What’s the dope, boys?” I ask-
ed.

“Seward and I were on our way
to the garage with the squad car
when we saw Artie’s body. His car
was parked as you see it now, by
the curb,” explained Justice,

“What made you drive this
way?” I wanted to know. North
Third Street is out of the way of
anyone going towards the police
garage.

“Sponsel signed off at 2:30 this

morning, and then failed to show:

up at headquarters to make out
his reports. We thought it kind of
strange for Artie to do that,” an-
swered Justice.

I nodded. Artie Sponsel was one
of the most beloved cops on the
Hamilton, Ohio, police force. I

He wheeled and
light at a figu
darkness. Two
one, echoed in

10 20 APRIL 1937
, See

REVEALING

DETECTIVE

(Left) JOHN AGNEW:
He wanted to go out
and get some easy
dough, but he was stop-
ped by a policeman.

(Right) WILLIAM

HOBBS: He refused to

talk until the lethal gun
was produced.

September, 1944

a COP-KILLER!”

. the sputtering
caught, and the
sar disappearing
nad sounded ter-
t seemed to dis-
3f Death which
inert form of
an.
iews of Sponsel’s
r five o’clock, In
at the scene of
onsel’s body lay
a the tracks. The
had found him,
and Levi Justice,
rr the body which
with a sheet. A
cly morning work-
nearby.
pe, boys?” I ask-

were on our way
th the squad car
ie’s body. His car
ou see it now, by
ned Justice.

you drive this
to know. North
yut of the way of
ywards the police

d off at 2:30 this

en failed to show:

ters to make out
thought it kind of
2 to do that,” an-

e Sponsel was one
loved cops on the
, police force. I

He wheeled and flashed the ray of
light at a figure crouching in the
darkness. Two shots, sounding as
one, echoed in the damp night air.

‘ Specially posed.

THE HAMILTON, OHIO,
POLICE STRIKE A NEW
HIGH IN BRILLIANT
SLEUTHING WHEN THEY
AVENGE THE DEATH OF
THEIR MOST BELOVED COP

Skeet asa ] HOLLIS, W,lliam.,.. blacks 2h.
: Elec, Ohio (Mahoning) on
_ (Youngstown VINDICATOR) . ) : 3=28-192h.

wae Se RS ree UE

OH Attktitic

HOFFMAN, John B., hanged at Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 16, 188),

"Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec, 16, 188l-John B,. Hoffman was hanged this morning in the jail yard
for the murder of his son in January, 1882, He wept while listening to the death warrant
and begged piteously not to be downed in the papers. He had to be held while being hand-
cuffed and was supported on the scaffold by two men while the noose was bwing adjusted,
he madeno speech.

NHISLORY OFMTHE CRIME
"The crime for which John B, Hoffman was hanged was as cruel as ever demon conceived and as
inhuman as ever fiend committed, He was brutal by nature when sober, and up to about eight
years ago he was soher, His family suffered more than any others from his brutish naturee
But about six years ago he became a daily terror to his wife and six children. One evening
in 1878 a pistol shot was heard in a room of the basement house where he lived, and people
rushing to the scene found John B, Hoffman standing, pistol in hand, over the prostrate body
of Edward, his eldest son, The boy dying tried to exonerate his father because he was drunk.
The verdict of the coroner at a slipshod imuest was death by accidental shooting. Cuite
another verdict was that of his neighbors, who knew from his ugly temper that it must have
been murder, Strange as it may seem to ouiet, law-loving communities, Jokn B, Hoffman was
not even tried for that crime, ‘When the riot came last March, John B, Hoffman was one of the
26 murderers in the Hamilton County Jail whom indignant citizens by the thousands were will-
ing to see taken from the jail and lynched, The crime for which he was then imprisoned was
the shooting of his son Robert who, since Edward's death, had been the mainstay and support
of his mother and her family of four other children, all younger than Robert,
"Mrs. Hoffman, after the murder of Edward, her eldest son, tried to live with the father of
her children, and only abandoned the attempt two years ago when, according to her own con-
victions and that of her nearest friends, it was both futile and dangerous to continue it
any longer, Hoffman had, for over 6 years, been a dead weight to his family, giving nothing
at all for its support, while he himself lived entirely off the earnings of his wife and
children, The separation of the family from Hoffman crazed him and inspired his mrderous
heart with revenge. The chief object of his malignant passions was his wife, He did not
seem to want to take her life, but to deprive her of support and leave her to suffer a living
death of destitution with her hungry, naked and helpless little ones around her to aggravate
her woe, To this end it seems he madeup his mind to kill Robert, who was making a comfortabl
living for his mother and the family,
"On the night of January 12, 1883, John B, Hoffman, near midnight, crept into the basement
house where his wife and children lived, and, hiding in a doorway which commanded the en-
trance to Robert's room, he waited patiently all night till the boy started out to go to his
work, His mother stood beside him with a lamp to light him out. The murderous father fired
from his ambush, not six feet away, justas Robert set foot in the hall, and laid him dead at
his mother's feet with a bullet through his head,
"Hoffman was arrested and indicted for murder in the first degree, His trial was the first
one after the riot and the first under the post-riot jury lawe The first thing that the
jury did after retiring on his casewas to hold a brief prayeremeeting, They were out but
a few minutes, He was to have been hung November 2), but was reprieved for a hearing by
the Supreme Court which sustained the lower court, An effort to have Governer Hoadley
commute the sentence fail, In the county jail his brutal disposition made him odious
to both the jail officers and his fellow prisoners,"

DAILY NEWS, Galveston, Texas, 12-17-188); (3-5).

HOLT, Noble (Red), electrocu chip, (Hamilton Co.) 27-1923.
Electree ted He y ki enc_ ()
; “Fiulaski County Historical ae

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In Toledo 45: years. —

-Taken by Death

John Szyperski, 66, : pincer “Qled
Saturday after a two weeks" illness
in his -home, 2713 Lagrange street.
Mr. Sayperaki came to’ the. United
States 47 years ago “from his birth-
place tn Poland, and had -lived in
Toledo 45 years.” He was identified

nity organizations, . ee, ee

Harry; daughters,
Theresa and. Cecilla; a” brother,
Charles; a ajster, Mra. 'P. Melczak,
and one grandson, .all of Toledo.

completed,

Mattimore Death

Death of. Patrolman John Mattl-
more, 35, of 662 West Delaware ayve-
nue, early Friday, was held acél-
dental in the verdict of Coroner
Frank G, Kreft, returned Saturday,

Patrolman | Mattimore received
fatal Injuries when the automobile

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{the home cf ida° parents, “Mr. and
i Mrx, Mernard Mattimore, 662. West
| Delaware avenue, at 9 A. M. Monday
and in Uathedral chapel at. 9:30, In-
terment will be in Calvary semetery

coe meee een gf ae ten Salary pearaam

“Missing” Girl |

| Young “and Leonard ae

= that a stay of execution Jc’ granted,
| A> statement “by
Rartemeler,- Dettol

jwas) obtained | from the’ ‘clerk

-} motion. ©
. |. | Journal entry this qurist-would make

here with many Polish and Comm)

Surviving. are his wife, Srrancest
sons, Stanley, Anthony, Frank and].
Helen Francea,}-

Funeral ree ice have net ~_ ES

Held Accidental} ~

he was driving skidded and crashed]

J with me in my request to Toledo

“About 336 Pa." ‘attorneys
who. ¢
i

fended Hoops,” filed
“teria
Pitlog::

A certification of the.
courts and Attorney. youne. ‘got ite

a ruling - on the
“Informed “that the | ‘only

woukl be a denial of the motior,:
they .asked permission © ‘to. take
matter before another ‘Judge. * be
“Judge Clarence. Irwin “was “anked:

to obtain’ & ruling. frony’ the: trial
judge,’ Charles’ M. Milroy. Judge
Irwin refused to interfere.“
Efforts to get action before other
members of the: _ common: ; pean

‘| Rev. Peat Hones Wil
“Accept - Call - yO:
Western Charch. _

TOI. PONE,
The Rev. Perry C. Hopper, fosiee
of Third Presbyterian church here
since. 1918, late Friday. mailed his
resignation, effective Dec, 41, to the
church’ board,
eall from Westminster Presbyterian
church, Portland, Ore. ‘ 3

Dr, Hopper, in his letter says:

-tfThe desire to terminate my pas:
{orate is not prompted by any disg-
cord among ourselves or. by digsatis-
faction with Toledo but. because: &
greater challenge . ‘and opportunity
have heen presented by: the church
to which we expect to go." ~~

“I make an earnest request that
you take action . today to concur.

Presbytery to dissolve: the relation-
‘ship existing between Third church

Visiting Sister)

ian ae

Bishi fe! Shab Raaiits

Ps ee Sasa tN

accept acall to Westminster church

*“\ Father Albert O’Brien, prion pri¢st..

om outer. office of the ponltentiary. ‘To slado
-|ledoans © included < Attorney (Larry)
Bevan,” Fred” “Jaeger. of Waite high of
“Harter, and Deputy

physicians assisting i. “George, Ww.

; {from other eltien,

so he cant “accept (a |

and myself that. f.might be free to

fa Portiand Press:

a prison officials he: ‘*wanted

“when they asked him-te

‘telect t dishes for his jast supper.
‘thashed |

to issue a two-day suspension of the |, aerated
execution to give.the attorneys time] (4 ¢

give ‘his name went | to Hoppe’s cell,
accompanied’ by the. Reverend

pany opa it sO: ‘Reed, who. baptised
‘faith earlier.

school, ‘ He

Sherifts He e ie onbarese? sand eke

Bi $03 fe SE ee.
“the others were” newspapermen: |

Attorney Bey
aenael tor Hoppe during his iat
but who. withdrew:
was pronounced |
that. “it: was "th
sible," said he had
attending the’ “execution,

“f have always deen
tHe efficacy of capital punishment,*.

he explained, “and I wanted to watch ‘po 4
the effect of this, “My second reason | stand his

ia personal. Hoppe” had no objec
ta my coming! (40585 os
"Shortly after “o'clock, 4

after bentence |.

the opwitch, was preased. ees
‘Father. O’Brien * ‘prayed, his face }.

uplifted.” ‘The Toledo priest, who had} a

Ab ratee age akg: enngrerg ved |

~ Karly on ke mgd ‘of May 29,
a} the ‘Bielagowskt” aM
ash LA ba “was broken “into,” and ‘little

40) Palmer; Sel

Dorothy: was snatched from the bed fs

& stude ot |

nesses, led by the warden, who car >

ried 4”. cane, marched through the
prison yar, tq the new death house
a the: enst end of: the peniveniis

Rucker: Enters. First”

the ‘ominous ” looking: chair, ~
‘Rucker \waa- brought, in alniost tae
ediately.’
uards. hia héad ited back and: fila {

“ghey grouped - ‘themeelves around: ag
and! ur

Ile walked between two Naowert hom

etecti ven

et oe

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‘breakdown
A ae ai

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tye eS
pleas court} *
ty hearing)”
mned ‘aan,
sutton und

sonahes , of
jor. refused

iling from
ponate alee

his: lips, |
ss devred ‘al Hoppe was still. Like Rucker, : he
ter -he had| kept his eyes closed: His face was
= “wanted | pale.. The executioners: nodded that
shed him tajthey. were ready, and the button,
ast supper.| Which signaled for the. throwing at
1 ‘potatoes, | the “switch, was ‘pressed.

. a da mode

He nibbled | uplifted. The Toledo priest, who had}
ving: elae. | knees, with face: averted, ‘and , alee

¢ meal, ate prayed. | We asses Bf

Oe 1 dg

The tops, of}.

and trouser | has passed ‘through Hoppe’s body to
wt Anges sauce his death," Dr. Keil reported.

ty rer's
Lee

beeueed tO

foppe’s cell,

rison priest.

‘aith earlier
th the Cin

eied In the

‘ney Larry.
Waite. high
and) Deputy
‘er and Gus

es6
xapapermen,

George W,
and persons

1a Was) co
ng his trial,
er sentence
he comment
Verdict prog.
reasons for
& student of
runisiiment,”
ited to watch
econd reason
no objection

rk tha wit.
Fen, who rar:
through ‘the
death house
penitentiary,
¥ First :

*iVew 2round }
and t
. im.

' i two,

hack and his |’

“Attendants inspected the device of
-n4 Leonard execution, and Hoppe. ‘Was sent for.
tte attempt | He had been praying ‘with. Father
\ O'Brien and the Solaty ortest

fingers ;
aia ‘crucifix hy held to his: breast,’
he walked into, the ‘death. chamber
"4 between the tero (priests, He. .sat f°
down in. the chair, ‘kissed ‘the cross}:

Bhi ae hr fervently, and panded
Aitied the | OBrien. |

siaped back aa the executioners ad-
écattee was juated the electrodes and wet sponges
: . to Hoppe’s head and lege,

Ue 5 Hoppe'a. heart ‘a. not rstege
jong an the other condemned man,

= os fand. fewer, ‘applications -of . the
ining over. | stethoscope were made, ° “before he
“@ prepared | was pronounced dead. 2) 4.5.

gained his feet, when the current

was‘: turned _ off, stepped. forward
Revergna quickly and sprinkled holy. ester on
ho: baptised the forehead of the corpae.*

O'Shaughnessy mortuary. In. Colum<
| bus... It was sent: late. Friday night
to the Valentine Suskowski mortuary | °

at Nebraska and etree avenues, 19
entlary. To- Toledo. ee or “

of ‘the ‘most daring ‘and atrocious.
murders in Toledo,;.a: slaying com:
; parable only: to those ‘committed
“ie 8 os hy Hickman in California and Sas
: ling in, Filnt, Mich. tet

the Sielagowskl home,” ‘$47. Palmer
street, was broken Inta;- and © little
Dorothy was snatched from the bed
where she was sleeping with three
sisters, Her father, Alex, ‘was
awakened by the screams. of. one of
the sisters, and glanced from the
window in time ta-see a man place

away,

stand his broken English. He then

- nor ad his:
tlis facta} t
AO herseensed |

eS her with

flieig at: Thy ‘

yt Basralniate te
PN eee

Be Yehn UR nie cee

With head t bow.

ito Wether
‘The priests crossed 5 Sa ana

Current. Is Applied
* Bave for the movement: ‘of.

Father O'Brien prayed, his. teak

“Sufficient, current! of: ‘electricity

Bedy Taken to ‘Mortuary |
“The {Toledo priest, who had re-

. Hoppe’s body was renioves to the

The: section cerote: fints to one

Child Taken: From Bed
‘Early on the morning of May 29,

Dorothy In an Auiomons le and drive

Mr. Siclagow ski arsoaed se called
police, who were: unsvlie to under-

went to the Safety building to tell of
the kidnaping. Upon his return with
twa nolicemen, he found th child's

lhody on: the porch “of her uncle’ s}

home, ibs Palmer street. ;
. Man Hunt Begins ©©
An extensive hunt for the slayer

z Wax begun. Hoppe, whose wife was

a first cousin ‘of the child, came
under suspicion he ‘cause he once had.

‘Mved’ for a few eens in re Sie.

lagowsid home. :
Detectives ealled at Hy \ppe’s ‘conte
that morning, but found nothing to
link him with ‘the slaying. At mid-
night,. however, he was arrested.

lagowski | home: intending, . he. said,
to week liquor. ‘Instead, he saw the],
Uittle’ girl, struck pees muffled, her
ories,’ and drove off, «

asserted. “Thad one of my spells.’ Cr
his trial begun before Judge Charies |
Milroy. A week was spent in select: | j,:
ing a jury. Prosecutor Leroy Hunt} -
and Judge Clarence: Irwin, then as-

preknable walt. of evidence proving ie

of guilty substituted, the jury dis-
charged. and Judges James. Martin |.

be of Hoppe’s signed and sworn
corer stag that he was the pee

: and the execution was deferred until

executive clemency. » Gavernor Dona:

cated. He went home, only to leave | Fi
a few minutes later. He broke into}
the ; rage of his fatherin-law, stole} <1
an automobile and drove it to the} —

“aq 'Gon't. know why. aia‘ ”

“Hoppe was indicted quickly,” ‘pnd | *

sistant. prosecutor, bullt up an‘ im-

Hoppe guilty. ;.
AWith the states” case in, the ‘plea
of not guilty was withdrawn.. A plea

‘land James Austin, Jr., xstimmoned to
sit ‘with Judge vo atl in: Dae:

“contention |
that » Hoppe ‘was insane. © .Fout;
physicians and a. psychologist testi.
fied that. Hoppe was a pervert, @ :
moron . and a. psychopath, "Three |
allenists testified for. the state that,
although he, might he a peychorsent
he Was sane... '7 ee .
The ' judges ound Hoppe. guilty
of first degree raurder, and withheld
‘mercy. ° “They sentenced, bin to de
Oct, 262°" ang ee igre cs
Defense counsel, ‘denied. a motion |'
for @ new trial, carried tie cage’ to
the court of appeals... Deciaion of the
lower court was sustained, but the}
execution was postponed a. week.
i Review. Is Sought he
: ‘next. move was to seek r re
view in the supreme court. - Again
Hoppe: was granted a week's stay,
although the motion was. tarned
down. On Nov; 8, the day before the} \
next execution date, a petition ‘as
of right” was. flied in' the supreme
court, The aliorney ‘petesal hekl
this’ automatically granted a’ stay,

“They we addressed to
er, Mary. Hoppe, 618 Detroit avenue,
brother, 1.40, and’ wife,: ‘Mrs.. Sophia | *
Hoppe. The latter two returned to
‘| Toledo from. Columbus Friday. after. :
bidding farewell to the slayer. (Ott
year-old. ‘Dorothy ‘Sielagowski before
a bin abe ba death. in the f

relatives she kept a aad 1 viel . hy
cottage Friday’ night “while, the.
paying the Bear h

Friday, the date set by the supreme
court after it: nae seniors the secs}.
ond petition, ~

“S Meanwhile, ‘Die diate’ hoard
clemency gave the defense’ lawyers
a hearing and refused to recommend.

“pedy. was” be takes hatée-
“Hoppe's mother's sepa B18)

hey appointed three. new alienis
to examine Hoppe, and they, fo
him gane, 3: Sey ge

Hoppe # brother and wit

t servic 4 Tues: ; 3
; isldue } #.
‘Burial a be in cal

Teeth marks on the child's body

last <n to the governor:

HOPPE, Stanley, white, 26, electrocuted Ohio (Lucas County) November 30, 1928.

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; bie of fore: for publication.
Bice, She at no time during the long exam;
st ting As S{nation did the confessed siayor show
P owho will) Gens of: teem king under: the strain
woover the of tne crosm-fire of qusations, and
Blanes Wil when be was allowed to ieave the

iecr-iareen. im, he appeared pertectly eon
pppoe, and

on. 13th 00 Ste wife alec was quisard by police |
Amundsen |. ng )er statement te printed here.

@. 1925. The statement Hoppe gave notes!

lane | foliows in part:

fim. foltow: | Q.- Teil us what rou did on ‘the |

tain Riisers morning of the 2h cng
of uctenae,) AcaT left the wedding and
oe tion of over to Stanky te tagewaki"

He im now sage at 2223 Elo street and a
ro with. hie Stadebeker tourmge car. bigs

SACI 6 atin RATE 5 FS

<a we = tee

~ Toledo's most Hee we
after the child’s body W:

with his hanes Hoops:
first degree murders H |
to the grand fury with ee

eI “ASSAILS 5

frnergen? Qe Where did vow dpive nr
\ pect se A—Over around the Overtaud “7 '
: Sg a aige armund the boulevard.

othe teadec _~ Then «hat did you do? a
Ater naiied Ast dont know tt at run oot cd
‘gas or what, 1 couldn't —_ wes

Q—Then what happened

A.—Then. ft went over tot
_ ine space and’ picked out @ wiser
. : and drove beck poems
Ad Cita di the’ netghborhood. on Cherry,
gether ang parked op Palmer, then Ef went mas
giears und | i47 Palmer street, the hane of on

a Sielagowskt.
‘w Feaces of S inte ene

TIENTARA aA KILLER
“ su00ts: 2 COPS,

Pe. oe bh

wa Cineinaatl Policeman Are “ee
‘ep, Wounded a ;

ond ot the o machine § sun ters of’

} -How did you ett
o ity @ home?

“He’s

Going to Break!”

Tense Group Awaits Word

News. Writers, Photogra

“: Buddle Silently in F

Ex ‘pein’ t6 peeak*

Is Wrung From Prisoner.

way as Confession

Be oe Se ciooed uoneaes ea Wise Rib Winnett cried 46 tn |

nasery Daiding Wedneniay, poor trating
only fomoet can, While #

hay estan b

thé utmoat offives Ih @ way that
man, voverved by the sota of he

“ > Wer nedned A “"r unbooked tie serewe dior) Roteemen, eorep Binaars bate a
: fey, Ty there vam @ hole: te the verran —ané | Upton’ shenge | ‘here Foote “than 8
Po a Sed toon Reve the door a pur and the boar | We 666 eee patraaetn Yi

pened. .% irokrd in the enphoard
eh ones and there wasn't any | cineinnat ‘Thoreiay, Te ie Ray}

U piwnasd was up (he Kite tem | Crane Neck’ Nugent, elias Joe |
Crem tesa hore a@ rou BO" i

foermt oy the cellar and dido’t Fekete & desperate enok with 4 tong,

thing in the vetiar. record. }

A <1 went Upetaire Ip tie bath | Qocmded abree times in the body ond
com and from. bhers t tot ca the 5 Pat ow Ms diam ites at }
| rent THOM: ‘Fes cmins pagold } i
QW Was in the’ front room foot! The tire anetiapes tingly were) |
cacorting ea occupled vy two THER:

an *

Ler eRere Gd yon ror Motorcycle Paitoernsin Duna was?

(Killer Horrified

2) | Hoteling, ve murderers and

at Other Crimes:

Charles Hoppe,

mardéerre of Dorothy ro come

wy wan horrified af accounts } |

the fe Angeles and Flint, | |

Nice kidnaping murders, sev-
eral months age, according to
relatives. Thursday.

Following the arrests of Fide
ward Hickman and) Adeiph |

{

are os ae Pi
ae ri Tecate ney (
Aen Yor [speeding “i

{— Thies whigt waypened Omg af the metoriete, later identt |
* Ladera? ie ihe ted BN EW eed ne Nugento.drew @ patel and)
ae crripAin Rha: bed sicepivuy opened tire os theipiear tended ever

Prickett. ad % io “ti x we
a) the Cantraf bridge inté Kentuekr.
deter OREO ‘ Pee

}

! i

Sa aa as lh Sa esis

“Those men ought to be tor i
tured the same an they tortured

their victina,” be is quoted as
et Veneee thew mee,

ah ai ast

tnt emid

Patel w-

detectives, faltered and led. and
arena Tore intense than any ever
{ witnessed from an erchestra chair,
cast ite spell about those rho
watched and waited.

Crisp, staccato questions angwered

‘in Mefiant monoayilabien and oie

Vere statements. deadenrd by a
round-prooft ccilthy to an unintellt-
gible frenzy of svund, Intermed thoee
who walled that a suEpee} wae be-
‘tae grilled—and nething teore. -

fore the captain of detectives’ uffice
ftergot the casual and desultoty eon

i Reporters hated at ibe barrier be- office ere

Tersation that the startling

preceeded ‘
(whisper; “Hes going to break) 5) an out

Evidence Accumulates ©
Patroimen ant detectives tot en

(waced in phe actual quiaming of the

Fanepecteg pian,
1 etre ae a

abe ——, att

ie sleet

Hoppe ¢
fenton pictures of th
osphere waa te
fore pons with th.
i for tolerance, per
structed ) pet
joven Ase ;

) SPE
* The Li
ete

Swife and the rhythmic questioning of Hunt said’ Thursday: thi

the case to trial:
Following inet

. Additional news

_ capture and confession

' before itis’ te ta $
possible that ;
= Attorney”

{

LA special ;
» , Hiding “his nis ¢ ae #)
‘roam in the |

| Wednesday. +

a : See ees ae

aad

- ee Saul! os te it ray our or!
Pie Ae hat | rowlin t ptare 18
Q--Then what: oe nae %
Then F went ov
shay
ies Yeni six coat and drove back around |
3 at | ORs neighborhood, om Chéerrr, and
as “and parked on Paimer, then I went into?
Sige xearh and | 147 Patiner street.
pay Jrnee s of Mietagowrat
: + @--Hew aa
: fie Chita di Sc a

inte Ph a

Epona sie Meoked in the cagimares
ri winiek? and theré wasn't Ane.
MENG HE ae Conard + -- in fhe kitchen:
i DRED Ata thereswhore Ais you E078
f deebent in she cotter snd didn't )
isa in? tot anything Inthe cellar. de
‘7 4) Tiers where Gid-veu gor
Owe) Aaah went opateire | ip Ure bathe
ce to 409s and from, thera: I went is the |
nr ikaw: {ffent ror,
= Rute peesiobret teame
het you know?
AL dom knowrit was dark.
Q--Then: you weat Ba the rear
bedroom? |
A. Vea.
eres what Happened?
V~-f looked pm the bed and a6)
the girls in the hed sleeping.
.— Which one dif you take?
As—The firet Une frran the front.

peeteeet oh net Oe ee
~ |

‘Wife of Slayer | i
Tells Her Story |
i _of Mate’s Actio

| A story, that began with a gay;
‘and happy wedding ¢ and
‘ended. with the horrible news that.

et
in. the front room

Page tay 192%
Semtired fete. |
“Tg wea br the
lems himenit
aging that ar}

mim ayy

waters.

re fretaht |
Patio Bay

L trp of the if
and wedi oon:
Seomand tripe
tte June 15,

‘

—s

jsayer of an Innocent young child.
Hi Toeaw told re ggene Sng ons
ursday on ena told 32,. "rg, apantioning
Wedn ve
gation CO~) Sie ip the wife of Charles ‘Woype.
~ The old ene man. who admitted having kid-
naped and killed Derothy Sielagow-
epee weil . ski, 7, early Tuesday.
‘| Following are questions of feter:
j tives and answers by the wife which
j tet her stde of the story:
Q.—Where were you Monday eve |
ning. May 2%, 19287
A.—To the wedding at Pearl and
oa qarentl
Q—Who was with you at the wed-
jding>
An MyY mother, sister. our whole
| family. Our neighbor's boy was get-
j ting married.
| Q—Is your husband's name
_ wre, newly | chartes Josep Hoppe?
is en route A—His right name is Stanley
‘anal Zone |!

voyage by | ley Hoppe, doesn’t be?
J Awn¥

. roops willl
1e Stolzen- |
f explosion ©

_ population |

. «

rae,

e4.!
‘ER
ed of Cap-

corps and)
at families

wedding with you?
Au~Yes, he was. We went about

6:20 in the evening.
qQ—Do you know whether he
pla any whisky at the wedding?
1-8 A.—He wasn't sober, for one thing.
Q—What ume ae you go home

ere the

—pmceen and 218 he morn

the “wedding?
? ari A—With my Mpear ol brother
: CTC! ond our neighber. Frances Hojnieki,

Q.—Did Chariey go home with

you?
[Aor he came home after me.
i was ip bed. Then I fell asleep and
qh thought that he was going to be,
Stoo 1 don't, know, he must have
‘gone out.

@.—What time did Charley come
* nome from the wedding?

A.—Right after me.

Q—Dit row have any argument |
(oO s his back, «th Chariey when be came home? |
from Nor-) Ne

é ft w—De
Afechome after he got
‘the wedding?

A.—-No

Q—When did

cD
. Cincinnati,
<a Franken,
2 court af,

von know if Charley rete |
home from!

STIALS
* Kaufman

you next see Char |

BA ie 3 Scans A SIR Oe

18g

ing =pace and picked ot % ne <b gi " +

the home of Ales."

into ie

‘foot

| ePaeding.

[her hushand was held ur the brutal} ©

'Bighth ward. died suddenly Thurs-

Q—Waes Chariey Hoppe ‘at “the

“ sHOOTS 2 COPS

Cincinnati i Aina Are.-
Wounded by
Gunman.

oN i

Cineinnatt Tuoreday. He. i Ray ||
MCrane Neek®) Negent.. aitas) Joe!
Lip hats & Aerperste nna chess
baebaied

& Monercycle Picante Deum was)
wounded three times in thz body and
| Patrolman Manereid v as bit in the
The two unsuspectingly were

| Pecorting a car pecugied by **O Inen

am @ erman. to a police ‘station }.

‘News Writers, Photographers and Idle Policemen

Tense Group ‘Awaits we or
Nps. cuban was’ taken
+ he waa picortec

Huddle Silently in Hallway as Confession: *
pen | Virese From Mowe

Hunt said Thursday ia
the case to trial *
Following. indict”

2°). Additional news
ik venti ack contensiot

: drama more intense than any eter
iwitnessed from an orchestra chatr,
cast ft mpell about those whe}

} sound proot oedling ‘te aa unintetl{-
i gible frenzy of sind, informed those
| whe waited thet @ suapect was: be-

mhace ‘ity ware: 10 be: Shaped tor

Ome of the motorists, later. Henti- |
i fled as Nugent. drew a pistol and;
' opened fire aa thetr car epecded over |
the Central bridxe into Kentucky.’

.tiogent not only is accused of har: |
* tng lamed an American Express Co.
truck here when Patrotmzn Zientara
{was rnurdered, bot he le also sought ;
we the elayer of Harry Sollkk. a Cin-!
\ttanatt’ heéotlegger. ie x graced
am the ringleader of a bandit hand
that bas been operating in Ohio and
Kentocky.

From Leerse numbers Nuogent’s
car was traced w a Rent-A-Car
agency in Covington where a detailed |
Geecription of him, nis pal ont hoe
woman, Was. obtained,

Charles J. Seally
Dies in Home Here

Charles J. Sealty, b41 Cofonial
court, former cqunctiman from the

SO eS a ee ee Cor es
ing & heart attack. ;
. The bedy wax removed to. ‘the
hRatter faseral heme. Mr. Seally, 40
rears old, was born and reared in
Toledo, and at one time conducted 2
restaurant on Broadway. Later he
was elected to the city council. Ie
operated the refreshment concession
at Svayne field.

Mr. Scally leaves a widow,
daughter of the late Daniel J. chien:

gaged in the actual quiszing of the x
{auspected map, abandoned lesrer |.
tanks to await the word that sooner
Sor later would come froin the room
at the end of the corrider where one
lef the most victous elayers in Olmo‘s |
crtwinal history squirmed and sweat:
led while a monunidin of circumstan-
tlal evidence accumulated to descend
in an avelanche of positive proof.

ity May Provide
Concerts i in Parks, The muffled, theater-like* music of
he band drifted thromgh the open

Nenewal td the custom of heving | windows ‘nto the detectives’ bureau.
band concerts In the city parks has/in the stillmesa that followed that{ _
lstartling announcement. Memorial [>
Deen asked of Mayor Jackaon by | ley. oe ie? tor: chose
many cittcans, who have signed PU beeldew thone who fought and these
“tens asking that Tony Leon’s band whe marched In parades. av
be employed for the purpose. Memorable fee a family, one of
newh wheee daughters had died horribly
"The mayor also. has received at the hands of = tlend. Never to be
thet the Toledo postoffice Land would) rorgotten by a young wife who wait-
tke to suppty a series of concerts.

e@ the result of the law's investiga-
The susgestion probably will te| ton, knowing tn her heart the guilt
placed before council, which will

rave to supply the money if the en- : wed on Page Four, 3rd Col

shine wpa is undertaken. iss Chicago Called be

Fess Is in Race, | Air Mail Mail Capital 23 |

'» for Senate Seat)
=; . \eago the “World's Air Mail pewuess

: AME "CSREES
Columbus. May 21 UP—U. 8. Sen) 16 members of the French aerousutl-
ator Simeon D, Fess Thursday filed jes) mission paused Thursday on their
five weeks tour. of the United States
his declaration of candliacy fF T*iaie matt tacilitien Headed by Gen-
nomination at the August primaries of

eral B bettie and
with the secretary of state. fgovernment, aviation and busincas of-

having satd. “IT hope they are
made to sullen a0: De. Siete Sr
suffered.”

MSE

¢
}
|
i

nyay

oppe Bi
Gale goes by the name of Char ‘

; The members of the Talede Police Denertmonk 2s
and Coroner Kreft deserve the appresiation and grati-=
tude of all the people of Toleds for their earnest, in- te
telligent, and untiring work in the case of the murder

“of little Dorothy Sielagowski. par :
‘Sigs No time was lost on any. angle of the case. The

-discovery of the guilty person came quickly as the
result of rapid and logical procedure, ee

" ‘This city is fortunate to have the service of men f
in the coroner’s office and in the police department
who waste no time in the performance of their duties,

Toledo is proud of what these men have accom-
plished in the quick disposition of this case.

i Comtipued om Page Six, Third Cou!

’

fielals, the mission arrived here. Wed-
needay from Detroit.in three planes,
“.fand wil soeined ita Fri yeeet Prt
day. SMe

Leighton Regia who is centoeind
the towr, said thes Frenchmen ere
enthusiastic over the degree over:
“Tohtet the Unjted States has peek
oped its ait mall service.

Ship Hits Rock,
‘Sinks; Crew ied Sisaees:

the clue,
Ziolkowski found:
responded |
Hoppe :
though *phe was
was called in. darin
She. bowie?

St: Thomas, mas, Virgin Istands,: May.
2) UP\—The British steamship Gran
ton, from Vantouver to Antwerp
with wheat. struck a submerged rock:
weet of Mt. Thoums . Wednesday
night and later sank im 17 fathoras
“after an unsuccesatul effort br the
station ship U. &. 3. Grebe to tow
her into port.

The captain and the crew of the
Granton were rescued by the Crebe |
and were brought here. The Grin |
tom. 4.411 lone net, left Vancouver
om May 6.

Parachute e Jumper yer Killed

New City, ”. ¥., May 31 —John
Clausen, 18, of Hempstead. No T.}:

ate

|
t-
j

j was . killed Wednesday when his

[Kone ree falled to open in a 700-Coot

p from en airplane. We was to | Ca’
nave made an exhibition pefachute
arp Ofeerverr thought he tripped
r 1a he climbed out of the pane, *

nice a *

sieety

# a2 Spetween Third ‘church

| p: ‘or his “guidance “during
i Backeats

gird >
x hour ettort to delay
FY ot Charies J. Hoppe,
yorothy Slelagowski, Af
Aday afternoon, *
PM. “Attorneys Elon

By:
s ‘court fof a* trial to
Me mental condition. 08 Foz
30 that. a. “Jury, be
‘the ‘proceedings. ‘and
yekacptlon be granted,
se ‘Lee’ Henry
Ebetrelt,: te the © effect
owas unbalanced men-
“anled the motion. i
‘ton of the ao caalags 1
shoifrom — the” ‘clerk of
sitorney, Young got into
in with: the governor's
LoWarden ~. Preston Fy
=he.*Ohio ; ‘penitentiary. P
‘held that: the motion
it the ‘execution and a
on was returned In-
i Feseph Godown : of the
tate office. Mase sea

eye. ‘approached | ‘Judge |’ pant 2 Heads

9 fora ruling’ “on they’
ead’ that ithe ‘only
a jurist would make
of the motion,
" n sto take She
a er. Y $iage
“ence Irwin was. asked
—o-day suspension of fhe
© give. the attorneys time
“-ruling | from thé “trie!
es M. Milroy. yapese
at to Interfere. oye

pet action before other
athe? ¢ommon pleas
[nihost success. + Pe

0 PASTOR |
‘SIGNS POST

‘By C. Hopper Will.
ot Call From |
_ tern Charch.

RE RES
‘Perry C.. Hopper, pantor
rh iesbyterian church here
te Friday ‘matied> his

U ettective Pec. 31, to the
“8. no he can. accept 4
Sestroinater, Exeabrterian
* «Mand, Ore. UEP eee
ote in ‘his letter’ RAYS:
(te. to terminate my. pate
rt “prompted by, any dis-
i ‘ourrelyes or by dissatis-
© ‘y Toledo. but becatihe a
viengce and opportunity
<Jresented by the church
y) expect.to Ko. ;
ae 96 earrest requést ‘that
ty C “today to ‘concur

ye te

/ )

Rolve the relation-

“that I might:be free to
*¥to Westminster church
sferred to Portland Pres-
ig Sabors to continue here
SPEIRS
= “atitude in my heatt for
-@ been to me and mine

orate and

to ottain further delay’ ia pees af

sane oi cone a
and sought a stay - ‘of execution her igs

to Raterteres: OThe warden, after re
ceiving. an unoffital” ruling ree] i
aides {6 the iterney cena OS .

the condemned men were prepared
ope

for the electric chair, “The |

~ liege split for the elect
head waa: (cut, beset

‘She ey ‘were hewapapermen,
physicians’ assisting Dr. George, W.
Keil, ‘prison ‘ surgeons : and” Loe ty
{from other cities, -

counsel for Hoppe during. “his. trial,
but. who” withdrew after-
was pronounced with the comment |
that’ “it; was the only. verdict pos-
aible,” said-he had two reasons for
attending the

nesses, Jed by.
ried a cane, ‘marched through’ ‘the
prison yarc, to the new death house | — “
at, the: east end of the penitentiary. |. Ke

-equest to. Toledo |.

the “ominous ® looking ‘chair, ”
Rucker ‘was brought. in” almost in:

muscles Were strained, and hée seemed
to be HOsaS binaseit ate math £5

Ey Lp ertora

os sh LES.

and | an eff goat

Raab, made @ last-minute ‘attempt

With the mockery ot étning over,

fo
tee

ledoans “included “Attorney. “Larey Pi
Boyan, Fred Jaeget ‘of “Waite ‘high | 5
school, He

‘Harter, “and Deputy
» Hon bere ys and Ts

Attorney” Bevan, “whe

sentence

execution, -¢/°40°=
-#] have always been @ student’ ot

thie efficacy of capital punishment,” |.
‘The explained,
the effect of this. My zecond reason
in personal. - Beers had no objection
to my coming. Py Fie

“anda I wanted to watch

ah nee
deren si sy

t o’clork, the wit:

“Shortly afte
rae ‘warden, who rar.

fucker Enters First”

They grouped themselves: ‘around |
vand

“He walked between two

eyes croaked. tightly... ;
Rucker did ‘not speak, nor “ata his
lips move perceptibly. His facial

ch Page

: and % “fewer,” {° prosecutor, ‘built’ wae

ey" peabaable wall cai
* Hoppe. guilty. © oes
* A¥ith the” states: “cone:
of not gulity was withdrawn,
of ‘gullty. sibstituted, the “jury |
| charged ;and Judges “James. “Martin |
and James Austin, Jr, summoned. to
sit ‘with Judge Milroy” ease

deere ade

pronounced | 4"
““Butficient - ‘current ; “ot é slostrieity
through Hoppe's body to
cauae, his death,” Dr. ‘Keil Feportes,

i cd toledo 4 rf t° h “had.

| exined’ his” ‘feet, when ‘the current | ing Hoppe's punis
Waa, “turned “otf, stepped forward |’
‘tL quickly and sprinkled holy water on
the forehead of the Corpad, "= at

SoG Conlesses Croy Killing. ain
: ‘The change’ In the defense tactics
| Was. made to: “permit: the introduc-

<) Hoppe’s: ‘body was removed No the
’ tion | of ‘Hoppe’s- signed. and’ sworn,
play beesag mortuary in Colum- tatément that hi ps

by ‘Itqwaa ‘Bent‘late Friday’ night
3 te 5 the Valentine’ Suskowski mortuary

of Miss Croy. + aac ae 8
‘A Phis; the ‘defehes ‘thought. ‘
| aid in - ‘establishing « its contention.
i that! *Hoppe was - jnsane. %
physicians and ‘a

Peyohologist. ‘testl Te tac,

fled that Hoppe was'.a” pervert, ‘a |.
moron and a ‘psychopath, | Three
| xtfentata testified: for the ‘state ‘that,

te. if
Sand atrocious
niurders ‘in "Toledo, ‘a slaying com-
parable, only Calltornia eeomenietes

of ‘the. moat:

o-They;
er, Mary. ‘Hoppe,

zt brother, 20, and wifes sa

; ling in Fint, Mich. *
Benes “Child. Taken’ ‘From as +
~ Barly on ‘the: ‘morning. of May 29,
the Sielagowskt home, 147, Palmer. mercy.
street, Was, broker ‘Into, and ‘Attle:} Oct. 26
Dorothy. WAS eriatched from. the. bed

oThe iudact” Meant eet ity guilty}
ot first degree murder, and withheld’ ;

2 They. sentenced | him‘ to die}
nay by &i8 ore et os: ae
“Defense counsel, Wing 7 ‘motion |=,

where ane, was, Paeitig ¥ arith | three for a’ new trial,” carried 13.6. ‘cane’ to

the court of appeals. “Decision of the fered ‘tatense: ‘ariet 8

the death’. of. her, son,
| relatives she. PE reer
i, Pn

r< 4 Figs ou aa
peed ‘and called |
. who were untvle-to yunder-
stand. his broken Engtish.. He then
3 | went to the Safety bullding to. tell of
Bt the: ‘kidnaping. Upon his return with
‘twa policemen, he'foond th” chile
body. on the: porch of: bets melds
home, 15¢ Palroer street. 49

S Man Amt “Beslan

‘utomatically.” ‘granted. a et ay
and theexecution was. ‘deferred: in t

PB riday. the date net by the s

coort after it had issed th
ond petition: ue
} Meanwhile, “atate a
Borers gave, thet ‘defense ‘Jay

under daaplclort hecause he’ once had,
lived. for ‘a sew. swerks oF
lagowski home.” ; Re
‘Detectives called at 3
{that morning, but foun
link- him with the paying AG: old: LA
night, however, ihe
rests marks ‘on the: Sivpe body fast ap

eee kek Bg os Ca ee ee io. the <i
We hrohy A. hole, in th ci rreen ie sh the eity of ‘Toledo, frous.the ong fe
he Honte atid cunhooked it. >Unsuecesatul in: ig | pe the} of the director of salety of; the aiid ‘
ite ” here,"* sald icity of Toledo, disttissing ye trem }
kitchen and cellar, he "ascended De. -Sulltvan, © SY0a would not’ find ae Service Ut the diviaton of police
‘Yr aapice thas yh es eae So} ome: similar, met of teeth in 1t.990 PALE chy RF OS, Gh
athroom and front bedroom,” hé! persdns:’ ‘ve cL mel Ss south: The Telesig- cieit abrvice commie
om, where) the dim moonlight | The detectives 4ben took Hoppe! sion has. announced: tit the hear.
Humihited the sleeping figure of the four Sjelagowski girla. Sire idtloaedt hadi cook ; oF ef Ja rei scary It be. wipe
>. Picking mp the: nearest. one’ of _the® sleepers, Hetla} pig eters Age yet tee

f | aot ames 4
Dorothy he muffled her outery. with'a pair of bloomers he} 8 Kcted, Jog hail" béen.- $ :
© fotind on the floor No one saw him except ‘Leona, Dorathy”¢; @xcated oes ee a ae

vear-old Sistts, who was, uwakened and Jater told of thet" Sik OS loka his? forest 7 :

‘smal} dark man inva black suit carrying off sister.” sfccat Cppraaied ia seen ty ;
+" Hoppe deseended the stairs. quickly, went out the baék| seers: A Qliestions pied by ike}!
door. and hurried'to. the <stolci’ car. As hé was getting in, Cephalic shakes / it | ey 2 :
he struck the child % terrific bluw-in: the forehead to pre. xf “4 “
Sent her fron struggling or ering out, = > © enaes ‘ :

> The blow: serveditwo° pirposes.h own and the more

erciful one of making her insensible during: the brutality
which followed. Bee ae reels xs
Be: +4. PUT BODY ON PORCH

drink and the unspeakable impulse which
oppe drové a short-distance and ‘stopned—
SR SRS Ae Bis: tae
ild- undoubted
front.of 156

to understand the ex-| tetecti¢es. made eo te
transmitted 'in’“bro Digging ae on nothing < ;
pobre officers “walt tarts Comey gap. ana {ernie 8 ahah teatn gots.

i:
‘Thc
j Andrew Kasper, 2222 Elm “ktreet, oa
grocer,’ had. seen. the Stantey, Siela-
mownkl automobile “stolen early
+ He maid thd thief resem- ‘dates.
‘bea Hoppe.” ‘Two dogs chained iti
the Bieligowaki yard fallea to bark
& Warning ax Hoppe broke ‘inte. the
; en f. ce - yaarage,. They ‘wurely would have
4 yor" tage ™ 4 x =f
ieve this, th he S “| aroused the neighborhood «had it
Zielkowski of the a,

vee Searched for the
Studebaker, but were unable to find | piled,
“pit among the numerods machinés off
19 { Werkmen park
4 daheen
ok trie edt]

ron

hey
Een the officiaig [
the: ' caer “againat Hoppe. per- | where
{formes the: atestest ree
herein SOMES. op 5s nt

¥
qv weit |
Dit denied that |
x Ven ge Dy wiv}

placed
be AS ios
Mefore getting hte ssignattig, the Vattted Taona.. had dexeribed
i whet How, fh thes wtite | siater/s aawatlant ap kite.
hod "jist Qnad& wete grog 'man ina, Black” suit “Ther
| ThA s the whate tryt Ahere | hundveds,'et.\“ittle: dark
yA) ‘Heppe paid. ©: ;

eS on

Cliarles Psi Hoppe. 26, ‘of 3222 Elm tract. partis
slayer of T-year-old Dorothy Sielagowaki, 147 Palmer street.
stood Thursday in the menating shadow of the‘electric chair. nay

» Facing an insurmountable wall of evidence Kern by:
the police department and Coroner Frank G. Kreft, Hoppe:
late Wednesday signed the statement branding him a degen.
erate killer. He is married. and has.a son, 23. months, old.

Toledo’s most recent murder: thus was solved 36 hours

Tatterthe child's bolp was found tn the porch of her unele

marder The arrow points fe Hoppe, whe waived examimation and pleaded not guilty
® grand jury,

tA KILLER gue He’s Going to Break!”

2 COPS

Tense Group Awaits Word

; hame, across the street from her own.

_ The largest crowd ever to appear in police court. over-
flowed into corridors when Hoppe was arraigned Bt 10 A. 5
Thursday.

Standing with bowed head, but clutching at his’
with his hands, Hoppe pleaded not guilty to the charge =]
first degree murder. He waived examination, and was. held

| to the gr and | jury without bail by Judge Homer Ramey.:.
panying pkture was taken in pollee court Thursday as Charles Hoppe, 26, of 3222 Elm street. “4 ea
r of Dorothy Sielazownki, 7, stoed before the bar of judgment for arraignment on the ehaces | ’
At’ the. sets is Frank O'Connell, police prosecutor, facing the prisemer, = - ~~

: ‘-ASSAILS PHOTOGRAPHERS _ f
Hoppe ona vehemently when photographers
3 Slashlisht pictures of the courtroom scene.”

Atmosphere was tense, but the crowd was orderty.~ Be<

' fore proceeding with the hearing, Judge Ramey made a plea’.
i for tolerance, ordered everyone toremain quiet, and ine
‘structed spectators not. to. leave until, the proceedings wats :
over.
The arraignment was “completed ‘within ‘three canter

News Writers, Photographers and Idle Policemen Hoppe then was taken to a cell in the county jai!.. At 12

Polic emen Are.
ided by
nman.

sun nitlers of

ventare, slain in’ sary tumor can, while a white

than a:

wae

bo
+ Hientara>
: ple de

Huddle Silently in Hallway as bagrenreme

_ Is Wrang From Prisoner. .

IDS going io tecak?? <

From an unknown source the word passed along the corriors of the,
Safety utiding Wednesday, penetrating the utmost offices in a way thet!
faced man, unnerved by the gots of his! A.

“Killer Horrified
at Other Crimes |.

Charies Mopne, confessed

* murderre of Derethy sietagow-
| ski, was horrified at accounts
of the law Angeles and Flint,
Mich,

relatives Thursday.

Following the arrests of Ed- | |

ward Hickman and Adotph
Hostelling, both munierere and

ludwapers of Htthe girts, Hoppe |

' fe seid io have evpreased the
hope that “they d cet theirs.”
Those men vtight te be tor.
tured che same as they tortured
ther victims,” he ie quoted as
hacing said
made te suffer as the little giris
sulfered.”

once

sera City May Provide

z] Ae

uconcerts | in Parks *

mi yt hevinks windows sate the é

kidnaping murders, sev. |
eral months agu, according to

“LT bepe they are |

~| A, M., he was escorted to the office of Dr. reft, and the te.
quest completed.
TO SPEED CASE TO TRIAL
“The Lucas county grand jury, scheduled to meet Mins se
day. has been summoned to appear in the courthouse at #
M. Friday to take up Hoppe’s case. Prosecutor Leroy

itor
$wife and the rhythmic questioning of} Hunt said Thursday that ev very effort will be made to speed

| detectives, faitered and lied. and |
| drama more intense than any ever
‘witnessed from an orchestra chair,

who

its espell about those

j* atched and waited.

Teast

Crisp, staccato questions answered |

:sound-proof ceiling to an untntellt
‘ gible frengy of sutmnd. informed those
lwho waited that a sospect was be-

‘ing grilled—ant nothing more.

whisper, “Mes gotnz to break.”
' Evidence Accuniulates

Patrolmen ant detectives not en: | Wednesday,

Reporters halted at the harrier be-
fore the captain of detectives’ -oftice | A
fergevt the casual and desultory con-)

versation that preceded the starting

the case to trial.

Following indictment, three weeks time will elapse.

t Additional n news and ‘pictures on Charles H
| capture and confession will be found on pages 2, 4 Pi
a

before it is possible to bring the defendant to trial and it.ig, ai
| possible that Hoppe will face a jury within a month, -. j
j Attorney Eldon H. Young appeared at the prosecutor's. i//
i office Thursday and said that he was representing Hoppe.
special venire for the trial jury will be required, es
Hiding his emotions—if he has any—Hoppe presented.
an outward appearance of calmness as he emerged from the.
room in the Safety building where his statement was taken -
Only his eyes showed the strain,

Kasen i the actual quiszing of the}

suspect ed oman, abandoned

er would come from

tirunad history squirmed atul sa,

eoner |
o avail ihe word that soaner
the room
send of the corridor where one

layers in Ohio's

PLACED IN CELL
Coroner Kreft asked him if he was sorry far his ‘rime,
“I dont know how to answer that,” he said. o2i8
Blinking under the booming flashlights of photogra- (8
phers. he was hurried upstairs to the men’s cellblock on

ied while gomountain of electmstan + Fifth floor of the building.

me evidence ave umulated to descend |

atplanche of positive proof.
The coutfled, theater rettasic
& fend: drifted thr

After turnkeys had pearchied him, taking away
ot and other metallic belongings with which he might

the. open suicide. he was placed i in cell No, 1 yoink is sonstangy

wa: bureau

i the of jnilore ye

ARA (ILLER “He's Going’‘to Break!” sft Sire ae oe nent ae Manes oh
8 2 COPS” Tense Group Awaits W. ord otraeted spectators not to leave until the proceedings were _

The arraignment was completed within three minutes.
News Writers. Photographers and Idle Policemen Hoppe then was taken to a ceil in the county jail, At 11

: Palicenen eee Huddle Silently in Hallway as Confession | A. M.. he was escorted to the office of Dr. Kreft and he bet .
inded by
unman, H" 2 xeing te break’

v 7 | quest completed. wy
Is Vrung From Prisoner. TO SPEED CASE To TRIAL ‘see

The Lucas county grand jury, scheduled to meet Sine!
' Fram @ krown surce the werd Jong the corridors of the;
Sipchine: @m sitlbe® O67 sectoey tomlaung Weanredey, precaratiog teen vd shen sfices im a way that G8. bas been summoned to appear. in the someones tt 9 ab
irge Zientara, sig on: rr ‘yoss can, while “ white-fared inan, unnerved, ly the sole. of bis! iA. M. Friday to ‘take wp Hoppe's cause. Prosecutor
bern therethan 3 | me een re 2 @wife and the rturthinic questioning oe Hunt said Thursday that every effort will be made to peed
St Aw pedrplencn ue Killer Horrified r raena ane aeaeac, Vanes ee can pe oan te NE. ss :
warnieg,. Hy ue Tey ! at Other Crimes | rimeeena tbaken ovdiniitre hdl: . Following indictment, three weeks’ time will elapee

Semen saloon (feast ite spell abeut those ss
‘ } i J eatichiet and walhed. +
rate « Tg, Saad ea Lesion «: Wane, * ohehennsé | meet sy cungeiken Wlsdetas | Additional news amt " pictures on Charles’ wore

st | manterer of Dorothy Slelscow- | ‘ip detiant monoeyilables sn piaine || capture and confession will be found on pages 2, 4 and 6.
Paice Thich wae ski svas horrified af accounts | tive statements, deadema by a "
Pins te Nip heey baie: |) Soe Soce Moanin sae rue. | jsund orvet Beye DM metieweericsn tS is possible to bring the defendant to trial and it is
deced “oe AK 11. oral monthy age, according te | (who waited that « .uspect was be-|POSsible that Hoppe will face a jury within - ota Sone
cumetapecting’y werd); relatives: Thorsday. t ing grifled—and ucthing roore. Attorney Eldon H. Young appeared at th

“Gf to be booked fori |

ASteriatg, later tert |

% drew a pista ang
» petg car epreed over
dae trio Kentuckr

miv te arcuse@ of ivave!

\inerican Exptena Co.

m-Patrohnay Zientara ,
but hé 4 niso sought:

' Varry Sollfck, a Cin-
cer. ile le regarded
ier of a bandit. tand
ypermting m Ohio ped

» numbers aoe
“tom Rentacar!
ston where a detailed
him. hte pal and the:
Aadnect. }

‘J. Seally
Home dere

feailv, 541. Colonial /
fqunciiman from the:
died roddenty Thurs. ;

in his home, follow.
nik.

}

+ A remeved = te the

home Afr Seally, 4
Lorn and. reared a
vine time conducted

Bre. aawNy: tater a
the ette eounes Tie!
“resin: rit romcenales I
a,

raves & witow, the
fate Dantet J. tlavin, l

with the secretary of stare,

“Hetelling, het murderers and | ‘forgot the casual and desultery con. Special venire for the trial jury will be

Kidnapera of Hetle girls, Hoppe | | versation that preceded the startling
| t+ seid to have expresend the | whisper. “He's gotng to breaks’

| hope that “they'@ ret theirs." | Evidence Accumuiaics
L sured prety gt ie L; Patrolnren anit detectives not en-
their victimes.” be is qneted as ‘gage im the actual yiorzing of the
having said. “I hope they are imuaspected man. abandensd jeserr
made to suffer as the uttle giris | | aks to awnll the word that sooner
ffered.” or later would come from the room
ae | te po the end of the corrider where one
jot the most vicious «layers in Chico's

¢Timinal history squirmed and eweat-

City May Provide led while a mountain of circumatan-

thal evidence accumulated to deecend
Concerts i in Parks, jin en avnianche of positive proof.
j The muffied, Uneater-like music of
«= band drifted through the open
Nenewal of of the custom ‘of having | windows into the detectives’ bureau,
tand concerts im the city parks has|in the astillnem that followed that

‘teen asked of Mayor. Jackson by; {Startling announcement. Memorial

iday. Memorable for many others
many citizens, who have signed Peel pemides those whe fought and those

| Mons asking that Tony Leon's band’ who marched in parades.
t im employed for the purpose. Memorable for a family, one of

whose daughters had died borribly
The mayor alse bas received news| 2 eee athena, Never tobe
thet the Toledo postoffice Land would | forgotten by @ roung wife who wait-

Uke to supply a series of wereeabers ben the result of the fawn investign-
The. suggestion probably. will be; tion, knowtng in her heart the guilt

placed before ¢ouncil,, which will rs
have to scpply the money if the en- Continusd om Page Foar, 3rd Col.

tertainment is undertaken. 4) -. Chi Called =
«Fess Is in Race |” Ain Mail Capital
‘for Senate Seat) case. stay a a camns cn

loago the “World's Air Muil Center,”
Codurentrat: May 21 oy ee S. Sen-/36 members of the French aeronautl-
ator Simeon D, Fess Thorsday ffied/ ca! mission paused Thursday on their
his declaration of candidacy for re. | Hive weeks tour of tbe United States
air rosil facilities, Headed by Gen-
nomination at the Auguat primaries |...) R belle and

government, aviation and business of.

fietals, the mission arrived here Wed-
needay from Detroit in thive planes,

ey Did Good Work — age iM continoe: ite trip weet Pri-

Leighton Rogers who is conducting
the tour. sal@ the. Frenchinen are

members of the Toledo Police epartnent enthusiastic over the degree over

which the United States has devol-

ner Kreft deserve the appreciation and grati- | oped its air mail service.

dl the people of Toledo for their earnest, in-

and untiring w in the case e murder Ship Hits Rock,
Dorothy Siclegewak : ri Gievte es : Sinks; Crew Saved

ime was lost on any ingle of the ‘case. The “St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, May

31 JM—The British steamship Gran-

‘of the guilty person came quickly as he tom, {ram Yancouver.to Antwerp

rapid and logical procedure. ex 8

with wheat, struck 2 submerged rock
west. of St. Thomas Wednesday
night and later sank in 17 fathoms

City is fortunate to have the service of men after an unsuccesstul effort by the

roner’s office and

. rt tion ship LU. 8. 8, Grebe to tow
in the police department eet payee ni

je no time in the performance of their duties. The captain and the crew of the

Cranton trere ‘rescued by the Orebe
| and were brought here. The Gran-

do is proud of what these men have accom- \ton. 4411 tong net, teft Vancouver

» Bthe quick disposition of this case. [om May 6. ra

| Parachute Jui Jumper aper. Killed

chy New City, YOY. May at U—Jonn
Clausen. 19, of Hempetead, N. ¥,
j nas killed Wednesday when hia}
‘parachute failed to open ty a 700-foot
| Teap fron an airplane. ‘He was. to
, have made an exhibition parichute
ide Oflserverr thought he tripped

; as he climbed out of the ck

Hiding his emotions—if he has any—Hoppe

presented.
‘ lan outward appearance of calmness as he emerged from the

room in the Safety building where his statement Was taken
Wednesday. Only his eyes showed the strain. ‘

PLACED IN CELL i
Coroner Kreft asked him if he was sorry for his’
“I don't know how to answer that,” he said.
Blinking under the booming flashlights of* ae
; phers, he was hurried upstairs to the men's celiblock on peed ;
fifth floor of the building. : Sees

After turnkeys had searched him, taking away his:
and other metallic belongings with which he might attentpt:
suicide, he was placed in cell No, 1, which is constantly x
| the eyes of jailers. toe
| - Heavily-armed guards were posted at every cntranket i
; to the cellblock. Gates of the jail were barred:
hours earlier than usual, although ‘police had slight fear:

a violence-seeking mob because of the strategie een
the prison on the top floor of the Safety building. .
'- +. IDENTITY KEPT SECRET ~*~: 4

News of the slayer’s identity was kept pee from :
other prisoners so that they would not try to attack him. ~

When they learned it Thursday morning, they: grasped.
every opportunity to cast a horrified look in his direction.“ ~

‘After. cating heartily of a supper in which hash was
the main item, Hoppe tried to go to sleep. It was not unt?

2 A. M. Thursday, however, that his eyes closed. . He paced
back and forth in his cell, muttering to himself. ~ i

‘ Finally he asked for a blanket, This was denied him, :
because police feared he might attempt to hang himself. hd
They turned on more heat in the prison, however.

In the morning Hoppe gobbled two rolls. and cup of a)
coffee. He has an enormous appetite, jailers said. ©) Ne

Credit for the arrest and confeasion of ee
six city detectives, one an uncle of of the dead
Coroner Kreft.

The detectives are Bert Dobrzenieeki, the asat Fret
Palicki, Stanley Kina, Joseph Swiatecki. John at! ot
Frank DeLora, Their work as Airetted ted
re of detectives; » 9.3 oe

' >"> REPORTERS ASSIST POLICE :
wo Blade reporters, Margrete Daney - ‘and? a Stanley

ziolkowokt also aided materially in the investigation.
Daney was the first to suggest that teethmarks iene on:
the victim’s body might be important. This eventually
was the clue which fastened suspicion on~ Hoppe. Mrz |
Ziolkowski found a blood-stained handkerchief Geen , Core
responded to one found in the Hoppe home. *

Hoppe's wife, Sophia, 22, also assisted the’
though she was on the verge en a nervous vam abel
was called in during the final grilling and made a statc--
ment. She seemed dazed, unable to realize that tha man
she once loved was the murderer of ap OF OEM Xe
first cousin.

As police reconstruct’ the crime, ded a "Hoppe
statements, this is what happened: a : :
‘| “© FORMER TAXI-DRIVER’ chs
Hoppe. a former taxi driver, was emleyed at thon

| Willys-Overland plant, working nights. - : :
He laid off Monday. night ta take his wife "a a wedding = o
at Elm. and Pearl streets. While there, he became intoxts (| 23
ented, and his wife went home with her brother. ©<”. ;
, Hoppe followed alone. Mrs. Hoppe met him a the.

Continued on Page Two, First and Second Columas,

is al tale ale A ais SE RI EE aa

oad

1
Willvs-Overland Plant.
: There” some
Hoppe sug geste
Piss Kas. :

TM street. x.

“15 - SOUGHT LIQUOR. ae Te

en hecdpove to the Alex Sielagowski home,
PASS ; ‘$7: m 25

* snid, 9

Attorney Corne!
nting Paul ©,

king

ached: through a hole in the screen docr in. the

Peat af tie home and unhooked {f{,
fn wtaits,

Sfter wlanein
into the

one. of the sleepers,

y with a pair of bloomers he.

m the bathroom and front ‘bedroom, he! persons,*
where the dim moonlight!
# of the four Sielagowski girls, |

za ¢ - Unsuccessful) in his!
Rearch. tor liquor-im the kitchen and’ cellar, he ascended |

one, similar. “got th 1m 10,000 {of said city. 5° B
j get he a Tie Toledo ejyit
The detéctives then téok Hoppe | sion “has announc
to the soronn’s ‘attics,- whore Dr. {lags in these

Kreft Guestionet Ainined | Pewspaper men.

little itn. soctigihe eee: |
Hoppe admitted’ be jaa been tn:

s4w him except Leona, Dorothy's, toricated Monday” nights but, “de-|

Phd. was awakened and liter told
mhilack suit carrying off. sister,”

clived Ne Wid not lekve. tile: heme
of the} nig

attet retuining trem the wadd
He emphasized “uis Regative an.

pp tars quickly, Went out the back |»were to, tbe dueations ited bythe |

YET. Stolon cary

UP OR GSE,
Bb! it

fe Wis Ketting in, coroner with <mpatle sharon:
Ci the forehead to pre. | When. %

MK K, K.
ity! ie | :
tality [dorener nina werdpet diet fete arn}

Tr. Kre
OF blotd ow,

: dismissing me
Dry. Gu in the division” of

beet

would not have to traverse much of
dimly-lighted Twentieth Street alone.
Not more than a minute after she had
bade her chum good-night, Miss Hoad-
ley, hurrying through the dark street
as quickly as possible, suddenly heard
a rustle behind her. Afraid to turn
around, she walked faster. Heavy foot-
steps thudded against the pavement.
The girl broke into a run, and the foot-

steps behind her became louder—and °

faster. Suddenly, the clubber was upon
her!

Miss Hoadley shrieked at the top of
her voice and an instant later a club
descended upon the side of her head.
She turned and faced the monster, but
all she saw was a dark nondescript form
and a pair of gleaming, leering y be
She screamed again—and again. And
the clubber struck again—and again.
Unusual, this, a girl! who would stand
there and defy the fiend. But he was
not to be outdone. The terrified girl
ducked most of the blows as she
screamed; but finally, the madman di-
rected a last savage smash to the de-
fenseless girl’s head and she crumpled
" the sidewalk, a bleeding, unconscious
orm.

MBS. J. A. LEE, of 125 Twentieth
Street, heard the cries. Flashing
on the porch lights, she saw the club-
ber’s latest victim outlined in the yel-
low glow. Rushing to the scene, Mrs.
Lee soon grasped the full_significance
of what had happened. Other _neigh-
bors were summoned and Miss Hoadley
was carried into a near-by undertaking
establishment where she was shortly
revived. The clubber, as usual, had
vanished into the night.

By this time, the entire 5. caro of
Toledo was in a frenzy. The extreme
boldness and cunning of the man,
coupled with his inhuman fury and sav-
agery—a killer for killing’s sake—was
more than human nerves could stand.

Chief of Police Jennings ordered all
unescorted women off the streets after
nightfall and warned the male occu-
pants of households to stay at home

every night, in the event that the club-
ber might change his mode of attack
and suddenly decide to carry out his
diabolical plots within the precincts of
Toledo residences. :

As a result, the citizenry was armed
to the teeth. Husbands, fathers and
brothers stalked in and around their
homes, revolvers and automatics on
their hips, rifles and shotguns in their
hands or near-by. Every porch light
in Toledo and environs blend for it
was remembered that the clubber spe-
cialized in localities supplying a murky
background for his fiendish deeds.

Blue-clad patrolmen, at the instiga-
tion of Headquarters, laid their uni-
forms in moth balls and adopted civ-
ilian attire. After the curtain of night
had fallen over the city, they sauntered
silently through darkened streets, eyes
peeled for a sinister figure behind trees
and shrubs, right hand within instant’s
grasp of an automatic.

In short, the reign of terror that

The Master Detective

-Toledo’s Bluebeard

(Continued from page 27)

paralyzed all Toledo, was on in earnest.

But the beast of the shadows, grin-
ning a hideous grin, hissed ominously
at the futile efforts of detectives. His
work was not yet done. ...

It was 7:30 o'clock on the night of
November 18th—two nights after Miss
Hoadley had encountered Toledo's
phantom. Miss Frieda Draheim was
visiting her sister, Mrs. Anna Mar-

uardt, who lived at 810 Tecumseh
treet, in the heart of the “clubber
district”.

“Well, I’ll be going now,” announced
Miss Draheim to her sister.

“All right, Freida, said Mrs. Mar-
quardt, “I’ll call a cab for you.”

“Oh, you needn’t bother,” said Miss
Draheim. “I haven’t far to go, and
besides I’m not what you'd call a timid
person, am IP”

Mrs. Marquardt smiled at the sally,
stepped back from the telephone and
walked to the door with her sister.

“Now take care,” she warned.

“Don’t worry,” replied Miss Dra-

eim.
The clubber lurked behind a tree a
few pees down the street... .

“?Bve Anna,” said Miss Draheim
cheerily as she stepped from the porch
and, unsuspectingly, approached the
unseen terror that had set Toledo agog.

Clack! Clack! Clack! Clack!

Miss Draheim was walking briskly
toward the clubber’s hiding place....

She passed him. ... Then came a
rustle that sounded like a piece of
stray paper in the whirlpoo of the
night breeze... an insane lurch... a
raised arm... a woman’s look of ter-
ror... a sickening thud... an uncon-
sre form lying in a crimson liquid
pool....

BUT—two hundred feet behind the
clubber, when he struck, was a
keen-witted Toledoan—Raymond Gor-
man by name, seventeen years of age.

Raymond, who had read more than
his share of the newspaper accounts
which detailed the nefarious activities
of the clubber, had his mind on_ the
city’s fearful specter as he walked along
Tecumseh Street that fateful night.
His glance was riveted straight ahead.
He couldn’t help but see Miss Draheim
as she stepped from the lighted porch
of her sister's home. He watched the
woman as she walked briskly down the
street. He imagined himself in the réle
of an eye-witness should the clubber
suddenly strike. Then, the clubber did
strike.

Raymond, wide-eyed, broke into a
run—not away from the clubber, but
for him. The youth was almost upon
the pean before the beast realized
it. Then, with Raymond at his heels,
the monster, club dangling from his
horny hand, turned and fled between
two houses. The youth continued to
dog his footsteps, but the clubber was
too fast. Like a climbing ape, he
scaled a high fence and was once again
swallowed up in the vapors of the
darkness.

A crowd of frantic citizens was soon

ws.

swarming around the scene. The in-
jured girl was removed to a hospital,
where, fortunately, she recovered. De-
tectives, too, under whose very noses
the clubber had struck, were soon scour-
ing the vicinity for some trace of the
vanishing terror. Two hundred blue-
coats poured into the neighborhood.
Every inch of the territory was scoured,
but the clubber, as on previous occa-
sions, seemed to lead a charmed life—
immune from capture, despite the fact
that he usually struck just where he
was expected to strike.
_ However, the police were in posses-
sion of a meager description of the
specter, furnished by young Gorman.
e weighed, according to a hasty tab-
ulation by the youth, about one hun-
dred and seventy pounds, was of me-
dium height, stockily built, and wore a
dark overcoat and a light cap.

AS the hours wore on, the Toledo
police and detective force was aug-

mented by scores of American Legion
men, who patrolled the streets of the
clubber district, armed with rifles,
swords, blackjacks and clubs. Police
speed cars and the fleet motorcycle
squad held themselves in readiness for
an instant dash to any section of the
re or environs.
_ Toledo had assumed an air of mar-
tial law the night after the Dra-
heim attack. But the sinister figure
of the dark only grinned again... .

Colfax Street—especially that part of
it only a few blocks from the previous
night’s attack—was swarming with
American ey gain and _plain-
clathes men. Every porch light on the
thoroughfare threw a yellow brilliance
over the pavements. Here, then, was
one place where it was unsafe for the
clubber.
- Mrs. Cora Bachelor, thirty-eight
years of age, was returning to her home
at 816 Colfax Street. She had walked
along the thoroughfare for some dis-
tance unmolested, and under the pro-
ga eyes of the Légionnaires and
the officers of the law. However, when
she got to a spot within a few feet of
her house, someone darted from behind
a hedge which lined the street just at
that point and grabbed her by the neck.

Mrs. Bachelor thought that her as-
sailant was a friend of hers, playing a
joke upon her. Small wonder, for the
assailant was in the rays of the lights
from her home.

“Stop it,” said Mrs. Bachelor, jok-

ingly.

‘Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-a-a-a-a-a-a. .. .”
The sound came from the lips of the
man who had her by the throat. It
began like an ordinary laugh, but sud-
denly struck a crescendo which stamped
it as coming from the throat of a
maniac!

Terrified, Mrs. Bachelor attempted
to turn her head, but couldn’t. She
was in a vise-like grip! Suddenly, the
terrible truth dawned on her. This was
the clubber! Wrenching herself loose,
she screamed; but the phantom,
grabbed her again with his left hand,

S BLUEBEARD!

The milkman shed his coat and covered
nd the prostrate form. Then he pounded on
the door of a near-by house until he aroused
the occupants from their slumber. A tele-
phone call was made to a hospital, and an
ambulance was soon clanging through the
streets. Within twenty minutes after the
milkman had discovered her, the woman
was in the hands of skilled but sleepy-eyed
surgeons,

The hours wore on. The woman was
identified as Mrs. Hatfield. Gradually, con-
sciousness dawned. And with it fright which

a pleasant

eof fife verged on insanity. A white-uniformed
re ad nurse bent over Mrs. Hatfield and calmed

mci ny her fears as best she could. Stern-faced de-
men wer

rer tectives were brought into the room. They
iS asked questions. The woman shrieked, Doc-
tors intervened. The victim was in no con-
dition for questioning, as important as
questioning was.

ling; there
WITH the arrival of a new day, however,
: Mrs. Hatfield had recovered a degree
Ss not far ; : a 5
of her strength and composure. Detectives
visited her again. This time she spoke,
sidence at ? ; : :
> ae tl calmly but weakly, about her attacker.
ee! Yew “I don't know who did it,” she said.
hati “When I left Anna’s house i
I walked along the
n away to
ial rounds,
picked his
r from the
ttield. He

street. I didn’t see a
soul—and_I didn’t ‘hear
a sound. Whatever struck me ©
must have come from behind for the
last I remember was walking straight
ahead, with not a soul in front of me.”

and later it was identi-
fied as the property of
Mrs. Hatfield.

The purse was care-
fully examined by finger-

KILLER! .

print experts, but noth-
“Have you any idea who might have had areason ‘This is the man , ing tangible was found.
for doing this?” the woman was asked. +, who: admitted ‘Days passed. Then
heal ai ei jie Liteecen bn weeks, Mrs. Hatfield
A careful check-up of Mrs. Hatfield’s effects, however, : What. did haw showed signs of recovery.

revealed that her purse containing fifty dollars, was missing. jmow a about
» Could robbery have been the motive? The answer of. theother mur. _
sleuths was in the negative, Robbery had been secondary, ders that?

Her attacker, never
found, was almost for-

| ; gotten..... !

‘ “they reasoned. Mrs. Hatfield had probably been felled with - “ms Renas? yeep A few mornings later,
ded very far the first blow. of what must have resembled 4 club, judging Je) ee Toledo was just waking
2 alley when from the three vicious head wound: up. Wisps of blue smoke
red to” the blows and the numerous scratches on nd chimneys. Buses and

form .of.'a had been the motive? No, calculated detectives, the moti g on workers who reported early for the
cman’s horri- pops 8 “ oe ye gr eee

wearing ap- | Revenge? Well, possibly, tm clock awoke the occupants
ockings, pink — ft soon learned, ’ Mrs. Michael Conway, mistress
t and coat— 7 atfield was located wit hurriedly slipped into morning housework at-
shreds, near ~ anid: with even less difficulty he cotivinced kitchen door and stepped onto a side porch.
e man bent © He had in no way been even remotely con reached for a bottle of milk but her eyes
was uncon- — Drutal attack on his wife. 3) 4p * | traveled to the alleyway which ran between her home and
hing. Three | While the police were still speculating on a theoty for . the one next: door. And there she saw something. which
‘ad, scratches

and while the city’s’ brainiest sleuths were caré=) 7 made. her suddenly straighten up and stand transfixed. A

ad a_pool of — fully going over every inch of ground in the vicinity of the _ woman, hortibly..mutilated,.lay on the cement; staring at
mutely testis | Kk for a footprint or other clue which would ‘put them < the’sky.’: deities. woody

d unmerciful Oasthe scent, a mailman making collections on Door Street | .. /Running: ‘tothe. obj tt of her gruesome. discovery,’ Mrs.

‘woman had found an empty purse in one of the green boxes.’ In the . Conway shrieked. hystetically. Her wild screams reached
Urse of events, it found its way to Police Headquarters " the ears of neighbors and passers-by. In a few minutes the

{

26 The Master Detective

alley was choked with babbling, feverish humanity. Auto-
mobiles drew up to noisy stops at the mouth of the alley
and in a short while an electric current of information found
its way to a policeman. Immediately following this a stac-
cato report buzzed through the telephone receiver on the
desk of the sergeant in charge at Headquarters and a few
minutes afterward, keen-eyed detectives were bending over
the body of the young woman who had met a fate that
no one could possibly deserve.

The skull was horribly crushed. A mad-man, goaded on
by bestial fury, had rained a score of savage blows on the
head of the defenseless woman. And, as if this were not
enough, he had then slashed the neck three times, until the
head was almost severed from the body. The arms and
legs were pitifully cut and torn. The attack, in every re-
spect, resembled that of some Neolithic monster, rather than
a modern human....

LIKE Mrs. Hatfield, this woman lay in a pool of crimson.
But in Mrs. Hatfield’s case, the blood did not taper off
to a trail. In this instance, it did, and the trail led to the
mouth of the alley. But there it stopped abruptly. Detec-
tives searched up and down Door Street, but could find no
other traces of blood. Had the woman been attacked in
another part of the city and brought to the alley in a
machine? This possibility seemed more than likely, since
the spot where the body was found was in a busy section—
a neighborhood that a killer would hardly choose for such
4 hideous crime. The corpse was taken to the morgue to

The cross in the above photo indicates where the

body of Mrs. Mary Handley—one of the phantom

clubber’s victims—was found. (Right) ‘Cross shows

where the corpse of Mrs. Emil Baumgartner was
discovered in a crimson pool

await identification. And when identification
was effected, it only added to the horror of
the case.

A few hours after the discovery of the
atrocity, a sister of Mrs. Emil Baumgartner
called Police Headquarters and reported that
the woman had not been home all night.

“And I’m very worried,” added the sister.
“She’s not living with her husband and she
was afraid that if he saw her on the street
there might be trouble.”

Mrs. Baumgartner’s sister was told to visit
the morgue at the earliest possible moment and
when she arrived there and viewed the victim
of the previous night’s horror, she immediately
identified the woman as Mrs. Baumgartner,

thirty-five years of age and the mother of two children.

“Find the husband!” snapped Chief of Police Ilarry
Jennings.

The police found the husband that very day and, as in
the case of Harry Hatfield, he forthwith established his
innocence beyond a shadow of doubt.

Detectives Carroll and Timiney, of the Homicide Squad,
were meanwhile carefully probing the vicinity of the alley
in an effort to reconstruct the crime. Among other things,
they noticed stains of human blood on the side of the Con-
way residence, at a spot in a direct line with that where
the body had been found. There were, however, no stains
on the house on the other side of the alley.

It seemed queer to the sleuths that neither residents of
the Conway home nor those of their neighbors had heard
any commotion in the alley. And the blood on the side
of the house clearly proved that there must have been some
sort of a scuffle for the woman’s throat had been slashed
after she had been taken into the alley, despite the fact
that she had probably not been attacked there at first.
The bloodstains on the side of the house just about proved
that. Coroner Charles Henzler further corroborated the
theory when he performed the autopsy and declared that
while the blows on the head had been of an extremely
savage nature, they had not caused death. Life had flick-
ered out, the coroner asserted, when the killer had slashed
Mrs. Baumgartner’s jugular vein. When discovered by Mrs.
Conway, the victim of the mysterious clubber had been dead
about four hours. She had. not been criminally assaulted.

During the day, the police recalled a rather
singular incident. The mail box in which Mrs,
Hatfield’s empty pocketbook had been found
was only a short distance from the spot where
Mrs. Baumgartner’s body was discovered... .

THE days dragged on. Detectives, posing as
hop-heads, drunkards and thugs, slyly probed
the murky avenues of Toledo’s underworld, hop-
ing tdypick up some morsel of information which
would ‘lead them to the lair of the fiend who
had attacked Mrs. Hatfield and slain Mrs.
Baumgartner; for the man-hunters were now
thoroughly convinced that the same person was
responsible for the twin outrages. But no such
information was gleaned. An avalanche of
anonymous tips—the usual supply which deluges
Headquarters in any city when a sensational
crime is committed—were carefully run to earth,
each and every one. But the search led nowhere.
The police then considered the theory that some

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supposedly respectable citizen—an acquaintance
of both Mrs. Hatfield and Mrs. Baumgartner—
had lapsed into temporary insanity and com-
mitted both crimes. But a secret check on
friends and neighbors of both women revealed
nothing.

Finally, when she was about to submit to a
third operation on her injured skull, Mrs. Hat-
field suddenly died!

With Mrs. Hatfield’s death, the hue and cry
for the clubber increased in intensity but, human
nature being what it is, both crimes were soon
supplanted in public consciousness by other cur-
rent events. The police were gradually assigned
to other cases, of less sensational make-up, and
the city settled back to normal again.

UT this monstrous red specter of the shad-

ows, securely wrapped in a mantle of dark
mystery, was not through with Toledo—yet.
Even now, strange thoughts threaded their way
through his twisted mentality. Another
outrage was in the offing.

It was October 30th—more than five
months after the first visitation of To-
ledo’s unwelcome stranger. The mantle of
dusk enveloped the city. Toledoans were
either enjoying their evening meal, or
hurrying home to it, anticipating a ‘pleas-
ant evening before crackling fires... .

Mrs. Frank P. Hall, fifty years of
age, was walking to her home at
2411 Putnam = Street. Pleasant
thoughts were passing through hér
mind— thoughts worlds removed
from a_ sinister, skulking form,
crouched behind a giant elm a few
feet in front of her. The woman 4
was walking briskly. As she ap- ¢ ,
proached the elm, she thought she
saw something moving. No, it
couldn't be; it was just her imagina-
tion—& woman’s imagination. Mrs.
Hall walked smartly past the tree.

Something lurched after her. Mrs.
Hall heard it. But she didn’t get a
chance to turn. A hairy arm—more
like that of an ape than a human
being—was raised in the air. A frac-
tion of a moment later the club
which it held descended on Mrs.

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(Left) Lily Croy’s tattered coat, mute

evidence of her struggle with the murderer.

(Above) X marks spot where body of Mrs.

Emma Hatfield—first of the clubber’s vic-

tims—was found. (Bottom) Arrow indicates

spot under fire escape where remains of
Lily Croy were found

Hall’s defenseless head, and she
reeled to the ground. It so happened
that the club struck a glancing blow
and Mrs. Hall did not lose conscious-
ness for a few seconds. And in those
few seconds she screamed hyster-
ically. People rushed to their front
porches just in time to see the club-
ber let loose an avalanche of blows
which rendered Mrs. Hall senseless.
Several of the braver onlookers
rushed to the rescue. The clubber_ half
straightened up, like an animal who has sud-
denly heard strange noises. And in an in-
stant, he had mysteriously melted into the
rapidly deepening dusk, carrying with him,
as always, his hideous instrument of death.

DETECTIVES were on the scene before the
crowd had dispersed. After a cursory in-
vestigation, they separated and darted in op-
posite directions like a pack of bloodhounds.
With flashlights in one hand and automatics in
the other, they scoured the neighborhood.
Trained eyes had, within the hour, scanned
virtually every inch of the territory for blocks
around this latest attack of the beast in human
form; but not a trace of him could be found.
Quizzing of those who had witnessed the club-
ber’s attack on Mrs. Hall could shed little light
on the appearance of the phantom, for he had
taken a lightning-like zigzag course into the
shadows.

Frenzied detectives had scarcely warmed up
to the investigation of the latest atrocity when
the clubber struck again!

Just after dusk on the evening of November
16th, Miss Wilma Hoadley, twenty-five years
of age, bade good-bye to a girl friend at
Twentieth and Monroe Street, about five blocks
from the scenes of the Baumgartner and Hatfield
crimes. Miss Hoadley’s chum had accompanied
her for some distance, so that Miss Hoadley,
fearful of the clubber, (Continued on page 8?)

He muttered as he stepped into the hall.
Both the passage and the stairs were in
darkness. That puzzled him. It seemed
very unlike any of the girls to leave their
bedroom without switching on a light.

As he stood in the hall he heard the
noisy closing of the screen door lead-
ing out of the kitchen.

Selangowski stiffened. His affection-
ate and fatherly interest in the activities
of his daughters gave way to alarm. He
ran down to the kitchen and snapped on
a light. There was no one there but the
door leading to the backyard was ajar
and he noticed that the outside screen
was unhooked. Selangowski looked at
the clock. It was 3:45, on the morning
of May 29, 1928.

Peering into the yard he could see
nothing in the blackness. Then he raced
into the front room, reaching a window

ies

Tracked down by the brilliant work
of Detective Bert Dobzyneicki
above, the vampire killer of Toledo
(wearing cap) is shown at the right
shackled to Deputy Parker Emmert,
as he was led from the Lucas county
jail, guarded from an angry mob.

just in time to see the departure of an
automobile with a long hood, gray in
the glare of an arc lamp on Palmer street,
in the Little Poland of Toledo, Ohio.

The car sped south, without lights and
vanished in the direction of Cherry street,
a main thoroughfare leading into three
Detroit roads at one end, with Toledo’s
east side at the other.

Selangowski immediately associated
the car and the disturbance with a false
raid that prohibition agents had made
on the house a few hours before. Sus-
pecting enemies, he made a swift but
methodical examination of the house, be-
ginning in the basement. There was

nothing in the lower rooms to suggest ~

any reason for an invasion and he re-
turned upstairs.

Another whimpering cry, less indica-
tive of physical anguish than torment-

a bs aTR

‘ing dreams, came from the girls’ bed-

room. Noticing for the first time that
their door was partly open, the father
pushed his way inside. The hall lamp
enabled him to see the bed in which it
was customary for his daughters to sleep,
Stella, Dorothy and Leona lying side by
side with the baby, Caroline, at their
feet.

“Stella !”

“What do you want, papa?” the little
“mother” of the family asked, sitting up
sleepily and rubbing her eyes.

“One of the babies has been cry-
ing.”

7-Year-Old Kidnaped

STELLA felt her way to the foot of the
bed. “Caroline’s asleep. Leona—it’s
Leona crying! What’s the matter,
Leona? And where’s Dorothy? Dor-
othy’s gone, papa! Gone—!”

Little Leona lifted a tear-stained face
from the pillow into which she had been
sobbing.

“Man come—man take Dorothy!” She
burst into tears again.

Alex rushed over to the bed.

“Where was she sleeping?” he de-
manded, panic in his voice.

“There, on the outside,” said Stella
from her place nearest the wall. “Leona
was in the’ middle.”

“Man—man take Dorothy,” Leona
sobbed anew.

The father tenderly picked up the 5-
year-old and tried to soothe her into
telling a coherent story.

“He was a little man—all black—no
face! Dorothy cried and I cried.”

The father was aghast but he tried to
think rationally. Perhaps, he thought,
Dorothy had been scared and had hid-
den somewhere from the prowler. He

searched the 1
bed and into th
“Dorothy !”
per when he

dress, shoes
lying on the floc
them.

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Alex stood sta
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was 4:05 o’c
kidnaping.

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A horrible fig;
looming aweso
beside the bed

seized a child and
vanished into the
night.... Then a
frantic father found
the little girl across
the street, her young
flesh marked with
wolfish fangs.

Confronted by the
damning evidence of
his tooth ‘ marks, this
evil-visaged man broke
and confessed a slay-
ing that shocked Toledo.

om the girls’ bed-
the first time that
y open, the father
le. The hall lamp
1e bed in which it
daughters to sleep,
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searched the room, looking under the
bed and into the closets.

“Dorothy!” His voice fell to a whis-
per when he found that only her
dress, shoes and stockings remained
lying on the floor where she had dropped
them.

He no longer doubted the truth of
Leona’s scared prattling. Some weird
monster without a face, to which the
Old World gives credence, or a masked
housebreaker had seized the 7-year-old
from the midst of her sleeping sisters.
It seemed incredible. But the whimper-
ing cry, the steps on the creaking stairs,
the slamming screen and the passing of
the ghost-gray car told the horrible story
of his flight with his little victim.

Stumbling down to the front door,
Alex stood staring through. the glass, too
deeply agitated to decide what to do. It
was 4:05 o’clock—20 minutes after the
kidnaping.

He knew that he should summon the
police without delay, but there was no
phone in the house and he dreaded leav-
ing his remaining children alone even
for the brief time it would take to run
to the home of his brother-in-law, Joe,
three doors to the north on the other side
of the street.

As Alex nerved himself for a rush to
his kinsman’s house a car flashed into
view, coming from the south, A block
from the Selangowski home its headlights
went out and it seemed to lose speed.
Then it passed a street lamp and the
father’s heart stood still.

It was the coach of phantom hue!

Hope and fear mingled with Alex’s
amazement. The return of the mysteri-
ous machine could mean almost anything.
The abductor might be bringing back

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his daughter. Another kidnaping raid
might be attempted.

Uncertain whether he ought to remain
indoors or rush to the street, Selangowski
saw the ghost car glide by his house and
skid to a stop in front of his relatives.

A small man, whose dark suit and cap
made him appear as little more than a
shadow, leaped out, crossed a small lawn
to Joe’s porch and deposited a white
object of vague.size and shape. Rid of
his burden, he flitted back to the auto,
put it into motion and turned on the
lights.

Yielding to an impulse to give chase,
Alex ran out into the street. He had a
glimpse of the license plate, but could
not memorize the number, Then the car
careened around a corner into Lagrange
street.

Finding himself a few yards from his

brother-in-law’s house, Alex shouted to
the occupants. No one answered. He
mounted the steps and hammered on the
door with both fists. Joe called from a
window and a moment later a porch light
blazed.
“Alex turned his head and then, with
a terrible cry, fell to his knees. Partly
hidden under a railing, but so close to
his feet that he might have stepped on
it, was a little body, bloody and almost
entirely nude.

“Dorothy,” the father sobbed, feeling
the child’s breast and wrist.

The body was still warm and bleeding,
but the heart no longer beat.

“Dead—murdered !” Alex told the hor-
rified Joe who led him into the house
and to the telephone.

‘beneath the were-
1 at the point indi-
the arrow, police
ad evidence which

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tr the midnight fiend led
; @ Cottage at the left
‘which proved to be the lair
of ‘Toledo’s prowling beast.

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In the shock the father had lost his
command of English and when he got
the Lagrange street police station on the
phone he could not explain to the desk
sergeant what had happened. Thus the
driver of the ghost car, steering a course
that must have taken him past the station,
evaded certain capture.

Alex finally gave up his attempt to
talk to the police by phone. His kins-
man wakened a neighbor and had him
take Alex to Central police station.

Meanwhile, the Lagrange street po-
lice, having gathered enough from Alex’s
words to be seriously concerned, had
traced the call.

Patrolman Charles Wawrzyniak and
Jesse Nickel, dispatched to the scene to
investigate, had already made their first
report when Alex reached headquarters.
He was rushed back to Palmer street to
meet the coroner and detectives of the
homicide and Polish squads.

Marks Of The Wolf

"PRE murdered child was still lying
face down on the porch. Coroner
Kreft and Detectives Frank DeLora and
John Hovey lifted the blanket with which
the patrolmen had screened the body
from the gathering crowd.

The little girl’s bloomers and shirt
in which she had gone to bed were torn
almost to shreds. Another pair of
bloomers, which her abductor had picked
up in the bedroom, probably for the pur-
pose of stifling her cries, had been wound
around her neck and tied in a knot that
pressed her throat.

The coroner ‘attributed her death to
strangulation but. she had suffered
wounds and internal injuries that might
have proven fatal. She had been ravished
and savagely beaten about the face, sev-
eral inch-long lacerations appearing
above her eyes. More horrible still, her
whole body seemed to have been bitten
and chewed as though by a wolf,

Fangs had almost severed her lips and
one ear. In her thighs, shoulders and
breast were other deep wounds that car-

Breathlessly, detec-
tives watched Dentist
Edmund Paulinski,
right, fit the cast of the
suspect's teeth, shown
in circle, into the cruel
fang marks on the
slain child. Below, the
monster shields his

features at the trial. |

ried the full imprint of upper and lower
teeth. A veritable Dracula had done this
awful thing.

As Kreft and the homicide experts
studied the hideous marks more officers
arrived. Detectives Bert Dobzyneicki,
Stanley Kina, Walter Palicki and Joseph
Swiatecki looked and drew back, shud-
dering.

It was obvious to all that they stood
beside the victim of a sex killer—per-
haps the infamous “Toledo clubber”
whose reign of terror, beginning in 1922,
had seemed to culminate in the atrocious
murder of Lily Croy, a school teacher, in
1925.

Four women had been attacked and
clubbed to death by this sadist. No less
than a dozen others had been felled by
his blows. In every case the victim, an
adult, had been struck down from behind
while walking alone on a dark street.

The 3-year interval between the Croy
murder and the slaying of little Dorothy
and the wide difference in the technique
of the crimes argued the existence of
another thrill slayer.

Inclining to this view, the officers re-
fused to be driven into a frantic, city-
wide man-hunt, though the newspapers,
on the street with bulletins almost before
the child’s body had been removed to the

[Continued on page 63]

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Reference Daniel Hunt, executed 3413161932, Ohio, for murder of
Frank Conoway, Sugar Creek Township Constable.

Conoway was 50 years old; weapon was a rifle; tnjured at 1030 pm 9/2371931
died on the 24th. Incident occured over the theft of some hogs. Conoway

had 2 daughters. Hunt age given as 58. Also arrested was a Price Gray,

what ahappened to him I don't know. Source is the Lima OH News of 9-24-1931.

BUNTY Daniel, white, elec. Ohio (Putman County) March 11, 1

‘
ve Lise at wo 6

3) HQUELL,.Dick,. white, electrocuted Ohio SP. (Canton). on 6-2-1921,

ae . deere tt Win os Fer

TY OF CANTON.

POLICE DEPARTMENT
—221- 3rd STREET S.W. — CANTON, OHIO 44702

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STANLEY A. CMICH FRANK J. BURNOSKY ; THOMAS W. WYATT
MAYOR SAFETY DIRECTOR CHIEF OF POLICE
une May 2, 1983
| a f
| i Ronald C. Van Raalte

Zone Security Manager
Great Lake Zone
Avis Rent A Car System, Inc.
O'Hare International Airport P.O. Box 66466
Chicago, Illinois 60666 9

Dear Sir:

In reply to your letter dated April 21, 1983, addressed to Officer Thomas
Kell, Detective Guy Mack, black-male-dob 3-23-21, was shot and killed ;
July 22, 1972. He had joined the Canton Police Department November 18,
1949. “At the time of his death he was off duty, shopping at the A&P :
Store at 1800 E. Tuscarawas Street, with his wife, when three (3) black-

‘ male subjects entered the store and proceeded to rob same. Detective Mack

é did grab one of the subjects as he was passing through the checkout counter
and during the ensuing struggle he was shot twice with a 38 Cal. Revolver,
one shot.entering his left side and one in the forehead. The weapon used
did not belong to Det. Mack.

Due to the circumstances, even though Det. G. Mack was technically off
duty, he was considered to be on duty at the time of his death. After
considerable investigation by members of this Department, three black males
ys out of the Cleveland, Ohio, area were arrested and brought to trial. All
* were convicted and sent to prison. However, one of the subjects is presently
. out on appeals. He is presently charged by the Cleveland Police with Several
counts of armed robbery and rape.

In addition to Det. Guy Mack over the years we have had five other officers
killed in the line of duty. They are as follows:

Pt]. Alvah A. Miller - Killed, March 29, 1919. | cv Ht
KR Det. Anthony Skotnicky - Shot, Nov. 29, 1919, after arresting a fugitive. Yi5}9

oO Pt]. Joseph Lauer - Shot June 14, 1928. Suspect sentenced to Life.in 1928.
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WARDEN'S REFERRAL “PERSONALITY EVALUATION ts arr

NUMBER 123-073 _OFFENSE_____ MURDER 1st DEGREE
_- NAME JEMISON, Richard SENTENCE____ DEATH
BIRTH DATE 3-12-09 __AGE 59 __COUNTY___ FRANKLIN —

HVUOCOTVAOOPECECOEY . SOCKXDOGERAACEX . WARDEN'S OFFICE | (2).
RECORD OFFICE (1) -. ‘FILE (1) | 7 |
KEN RRAOORRR “PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT (1)

The current evaluation was requested by Mr. H. J. Cardwell, Warden. Jemison
is scheduled to be executed on January 24, 1969. : 3

Attempts have been made in the past to conduct satisfactory interview and
testing sessions with Tenens to the end of establishing basic materials
e

which ecould be used to genera
sonality evaluations. These attempts have been unsuccessful due to Jemison's

the necessary information for subsequent per-

insistence that his attorney "has told me not to take any tests or answer any

questiony or have any interviews...."

Jemison is presently serving his eighth major commitment, with the details

of his extensive institutional career being available elsewhere. His early

years were apparently marked by antisocial, manipulative behavior complica-

ted by maternal overprotection and the subsequent inability to accept any re-
sponsibility for his own misbehavior. As noted in March of this year, this
behavior pattern was so well established that it has continued throughout his

adult years.

Test results available from prior commitments indicate bright-normal intel-

ligence and educational achievement at approximately the ninth grade level,
together with below-average sccores on mechanically-weighted aptitude tests.

Two previous evaluations are on record, generally describing Jemison as an
antisocial individual, in 1952 and agin in 1956.

If further evaluation is necessary, it would be helpful for Jemison's attor-
neys to verify his claims regarding their advice not to participate in tests
or interviews, and to explore the basis for such counsel.

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were applied and prison
physicians. made two exam-
inations of the body before

pronouncing the prisoner dead.

The doomed man entered the
death ehamber smoking a cigat
which he handed to a guard after
taking two last puffs while be was
being strapped in the chair. Hobbs
who was accompanied by Rev. K.
C. Wall, prison chaplain, was not
praying audibly as he entered the
room. He appeared to be in a daze.

- Avoids Witnesses

Hobbs was assisted through the
doorway and into the chair by two

ards wHo had escorted him from
his cell a few feet away. The pris-
oner kept his eves east downward

Three: From County.
Preceded . Hobbs

William Hobbs was the fourth:
person from Butler eounty'to be.
electrocuted in Ohio: pees:
tiary. :

The others were: ~ i

euted August 19; 1904, ioe the ?
murder of his wifes NA
Charles King, Hamilton, exe-’
ented April 30, 1931; for the
murder. of his: wife and four chil-

Williams, colored,
Middletown, executed: May 21,
1931, for the murder of a Mid-
dletown storekeeper.

“and deliberately avoided the glances
of witnesses. When asked by War-
den J. C. Woodard if he had any-

thing to say, the prisoner merely }

shook his head.»
Less than. one minute after he
“entered the chamber, the prisoner
- had been strapped in the chair and
guards signaled that the electrodes
were~in- place. A black mask was
then placed over his face and War-
‘den. Woodard stepped back and
waved his arm. in signal to. the
guards to turn on the current. «
Sister Claims Body

= Doctors George W. Kile and John
I. White, prison physicians, listened

gt for a heart beat each time the eur-

~ rent waa. stopped ‘and Doctor Kile }

* finally announced to the witnesses
_ that the prisoner was dead.
A sister, Mrs. Robert Gambrell,.
- 221 Race. street, Hamilton, claimed
. the ‘body and had. it removed im-
-. mediately: to ~ Germantown where
‘private: funeral ‘services. were cou-
Punspeoge’ this morning...
The. electrocution, the two gk
‘ dred’ ‘ninth ‘held. in. Ohio peniten-
Bs. » Was conducted in the *pres- }.
Be acon of about © 30 ation 8 who}
~~ were escorted to the death chamber.
ae by Warden : Woodard fess than-a
“minute before the prisoner was led,
the doorway. The group
“the following from Ham-
2 Sheriff Charles B. Walke,

| Middletown. pike.

ur J. Pienrer,
When informed of the ‘suit, Chief

Calhoun said that he knew Ogg but
intimated that the plaintiff had no
claim to the reward. —.

‘‘That’s just his story,’’ Calhoun
said.
The chief, in discussing the re-

4 ward, said that he planned to pay

the money at an early date. ‘‘In
fact,’’ the ‘chief said, ‘‘I expect to
be ready to make an announcement
which I believe will officially close
the case.”

The suits represent the second le-
gal step taken in common pleas
court to obtain the reward. Joseph
Spivey, Hamilton, filed a petition
several months ago to perpetuate a
record of certain information which
he alleges he gave*to Hamilton de-
tectives. At the time Chief Calhoun
said Spivey.had. given certain in-
formation but it was already knowa

to the capertaibat
Karl Gray Named -

~ Albert. Knapp, Hamilton, exe- {}-.:

Columbus, was held Wed
night in the K. of C. temple,
Third etreet... The. followi
officers assumed their posts
Grand knight, Edward ¥. Sc
‘deputy grand knight,
Suedkamp; chancellor, Cl
Jacobs; advocate, Dr: Joseph L Pa-
ter; warden, Albert. Lauer;. re-
eorder, Miles E. Brown;) treasurer,
J, Henry Stephan; - trustee, Charles
Sehroeder; inside guard,~Charles’F.
Robinson, -Jr.; outside. guard, Wil-
liam Cox; lecturer, “J. Earl Gray,
‘and: financial secretary, alee G.
Von Der Haar...

tary were appointed last night by
Sehmidt. : vF

Miles ©. Brown was “appointed
phitGaan of a committee to arrange
for a dance Saturday night, Aug-
ust,13, in the Elks Country elub,
The. following
committee was/named to make .ar-
rangements for a Columbus . day
celebration in October: Edward D.
Willer, chairman; “J. Earl Gray,
George V.- Schwartz, Herbert J.
Miller and J: Henry Stephan» —

‘Plans were made for the mideum-
mer festival July 29 and 205) onthe
temple grounds.”

~The lecturer-and financial eecre- |“

nicipal eourt, He failed to pay
and on court orders is to serve out
both fines in the Cincinnati work-
house.

Ingram wae arrested Wednesday
night by Patrolman Allen Lindsay
at Fourth street and Maple avenue.
He was committed to Butler county

. miu

.deil to. await his transfer to the

workhousé.

Effie Barnes Boberie: age 23, giv-
ing her address as 124 Linden

street, was fined $25 and costs on | Progr

a charge of intoxication, signed by
Policewoman. Hattie Clark.. She
was committed to the Butler county
jail when she failed to pay. .

Other eases involving intoxica-
tion charges disposed of by’ Judge
Davidéon were: Monroe Singleton,’
age 60, 1154 Parkamo avenue,
_| probation; Ernest Abrams, age 32,
49 North Sixth atreet, probation;
Ross Moore, age 32, 1682 Dixie
highway, $10 and costs, suspended;
Leonard Bottles, age 28, 887 Fair
view avenue, $5: and costs, eom-
mitted to Butler county tent when
he. failed to pay.

Elisha Alexander, age 21, 9
Hurm © street, appearing before
Judge Davidson on a -eharge of

‘breach of peace, signed Wednes-

day. morning by LaVerne Smith,

>} 722 Witman street, was fined $1
-} and’ costs ’ and released’ arheagi he

paid.

TREAT ‘SCALP INJURY -
FOR ROBERT BAYMAN
Robert Bayman, age . 23,. 1100
Harmon avenue, received treatment
in Mercy hospital Wednesday after-
noon for a ecalp laceration re-
ceived while swimming. .

BLAZE IN FISHWICK
a AUTO IS EXTINGUISHED
Fire, which ¢aused slight damage
te an automobile owned by F. H:
Fishwick, 1218 Hensley avenue, was
extinguished .by. firemen Wednee-
day afternoon at the Fisbwiek rea-
idence.) - ooh:
M’CARDLE YOUNGSTER ex
INJURES HAND IN FALL
Lester McCardle, age 4, 9m of-
Mr. and ‘Mrs. Lester McCardle, 6347
Chestnut ‘street, was treated in
Fort aHmilton hospital Wednesday
for: cute received on his left hand
when. he fell: on’ a tin can in Ae

yard of his: home.

Pr ecity Girt’ Sconts from Hamil-
ton troops who now are enjoying
the second week of the 1938 sea-
son at Camp Beechwood, near Som-

gram- Wednesday evening for rep-
resentatives. of the. regional eamp
committee, parents and friends:

po prepeorct an pin oiary members

erville, presented a ‘elightful ‘pro- |.

‘}. The special guests for the oc-
"; Peasion were Miss May McHenry, of
| Newport, Ky, and Mra B. #H.

Regional. ‘Gil ‘Scout Executives

_ See Program At Camp 1 Beechwood

committee in. the Kenowva district,
comprising the states of Ohio, Ken-
tucky and West Virginia, ~~
Wednesday evening’s program at
the camp was composed of brief

sketches in’ which the Scouts out-
lined in words ‘and action the foun-
dation stones of Girl Scout work.
The program was directed by Miss
‘Corrinne Atkin, eamp director, and-

ity. A’ part of the alle
board property: and
south side of. Sp Adessg
grounds. ©

Boating A
For Sece

Second — period m
Hamilton Y¥. M. C.-A.
bell Gard, Wednesda
am of boating
cer, volleyball, rah
outdoor games under
camp leaders.

A game of ‘‘eaptu
played by the entire
substituted for the re
fire. program Wednesd

The first sessions io
hobbies was held W.
ernoon in the camp
Archery is the favori
second period ‘camp
to Charles H. Klippe
director.

Today’s program w
further studies in eraf
bjes and will close wi

ceremony tonight.

LIBRARY TRUS

APPROVE.

At -a meeting of
the Lane Publie Lit
afternoon, reports on
the library during the
were received. The
hag been abandoned
converted into a work
much needed space to

A budget of $ i
approval and ordéred
the board of educatic
Butler county budget ec

FIERS TO BE SPEAK
AT RAMSEY
Rev. A. Dale Fiers, fp
High Street Church of
give the welcoming add
afternoon at 2:30 o’e
Central Church of
special fellowship, servi
the new pastor, Ree. H
sey.)
Following’ the: regu
worship service, a bask
will be served, All. m
friends of the church a

DON ASHFORD IL...’
: TAKEN TO
-Don Ashford, age 23
avenne, was removed
ilton hospital for treat
day afternoon in. the
bulanee after he becan
ill at Kenworth and He

DELEGATES OHOSE)
BY 40 ET 8 VY
Delegates and altern
state convention of Vo
of 40° et 8, an. org
World War veterans,
Wednesday night: ata
the. Legion home, Sou
and New London pik
are, Roy Lents and
Sparacio. Alternates
Krahenbuh! and Esrl
The. convention ae

Miss Geneva | Turek, Seout execu-

LESTATE
NSFERS.

SEBLSR UNTOR, 13720 and TT

WMemiites ,

mete te: Diltera ‘Con tot.

, 1 binkerk -Margarce

‘is aa Savinge @ Loan
Marjorie Bowling, ivr
toler a apeert harews
per o 8. re
t “of Aot.: 219. (Becond

to Frank Stera,

Eee is

3
ae to Scicacal Mots.
i (Third ward). -:
well ana Mary ¥ Jowell
e
Fharoola =

63... . Tax: .
Martindate ‘to. Thomas -

. 3.50.-:
2985.- ibe: ao

Sper hog ree
scel Savings
4. FU

“| 82,560 |

} Barnits. Hank and tr:
a mer ort Ge is

Clation. lnr 20472.
WM. Ousiey,
oe pert of
oyenn a Kaker. et ah.
Hulding: abd Loan asec

$2, 109.
Sek ah tte. Mary E
lots. aI7) and” 37a.

to Butilee

ay ertee lots
$7,308."

Ne heity Sauer. ef af to Home Fed:

jeral Savinus and Lean mosoctatiuis,
~Nuor races 2
grits fowman! to ‘oud

E let 6786. Tax 60 conta

$2,109;

Mebatred 43 Sheley in Rutier” Butia- +
ing an@ Loan mea ucla ere jote pene:
and PEIAT FE.2ET FH.

Middietewa.”

tewn Building aad: Deposit assvctas
Of Lote: 1828; ang cans

wron, et Pty ‘Midale-
town Nasiding and Depos aasocia~:
tian, ct of Jote 2261. $3,590.

je Powers: et al. to. Middietown.

tion,

Qwens C

‘ten, part at jole 3408, $606 and a¢or.:
32,800.

Singer, et al, to Middte-

cree Joseph
“ | town ey and Loans. association,
; as. | freee $255, $3,500. -

243, Schmiar et al, to’ the ‘First
bank: _jot

to Middietown.

and Merchante Nationst:
2830, |; :-§%.208.
A. Hoppe _ et: al,

; PBatiding and Deposit anacciation, ‘tot:

3% “
: tio Muell “40 ‘Middletewn “‘Builé-
tt | 4 Depoatt sesociation. part of

ie 2020. 92.600.

FO. Diver Milticg compan

Ogiesby-Harnits Bank and.

sompany, Yet DLS. $23 000-:
Charles D. Kent, ot “al, to Americas.

“Building: anes Loan ssorsatlons jot

to
‘rust

: “to Ame! : Butlain
gna Loan association, lot 6931. $3,100.
‘Mildred Law Snyder to Ox say

, 84. habe

3.
uM pany. lot.
$. Whorley,.et a Willem i.
NURIN, ht -74626,- -83,000..-
McNabdh, et a}, to Middletowa
meres hee ace and Inman aseccia-
t
Mack McNabd, at. re ‘ta: MiSdletown
‘eGeral Savings and Lean, _ aasocia
is Tot 7533. $8,206,
hom piauspimar et al; “te. “amer-.
1‘ swans cree

rth $1.0 :
“Holman: et ale he: wd.

‘Aibert rt ajeess ef

: t
5 | Battding ane: “see. aasortation, Jo

eciation,.
nie

Or Tus

Rareite. Thane and.
31.07 acres, Madie

enaley:-wan charged with

b of

An a gounter charge ‘of breed

Dies Federal Savi: res and Loeaw neso- :

"Federal Bavinge. and Loan. assccia- |

Z| ‘slarne Tuesday.

oyet | ‘Waa’: extinguished at: 4:10:

‘ag tO Parreaneet: a

] bon of grounds. of. insuftiedent pes fo
| denies,
the theft of « guitar, valued at $30.

HAMILTON. jouRNAL THE ‘DAILY WEWS

- HOBBS FACES DEATH
_ IN CHAIR TONIGHT

a (Conlinecd ‘Free Last “Pase)-

‘ie on October 22. The trial, which

: we j required five” daya,. was held in
Rovert Olinger, et al. ie: “wiaane.

Hamilton before a jury in the court

| Foliowing,, the eoavietion, Hebhs
oblamed a stay of exeestion
through an-appeal. to the’ district
court cf appeals and March 10 was
‘set for the execution. after t): E.
court, by a vote of two to one, ze

stay was obtained when: the case
waa taken. to the. Ohio. supreme
‘éourt whieh also confirmed the. wer.
diet of the jury.
In Burglary Attempt»
~ Patrviman ‘Sponsel was shut to
death early on the morning of Apri
13 when he surprieed Hobbs: ard
Roce-ir the act of attempting © to
burglarize t Mike. Vertioh = res-
taurant, 546. North © Third. street,

oa rf

art | Hamilton... The two men, together |-
“vith John Agnew, age 34, Deerfie‘d as

pike, Hamilton, were apprehended

rest’ and conviction of the slaren.
Hobbs and Rose -both confessed
theic part in the erime, but/Agnew,

‘and drove the other ‘two!
scene, denied — imphestion © iv the
crime. Agnew. was saved from “a
death sentence whet: the jary ree-
Gmmended merey. He waa-sentenced
to serve a life term: in prison-and
| will never be eligible for « parole.| ”
| Rose, wh appenred.as estate's wit-:
Ress, arainnt Agnew, later pleaded |:

YIRE AT LOVING’ HOME

“Tuesday afternoon: : hen
Wallpaper. caught fire: fro

| fhulty flwe At the residence:of Theo- | '
- | dors: Loving, 1349 Jersey avenue,.
sn | ahortly. before “5. 0’plock: Tuesday

= a
: send, MY, daly. 6—The
cahaalivek 'J,000-aore: -eutate of Mar.
ehall Field STI, Chicago departs:

i and originally wad sontenced | ta

ef Commos Pless Judge P,P. Boh..

fused: to review the ease. “Another |

he John Krieger thocfer,

"ton April 20:after rewards totalling |
| $5,850 had been-posted for the ar-|

who allegedly planned the burglary:
to the.

al eealty to cLarges of: ‘second degres {>
“ murder. Foe :

ee : :
: TA AULTY FLUE CAUSES ‘Tris street, New. Miami, who received

“7 home. remained : in eritioal: eondi-
5 tion: Wedneadav in: Mercy. ‘hospital |.

me EIGHT INTOXICATION - “

| Judge Elmer N. Davi
e 3 “poms saree <

Ben. List, “age: 38
: and: conts;: Robert: Alexander, age
1 48, no: home,

4 codis;: William Moore, age B5,:n6 |,

Welsh
‘Haw

ae nyred Reale. Ro RL
-etezg avillionsire, at it Lloyd's Neck, Hamilton, $5 and caste, pete

{ Among The Sick i}

Lee C, ‘Eversole has been - dis é
miesed {rom Nere> hesnita!, Shere |

fervation and ie recunerating at his}
ba ne S41 South Twelfth etecer.°

re Charles ‘*Bud” Srvafe, ix
convatescing at ber home on His
street, following a minor operation
last week in Fort Hamilton hosp:tai.

Mrs. Anna Meder, 822° South
Front singel was removed to Merry
hospital, this - morning. Ske «
critically: i ee a

Mas Al i Kaisers Piemsatt ave-
nue, uho bag-been in Merey bos-
pita), has been. removed to Good
San: :aritan’ hospital, Cineinnati., ;

shere she! is sermusly allo. ae ;

wheter, 239 Vines
etreel, a medical patient in Fart
Hamilton hospital: eince: early in
June, haa taken. Ae ture, Ho pe
wore. S78 ae: P a
See ga ges :
MORGAN GRANGE:
DISCUSSES PARTY |

The rezlar ‘meeting ‘of Morgan
prange “was held Tueaday night in
the Okeane, achuni with more than

one hundgyed - mensbere “preseat.4-

Pleng were discussed: fer a - party
for al! Butler county grange pee
‘bens: in’ the Reily school, Julv: 2

‘A’ brief. program in -charge: of < ‘

W. Roberis and Marv. plane Aadiow:
was. preseented,: =
“The next © “meeting: “of” Moreh:

zrange ee he Monday neh duly. ;

ROBE RT COLLINS” ee
- STILL: CRITICAL

P Robert: Collina, age: 6, 221. Mor-

s- fractured ekull and brokea: left
leg Monday. night: when he was
atruck by an automobile near: hia:

CASES BEFORE: ‘pout

3 Hascern asin, a, dee

Ror Measure 7
Desired By Nation

‘Washington! daly 6 “(Py Presi.
{dent Roosevelt. said ‘today that the 2

enuntry undoubtedly desired a gov- |;
ernment - crorraniza slow ‘bill to be

enacted. oe :
_ The Chiet Execotive® ‘told “bis oe
press conference that many persons
who voted’ iu the house to pigeos-
bole the administration reorganiza-
tion measure were in favor of 90

~ | he underwent. treatment. and: ob- 7}.

{| per gent of its provision, ber. ob, -

jected to 10 per. eent.: 3

Adminis{ration | “in; ‘eon. :
gress had served. notice thet « new {-.
effort would be made ‘to enact a re-!”
organiration © measure ate fhe, next

i S@NSIO$ ; ’

Sexing that the | country ‘auddubtl
efiy desired “a reorganization law,
the President. ssid: that to‘get one]
involved merely’ a: question of get.
ae together conflict ting: opinions.

Siok News, oS -

Born, to Mrs, Ana Kenaer.
pF dirth Suresica Bore a taney

hospital
Born. to | Mrs Metta: “Better, Os.
Litworth strict Cine baat es ‘wet tay
Alercy Rerwptte i
drotn, Ya Mew 136
c AN ists €
heapitel: a fs oe
Rorn, te Mtn
Certral evesve,
Hton, Ronpttel,:

Chadens July. § poaien, jal :
Preble county. probate court include.
the fullowing: © P33 : :

Edward Wilhelm: “and. Jesee Bow. |.
‘nan, administrators of the estate-of
Tsang Sellers, deceaaed, filed seceatd :
aud final account: a

“Everett: MoDivitt, Uduiniacatae

4 of the eatate of Lavina:J, ‘MeDixitt, eo

deceased, f filed : fivet and: fiat ke:

‘Dinponition of eight casee involv. |,

ing. intoxieslion gharges was
Wednesday. ae

edo

son §
7 Le s
05. and coste: “Joan
| Rogere,- age &0, no home, 65 and {

hepee, 65 and costae; Cliarles Welsli,
2, 429 Pershing avenue; 85 and
Billie’ Gibson, . age’ 44, wal

* gle

of the: sa aig, otal ‘Wehrly,
dectused, filed. iret

earge E “Tucker, ‘aduuinintrafor
of ‘the estate of Louetta: Shideler.
deerated, fed eckedale.of-. sdebte:
pand petition for anie of real extate.

- Hettie Lee Wyebdnag, exccutrix..f |
the: eatate of Quear 2 Wyaong, bee:
Scented, filed ‘sehedaly a ‘debts: and
sinction Of spouse. Ee ere

Walter B, Mila was ‘appointed |
adwioistrator .of the: ater of Elia{ 4 ©
Creager, also. written Mice. Creager :

decested; ‘bond $7,100,

we . wok

HOBBS William, white

‘SPONSEL CASE
TRIGGER- MAN
HOLDSCALM

Putts On Cigar While Walk-
\ jng Last Mile In Ohio Pen -

LAST - MINUTE EFFORT

Fails In Attempt To Save}

Hamilton Man; Funeral
_ Today In Germantown

Hobbs °* maintains — silence
as he goes to death ig elec-
trie chair for slaying of Ar-*
thur Sponsel, Hamilton po-.
lice officer. : Last minute ef.
forts. fail: to. save. slayer.
Buried: in. Germantown: to-

day.

‘ By WALLACE ROBERTS __
‘1 ) Jeurnal-News Staff Reporter

<> William Hobbs, age 34,

Hamilton, forfeited his life in.

- the electric chair in Ohio pen-
_ itentiary, ‘Columbus, Wednes-
day night. Thus Hobbes paid
his debt to society for the slay-

“ing of Arthur E. Sponsel,

Hamilton. police © officer, who
was shot to death. April 12,

_ 1987, while attempting to frus-.

“trate a burglary at the Mike
Vertich. restaurant, 548 North
Third street, Hamilton.: —

Hobbs, who had been in
death row for more: than 11.

“months, was. placed in the
chair at. ‘exactly. 8:45 o'clock

~ last night and was pronounced.
. dead six minutes later. Three

‘shocks were applied and prison

‘> physicians: made two exam-
- inations of the body. before
» pronouncing the prisoner dead.:| »

The. doomed . man entered © _the
~ death chambet smoking a” cigar
“whieh he handed to a guard after |

taking, two last puffs while he was
being: atrapped in the chair. Hobbs
"who: was accompanied by’ Rev. K-
— C. Wall, prison chaplain, was not
praying audibly as he entered: the
‘room. He appeared to be in a daze,
: Avoids Witnesses :
‘Hobbes was assisted through ‘the

"doorway and into the ehair by two
da wh had escorted him from

JOURNAL, Hamilton, -

RESOLUTION S ‘PA\

elec, Ohio (Butler Count

F WM. HOBBS SILENT AS.

eee

City

hey

eee

OO0- 006

Don R. Ogg Seeks

Death (TS Case Reward :

Suits Name : Dorks Of $5, als
~~ Aiding Hunt For Slayers
Of Patrolman Sponsel -

Don R. Oge, 1212 South Second
street, a clerk, filed three suits
Thursday in. eommon pleas court
to collect the $5,850 reward posted

for the arrest,-convittion and exe-
cution: of the slayere of Arthur
Sponsel, “ Hamilton. police officer.
The suits were filed less than 12

hours’ after William Hobbs, onej

of the slayers, was electrocuted
Wednesday night in Ohis peniten-
tiary.

Ogg, who claims ‘that, he furn-
ished John C.: Calhoun, Hamilton
police :chief,. with the information

“| that led *to the arrest of the mur-

derers, directs’ the suits against
Alexander Thomson, Sr., chairman

of ‘the board of directors of the}

Champion Paper and Fibre com-
-pany; the. _Butler_county commis-
sioners. and the “Hamilton . Police
Mutual Aid society. Ogg seeks

$5,000. from Thomson who spon- |.

sored a reward of that sum; $500
from the commissioners. who. posted
a reward_of that amount and $300
fromthe police aid society. which
offered a reward of that amount.
The other $50 was contributed
aponymonily:

~~ Barlier. Demands —

The: plaintiff reports. that he

mado~a written Wemand for the
money on each . e defendants
-on last; June 20° ad was refused

payment. “He did ot. disclose in
the suits what information he gave
Chief Calhoun. = -

The suits. were : filed through Ar-
thur J. Fiehrer, attorney. —

- When informed of the suit, Chief
Calhoun said that he knew Ogg but
intimated thatthe. plaintiff had no
‘claim to the reward.

‘*That’s Midas his story,”” Calhoun
said.

The chief; in s diactaainee the’ re-
ward, said that he planned to pay
the money at an early date. ‘‘In
fact,’’ the chief said, “‘I expect to
be ready to make an announcement>
which I believe will officially close
the case.’?-; "=.

The suits represent the second le-
gal step’ taken in common’ pleas

‘| court to obtain the reward. Joseph

Spivey, Hamilton, filed. a petition
several months: ago to perpetuate a

ee ooo eee.

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Completes All Prana
VE WAY FO

eee eee

[schoot se Declares Necessity For Nev
~In Lindenwald, Other Improvements; Hold

ries Plans To Tax Commission In Colum

Legislation paving ‘the way for
submitting. a $500,000. bond ‘issue

for a. publie school building pro-

gram was adopted by the Hamil-
ton city board of education Tues-
day night at a special meeting in
the school administration offices,
209 South Second street. Three
members attended, Mrs. Mary M.
Beckett, Howard Carter and John
P.: Museb.

Two resolutions were passed
by the board. The first de--
elared the necessity for a
combination ‘ senior-junior high
school in Lindenwald and ad-
ditions and: improvements: at.
other school . buildings.

The second resolution stated
that bonds. would . be — paid
within 23 years after date of
authorization in annual install-

~ments and that. they would
bear ‘interest. at the rate of
about 4 per cent with interest
payable semi-annually.

Copies of the resolutions were
taken today’to officigle of the Ohio
tax commission in. © Columbus
by Charles E. Holdefer,: clerk of
the echool board. If. the procedure
is approved by the commission, the

Floyd Ingram Fined
$125 By Davidson

' Floyd Ingram, age 32, no home,
was fined $100 and costs on an in-
toxieation eharge, and $25 and
costs on a charge of resisting an
officer, when he was arraigned
Thursday morning before Judge El-
mer N: Davidson in Hamilton mu-
nicipal eourt.° He failed to pay
and on court orders .is to serve out
both fines in the Cincinnati work:
house. ©

: Ingram wae arrested Wednesday
night by. Patrolman Allen Lindsay
at Fourth street and Maple avenue.
He was committed to Butler county
jail to await his transfer to the
workhouse. oe

” Effie Barnes Roberte, age 23, giv-
‘ing her address as 124 Linden

street, was fined $25 and costs on progr

a ‘eharge. of intoxication, signed by
Policewoman Hattie Clark. She
was committed to the Butler county

0, io, July 7, 1938, page one.

Butler county. audito
structed to calculate
annual tax leyy requ
out the life of the
interest thereon for
ment in 23 years.”
Improvements
Estimated ctat~6f"
building program ie
this amount would in

| tion’ to the new eck

additions to the Fill
coln. schools;: a ‘¢omh
munity auditorium
field house and footb
the Hamilton’ High s
field, addition to th
Roosevelt Junior Hig
provement of Hamilto
gymnasium, inetallati
heating. and ventilat
Hamilton High eehoo
lation of “new ~ pluy
school buildings.
The school: board’s
cost ‘would come from
sue, The board has:
Fublic Works Admini
prant of $369,000 to ps
of the total estimated
tive approval of pre}
and specifications for
program has been gi
W.A. regional offici

, bus.

- A-communication ‘f
Huher, 1037 Tiffin 2
the board to consider
between the Pierce sc
Miami river, as the sit
posed senior-Junior

building i in Lindenwald
Periisston was gr

board for the paving
street alley between

Tenth streets, after a
received by residante
ity. A part of the al
board -property and

south side: of the: M
grounds,

Boating 2 A
For. Seca

Second - period cam
Hamilton Y, M. C: A.
bell Gard, Wednesda
am of boating,
tenn

cer, “volleyball,
‘under

outdoor games
camp. leaders.

Neen eee a

erce Ropes and
Jones of the Re-

nee Corp.

ork Stock quota-

tre Neem # ee
p, ,Concinna’ i, =m
Stock ‘Sx:

1,475,271, firm; creamery-epecials
(93 score) 2554-2614; extras (92)
25%; standards. (90 centralized
earlote) 25%; other prices un-
ebanged. Eggs 14,785, firm; fresh
graded, extra firsts local and ears
2014; firets local 20, ears 20%4;
storage packed extras 21 firsts
203%; other prices unchanged. -

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Cin'ti Livestock

Cincinnati, July 7. (P}— Hogs
2,150; opén 10-20 up on 160 Ib up;
top 9.90 for 160-225 Ib; 225-300 Ib
8.85.9 60; 140-160 Ibs 9.25-50; sows
firm, 7.00-25.

Cattle 400; calves 250; steady to
strong; epots higher; pert : loads

good 1,000-1,500 lb steers 10.00-50;
heifers ecarce; good fed beef cows

medium 5.75-6.50; top bulls 6.50;
vealers firm; top "9.00.

Sheep 2,000; open’ steady; good
and eboice lambs 9.00-50; strictly
ehoice quotable higher; ehors ewes

1-3 | 3.50 down.

OC, ene ewe

“. vce wenn 463-6
t& Tube - a--= 38 1-2

‘) Trade

whias butter, and
Chi a fe!
ntile Saeed

pn and: mee ahs

11-8; Sept. 2 5-8
-4@5-8.
5-8; rea 50° 14;

Local Grain, ‘Hay

(Daily noon quotations In Hamil-
ton by the Farm Service opmpeny),

Wheat—63e.
* Corn—50c.. ;
f Asie e eatting—€8 to ‘$10

: ork itelfa “fecond cutting #12" to
$14 ton. > |

DENY CLEMENCY.
TO CASH SLAYER

Florida pardon board refused today
to commute the death sentence of
Franklin Pierce McCall for the ran-
som kidnaping ‘of James Bailey
Cash.,. Jr.,. at Erinbeion Fley: on
May 29. ;

.DANCER’S HUSBAND.
~~ COMMITS: ‘SUICIDE

: Cincinnati, 0. J uly Ja-Because his
wife answered ‘no’? to his question
of ‘‘*Do you still love me?’’ How-

| ard Hardin, age 35, of Newport,

naa 141h0; ‘No. 2
o. 1 yellow 5914¢;
ts, No. 2 Yee.

7 UP}—Rains over-
as of the doniestic
itory helped to lift
ices a cent a bushel

rains were heavy
y, hamper’ harvest

Db 1 ean aay
ber T3%-74,.. Chi-

vies then reacted .

1 started: M14

ise Market

committed suicide today by firing a
shot into his temple early Thurs-
day in the basement of their home.

The wife; Mrs. Zelma Hardin, is
an entertainer’ at Blue Grass Inn,

Ne
Hardin’s suicide was bis seeond
attempt within a week. . T,
Last» Thureday, after . Yearning

for a divorce, Hardin took a heavy
dose of a drng and went to the ga-
tage and turned on the motor of
an antomobile, The running motor

who called the police.

16 YBARS OW. Rey
At the
Hitcheock is

quotable 700 or above; plain and throug’

-| have: been

~ Tallahassee, Fla., July 7(/P)—The | **@um

Licking: pike, one mile south of -
that “his wife had filed a petition:

attracted attention of a neghior.

emoking a fresh cigar when the
guards notified him that it was
time for him to “walk the last
mile.” They said that he merely
shrugged. his shoulders and said
nothing as he was led.from the
cell. Two inmates in death row
ehouted a greeting to him as he
paseed, but Hobbs made no reply.

The prisoner was dressed in a
blue shirt, grey trousers and wore
carpet elippers. Part of his head
had been shaved for the electrode
by. the prison barber. The doomed
man, who weighed ofly about 115
pounds when arrested, had gained
52 ‘pounds . during hig . confinement

in the p
Declined

Fred Cramer, who with W. C.
Shepherd represented the prisoner
h court appointment, made a
last effort to save the. prisoner
through an appeal to the governor
late Wednesday afternoon. The gov.
ernor, however, declined’ to
Cramer a formal interview an: re
nounced that the recommendation
of the le board made it virtually
impossible for him to take any ac-
tion.
» Cramer had sought a 30-day stay
of execution on, contention that he
wanted to ‘have ballistic experts
examine the gun which the state
claimed Hobbs used to kill Sponsel.

He said that Charles Vincent Rose,

codefendant in the case had a gun
of the same’ calibre and it might
ible that Rose, and
not Hobbs, had fired the fatal shots.

The attorney had made a similar
ent before the parole board
which he had attempted to induce to
extend ‘clemency on grounds that
Hobbs was drunk at the time of the
killing and had not realized what
he was doing. The board, however,
pointed out that evidence at. the
trial showed that bs had ‘gone
to the ae Bolser’ to get
his gua a short time before’ the
slaying and ruled that his action
proved .conclusively..that the pris-
oner had not been in ry Ec

etupOr:
+ Obtained Second Stay

* Hobbs was copvieted by a jury
in Butler county eomman pleas
court on June J1; 1937, and efforts
to’ obtain a: new. trial from the
higher courts failed: He had orig:
inally been echeduled for execu-
tion’ last October 22, but was
granted a stay. when the: cas® Was
taken to the: court of, appeals.
After. that ‘tribunal ~ rejected. the
plea, he was sentenced by Judge. P.
P.. Boli to. die on March 10.; The
prisoner obtained a “second stay
when the case’ was sppealed to the

“Ohio state supreme court ‘which af- |
firmed the’verdict of the jury sev- |

eral days ago.

“Hobbs? ‘conviction was based on
‘| an indictment charging that he

committed a» homicide while’ en-

-| gaged in s burglary. The prisoner
‘Jeonfessed his part in the crime

service revolver nearby.

The murder resulted in one ofthe
most intensive manhunts in the his-
tory of Hamilton and resulted a
week later in the arrest of Hobbs,

Rose and Agnew. Rewards totalling

$5,850 were posted for the arrest of
their slayers and their apprehension
is reported to have been due to a
‘<tip’? ree¢ived from an associate of
Hobbs.

The case was completely disposed
of in:common pleas court within
leas than 10 week8 and Hobbs was
taken to the penitentiary by Sheriff
Walke on July: 13. Agnew, who
pleaded not guilty, was saved from
execution when the j recom-
mended mercy and Rose also was
given a life sentence after enter-
ing a plea: of guilty to charges of
second degree murder.

Heaton .
to Ninth

rom Bingh
street;

ving

The following petitions
provements were reeeived b
cil, all being referred to Cit
ager Price for checking and
mendations; Nine petition
the improvement of Bessie
from Urban street to
street by construction of wa
gas lines and the installatio
fire hydrant; 40 petitioners
improvement of Parrish
from Lincoln avenue to Im
nue, by the construction o
walks, curbs and gutters i :
P. A, project; 36 phat
improvement of Ridgela
alley, from Rhea avenue rs
of the alley at the St.

Among The Sick -

chareh rty by ane
ing; 17 pet: ri fi for the iz

Miss Etelyn James, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, Jesse G. James, 634
Main street, underwent an appen-
dectomy in Chillicothe, Tuesday and
is convalescing nicely. . ~

> Stork News

Bormto Mrs. Jack Ross, 111
Waln6bt street, Oxford,
Hamilton hospital.

Born, to Mrs. Roy oe
Glynn street, girl, 1
ton hospital.

Born, to M
South Front at
hospital.

Born, to Mrs, Elmer Crawford, R.
bit i Hamilton, a girl, in Mercy hos-
pita’

RUSH.RUN

Special Te The Journal-News.

Rosh Ruy, July 7.:— Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Tyree and Mr. and
Mre. Lester Williams epent Mon-
dav evening in Dayton.

Mrs. Roy Pitsinger and daugh-
ters, Irene, Helen and Elizabeth, at-
tended a shower Friday for Miss
Eunice Pitsinger, who. will heeome
the bride of Roy Brannon, at Eaton,
next: Friday morning.

Mr. and Mre. Farmer Spurlock
and ‘son, Carl, spent Sunday in
Hamilton. ~-

Those who spent the Fourth with
Mr: and Mre. Rov Pitsinger ‘were,
Mr. and Mrs. -Rex Pitsinger, of
West Aléxantnix,
Decker’ and shildren: Mre. Mary
Decker, all of Camden, Walter Ty-
ree, Guy Roberte. and Kenneth
Goodwin, of Camden, and Mre. No-
vella. Brown..and dauchter,
Grace Hicks ‘of Tennessee.

- Licensed To Wed

William Joseph Swain, .

truck driver, ‘11 Bo
Hamilton, and Irma J
age 19, waitress, 219
Hamilton.

Robert Dubbs Ross, age 80, teacher,
Bewerville, O, and Marion Efhel Ja-
cob, age Bid rset Middletown,

rt Turner, 830

a@ girl, in- Mercy:

Mrs. Marshall }.

and |

ment of ‘Thirteenth street
from Hanover etreet south
over street alley B, by pe
paving; ‘High street alley bral
cock avenue. to Tda- avenu
manent ‘paving asked by 2
tioners; 64 petitioners for. t
provement ~ ‘of Progress ayer
eh from Park avenue to Gr.
by permanent anent paving.

Report Too Few Sian Signers;

A petition asking for. t
provement’ of Twelfth etree
by grading and paving, fron
over street to Hanover atre
B, was ordered returned to th
ers. The petition lacked the
sary 60 per cent of signat

-| property owners along the p

improvement.

City Council Orders ‘Light
Lumber Yard:

Placing of a light in the
the Butler County Lumber. ¢o
buildings was recommended
Manager .Price and appro
council Wednesday night.
of a lighting system along }
ley avenue from Main© et
‘Highland avenue was appro
council Wedneeday - night
recommendation of City M
Price. |

Hearing On City Budget Sct
- Joly 20 2.

A resolution, ordering &
hearing July 20. on the p
budget of the city of Hamilt
1939, was adopted. Wed

A preliminary amessment
oun. ‘the improvement of ah
street from Wayne avenue’
erty avenue, ande Shermen |
alley, from Elvin avenue
i ster, avenue, were submit

Sponsel had be
blood. He hadn't

One of my mer
and I walked to
: “Is it possible
interrupting som.
Ping this car?”
had been quite ;
stripping lately,
known Hamilton
up in it. Guys v
tate to kill.

I bent down. Ss:
lay scattered in
rear wheels
thought of the
store. It didn’t ji

“What do yo
Haines?” I asked

Haines shook h
funny to me I
were after the rex

“I think so, too,
check this angle

Haines drew Sp
his pocket. “Chief
shots. Doesn’t it
you that none o
buildings, conside:
coming into the a

“Yes,” I mused
been possible tha:
shots after he ha

Haines whistled.

HERSCHEL HAINES, Chief of Detec-.
tives: His determination to bring to.
- justice the murderer. of. his brave.
-.comrade ‘put three men behind bars.

CHARLES ROSE: Because he picked
the wrong friends, he landed in jail. His tragic death was felt keenly

by everyone in Hamilton.

couldn’t believe he was ead. We
had been friends for a long time. I
saw red as I looked down on his
body.

Doctor Harry F. Deubel, the cor-
oner arrived, along with a squad
of plainclothes men from ‘head-
quarters, among them Chief of De-
tectives, Herschel Haines.

I.watched Deubel as he bent over
the body. He turned back the slain
officer’s coat. A red smear lay in
the center of his stomach. A few
moments later the medical man
stood up.

“He got it right through the
heart,” he said. “He must have
died instantly.”

“How long would you say he’s
been dead, Doc?” I asked.

“About three hours.”

I thought back to what Patrol-
man Justice had told me. Sponsel
had checked out at 2:30. It was
now nearly six. That meant the
shooting had occurred a few min-
utes after the policeman had sign-
ed off.

I looked at Haines, who stood
with his hands in his pockets, star-
ing down at. the body. His jaws
were working spasmodically.

“Chief, -we’ll get that dirty cop-
killer,” he vowed grimly.

I knew the whole city of Hamil-
ton would feel the same way about
it-as soon as the news of the mur-
der came out. Sponsel had been

cited for bravery in World War I,
and had returned to Hamilton, set-
tled down, and joined the police

force. In my 30 years as a law en-

forcement officer, I had never met

a cleaner, more conscientious man.
He neither drank nor smoked. And

his courage, in line of duty, was

a byword in Hamilton.

Only a few weeks before, he and
Patrolman Justice had been cruis-
ing around when they noticed a
light burning in the Blue Goose

. Inn, a popular dancing resort,

which was, from all appearances,
closed for the night. They each
entered through a separate door
and surprised two burglars at work
on a safe. One of the thugs grab-
bed a shotgun and aimed it. at
the cop. Sponsel beat him to it.
The other bandit surrendered.

FTER the removal of the body

we began a thorough search of
the murder scene. I sent some men
off in different directions in the
hope of finding someone who could
give us a clue to the Killing. A call
from Haines brought me on the
run,

“Looks very much like Artie in-
terrupted a robbery,” he said,
pointing to a window at the side
of the restaurant.

I examined it closely and could
see that an attempt had been
made to jimmy it open. Several
cuts showed in the woodwork on
the sill. I could see also that the
snap lock on the inside was still
on.
We walked along the alley slowly
and carefully. A thin wooden rail-

ing, which ran parallel with the
building next door, caught my at-
tention. A black smudge, which
looked like a mark left on a man-
tle piece by a forgotten cigarette,
showed clearly in the well worn
wood,

“Look, Haines,” I exclaimed, call-
ing him. We examined it,

“What do you make of it, Chief?”

“From all appearances, it looks
to me like someone was either
crouching or kneeling here with
the gun poised waiting for Artie
to come within range,” I replied.

With that I got down on one
knee and drew out my gun. I
placed it on-the railing and held
it so that the butt end rested on
the blackened spot. Haines nodded
approvingly.

“That’s it, Chief.”

Another mark was found on the
corner of the building, near the
street. Haines, after several mo-
ments of probing, picked the hole
and a leaden pellet dropped into
his hand.

“The guy’s gun must have jump-
ed for a bullet to get in up there,”
he said, examining the slug care-
fully.

“Looks like a 32 to me,” I said.

Haines nodded.

From my position behind the
railing, I could see the entrance to
the alley quite clearly. The killer
had a clear view of the approach-
ing officer, but the cop would have
had a difficult time spotting the
gunman. I gritted my teeth. Arthur

Patrolman Justic
Sent to search th
and warehouses in
returned with a <s
man in overalls,

“Chief, this is
who went on dut
twelve o’clock. He’:
that may help.”

“Did you see or }
I asked him.

Yes, sir. A litt
o’clock this mornin
sounded like back
automobile.”

“Anything else?”

“Only a few sec
reports stopped I }
mobile motor runr
gradually fade awe
“Can you tell u;

time this was?”
“Not to the minu
pretty close to 2:45.
“You saw nothing
“No.”’
¢ I dismissed him a
name and address. ¢
established the time
“The way it looks
remarked Haines, “
least two of them. A:
through the alley h
See the other rat erc
railing.”
“That’s the way I
I replied. “but how
did he walk more th:
that bullet in his he:
The policemen ar
nothing. To me their
story more vivid tha
It was a-silent trib
rade who wouldn't q

ARTHUR SPONSEL:
path was felt keenly
bne in Hamilton.

rallel with the
caught my at-
smudge, which
left on a man-
sotten cigarette,
the well worn

exclaimed, call-
iined it.

ike of it, Chief?”
ances, it looks
one was either
sling here with
aiting for Artie
inge,” I replied.
t down on one
out my gun. I
cailing and held
‘t end rested on
;. Haines nodded

»f.”

as found on the
ilding, near the
‘ter several mo-
picked the hole
let dropped into

must have jump-
get in up there,
ig the slug care-

2 to me,” I said.

tion behind the
2 the entrance to
learly. The killer
of the approach-
e cop would have
ime spotting the
my teeth. Arthur

on Sa

Sponsel had been killed in cold
blood. He hadn’t had a chance.

One of my men called me. Haines
and I walked to where a car stood.

“Is it possible that Sponsel was
interrupting some car thieves strip-
ping this car?” he asked. There
had been quite a few cases of car
stripping lately, and some well
known Hamilton thugs were mixed
up in it. Guys who wouldn’t hesi-
tate to kill.

I bent down. Several wheel slugs
lay scattered in the dirt. The two
rear wheels were missing. I
thought of the attempt on the
store. It didn’t jibe.

“What do you make of it,
Haines?” I asked my detective.

Haines shook his head. “It looks
funny to me. I still think they
were after the restaurant.”

“I think so, too,” I agreed. “We'll
check this angle just the same.”

Haines drew Sponsel’s gun from
his pocket. “Chief, Artie fired four
shots. Doesn’t it seem strange to
you that none of them hit the
buildings, considering that he was
coming into the alley?”

“Yes,” I mused, Could it have
been possible that he fired those
shots after he had been hit?

Haines whistled. “I wonder... .”

Patrolman Justice, who had been
sent to search the nearby offices
and warehouses in search of a clue,
returned with a short, thin-faced
man in overalls,

“Chief, this is the watchman
who went on duty last night at
twelve o’clock. He’s got something
that may help.”

“Did you see or hear anything?”
I asked him.

“Yes, sir. A little before three
o’clock this morning I heard what
sounded like backfiring from an
automobile.”

“Anything else?”

“Only a few seconds after the
reports stopped I heard an auto-
mobile motor running, and then
gradually fade away.”

“Can you tell us exactly what
time this was?”

“Not to the minute, but I’d say
pretty close to 2:45.”

“You saw nothing?”

“No.” .
¢ I dismissed him after taking his
name and address. At least we had
established the time of the murder.

“The way it looks to me, Chief,”
remarked Haines, “there were at
least two of them. Artie chased one
through the alley here, but didn’t
see the other rat crouching by the
railing.”

“That’s the way I figure it too,”
I replied. “but how in God’s name
did he walk more than 50 feet with
that bullet in his heart?”

The policemen around me satd
nothing. To me their silence told a
story more vivid than mere words.
It was a-silent tribute to a com-.
rade who wouldn’t quit.

We returned to headquarters and
set the wheels of law in motion.
Haines turned the bullets over to
the ballistics department for com-
parison with the one taken from
the officer’s body,

Not overlooking the car stripping
angle, I sent men to pick up every
‘known car stripper in town. There
was a good chance that Sponsel
had surprised one or more of them
in the act. é

Nothing could be learned from
questioning the residents of North
Third Street. Detectives came back
empty-handed. That “section is
down by the railroad tracks and
has caused us many a headache in
the past.

HEN the afternoon papers

came out the reaction was ter-
rific. The Police Mutual Aid Society
immediately posted a $300 reward
for the killer. The Butler County
Commissioners Office added an-
other $500. The Hamilton Chamber
of Commerce came out with still
a bigger offer of $5,000 for the kill-
er, dead or alive. No rewards, how-
ever, were necessary -to spur the
boys on the force. Murderers know
by this time it’s a fatal mistake to
kill a cop,

The search for the car strippers
brought results, but not the kind
we wanted. The owner of the car
came forward and said he had
Stripped the car himself because
of its rundown condition. He had
decided to sell the various parts
for junk.

We checked on him thoroughly,
but his story held up.

That left burglary the only pos-
sible ‘motive. What puzzled me
from the beginning was why Spon-
sel had gone to that part of town.

No report had been made to the
police about an attempted robbery,

ENS SS SS ela

~ Chief Haines points to the bullet hole
tt which proved that Sponsel hadn't been
fd given a chance to defend himself.

so how did Sponsel get wind of
it? Had he been lured into a trap?
Had some ex-con put the patrolman
on the spot for some fancied
wrong?

Paul Baden, County Prosecutor, a
dynamic, energetic and resourceful
official, went to work with me on
the case. I had intended to have
every questionable character in
Hamilton picked up on sight. But
instead we planned a ruse..We had
the local papers print the story of
the killing with a remark that the
police were investigating two col-
ored men who had been seen near
the scene of the crime and expect-
ed an early arrest of the two men.

We figured that if the killers
were local thugs, we would put
them off their guard and in that
way they’d stay in town.

Two days later a man came to
headquarters to see me, I had just
returned from a tiresome trip of
running down the countless false
clues that every police department
gets after the consummation of a
homicide,

“You have something on the
case?” I asked him when he had
seated himself.

“Yes. I was the one who told that
patrolman about the holdup.”

Now I’d get my answer to the
question that had troubled me
from the first. “Go on,” I urged.

“I work at the Niles Tool Works,
I’m supposed to knock off at mid-
night, but on that particular night
I worked’ until nearly 2:30. As I
was passing along North Third
Street, I noticed some men loiter-
ing around a restaurant near the
tracks. I became suspicious, so
when I saw the squad car a few
blocks away I told the officer about
it.”

(Continued on page 37)

Lt.

ans

ind was at
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1e upon the
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ra County at
acession that
sed from the
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he sheriff to

“J was mighty

int,” he said.
tumbler on the
screwy mind of

e, and it was
plac of us

Rs pick-
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off th
xd lemons .

the spray on
sfer particles to —

he used it.”

e nick of a gunshot,

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case the names Juan

REVEALING

WTEC TINE

CASES

“How-.many men were there?” I
probed.

“I believe there were three of
them,” he replied. .

“And the restaurant was closed?”

“Yes. At least the lights were
out.”

“Tell me,” I pressed hopefully,
“can you recall anything about
them, their features, their actions,
anything that might help us?”

“One of them was heavy-set,” he
said slowly. “I didn’t get a good
look at him, but I did get a pretty
good view of the tall, thin man.
He was sort of pimply-faced, with
a long nose. He wore a leather
jacket.”

“How could you tell all. this if
it was dark?”

“He was standing on the side of
the restaurant that bordered on
the railroad tracks. There is a
street light on that side and the
man was standing under it. When
he saw me he ducked behind the
building.”

“Do you think you could recog-
nize him if you saw his picture?”

The man nodded. “I think so.”

I brought him to the identifica-
tion room and placed our rogue’s
gallery collection before him. When
‘I returned to my office I found
Haines waiting for me, disgust
written all over him.

“I don’t know, Chief,” he snap-
ped. “Those killers must be from
out of town, or at least some punks
we’ve never picked up before.”

“It’s possible that we haven’t
picked them up before, but I don’t
agree with you that they’re out-
of-towners,” I said. “A stranger
wouldn’t have picked that restau-
rant to rob. It isn’t rich looking
enough. When Artie showed up
they knew enough about the place
to.run through the alley and -to
a side street to their get-away car.
That doesn’t sound like strangers
to me.”

“You're right, Chief,” answered
Haines. ‘““We’ve checked on all the
boys we know as bad actors. We’re
checking on the petty thieves now.”

“I’ve someone in the back room
now looking over the files. He may
identify our murderer,” I said
hopefully.

Haines looked surprised.

Briefly I explained the visit from
the witness in the next room.
When I had finished, Haines shook
his head and smiled.

‘If that guy identifies our man,
itll be too good to be true.”

Haines’ pessimistic prediction

came true. The man failed to rec-
ognize the man he saw under the
street lamp the night Sponsel was

“WE'LL GET THAT COP-KILLER!"

killed. But we at least had a fairly
good description of the man we.
sought.

AYS went by. The trail was

getting cold. Every lead had
run into a snag. We réconstructed
the crime over and over, hoping
some little detail had been over-
looked that would put. us back on
the right track, The newspapers
started to work on us, demanding
‘action. Every man on the force had
worked himself out in an effort to
break the case.

Haines and I were’going over a
list of petty crooks one afternoon
when a name struck a familiar
chord in my memory. I looked the
card over two or three times with-
out speaking. .

“Does the name Hobbs mean
anything to you?” I asked.

Haines thought for a moment.
“Hobbs, Hobbs,” he mused. “Isn’t

that the guy we had in here last :

summer?”

I nodded. “How about checking
the report.”

Haines went to the file cabinet
and pulled out a sheet of paper.
“Yes, here it is. We had him in on
@ gun carrying charge.”

“Does it say what calibre it was?”

Haines looked down the paper
slowly, then I saw his eyes light
up. “Why, yeah, it was a 32!”

“What became of the charge?”

He looked on the reverse side.
“The case was dismissed because
he had a license to carry the gun.”

“Can you recall what he looked
like?”

Again Haines thought for sev-
eral moments before replying. “I
believe he was a tall guy with a
long beak.” :

My mind raced back to what
that witness had said some weeks
before, “A tall man with a long
nose.” Could it be just a coinci-
dence, or did we really have some-

. thing?

“I want a tail put on him 24
hours a day,” I instructed Haines,
“Maybe it will lead us somewheres.”

I didn’t want Hobbs picked up
because it would give his accom-
plices a chance to blow town once
they heard. Furthermore, I didn’t
have enough on him to warrant
picking him up.

Our folio on Hobbs showed that
he wasn’t a gunman despite the
fact he carried one. He was lazy
and shiftless, and wouldn’t work
if he could help-it. I knew enough
about him though to know his pals
weren’t exactly choir singers.

According to our witness, three

(Continued from page 13)

men were involved. If Hobbs real-
ly was our man, then who were
the other two?

Our investigation of Hobbs went
along quietly. One report I received
on him stated that he had been
drinking heavily since the morning:
of April 12th, which fell on a Mon-
day. And'it was on Monday morn-
ing, April 12, 1937, that Sponsel
had been shot.

Almost every day since he came
‘under our surveillance, he was:seen
in the company of a short, curly-
haired young man of about 18.
They had been trailed several
times across the State line into
Metamore, Indiana. Was this youth
one of Hobbs’ companions on that
fatal night?

We found the young man’s name -
to be Charlie Rose. Discreet in-
quiries in both Hamilton and Met-
amore failed to uncover anything
out of the way in the young man’s
character except that he had no
job. But there was nothing un-
usual in that, for this was 1937,
and in those dark days of depres-
a many people were unemploy-
ed.

Our main task was to find the
gun belonging to Hobbs. I had one
of my men disguise himself as a
roustabout and mingle with the
crowd on the south side of town.
He looked anything but a cop, just
the man for the job.

Two days later the phone rang.
It was my decoy.

“Chief, take this down,” he said
softly, his mouth close to the
speaker. “The gun is with a Marion
Cook, a friend of Hobbs.”

“Where are you calling from?”

“From a pay station booth on the
corner of State and Vine.”

“Okay. You’ve done a swell job,”
I said warmly. “You can pack in
now.” I hung up and buzzed for
Haines, I told him what I had just
learned.

“Let’s go, Chief,” he snapped.
“What’re we waiting for?”

We found the house, a modest
two-story brick affair in a nice res-
idential district. In answer to our
ring, a pleasant-faced woman of
about 30 opened the door. She led
us to a plainly furnished, but com-
fortable parlor.

“I understand you have a 32
calibre gun here,” I said.

Her face blanched. “No, I have-
not,” she replied.

“You may as well tell the truth,”
Haines snapped. “We know Hobbs
gave you a gun to hold for him.”

The woman was having a tough
time trying to control herself and
was on the verge of tears. “But I

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gave it back to him. Please believe
me.” —
“when?” I shot at her.

She hesitated, then swallowing
hard, she blurted, “All right, I'll
tell you. I gave it to him last Sun-
day night.”

That was the night before
Arthur Sponsel was found dead
alongside the railroad tracks on

North Third Street! Our search
was getting warm. .

“why did you give it to him?”
I asked.

“He demanded it. He was very
drunk.”

“Did he say why he wanted it?”

Her hands shook, but she made
no answer. We hammered away at
her incessantly. Finally she threw
up her hands, weary from the or-
deal.

“all right! All right! I'll tell you.
Only stop this constant question-
ing!” she cried. “He said he wanted
the gun to get some money.”

“What else?” I prodded.

“we said that if anyone got in
his way, they’d get hi wg

“was he alone?” Haines cut in ,

sharply.

“No. There were two men wait-
ing for him in a Car outside. I
never saw either of them before.”

What had been only a hunch was
now turning into a red hot lead.
If we could only lay our hands on
that gun. I was sure that the Cook
woman was telling us the truth.
We both rose.

“Remember,” I warned her,
“nothing to Hobbs about this. We
haven’t been here, understand?”

Marion Cook nodded.

The tail on Hobbs was doubled.
We couldn’t let him get suspicious
or our case would go up in smoke..
If he buried that gun and wouldn’t
talk, we'd be in a tough spot try-
ing to get a conviction. We put him
to: bed at night and got him up in
the morning, which in police lingo,
means we tailed. him until he went
to bed and were with him when
he left the house the next day.

I took turns at shadowing my-
self. Nothing happened on Satur-
day, April 17th, until late in the
afternoon when Haines showed up.

“Chief, Hobbs has been taking
some stuff from his home to his
mother’s place. Looks like he and

the wife are getting ready to blow.’

Think we ought to lock him up?”

“No,” I replied. “Not yet. Maybe
he’ll lead us to his two buddies.”

On Sunday we followed Hobbs’
trail to Metamore. He drove up be-
fore a run-down, dilapidated frame
dwelling. There he talked for some
time with a young man on the
porch, This we knew was Charlie
Rose. Was he one of the killers?

When the conversation broke up,
I followed Hobbs back to Hamilton,
while I left some men to keep an
eye on Rose.

fb next day, Monday, looked
like the pay-off, and it was. We
trailed Hobbs to his kin’s home
where he packed some belongings
into the car. Then he drove back
to his own home, picked up his
wife, and started for out of town.
Four police cars were right behind.

About two miles out of Hamilton
Hobbs realized he was being tail-
ed for his car really began to step.
I gave the signal then to close in.

A few miles further on we forced’
his car to the side of the road. We
had our guns out when we ap-
proached his car. He came out
with his hands held high.

“What’s the idea?” he snapped.
“you guys got nothin’ on me.”

“That remains to be seen, young
fellow,” I said, snapping on the
cuffs.

In the back seat, under a pile of
tools, we found a 32 calibre re-
volver. Hobbs’ face turned 2 pasty
white when he saw the gun in my
hand. That look convinced me we
had the right man. The gun was
rusty and had traces of dirt on it
which showed it had been. recently
dug up from its hiding place.

We returned to Hamilton where
we turned the weapon over to the
ballistic department. We started

. hammering away at Hobbs, but he

proved to be a tough customer. He
denied any part of the killing,
claiming to have been in bed early
that Sunday night and not getting
up until late the next day. anh

We took turns questioning him.
Just before my second go at him I
received the ballistics report.

“The bullet fired from this gun,
matches in every detail, the one
taken from the body of Patrolman
Arthur Sponsel.” We had our man.

Hobbs could see something was
brewing when Haines and I walk-
ed back into the room.

“Tt’s no use, Hobbs,” I remark-
ed, “we’ve got you dead to rights,
confession or no confession. The
gun we found in the back of the
car is the same one that fired the
shot that killed Sponsel, What do
you say to that?”

He looked at me a long moment,
silent. I knew his mind was rac-
ing frantically, thinking of a way
out of his predicament. Then pass-
ing a nervous hand over his white,
pasty features, he remarked in a
low voice: “Okay, Chief, I did it.”

“Tel] us: what happened,” I
urged, signalling for a stenogra-
pher to get ready. ;

“On Sunday night, April 11th,”
he began, “I had been on a binge.
By the time I got to bed I was
roaring drunk. I had been lying
down only a few minutes when I
heard a knock oh the door. It was
a guy by the name of Johnny Ag-
new. We sat on the bed awhile,
drinking. It wasn’t long before we
heard another knock on the door.
This time it was Charlie Rose. He

had a bottle with him. We. had
just about finished the liquor when
Agnew said: ‘Let’s go out and get
some easy dough.’

“J went to a girl friend’s house
and, got a gun I had left with her.°
We were trying to get into that
restaurant when a guy comes at
us with a flashlight. Rose ran back
through the alley. I didn’t know
who the guy was so I knelt down,
placed the gun on the railing and
waited for him to come near. He
fired at me the same moment I
pulled the trigger. He missed me,
but I didn’t. That’s about it.”

“Did you know he was a cop?”

Hobbs shook his head. “Not until

late the next day when I read it -

in the papers.”

I sent word to Sergeant McFall,
who was stationed with Detective
Oscar Decker and Robert Dinwid-
die, in Metamore, to pick up Rose.
There, after surrounding the house,
they. found him in bed. He surren-
dered without putting up a fight.

Meanwhile, Haines and myself,
accompanied by two men, Sur-
prised Johnny Agnew at his home.
He, too, gave up without a fuss.

Agnew we knew well. He was a
typical tough guy. He had caused
us plenty of trouble in the past,
but only in a small way. Being the
oldest of the trio, he had been un-
doubtedly the leader.

Everything was now in the hands
of Paul Baden, County Prosecutor.
Hobbs, despite his confession,
pleaded not guilty, repudiating his

“signed document. So did Johnny

Agnew. They decided to take a
chance with a jury.

The trial started in June, 1937,
before the Honorable P. P. Boli, in
Hamilton. In three days the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty in
the first degree without recommen-
dation of mercy for William Hobbs.
He was then sentenced to die in
the electric chair on the night of
October 22nd. Agnew fared a lit-
tle better. He was found guilty, al-
so, but with a recommendation. of
mercy. He got life. >

Rose pleaded guilty and threw
himself on the mercy of the court.
Because he had aided the State
and because of his age, the prose-
cutors accepted a plea of second

degree manslaughter. He, too, re-.

ceived a life sentence, but with a
chance for a pardon.

On the night of October 22nd, in
Ohio Penitentiary’s death chamber,
William Hobbs walked the last
mile. He took his medicine like a
man, paying in full for the life
he had so: wantonly destroyed.

And thus, in one week, the po-
lice department of Hamilton, Ohio,
had avenged the killing of Arthur
Sponsel, a cop’s cop.

NOTE: The name Marion Cook is
fictitious, to protect the identity of
an innocent person. ;

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Te "zg MISSING CHILD

Id victim :
Cowering in the dark, a baby watched her sister dragged from
the bed where four little ones lay and lisped the words that
furnished a slender clue to the police.
tormenting Finding Raymond peacefully asleep, the father breathed
would have with relief. God knew he had done his best to keep the family
wski woke together. Perhaps, another year—
7 The tremulous wail that had wakened him broke into his

of six had ;
0 lived in a Bo. meditations. It seemed to come from a bedroom just across
the hall where his four daughters slept. Furtive footfalls

room, Alex | sounded outside his door.
7 “Stella, who is crying ?”’ Alex called in Polish, it being his

‘ture of th
: impression that the oldest girl, fourteen, was up and caring
‘for one of her younger sisters, Dorothy, seven, Leona, five, or
mall hours ; Caroline, two. :
Was near There was no response from Stella, though the crying and © ‘ VAMPIRE’S PREY
: movements in the hallway stopped suddenly. Police hunted a human fiend
us eleven. “Stella,” the father rose and fumbled for a light switch at- when seven-year-old Dorothy
the disap- the head of the bed, “answer me.” Selangowski was stolen from the
Ul months ‘As he turned on the light and partially dressed he heard a _ Side of her sisters by the modern
ould run slight noise on the stairs and assumed that Stella had gone werewoll. What was the motive
down to the kitchen to get food or water. : \ for the deed?
ECTIVE 0 Alex stepped out into the hall. Both the passage and stairs
15

ADVENTURES

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April, 1930

brandislting a club in his right hand.
“Oh —o please don’t — don’t,”
pleaded Mrs. Bachelor as her protago-
nist raised the club with a hairy right
arm.

“Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-a-a-a-a-a-a. .. .

A sickening thud. The club had de-
scended to the woman’s head and she
sank to the ground, writhing in agony.

In less than a minute, several persons,
including detectives, were on the scene.
The clubber himself, had attracted
them by his maniacal laugh. Mrs,
Bachelor was taken to her home, where
she soon recovered and told her story.

he city was more stirred than ever,
if this were possible. It almost went
mad with fear. Stores were practically
devoid of women at night. So were
theaters and other places of amusement.

For two days, virtually every train
that came into Toledo brought special
Officers, private detectives and usky

licewomen from New York, Cleve-
lane Detroit and Chicago. The latter,
armed with guns, planned to roam the
Streets at night and attract the club-
ber, then kill him.

The situation became so bad that it
was dangerous even to look at a woman
one didn’t know. A woman, sittin
alone in an automobile at Adams an
Twelfth Streets, was approached by a
man. She screamed, “

“The clubber!” she gasped to those
who quickly ran to her assistance.

he man, just an ordinary flirt, had
walked away when the woman screamed
but some one near-by, possessing more
than his share of imagination, said that
he had seen the man who had spoken
to the woman running over the roof of
a house near-by. An infuriated mob
broke into the ay without so much
as ringing the bell, and made its way
to the roof, much to the consternation
of the occupants. The mob ran true
to form; for when someone within its
ranks suggested that the clubber might
be on an adjoinin roof, the mob

”

marched down into the house, out into °

the street, and repeated the breaking-
and-entering performance at the house
next door. The clubber, of course, was
not found, for he had not been near
the hysterical woman who had started
all the trouble.

The rapidly-mounting hysteria of the
city assumed more dangerous propor-
tions with the passing of each hour. At
any minute, an innocent man was as
likely as not to be accused of being the
clubber by an hysterical woman and
in that event, the police well knew, an
infuriated mob would kill first and
apologize afterward.

T length, however, the city became

outwardly calm again. Then an-
other strange and mysterious murder
set it agog!

On the Eivcnteenth of January, 1926,
Mrs. Mary Handley, forty-four, left
her home at 329 Woodlawn Avenue to
go visiting for the evening. She was
seen alighting from a street car en-
route home at midnight.

At two in the morning, a dog in a
yard on Woodlawn Avenue barked om-
inously. ... A few minutes past eight
the next morning, Mrs. Mattie Spruel,
who lived next door to Mrs. Handley,

The Master Detective

went to the rear door with her little
daughter who was en route to school.
Suddenly her attention was attracted
to something covered with a raincoat
in the alley between the two homes.

he more Mrs. Spruel looked at the
object, the more a Strange fascination
overcame her. Mrs. Spruel investigated
and when she lifted the raincoat from
the object it covered, she let out a
Scream that could be heard throughout
the entire neighborhood. For there lay
Mrs. Handley. Her head had -been
mashed into a pulp by many savage
blows. Her arms were cut and
scratched, just as Mrs. Hatfield’s had
been. Some of the woman’s clothing
had been cruelly stuffed down her
throat, and she had been dead for
several hours.

“The clubber again!” was the phrase
ae fled through the city like wild-
ire,

For this latest outrage had been per-
petrated not five blocks away from
three other clubber attacks.

he usual investigation was set in
motion. And the usual result—the
clubber—if it were the clubber—re-
mained safely in his abode in the
shadows, .. .

Days passed into weeks and weeks
melted into months. Finally, the fate-
ful "in 3 of October 25th arrived—a
night Toledo will never forget. . .

LILY CROY was one of the prettiest

and most beige school teachers
in the city. An ambitious girl, too.
She attended evening classes at the
University of Toledo. to further her
teaching career and her little electric
coupé was a familiar sight around the
campus during the early evening. But
on the night of October 25th, Lily
Croy didn’t use her coupé; she walked,
and it cost her her life... .

Miss Croy left her class at the uni-
versity shortly after 9 o'clock. She
Was expected home before 10 o'clock:
certainly by 10:30. But when the
hands of the clock approached the hour
of midnight and Miss Croy had failed
to return home, the police were notified.

The phantom figure of the shadows
was immediately recalled to mind by
the city’s best detectives and _ they,
joined by citizens, searched the clubber
district. jultise Weist, proprietor of a
printing shop and a brother-in-law of
the missing girl, was
searchers,

Shortly after one-thirty in the morn-
ing—more than four hours after the
pretty wrouns teacher had last been
seen—Weist and other searchers combed
the grounds of Washington School, at
Palmwood Avenue and heeler Street,
on the fringe of the clubber district.
And there, under a fire escape, lay the
horribly mutilated body of Lily Croy.
As in the case of the previous slayings
and attacks, no definite clue had been
left behind by the arch-criminal.

The flame of frenzy which had blazed
at the time of the previous outrages,
but which had smouldered for months,
was kindled anew. The city was a bed-
lam of seethin activity. Police cars
dashed through the streets; porch
lights once more blazed throughout the
wee small hours of the morning; women

among the

were escorted to theaters by American
Légionnaires and husk football play-
ers, all armed to the hilt. Rewards to-
taling twelve thousand dollars were
offered for information leading to the
identity of the fiend who had so sav-
agely snuffed out the young life of
ay Croy. ;
ut nothing happened. Miss Croy’s
death gradually Passed into the limbo
of unsolved mysteries, . . .
Then came the killing of seven-year-
old Dorothy Sielagowski, more than a
ear after the Cro tragedy. Dorothy
ad vanished while playing near her
home and several hours later the body
was found in a secluded spot not far
distant.

SLEUTHS, in questioning those living
in the vicinity of Dorothy’s home,
were not long in learning that Charles
oppe, a mild-mannered and rather
dull-witted taxi driver in his early
thirties, had been seen near the child’s
residence, at about the time Dorothy
disappeared, accompanied by a little
oF ne” resembling the missing
child!

Hoppe was picked up in less than
thirty minutes and when put under a
barrage of questions and accusations,
broke down and confessed that he had
murdered the little girl! He had beaten
her to death, he stated, calmly; but be-
yond that, he would admit nothing.

But—here was an opening! Was it
the wedge for which detectives had
vainly sought from the night Mrs, Hat-
field had been made the sorry object
of a sinister attack?

he police brought on the heavy ar-
tillery and bombarded Hoppe with
geesans about the clubber murders.

ut the prisoner remained adamant, a
Mona Lisa expression flickering across
his countenance. He knew nothing of
the other crimes, other than what he
had read in the Press, he steadfastly
maintained.

“You're a damned liar; the worst

sort of liar, Hoppe!” thundered a
detective.

“I am_ not,” answered the man,
simply.

But the police were hopeful. They
kept at their quarry. Questions ,
uestions . . . and more questions. . . ,
resh detectives replaced those who
had tired themselves out quizzing the
enigmatic prisoner, Hoppe was given
no rest; not one minute of respite in
which to check up on what he had said.
But still he denied the clubber out-

bo hae

hen Hoppe was brought to trial,
the court-room was packed to over-
flowing. Sensational events were in the
making. Alienists went to work on the
defendant when he took the stand and
tried -to convince the jury that he
shouldn’t forfeit his life for what he
had done. Then, with a suddenness
that set the court-room agog, Hoppe
calmly admitted that he had mur-
red the pretty school teacher—Lily

Croy!

Not only that. He went farther.

ere is just what he said:

“I confess voluntarily and without
compulsion that I am the individual
who killed Lily Croy. I also struck a

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woman about four years ago at Jeffer-
son and Twlanty-iee Street, another
on Austin Street, another on Detroit
Avenue, and another at a beer camp on
the Dixie Drive.

“The one on Austin Street occurred
about two or three months ago. |. hit
her with an auto crank. The one on
Detroit Avenue occurred six or seven
months ago; that time I used a piece
of two by four. She screamed and I
ran away. They took her to a hos-
pital. The one at the beer camp I
knocked unconscious. After each of
the attacks except the last one, I ran
to where | was living.”

With this confession, new impetus
was given to the theory that Hoppe
was the mysterious clubber. And so,
despite the fact that the police had been
unable to wring an admission from his
lips, alienists now went after him ham-
mer and tongs.

At first the man bristled with denials.
Later on, he let little contradictory

words slip from his lips which con-°

vinced the alienists and the police that
they were on the right track and that
it would only be a matter of hours

The Master Detective

until the rather inoffensive-looking taxi
driver would break and confess to the
long and unholy series of dark deeds.

But the alienists and the police had
another guess coming! Hoppe was exe-
cuted for the slaying of the little girl,
without having admitted that he was
the phantom clubber who had brought
terror to the populace. As late as a
half hour before his soul was ushered
into the Infinite, he shook his head from
side to side when asked if he knew
more about the string of outrages than
he had admitted.

AND so the matter stands. There
are those who are firmly convinced
that Hoppe was the shadowy phantom.
His pean tallied fairly well with
that of the clubber, as supplied by
young Raymond Gorman. But, of
course, that wasn’t much of a descrip-
tion; any number of persons could have
fitted it.

But police and. detectives, for the
most part, doubt that Hoppe’s execu-
tion ended the life of the modern Blue-
beard. They point to the fact that
Hoppe was a mental defective, that he

was ge in emotions and displayed
a sense of utter indifference toward
everyone but himself—and above all,
that the hack driver’s mentality was
below the average. Hoppe’s mind, the
police will tell you, was incapable of
the extreme cunning displayed by the
clubber. Then, too, the police state in
ointed terms: dap 05 wouldn’t have
ad the nerve to slip under the very
noses of the armed men whose eyes
were peeled for him, and commit
murder.

Other criminologists, supporting the
theory that the real clubber was never
one point to the fact that he was

robably similar to Hottelling, the

Aichigan child slayer, who, readers of
detective stories will recall, joined the
posses seeking the murderer. Such a
thought curdles the blood. Could Tol-
edo’s Bluebeard have been some re-
spected citizen—still regarded as such!
—who, armed with a gun, oaths stream~-
ing from his lips, joined the armed
forces that prowled through the streets
of the Ohio city in search of the vanish-
ing phantom?

hat do you think?

The Mad Druggist and the Mystery Capsule

the best of me; I can’t hold out on
you any longer. I’ll tell you the story
—all of it from start to finish—if you
will give me one thing.”

“What do you want?” asked Chief
Patrick, hardly able to believe the
confession which had fallen from the
lips of Flash.

“I want some chewing gum.”

An officer was sent scurrying to a
near-by drug store to purchase a pack-
age of gum.

When the gum was handed to Flash,
he fairly tore off the paper and stuffed
all five sticks into his mouth at once.
As soon as he had chewed it into a
large ball he began to talk.

And what a confession!

DURING my eighteen years as a po-
lice detective I never have heard
anything that even bordered upon it.
His speech was even and he talked
calmly:

“My wife had been ill for three or
four years. I had taken her to doctors
everywhere and they were unable to
give her any permanent relief. It had
cost me thousands upon thousands of
dollars and there was no improvement.
The thing was worse on me than it was
on her. She complained continually
about her ailment. [t got on my nerves.
I simply couldn’t stand it any longer;
so | decided to kill her.

“As a chief pharmacist mate in the
Navy I had access to all kinds of poi-
sonous drugs. I knew as well as any
physician what would bring about her
death. I prepared a large capsule of
strychnin and atropin with the inten-
tion of ending her troubles—and mine
too, so | thought. I remember it was
on the afternoon of July first that I
prepared the heavy mixed dose of
deadly poisons while aboard the Prairie.

“That night, sometime after we had

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gone to bed, my wife started to com-
plain. It was the same old 1%: '4 God,
wasn’t I tired of hearing it! The thin
was driving me mad, | tell you; so
told her ‘I prepared a capsule aboard
ship today which I believe will give you
some relief. Take it and see.’

“Then I got up, took the capsule
from a round box which I had in my
coat pocket, and handed it and a glass
of water to her as she lay in bed.

“Without suspecting for one instant
that the capsule contained poison and
would kill her, my wife calmly placed
the deadly potion on her tongue and
washed it down with the water!

“After her death I took two sheets
and a blanket and wrapped up the
body which was clad only in a pink
pajama coat. But first I removed all
of the laundry marks—at least I
thought I removed all of them.

“About eight o’clock the next morn-
ing, after deciding to bury the body
somewhere in the country, I went
downtown to a hardware store and
bone a shovel to dig the grave.

“After buying the shovel I hired an
old-fashioned spring wagon drawn by
one horse and drove to the house on
Ash Street. In order that the neigh-
bors ‘might not suspect anything,
stopped the horse and wagon in front
of the house, went inside and got the
Lp which was _ all wrapped up,
loaded it into the wagon and started
out to find a good place to bury it.

“First, | drove over to Point Loma
on the far side of the Bay. For what
seemed like hours I hunted a secluded
spot to bury it. The fact that I had
killed my wife did not cause me any
great remorse; but it was haunting and
disconcerting not to be able to find a
place to hide her body.

“It must have been sometime after
noon when I drove back on the city

side of the Bay and started north out
of town on the coast highway. As I
rolled across the bridge spanning the
San Diego River in Mission Valley,
though it only was on the ouskirts of
town, I looked up the valley and
thought it might be a good place to
hide the body. I started to drive up
the valley but before I had gone far
1 found a place... Well, you know,
where you found the body.

“There l buried her. I came on back
into town and returned the horse and
wagon. Then I went back to the house
on Ash Street and cleaned up. It was
at this point that I remembered I had
not eaten anything since breakfast. So
I strolled downtown for a meal. I was
famished. I went into a cafeteria
where I met the girl who was at
my house when you arrested me.
made a date with her for that night and
after we had gone to a picture show I

ersuaded her to go and live with me.
She had no part whatever in this thin
and never knew, until you perhaps tol
her, that I had killed my wife.

“NY HAT I have told you is the truth
Wi all of it.”

Flash was given a preliminary hear-
ing and held for trial in Superior
Court. Not many weeks passed before
the trial came up. Flash predicated
his defense on insanity, but a jury
found him guilty of first-degree mur-
der. He was sentenced to a prison
term of from ten years to life at San
Quentin penitentiary. Some months
ago Flash’s case came up before the
State Prison Board and his sentence
was fixed at fifty years.

As to the girl, she was released and
returned to her parents in San Fran-
cisco, from where she had fled a short
time before she became associated with
the mad druggist.

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By Harvey Welles

of Washington Grammar School that
they found the body of Lily Dale
Croy:

The charming, twenty-six year old girl
lay sprawled on her back. The clothes
she had worn—blouse, skirt, shoes and
stockings—had been torn from her and
were stuffed beneath her still figure.

Detectives William Carroll and George
Timinry, veteran investigators of the To-
ledo, Ohio, homicide squad, stared down
at her with sober eyes.

“It’s the clubber again,” Carroll said
bitterly.

Timinry nodded with worried eyes.
“That blood on her,” he said softly, “it’s
smeared all over her body as if the killer
wiped his hands on her.”

Coroner Henzler arrived, nodded briefly
to the officers, and bent to his disagree-
able task. His skillful fingers tegan a
quick, deft probing.

Timinry drew his flashlight and mo-
tioned to Carroll to follow him. Together
they began to scan the soft earth. Al-
most at once they noticed two slight fur-
tows that wound a broken zig zag course
away from the steps of the fire escape.
The trail ended at a tall hedge that bor-
dered on the sidewalk.

Timinry nodded grimly. “Same pat-
tern,” he whispered. On the stone walk
in front of the hedge, he pointed out
three red, sticky blobs. “This is where
he jumped out and hit her. He pulled-her
back into those bushes and struck her
again. Then he dragged hier to the fire
escape where we found her. That’s when

[' was under the steps of the fire escape

“those two lines were left in the dirt.

The heels of her shoes made them.”

“And that’s where he finished his dirty
business,” Carroll agreed.

The two detectives continued their
search of the grounds and made another
discovery. Not far from the body, and
some: distance from the path the squad
cars had taken entering the school
grounds, they found a fresh set of tire
prints. The prints trailed off in the direc-
tion of the street.

Coroner Henzler, meanwhile, had com-
pleted his examination. “Dead about two
and a half hours,” he told them when
they returned. “That would place the
time of death at about ten thirty. She
was struck more than once, the most
severe blow just above the right temple.
You'll find two deep wounds on, the right
side of her face. She was hit with some-
thing solid, something heavy. I'd say she

~“Dorothy, she is gone.” The man rubbed a hand
‘over his wet eyes.’.“I heard a car start and looked
outside. It was a black car, and it drove away. What
-sshall I do? She—she’s only seven—” d

& .“It’s impossible,” “Dobsy’ Dobzenicki said. Kid-
aping, he knew, was out. The worker wouldn’t be
‘bothered by kidnapers. No, another reason was
behind it. But what? :

pp ney pulled up with a‘screech in front of the
Szelagowski home, and Dobsy’s eyes were shaded
ith fear as he leaped out. He glanced across the
treet at the home of John Skibinski, another rela-
tive. His eyes narrowed, and he squinted. Barely
‘visible in the darkness, ‘on the porch, was a tiny
undle.- - ee elle

: He rushed across the. street, the others at ‘his
heels, At the foot of the steps he stopped short.

syear-old Dorothy. She was dressed only in:a night-
gown.- Her little body was a mass. of. scars and

«bruises, and smears of blood streaked her. Tightly |

knotted in a stranglehold around her neck was a
LODO, oo ae tae
Dobsy, choked and turned away. :
The child’s father slumped to the steps and sat in
stunned silence.: ;

leepy-eyed man in pajamas appearing there.
“What do you want?” the man demanded;

-DeLora walked in to, telephone his report to Head-
quarters .and to inform the coroner. :
“ Géntly Dobsy, placed an’ arm around the weeping
‘: father’s shoulders. . é .

“) “Easy,” he -said’ softly. “Rasy.” His eyes were
troubled as he asked, “Tell me, Alex—who hated.

»you.so much?” *”.

““People who hated me?’ But they couldn’t do such

*-a terrible thing—not like this! No!”

4. Dobsy noted that Szelagowski’s fists were clenched

* tightly. oe &

: -Feeling in the neighborhood against his brother-
in-law, he knew, was. intense. Toledo police had
aided a half-dozen bootleggers in the past. few
weeks.: Many believed that Szelagowski had given

ay the tip-off to the raiders, Was revenge the motive

=, behind this horrible crime? Could any enemy mur-

ID—11

- Sprawled on the floor lay the still body of seven-.

= -DeLora knocked’ on the’ door and as no answer
@:: he pounded against it. It opened slowly, a_

ne Then he spied the body and ran out to its side.

“Who could: do. this?” Szelagowski whispered.

" Charles Hoppe: Police

od Mansier of: Edledo

- wondered if this rela-
tive of the victim's fa-
ther had conceived such
a horrible vengeance

The marks of the Mad
Monster in little Dor-.
othy's leg enabled tech-
. Nicians to make this cast
of a vicious killer's teeth

der a child so ruthlessly to obtain revenge on an
old, tired father?

Coroner Frank G. Kreft pulled to a stop in front
of the house and mounted the steps. Dobsy nodded
his head toward the child. As the Coroner dropped
to his knees beside the still figure, Dobsy nudged the
father. “Come on,” he said quietly. “Let’s have a

. look at the house.”

Silently, his face wet with tears, Alex Szelagow-
ski led the way across the street. Huddled together
in fright were three little girls and an eleven-year-
old boy, Caroline, two; Stella, nine; five-year-old
Leona, and Raymond.

In the house, Szelagowski pointed out the front,
downstairs bedroom where he had been sleeping
with Raymond. He went through the room, turned
to the left and mounted a narrow stairway to the
second floor. Here, at the top of the steps and to
the right, was the children’s bedroom. Leona and

Dorothy. occupied the bed closest to the door; across
He room was the bed occupied by Stella and Caro-
ine.

“The lights were out?” Dobsy asked. His cyes
studied the small bedroom carefully. He could pic-
ture vividly the killer reaching over to the bed by
the door and grabbing the youngster sleeping on the
outside.

“The lights were out,” the father said.

Then the man must have been well acquainted
with the house, Dobsy thought grimly. No outsider
could have entered the house in the black of night
and found his way around to the upstairs bedroom
without knowing the arrangement of the rooms.

Downstairs again, he questioned the children.
Only Leona had been awake. “I saw him,” she
whispered, her little eyes glistening with tears. “He
was all in black—a little man in black. He took
Dorothy and ran out. I screamed for Daddy.”

“How did he get in?” Dobsy asked. “Was the
door open?”

“T shut it,” Raymond said. He was a small, alert-
eyed youngster. “I locked the doors and the win-
dows. I do that every night.”

Dobsy walked around the house examining each
window. All were latched from the inside. At the
back of the house he noticed the screen door. It was
open. The simple little hook-latch on the door could
have been pried open easily with a pen-knife. The
killer, Dobsy decided, had entered here.

“By the way,” he said quietly as he returned to
the front porch, “where is Stanley?”

Szelagowski looked about for his sixteen-year-
old son. His eyes were puzzled as though noting
his absence for the first time.

“J don’t know,” he said. “Stanley—he don't al-
ways come home at night.”

When Dobsy returned to the house across the

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No ember 30, 1928

The vital evidence
sealing the fate of
the killer (left) was
the teeth marks he
left on the body of
one of his victims,
a child of seven.

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January, 1949

street the Coroner was finished with
his examination. Two squad cars of
detectives had arrived and already
were searching the area for any pos-
sible clews.

“Poor child,” Kreft said softly, and
stared at the mutilated little body.
“Poor child—she was attacked. First
she was struck over the head by a
blunt instrument. I found two blue
marks on each side of her head.”

He pointed to the child’s feet. “Then
he bit her!”

“Bit her?” Dobsy stooped low to
stare at the girl’s legs. The livid marks
of a man’s teeth were visible on the
skin. And the marks of those teeth
indicated clearly that the upper left
incisor hud been missing from the
killer's jaw.

“IT want a cast made of those teeth,”
Dobsy said quietly as he straightened
up. “The impressions are clear.”” He
ran a hand over his stubbled chin. “The
Mad Monster!” he said with a shudder.

The Mad Monster of Toledo!

He had struck again, after a lapse of
six months! He had killed again—and
this time his victim was a tiny, inno-
cent, unresisting child of seven!

ND this time, Detective Dobzenicki

thought, the Mad Monster had left
behind him two clews, clews which
might trap him. He had left the mark
of his teeth. He had left the indispu-
table fact that he had known the Szela-
gowski home.

The Mad Monster first came to police
attention in the first few days of 1925,
He leaped from ambush upon first one
woman, then another. He struck them
down, each one, with a club, and he
dreeved them off into the bushes. The
women hed been knocked unconscious
and they had not seen their attacker
clearly. A few of them noticed that a
front tooth--the upper left canine tooth
- as missing from his mouth. That

was oll they knew,

Uncle r the direction of soft-spoken
Inspector of Police Louis Haas, the en-
ire p tte force of Toledo went all out
in dts parsuitof the med clubber, While
detocives questioned the victims and
ran to earth a myriad of false tips, half
the police foree was dressed in plain

clothes and prowled the city streets at
night in a vain hope of trapping the
madman.

Then on the night of May 24, 1925.
a middle-aged woman was brutally
beaten in an alley. She died on Sep-
tember 9.

One thousand American Legion
members volunteered their services
and patrolled the streets from sundown
to sunup. Known degenerates and
hoodlums were brought in and ques-

tioned. Nothing was learned.

August 21 the monster’s second vic-
tim was hammered to death three
blocks from the scene of the attack on
the first one.

Railroad detectives kept a_ close

watch on trains and hauled to Head-
quarters any tramps and vagrants they
discovered. Police prowled the pool-
rooms and suspicious rooming-houses

and hotels for suspects. Men with
scratches on their hands and faces
were asked for explanations. Owners of

bloody suits sent to the cleaners were
hunted down and grilled.

January 19, 1926, the body of a
young bride was found in her own
yard, horribly battered, and dead.

Again a round-up was made. Again
every tip was investigated. Again In-

spector Haas and his men exhausted
every possibility. Again they learned
nothing.

The night of October 25, 1926, an

elderly widow became worried about
the absence of her young, unmarried
daughter. She telephoned her married
son and the son mace a personal search
after notifying the police. On the side-
walk in front of the Washington School
he saw bloodstains. Leading through
the hedge he saw heelmarks, as if a
woman had been dragged. On the
secluded schoolgrounds he found the
body of his sister. She, too, had been
slain by the Mad Monster.

Police swarmed over the school-
grounds, under the direction of now
Chief of Police Louis Haas. They
delved deeply into the history of the

dead girl. They questioned residents
of the neighborhood. They learned
nothing of value.

They investigated tips. A mental de-
fective, who lived only a few blocks
from ‘the girl’s. home, often had
watched the girl walking along the
streets. Neighbors reported him, said
that several times he had followed her.
He was picked up, a lean man with
unruly hair and a twitching face.

“1 don’t know nothin’,” he whimper- '

ed. He claimed he had been asleep. A
search of his room revealed no bloody
garments, no signs of guilt. He was
released.

A man from Oklahoma was picked
up in a downtown hotel by Lieutenant
Ansell. His eyes were bloodshot as
though he had been without sleep for
many hours. His hands shook. His face
was badly scratched, his clothes bloody.
The tailor to whom he had sent his
clothes for cleaning had reported him.

The man was indignant. “I was held
up, last night,” he said. “A couple of
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night.” :

He had, a search of the records
revealed. He was released, too.

And so it went. Officers could find no
more clews to the killer of this fourth
victim than they had to the killer of
any of the previous three. Weeks,
months slipped by. The Mad Monster
laid low. Apparently he was safe. Ex-
cept for that broken tooth, the Toledo
police knew nothing about him.

Then came the mysterious kidnaping
and killing of little, seven-year-old
Dorothy Szelagowski. And the teeth-
mark on her leg. And the fact that the

killer was acquainted with the Szela-_

gowski home.

um E’VE got something concrete to
work on now,” said Detective

Dobzenicki as he drove back to Head-

quarters with DeLora and Hovey.

The other men agreed. “But what
have we got on this one?” Hovey
asked.

“Some enemy of the old man’s,
maybe,” said Dobsy.

“Dorothy was his favorite daughter.
And besides, why was the body left
on the porch across the street—the
porch of a relative? This killer wanted
revenge, that’s why.”

DeLora nodded in agreement. “The
killer drove a car. He wouldn’t have
dared walk in the street with that
child in his arms.”

“We've got to get that car!” Hovey
said quietly. “If we’re right, there’ll be
blood all over it. The child’s finger-
prints—maybe the killer’s, too. First
thing is to get the list of stolen
cars.”

At Headquarters, the detectives dis-
covered that two cars had been re-
ported stolen during the night. One
was reported by Stanley Sialagowski,
a Studebaker car taken from his locked

garage; the second, by John Jurkiewicz,

night worker at the Willys-Overland
plant. Jurkiewicz’ car had been parked
in the parking-lot of the factory when
it was stolen.

Dobsy wrinkled his forehead
thoughtfully. “That’s funny,” he said.
“I know this Sialagowski. He’s another
relative. He’s got a pair of dogs that
won’t let a stranger come near his
home. Whoever stole that car must
have been known to the dogs.”

At 10 o’clock, Mrs, Anna Czajviski
called Headquarters.

“There’s a car parked in front of
my home all morning,” she said. “I
noticed it there at 5 o’clock, but I didn’t
pay any attention to it. 1 was going
out to the grocery a few minutes ago
and I looked in it. There’s blood all
over the inside.”

“That’s a couple of blocks from
Szelagowski’s home,” Dobsy exclaimed,
“Let’s go!”

They Nai it there, in front of Anna
Czajwski’s home. It was the car re-
ported stolen by Jurkiewicz.

A quick examination of the aban-

doned machine told its own grim story.
DeLora silently pointed out the clear,
tiny hand-prints in. the dust near the
door-handle. The back seat of the car
was smeared with drying blood.

“We can be pretty sure,” Dobsy
muttered, “that the killer has blood
all over him.”

They towed the car to Headquarters
for examination by the scientific wiz-
ards of the laboratory. And, they dis-
covered, the other stolen car had been
brought. in, too. It had been found in
the parking-lot of the Willys-Overland
plant, from which spot the Jurkiewicz
coach had been stolen.

“That’s it, ” Dobsy exclaimed -excit-
edly. “He stole the Sialagowski car and
drove to the Overland plant, where he
switched cars to throw us off the trail.
Then he went on about his” dirty
work.”

“More likely he switched cars be-
cause he was out of gas,”-an expert
said dryly. “The tank was empty.”

“But why the Overland plant?”
Dobsy asked, his eyes puzzled. “He
apparently drove directly to the fac-
bon aiter stealing the Sialagowski car.

The telephone rang insistently, and
Dobsy answered. He listened quietly
for a moment, said, “I’ll be right up,”
and banged down the receiver.

“It’s Stanley,” he said. “Detectives
Palicki and Swiatiecki picked the kid
up on Legrange Street. Claims he was
out of town all night, hitch-hiked to
Monroe, Michigan, and back. Just
heard about his sister.”

“Sounds fishy,” someone said.

Dobsy’s eyes were troubled.

Who was familiar with the arrange-
ment of the rooms in the Szelagowski
home? Who could have stolen the
Sialagowski car without the dogs bark-
in

When Dobsy entered the small room,
he saw Stanley Szelagowski sitting
glumly in a hard, straight-backed
chair. He was a good-looking boy, well
built, with strong, muscular arms. He
sat there staring straight ahead with
tight lips.

“Hello, Stanley,” Dobsy said quietly.

The boy nodded without looking

up.

“Want to tell me what happened?”

The youth jerked around suddenly.
“You know what’s happened,” he said
sharply. His fists clenched and the
veins were angry red. “But I don’t
know who did it.
Michigan. I was on my. way home when
they picked. me up—and that’s ‘the
first I knew about it.”

Dobsy. drove to the home of Siala-
gowski, whose car had been stolen. As
he walked into the driveway two dogs
—German police dogs with mean-look-
ing teeth—set up a wild barking. |

Ten minutes later he walked out of
the house. He had learned nothing new.
The car had been in the garage in the
rear of the house, the doors locked.
But any skeleton key would have
opened the lock. The dogs had been
chained in the yard, as they were.even
then, but they. hadn’t even growled.

CROSS the road was the home of
Charles Stanley Hoppe. His wife,
Sofie, was a cousin of the murdered
child. In the vain hope that they had
heard or seen something; Dobsy crossed
over and knocked at the door. ‘
He entered on a tearful scene. Both
Charles and his wife were in the midst
of crying. Their eyes were bloodshot
and their faces wet. From the bedroom,
leading off the kitchen, came the bawl-
ing of a two-year-old baby.
“You’ve got to catch him!” Sofie

stared at him and asked softly,

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cried when she saw the sees: "On a

Dobsy, it’s horrible!” ~

Dobzenicki nodded. ,

“Did you see ariything last night?
Or hear anything? Stanley’s car was.
stolen sometime early this morning.”

They shook their heads. Charles.

Hoppe kept his head bent low over.
his cup of steaming coffee.

“We didn’t get home until very early .

this morning,” Sofie said through her
tears. “Charles took the “night off:
from work at the Overland factory and °
we went to a wedding.” ~

But Dobsy wasn’t listening. Someone
who knew the Szelagowski home—

“I thought you were driving a taxi,’,
he said, and looked hard at Hoppe.

“I was,” Hoppe admitted.
quit for a good job at the plant.”

“Open your mouth,’ ” Dobsy said.
. “What?”

“Open your wouthit

Charles Hoppe opened his mouth, his -
eyes wide with wonder. Dobsy - bent -
over and stared in..

One tooth was missing—the upper
left canine tooth.

“What suit did Charles wear last
night?” Dobsy asked Mrs. Hoppe.

“Why—” She frowned. “His blue
pin-stripe. It’s in the closet, isn’t it?”

“It isn’t,” Dobsy said, after a moment
of. rummaging.
night.”

“There isn’t much to tell,” she said.

“We went to a wedding. Charles drank ,

a little too much, so I left early. I was
asleep when he came home.” ie
something wrong, Dobsy?”’.

The Detective ignored the question,,

“Then you weren’t with Charles during
the entire night?”

“No,” she admitted. — ”

Dobsy and Detective ‘Swiatieck!,
whom he had summoned, went out the. >

back door into the yard. There, in the’

chicken coop, was a pile of ashes.
Swiatiecki ran his fingers through it
and found a piece of cloth still un-
burned. “Looks like a fragment of
shirt,” he commented.

They continued their examination of —
the yard. Dobsy found a long, sharp-
pointed stick and prodded the earth
with it as he walked along. At one
spot the stave sunk down softly. :

“Here!” he called. ~~

They dug into the fresh mound of*
dirt and a few scrapings revealed’'a —
suit—a blue pin-stripe~ suit. Dark-:».

brown stains over the entire front were
unquestionably blood marks.
‘HEY returned to Headquarters. with
their find, and with Hoppe, who.-

“But 1

“Tell me about last’

maintained a sullen denial to the ac-~ 2

cusations of Inspector Buck and Detec~’
tives Delora, Hovey and Palicki. :

“I was drunk,” he kept insisting. “q, "

don’t remember. what happened.”

Coroner Kreft walked in with a —

blood-stained suit of underwear. It had
been taken from Hoppe while he was:

being examined. “What about this?” he~

asked.

“I must have got into a “fight,” Hoppe -
insisted. “I don’t remember.”

“And this?” Dobsy asked grimly. ~

He tossed on the desk in front of the '
white-faced suspect the bloodstained: .
suit. “Why did you bury it?”

Hoppe ‘stared silently for a moment.

His eyes then jerked wildly from one a.

, a

face to another. His lips twitched and. ~ %

the sweat broke ‘out on his forehead.
He sagged in his chair and moaned,
“T did it! I did it!” 2
Charles Hoppe retracted his confes-
sion and pleaded innocent before Judge
Charles M. Milroy on June 25. Then he

changed his mind again and admitted - _

the crime, throwing himself on the
mercy of the court...Judges Milroy,
James Austin and James Martin delib-
erated the case and could find in their
hearts, and in the evidence, only one
possible verdict—guilty of murder .:in
> ie degree, and the sentence—
ea

Charles Stanley ‘Hoppe took the sen- 2

tence calmly. Later he told the alienist
for the State, “Why not? I deserve it.
I killed that young church woman
and plenty of others.”

Charles Hoppe died in the electric
chair at the Ohio State Penitentiary in

Columbus, Ohio, on November 30, 1928..

iD—11

aa Ire soft Sa ae

‘rie Warli’s Progresi: seco

order -to> realize | ‘the “wonderful
ges ip every department cf. ark and

ce; as well as the marvellous rapid-|
ith which history has been made} {

g the last century, it. is only ‘neces-

to contemplate. such a life. as thaty-

British General, Sir John Burgoyne
died the! other day. He was born
72, two! years ‘efor

erick the Great, Sad seven years
¢ the: outbreak of the first French
ution, > yet. he lived to see Prussia
ess of Germany and the first power}
rope, and France, after havi.g been

overrun by foreign soldiery during
begun by a family which {in 1782
obscure aad © unknown, prostrate at
vet ofthe’ House of. Hohenzollern.
n Burgoyne’ was'born \America was:
ng through the interregnum between
close: of the Revolution ard the
tion ; of the Constitution, . yet he
to see-her grow: to-.be ‘under that
titution one of the ¢ jreatest and most
erous fiations that has ever existed.

» since. the old: soldier /first saw the
, art and science have 'rdvolutionized
‘department of Industry!) The
coda | driven. upon . clay or maca-
zed roads, has heénesuperseded by
stea
nent-upon iron rails,\ In. ¢

nginéer-{ .
unnery:and.ocean travel the change tmeees

been no. less: remarkable, . Armies

ow. organized, c uipped, and Jedi in'|
at off.

nner entirely’ different’: ‘from.
y years. ago,» Then ihe’ ‘soldiér was’

achine, condemmed to wear: well~ 4
ed and tightly-made clothing ‘and at

il, to carry a flint-lock “musket, and

gged- when ‘he refused to obey the |;

mands ’of-his:, superiors. | ‘The idea
n educated!.and thinking army had

r entered the head of the boldest in—) » |. o]
or ‘in, military affairs: Yet Burgo Hej:

‘to: see first: Ainériea’ and afterwards
sia win © victoriés ‘exceeding jn. im-
nce. any of those which had preceeds,
em, by {means of: educated armies.
wladelp hia Press. 32 2 aa
‘ ly te | (cars ae
“How, to Know. 4 pd Goose. 1S Uf

Mother, ‘hidkher i cried a young. ro
rning hurridly from: its first, flight;
saa Srightened !
CP kites e

Vhat sight,my son i asked cas
), white) creatures, screaming”

-* Saree /:

4
ram |

ling, and rhe Sa their. necks, and !'¢j

ing their, heads, ever.so igh! See
ver; there they rd eae Gas

yeese, my son, merely "geties calmly
ed the parent bird, looking: oyer the
mon, ‘Though ; life, child | observe

when you meet any ‘one who makes |

at luss. about ‘himself; cand tries ‘to

j
ig head higher than. the: rest of the |
ryou may. set him down atonce for

te a : eae
ba } 9 ae aes
(cn OMG 20.+-At ‘an

pins, a farmer,

7 discovered he was sifting: against
mp, dead: i) He° was seen "Saturday!
tin; town..with, hig team, id ,it is.
Ase that he was intoxicated: and fell
his wagon; the wheels: paring over
leads” Tt isghated that a cout seven
pele, yesterday Mandy: on
“waye tor ‘charelt! s and he
shez for a drink of wates,
ervards wa foungl be dead:
r lis stance
ba he-lines| wrap ed
Seen E> Up tg this Mime
eno ones held,

tie death of |” -

i then d ashed aie

m engine: ‘running. across. the ie

Fyel, Leen. such a li ai"):

y hour ‘yeney morning, the body |.
: was fowsd).

alf ‘mile *. frora this: place. |*

nd short: |.

BER’ -GARGETT,. fot
is deed of blood, Hunter

ee oun, RO
Atter doing th

proceeded fi ar ef 2 le was met by: Mrs.
Gar gett. Quid kus a flash he raised | the:

shots, anid. alee G. felKdead at his fort:

“Mn. trgiwern’ 6 GARGETT: * eieabe ba
uy “Ung meantime Rodney Tiad rushed

er Jiist alter’ he had. fired: the last fatal
shot, “A brlet, truggle ensued, another
thot: was fired, and ‘Rodney, ees
Vou nded, turn r and ficd for: hele
oW hile “this

story, window vine

, Mrs, re

“hire, ¢ AROLINE POOLE. os

inid the road bers b

nelghbors- Neil g re ili parley-
Pas! with onie Of | tie, fe wa

“band, -

‘oinon his he od,

: ite ed Wi alt

b the house; but. had’ not |:

fatal rey oly er the. second time,: fired: ¢ two

es ot Ua an dl while the confprense was ‘Veing

‘s an. an. atte ppb to feur Off

ee repeal. the atic pt cs

hie delged 16. put into exefujion| sq” ly gas

to the Tescue,and confronted the murder- |

Pit yond
Lj big Bay going 10 ¢orb bt “suicides

Hunter! finding. himectt folled i is w

attempt to gee the young lady, Went back? RA ip tow
wb oe eXelted : tenant it Waa raft Laird for pid ic

wrong, at inimodiately gen fore hi
“Hubyying over to the jail, hi
‘he prisoner. ' silting inja leaning posture
wad the blood spurting in jets
the size of a. emalt goose quill fran. his lene
arm. Dr.J: J. Enyth, Who'bappened: to
he at the. Court, Ilouse, | was immediately
-ealled in, “wh (
Upon thé of}
bldolie-
Jeft elbow:
length, ary

o and stopped t tho: “fh
Th weund was On: bho inside of the
i was ‘aboat ha An “toe

is'eupposed to haybtt ) en in:
a ginal sliver: at ‘glass + ;
Sheriff Cartiss aNerreatdg fe al”, He

floor of his eel’ Dr, Smith, |toge + with
‘Dr, Bowen: who WAS sod ‘alter areal ae

flaw cf

Annals “nelson: ate” fal
bably fsa would
ep val fi
ite more t (ood he would bayé: fninit
OF, Uiteod woul hive the

begged 0 be let, alonésth at hel;

allows ‘dla
tig: na

did pot.wan to ‘ties ons Ges

toa ates
ly gtiarded that there was no onport
dies me ; : bas

ne vresertaren! | PY:

vd }

THE KC

“ont er ag, nade repeated : declarations
iia he: wou J, AUNGr. be}. .b BE, bus
inthnating |, ‘itat- +)" “designed to take
bis: owns life. Lae ‘delermir ation

he badthe ‘dig test hopes of te reve\on's
commutation ‘of his senterico to imprison:
micat for life. But when it was annow ced
‘ta him! on Satu day that the Governor hid
declined? to grant his reqiest, except on: tlie |
recommendatio of Fndge. McClure and
Proscoutlig Attbracy. IXohicr,. aud that they
-| had declined te juterferé in the Matt ir; he
| Ther began’ to Ta his plans: fog ¢
this design, JT wie wes’ ‘furestiadowed hy the

se aia persons : ho visited bim ons fatundoy
fd Sanidy, est ng to’one gcntlen: aay
promised to eal! and ece him n again on AT
day thathe shoukl not be sfive aie
The vigilance ef the Sheriff, however, ! pre-
vented hin from making good. bis), deglara

tion, | What beIpteuged to’ dg and
intended.to do if, dre fully * bet’,
ihe: follinying . Mharacteristic =. de
which he had: "te pared. fo® ihe
of this paper, With the rreuest Us aujafter his
death they shogld) be pudtistied in es thie
‘Daily and the wey Hy. ErAcos, ©) [Pern st

uments

IS VIBE ov autp Ins, AVITAL | PUNISH

ate Sale ese es oc |

Br St nen =i es. i
ay

‘Suynre Covst¥ rahe iF:
“haenck, Nov 20th, 18

| Akrou Dairy -Beaoon. ‘the ph {

“Also Doctors H.° OQ. Howard,’ J.” K.

ying yout :

bints au 1 declars tions that he had! magile’ 10"

by h as ed. hii
OCU. in ) sentenced

“editor

might aRve 10° Sper k,
1 athe "
jspake. in

a (crowds “began. tor ration ‘around the i
Most. of these

yard and in the streets.
were from the. country,
either with the. idea that the execution |

Was ‘publie, or that they could gain access |
arai¥

to the jail. In both these partic ul)
they were entirely diss ppointed as a fal 1,

| foreg 2 Of ‘police: en’ quite barred: their |

entrance even inside the ‘yard. ' he
large throng; , including many adi ies,
ney ertheless. ratneal gazing-at tho , build-
.|ing as if to pierce the very: “walls. But
the walls failed; to open up-to their

THK EXEQBYION,

thie gallows: was found, on being, tdken
into the jail, to be aboat six inches too high:
After being cut down to’ the proper , bight,
it wasierected in the corridorathhe eastlend.
of the jail; the space being about | six fect in
1} width} only. ‘Either through seal or feigned
sicknees or woakness, Hunter was amb tort
dress. himself, and was ‘accordingly asei ted
in the Svork by. Depaty - Sheriff. Scott jand
Rev. McA, Scaplon,
assisted in the performance of his. painful |
duty by ‘his Deputies, Mills. Curtiss and
1 David “AS Scott.: “ Revs Liv Cooley wag i
"| atiendange bpon the: prisoner, and t ere
‘were, present begides, represcatative 0

timer n the: Akron. 1 ermanias an

pers, and several ‘others, e3 spectatorp.-

loway nin a. Ji BSinith were. in sttendahice, |
Rev. M.A. Scanlon was also preseut.
aft 20 | minutes: to LE o'clock: Rix.
Goley . liad tigious § services : ‘alane
the prison er, by res ading & chapter in
Bible, and by” prayer,’ ‘concluding his
vices by) some. consolatery remarks,
‘goursetn him to. méet hts fate. with if
tne and, ike 4 & Man. © Te was nob felt
very much, but kept-up_ an
‘most. cahticnons: ‘moan. At EL o'e!
Father Sganton ‘and his Attorney, Mri
C. Santo dy took their Jeave of him,
At 20 thinutes past 11, Sheriff Curties
Mr. Cooley Jed bim up the steps and, se
bina upon a chivir upon the platform of
gallows. Sheri!f Curtiss then read to
the ae Wisranty ia the usual, forin,

de
ith
ithe
bei. |
en-
prtis

al-

and |
ented |
the
uM
And |
the
jn

vif had. ans thing, to way, why
of the law elionld nit. bo | put
execution. fas wy Je bgt

“ite speecr troy ries G ALIDWS,

__Honter then enq: tired. how much tiny he
the sheriff. re vy} ied
ight have ten minutes. “He hen
a yety ‘broken and Elecoined ted
bubs auth ally: as follows: :

pprcent’ HH the crime: for whil:
Tye iT. Wie hot fotend tol do

manne ¥,
Tami
BDtQ BY

th]
the

in|

i fan |

fino it
ewith
r any

cit: Oa |
Reed}

kT n oy gu; at my se
abd: ibrotigh You tbe ‘PUyle, i

‘wit long premeditation, burl eo fi
out malice, ata eninet) mere

iher-person in, thig,world. Then,
Both calléd murgde é iy the first ie}

le did: he think | iB et
sib

alehon

Litt hit}
te tbe rrrit'the

Kt a

allntahtioliryig ker pe allve 0"
That beta dd tune \ Ae prenstte” of Kill

ak ihe. m¢ the tel saan by hese ewe dental

be Sheriff aat iy) with ine all fest.'n he)

ceed. J
ixive me
lull my enernies, TL now forgive sit} my;
h, lomics, hoping that all will forgtye. me,
I have no) eomity against my girl; ch
Jargelt, | aod, I hepa the “Tord
Hrorulva | her, I omvst)) ‘now'.
ny. eavy, pf my. -filenda and
the’ wari’ ” Pave no confestion to. n
of any.ctime.whatever, [have never c
mitted aay oitunce in.any country j whe
ave ever iveds “1 hope “the. Lord

here pray th thé Lordiwih for

loe
fake
ned!

‘oes ‘and Mrs thei and Mid not Anten

eae

who ¢; umd ini!

a2¢|
; and - reveal the awfil. trausaction Liat |
way going on within.”

aes

Sheriff Cartis jwas |

ned}:

ock |

wi ill

oof!
ike
nin:

bri
mucl
prop,
; fit thd
t fect
grow
Ve lor
yast
I wa
kid
aban
icom
The
looked
mal,
friend
in all
> much
The
whose
of, the
ing wl
the’ ey.
eure
ly, sati;
pntato
While
decayé
‘state
would
and 1
while
Tre
boejie
Teast
for cal
not we
bende,
Sibhy,.

| condit

- Nor
works
, i clency
But th
ihem.s
AP sa

>} —soni

t it—ant
i like: D
- | Eweed
i but all
nate li
of his.
Ly eve
' rable f
ttions ¢
clube;
S TES
affectt
Ppig in
is hic
rand ne

° lsourid

itrect t
uder
and. hk
| was Si
}aomer
j the tp
er.
The
i Ho, § s
jth it Ww
PCM P
de Vell
a ful I
C bint]
; Gon
and gy

= Gost}
be can

not w
pmany
' highe
jt ‘with

Wt nmy sins and that Ele wil torkive , Dues
en- | the he

alot
the - i}
} the he
1a big

witho

airnis
Does
| mink

will bee.
take mo to Weaven. [have always. loved |

la:

dtd soiok

pe eee Re Fee REARS ES em SLA SL Ey",

When corn is fifiy cents'a bushel farm-

ers canine t afford to sell pork for less tbs

36 hotrod , core forty | two eentis, perk
£54 hundn tecrarn Warty bree or BER
$1 a hondres} twenty-Gye cenla,
pork &3 a hundred, :

This cilcuiction is hused on the sunpo-
thion tlat you expérimeat on a good
breel of hogs. Take the long nosed, coarse
histled, roush skinned animals,:and you |

can't moke good pork out of them at apy
vest, There will be ag much differerce be

‘ween thefflesh cfeuch.pn animal and that of

t short-nesed, full-cheeked, curly baired,
smooth, thin skinned eh breed or sutfolk,

a8 the } lacy from the Canibal [sland’s, visit-

ing England, said thete was between the
English and French. On being askéd which
he people of her contry: liked’ best, the
French or the Eoglith,, she ssid; ‘Far
strong, hearty food, the ¥ liked the English
mut the Frenceh. were “more tender an

viey.F5 |

A general diseusston
nd feeding fallrea
asay.

Mr. Tt: S. Falor’ ‘btought. forward” the
vatter: of hogs eittay stone coal in prefers | -
nee {9 Corn, as slated at the last meeting of;
w Club, explatning tliat. the trath of the
Mement had been ridi¢uled.5y some, and
sking the coufirniation uf the members. of |
i¢ Club.
Gein Bierce stated th
me could notke fon) a
ould devour old boned.
onsly, and, he doubt ee, stone- coal.
Ur TEWEHE peek that « Ty Those ignorant
TS0Dg Wha never redd the papers, and ;
bo never tried to keep Mdynselvea, pested |

at the close at the

ee |

Ou peneral | subjects could attempt
p> deny > *.this, } tee experience
48°" tet tse mere: -eprn — hogs}

al: they nveded,
r upon. it. Sul-
ccasionaily would

ero fal the more stond: po
pd seemed to Ubrive belle
afe of fron, al! 0, eived deeks
6ve. 2p. excellent tenic.
These stalcmcnts were strongly confirmed
y Messrs. Miller, Deflaven ‘and Storer.
Mr. Storer suggested {He pubject of the
ist breed of hogs to taise, and, on bein ig
ked for hia own oxne rien ned ip the ms iter,
ted that he } had found a cross between the
rester White and Grasg breeds to be super:
r, thoush whe Berkshire was also good,
Gea! Bieree considered tha Chester W bite
‘be the best. Lick
Mr. Biller had tried the crossing of
ster ane Gratis with foe succesa. y
Mr. Pitkin said he had experimented up-
hog reisiog for some fen years, and bad
ind that a’ cross between the Chester
‘hite, Grass and Snffolk breeds by fxr the

ost profitable:
‘The discussion 3 snore: drifted

}upon 9 variety of subjects which were
wvedrhing’ interest, though quite disas
ns) far AS Any “eorrect report is: con
racd. Mr, Rinebart, bowever, brought
pmeambers bick tothe point by reading
interesting extract from the Ohio Agri
— Reports for 1869, Part, Second,
ge 72, upon the profitablencass of feeding
rn tp hisgn at high prices, in which it wab
owo by many experiments; that corn.
ding was always profitable to the farmer.
rhe etsay of Gen. Blerce was, ow motign
Mr. Faler, re quested for publication. _

Pie following quesign was adopted for

ppoa hoz tyrdedin+| xg

ed Fo ie aa am Pree 4 ¥
cdulary and larceny, arraingesl,
guilty. Assigned to Defend: ant,’

: Criminal persons s wil be taken up Yon
ay. Ps

en not

Ptrp.—The Patneaville “Telegrrph con:
tains the obituary notice of of Peleg P, San-
ford, Esq. who died at his residence in that
town on the evening ‘of Nov. 13th, aged
71 years, The decessed, who will be
known to many of our readers asthe fath-

er of Mrs. R. L. Ganter, of this city, wasa
| native of New Haven, | Conn., Graduating
at Yule In 1820, he engaged in mercantile ¢
pursuits for several years, and in 1827 re=
moved to Painesville, At the time of his
‘death he was head and! principal stockbold-
er, Ju the Geauga Furnace Company, ‘Both
\ prominent citizen and business man he

s widely known and universally _esteem-
od For pps 8 over a year he has' been |
an inyalid, originally cansed by an acci-
pe fall, and at times had been a. grea ~

rer, "He spent part of the present: sea

with his drughter ia’ Akron, - and was
brboght hoe only ast week. This a singn-
lug cuincideuce that bis death oh the same
} day of the week, Just tw years subsequent
i! | that of bis wife.,

'
'

Miaygive

iF. “qudér the heed! ot 1 int vui J
| sance. "Tt Isin felérenge | ta the hy it w ich
hyouny men, who wish to be caller gen Ie-

,men, have of standi ing’ ou street Aprndrs,
| and gn the straws. Sone young” men seem
{to tbink they have a special right to-stahd
ion the streets, bir cking up the way,. - This
i has #specially beenme’d nuisance at the ec r-
ners of Howard’ aid Mirket Sta.,and also p
the intersections’ of Muih and Exchange Sts.
It is impossible fur a Indy to pass slong
these ccrners without Ye aring some volgary:
ity. or profanity, - Indeed, it is hardly- safe
fora lady to venture ak dug at night, without
some male escort. Wed! it not be well
for our police to look ‘to this matter and
géntly remind them to. hmoye on,’

Formur § Sum Mit g mak
‘We learn, throdigh Mr. W. W. Wasbburn,
of Galesburg, Iil., that the youngest broth.
er of bis mother, Mp. Faxpgrick A. Ursoy,
formerly of Tallmadge, died at Powhatan,
Lawrence county, Arkansas, Oct. AL.
Upson’ was, we beli veja vative of Tall-
madge, und a aduhte of, Western Reserve
College. He’ B. regided Suuth for the past
twenty years, or more, excéptiog & Bhort
time during the ltt r part of the war. -His
remains. wi be brought North and Interred
besido those of his parebts aud other rela-
tives in ‘the Tallmadge getnetery. Mr. Up-
sons’ age at the dite of his’ death was 50

years and seven months.
> a ———

Loox Oct Foe: ‘Then, Ai dabeertk
countertelt $20 greeenback note hus recent-
ly been put in ciretletiqn. It’ 1s said itis
diMentt to digtiogutst) between the spu-
rigns bill aad the genulde, 80 well baye the
counterfeiters done thelr wotk—thd oaly
weak point being the central figure, which
isdone rather coarsely, —When presented

om Gene Me

oy
27¢

perl discussion at the next meeting :
“Which is the more’ profiiable to the
mer, to feed all ratsed on the farm or eo'}
wilhent feeding 2”

3. If, Pitkin was continued as s@Qular,

in'a package, this figure is not likely to. be
noticed In rapid counting. In. order to

vid deception fram these bogs bills, - “the
best way isto examine carefully every $20
greenback ek you handle, ©.

ONO, vs Farncet Barnst,| Todietinest for

¥. 8.

bands. .T math ‘exercises of the day were
held at th court House, and ‘opexed with a
Teception -2ech by Mayor H.-G. Blake,
to’ whicl » short © responses were; made |
by May . Pelton,. of Cleveland, Thdee |
Tyler, « : the. snind ,:| place, land
tthe Hon.) nes Monroe, MC, onl the
iMedinad ‘ict. The main address ‘of the
day, how |i, was detivered by Hon. “Jas.
A. Briggs : ‘anaging Editor of ‘the. New
York Tr 1, which , is spoken of asa
masterly. the At the conclusion. of this
address, _ rl ¢Xtempere speeches were
‘made by? a. John, Crowell of Cleveland, |
Gen. Not... ip of fake county and: Mayor |:
Browning Wadsworth, ¢ uffer which a’l

t) The execu:

Tv Maw Deap.— |

us any cquivsient... If you want the aid of
the paper ei her as citizens of a community
or as indivi! ials it is your duly to render an
eqatvalent, . What* would you think of a
mamwho y nid’ gO into your store and ask
you to give Jima hank of thread and go

somewhere ‘se to. buy his cloth ?—Beaver
Arius. Freie

/ - eat ¢: PARE AD, ,
THE Ww DINA CELEBRATION.

é. Grand Success.

Desp' le, .c extremely unpropitious wea-
thet,the ce! rition at Medin: , Wedaesday,
in honor « the: completion of the new,
Lake Shor & Tusca.awas Valley Railroad
was acom :te success. A large excursion
train went © wii frony Cleveland, ‘contain ng
probably { ».hundréd invited: guests. ‘Its}.

entrance ii’
nlded with
"bells, Dlov «

the village of Medina was her-
ae firing of cannon, ringing of.
“g of whistles and: playing © of |

gravd din. ~ w as ‘served At Empire Hall. —
sists departed at four ‘o'clock | |
‘edina wound. up the day’s fes-
Inminatlons, music, feastings
nthe | evening., Fea ke
3and of (his: ejty, weak ‘over.

* band,” excellent inusie? is

P.M., an
tivities wi’
and danci
J. Babeoci *
and: “sup

hunting o: i1¢ Sabbath day, abd give those
offending in this respect to understand that
they must (lsist vr abjde the consequen-
ces of & Viodsted. jaw. .The people living
in the vicinity of the Lake, have been yery
much anneyed fora considerile-length of}
time by a certain class of men and boys, who
spend (be Sebbath about: the . lake, duck

thal-wapich costs us money. without: givin <- : cheup—at th

{the OBE &.

the way 1° ( Icveland papers pat ite
Owing: ie incleméney oi the. wtather,
we were alo our regret, debarred frotn | |
the privity” of ‘part fclpatigg ” in. the. See 4
bration. ; or Se

eed 5 te a “

: te 78 StINGEIELD, E |
Sinday tiuntin e_Mhicey B Dam-
ats 7 < * aged. 4 ¥
~-Epbs Da. ox ein | —Woe : were “bighly |
gratified it. reading the raport of the meeting
held at the residence of Col. Simon Perkins,’
on the eve: ing of the 4th inst ; , ‘and alsa of.
your notic ir: reference thereto. We think.
that itigh°:h time that the lovers of law
aud yoo! ..-ler shotild take p decided stand
in opposil!..: to the : increasing prhctice of

MRVLOEST
novadlf ne

THE
For Clot!
ee & Le
Atthe Si

1 Koch & L

made and
in Akron,
est, and €s
they are de
tire stock’

Price rulin
tf

charge no:
ing. thougt
Be not sca
go. to Kécl
and Child:

“nov. if

: ch Cohen ‘
lea” ere t
miums on-R
late Sammi

‘This: Mo:
House. kee;
elothing In
any-goods ¢
relty and se!
a3 other de:
terior artle

- The: unpa
they have mw
this: elrenn
dealing | an
readers to
firm as ihey
satisfaction
them,

| Leavis the
or [adianapol
West? The b

B. & M Railre i
Burlington,
Rourg. ©. -
‘The main 1
Omaha, ‘coun
Roads, and fo:
to California.:
ing Nebraska’
Lincoln, the §

year be fintshe
the shortest ro
over'100 miles

; Another bra

at Red Oak, fi
the. Missouri {
City, And‘a}l J
roule see Kar
lows, and Mie
ence, can see |

‘ Lovers of fir

Burlington Ro
ing from afar’-
rough bluffs ar

bunting, and keeping up continuous. dig-!
charge of :usketry. THese lawless prow!
ers overrun ihe grain fields, throw do;
the fences,« ry off fruit aud otherwise di-

, gentleman, (whose. name. we did not. learn) the Lincola la

uviat and I. V. Bierce. 23. aa alfernate.

RaSaineeTos ok el eek Bl rated

olf J
wee} 4

| .
a oe , ak i ae tee 26 ~o-

> T epee’ (Veer See ‘ae ca Bd wes Pakage, 4 | a3 4%" ats tich éenduch

we . “1B. &. MR. E
| among the fou
On Moni ay / mori jog Inst, a3 a Indy. and | prq-emptora Ww

stretching over

- Fe,can reach,
Land buyers

or they have f

peand who have

turb the perce and quiet of the nolghtox-| wr 8. Harris

enone ater Six: Yr Set

Ds beat es Ds OI doce ais RNS aN haoet — We Bm ah leek Ee Be ee offen, GS eae abs MUI ppieg PA Sed Re ie ac:
Peerncd. Mr, Rinebart, ‘however, brought
the members back to the: point. by reading

I, ut first, thouchtof “the er} an interesting extract from the Ohio Agri
light on the ge smination and: caltcral: Re ports. “for 1869, Part, Second,
aad (be growth apd de= 1) y6@ 72 , upon ‘the profitablencss of feeding

nt of &ti ‘tr nile’ = wat 53° I-am in a}
ogs,- xl rc] which } was
ity in my belief onsthat sulject, 'corn Ww ‘ios at bik 1 prices, 1n which it
that corn.

i
irfal you would think: my theory * shown by many experiments,
arks were alt: moonshine, and J. fecding was always profitable to the fariner.
d that ideal and adopted Aa very | The essay of Gen. Bierce was, on motion

ty Te eeaallya siiesiar He | of Mr. Falor, requested for publication.

a subject. of} disenssion 2. 1 wes
esi to know what subject J could!
hat would either tetérest, or bene
ib.

oof ag a filthy, luzy, pbetinate ani- | Tue following ques! @n was adopted for],
iqpt love or. affectipn.. 1 am .a: general discussion at The next meeting :
bogs—and, if T canngt jastify hen}? wWhich is the more ' profitable to the

cir) actions, F clninm; Grit here is:
be said in th ir favor.

og ix, by nature, vy scavenger, |
pers priate business it is to dispose |.
3 of the kitchen—thereby remov
would otherwise _be- offentive. to:
f msn--and inj ariaug to health: |
fasti vious in his tasie but is- eqnul: | again ou Saturday De

d with cabbage leaves, (nrnip Lops, - es meee
ing, mouldy bread, and-sour milk. Wit + KILLED THAT Fos. —QO last Satur-

ibering up the garb ¢;- often in 8) day C.F, Ingersoll took bis rifle aud.‘parp’
state —Le ia not, it is irue, anf Bt tnd entered the swamp near the old Dodge
3 parlor. compaute, n .- Neither

man: be, if engaged in collectinz | farm near Akron, thinking, the right see,a
aving euch, of-nsive: materials, turkey 5 ‘but bis companion. the (purp) wish-
a state of decofoposition Pe hia’ ed f/f more raré sport, and started a fox.—
wit ipertt cand thepels Bo: more After, swine ‘ing around. the - circle the
fc calilog him. filthy, 'Nhan there is swarny several times, the ‘fox. came t a halt
a woman a slut feriuse she does on a Inrge rock, near where’ Mr. [: was
a si k dress,or chignoes of Greélan standing, ‘waiting and wat itch ing. determin-
: wash “day. The liste. very BeD- ed to Ieive ashot if possit le, aad while the

fox, sit‘on. the .rock q letly and serencly
meditating how he. should tool tha ‘purp,’

«pia | himself” to > the alae and
Mr, I. nervous and trembling, raised his

| rissigned iw
he hizy, Like his. ‘fellow-mon he

musket, f loud report fullawed. aad teynard
twas dead.”

ra living. and haying gota. ‘sufll-

4+ an ear of corn into’ a ye of
cd hungry and see if they ard lazy !

New Poxrace, Noy. 20 » 1871.
— eee — ty

: farmer, to feed all raised onthe farny Org
a0 withont feeding ?” (ity

“S.TL, Pitkin. was continued | as regular,
hossayist and L,.-V. Bierce 2d, as alternate,
after, which the clap. adjourned to’ «meet
cenjber 2d.) :

not do. likewise

u_wijl see hnman nature réted. out “DUDE.

ne, more locky than the rest, gets |
hen the whole drove are after’ him

ticiaus of Nee York ; chasing | 4 2 r
sad Connally. ieiness thers}: ‘Prom Ca SLIFDENEA.—C. ‘ealia? "$q. cad

‘hand nctivity,, Ke is) he! abst I wile, (late Miss: Emniu Oviatt) | arrived in
ihe ald martyr, he bas anopiaion | this city. from California on’ Friday even-

‘and is net to be driven aroun: 1
tea of doctriar.? This’ is adii- |; I ines, only six days from. San Francisco, and

sness in maintaining: his conscivn) are now stopping nt the: home’ of Mra. E.’s
victidas of rightregardléss of dogs, “father, Edward Oviatt,. Eeq., on Walnut
nes deal conseqhérees. | - street. * From the Yreka Journal we lean

son thinks they bare no! ince: ort?
dct him try Js and at catching a Uh, it in addition to visitlog frieniis, here and

Crove where some one of te adults jn the East, Mr. Ely zerton i3 commissioved
ipy metre : ofa’ daze ae juveny, eS ty sceure finds from dailies capitalists to-
Js the ‘peal: o camivity 5 :
r \
Tate wiiote drove. with brates: ™? nrdg inaugu ating 0 ¥reka Tunnel En
1 yaw ping mouths ard alter the’ {yes} te rp} ise, which the “Tousyial Says. ‘cannot
1 the ddofesiic fetietty) «of pigdom, ‘fail tu be a valaable. inyestment too thi 8
Aimee ifiaa wi rye fix than |

Inthe | Taddablé but’ i"
aga exporinie st of tying -opebtog he rithest mining: section on the

sdred wiht: foxes togeth | const.’ Mr. and Mrs. ‘ will be. warm'y
| we leomed by. wll the fornier acquaintances

i an) 1
any human traits tht "3 t. n nad i ia. the ee the iulterin Ubis city. |
ar lo gustain th Darwin theory, §
A Se eee
in commen with all dn imala, bad at) oy
Mrigie; tral iat every: poimabis.a | B & OL EXTEXS1ON , Martens. —ThgN =

i
Hen? of some others bat, ihe Apris /poleon. Signal mike “3 the” iniporiant. wi-
Ve }e pr erg ‘ f the the eth the | ne unceme nt i: at as ‘Mr. Kis: er, Second Vice
zee a devetoperent pF ths pe, tae | Iecisto ' ¢ an
a d-velopment of rthe Chimpanzee | Peeaiont (6 charg ge of She B PHAGES. BN:
Fichota fall development. off ye Oaio extension to Chicag 40, and. Mt. Ran-
Whese the bow tra ciiee oft uml: idotph, Chie f. Eugineer,: paid N: apoleon | A

x}
2

dieing roaches K + Liane Hi tY. Nhe hasty visiton Manday to ¢onfer with Mr.
sedan iy heer Tete fart: from ej ; 1 < ;
‘ : 0
8 in Femina: i appears (a. be yp Sie fic, the (Chairman df the “Napoleon

Lonte re | lhe, uppn, maiters relative. to this preje che
; [They reported that the ‘Idspection ot the

two line’ bY the ofileers of the Company
thtnke pineg id about two wecks, and fo

te eld ment of the Genus
al the modern im; rovements.
loafer wear tings on his fingets?
VCRs them. in ctts) nese, which
h higher Aovetupor at Docs wi
tro wear brigthe ow ‘his. paw? the int tntime they are
sears: bis an his back, which shows! i, np * tn rush > the. mattér with Vigor 18
* foveloprsent.”” Does - the | loafer | ls good As The lineis definitely settled. The

predluctne anvehing, live on the: 7]
ifother people ? fi does the hog. ‘tour of inspection will begin- nt Napoleon,

SYsafer ever confer-a benefit on! wad c xtend to B kb art, and return | ‘hy the

noticed i in rapid counting. In order. to

4a best way i3,to examine carefully every.§ $2

and old citizen of aventa, died at his. ress,

| clear even u
cyusty, ‘in /2fording draigage towards}.

it again deli

making all. pre para-

dons’s 3 age ‘at the tithe of h his: ‘death: was 50

years and | seven months .
“Loox - Oor . FOR: Then,

A ee

ly been putin cireplatian, It? ts said’. it is
diffienlt t o distloguish between the spu-
rious bill aad the genutde, 3 so well bave the
counterfeiters done their’. wotk—the only
weak point being the central figure, which

in: if package, this figure i is not likely to: be

(uid deception n from these boghs bills, « the

mrpenbiek you handle.- eat
Ge a

‘Oub Crrigen Drip. Mr. Gustavus webabe)

idenee on’ “Maia, pttee, | Sunday: morning
last, at 10 o'clock. | Mr; Lane had for some
time been jin a debilitated state, ‘produced
by. paralytic malady, w hich” aftected . ‘his |
meatal as ‘well asjbis physical system. is
age-was sevenly two ‘years. ‘The fun ral |.
took place- Tuesday, November 1 Ath, at l'p.
m. ., and was largely attended, taking into
account ise, storm
hour.— Ravenna

| +.

Democrat.

uae Yee Ne Sle man Seen aN i
‘Masonio ELRorion. —The fullowtng of-
cers. were elected) by Akron’ Commandry,
Kioghts. Templars, ati recent meeting :

O. A. Collins, B) C x T MeEbright,: Gen-
eralissimo ;, -H. b, Kent, | Captain General ;
D, Ly King, Prela @; Ce ‘A: Rotart.: Senior |
Warden; Mi H..Cumr'ne, Junior Warden;
reastjrer;; Ard Kent, Re-
carder; D. Marsball, Standard Bearsr; J. FP.
Smith, Swo Ors James Bardsley, War-
den; William War |, Sentinel; J. B. Hough.
ton, O. C. Barbe “and: Robert Peeves
Gina rds ay

ta Cente C4:

RIAN gday Inet” ba re
a! ‘ed in Cay athog F aid: Jady, by the
name of Mik. Sat aget | Donel Richey; who
had aitaine the remai ble Nekot oue hun- |
dr cod and: t ee fea Bi). The de ‘ceased was 8
native of Ir¢land e had resided’: in: Cuys- |
hoga Falls twenty years, Her | mental fa-
eatties werd much wpa red by ‘age, “though
her religious con clions were remarkably
18 tine of her’ death.
2

oft. D. This valtia=
best. on our exchange |.
seit: to ig renders, in
DB... i Not content,

i {one jmproyement,.

‘ropes with a. hew. dress
ype: 3) that it now
abhidalty: anid editorially,
ure igh 13, press of

H
“ft *

‘tae: oy ISTIAN} |
ble paper, ne of the
list, Jately: present’ :
an elegant new bi
however, it seems, | |
his it
élear |

of beautiful
standa, beth typog

in the front jrank: th
the country, ie 9:

the

— ——— bees,

0. D. A. A the Hio- ‘Dairyman’ 3 Résoct!
ation is to mect in Wellington, oa-the 24th t
day of next . The annual. address,
will be delivered | nce X A. Willard, of
New York, aca will also be deliver.

bil, Presi teat: Fairchild
pais An Joteresting

olby Dr. 4
and Hon. J.)
session is anticipat

+ geal. S ieee el ahs
At is: AiLey!, Rockwel
r/ interes ing. itefn of

rt aides. clumns. We

(2 Not itl be dieg, Helth crab re weoavay of Deni: ‘ince,’ The matter: ig drawhig

par thaniar they difker—the loafer
a hie iife ime— the, hog. after he is wi be our r own foult.?

to @ focus, and jf we don’ 1 ‘get the road, it fer our read rs to

yi what if, is, but! re-

ces of a violated. "}
| counterfeit. $20 greeenback note his recent: |, bs

ig done rather coarsely, —\VYhen_ presented |,

, gentleman (¥ ie

that,” erycalied at Mat

huntiag pit,
offending inf thi
they must dasisto:

in the vicinity}: of the
much annoyed for:
time by 4 certain el
spend (be Sebbath

bunting, en

from G reen

their “hotse |
into the fen

patients complai 3 ;

gallons, ia ori
three’ aes com

‘No at ae the
S

Rev Mall
batanes of ther

“ local and cout
Equitable. Lites
United States: for th

The new busi ‘

ble. advertisement itpeltf.
ojtmn kind, ae
P: }

nov? 2mst

Waker,
‘seryt
yuatyetat)
fame ku fe
: eae: Ys

at +follars eye ‘the: frm
; jee affair ptovedite be on |
iha-alabord rata gowns. the, flowers and Mecorai ba ‘ein the whe!
me who part La at whe attended oF » :;

lee
rau Maa 4 he es for “the

“trader Ppsert Ais eisteat
rer dradic teen - or
fbr whet:

®: selstrvoyar Ber

Chieaks| until recentty, ined i!

goed thing of 2 here

share oot the xwindliog freeeipte: Vath pt

aeed trim e108 to $8. H. he

told Matiay. Hover. Bath's akon ie. te"

ihe weeiteae con fester ee hb Sad
; : the |

ator ea Rebate t.

gk \
‘black, electrocuted Ohio (Montgomery

Tx, prisoaers arehedt iti 4 tot}
the deatheeh inber. bf) the. Ohi
t cere leetrin El

ton; went’
blared: 18 é neat Hurles =,
Als ‘ amembers ‘wees

Nadedy noma. Sut the: remit
et dubai Yor 4 erence to aprtams

ctpteeh aid! Inativer .
eirete ts: chair Bad

‘ rotate, the wads

‘Kae slutty ef. patty

CT hres themed tbe Ane Noite: oureed’:
: Vinkt et 121k he wae

fentented his.) nnecetce,
fated tee tiie agcles alae after
Sis the; de th eel)
Ha entered ee ehbir ot ha and
: te ed paabed | through
rere} dead iat 822345

1 ye net ke Dace Ty deine

was meng Be Lbs leondempey rnen be
with thelr spiritasl attieerg,
ot tae: SVetuatecra
Reed, at Ane
fote they. tt | thefr
‘haig, De. 0. A.. Keeteeey
phyciih, was asrrated ty
eae wey
ARE. CLAIMEDr, ;
Glamreecution was the
gf the: Wit
were CR me f met ee
a, Toledo ‘ oS
Heard ani, s
fyakiaie inthe atten hie:
Lae ve (th. de ott
Rafer terval : Font «
oe sete Teh. et oy
nines} te ght piace tht »
free SPPRUTUAL ADV SERB,” ©
; Le fed. met. et oRe i
- “ir emetic g”
n iw Tape aye rene) ira #
Bs ia haba: ft ee werher spent: tert,
‘ mit
¢) her ee ae pet wrt phen wet see
dst pean, Be. ‘Se ni aie
ily wy “precope tix fe here WD:

County) on December 4, 191).

Here epiripask: adver

prager saat fs

DIETER pRUTION. ans END.
miu ie SATURDAY.§.;

bution ut

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tertelt sxrrnee they ad beh aot Bex { Reha: cpa. thew: vigarure,s FET ROG,

wits igotne. ts soy three eet tik; wee Se ops
:
ahd iis: Pape ee sr Se
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wiser: i: satueod pay. hab Shige bay

°F ghirmszened 44 gente & Na ge ape F ovin fii
: bre Wasi tat t
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re 0 ee ent od thief,
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prapoxat tpt yee bas panied yor
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JOHNSON, Benjamin, black, hanged, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 12, 188),

"Cincinnati, Ohio, 9-12-188)<Benjamin Johnson, colored, was hanged this morning for compli-
city with Allen Ingalls in the mrder of Beverly Taylor and wife and a little girl, near
Avondale, last February. The bodies of the victims of that crime were immediately brought
by Ingalls and Jonson to the Ohio Medical College, and the mrderers received $5 for the
subjects. A week afterwards the bodies were found in the college, and Ingalls and Joknson
were arrested,
"The atrocity of this crime, together with the action of the jury in fixing the grade of
Wm, Bernier's crime at manslaighter, when it was a clear case of mrder in the first degree,
-were potent causes leading to the riot,
"Johnson was attended during the last 15 minutes in his cell by Dr. Joyce alone, ;
"The sheriff read the warrant a few minutes before 10, Johnson listened with a wild look,
but said nothing. He knelt on the scaffold during a very brief prayer, and then made a
short speech, declaring his innocence, and saying that he was prepared to die. Death was
almost instantaneious, and without any peculiar feature. The execution took place in the
jail yard, the scaffold being screened by canvase ;
"HISTORY OF THE’ CRIME,
"The exhcution of Ben Johnson recalls to memory the most horrible tragedy ever recorded in
the history of Cincinnati, In may respects the crime is without a parallel in the United
“tates and the term burking, by which the mrder is known, therefore demands an explanation,
"As the words lynch, boycott and others originated from thenames of men, so did burking and
burker. One Burke, a native of Scotland, many years ago rendered himself infamous and
handed down his name to posterity by murdering persons for the money the sale of their
bodies to medical colleges yielded him, The only difference between him and Ben Johnson
with his accomplice Allen Ingalls is that, while Burke's, victims numbered 21, his mhitators
only killed three persons, The story of Johnson's deed is almost as follows? |
"Situated in a field three ouarters of a mile from Avondale, a village lying just north of
Cincinnati was a long cabin, in which lived a negro family of three - Beverly Taylor, the
aged father, his wife, and an adopted daughter named Eliza Jane Lambert, 1l-ears-of-age,
To outward appearanceit was a poor family, the old man doing odd jobs of whitewashing
and the old woman taking in clothes to wash for their support. But it was said that a smg
~ sum of money was hidden in the cabin, On the night of Feb, 15, 188), the house was dis-
covered to be on fire, As it was some distance from the town of Avondale, no one arrived
until the whole building was ablaze and it burned to the ground. Cuite a number of rmeigh~
bors went to the sceneto aid the old couple in any way -they could, but the inmates could
not be found, For several hours the citizens searched in the smouldering ruins, but not +
even a clue could be learned as to their whereabouts, There were many surmises as to the
fateof the Taylor family, most of them being that the house had been entered by someone
who supposed that therewas money secreted therein, the family mrdered and the bodies either
carried off or burned to ashes with the cabin, Mr, Taylor. had never given any intimation
of going away, and it was generally believed that there was foul play, but under what
circumstances remained to be discovered. Marshal Brown, of Avondale, immediately went to
work on the case, and in less than a week succeeded in learning the true facts and in
ferreting out the perpetrators of a decd that was too schocking to occur to the minds of
those who were interested in the mysterious idsappearance of the inmates of the cabin at
the time of the fire. Brown had, as a last resort, made the rounds of a dissecting room of
the Cincinnati Meidcal College, closely inspecting every corpse, and on tée Thursday, after
the fire he found and positively identified the bodies of the Taylor family in the Ohio
Mddical College on Sixth street, west of Vine. He immediately had .a consultation with the

f coroner and that official ordered the removal of the bodies to the morgue, The same even=
ing Marshal Brown :arrested four colored men, living in Avondale, and had them locked up in
{ the Avondale jail on suspicion of being the guilty parties. Two of the prisoners, Allen

Ingalls and Ben Johnson manifested great nervousness, but stoutly maintained thejr innocencé
After being confined for a while the prisoners made some admissions, and from other sources
the details-of-the dreadful affair were discovered, .

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horrible tales of their expertise in grave robbing, In the Taylor mrder, Johnson and In-
galls, while they performed the butchery, they were not the only ones involved and responsi-

i ble for the mrder. A few days before the, fire, th ere told the, docters to procure
some points, or in plainer terns, dead bodiese >How they were fo We Optained was nb odds

to the collegeofficials; they were in need of subjects for the students and they commissions
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restaurant.

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quietly stopped directly across the tracks of
a railroad spur in the shadow of the great
Niles Tool Works factory in Hamilton, O.
A uniformed man, gun in one hand and a
flashlight in the other, leaped out.

Quickly the shadowy figures froze, tense
and motionless, waiting to see what the
policeman would do,

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moved toward them deliberately and fear-
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parking lot at the rear of the building.
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When the command went unheeded, the
policeman’s .45 roared. It spoke again and
again as it spat fire after the fleeing figure.

But now another gun interrupted with a
lighter sounding salvo, and the factory
buildings slapped the echoes of the battle
back and forth at each other.

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the hunt for the killers.

uncertainly on his feet and staggered across the tracks
where he plunged forward on his face. His gun flew from
his hand in one direction and his flashbeam went rolling
in another. 4

Then all was quiet.

Patrolmen Herschel Seward and Levi Justice, riding
from headquarters to the police garage at 5 a. m., were
discussing the strange fact that Patrolman Arthur Sponsel
had signed off from duty in his radio patrol car at 2:30
that morning, and then had failed to appear at head-
quarters to make out his required reports.

“T’m worried about him,” remarked Justice. “He must
have run into something mighty hot, and couldn’t wait
for help.”

“Yeah, he just rushes into anything... say! There’s
his car! Seward exclaimed suddenly, pointing to a ma-
chine parked across the railroad tracks.

The lights of the auto were still lit when the two officers
pulled to a stop beside it. The two men looked around
quickly in the spreading dawn. Then Justice saw Sponsel’s
body crumpled in the parking lot. The flashlight that had
rolled out of his hand was still glowing feebly.

Justice was beside the body in an instant. After a brief
examination he turned solemnly to his companion.

Dead,” he said leadenly, a note of unbelief in his voice.

Both men stood silent for a moment, gazing at the body.
Then Seward spoke angrily:

“We'll get the rat that did that!”

His pledge before the day was over had been taken up
by the whole police department. The murderers could

ee ee

John Agnew, left, Charles Rose, cen-
ter, and William Hobbs decided that
they needed a little “easy money”
and set out on a robbery. They were
interrupted by a policeman whom
Hobbs shot through the heart, firing
from ambush before the officer had
an opportunity to defend himself.

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not have chosen to kill a man whose
death would have aroused greater ire on
the force.

Arthur Sponsel was the kind of
man any chief would be proud to
have on his foree. T placed unlimited
value on his services. He was intelligent,
fearless and clean clear through. He
never drank, he never used profane lan-
guage. He did not even smoke,

I was stunned when the news was
flashed to my home, and hurried to the
scene,

Dr. Harry F. Deubel, the coroner, was
there almost as soon as I was. Together
we removed Sponsel’s coat. A bullet had
torn through its left side.

“Right through the heart,” said Dr.
Deubel. “Death was instant. He has been
dead a couple of hours,”

Sergeant Herschel Haines, head of the
detective squad, and several of his men
already were combing the scene of the
tragedy.

“Looks like Sponsel tried to stop a rob-
bery,” Haines said. “This
window seeiws to have
been tampered with.”

— Then, closely examining
. the rear corner of the
building, he suddenly be-
gan digging at a bullet
hole in the wood with a
pocket-knife. After a mo-
ment of steady prying
and picking, a slug of
lead fell out,

“Can you tell what caliber it is?” |
asked,

Haines had made something of a study
of ballistics, and after a second’s hesita-
tion, during which he regarded the pellet
rolling in his palm, he said: “It's un-
doubtedly a .32,”

I asked the coroner to extract the death
slug from the body so we could be sure
the two bullets came from the same gun.

“There are powder burns here, too,”
Haines reported after another study of
the woodwork. “The killer must have
been standing right at this corner.”

Examine Deserted Car

I STEPPED around the corner and

sighted to where Sponsel’s body lay.
“Sure,” I said. “The skunk was hiding
here and shot when Art came up. Must
have shot several times and the gun
jumped and plugged the corner of the
building.” Drawing a bead with my own
revolver, I concluded that the slayer
must have stooped or kneeled.

Once more Sergt. Haines called for my
attention. One of his men had been ex-
amining an old auto parked almost at the
steps of the back porch. He pointed to
a wheel lug on the ground. Others lay
close by and two wheels were gone.

“Maybe I was on the wrong track
about burglars trying to force that win-
dow,” Haines said. “Looks as though
Sponsel might have interrupted some car
strippers at work,”

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goodnight
handset. Suddenly a man

kicked
‘the spot well. It was on his beat. He
; through the tree-canopied streets
and entered the warehouse and factory
‘district. He cut the siren and swung
into North Third, sliding silently up to

notonously. Sponsel
: its beam against the restaurant

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motors from

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s of pain and knew he had missed.
* He swung the light from side to side
= as he walked slowly into the alley.

- A man’s desperate panting caught his
‘ear. He pivoted toward the sound and

his torch revealed a squatting
. aiming a gun. Two shots

O., police headquarters at Monument
and High Streets.

’s a policeman lying near the
- railroad tracks on North Third Street,”
said an excited voice. “I think he’s

urned.
The:

“I can’t figure why
come down here,” he said. “It’s not on
the way to the police garage.” ~~

“He was technically off duty after he
called,” said Haines. “But he must have
‘been tipped off about something—may-
be a robbery or holdup.”

“He died with his gun in his hand,” -

Calhoun said. “You may be right.”
Dr. Deubel arose. “He was hit once,
“through the heart.” :
“Can you fix the time of death?”
asked Haines. =
The physician consulted his watch.
“It’s 5:30 now. I’d say he’s been dead
about three hours.”
. “Do you suppose this has any con-

nection with the Blue Goose affair,

? ;
burglars rifling the safe of the Blue
Goose Inn, a popular dining and danc

ing resort on the outskirts of Hamilton: =a
In the gun battle that ensued Sponsel “So.

seriously wounded one man and com

pelled his companion to surrender.
“You mean he may have been lured

here and ambushed?” Calhoun queried.
_“You could be right. We'll see.” =~
The pistol was pried from Sponsel’s

- grip. Two shots had been fired from it.

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could see that the catch-lock inside #
was still intact. Beneath the window
they found the remains of several half-

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last night, j
the smokes.

A close scrutiny of the walls
buildings revealed the embedded slug. 5
Haines removed it from the wood: “I'd =>

“The killer lay in wait here for §*
Sponsel,” Haines deduced. “He wanted 4.
to'make certain he wouldn’t miss, so he

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Hamilton. -
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purchase: gallons
gasoline. The officers had found $164.75

At 2 o’clock a sharp-eyed young man ~
“into Cal cflice flanked by

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Trowbridge had picked up one hat-
tered slug on the floor of the service

Dr. West gave us the results of his post-
mortem examination. Walter had been
shot twice, once in the leg above the knee.
West had found a second bullet in the

two detectives. He was Francis Mc-

Cloor.
“Got an alibi for 2:30 this
Calhoun demanded.

of ’em. é
= “Can you place the time?” asked Cal-
*>~-“] think so. I'd say it was 2:35 to the
dot. Then I heard a motor start up and
ear doors slam. After that it was quiet

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g a crummy joint, and “He was big, heavy-set said

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peaceful spring of 1914, j
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clear away the cobwebs he ’
the.events of the past few days as well .
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Johansen knew he was in Nagasaki.

bawling out by the Norwegian
course the Sheridan made the
berthed. The

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contrived to get his keeper
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the Sheridan. After relieving the be-.
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ing
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GHOST CAR IN WHICH KILLER RODE
Seen by the girl’s father as it streaked through the dawn on its sinister mission—the return of Dorothy’s mutilated
body—this stolen coach, with its bloodstained cushions, was later identified

doned, near the scene of the crime.

were dark—a circumstance that puzzled him, for it was unlike
— of the children to leave their room without turning on a

amp.

Then a screen door on the ground floor closed noisily,

The father stiffened, his affectionate interest in the activi-
ties of his daughters giving way to alarm and resentment. He
associated the disturbance downstairs with a raid which pro-
ps agents had made on the house a few~ hours be-

ore.

Alex ran down to the kitchen, turning on the light as he
went. There was no one in the room A door leading to the
backyard was ajar. A screen outside it had been unhooked.

Selangowski’s eyes went to a clock on the wall. It was
3:45 a. m. y} ;

After a quick look into the yard, he flung himself into a
front room, reaching a window just in time to witness the
departure of a small, gray coach with a long hood.

Speeding south without lights, the car vanished in the
direction of Cherry street, a main thoroughfare with ‘three
Detroit roads at one end and Toledo’s East Side at the
other. -

Satisfied that the intruder had escaped, Alex began a swift
but methodical examination of the dwelling, starting in the
basement. . Nothing in the lower rooms disclosed the purpose
of the invasion, so he returned to the second floor.

Another whimpering cry came from the girls’ bedroom.
Noticing now that their door was partly open, he shouldered
his way inside. The hall lamp enabled him to see the bed in
which it was customary for all of’ his daughters to sleep,
Stella, Dorothy and Leona lying side by side with the baby,
Caroline, at their feet.

He shouted to Stella.

“What do you want, papa?” the little mother of-the family
sat up sleepily. ;

“One of the babies has been crying.”

, Stella felt her way across the bed. “Caroline’s asleep.
Leona—it’s Leona. What ails you? Dorothy—why, where's
Dorothy? She’s gone, papa—gone !”

Little Leona lifted her face from the pillow into which she
had been sobbing. “Man come—man take Dorothy.”

as the death car when it was found, aban-

“Little Man—All Black—No Face’’

LEX rushed over to the bed. “Where was she sleeping?” |

“There at the edge,” said Stella, who-had been nearest
the wall, “Leona was between us,”

“Man take Dorothy,” Leona repeated,
The father picked up the child and tried to soothe her into
telling a coherent story.

: “Little man—all black—no face—all black. Dorothy cried.
cried.” :

Alex was aghast, but tried to think rationally. Perhaps
‘Dorothy had hidden herself _after being frightened by the
prowler,

He searched the room, looking a the bed and into the
closets, i ' :

“Dorothy—” his voice fell to a whisper when he found that
only her clothes remained, lying on the floor where she had
dropped them in undressing. ’

-No longer did'he doubt the truth of Leona’s babyish prattle.
Whether a monster without a face or a masked’ man, the
housebreaker had snatched Dorothy from the midst of her
sisters. The whimpering cry, the steps on the stairs, the slam-
ming screen and passing of the ghost-gray car told the story
of his flight with his victim.

Stumbling down to the front door, Alex stood staring
through the glass, too deeply agitated to decide what to do.
It was 4:05 o’clock—twenty minutes after the kidnapping.

He knew that he should summon the police without delay,
but there was no telephone in the house and he dreaded leay-
ing his remaining \children alone even for the brief time it
would take to run-to the home of his brother-in-law, Joe, three
numbers to the north on the other side of the street.

As Alex nerved himself for a rush to his kinsman’s house a
car flashed into view; coming from the south. A block from
the Selangowski home its headlights went out and it seemed

to lose speed. Then it passed a street lamp and the father’s
heart stood still. . ‘

It was the coach of phantom hue!
' Hope and fear mingled with Alex’s amazement. The return

‘of the mysterious machine could mean almost anything. . The

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Breathlessly detectives watched as Dr. Edmund Paulinski, dental

’ surgeon, fitted a cast of the suspect’s teeth into the cruel fang marks:
on the body of the slain child. Above, Dr. Paulinski with the -
evidence that doomed the killer.

to bed, were torn almost to shreds. Another pair of bloomers,
which her abductor had picked up in the bedroom, probably
for the purpose of stifling her cries, had been wound around
her neck and tied in a knot that pressed her throat. ~

The coroner attributed her death to strangulation, but she
had suffered wounds and internal injuries that might have
proven fatal. She had been ravished and savagely beaten
about the face, several inch-long lacerations appearing above
her eyes. More horrible still, her whole body seemed to have
been bitten and chewed as though by a wolf.

Fangs had almost severed her lips and one ear.

carried the full imprint of upper and lower teeth, A veritable
Dracula had done this awful thing.

As Kreft and the homicide experts studied the revolting
marks more officers arrived. Detectives Bert Dobzyneicki,
Stanley Kina, Walter: Palicki and Joseph Swiatecki looked
and drew back, shuddering. Only Dobzyneicki ventured an-
other glance.

He had noted a peculiarity in the wounds.

Keeping his observations to himself. for the moment, the
Polish detective took part in a brief conference with his
fellow officers. It was obvious to all that they stood beside
the victim of a sex killer—perhaps the infamous “Toledo
clubber” whose reign of terror, beginning in 1922, had seemed
to culminate in the atrocious murder of Lily Croy, a school
teacher, in 1925.

In her
thighs, shoulders and breast were other deep wounds that

Four women had been raped and clubbed to
death by this sadist. No less than a dozen
others had been felled by his blows. In every
case the victim, an adult, had been struck down
from behind while walking alone on a dark
street.

The three-year interval between the Croy
murder and the slaying of little Dorothy and
the wide difference in the technique of the
crimes argued the existence of another thrill
slayer. ‘

Inclining to this view, the officers refused to
be driven into a frantic, city-wide man-hunt,
though the newspapers, on the street with
bulletins almost before the child’s body had
been removed to the undertaking rooms, linked
the new crime with the capture-proof clubber
of other years.

Women had not been safe in the streets then.
Now children were not safe in their beds.
What ailed the police? ...

The city was swept by a wave of hysterical
fear such as had followed the Croy murder.
An actual state of siege had then prevailed,
with porch lights burning through the night,
women arming themselves, movie houses
empty and streets deserted except for volunteer
patrols.

Residents of the Polish settlement revived
Old World superstitions. A werewolf was at
large! A dead man had risen from his grave
to assume a wolf-shape and draw life from the
veins of children!

Asking questions and sorting the answers,
the detectives found much that was purely a
product of hysteria. From Selangowski’s in-
coherent story they drew the conclusion that
the abduction had been carefully planned.

The gray car, they decided, was a Whippet
Six coach, a Willys-Overland model, new, to
the market. Very likely it had been stolen or
the driver would not have risked identification
by turning on the lights and revealing the
license’ number.

Regarded from the viewpoint of the investi-
gators, the fact that the body had been found
at Joe’s house did not seem strange.

The sadist’s histrionic sense, a complement
of his perversion, had led him back to the
scene of the abduction. In building up a dra-
matic situation pleasing to his extreme vanity,
he had planned to leave the murdered child at the father’s
door. The lights in the Selangowski home had frightened
him.

His. choice of the. brother-in-law’s porch as a place of
denouement in the hideous tragedy might have been acci-
dental, but the detectives inclined to a belief that he knew of
the relationship between Joe and Selangowski.

Mystery Of The Locked Door

HIFTING the scene of their investigation to Alex’s
house, the half dozen officers turned first to the doors

and windows. It was immediately established that the child
snatcher had entered as he fled—through the kitchen and
backyard

The screen had been jimmied, but the inner door bore no
marks, though it appeared to have been fastened on the inside
by a night lock.

“Who has the keys to this door?” Detective Hovey asked.

“We have never had a key to it,”'was Alex’s amazing
answer, “When we use it we keep the bolt back. At night or
when we are leaving I spring it. Last night I sprung the
lock and tried the door. The bolt held.”.

Selangowski’s definite statement made one of two things
certain. Either the abductor was a professional burglar,
skilled in picking locks, or a former resident or frequenter of
the house who possessed a key.

STARTLING DETECTIVE

TH!
Conclusi:
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the child’s body had

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safe in their beds.

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ved the Croy ga
e had then prevailed,
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d except for volunteer

sh settlement revived

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risen from his grave
id draw life from the

sorting the answers
h that was purely a
m_ Selangowski’s in-
~ the conclusion that
carefully planned.
ided, was a Whippet
rland model, new to
t had been stolen or
risked identification
and revealing the

THE WEREWOLF’S DEADLY FANGS
Conclusive proof of the monster’s identity was estab-
lished when this dental cast was found to match the
wounds in the child’s body. Note the peculiar slant of
the upper teeth and the missing incisor which smashed
the suspect’s alibi.

point of the investi-
ody had been found
strange.

enseé, a complement
1 him back to the
building up a dra-
his extreme vanity
ald at the father’s
me had frightened

The door knob and other smooth surfaces in and about the
house were examined for fingerprints without result. Dob-
zyneicki interested himself in Leona, who alone had seen the
killer at close quarters. Taking her on his knee, he questioned
her in a fashion to which she responded. readily. On two
points she was quite positive. The kidnaper’s form had béen
small and dark.

By getting her to draw comparisons with objects around
them, the detectives learned that the shadowy shape had been

‘ch as a place of
t have been acci-
of that he knew of

ski.
about five feet tall. :
Joor Dobzyneicki’s partner, Palicki, called him aside and whis-
pered something. Palicki had been acquainted with the

Selangowski family for several years.

The whisper gave the officers something on which to act.
They divided forces and Palicki, with several other members
of the Polish squad, jumped into a waiting speed car. Roar-

gation to Alex's
arst to the doors
led that the child

the kitch }
eae } ing out Cherry street in the direction taken by the kidnaper
ner door bore no i when he'fled with Dorothy, the policemen picked up a youth
‘ned on the inside known to the family.
S : Unable to give a convincing account of his recent move-

ments, this boy was sent to headquarters to be held for further

interrogation.

e Hovey asked.
Dobzyneicki was not much impressed by the case against

Alex’s amazin
ick. At night jn

tht I s ; him.

ren: te “Tt won't hurt to hold the kid a while,” he told his partner,
e of two things “Maybe he'll finger the fellow we want. But he’s got a good TOLEDO’S INFAMOUS DRACULA

. S € ’ 4 ”
‘sstonal burglar on for himself. , : Confronted by the damning evidence of his tooth
or frequenter of : How’s that, Bert? He’s small, has a dark suit and cap marks, this evil-visaged man broke under questioning

and knows the house. He hasn’t much of an alibi.” and confessed the slaying that shocked Toledo.
DE “No, but he has all his teeth,” said the big detective, quietly,
; isk ,
rein’ ADVENTURES : 10

othy’s muti
ila
vas found, fet

‘oO Face”

om she sleeping ?”
lad been nearest

to soothe her into
“ Dorothy cried

| i

| !onally, Pe
Themed By the
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bed and into the

en he found th
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Where she hed

babyish prattle
| asked man, the
e midst of her
| stairs, the slam.
told the story

Stood starin
de what to <
‘idnapping.
Without delay
dreaded leay.
' brief time it
aw, Joe, 2
pe three
nan’s house a
ry from
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th it seemed
€ father’s

The return
‘thing. The
“TECTIVE

<2 PRE TMATIS SEEARIEE

abductor might be bringing back his daughter. Another kid-
naping raid might be attempted. ‘

Uncertain whether he ought to remain indoors or rush to
the street, Selangowski saw the ghost car glide by his house
and skid to a stop at the curb in front of his relative’s
house.

A small man, whose dark suit and cap made him appear as
little more than a shadow, leaped out, crossed a small lawn to

Joe’s porch and deposited a white object of vague size and .

shape. Rid of his burden, he flitted back to the auto, put it
into motion and turned on the lights. -

Yielding now to an impulse to give chase, Alex ran out into
the street. He had a glimpse of the license platé, but could
not memorize the number. Then the car careened around a
corner into Lagrange street.

Finding himself a few yards from his brother-in-law’s house,
Alex shouted to the occupants. No one answered. He mounted
the steps and hammered on the door with both fists. Joe called
from a window that he would come down and a moment later
a porch light blazed. :

‘Alex turned his head and then, with a terrible cry, fell to
his knees. Partly hidden under a railing, but so close to his
feet that he might have stepped on it, was a little body, bloody
and almost entirely naked.

“Dorothy,” the father sobbed, feeling the child’s breast and
wrist.

The body was still warm and bleeding, but the heart no
longer beat.

“Dead—murdered,” Alex told the horrified Joe, who led
him into the house and to the telephone.

The Marks Of The Wolf

N THE shock the father had lost his command of the Eng-
lish language and when he got the Lagrange street police
station on the line he could not explain to the desk sergeant
what had happened. Thus the driver of the ghost car, steering
a course that must have taken him past the station, evaded
certain capture.

Alex finally gave up his attempt to talk to the police by
phorte. His kinsman wakened a neighbor and had him taken
to Central police station.

Meanwhile, the Lagrange street police, having gathered

ADVENTURES

Not until a second stolen car was recovered did the trail of the
midnight fiend lead to this cottage, lair of the Toledo Dracula.

DRACULA SUSPECT
Quickly hustled to headquarters
for questioning, a cousin of the
child swore he knew nothing of
the horrible deed. Was he tell-
ing the truth?

enough from Alex’s words to be seriously concerned, had
traced the call.

Patrolmen Charles Wawrzyniak and Jesse Nickel, dis-
patched to the scene to investigate, had already made their
first report when Alex reached headquarters. He was rushed
back to Palmer street to meet the coroner and detectives of
the homicide and Polish squads, just then being ordered to
the spot from their homes.

The murdered child was still lying face ‘down on the porch.
Coroner Kreft and Detectives Frank DeLora and John Hovey,
aces of the homicide squad, lifted the blanket with which the
patrolmen had screened the body from the view of a gathering
crowd.

DeLora’s breath went out through tight lips. “My God!”

The little girl’s bloomers and shirt, in which she had gone

the killer of Patrolman Sherman. and
Sergeant Hoffman.

Then all of a sudden Shields was nab-
bed while attempting a robbery in the
Ohio city. Sergeant Murphy made copious
notes while Shields, bargaining for a light.
sentence, recounted several jobs Lord and
Charles had done, including’ murder.

Shields didn’t know Charles last name,

nor his wife’s maiden name. All he knew, -

he insisted, was that the youth’s wife’s
first. name was Irene, and that she had
recently given birth to a baby in a Chi-
cago hospital, Detective Murphy listened
closely and made copious notes.

Next morning the Cleveland detective

“Who?” Dobsy asked. “Who, Alex?
Who took her away?” '

“TI don’t know,” the grief-stricken fa-
ther replied brokenly.- “But I can’t find
her. Leona saw him take her away.”

More worried than he was willing to
admit, with thoughts of the mad beast of
Toledo in the back of his mind, Detec-
tive Dobzenicki accompanied by DeLora,
Wawrzyniak, Hovey and Nickel drove to
the Szelagowski home at 147 Palmer Ave.
There they found the children awake and
waiting on the front porch for their
father’s return,

Dobsy ushered them quickly into’ the
living room, out of the cold morning air.
Then he turned to Alex. “Where were the
children sleeping?” he asked.

His four girls, Szelagowski explained,
had occupied a room on the. second floor;
Raymond, his eleven year old son, had
slept downstairs with him,

Dobsy walked over to little five-year-
old Leona who sat huddled in a corner
of the rcom. He took her small.trembling
hand in his own. “Did you see the man
take Dorothy away?” he asked gently.

Her eyes were wide, and frightened,
“Yes, Uncle Bert,” she whispered.

“Who was he, honey?”

She shook her head. “I don’t know.
It was too dark tg see, Uncle Bert.”

While Hovey, Wawryzyniak and Nickel
left the house to search the neighbor-
hood, Dobsy and DeLora, followed by
Szelagowski, went upstairs to examine the
bedrcom.

There the detectives, away from the

anxicus, worried glances of the young:.

sters, pumped the haggard father for more
information. He was awakened, he told
them, by the cries of Leona. Rushing up-
stairs, he found her in tears.

“Dorothy,” Leona had cried, “a man
tcok Dcrothy away.” Dorothy, he saw,

‘60 oY

was at Chicago. eric. pebianet In
his potket reposed tellfale ballistic ‘tests
to repudiate alibis.’

And that was’ foleney. A bit of check-
ing: gave the young mother’s last name—
Hanovich—and the‘youth’s Chicago ad-
dress, Charles, a cooperative young man,
promptly told Murphy where: Lord’ was
and signed a formal confession to his
six years of murderous activity,

Old Lord, on the other hand; refused:
to confirm anything Charles said. ‘But
hundreds ‘of witnesses’ to his atracious
brutality, backed® by infallible. ballistic
tests with guns found in his possession
were adequate for Prosecutor Ray T.

was “missing from the bed, In
ness of the early morning, he heard the

motor of a car start up in front pf the:
house. Running to the’ window, he peered '

‘out just as it drove away. In the dark-
ness the car appeared to be painted. black,
but he couldn’t be sure,

DeLora and Dobsy walked over to the
windows, They. were locked. “Was a win-
dow open when, you got upstairs?” De-
Lora questioned. *

“No,” Szelagowski shook his head em-

phatically, “My “boy, Raymond, Jocks all .

the doors and windows, avery night.”

detectives meat ‘from. room to
room checking the windows, Each one,
they ‘found, was still. tightly .. latched.
Downstairs, too, they found the. windows
locked. In the ‘rear ‘of the house, how-
ever, they found the screen door unlatch-
ed, It wasa simple hook ‘affair, gasily
lifted out of place with a piece of thin
cardbcard or a knife, '

They called eleven-year-old panna

into the living room, ;Shown the open
screen door,. the lad said he was certain
he had’ secured the latch’ before going to
bed. No member of the family. had open-*
ed that door since, /

As the officers conlaaad ceigetlane:| ‘Dob-

sy’s eyes were thoughtful. Dorothy,. he ©

reflected, had been stolen from. her bed
in a darkened house, The bedroom’ was
situated on the second floor. It could be
reached only by, climbing a steep stair-

way and ‘making a sharp turn. , 2
“Whoever kidnaped Dorothy,” " Dobsy

said, “must have’ been’ familiar with the °

arrangement of the house. He could nev-
er find his way around in the’ dark with-
~out' sti and’ waking the: family.”
Detective Wawrzyniak entered, ‘his face
grim. ‘The ‘officer beckoned him aside.
“We found ed ‘kid, ” be whisperedn He

itable .

“No Girl Was Safe In Toledo

(Continued from pose 31)

the still- ?

Miller to bring the killers to separate.

trials.’

The trial ‘of the trio of desperadoes
was only a mere formality. Shields was

given a long prison sentence for his co- -

operation.” Lord’s conviction was inev-
ont . death was the jury’s verdict.
Then on June 28, 1930, Lord kept the
rendezvoys Judge Baer set for him wie

-Ohio’s electric chair,

Judge ‘Phillips considered Hanovich’s
youth and the evil influence Lord had ex-
erjed in twisting his life. Then he sen-
tenced:the boy: to a life sentence in Ohio
Penitentiary where, in late 1930, he tald
me the story that I have set down here.

shook his head ahd looked away. “She's
dead; Looks ‘like more of the clubber’s:
work,’ . I

Dobsy:: paled visibly. Seven-year-old
‘Dorothy had been his favorite niece. Now
she was.dead, murdered by the same
fiend who had already taken ‘the lives of
four women, ©

He’ was a ‘detective, He was supposed
to be’ ‘cold-blooded about such things. But

. it was difficult for him ‘to keep his voice ’

steady: and he ‘asked; “Where is. she?”

“Across the street—on somebody’s,
porch.”

John Skibioski; another relative, he re-_
called, lived’ directly acrojs the street.
He hurried from the house, the others
at hig heels.:‘The first flutter of daylight
had disturbed the brooding blackness of
night. |

It was, Dobsy ‘saw, indeed,. the bien
of John Skibinski. A cluster of men were
gathered there on the porch. One man

- was kneeling beside a white bundle that

lay. very. still, and quiet. ‘Reaching the
porch, Dobsy recognized the small life-
less form .of: innocent Dorothy.

’' He took one look at her mangled, torn

body with its mute evidence of the ter- °

rible death she mad suffered, and he turned
anny;

man beside the body was Colinia:

Frank G, Kreft. His skillful fingers
were busily probing the still figure. Be-
side him, dressed in his pajamas, stood
John Skibinski; his hands over his. eyes
‘as if striving to close the awful sight
from his mind, He was crying audibly. '
A, young. woman reporter, her eyes filled
with tears, stood a few feet from them

and scribbled tapidly in’ a’ small black
notebook.

Dr. Kreft nodded grimly. “It’s the
clubber,” he said broodingly. “It’s the

]

work of the

sa pointec
where deep \
“She was str
head, possibl;
lieve they rer
and may hav
Tl know mor
the autopsy.”

“Was she—

ay Coroner Kr

up. “Of cours:

“Look,” he
impressions 0:
g0 deep, obvi
bites.” He pai
set of marking
“Now you will
a slender finge
child, “that t
the upper row

Miss. Margre
Toledo Blade, |
stared soberly

“Those teetl
“they’re horrib

“Horrible,” D

“Isn't it pos:
used to find the
can’t be too m
ticular tooth n
town might be

“We'll have
those markings,’

Under the dir
the body of lit
was removed to

At headquarté
Chief. of Dete
them about a «
‘ceived by police
stolen car, a Stu
taken the night
of a home on
blocks from the ‘

“The killer wo:
car,” Haas told t
may have somett

He glanced do
desk. ‘‘Here’s so

: dence perhaps—t

from a Stanley
name, spelled wit!
I wonder ; . .” }

' reflectively,

_ “It’s no coincid
ly. “Sialagowski is

’ tle crows’-feet wri

they didn’t know
“Meaning?” Ha:
“I don’t know,’
voice was worried
Dobsy was puz:
_ did the: missing Sia
~ the murder of litth

’ have taken the car

vicious dogs?

illers to separate

He pointed to the. sides of her head’ + £&M°a woman called" police headquarters
io of desperadoes where deep wounds were plainly visible. , to report & strange car parked in. front
iality, Shields was “She was struck several times about the of her home 243 Weber Street. “I, would-
atence for his co- - -, head, possibly by the -killer’s fists..I be- n’t have bothered you,” she said, “but— ©
viction was inev- lieve they rendered the child unconscious -well—I ‘went out to go shopping and |
the jury’s verdict. and may have been the cause of death. happened to glance inside, There are
330, Lord kept the I'll know more definitely after I perform large red splotches on the upholstery. A

: set for him with the autopsy.” ° _ think—maybe—it’s blood... ;
, “Was she—?” Dobsy asked, eae: It was not, "however, the ‘Sialagowski
idered Hanovich’s Coroner Kreft nodded without ’ looking car, It was''a Whippet. Coach reported
uence Lord had ex- up. “Of course,” he said bitterly. stolen, at. almost’ the. same ‘time from

life. Then he sen-
fe sentence in Ohio
late 1930, he told
ave set down here.

looked away. “She’s

ore of the clubber’s '

ibly. Seven-year-old
3 favorite niece. ‘Now

bout such things. But

iim to keep his voice

d; “Where is. she?”

eet—on somebody’s,

A.
|

work of the clubber.. No doubt of that,” »

“Look,” he added. “You will’ \notice,

: impressions of teeth in’ the’ flesh: They

g eeP, obviously the result ‘of Vicious -

” He paused a moment to select a
a “ot markings that: was especially ‘clear,
“Now you will note,” he pointed out with: ;
a slender finger. that barely. touched the .
child, “that there is a blank ‘space in’

_' the. upper row of teeth. Off hand it would’

appear. to be, the. incisor tooth -that is
missing.”

Miss Margrete Daney, reporter for, the
Toleda Blade, bit her lips nervously, and:
stared soberly at the officers.

“Those teeth marks,”’:she. spores
“they're horrible.”

“Isn't, it possible that’ they’ Might be
used to: find the killer?” she asked,.“"There -
can’t be too many, men with that; par- )
ticular tooth missing. The dentists’ in»
town might be able to help.” »

“We'll have a plaster: cast’ made ot:
those markings,” Dobsy assured her.

Under the direction of Coroner Kreft,
the. body of little Dorothy Seclagownki
was removed to the morgue.

At headquarters, they ‘talked it over.

Re ey aee

‘ent i: * te +e \
ie T ‘eleveno’clock that’ same morning,

the’ Willys. Overland plant parking’ area.
- The back’ seat’ and floor mat just
below it:wer# soaked with blood, Several
_long strands’ of blond hair were. discov-
“ered fixed by ‘gore’ to’, the ‘upholstery,
and: one’ of | the:, windows ‘bore. a group

of ‘sullen red. streaks‘ drawn, it appéared, .

-by the:palr’ and. fingers-of a child’s hand.
It .was, without .a doubt, the ‘murder
Cat, It was towed to the police laboratory
to be examined by. skilled .tecHnicians
thor: fingerprints, ‘and any \other evidence

. which might» aid- the sleuths in their ef-.,

forts to identify the killer. =
.., Then, suddenly, they grim’ riddle had
“added: mystery. .

Investigating | the stolen Whippet Coach,
~ taken. from the lot of the Overland plant,

‘the watchman. shook his head in puzzle-

‘ment. “I. don’t think it was stolen; it’s
_ more’ liké someoné just traded cars!”

He led them to a parkéd éar/in the -

“cornet, “Someone. took the Whippet,” he

—” said. "Then he left this one!” .
Dobsy took oné lock at it and whistled ‘

softly. It was the Sialagowski Studebaker.
_ The inside of the car, he noted quick-

4
:

o] s spotlessly clean.. The was
Chief. of Detectives Louis Haas told . sieve the tgnttoh, He ticked on.
them about a call which had been re- He stared for a moment at the motion-
-ceived by police. It was a report.on a less ‘figure of the gas gauge and. knew
stolen car, a Studebaker, which had been | why the’ car had béen abandoned. The
taken: the night before from the garage tank was bone ‘ary!
of a home on Elm Street, just a few.’ \. Dobsy was puzzled. The crime had been
blocks from the Szelagowski home. . ‘committed in ‘the’ car which’ had been
ane killer wouldn't have used his own stolen during the night from the Willys
,” Haas told them thoughtfully. “This Qverland parking area. It was on this
shed have something to do with it.”.- . same lot that ’the Sialagowski car had
_ He glanced down at the report on his. heen discovered;® °\: ;
desk. ““Here’s something else—a coinci- °° Dobsy decided to” have: a! talk with ©
. dence perhaps—but the car was stolen © Sialagowski’at his home; It proved futile.
from a Stanley Sialagowski .. . same The. mani could ffer,‘no further, informa-
_. name, spelled with an, ‘i’ instead of a ‘2.’ tion -beyond that which Dobsy had al-. /
I wonder ;'. .”-his voice: fropped: aay: teady: deduced, The. dogs. had .been on
' reflectively, ied the "premises the ‘preceding night. No
“It’s no coincidence,” Dobsy. said ott. . )strangér could have approached the car,
‘ly. “Sialagowski. is another, relative.” Lit-: “he said, without the ‘dogs: growling and
‘tle crows’-feet wrinkles formed under his | ” fovling. wag a thystery to me,” Siala- #
eyes. “He keeps a couple of mean dogs . gowski. shrugged, =. I
on his place. They wouldn’t let anyone.) Nearly half a ‘block: from” the. ‘Shita-
they didn’t know get near that garage.” |. gowski home, ‘lived’ Charles Hoppe,* a
“Meaning?” Haas asked, . _ .__distanit-cousin of the littlé blénde-headed
"I don’t know,” Dobsy. admited, His” _ victim. On the’ ‘bare chance that he might
voice was worried. Bs have ‘heard “something which’ might’ be
Dobsy was puzzled. What: connection of help, Dobsy decided to talk to him.
‘did the missing Sialagowski car have with A winsome young woman answered his

rother relative, he re-.
ly across the street.
he house, the others
rst flutter of daylight
orooding blackness of

aw, indeed, the aces

A cluster of men were

the porch. One man

e a white bundle that ow
quiet. Reaching the :

gnized the small life-

ent Dorothy. a

k at her mangled, torn , 4

e evidence of the ter- ° t

suffered, and he turned

is hands over his.eyes
close the awful sight ‘
ie was crying audibly. F.
reporter, her eyes filled i
a few feet from them 4h
oidly in’ a’ small black q

the murder of little Dorothy?’ Who could ‘knock at the door, one ‘hand ‘brushing at
have taken the car without disturbing the: “her eyes, the other outstretched in’ greet-
vicious dogs?

jded grimly. “It’s the

1 broodingly. “It’s the _ ing. It was evident ‘she had ‘been crying.

Re NOISIER Oe sent ts Mt OG

Sein

tia eats

1e was criminally

completely fruit-
1 might have any

a what he could
es, he stated, and
engaged in church

Cunckel School.
ionary, and it was
ses at the Univer
ne from one such

sd from Michigan
1 a city roused to
; clubber. Private
rd for his capture,
posted by the city
i criminal.

{ nights, a sex-mad

He struck for the first time on the warm, clear night of May
24th. Pretty, dark-haired, Emma Hatfield walked slowly home-
ward through the shadowy streets near her home.

She had only a block more to'go when he leaped out at her.
The scream in her throat was almost; instantly cut off by a pair
of powerful hands that locked around her slim neck. As the
cry died almost before it began, her attacker struck her repeat-

’ edly over the head until she slumped to the ground unconscious.

He dragged her then into the bushes where she was criminally
attacked. Bleeding, beaten, helpless, she lay there whimpering
while her attacker disappeared into the blackness of night.

Later, much later, she crawled on her hands and knees out
to the sidewalk and screamed for help, A passing motorist pick-
ed her up and drove her to the nearest hospital.

She was unable to describe her assailant. He had struck her
from behind, she said, and she had-not caught even a glimpse of
him. Emma. Hatfield never recovered from the shock of her
horrible experience. She died four months later on the 9th of
September.

And the long night of horror was'on in Toledo, Ohio—a night
that lasted for more than two years while a madman ran amock,
and death walked on every side street.

On the 21st of August, Mrs. Lydia Baumgartner fell victim
to his crimson lust. Her mutilated body, showing the crushing

—in her own back yard, police found the bloodied corpse of
Mrs. Mary. Handley.

The marks of sadistic torture and cruel clubbing—the trade-

-mark of Toledo’s Monster of Murder—were horribly evident.

Under the direction of quiet mannered, hard working Haas,
police went all-out in an effort to trap the vicious mauler. Half
the entire force was taken out of the uniformed ranks and, in
plain clothes, patrolled the streets nightly.

Every known criminal and degenerate was picked up for
questioning. Wherever hoodlums were known to congregate, in
-poolrooms, bars and night spots with shady reputations, detec-
tives. prowled. Anyone hauled to the lockup on any charge was
questioned in connection with the three killings.

Every cleaning establishment in the city was ordered to report
immediately to police any bloody garments they received. Citi-
zens were asked «to notify police of any men bearing noticeable

scratches on the chance that: the victin had been able to de-
fend herself.

IHEN the attacker struck again.

His twenty-four year old victim, whose life was mercifully
spared, told police she had regained consciousness as she was
being dragged toward a cluster of trees. “I don’t think he had
any teeth,” she shuddered. ‘His mouth looked empty. But I can’t

This cast of the killer's upper front teeth
fitted marks left by the killer on a victim.

bruises of a hammer clubbing, was discovered only three blocks
from the scene of his first attack.

Lydia Baumgartner was dead when police. arrived.

And no one, it seemed, had heard any screams; no one had
caught a glimpse of him as he crept behind the bushes to am-:
bush the innocent woman.

The police found a blood-stained wooden mallet behind the
bushes. Laboratory tests proved that the blood matched that of
the victim. But attempts to find any fingerprints on the club
resulted in failure.

“He’s crazy,” Chief of Detectiyes Louis Haas told ne offi-
cers. ““He’s crazy like a fox.”

A demented, perverted, sex-mad killer, he had yet ail cun-
ning enough to either wipe any fingerprints from the weapon,
or to wear gloves.

Police files were checked for known perverts and sex offend-
ers. An unceasing parade of such suspects were hauled to head-
quarters, grilled, their stories caretly investigated and te-
leased.

Toledo police were, they wy without a clue!

Hope that the rapist’s unnatural appetite had been sated was
shattered in the first month of the new year. Then—on the 19th

be sure. Maybe just some of his front teeth were missing.”

Total results, after every possible lead had been run down,
were nil.

Then beautiful Lily Croy was struck down—beaten, crim-
inally assaulted and murdered.

Frantic police were helpless. Two hundred extra plainclothes-
men were added to the police force. Hastily organized citizens’
vigilante committees patrolled the streets. Women were warned
to stay away from dark, lonely areas, and not to go out at night

. unescorted, “No woman in Toledo is safe,” the Safety. Director

warned, “until this monster in our midst is captured.”

His most shockingly brutal handiwork was yet to come.

On the morning of May 29th, 1928, a frantic father burst
into the Erie Street Police Station.

“My Dorothy, my little Dorothy has been kidnaped,” he cried.

Detective Bert Dobzenicki—affectionately called “Dobsy” by
his friends and associates—recognized the man as Alex Szela-
gowski, his brother-in-law. His eyes were worried as he hurried
to his side. “Take it easy, Alex,” he said, He signalled Frank
DeLora to bring up a chair. “What’s happened?”

“Dorothy is gone—kidnaped. Someone took her away while
we were. sleeping.” (Continued on page 60)

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| of his half-sister’s activities. She had no enemies, he state ‘ - bushes, Li
| had little to do with men. She spent her time engaged in : sik dus victim
i activities, and taught the Sth grade pupils at Cunckel chool. resulte d is
| It was her intention to become a foreign missionary, and tl He's ;
| with this in mind that she attended night classes at the ring cers. “He
i sity of Toledo, She had been on her way home from one suc A deme
/ class when death had come. ning enou
| NSPECTOR Louis Haas, hastily summoned from Michigan Police f
where he had been vacationing, arrived in a city roused to ers. An ur
io ' fury by the latest outrage of the merciless clubber. Private quarters,
i , A | citizens had pledged a total of $12,000 reward for his capture, a
dead or alive. It was the largest sum ever posted. by the city Te ‘ ° |
1 qj J D a reporter working of Toledo for the apprehension of a — ag aia Pe pe ;
ain Tipe. uae ca tinpactant suggestion In Toledo, Ohio, in ee dark, dread-filled nights, |
on the case, ; “ .
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One of Rreeman's brothers and his father were inmate§ of the
insane asglum in Athens. His mother died 11 years before. His
parents were divorced in 1916 ( Ray was 7 at the time). There
were 5 obhildren in the family. He was employed last winter on the

CwA/

Ray Freeman had some relatives waiting outside at the execution,
They were Mrs, Maggie Napper, sister; Wilfred Freeman, brother;
G, A, Napper, cousin and William Napper, brother- in-law.

None of Thackers relatives were present.

Both bodies were taken to Hawk's station by Undertaker Strong and
a @ouble funeral was held Saturday Nov. 24, 1934. They were
executed Nov. 22, 1934,

I hope this will be of some help to you. If there is anything
further I aan check, let mm me know.

Sincerely,

et. Coie he. bbe

Mrs. Alice Lauderback -

Mrs Alice Lauderbac
RG. FF Box 202A

Beaver Ohio 45613
Aug. 25, 1982

Watt Espy

Law Library

Box 6205 7
University, Al. 35486

Dear Mr, Espy,

I located the death records on Willian Jones, Luke Jones, and
John W. Jackson. This is the information I got from then.
William Jones, age 25,; occupation, miner; born Jackson Co,

lived in Coalton, Jackson Co., Ohio; hanged for the murder of
Anderson Lackey.

Luke Jones, age 23; occupation, miner; born in Jackson Co.,; lived
in Coalton, Jackson Co., Ohio; hanged for the murder of Anderson

Lackey, '

Both of tthese deaths were recorded as navin;, taken place on
Feb. 29, 1884, They were both white men.

John W., Jackson, age 22; born Jackson Co.,; occupation, peddler;.
lived Jackson Co.; race, white. Record didn't state the crime,

I couldn't find anything on Laban Stevens.

We recently acquired some old newspapers covering the 1930/s.
From June 4 (when Ray Freeman and Herbert Thacker committed their
crime) till Nov. 2 ¢ when the 2 men were executed) the newspapers
were full of articles covering the trial,‘ete.

From these articles , I have tried to extract the infromation you
want, ea

Ray Freeman and Herbert Thacker on June 4, 1934 brutally beat the
allegedly wealthy Stephen Huntley, age 74, to death with shotgun
stocks in the backyard of his farm in Milton township. ‘Two days
later they were arrested and confessed to Sheriff W. P. Turner.
The clothing Thacker wore when the crime was committed was the
chief clue leading to the arrest. All Freeman ‘and Thacker got

from Huntley was $23.

They were tried in July and Thacker was quickly convicted but it
was necessary to give Freeman two trials before he was sentenced

to the chair.

The execution of Thacker and Freeman marked the first time that
persons were ever sentenced to the chair from Jackson County.
Their deaths also marked the first death sentence of any kind
that had been imposed by local courts since 51 years ago when

the Jones boys were hanged.

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JACKSON, John W., white, hanged Jackson, Ohio, 5-11-1883,

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Jackson County Genealogical Sociéty
P*’0, Box 807

Jackson, Ohio 45640

May 19, 1982

Watt Espy

Law Library

Box 6205

University, Al. 35486

Dear Mir. Espy,

I have checked all the sources I could find for executions prior
‘ to 1885 in Jackson County. There doesn't seem to be any that
| you don't already have, namely; John w.: Jackson, hanged May ll,
1883; Luke and William Jones, brothers, both hanged on Feb. 29,
1884; Laban Stevens, hanged on May 23, 1884,

If there is anything else I can check for you, I'll try to do so.

Sincerely,

Mrs, Alice Lauderback
Secretary

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and they formed a plot to mrder the Taylor family, Everything was arranged, an expressman
named Dixon was engaged for the might, -and on Friday evening, the time set for the. bloody
_ work, the negroes stole quietly to the house, armed with clubs. It did not take long to gain
-admittance, for the family had not retired, and after entering it was-the work,.of but a few
minutescto crack the skulls of the old man and his wife and mirder the child in the same.
manner, As soon as the murderers were satisfied that their victims were dead, they carried
the mangled corpsesto the wagaon which was in waiting nearby, and put them in large cloth
sacks brought for the purpose, They then returned to the cabin and set if on fire, after
which they hurried back to the wagaon and were driven to the college. It was late when they
arrived at the entrance and they were enabled to take out the sacks and carry them into the
< building without exciting any suspicions, The dissecting room is on the fifth floor and
the corpses were still warm and bleeding when taken,out of the sacks and turned over to Dr.
Cilley, Nothing was said about where or how the points were obtained, but the mrderers
demanded the $50 apiece which had been promised them, Dr. Cilley paid Ingalls $20 and
Johnson $15 and told them that they should have the balance in a few days, and they left,
"The action of the medical college provoked very critical comment on the part.of the local
press, but there were no legal proceedings against the officials, After the prisoners were
transferred from Avondale to the county jail in Cincinnati, Ingalls became very MARWX uneasy
and the riot almost scared him to death. Johnson's cell was attacked by the rioters the
first night, and the door was about to give way under the repeated blows of the plank when
whe militia and police drovethe mob from the corridor, The nervous fear wich Ingalls
suffered preyed upon his mind to.such an extent that early in the morning of April 30 he
cut a strip off his blanket, wound it round his neck and then tightened it until he was
strangled to death, In the latter part of May Jognson was convicted of, mrder in the first
degree and a few days afterward sentenced to be hung Septmber 12, Governor Hoadley refused
to interfere in the case, Johnson was morose and despondent during his imprisonment, . He
was utterly devoid of any feeling, and exhibited but little remosse over his murder or fear
of his fate," |

DAILY NEWS, Galveston, Texas, September 13, 188) (2h).

"Cincinnati, Feb. 22, 188)j-An examination of the bodies of the Taylor family, found in the
Ohio Medical College, show that all three had been murdered, all the bodies showing unmis-
takable signs of violence, the skulls of Taylor and wife being fractured, Whether the fami-
ly was murdered for money or the dissecting table is not known, but the general beliéf is
that: they were killed for the latter purpose. The house where Taylor lived was a desloate
spot, half a mile from any neighbor, Allen Ingalls, Jeff Lout, Richard Ingalls and Ben.
Johnson, all colored, and residing in the vicinity of the murder, have been arrested, sus@-
pected of being the perpetrators of the crime, Marshal Brown, of Avondale, has been the
means of discovering the bodies of the Taylor family in the Ohio Medical College, and caus-
ing the arrest of the four colored men named.as the mrderers. The bodies were received at
the Medical College Friday night, Dr. Cilly,, deomstrator of anatomy, says he knows the
men who brought the bodies ‘to the college, but does not know their names, as such business
is always done with as little ceremony as possible., He had no suspicion they were murdered
until Marshal Brown identified them, and he found their skulls crushed, The colored men
arrested are not openly known to be resurrectionists, but there has been uncertainty about
how one of them supported himself, The examination begins at Avondale tomorrow, ichard
Ingalls, one of the men arrested, has mde a statement tonight to the effect that John
larris, a man he never knew until last Friday, engaged him at 5 in the afternoon to assist
in taking the bodies to the Medical college, and fixed the place of meeting on the turnpike
at 9 o'clock, They met, and shortly after a man with a wagon came along wiom he does not
Know, They drove a short distance, when Karris pointed out. the bodies in a fence-correr

in sacks. As soon as the wagon was loaded, all started back to the city, but harris stopped
inthe wagon and was gone half an hour, He came back running. and the cabin on fire was
then seen, They drove to the college, delivered the bodies and got their pay. Taylor, the
murdered man, was formerly.a resurrectionist and Ingalls was his parter. The name of one
of the prisoners, given as Lout should he Rout." NEWS, Galveston, Texas, 2=23=188) (li/Le)

“Cincinnati, Feb. 23, 188-The examination of the parties charged with the murder of Beverly
Taylor and wife and Eliza J, Caambert, an adopted .child, whose bodies were sold ‘to the Ohio

Medical College the night of the murder, was: held at Avondale thismorning before Mayor

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JOHN SON, Benjamin, hanged at Cincinnati, Ohio - Continued, |

Strickland. The testimony included the statement of R, B, Dixon, express driver, who said ©
: he was employed by Allen Ingalls on the night of the murder to do some hauling; that Ingalls
and another colored man met him at an appointed place, and he hauled three bodies in sacks
to the Ohio Medical College, He recognized Allen Ingalls and Ben j@hnson as the men who
put the bodies in the wagon, Dr, Cilley, demorstrator of anatomy in the Ohio Medical Coll-
ege, testified that Allen Ingalls and another man brought the bodies, and that he regarded
Ingalls as a resurrectionist, but refused to testify to any other cases where Ingalls had |
” sold bodies to the college. Ben Johnson pleaded guilty, but Allen Ingalls remained defiant, |
He and Johnson were held for murder in the first degree, Richard Ingalls and Jeff Rout
were discharged." NEWS, Galveston, Texas, 2-2))-188) (li/le)

"Cincinnati, 2-2))-188)-The funeral at Avondale townhall at 3 o'clock this afternoon, of
Beverly Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, man and wife, and Eliza Jane Lambert, their granddaughter,
lasted over two hours, Over 1,000 persons were present, one-fourth of whom were the best
white citizens of Avondale, Several of the clergy spoke = all colored except Rev, Joseph
Emory, city missionary. [Emory spoke first, and said these criminals, by the law of God,
deserved no mercy, Theirs was acrime wiich deserved summary punishment without resort
to the courts by the citizens taking the law into their own hands, These remarks were
greeted with shouts, in which white and black joined. Elder R, W. Scott, colored, was the
next speaker, He said the plea of insanity might be urged for these criminals, but he
thought the best treatment for them was a stout rope and the nearest lamp=-post. Then he
went on to say: 'Do they deserve mercy? Did they show any? Did they show mercy when they
knocked out Elizabeth Taylor's brains? Did they show mercy when they beat down that helples
Little girl, or when they knoced old Beverly Taylor in the head, pleading for mercy?! To
each of these questions, the audience respond&d with a thunderous 'No}!

"Resolutions werepassed thaning the officers and denouncing the crimes, One resolution read:
'Resolved, that searching and untiring investigation be continued to develop if there be any
complicity with themen who bought the bodies,' The bodies were viewed when the funeral
services ended, They were taken to the colored people's cemetery, west of the city, and
locked in a vault, Allen Ingalls and Ben Johnson, prisoners in jail, contradicted each
other's stories, Johnson is sullen, but Ingalls talks freely. Johnson has said Ingalls
did the clubbing, :

"Last night the result was made known of a long conversation in jail, between Allen Ingalls
and Marshall Brown, in which the whole story of the killing of the Taylor family was told. —
Ingalls, for a long time, resisted all attempts to get the facts from him, but finnally, |
saying,'l am gone anyhows I know you will be good to my family when I'm dead, I'11 tell
you the truth,'recited the horrible details, He said that Friday morning Ben Johnson, who ©
lives with him, said to him that he had three points for thatnight; he explained that the
points were sbujects for the Medical college, He asked Johnson where they were, Johnson
replied, the three people at the Taylor cabin on the hill, They are no good, We can knock |
them on he head, Ingalls said he agreed and went to the Ohio Medical College and told
them he would have three subjects that night. They agreed to pay him $15 each and gave
him a note to expressman R, B. Dixon, He went to the expressman and engaged him to meet
them on Nvondale Pike at 9 that night, Then he went home and, after dark, he and johnson |
started to Taylor's, They had a bottle of whisky, took drinks and felt good, The door was
not locked. They bolted in, The old man was sitting by the side of the fireplace, his
wife in front, and the girl at work in the room, Johnson had a locust club, a little longer
than a policeman's club, He began striking them over the head, right and left, as he

f would cattle, The woman struggled and offered resistance, Irmallls says he finally choked

her to death, Johnson easily disposed of the others with his club, Then they stripped the

\ bodies, put them in sacks which they brought along, and carried them to the roadside and wen
: to meet the wagon, Loading them in, they drove to the Ohio Medical College and delivered

them and got pay. Ingalls says he knows nothing about the firing of the cabin, It 8s s ta-
ted tonight that a mob of 60 negroes was organized last night to lynch these men, but found
Avondale jail too well guarded, Ingalls and Johnson are in Cincinnati jail tonight, Ingall
confesses he has stolen several bodies in the past few months from the new cemetery beyond
Avondale and sold them to the Ohio Medical College." NEWS, Galveston, 2-25-188) (1-5.)

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ar the famous «manure bill
+ when they ‘conie up this’ eve-,

“Slock! train 10: witness the execution| Ring. It is understood + that he! i ing se ter?
Johwsong, Werle. Harmon’ and Na | made. ‘arrangements over the ae e

rie, the ring-leaders ‘in the attempt} today for president of equncil, H. S
to estape from the* ~Annex were Grimes to hear the uses, Me:
taken back ¢. the ‘annex’from = che Grimes being the acting Mmmyor.
«) sotitany 7 department © “Wednesdert 7”
- cloning. "The sprivileges of all thay Bur ow are terete hn saat
. tondemned mén willbe.” beprtapesy
jn the future and they. Swill be raneb
i pues. irksome than, formerlly
Tt ia: conjectured that, now, as
‘they sec they eantiot! ‘poraibly Oa ta
“cape they, may attempt in. theie’des-|

cowilt have little ‘chance 5 I Neng: fut re

“to do any harms <i
The The ‘confeadton! ¢Souneons hats

i proviviona and cattle seized by Kus

: * “Datch” “Fiber! planned ' ‘the ol gins.” Fighting continuous ge fe

tempt at ‘escape: Tuesday” mornin, sult was not known by Soanaree
“haw caused him to be considered tha, or ea

* Tokia: ” une 17 Si toad ae eun:
Doneding, ie: off Maceaks near Bag

“will be “kept » vunder prtlenlarty

close eee es re x

“Rey: Henry ite “pastor “of j
ithe: Seednd Baptist: ‘church, colored{
owns at the -altex: Thursday to offer!

jill

toi ihe Ww “Betaite of sitik-

o tas good as ther could hare!
) <'.to -Mosea} ing: of transports coming in © from’ were 00
“spiritual consolation: : SdetticHil, Chat kclk-atnkisg. the Boer 1"! due dahie Burt
the : Saturday! etgine room, killed two. hundred: SYOANS b- Wi BERINSL ARYONS §
; eee Magloc ees converta{ men. Commander of the troops or.| #4 trust that when T pay the pen-

: by Chaplain Starr: and Father Kel dered. the flag burned and then kill.

e i ta kiccehbvele’s came to tha o@ himself,» Second mate commit
noe Rate i ected och time, tedsuicide, © Many of the crew and ing you for. all-your kindness to me and

iT Young: town|: Aroopa } escaped - on. hoats., ‘Trans-
pe carbine Hiner ‘hia, wit was) ports: Sado’ is being towed to. near-

by ; badly: dan Fewa
ate cistropeleg rs once ad t: 12:07. pote ae a cong eal Farewell and may God bless you

4 aquadron, , Admiral Rammure “43] is the sincere wide of

| til ehading the enemy. see ae

You will fim dit a
ime “Landon, June ie dapmneds toni

oe and very.)

h te your pi
“fit ton investigate the bnainem tion is advised Russian sqtindron was

os sporition offered by the Seeur- sight ff Oki indanedt yesterdays
ity Savings Bank and ‘Trost €9.| tight edad

te, iy Yea can easily earn) a» your, vaca Moses: Johoson Dies: Tonight

ateel rial gee & Red of hia electrocution,” in the

J Oke) Stare Journal, at 5: M0, tomor-
‘pow jnorning

bute fall are citing prices.

1 land mee ee sete emer se

| NASH DYING

and I ean’t understand how com-|
parative straneors as you ‘were ed :
yy. me,. could treat me like you have T «fs

Chefon, Sou ane Gaashond si. ide ced teed ae siitearehy truek: mai
Chinese arrived today from Port! you will prosper in your labor for or o
Arther.. Were ordered out and eli! the unfortimate and you will reap pan;

! F
pa for J hee

“bim Friday morning in the follow

). Py Columbus, 0. Fane 16,704 *°
mais Sirs:—In response to your| of .
kind letter, I wish to thank you for.
your. masterly efforts in my case.
TF am positive that you did all 3a FO
your power.to help me, and pen or
word fail to express my gratifade
to you. © I'had almost lost faith
in human nature. unt I met yous

dohe. ; ° gour
-Yours must he indecd a noble pro-; ior:
fexsion to try and help men withoss Hal!

your reward in the near future. othe i

My brother has just errived hero yoo ie
who will take care of my boly and The
my. min] is easy and’ I will die -) "Sau
‘toe right spirit. + amo:

T have no fear of death’ as T, pure
firmly believe T will go to a better by. :
world. ‘Think kindly of me snd. sepa
remember that my chances in ifs spon

alty of the law, I will have paid
by debt to society; Acnin thank=2'S

an] trusting you are well, T wil) Coie
close, wishing you all prosperity | Ine
hannines¢ and success. the

MOSES JOHNSON. The

aration Shoes at Winters.’ “ty

SEE SA

~ George Malone pasacs ;
Krick in the race for the most Pr

lar male sho¢worker, The vo"

wellvover a thousand and sooo’ :
Visidn eandidutey got cone! :
the deat of, it. v5 Were th i Po

’ - :
tho 6f increase earricd

rs
j Y

mE ie

stumbled over his prostrate dorm
for peeupants of the * house 7 end} other
neighbors terrorized by the soond Of) excm
hots. and the turmoil dared n0%) them
‘venture out. | Still finding signs of} over,
life, Teat was. hurriedly placed it
i) patrol, died on the wey to the hoe
pital: 2a
— nent ie artemis ee te
“(Continued on Fourth page.)

SS Ut was juet striking _ midvigat} through the body,’ and then the fiv:
oe ah si Warden RK. Ae ‘Hershey. re] physicians agreed that Johnaon ws
f qyonted the thirty Wee wore whe} dead. ye 8 Agena Cas
wore fo witness the oxtoution = to} By the time Johnson wae pronoune.
form ti! line, nd march po thea: ped dead. twenty minutca had eb peel’
rex room, where oll way in rond:-| There sedined to be gore thing: wrote.

{onest forthe execution: SEP) abbiit ‘the eleciFieal apparatus,
< ¥en ‘will plense ‘wath Ae auiietly| the same aconce practically that at
“pe possible eo pa mot tO: Aieturb the] tended.| the exechtion’ of Michael):
apher prismiers, amd you will call Schiller wine fepeated. | Uenallyit: : oh ae a aoe geese eee
Wave your Cigars tno thie | roam.” ja conily necesmey to dend. the ear Altend Haas. Schwarte & Co's
id the warden, ond then he head- rent> throught the. body once, and areat suit sale. ‘
Sed the “Procewion: fh mo thas death l that kettles the fate’ of the -victin: aes EPERERT
ee fo ond bot Friday night, it took five shock :| Mexican Hand Carved
at Wada past forniddiately the physicians mnaiies \ Chattclaine bazs, for 8100; SE.5°

The Jong corridor 4

¢
ctheVeells where | inscriptions O64? their adnnonneement the’ peetaters) Jeather wrist bows From 8150 '
| Leen, Joby Morgen end his’ friends] filed out of the rorm, During the} £4.00 traveling bigt for $224 fey
oeteeenn were confined, liad: been © Seeredt 20 minutes taat Johuada wae in (be Rud, We are cle ong ou! our en: : Ld
‘ -witn a thick borer of paw xe that prirécthere had not been hardly 9) tire line of pubscs nd bare, at enst if
completely *muttied the: tread ot thet eound. Ft was Fo still, that ernie! and tepe'g j

spectators. Not’ it word (Was pos “you ranld hare beard.a pin drop Seay 415 Chillicothe
in ‘aa the spectators) filed ante tho} ° Brother Claims Body Diy covliter eae
execution moom. apa were: © TAME ee
abet » the doetrie: ebair By. the
orden. Ranh: deh, Die

Promotie annex: ~eame |

“Waiti its) : se, PRET = tie

Re ee kine ene ee ee + Mr. and Mes. Clarence Mirphy, of
sf Sean? nee had oie Tndiana, nre visiting Mre. Murphs's'5
Se eRsiieville, Ves ito tee) be yin Mr. and dirs. Ford Dodds |
tl gaaree of the Temeines.- This bry) 5, M

sounds ot sons £ollowed by. fer-| ther ix 4 Pullman’ palace ‘ear evn :
L vent “Anjens. ceed ( hen: Moses} ductor- oifke hid talked. frecly ot rides ans Sipe ess fs li tpeaay 5
Johset” Gime into the ‘re in led by) the affair to théae at the prison say [> “pe

xperta-| ing “that. Mose had been’ the blac<:

tions, Johoson was edal and “wati- | sheer: of tha family, eonsisting of
: f, five brothers and ne sister.

tairied his remarkable merre.: | Hit} ounself, f ret n ”
“aioe yr eta Boat Attend Hang Schwartc & Co's ig is
3) reside at Charlotteatille) ) It wes wa aes selets ; eiterte
learned from thevbrother, foo, thet ERE ORO a night. fe
Afoue had once been séiit to the Me: Closing Ont when |

rylind. penitentiary for burglary All our fine Jeather purses, wrist] - :
gud, that he had made good his €3 bags, traveling bags, at cost; now Cut t q

cape. Pe Beane eae F iy your chance to buy a.fine parse
Mosezhad an interview — with his for the Sze’ price you pay fpr a ‘Ar ee x
brother, Friday, morning, : and had chessp one. Stop aiid look at our} to Co % 4
told him that he did nat care where} Windows softs ereha Fs 4
hie body was buried, x0 the doctors : Otto Zoellner & Bro ; ay 4
iid not get hold of it: He said to pie 415 -Chillicothe: St-| sary ea
Se ee hae Ranta Columbou, Oeste ecctn ary tren eta \
inOld Virginia, he did mot cate Childten’s crush ‘ats and eaps. to Prove
which. _ } : bere oe suit ‘all uges, at Lehman's, : Comp a {
“Sst i" Johnson ate heartily ‘Friday, ant E #

secon Pm F sou \agreed to see. Chaplain Start : 4
-) raised the black: nrask. of the pentientiaryy, and. thé Jaiter! The biggest single b: oh ee
8000. ready to’ #djust ites ‘Warder remained with him until the exect= week cad oh of ahs whet vk bet é 7
_(: Mershey’s voice broke tion. hour arrived. 0 history of the great contest was poll Nave

5 go| Friday-evening, he was sent’ a fine — s
busity| meal by the wardens wife.» The ei *
wirden, “himself ate with Johnsor, :
! ey at, his request. After eating Jon : :
1

«cli hectiathe

*
“The Porteniouth ‘men tn wttend- It was potty well-divided tos; an?) Chota 7
ance at the exbiaitian® were Sheriff while gains ere shown, there is-nent i
Fred Ketter, Mayor Creed Milatend, deposed from the positions deld yes | POPU
his soo-in-tew, RJ. Williams, ‘© f terday,
: et) flenvy Chine is

The thing that{-~ POPULAR UTITIZER. 1
all, was the appar | Daniel Shakespeare. =. Se ATS]: Nowe
Let pitas of © Uae wectiel: Edina Willies: -++ Seevagoo1s, D., Te

: the ,horrifyimg. features, one woul) J. Sudenfeld ../, +--+. 593) de

(you © ope ae fo ‘attendant upon such te] Barton Pepe asc cvwe ed coana FO), 3
for only & 4) een tions. | «By fa: etrtain. however. Wiliam Sellards i {isin ail po

at. ee of those, from Paru-} > Mike Stanton, Jv... c.cv e030" ;

wha, were, ptvseot (Friday) Blick Lackerman .. ., Al ¢
hare ay Geeure ta, see 887) © Howard Cadot .020.5 2.194] a
ee Re ia { Ge

POPULAR CLERK. p RE

“6 “A?

pects however. em to.) Bintia Watkina ..0.1.. +
“msirked pleamery im Suacutista} Marne a yn, Pn eee oer
e mas beets Frifisy night, tat Th sect Katte cis eee

3 i Pal C. Young... oy .-2<- ni ky

.
tear Pera rt
ee

err |

et steers pone

cepeltdidleceal ee
compres oc, tien tnen nn Nn mt

i eee ae om oe

ee 4
a ates oe
a¥°4 “ni i
i re

jar tein icel dees ;

Ges bare) * Raters PN) ae
Ms ged. Sewy ee 8 wert?
Sir gra ane ade Rete the tral wy
oie Het has Pond ; Fae iteniens = $
Y eid a patra e ‘

ee 38 CoNrIDENT, State Board : ot Parl

ONS ck in. Ate:
(tery Par fee eta en, ae eel

haa fein, Ouijtre +)
1 Tinareiay’ atinreke’ that he ak” Peamae Ht ha Therths Labs
pronfideet the som Sade rear bth MS Sha Prager WAS OTS d
, Siew, Friun the tet Cree ee i at
“eto he hack, she 3
plier, et

A aloenee oss wore Te om td
eae, Pema sty
ay ea» wart only

Pd
ae tg el

a eA
ine

an, Win’ nat treat ay

Pinal ee = fee a ca a sisf
| Septembep, it, IR coin cto et And oer Rot Ue Mids EME Abe MBG adE beent Oo Sh

here at once,

a}: meme aoe a teacher in the Portamasth pub:
i SATIN SUPPORTERS. uy MY Interfere fic} schools’ for a number of: years, Neg ig ya §

me meen ci

CA) AO A I J

‘With either two'or four drape te gad who was re-elocted’ for. next

worth 25c, Liqnidation sale price year recently, will re shun her pe- ’ a8 75.

z pens sition, Miss ° Angle | reer veal

; ut 8.00 aan. tomorrow. ~ The Murderer t of Wa: ‘Test Gaal Thursday morning that ate : we 4
3 Pad the Hlecric Chair, a phe so thad been elected to a position int. Comfortable Under ve

i the “Piqua, Ohio publie schools, “ Boys and Chi! ie
~ ye and Chitdren'#
; BACK ON DECK

}A& hoe: ‘relatives all) Screside in ok a:
Piqha she prefers to teaeh in that bitch |

ty Tlealthy Woking and. weighing 14 -| hérifriends will regretto Jearn of |”

ey forty pounds mores. than when gat} scenes: enmtet her ea sto. leave: “ Ports-F

“the left Portsmouth two mouths | walhe of. the panit mouth, = rep na

bs Scctementastectetestedl

ths night, almost -» fully recovered. demned * eee THE “PAVING

a ee

from Richmond, Va.’ Wednesday} drenof Mi
iig{ fPenY the effects of | aw illness
nd{ that for a time seemed certain to} > Schiller: will; be eatitad ing ‘ —— }
my. | Pesult in his death. on Friday morning of next week. on The” ear ae git }
én} dir. Larew left a private hos- He was eonyicted.. Mahoning} paving of Findlay street ;
o| pital at Richmond on Sunday and! eonnty of the mrnder was, finished . Thursday moraing. EERE ms 4
hry {came here for a bricf. visit, not Schiller. pnt: up, a fight mae, “) Work will begin Saturday onthe H ey ;
intending to resume his duties. a8] but” ‘there ne, hope, for nimi west ¢nd of the: Fourth — street omes atl) Sell at

pardons ag sewer. A gang of twenty-iye
“| men will be put on there. Fifty} .
ré eevaret men are engaged on the upper; 2 Public Auctio

end’ of ies Bh street. improve-
e = yeh rye om

INS & We claim agent for another

in month. The best of mied Pa? at-| 5
Re.} tention ‘and treatorent and. hiay
to(OWn gallant fight for life pulled
cfg} the young man _thronsh. Aside
from oeeasional © pains in thes
side from the operation he under}
elle} Went, he does not experience;
|} the slighest effects” “of his long

vag} Hiness. His remarkably fine ap-j "|
aj. Pearance wag — both surprisins
and gratifying. to Bis ae ores. of
Ropamonth friends, ° ie

By River'Route._
, Pwo Vinkuden \ vem fe beh
i t| papetmen came down the ate

in @ large Indian eanoe Wednert
day evening and ‘remained here
pi. Over night. They are ery td

Rubberéd Too Yous We denne to eall special
“The steamer Greenland ‘passed tation t4 the auction sale >

P| ‘up. Thoraday morning with’ a Saturday afternoon at 2:30 of

. Yrom St. Louis to Pittsbury. The} « This ix a splendid opparta:

J hoat a few weeks ayo sarried an { for pérsotis to seetire a hoax

yexenraion party. to the World's their own price and op lony 3

Pair. Wharfntnkter Thos. > Pot: } prents.* OAs the houses > ar:

some bills ated tabhered n few sirable one, it world be wel!

willed out with him «till on deck [or a he ine of their owa to iv ie a

The-indiced the Captain. to” make tigate.

another>tanding at the foot ef} All five’ of the cottuces By

York place ta Jet hin off [xor¥ ad comfortable Jitthe 5:

yf the World's Fair at Bt Loui}
iat. ( and started at the bead “of the, if eat onntaeni geo) flues aiid Have all othe we
ae Alleghy ny Fiver three weekw ago, 2 alled "aur George's my est convenienees. .
ket ae ae ee g 1-9 Polied visited” fete: Peni’ say AcE a

adloon ThiFaday aftertioon to ind Great Liquidation ® Bale at
# { Teryon % toon. vtule 3

tglcht pe lovk, muah ee alhnEye tay

A a s*

WHITE DUCK HA HATS. p Partner 2
oe ual ah: iorerth. eu titted ley, the, (Nawthy cle SEE that a shoot

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> PORTSMOUTH, OHIO. ~

) SATU

Woses Johnson Sees no Terror in the Beyond
and in Almost Cheery Spirits He Takes te
oi His Se

Scioto county sent
tim to the. eleetria’ ¢
night when Moses Jol

ored merderer of Bdward Test was
_* emeeuned 05a) Rie tae Gpkialis Sh,
There seemed to be something} Good-bye all,” came the firm reply.
out of géar somewhere ind the. ele: 5
“Gicity did not kill” Johnson. 1s

quickly as it should ha

it generally dues, “thw y) ¢eurren’
had to ‘de turtied on, five “tin Bobs:
fore the |, physicians; pronounce
Jobnson dead. (567 aks tea Ato

~~ About the wsnal vised ‘crowd ‘wit: pt site twitth, then all was over, so
essed the execution. | “The spéeta:t aie 8
tore gathered at the lobby Of the} 1760 volis passed through Johnson's
“Warden's | oftice between’ eleven o-
| Clock and ‘midnight, +

to feel the preaence

bs “4 of; dea
men stood about ip little
"diseassing in hushed tones, the mia:
who was to die and. the ~..erime

“that be had committed

ede the Procomion: to

. Midnieht March’ |.
It was just ‘atriking: midnigat
when Warden’ E. A. Hetehey = re-
quested the thirty. OF More whe
were ty. witness ‘the execution —.
form iy linc, ‘snd. march to: the

nex, room. where alk way
sone for the executiva.
“You will. please walk

reem,,

The long potildee that’

the eelly where inse

Gen. Joby Morgan mand his friend
cere. confined, had bien’ covered

Wits @ thick Ioyer of

completely mnufted the tread of the

*bectatora. Noe’ ay
8 as the apectitorn

Shrution ¥éom, and werg.
tlre the eloetria hair, by
i kt cy

Ward, ts

7 te tgs

With Unatering Step in Wis. Wal
/ andReady Smile on His Lip

$ 3

Sinha
>

at in’ the Electric Chair.
ta Bisa Gea a

het
hair Friday

stillness of the room. as
“Mores: Johnson, “have you any
thing to°say before the sentence of
the aw is carried out?” he anid,
; “Nothin. Good-bye, Mr. Ketter,

husdm. the el

Lane.

> Five Foll Shocks

“Toe Warden raised his hand, anc
the mask was fitted over Johnson's
face. © The’ Warden turned — the
switch, and’ ns the electric current
si + inte dobnson, he gave sa con

ve done, or a4

Was his suffering wag concerned!
boily, for. some ‘sevei or éight see-
ouds, and then the current was turn.
ed off, and ® doctor inadd a brief es-
amiation of Johnson, “Hig heart
still beats,” he said, and ouce more
the current was turned on. Twiro
this was ‘repcated, without the doc
tors being able to say that Johnson
was dead. A fifty time, it was ser:
through the body, and then the fiv«
physicians ‘agreed that Johnson wis
dead A WN cor
tof By the time Johnson was pronounce:
aed dead, twenty minutes had él; pset’
There seemed to be something wrens
fabout. the clectrieal “apparatus, ..
'} the “some scenes practically that at-
the} tended ‘the execution” of Michart
will”. Schiller wees repeated, Ueually, it
is rode,” is mnly “uocessary to send thé eas]
them heyniheas rene thrtught the body once, and
“the © -death| that nettles the fate of the victini.
ay bat Friday night, it took five ehock ;
— Tinmediately the physicians mane
their annonneement the peetators
filed out of the room,» During the
20 minutes that Johhain wae tethe
chair. there hie Dot been hardly
sound, Tt wits wo still that™traly
ord waa epokfyou eonkd hate shoard a pin drop

filed into the) =~" Beothet Claims Body
Rangel cues bos oa

thy}. Waiting oy
nf t's Paxotiy’

Alt ‘meemed
math ~ and
‘groups,

oe |

Toads. post
riptions «nav

kaw dost that
ides Was bh, aadertak

ah. thet, tow. was “ft

€

) heather wrist Ings

executions (hat dohnson had: aaked
fur bim, or eulled hin hy name~
Jerry’ Williams. — 11 is. certain
that Johnsou “tid nothing of thy
kind, but Williams > tela everyborly
that he did © and seemed happ st i
the notoriety he was working up for
himsett. t ;

~ Story of the:Crime
The erimne. for which Moces Jolyi'
son paid the death penalty by tle
trocution was oie of the most athe
cious in the criminal annals of
Southern: Ohio. .
blooded aiid brutal murder of, > Ed-

the night of Orwber Rae § ds Se ee ah

Test, an agent of tae Western
and Southern fusurince conmipyyy
was engaged in-collecting — weekbv)
Premiums on policies held by” seen:
pants of the “Boot-heel.”a © Weal ®

attacked ‘by Johnson ~~ and Rufis
Burchum; hig white — companies
They, in their intoxiested condition
mistook thé purpose of his
Finding him in tee room of Mrs
Sarah Cullom, “the Negro’s forme: t
inistress, was the signal for trouble
The waman refused-té admit them

ihe tw battered down the deor and,

the surprised agent's > breast.

but finally sinking exhausted! to ths!
floor. ‘The demons dragged bim ow
and down the stairg to the sidewalk
where Test made another &truszle ft
defend himself. Suddenly
stots rang out, fred in rapid suc
session and Tést reeled and. fell in 4;
hetp,-fatally shot and bleeding {rors
® dozen knife wounds He Was not
discovered there until ; av oficer! 5
stumbled -over his prostrate form
for-pceupants Of the | howea @ud
neighbors terrorized by the:soand of
shots and the turmoil dared not
Venture out, Still finding siena of
life, Tost waa hurriedly placed iz,
a patrol, died on the way to the hoa
pital,

“(Continued on Fourth page.)

to Attond “Haag ° Schwartd & Co's
@reut suit sale :
; ——
Mexican Hand Curved
Uhattolaine baz; for $100) 8: om
Frome 81.50 fo!

Utia Zockuer 4 t

a : aN
Mrs ad Mrs Claret 0
Furia, ate visite

Fn ne ee tance array note

years. He claimed after list night's How's

ward Test, an insurance agent, oy ¢

Frenzied and wild with jealous, rage T fiasrg

burst ite the room, Johnson ‘brats
dishing a knife, which he sank into: Burt S|

furious struggle tnusued the agent} Rai si
fighting with superhuman strengtha Ge Te ¢

with lea’
from t

proceed
three 8 hebuy

Real B;

ort ogy
other ¢
OX. tr
them t
over,

Fine )

for S20
hogs. wi
for #14:

sntire
ae

eld 4

Tt was the evlil. Milk Re

From
JOMpAD

Erne:

the De! fam
will stam

f his f.

Front. street tenement house, when, Ing the

Aceors

PYrinnine
visit | paditiei:
Catinty y

aching

Lew
at

;

Mri a

We.
eather

Milk R.

Frei

Cenpa

Cut
& H

F400 traveling bags for SyS0°1 | Mem
2.00; oWe re hing Oy offf om j The
tite Hing vf purse Gad bas at Oy pete
aud lee “ee cake

ta: 45 (oly y

ee ee

epee fees eorers emt eee?
oobtiee: 2g

stl sage TE A 3

the sities of tha: Clerk of sin!
1 af Education of dhe City of:
sespoath, Obs, watit 1238 M.
iB idy, 3 ae S75, 1D for Ce aa

abe aid Istor, requiped “for 10 roped amd

work and for each peparat
E dintingt trade oF mechatical
af, Recessnry fop erecting >n‘t
‘pletaig » four {4) room brick
thon On the northeast corner af
“Union Street Building of said

y, fer the Board ef Fducation] oF the’fonl and waprovoked murder
so incensed the’ Gotmmunity >that

gatoered at the south end

cjote bridge “awaiting the
ith the 3 captured

the City ef Portsmouth, Oho,
ording to the plans and specifies-

f ut the offee of A. B. Alyet
i Son, Architects, Portsmovia
io

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many. friends
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learn with re-
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Cook and sister,
Portsmouth, were
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William and H
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F. C. Lewis, No. 5 W- ‘Fourth Stig
HL. Frowine, 415 “Chillicothe street
William Gooden, 19 1-3 Gallia St.
John Linck, Gallia street

> WL Water, 708. Chillicothe St.
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Thos. Goff,. Gallia street

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threats made: by the fag ce © Mr. and Mra. Floyd Spears, and
membering his, Y oe little. non, “Farry Earl, pasacd last
open the doqr., The

Sunday — swith, : Dogwood. Ridge
pet A sage {.Portamouth,

ty! 9: ODee: ‘red. Lang, ° ortsmouth, was
knife, The frat sho p Beet bY ii this locality, Tuesday, looking
Burcham, wha alone wis armed With] a Prob business interests, and call.

a revolver. 4 Sohnson. Pirin the ing. on ‘old-time friends,
pistol from him with. tha: remark }* “Ae mumber of carpenters’ are
“dfere give it to me, “| busy rey a large new home
‘Bell on his —. Pine

whee j Creck farm, The ‘building ~~ will
nat Thea pe f ily, Teme mber be one hundred’ feet long by’ fit:
ed PCAs. voilence were: opens a, feet
ly heard, ait the? Epil Fecling {6 ty feet wide, and twenty-two fee

in heighth: one’ of the largest on
xerds OF ne resulted in mpeody Pine’ Creek: They are rushing

aro forced an’ entrance’
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trek day 8.

and acquaintanees in this section.
J phpson gary the Sail attaches! Fred Essman. and sister, Miss
ner so mich frouble, that he was, Callie, were calling on relatives
Vhusiied of Columbas a few houre 2teiotoville where Miss Gay Ess-
| ag fter*the death sentence had been) man is alarmingly ill.

anniiced he wheld not ae werka,y sojourning with | relatives

‘| Pronvuneed. A planned eacape was} Leo, Riepenhoff claims he kill-

frustrated by the discosery? of awe) fed the largest snake that he has
that. had both Sud tegled to him iy) ever seen in this section ~ of: the
outsiders _. | ¢ountry., The reptile he. says,
After a. ig sae imprisonment, measured six feet in length.

| in the penitentiary annexe Negro} Miss Louisa Simon, ‘of Turkey {
shéned « religions torn of mind and, Foot, spent a’ week among Goose
remained a fairly mode] prisoner Up! | Creek friends. ©

toa few days.ge when by a mye-|, A number af tworkmen are asl:
derons assault upon his guard he led) ly engaged im building a large
if. the attempted CASEDS “from tae new barn, : for’ George AD Bell,
aging x. a At which: they wish to have complet:

Tittle was kudwn eas -of Jobr- ed by harvest, time. ~ 0) |:

tel. He hod eome hera from Tron Run, is niuch elated over the ar-
tnonly a-week before. \: Hewat ot) pival of a boyncing big girl, at
ove time employed as a” _ substitute: his home; a few days ago.
Pollman ear portey on the | ©.& Of . Miss Katie and Minnie: Mootz,
railway and was for roiny years sta.) of Sheldon's Run, spent: last Sun-
tien Lagzage master at Washington, , day..aaweek, 28 pleasant. guests
Do CL After* the death: of his wid- “Het the "Milsses Wheeler, ‘on Bish,
heed mother in West Virginia, he: town.
drifedto the Ohio Valley. and en: Mr. and. Mrs. 7 Speke Sdaned
Ever “T uncon his caraer of roekleas-) Gunday a week, “among South

*s. falling victim to the drink hab | yWoneror friends. and ipelat Wek!

it He followed the river aa 3] The house that is being -built
shantyboatman and by acquaintances’ for Jacob Gleim, by Carpenter

‘sane, by the #

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Fritz. Dill, 816 Chillicothe strost
E. ©. Lewis, No. 5 W. Fourth St.j-
IE. Frowine, 416 Chillicothe street
William. Gooden 19 1-2 Gallia St,
John Linck, Gallia street
. Will’ Water, "203 Chillicothe St.
Gus Wherman, 190 E. Ninth
Thos. Goff, Gallia street
Gib Campbell, Eqst End .
Edward Washington, W. Second St! 9 Ti
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EF. James, Amann’s Pharmacy ~
‘Mat Mahl, corner seth & niger
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escape’ “with a. hfe sentence. | John-) pose of. getting: oes sd harvest —— 4
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Passion

Medical monsters lay in wait for girls
and women who loved not wisely but
too well.

For a price, they offered the aid of

illicit love. But their clinics were
houses of death and their science
was murderous.

Read the details of this amazing true
story in the December issue of DAR-
ING DETECTIVE under the title:

PASSION VICTIMS

AND THE

DOCTORS OF DEATH

Also featured in the same thrilling
“| AVENGED MY HUSBAND'S
MURDER”

In this stirring tale a woman
deputy sheriff tells how she
helped to trap the gangster-
killers of her husband and bring

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Other features include:

CASE OF THE INNOCENT MUR-
DERESS

MARYLAND'S RIDDLE OF THE
PHANTOM CRACKSMAN

DARING DETECTIVE

Now on Sale

Vict ys!

science to eliminate the penalties of.

them before the bar of justice. :

thieves. It was reported that a local
hoodlum named William Hobbs had been
doing some petty stealing in company
of Vincent Rose, a young punk from out
of town. ;

“Know anything about Hobbs?” I
asked Haines.

“Hobbs?” the sergeant pondered the
name. “Sounds familiar, but I can’t quite
place it.”

He rose and went to look in the
records. But before he had gone far
one of the desk men said:

“Hobbs is that fellow you had in about

‘a year ago with what you thought was a
‘stolen gun. Don’t you reniember?”

“Oh, that fellow! Say! If I’m not
mistaken, that gun was a_ .32,” said
Haines.

' “What became of it?” I asked.

“We had to give it back to him; he was
able to prove it was his own gun.”

“Sounds like he might be a good bet
to look up, all right,” I said. “Better get
some one to see what he has been doing.”

The sergeant decided not to approach
Hobbs directly, but to talk casually to
people who might know him. Then, if
his movements of the murder night were
a well accounted for, he would shadow

im.

What we knew of Hobbs and could
find out quickly did not indicate he was
the kind for that sort of a job. He was
more the shiftless than desperate type.
But we were nearing the end of our rope.

Gave Gun To Woman

FEW hours later the sergeant called
me.

“This looks good,” he said, “Hobbs has
been drinking heavily since Monday
morning. We've been watching him and
we've got a good lead. He left that gun
with a woman. I want to know whether
he’s got it back.”

“I'd like to talk with the woman, too,”
I said.

The woman was nervous when we
reached her house.

“You've got a .32 revolver,” I said

“No,. I haven't,”
“Honest.” .

“Might as well come clean,” Sergeant
Haines said. “We know William Hobbs
gave you his gun.”

“But I gave it back to him!”

“When?”

She looked at us, frightened, but was
silent a moment.

“You'd better tell the truth,” I advised.

“All right. I gave it back to him Sun-
day night.”

“Why?”

“He asked for it. He was drunk.”

Stiff questioning brought out that
Hobbs had said he was “going out to get
some money and if anyone gets in the
way we'll do some shooting.”

“What did he mean, ‘we’?”

“There were two other men outside.
I didn’t know them. Honest, I didn’t.”

We soon were satisfied she was telling
the truth. By the time we left she was so
badly frightened, however, that we were

she ° protested.

‘ convinced she would not warn Hobbs.

“Anyway,” I said, “we are going to
have some one on his trail from now until
he leads us to his accomplices.”

Hobbs was not an_ experienced
enough criminal to suspect anything.
Autos were parked innocently near
his house. hen he left an auto al-
“pl moved along just within sight of

im,

Sometimes it was Haines, sometimes
one of his men who followed him by car.
I took turns at the wheel myself. He
was never out of our sight from Thursday
until Monday except when he was home
in bed.

He had a visitor Friday, a man. I
won’t mention his name as we subse-
quently found he was not involved in the
crime. But at first we thought he was an
accomplice.

A good deal of the time after that he
and his friend were at beer joints. Then
they went to the home of the mother of
Hobbs’ wife. From there they hauled
some household stuff to his home.

Sergt. Haines called me on Saturday to
report after a stretch of shadowing.

“They seem to be packing up and
getting ready to skip,” he said. “Had we
better nab them?”

“No, wait a while,” I decided. “T still
think he’ll lead us to someone else.”

Sunday Hobbs and his pal drove to In-
diana: in the friend’s auto. But they took
nothing with them, so we let them cross
over to Metamora, a little town just be-
yond the state line. Hobbs called a young
fellow from a poor looking house and
talked with him seriously.

“T’ll bet that’s Vincent Rose,” Sergt.
Haines said. .

“While I followed Hobbs back to Ham-
ilton, Haines checked up through Indiana
officers and made sure the man he had
visited was Rose.

“Unless he leads us to some one else
soon, we'll pick him up,” I said. “TI still
have a feeling there is-:some one tougher
than either of these guys in it.”

Monday, Hobbs and his friend went to
his mother-in-law’s house again. They
packed some tools and clothes, then re-
turned and picked up Hobbs’ wife and
some more goods.

As they swung south out of town four
fast police cars were right behind them.

I let them drive a few miles and then
told my driver to swing alongside. We
covered them before they knew what was
up. The driver of the other car pulled
up. Hobbs climbed out with his hands
in the air.

“What do you want?” he quavered, “I
haven’t done nothing.”

“Nothing but murder a mighty fine
man!” IT said. :

We searched his car. In the back seat,
wrapped in paper, we found his .32 re-
volver., He turned white when he saw
we had it. But we did not try to question
him there.

I noted the gun was rusty, and exam-
ining it, found traces of dirt on it, con-
vincing me it had been buried recently
and then dug up. I became all the more
convinced that it was the gun with which
Sponsel had been killed.

We wanted to question our man away
from town, where no one would have a
chance to see him and warn his confed-
erates, so I arranged to use a cabin ina
nearby resort along a small river. We
separated him, his wife and his friend.

Then the questioning began. Hobbs
was not long in breaking. I told him we
knew he had gone to the woman for his
gun before the shooting and that we had
connected Rose with the crime, letting
him think Rose was under arrest and had
confessed.

“All right,” he said. “I did it. It was
my gun that killed him. I'll tell you
about it.”

He then said he had been drinking that

‘night. He and his wife had gone to bed

when they heard a knock on the door.

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“It was John Agnew |
let him in and sat
drinking with him

John Agnew w
tough boys arou_ _.
not been able to chec!
who fitted better in the
of a robbery than eithe
Thirty-three years old,
than Hobbs, he had beer

“Before Agnew had
Vincent Rose showed
said. “He had a pint of
We all sat around drip
Pretty soon Agnew saic

‘Let’s go out and
dough’.”
_ So they scouted arou
ing at the little restaura:
surprised them.

They parked their aut:

a block beyond. Agne
auto and told the others t
Hobbs and Rose walked
alley to the rear of the r
had tried a window and
shut when Patrolman Sr
_ It was Rose who brok.
ing Sponsel’s fire, Hob!
half knelt, rested an elbo
deliberately aimed and fir
Agnew asked Rose wl

. when he got back to th«

“He may have been s}

“We'll wait a minute fi
said.

They waited hardly mc
ute. As Agnew started t
ran in front of it and was a
It wae Hobbs.

obbs said it was not
told him of the Sponsel ;
the day that he knew whc
or whether his victim was
_ Convinced that Hobbs |
right man, we freed his
wife, Then we took him

‘ber it is?” I

\ing of a study
econd’s hesita-
ded the pellet
ud; “It’s un-

<tract the death
» could be sure
1 the same gun.
ins here, too,”
iother study of
Wer must have
is corner.”

ted Car

the corner and
snsel’s body lay.
kunk was hiding
came up. Must
es and the gun
ie corner of the
ead with nfy own
that the slayer
neeled.
ines called for my
men had been ex-
rked almost at the
1, He pointed to
yund, Others lay
s were gone.
the wrong track
to force that win-
“Looks as though
terrupted some car

“That car doesn’t look as though it had been driven, for a
vear,” I said doubtfully. “But see who owns it, anyhow.”

Officers who had been scouring the neighborhood for pos-
sible witnesses had returned. Two watchmen from closeby
factories were with them.

Both had heard shots, the heavy ones punctuated by the
lighter ones. Neither had ventured far from their plants, how-
ever, to investigate. They fixed the time of crime at 2 45 a.m.

Haines was examining Sponsel’s gun.

“He fired four times,” the sergeant said. “Strange that
none of his shots struck the building. And you'll notice he
didn’t even fall facing it,”

It was evident that the sergeant was figuring out what must
have happened.

“There must have"been two men. One ran back that way.
Sponsel was shooting at him and didn’t see this rat back of the
building. Then he opened up and killed Sponsel before
Sponsel had a chance to return his fire.

Justice nodded his head in agreement. “Tt probably hap-
pened that way all right,” he said. “But Art would have
plowed right on in there anyway, even if he had known some
one was waiting there. Remember the Blue Goose Inn 2

We all remembered well enough. That incident had oc-
curred only a few weeks before. Sponsel_ and Justice were
cruising together that night. They noticed a light flickering
in the inn and stopped to investigate.

Justice went to one door and Sponsel to another. Sponsel
walked in on two burglars at work. One grabbed a shotgun
and pointed it at him. Sponsel didn’t flinch. Quick on the
draw, he whipped out his revolver and shot the fellow down.
The other surrendered. The one who was shot recovered and
both went to prison.

It was courage and work like that which made Sponsel a
hero around town, and not only his fellow officers but the
whole city was thrown into a bitter rage overt his killing. He

[Continued on page 6

Sergt. Hershel Haines, head of the detective
squad, points to a bullet hole in the rear of the
restaurant where Hobbs hid and shot down
Patrolman Sponsel as the officer pursued Rose
across a dark lot. The bullet taken from this hole
provided the clue that solved a vicious murder.

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him to come
preparations

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Mrs. Bertron
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aying it very

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Bertron was
stand it any
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-hen I heard a

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the bathroom
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blood flowing
nouth. Vernon
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is if he was a

Max called out

‘celle went on.

to a hospital,

-eep his mouth

‘garded him as

ely drawing in

wn so that the
tain it.”
ort, Kassel
to his feet.

He staggered into the next room while
the couple watched him, unmoved. Mar-
celle herself was too stunned to do any-
thing, she said.

Scarcely knowing what he was doing.
Kassel made for a window. His fist
crashed through the pane of glass in a
last futile effort to escape from his killer.
Then he slumped to the floor—dead.

“Then Vernon left the flat. Mrs.
Bertron made me help her pack her
clothes and while I was doing it she
cleaned up the bloodstains and burnt up
all the letters and papers which she took
out of the drawers.

“After awhile Vernon came back with
a chauffeur, whom he called Alexander.
‘They each took one of Kassel’s arms and
walked him out of the room, as if he were
drunk. It was horrible the way his
head rolled. He didn’t look dead. He
looked...”

And Marcelle stopped right there. She
had fainted dead away.

Hold Material Witness

COTLAND YARD had both Marcelle

and Alexander, the chauffeur, safely
under lock and key. They were material
witnesses in the murder of Red Max
Kassel and there appeared to be little
doubt that their evidence would send
Vernon and Mrs. Bertron to the gallows
when they were caught. But catching
the killers was something else again.
They had vanished completely.

Then, from the Surete, came a cable to
Scotland Yard:

“Roger Marcel Vernon and Suzanne
Bertron arrested Paris. Advise.”

The inspector fingered the slip of
paper. “And so, thanks to Constable
Downey’s mania for neatness, the murder
of Red Max Kassel is solved, the white
slave ring broken up and the two slayers
started on their way to the gallows,” he
said to himself.

But he was wrong in respect to thé
gallows. When Scotland Yard requested
that Vernon and Bertron be brought to
London to stand trial for the murder of
Red Max, they found there was a queer
quirk in the extradition treaty between
England and France, and that the two
could not be brought to England on the
murder charge.

Thereupon the inspector had a talk
with Marcelle and Alexander. If the
slayers could not be prosecuted in Eng-
land, they could be tried in France. The
next day a detective took the Channel
boat and in his custody were Marcelle
and Alexander, both ready to give evi-
dence as witnesses.

Suzanne Bertron and Roger Vernon
went on trial in Paris for the murder of
Red Max Kassel.

The court acquitted Suzanne -Ber-
tron.

But the evidence given by Marcelle and
Alexander was too convincing to get
Vernon off scot free. He was sentenced
to 20 years in the Sante Prison for the
murder of Red Max.

Avenging Ohio's Police Martyr

[Continued from page 19]

had been a hero before he had ever joined
the force. He was a World War veteran
and had served with an aviation corps in
France. Now he ‘had become a martyr
to his duty as an officer.

No reward was necessary to stir every
man on the force to his best on the case,
but the Police Mutual Aid Society posted
$300. The Butler county comunissioners
added another $500. Fifty dollars was
donated anonymously. Then the presi-
dent of the Hatailton, Chamber of Com-
merce guaranteed $5,000.

Paul Baden, county ‘prosecutor, im-
mediately went to work on the case with
us. At the outset it looked like a mighty
tough one.

Ruse Fools Killers

IND out where every known auto
stripper in town was last night,” I
told Sergt. Haines.

He put a squad of men right to work.
But their efforts were wasted when they
quickly located the owner of the old car
that had been in the parking lot.

“Sure,” he said. “It’s my car. But I'm
afraid you fellows are going to be dis-
appointed. The car was no good so I
decided to strip it and sell the parts. I
left the lugs there myself.”

That left us back with the burglar
theory. So we started tracing the move-
ments of all persons known to have
at anytime been housebreakers, or who
were questionable characters of any sort.

The murder was committed on Mon-
day, April 12, 1937. In order to make the

killers think we were on the wrong track,
in the belief that they might be less care-
ful, we asked the newspapers to print a
story to the effect that two colored men
were strongly suspected. The papers
gave full cooperation, and published the
misleading facts in full.

Taking personal command of the man-
hunt, and aided by Assistant Chief B.
Furginson, I assigned every available de-
tective to the job.

Beyond the clues we first picked up,
we had nothing to go on. Systematically
we checked known thieves, and the
officers talked to dozens of people for
hours each day. It was a fine-tooth comb
proposition.

Our list of suspicious characters was
becoming exhausted as we accounted for
their activities the night of the murder,
without placing any of them in the neigh-
borhood of the crime.

“T am beginning to think the killers
must have been outsiders,” Haines said.
“Or else some punks here who have no
record.”

But I was still inclined to believe the
murderers were persons familiar with the
city

fan out-of-towner would not have
picked that restaurant, ” TI pointed out.
“Tt is not particularly prosperous looking.
Then one of them ran back through the
lot. He probably ran right on back
through the alley and over to a side street
to a parked car. ‘They would have to
know the neighborhood pretty well to
navigate around in it at night.”

The field narrowed further until we
were investigating the activities of petty

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drinking with him.” ;

John Agnew was one of the few really
tough boys around town whom we had
not been able to check completely, but
who fitted better in the picture as plotter
of a robbery than either Hobbs or Rose.
Thirty-three years old, just a. year older
than Hobbs, he had been in lots of trouble.

“Before Agnew had been there long,
Vincent Rose showed. up, too,” Hobbs
said. ‘He had a pint of whisky with him.
We all sat around drinking some more.
Pretty soon Agnew said to me:

“‘Tet’s go out and make some easy
dough’.”

So they scouted around, finally arriv-
ing at the little restaurant where Sponsel
surprised them.

They parked their auto on a dark street
a block beyond. Agnew stayed in the
auto and told the others to enter the place.
Hobbs and Rose walked back through an
alley to the rear of the restaurant. They
had tried a window and found it tightly
shut when Patrolman Sponsel saw them.

It was Rose who broke and ran, draw-
ing Sponsel’s fire, Hobbs said. Hobbs
half knelt, rested an elbow on his leg and
deliberately aimed and fired at the officer.

Agnew asked Rose where Hobbs was
when he got back to the auto.

“He may have been shot,” Rose said.

“We'll wait a minute for him,” Agnew
said.

They waited hardly more than a min-
ute, s Agnew started the auto, a man
ran in front of it and was almost run over.
It was Hobbs.

Hobbs said it was not until a friend
told him of the Sponsel slaying later in
the day that he knew whom he had shot
or whether his victim was dead.

Convinced that Hobbs had named the
right man, we freed his friend and his
wife. Then we took him to town where

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he signed.

Sergts. Haines and_ Joseph McFall,
with Detectives Oscar Decker and Robert
Dinwiddie, went -to Metamora where,
with the aid of Indiana officers, they sur-
rounded the home of Rose. -As they
crept up on it, dogs began to bark. Ina
moment a small pack of them were yap-
ping and snapping at the officers.

Sergt. Haines called for his men_ to
charge the place and led the attack him-
self. He broke into the house and found
Rose sleepily getting out of bed. Rose
made no offer to resist. He confessed.

Agnew was surprised at his home. He
too, surrendered without resistance.

The credit for the work after that goes
to Prosecutor Baden. He could not
prove premeditated murder, the first
count of the indictments, nor could he
prove the second count, that Hobbs
knowingly had killed a policeman while
on officer was in the performance of his

uty.

It had been too dark for Hobbs to see
Sponsel and we could not prove whether
Sponsel had declared himself as an
officer. “

The first degree conviction depended
upon the state proving that the killing
was dorie in an attempt to burglarize the
store, a felony.

Hobbs went on trial in June. A jury
returned the verdict of guilty without
recommendation of mercy. Hobbs’
electrocution was set by Judge P. P. Boli
for Oct. 22.

Agnew, like Hobbs, pleaded not guilty.
He made no written confession. The jury
recommended mercy and his sentence
was life imprisonment.

Rose pleaded guilty but because of his
youth and because he testified for the
state, he was allowed to plead to second
degree murder. He was given a life sen-

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HE clubber reign of terror

| that gripped Toledo, Ohio,

from the summer of 1925

until 1926, during which time

three women and a child were mur-

dered and nearly two score others

beaten into insensibility by a

mysterious fiend who roamed the

streets of that city, has cropped up
again.

Recently, Miss Katharine Laux,
twenty-six, of that city, was at-
tacked by a clubber who smashed
in her skull. She was taken, in seri-
ous condition, to St. Vincent’s
Hospital.

The new outbreak sent detachments of detectives, dressed
in feminine clothing and policewomen Wearing steel helmets,
out of headquarters. They strolled the streets at night, in-
viting an attack in an effort to trap the maniacal attacker of
women.

Most of the crimes of five years ago were pinned on Charles
J. Hoppe, taxi driver, who was captured after the body of his
young niece was found, atrociously mangled, on the porch of
her home. Hoppe was electrocuted at Ohio Penitentiary for

the murder.
L ceiecbllenaage: k * * &

POTPOURRI—Just as Ed Garcia,
seventeen, of Denver, Colorado,
pleaded not guilty to a charge of
intoxication and assault and battery
growing out of his drinking “grape
juice” and then trying to whip three
patrolmen, a bottle of the stuff
which had been placed on the
justice’s desk as evidence exploded.
Garcia got sentence of thirty days
and fine of twenty dollars...
Russell Williams, thirty-five, New
York Negro, who says he is an or-
dained minister, preached so elo-
quently at United Holiness Church
of America that Mrs. Whiteley, the
pastor’s wife, offered him a home at the parsonage. New
York police picked Williams up a day later clad in two suits
and new overcoat that had disappeared with him from
Whiteley home . . . Two Chicago banks now employ a “‘lying
machine” that they strap to wrists of applicants applying
for jobs. One bank asserts that through the machine it
discovered that one of its new tellers, who had presented
plenty of references, had filched $25,000 in bonds that his
previous employer had not known were stolen . . . Swell
psychology recently was employed by New York banks who
distained conventional armored car for old tarpaulin-covered
truck which, attracting no attention whatsoever, successfully
made gold transfer through busy city carrying $5,000,000...
Jersey City lad, Anthony Mesuk, seventeen, enraged by
constant taunts of “‘yellow’”’ fought it out in basement with

his accuser, Saul Osnovitz, seventeen. During fight Osnovitz
was killed . . . First of series of drives to eliminate aliens
entering U. S. A. illegally, netted Department of Labor 103
deportations.

* * * *

Newark police recently thought
that they had another tong war on
their hands when a call came into
headquarters from City Hospital
where, attaches said, a Chinaman
who refused to divulge any informa-
tion, had applied to have a wounded
foot treated.

Squads of detectives raced to
Chinatown in time to find fifty
Federal agents ‘mopping up.” The
raid by the Federal men culminated
in the smashing of sixteen opium
dens, seizure of opium worth $5000
and arrest of 160 Chinese. But the
leader of the international narcotic ring had slipped through
their fingers. ‘

* *f *

KEEPING policemen out of trouble has been the business
of John Jovino for the past thirty-six years.

When an armed officer meets an armed gunman it is quite
logical to suppose that something dire may occur. That is
where Mr. Jovino steps in.

In his shop at 5 Centre Market Place, directly behind: the

hulking, gray edifice that is New York’s Police Headquarters, °

Mr. Jovino designs and manufactures holsters and other
equipment with a view to giving policemen a generous edge
on the most modernly accoutered criminals.

Sitting amid cases piled with cartridges, night sticks,
pocket billets, ivory whistles, handcuffs, chain twisters, re-
volvers, automatics and large-sized substantial shoes, Mr.
Jovino, learned something of the whims of policemen. He
realized that a uniformed officer whose gun was carried in a
square, cumbersome holster that interfered with his walking
or dug into his thighs when he sat down, would eventually
shift that holster and gun to a comfortable hip-flask position
that would be utterly inaccessible when the moment for
quick action arrived.

So. Mr. Jovino, who doesn’t
favor promiscuous shooting of
policemen, recently designed a
new safety holster cut so that
it can be worn easily on the hip.
Into it he incorporated a double
safety catch feature that locks au-
tomatically when the revolver is
placed in the holster, but which can
be instantly released during the
single motion of drawing the gun.
By the time this is in print Mr.
Jovino’s holster probably will be
part of the regulation equipment of
the New (Continued on page 113)

© (ef eftort to delay
< : ““harles J, Hoppe,
ty Stelagowski, 7.
afternoon,
ttorneys Eldon
2a Raab. who -de-
eed a’ motion. tn
eopt for a trial to
“"ptal condition, It
a jury be
' €proceedings and
“tition be granted.
Dr. Leo Henry
24, to tho. effect
> unbalanced men
the. motion. ;
't the proceedings
m the clerk of
y Young got, into
‘Sh the covernor’s
len Preston
‘bio =penitentiary.
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‘vas returned in-
hh Godown of the
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his aged mother In the morning.
Hoppe’s wife was near & n
as she left him, ‘

Meanwhile, in Toledo, Hoppe's at-
terneys, Eldon H. Young and Leonard
J. Raab, made a last-minute attempt
to obtain further delay in the carry-
ing out of the death penalty.

They filed in common pleas court
a motion asking a sanity hearing

to interfere,

ceiving an unofficial ruling from

aides to the attorney-general, also
ty i

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everything.”-w
select the dishes for his last supper.
potatoes,

nw ruling on the 1

that the , only
jurist would
1 of the mo!

a
a4 < “wtton to take | the

her judge. 0" >
lewin’ was asked
suspension of jhe
§ t he attorneys Ume
g from ‘the trial
Milroy. Judge
nterfere. ue
‘¢tien before other
common
it success.

stepped back as the executioners 24-
justed the electrodes and wet sponges
to Hoppe’s, head i

-\ Mave for the movement of his
Heppe
kept his‘ eyen ¢}

quickly and sprinkled holy water on
aE

nna | cated... He went honte;

a few minutes later. He

was still. Idke Rucker, be

and Grove off. 99 0.
t
-“1 don't know why 1 4id tt,"
asserted, “I had one of my spells.
Hoppe was indicted quickly, and
his trial begun before Judge Charles |
Milroy. “A week was spent in-select-}
ing @ jury, Prosecutor Leroy Hunt
and Judge: Clarence Irwin, then as-
sistant prosecutor, built up an‘im-
preynable wall of evidence

case; Such erimes: haves’ de

A physical cause as. we.
‘dip do great need. preven
io tial

fog Hoppe's’ pu
: Confesses Croy Killing
hange in the defense tactics}:
was made to permit ‘the introduc: |- 4.
tion of. Hoppe’s signed and sworn |.
statement that he. was the murderer

: Pree wiccsemt to the Valentine Sujkowskl mortuary ot nie tbe detense thought,” would
e F outer office of the penitentiary. To- Toledo. ap be es pote Satay | ot in O acca “on contention
Larry ple a aa Re pk RAR abet Fa pe was © Insane.) Four,

wrote finis to one} onyaicians and A psychologist teatl-

es - achool, He Harter, and Deputy fled that Hoppe was a pervert, @
ove + ¥ aaatiee Heinie Honberger and Gus pew ma a.) err rower
i TPudlic r % ; Se Ba 2! ,
ES is ‘Bevan Is Witness ling in Flint, Mich. although he might tbe se psychopath,

‘all From
Church.

. Hopper, pastor
rian church here
Friday mailed his
ive Dee. 31, to the
he can neeept a
nater Presbyterian
Ore. .
his letter says:
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npted by any dis
ives or by disaatis-
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ang opportunity
ted by the church
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rreat request that
tmday to concur
request to Toledo
zolve the relation-
veen Third chureh
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Festminster church
— to lerdand Preas

to continue here
> &

The others were newspapermen,
physicians assisting Dr. George w.

Keil, prison. surgeon, and persons
“|from other cities. :

Attorney Bevan, who was co
counsel for Hoppe during his trial,
but who withdrew after sentence
was pronounced with the comment
that .“it was the only.verdict pos
sible,” sald he had two reasons for
attending the execution, ae
“T have always been @ student of
the efficacy of capital. punishment,”
he explained, “and I wanted to watch
the effect of this, My second reason
ia personal. Hoppe had no objection

nesses, led by the warden, who car
ried. ‘a cane, marched through the
prizon yar, to the new death house
at the east end of the penitentiary.
Rucker Enters First

They grouped themselves around
the ominous looking chair, and
Rucker was brought in almost im-
mediately, He walked between two
guards, his head tilted back and his
eyes cloned tightly. :

‘Tucker did not speak, nor d’d his

Child Taken From* Bed i
Early on the morning of May 29,
the Sielagowsk! home, 147 Palmer
street, was broken into, and’ little
Dorothy was snatched from the bed
where she was sleeping with three
sisters. Her father, Alex, was
awakened by the screams of one of
the sisters, and glanced from the
window in time to-see a man place
Dorothy in an automobile and drive
away. , iy Bake ety Pte
Mr. Sielagowski dre: nd called
police, who were uncile to under-
stand his broken Engtish. He then
went'to the Safety building to tell of
the kidnuping.,Upon his return with
two polleemen, he found th child's
body on the porch of her uncle's
home, 166 Palmer street.
Mam Hunt Begins
An extensive hunt for the slayer
was begun. Hoppe, whose wife was
a first cousin of the child, came

! under suspicion because he once had

lived for a cew weeks in the Sie
lagowski home. : i Bea
Detectives called at F “a home
that morning, but fou nothing to
link him with the slaying. At mid
night, however, he was arrested.

he was maine, 5) = Ba de oie 19
The hidgea, found” Hoppe | guilty
of firat degree murder, and withheld
mercy. -They sentenced him to die
Defense counsel, denied a motion
for a new trial, carried tie case to
the court of appeals. Decision of the
lower court was sustained, but the
execution was postponed a week, «
ve? Review Is Sought -.-
LThe next. move was to seek a re-
view tn the supreme court. Again
Hoppe was granted a week's atay.
although the motion was © turned
down. On Nov, 8, the day before, the
next execution date, a petition “as
[of right” was flied in the supreme
Scourt. The attorney getiesal held
this automatically granted a ‘stay,
and the execution waa deferred until
Friday, the date set by the supreme
court after it had dismissed the sec-
ond petition. et ee EES Ae
Meanwhile, the state board of
clemency gave the defense lawyers
a hearing and refused to recommend |
executive clemency. Governor Dona-
hey appointed three new alienists
to examine Hoppe, and they found
him sane. ora ’

chair.

cal,

Mrs. °

was paying

Funeral
day at 9 A, Min St.

services

intone tthe
fered intense grief
the death of ‘her, ]
relatives she kept a sad. vigil In
cottage Friday.) night while the son
the penalty for his crime.
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ff 1) me and mine {muscles were strained, and he seemed
ance during |to be holding himself together with

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KING'S FEVER.

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Who was this vanishing messenger of death—this skulking fiend
of the shadows who transformed a peaceful city

into a seething caldron of fear?

HE evening of May 24th,
1925, in Toledo, Ohio,
was quite uneventful—
until the hour of ten.
Peace-loving families sat.
in living rooms or on porches, engaged in the usual pleasant-
ries of petty arguments which mark the average family
gathering; children pored over school books, mastering the
answers to questions which they would be asked in school
on the morrow. Lovers strolled under shaded trees, words
of enchantment on their lips, dreams just ahead. The
strains of thousands of radios echoed over the soft night air.
The hour of ten drew
nigh—and with it an un-
holy reign of terror began
which was to grip the city
for almost a year and a
half. For a phantom fig-
ure of the shadows—a
hideous monster in human
form—was preparing to
strike! In his super-cun-
ning, warped and twisted
brain, final plans were per-
fected for a series of sinis-
ter happenings which were
destined to throw the
populace into a bedlam of
seething frenzy; the mo-
ment had arrived for the
first of a series of inhuman
outrages which was to
completely bewilder
frantic man-hunters not
only from Toledo, but
from other cities. London
had its infamous Jack the
Ripper; Gary, Indiana,
had its hatchet slayer;
Omaha had its rifle killer.
And now Toledo was to *
have a visit from the mer-

By RALPH PHELPS.
‘of the Toledo. BLADE

curial phantom clubber. . - -

Mrs. Emma Hatfield, a pleasant
woman just on. this side of fifty,
was visiting a relative, Mrs. Anna
Hatfield. The two women were

talking about this, that and the other thing when the
visitor suddenly glanced at the clock on the mantel.

“Oh, I must be going,” she said. “It’s almost ten.”

“But it’s early yet.’
“I know, but 1 must get up early in the morning; there

are so many things to do.”

“Well, V’il walk part of the way with you.”

“Of course you won't, dear; it’s not far
—and there’s a full moon.”

So Mrs. Hatfield left the residence at
716 Ewing Street and started for her own
home at 571 Norwood Avenue, just a few
blocks away.

But she never reached home. ... -

Shortly after night had given away to
dawn, a milkman, on his usual rounds,
alighted from his wagon and picked his
Bey. through an alley not far from the

orwood address of Mrs. Hatfield. He
catried a quart of
milk in each hand

--but he had not

proceeded very far
up the alley when
both bottles crashed to the
ground. The nude form of a
woman met the milkman’s horri-
- fied gaze. Feminine wearing ap-

he ‘ar ‘= ; arel_—shoes, silk stockings, pink
gle 5 me 44 ingerie, a dress, hat and .coat—
aie 2 a” was strewn about in shreds, near

VICTIM! ° ee ae ie y the still form. The man bent
Lily Croy, po down. The woman was uncon-
Sere soot 8 - - gcious, barely breathing. Three
butchered body was Pg Pah g large gashes in.her head, scratches
found under a fire . z all over her body and a pool of
escape. Miss Croy ; oo crimson under her, mutely testi-
bins the last of a i a ae se. fied to the terrific and unmerciful
ong list of women i i
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HE last job of the Mad Monster started oak
as kidnaping by someone who hated Alex
Szelagowski. 3

At least that was what the police thought before,
they saw the mark of the broken tooth,

At 4 in the morning of May 29, 1928, a telephone
call came in to police headquarters in Toledo, Ohio.

A frantic-voiced man .shrieked, “Dorothy—she's < nett
gone! She’s gone! He stole her—my baby!”

The desk sergeant asked for details. But he could:
not get them—the caller babbled at him in a mixture:
of Polish and English that was not understandable.

“Better come down to Headquarters,” the desk
sergeant said. ae

A few minutes ‘later ‘Alex Szelagowski rushed in. i
Detective Bert Dobzenicki was in the station°and =
oS the man as he entered. They were protherss ;
in- '
Alex!” Dobzenicki shouted. ‘‘What’s happened? ee

“It’s Dorothy!” the father cried. \fShe’s gone!
Someone stole her!”

Detectives Dobzenicki, John Hovey and Frank”
DeLora drove back in a squad car with Szelagowski,,
to his home at No. 147 Palmer Avenue, On the WAY:
he told his story.

His four young daughters ‘slept together in an.
upstairs room, he said. He slept downstairs. In the
middle of the night he was awakened -by hearing
his five-year-old girl, Leona, scream:

He rushed upstairs to find Leona crying.

“A -man took Dorothy!”- she sobbed.

Not Until This Attack-Killer Chose
For His Victim Someone He Knew Did
The Toledo, Ohio, Police Have Even
One Clew to His Identity. And Then—

Dorothy Szelagowski:
She died because she

By Will Murray slept on the outside

Who Made a Special
Investigation of This Case

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Canina the Werewolf of Toledo

undertaking rooms, linked the new crime
with the capture-proof clubber of other
years.

Women had not been safe in the streets
then. Now children were not safe in their
beds. What ailed the police? The papers
asked in a thunderous query.

The city was swept by a wave of hys-
terical fear such as had followed the
Croy murder. An actual state of siege had
then prevailed, with porch lights burn-
ing through the night, women arming
themselves, movie houses empty and
streets deserted except for volunteer
patrols.

Residents of the Polish settlement re-
vived Old World superstitions. A were-
wolf was at large! A dead man had risen
from his grave to assume a wolf-shape
and drew life from the veins of children!

Asking questions and sorting the an-
swers, the detectives found much that
was purely a product of hysteria. From
Selangowski’s incoherent story they drew
the conclusion that the abduction had
been carefully planned.

The gray car, they decided, was a new
model on the market. Very likely it had
been stolen or the driver would not have
risked identification by turning on the
lights and revealing the license number.

Regarded from the viewpoint of the in-
vestigators, the fact that the body had
been found at Joe’s house did not seem
strange.

The sadist’s histrionic sense, a com-
plement of his perversion, had led him
back to the scene of the abduction. In
building up a dramatic situation pleas-
ing to his extreme vanity, he had planned
to leave the murdered child at the father’s
door. The lights in the Selangowski
home had frightened him.

His choice of the brother-in-law’s
porch as a place of denouement in the
hideous tragedy might have been acci-
dental but the detectives inclined to a be-
lief that he knew of the relationship be-
tween Joe and Selangowski.

Locked Door Is Mystery

S HIFTING the scene of their investi-
gation to Alex’s house, the officers
turned first to the doors and windows.
It was immediately established that the
child snatcher had entered as he fled—
through the kitchen and backyard.

The screen had been jimmied, but the
inner door bore no marks though it ap-
peared to have been fastened on the in-
side by a night lock.

“Who has the key to this door?” De-
tective Hovey asked.

“We have never had a key to it,” was
Alex’s amazing answer, “When we use
it we keep the bolt back. At night, or
when we are leaving, I spring it. Last
night I sprung the lock and tried the
door. The bolt held.”

Selangowski’s definite statement made
one of two things certain. Either the
abductor was a_ professional burglar,
skilled in picking locks, or a former resi-
dent or frequenter of the house who pos-
sessed a key. a

The door knob and other smooth sur-
faces in and about the house were ex-
amined for fingerprints without result.
Detective Dobzyneicki interested himself

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in. Leona who alone had seen the killer
at close quarters. Taking her on his
knee, he questioned her’ in a fashion to
which she responded readily. On two
points she was’ quite positive. The

kidnaper’s form had been small and.

dark.

By getting her. to draw comparisons
with objects around them the detectives
learned that the shadowy shape had been
about five feet tall.

Dobzyneicki’s , partner, Palicki, called
him aside and whispered something. Pa-
licki had been acquainted with the Se-
langowski family for several years.

The whisper gave the officers some-
thing on which to act. They divided
forces and Palicki, with several other
members of the Polish squad, jumped
into a waiting car. Roaring out Cherry
street in the direction taken by the kid-
naper when he fled with Dorothy, the
policemen picked up a youth known to the
family.

. Unable to give a convincing account of
his recent movements, the boy was sent to
headquarters for further interrogation.

Dobzyneicki was not much impressed
by the case against him. j

“It won’t hurt to hold the kid a while,”
he told his partner, “Maybe he’ll finger
the fellow we want. But he’s got a good
‘out’ for himself.” é

“How’s that, Bert? He’s small, has a

Hustled to headquarters for ques-
tioning, the Dracula suspect (bowed
figure), who was a cousin of the
slain child, denied the horrible deed.

dark suit and cap and knows the house.
He hasn’t much of an alibi.”

‘“No, but he has all his teeth,” said the
big detective, quietly, “The man we want
is shy an upper incisor. Some of the
marks on the body show it. Look for a
man who has that tooth out.”

Dobzyneicki’s co-workers were not en-
thusiastic over the Possibility of tracing
the killer through his teeth. The dis-
covery of the gray coach would be a far
more vital factor in the solution of the
murder, they held.

The detectives were eating a belated
breakfast in a restaurant in the vicinity
of the Selangowski home when one of
their number, calling headquarters,
learned that an abandoned car had been
found. The desk officer said the car was
on Webber street near Elm, about 15
blocks north of Palmer street.

Five minutes later, the six detectives
had reached Webber and Elm streets and
were examining the deserted auto. It was
a coach, battleship gray and almost brand
new. One look inside was enough to
identify it as the murder car. The rear
seat was gory, the windows and wind-
shield blood splattered.

No fingerprints were found then or
later when Bertillon experts went over
the machine inch by inch.

Checking with headquarters again, they
learned the car had been reported stolen
from in front of the Overland auto fac-
tory administration building by an em-
ploye. The man had a perfect alibi. He
had not been outside the plant except
for a few minutes at midnight when he
até a lunch in a restaurant across the
street.

While they scattered and began inter-
viewing residents of the neighborhood, a
newspaper reporter picked up a bloody
handkerchief in an alley that opened on
Webber and paralleled Lagrange and Elm
streets. The point at which he found it
indicated the slayer had thrown it away
after leaving the gray car.

The trail was getting so warm now
that the police had hopes of learning
something that would identify the mur-
derer. Then they received information
that darkened their prospects of success.

Mystery Piles Higher

AY AUTO had been stolen the previous
night from a garage at the corner
of Webber and Elm streets.

It now appeared that the murderer had
abandoned the new car only to make
off with another machine, hoping thus
to befuddle his pursuers. The officers
sought out the owner of the missing car,
finding him at home. He was a middle.
aged Pole, under average height. Coat-
less, he wore trousers of dark material.

“What is your name?” asked DeLora.

At his reply the detectives stared. Here
was another relative who seemed to figure
in the case!

The man explained in broken English
that he was a brother of Alex and uncle
of Dorothy.

He said he had been at home since
4:30 a.m. A night employe of the nearby
bottle works, he had been relieved from
duty about half an hour earlier. Neither
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suspicious, he had gone to bed imme-
diately.

Wakened about 9:45 by newsboys cry-
ing. extras, the uncle had sent a member
of his family to get a newspaper. As soon
as he learned of Dorothy’s death he
dressed and ran out to the garage, in-
tending to drive to Palmer street.

He found the garage doors closed but
his car was gone. He had locked both the
ignition and transmission after driving it
the previous day. He possessed the keys.
The shed had been left unlocked.

Examining the premises, the officers
found a big police dog in the back yard.
It growled furiously when they ap-
proached. : ;

The man’s wife and children were sure
that at no time during the night had the
dog been disturbed.

They gave the names of several men
who were familiar with the household,
one being a son-in-law, Stanley Hoppe,
better known as Charley. Hoppe lived
in.a cottage directly across the street.

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the change.”

though they had not been aware that he

‘was the husband of one of Dorothy’s

cousins. Charley had been in the hands
of the police six or eight times, the
charges against him ranging from dis-
turbing the peace to suspicion of auto-
mobile theft. As he had never been con-
victed, his record did not weigh heavily
against him. ‘

In one connection or another, autos
had always given him employment. He
had been a truck and taxi operator and
drive-away man at the Overland plant.
Making some pretenses of being a prize-
fighter, he frequented athletic clubs.

_ The theft of his father-in-law’s car pro-
viding an excuse for visiting Hoppe’s
house, all six officers swooped down on
it. Mrs. Hoppe was inclined to resent the
raid, but her husband, who appeared from
a bathroom, took it as a matter of course.

“Charley, we want to talk to you about
your father-in-law’s car,” said Dobzy-
neicki.

“Shoot,” Hoppe challenged.

Guarding his questions, Dobzyneicki
studied the man. About 25 years old, he
was of slight stature but had thick arms
and large hands. He was in shirt sleeves.
His trousers were gray and grease-
stained. :

Charley talked with no trace of ner-
vousness. A night employe of the Over-
land plant, he had laid off work to attend
a poeta a party the previous night, he
said.

Having no car, he and his wife had
walked to the affair which took place in
a home at Webber and Pearl streets.
Returning on foot in a drunken condition
about 1:30 a. m., he had gone to bed and
had not since been out of his yard.

Hoppe declared he had worn a gray
suit and blue shirt to the party. The
suit was now in a closet.- He was wear-
ing the shirt. Swiatecki and several other
detectives went through the house, pay-
ing special attention to the clothes, beds
and bathroom, They uncovered nothing
incriminating.

The officers turned to leave. Hoppe
yawned, showing his teeth. Dobzyneicki,
glancing back, noticed that the man had
lost an incisor. :

“Boys, let’s take another look at those
teeth marks,” the Polish detective sug-
gested when the squad reached the street.

His associates still had hopes of break-
ing the case through less weird leads.
They continued to canvass the neighbor-
hood, picking. up information that bore
out Hoppe’s statement that he had been
one of the wedding guests. Packing the
bridegroom’s house, the merrymakers
had indulged in home brew and hooch
until long after midnight. No one who
had seen Charley at the party was able
to recall with certainty the color of his
clothes.

Fang-Marks Cast

ONVINCED at last that Dorothy’s

body held the only clue worth while,
Dobzyneicki’s fellow detectives followed
his suggestion. Early in the afternoon
they again viewed the corpse. Studied
with the aid of a magnifying glass, some
of the child’s wounds were found to bear
out the officer’s assertion that the killer
lacked an incisor tooth. Also an adjoin-
ing tooth mark showed a _ peculiar
slant.

At 3 p. m., after another series of in-
terviews with residents of the Webber-
Elm street section, the six detectives re-
turned to the home of Charley Hoppe.

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DYNAMIC

He was as indifferent to them as he had
been during the previous raid, neither
asking their purpose nor mentioning the
murder of his wife’s cousin.

Dobzyneicki wondered at his behavior,
but did not deem it specially significant,
remembering that he had often run afoul

of the law. The second search ending in

failure, the detective decided on a bold
stroke.

’ “Open your mouth, Charley,” he com-
manded.

Hoppe grinned. ‘What's the big idea?”

“We'll ask the question! Just open
your mouth.”

Still appearing to be amused, Hoppe
showed his teeth to the policemen.

Not only was his upper left incisor
missing, but teeth on both sides of the
vacant place slanted in accordance with
the imprints in Dorothy’s body.

“O. K., Doce,” gibed the suspect.

The detectives walked out of the house -

and went into a huddle. They were none
too sure of their inexpert comparison be-
tween the man’s teeth and the wounds.

Leaving one of their number in the
neighborhood, the detectives went to the
undertaking rooms for a third look at the
body. Meanwhile Hoppe, due to work at
6 p. m., reported at his job. .Within an
hour, however, he complained of being
sick and returned home.

His actions meant but one thing to the
detectives. Innocent or guilty, he was
worried. It seemed a _ psychological
time to strike, so, risking censure, the
officers stormed into Hoppe’s house late
that night and carried him to headquar-
ters. He was booked on a _ technical
charge of suspicion and lodged in a cell
far from other inmates of the city jail.

Work on the case was renewed at an
early hour the next day—Memorial Day.
Through Coroner Kreft, who had taken
more than official interest in the murder,
the detectives arranged to have casts
made of the suspect's teeth.

Dr. Edmund Paulinski, a Lagrange
street dentist, took impressions of
Hoppe’s upperand lower jaw, the prisoner
opening his mouth to the modeling com-
pound with a wolfish grin.

Teeth Trap Killer

EVEN before the casts had hardened
the coroner, dentist and arresting
officers were en route to the undertaking
establishment. It was a grim-faced, silent
group that gathered around the table on
which lay the child’s torn body.

Dr. Paulinski produced the moulded
teeth and approximated them to a wound
in Dorothy’s breast. The detectives
breathed sharply. Then the plaster of
Paris jaws touched the raw flesh.

The casts fitted the bite perfectly!

Other tests were made with the same
result. Dr. Joseph D. Sullivan, a dental
surgeon and authority in his field, was
called in to observe the experiments.

“Not one set of human teeth in ten
thousand—perhaps a hundred thousafid,
would match those casts,” Dr. Sullivan
said, “You have the man who killed this
child.”

Assured that they had ‘not erred in
picking Hoppe as the Dracula of Little
Poland, Dobzyneicki and Swiatecki,
with Kina, Palicki and DeLora, rushed
to Hoppe’s home. The killer had had
plenty of time to destroy whatever he
thought incriminating, so the detectives
hardly hoped to find anything as they
began their search.

Examining one room at a_ time,

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Dobzyneicki and his party went through
the house to which Hoppe rio doubt had

‘returned from the murder, blood splat-

tered. Furniture was moved and walls
and floors sounded for hiding places.

With another failure in. prospect,
Dobzyneicki. wandered outdoors, His
companions, remaining inside to talk
with the suspect’s wife, presently heard
a shout. They hurried to the backyard
where the detective stood between a hen
run and a grape arbor.

In kicking over a pile of trimmings
from the vines, Dobzyneicki had found
a tiny pile of ashes.

DeLora sifted the debris through his
fingers. The ashes fell away, leaving a
bit of charred cloth in his hands. It ap-
peared to have been part of the pocket of

_a pin striped blue serge vest. Several

brownish spots were discernible ofi the
fabric. ;

Turning back to the house, the officers
peered under a small side porch. Almost
within their reach was a door giving ac-
cess to the space enclosed by the brick
foundation of the main part of the dwell-
ing. Dobzyneicki and Swiatecki squeezed
through it.

Presently an excited yell came from
underneath the house.

The, panting detectives were digging
feverishly. A foot below the surface
their fingers encountered cloth. Jerking
the hidden garments from the dust, they
found a black cap and coat and trousers
of pin striped blue serge.

Brushed and scrutinized in the light
outside, both coat and trousers revealed
stains of blood.

Jubilantly the searching party rushed
back to headquarters. Hoppe was brought
from his cell to. Inspector Jerry Buck’s
office. The officers took turns firing ques-
tions at him.

“We've got enough evidence to con-

‘ vict you, Charley. Why don’t you come

clean?”

“We found the marks of your teeth on
the body.’ Now tell us why you did this
thing and how?”

“Here is the suit you wore. Do you
deny owning it?”

. The prisoner had paled slightly.

“You know it all,” he cried. “I did it.
I'll tell the truth.”

With those words he began a con-
fession so shocking that when he came
to trial on July 1, it was not read in open
court.

Hoppe’s trial before Judge Martin and
a jury of men and women had been under
way three days when, on the advice of
his counsel, he pleaded guilty and ad-
mitted he was the long-wanted Toledo
clubber.

Sentenced to electrocution, the child-
slayer went to the chair in the Ohio pen-
itentiary three months later. As the black
hood was dropped over his head his lips
lifted in a grimace that showed his teeth,
the fangs of a real-life Dracula, the fangs
whose horrible marks in the body of his
last victim had brought about his capture.

“Boy! can my wife cook!”

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HE ATTEMPTS sue

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TBOUTION:

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I

so4i wei in ie

day

4 thell

‘ onveyed

siapity at! that. 1g tlie. trial coinmen-

Lin the’ ‘Court 1 use { Akron, Judge

1G ou he bei ch. Tt contin~
i fo tivo, weeks, 7 dur tm whielt time
fit Cie Re gor is erowade
th ong: ek td catch’ every

July oth, ants an ahse bee of “two
fahalf hours,th jury returned a ver-
of ulity ofan rdertinithe: first’ de-
and | John H. Unter was again con-
ea to ‘the Jali to’ AWait hid. ‘execution, |,
Inst seene of the tragedy, on Tuestay
the ay ‘of Noy inber, 1 SPE 3
Se / 0INce Nis ay ARCERATION, a
{Tis} o
Vari 1p a
*| stolid Indifference to his rial gta as:
seri ug that he woul never! ‘be hung on the
ualipwe, After the lure’ (o ‘seduro a new
irfal, this conduct ga ¢ place fo that of ap-
|-par nt insanity, Fo hours be would: give
y {0 butets of eeethingly uncontrollable
Then he woukt {recover. himself.

hee
| dle
gre
vey

be vould agala relapse Jato hive

ts, continually’ allernatirg from ote to

Pe These” demonstration con

tinindal} up to. within. a Ae tortnight ¢ of
xecutlon, when, at the’ solfzifation

) attorneys 4. eonmiesion of distin-

ib a2 NS *
rae hy: pes TAS .

slit g

Z thay w any person dak wish

? | hanged fs accursed,’ m Dt

gg wea my frends iris

ther kt, fan |4 anes
nets mar-| ;

ede “On Satur-!

"% Was pa sel fn pa enershty

hon har
i are thé Devils laws
in His ow trapy-

fo throw bimealf. body.

4 plaéd £8 a9 to be ha
lil heels Head, for God

ay? :
(ent 6 BE 280 1Gi
tions 13/2 Fhat is my: elle: Read: that
belore you say or think any’ tore. I thope |.
lags — wil! “at ns Bare j
poseibla abolish 4 “sueh's inhu’.
a8. trying to “swith thelr
ine ey te ee iain?
PAG €a at a ne
wa. f. Gea

lien tbe) ph mi ist he!

nd ilie have | a

; ui Give omy | love, to alle.

; my eit} and att

. | take thet: wicca! Wit

utstes swore fale
Ss Ba uy

TH forgive them. 1 now fx

etd all an Higt Ue Lord will forziy

my, sou), - prantee Give my love an
rb 10 4 id fa cared for tn
@l and ta my Alforseys and trends. |

THA het ed: Irs Cooley td) pray, fo
[hina which he etd, ater Tending: é: Potter

of fae in
rifarewell,
if Fa ters eee ie
Diote beter t -” ; ,

Is di ee piston
ect, 81 Bliced hish { fq. a
if a haa

heavens apd’ may, Jes
Brews alk those: Hats
alla ‘hop

“Lam en: foal.
man. (I never premedivated: it Ehopé Goa
willttake me aid allmy, ‘hiends te. heaven, |
a yrs Ot somo ie & fer) a

prayer fort me F

ah cxaniple pt ne 2B Emy |
ca arepoee tisklpe
lh ot obly: see Your}

hit.
Levit,
fal}
+. ten
‘He Nh, a8
| X08. |
wil
r wad’. the: T oid

he théni that

Vee
‘5... | Ove o'ctdox, PL BS
iAS i Pleased dd oaé favor.
(o the many already dobe me, by publigh
this my list dying @eclaration :" I, ee
Hrynfer, Merle bares the presence. fimy
Maker,. aS edve
and bel f end

afer Tam gone,‘ns {tts a very small 4
ands sl hids tavisitita & pliort: distan
Eatele be 3t JOHN Ht HUNTER.

bel. NTs Last

ticle
f off,

NigutT 72
ufet.| The
loss) of Blood had produced a visible: ef-
fect upot him, so that he renialned
state of semi-stapor during the ‘night.—|
To Dephty Sheriff Scott Was! agai ned
the duty of watching with him! to secure
against A repetition | of his suleldat at-

in a!

tempts.. | Throngh nil the silent hou of
fre. night thé kee ‘per maintained & ¢are~
il taddlstendy Watch over his Se "O=

Tents, . Only oned did the doomed Anan
| abner td awake from his sleep and [that

‘lonly tolask for a glass of water, which
eee proippuly siveh him, Taking along!
dratiglit}:
again’ ps

nd iwedicat experts made an eximing- | -

he agalm ‘closed his eyes snd

ed of {nto his’ half- -cousdious

state. Whus passed bis last nigh$. on
jearth Lp cous Adetcd {3 ;

Ek Ga gt

j saying vine it” ‘Was apprt ot his culty: to col
love: 80 th nt pled pee oyer’ his Leia. ‘ard

ont ‘the sinh ofthe priganes. :
: haat IS ixelock: ‘allo. fatal if

side i

Jobn* If. Hunter,
‘dreadtul crime which he had commis ted,

| Meet bis > pei tsa and) for His cternal
i galyatic ye. Se ae ij

“Sheriff Curtirn thea ste ppeal- t “ean w il
hte ular k ci when? Kinter: peal > with
hin Rot, fa- pak hat One hin’. Fae.’

t it niet

ht ‘of his world att

(Ate 33, tigen {

| sods Was edjanteg a'v0 at: BE neck, and al

be precisely" 16 mieut ‘ca. fo. V2cthe trap. was! ,
j Sprung); thebody failing r justscven fect ard f
«| ten Inches, the toes 68 | his boots! just clear |!

ing the floor of the fn'}, bis lest ¢ ixclamatton | i ‘

being’: *O; my: Lott {lod Afinighty, Give |
a ait to al}, both’ enemies. and friends.’

the hae of the, bend and. it. was fear: ff

anuscleg of the legs, there was: no strogele |
whatever, atid at prectely eight , minutes | b
j - from the time the dp fell, the alteniFing |

physicians pronounced life
bad |

DIRBOTIONS LY. a aarp TO ns nony,
Hunter requested that bis body ho taken |

in charge by Sherif’ Curtiss, bis Atlorneys, |
Messrs. ‘Yorls and Sau ford,
Cooley, to be disposed Of in accordance | ®
With his written directions which are sub-
stanially ng follows: “f
Lat tlie Doctors malo a thorough exam. |h
ination of hig head, but not, on any condis |
lipn, to cut htt bo: ly. After this examina-j.,
tin the bddy Is to be! pgiven in cliarge of iii
|

and Rev. Li!

geallemen nadied Above who are to have ft!
inferred with Bel cezemonie a Ag Le may |
think proper. ‘

{
ve RT Womrmt EXAMINATION, |
} j

PANS pg

{

fe
ji ing the nooss turned. trom the ttt

his = that hiss. “stra ras
should Inve ok be: wevere, _ With the “excep-}"
ended to die on

ihe ape, stay iM ee tualranient to Lett of a alah | vibrating motion, |

do it with for nearly four months ia thig fail. however, aud, the “sd¢eond rae

Dut T donbt whether it will cver be fund | ute alter falling? a wich costreetion «#f they

&
f

iy
}

nh
1 ty

fond. Hire. agatt +, ig @vidence of atrial
levelopni¢nt fx tha hog. -

Hay be, as the frien i "9 f- the ho
1aving shown bis hums inity). as the friend
vf humanity—cleared bis character from the
file chy afges made azainst|bim, let us-look
t liim as an article of merchandize—and at
he profit pr loss jo rajsing him ander cit:
erent circ Imstancecs.

Hogs art ap Important
facts Gf oui stutes bud
learksarity producin
Oftl elephant eared.
aired. ey rhistin f equy
fen disfigura our coun
ng béver tun be. The
din fe, tor eaten whe

In aclectins hogs: get
osetl. short fe tand:
They wilt fat? easier, an
esh will he white, tend
alice of kngar cured h
specially jf warniahed
fied Cer, [would nim
idlate his vows ‘of vbat
lean? ardusls? © The -
hina, Grassdreed and S
ied pod Fore GF thera} coudemoud... The |
hina, farlirsince, bate itt -bnt= ia, © pet

< —fand

hem. in the
Og? tethte hat

ab sided, grisly |'e
lerae that.yet too |)
try, are not pork,
gan not Le fatten’
dead.”

hot enred. short
orthafred animals:

nh juicy. and good.
m frot such 2 hog,
with - fresh. Bott
t fempt A Jew ta
nese fran’ - “Ue
field, > Berkshire,
ffs} ki have all ber

ips, foo smastl Hoot"! fo woft,. 5:
‘The Soffolk Js, too destiinte of hair for
rout Ginivte, Hnless jepppees a and pro.
cted:trom cok in: whale
Mixtures ae Guia cela are tiidoubt
iy good) oMix fee} iy with: the larce
mid brpeia, nil we rout bets barge
roeg eanly falened,
Far beti¢e for farmers
dso lone noeed then @.
sealers 6 KUT then,
eh his ! ie, Liane:

Hoare aed with}
rterizaly drained
Hod Uno Mie car

feta of hoes peek
meat: When they
ne nin the fore leas,
capes, a8 it does

\ ib ¢ Verees
pends u won their treat
it In thapwernis, the pu
pint. whidls off. te mater
man bie perpiradony gets clogzed up
nt the: Bog becomes Liseased, Nothing j

ort ef opening their! pes can. cfléct a
ro. This.ein cusily be lone by rabutag’
ny wig acob

Logs ste often aif: ced b kidney’ worns,

aremédy for bem, givd them oceasion= |
y & thblepoonfal ‘al De “compound ot)
ree parts wood ashes “the one of salt for.
hog mixed with bh If they are
“ive, an they fen Laeet tnke copperna
ce acd put it iy n skijlet, and set it

a quick -tire—it will $50
tili well mixed—then fel jt gool.” Pulver
this, dual give to each hoga table rpoon
tmixed with his food; Charcoal should
rays Ue kept where} bogs can get it. It
rreets the morbid flalds in the stomach,
UW assisis\igestion. |) |
Hogs, fo be beabhy, should havo arvaric¢ly
thei¢ | food—shut up, where they cannot
t inorganic uvatter, and | fed on corn, or
dixon meal only, they “will become effected
A Inmors breakiog oul, particularly on the
bck, and their breathing and swallowing
comes diMeult, A sipply of earth ashes,
Nyand phosphate of lime with a change
food, will hnmedintely” cure - them.—
yange the fond frum corn to potatoca—
sinphins—buck » heat or other vegetables,

‘this evebing, and possi! oy }
As kk. The loogt

{= The argument. fn the

hen fattened the evening about B o’clo:

ito the fury until this t

ance groming ont of te
last y rear,

for mile fons arte FL ane
tor Irespase. by. tha «ele
the house previously ates

a pale gt the Brewster Coa
ia path! for. damages far au: alleged breach
jof contact, and origin: 4 bout the same
j ime and grew cut of ie: Fame trouble ag
the Obe just passed age ns
te
* An evening sexsion wes held Jap iat,

pnd the application ‘of =. W. ‘Ture ri for a,
di vorce beard:
the coat of the pisiantT. The, custody At

tant to ry to fatten ; g

Coal Co.
concluded at eight o rolick last evening and
the case was giv mn tot he. ve jury at 11:30 his
A. M.

| The State of Obio vs, lHteaey Huber at

ar i ct ee

her COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,

NOVEMBER 15, | iF Bodies
~The time: of the Court
the trial of Jobn Marks +
noon. to-day. The evide:
John Fall is making the bp

_} The case will not go. to th:

ning argument,

till! morning,
nee W. Wise etal ve Janes Moneysmith
» Default fade men ‘for
west defendants, for, #99 ff and conte
- xoy, 16, 18 713
lease. of Joho Mark +8
ID. A. Beott and othe: ws Cor cluded last
q hat wa § not pe
; 3 ings = H 3e5
ne ider aie thiport =
miners’? trouble.
Ofc Aimed damagt s
ie mptisonment ard
cnt in entering ,
ied by; stark and
setting out. his: lurpitn nud. hi: use hold |
z00ds; The Jury came te about half past:
hven wijh a vereRct fpr the Dhaintife fer:

‘The re as a. cwse, of

‘The . ph tint

$363 42 Notige-ot- a. Cer sad for a gle a iQuiney.
tril Wits giver anil alle a
al S00,

and I; € nd xc

This morn! Ing the ‘ea ; ents re Ad upon ‘the
iris) Of the ¢) use of ar ' ies Pizsimmons |
Conip: wy, which |

The. jury is a
pne called ona spec “sal yenire., <3.

The diy: Tee Was granted 3 at

chikl was given to ie defendant M.

Turcer, until the further order of the kourt: i

sade rf arrest und order: d tom exter into re-;

cognaizance for their. dppearance Nov. 20,
boil—then - stir be -|

each, :
‘Blackie, 7 {er

sna ¥10u,:

| Samuel ; ‘selling iaoul

Henry J, Donshoe, for selling liquor 5,
\Viliam Noonan, for nethog Nquor 5 | Jobn
Holmes; for sel! ing liegror,

MOVEMBER 13, 187] aE aa

| i
Since our last: report, the ferm Af the
court has been wholly ort upled> with the
¢ase of Fitzsimmons agaiist the Jerevster

The taking of testimony -was

hich shoukt be boited and fed hot.

Appleg baited, and fed aa bot as the hogs |,
neat {heny are goui pe a change of diet.
Asa matter of ccondiy potatoes should
t bo'fed tu hogs whea they are, by the
she}, pore than one-fourth thespricd of
heat. | Wheat is thes the cheapest.
Pumpkins, boiled tee potatoes, Lack-
beat, or other vegelables, 1s one of the
pat articles to Iny oo fat. In feeding corn
ve it ground col and all.|

To know whether prk raising is profita-
¢, when you rely on porn for feed, a close

lenlation may be made a4 follows ¢ ee

a cant attord ta sell pork for leet the.
fa ho dnd, corr, forty two cents, per.
ju hunered; corn thirty three cents, pork
bon Hundred «
rk 3 a hundred, |
dion

that you ex

Whed corn is fily cents a bushel farm-!!
orifglary and larceny, arrainges|,
) guilty. Assigned to De ndant,’

corn, twenty- five cents, ||

This calculetion is hnsed on the sunpo- |;
ptriment on a gond|/ DBisp.—-The

rested bond $100 fndictment for selling li
,quor,

| Ohio vs Frank Miserlet, arraigned in hot
Indictments for burglary and larceny.
not guilty.

Plea

Oblo vs ‘Oodtiey Reroler, Hadietinent for
trurder Ja 2d degree, . arraigned. Plea not

guilty, ‘ i in, Pe ee,
bio ve James Qeelsérs, Indictment for
assault w Frat to Rit, erraignal. Plea

not guilty.

ON vs Earncat Barhst, Indfetinent for
Plea not

Criminal persons ‘wil he taken up Yon:
day, wis {LES js

Palo ville ‘Telegrrph cont

ag oneal
D. A. Geott at
‘¢ Wall in and’

A . ae | :
jury until late | churéh last ee. as previously announe-

plaintidy
. evening.

EVien TORIA U.. Wooonmts:

This. able and |
E energetle che sppidn of the: weaker. gx Is

to give her. views on ‘Finadce’ at Case Hall;

Cleveland, on, era evening, the 244th |

Inst. an id's
oP fete ee ae oe ‘

ed, the Rev. Mr, Slartyn of Connecticut, a
nephew of Revs “Caslos Smith. of this alty,
occupied ‘the? “pulpit. both: morning, and
Both” discourses were’ masterly
efints and) ej cited the. most. interested” att

dance, :

Scene ipararaiee

dollars is offered for (ba. rostoration,
formation that wilt lead. there!

| epee!

To ma

urally arise ¥,
and most sub
cured gt the.
‘bodyin: the le
trade In Sum

tention of, ‘the large. Sopnroenilen, 1 alten=| MAtNOUr.

‘Tei, a boy five yenta olf, who disappean d enable’ then

onthe

from his home in- Quiney, ‘ace ige
‘26th -of June: Jast Tt Js believed
boy, was ‘gairled: Of by By psies
“musicians, and, that ‘le {s ‘no!
+ through Soutt bern” “Ohio, - Jalon ee may
be: Rent to J.- CE McGraw, Chief o
Iisots, OF ao) W, Mt, Teib, of the

S qe city. fe Rept ee TA ye
apres reget seth
| pon oT RL AMV srr AS aglegation,
fhinibering
; blars of this. £15 ty went ever to Tallmadge,
lust! Saturddy- night, for: ‘Abe: purpose ‘ of
pay ing. return visit, to thelr brethren (and
bistltay of that“place, ‘Lhey. were Inost
hospitably - Teevived: by: their. entertainers, |
who,, after: delighting. Ahem With: some
‘choice. and. epley: literary” -exvercises,
pleted : the. §

Police, ,

ire twenty, of the Goad Tem-|-

itt the} Oven
yr ‘Ttalisn} ain eae
wandering ad

Hthat su ill
‘\ter suited 2
largest stock |
KOCH: & t
of. Boy’ 8 ‘anc

having fixed
for that a

‘com j
joyousness of the occasion ‘by i

serving up. x righ: and bonntévus: repast. ol} :

apprecication’. The. visitors) finally, at a
Jie he ur, ile patted,
the penis: t. eoprolanignlg 4a

ext Wo orp Pot bis rox " AND Repowi ein8.—
lt ig expected ibat cdilyss and. reporters will
attend: ‘all, public. niectings ‘and publish t
proceedings. - We. inay: know: fiom some,
otber sources ‘hat the meeting. Ww HY ‘be held,

‘them ald see" thatthe press is invited, —
‘How oes: the editor! know. ‘whether. you
want a report 2 ? Ishe to'stumble in lik any

Porting. without” being” invited? Commit:
‘tees’ mect, public concerts afe held, public;
dinners given anu, a thousand other r things. |:
We. don't want your. dinners, we have y-
enough “of. our! own, nor. your dancing ot |
music’; but if you expect’ “us {0 spend) cur
time in exqsiriag into them ant our money |
fo ebiting’ty pe for. them, unless our services |
aro jhought.vorth a littleZeh ow of common
couftesy, you are mistaken. We give a3

‘| liberally to'every good cause as- any one of}

our means nd thenfare expected to double
that in prini ing, for which we get. not even
thank you, Many: persons, too, neglect the
newspaper ix the business that needs ftanid. |
They seem to think they. can and should g:

us apy equivalent.
the paper ci her as citizens of acommupity
‘or ag indivi! ials it is your duly. to render an
‘equivalent, - What” would | you think” of a

as nar who ¥ md’go into yout sjore and ask}

you to give via hank of ‘thread and go

which abl pa took with evident. ‘selish, ard),

1 ge ‘}
bighly. MeHg hted A ; this: jrsulition|

(but whoever imay have, te mapagenient.of | ~

other person and take an active part by ré= |

eee channels : ara. ‘ele
: | ought to be" eur

‘fever’ ora Algor
scrofa, or disp

move the source
and Iifallibte by
CALIFORNIA Vy

a “Tertumes=t
can. JA large I:
mee Drug Store

fs anova, Bots!

Pele wily ta

where you. at
Closing out, (
merrier, 102 No

Mont

that which costs us money without’ givin : ae
_ It_ you want the ald of}

Soieeea ‘ol
cheap —at the C
stacibacs nove

a Sy ebicnatinepesaonigs

THE E 1
kor Clothir

ie | a3
> ae £8, 2A

EXECUTION

* ‘

eet rs GARGETT MURDER.
The Gargett murder will, we believe, re-
main the subject of interested conversation

long after all the charectera in the tragetly |.

have passed away. The suiden and viclent
death of two aged and most highly respects:
ble'people at the hands of a wilfoll and pres
meditating assassin, is an ¢vent “Bot s00n to
be forgotten, either by those more directly
concerned In the transaction or by the con-
miibity at larep, whose best sense of rigkt
and: ‘Justice bh tits been £0 flagrantly vid-
lated. Bf ;

The long tniin of circumstagces that ie!
to the commission , of ibe erie bs. {oo well
known to require More than a pwwsinz ro:
lice, AS quiet} homestew! in Righfi-td, O.)
where lived tt i aged parenta, Mr. atul Mrs
Gargeit, ‘and two of theif children, Chloe
and Rodney, aged respectively 2t atid 72. in
all the enjoy indnt of a pleasact home, twill!
enfiled to to furnish the first scene/ to this
dreadful tragetly. The homes of two mar

ried ebjidren 9 Michigan, where the man}.
was a frequent visitant wilh ft:
A picture of Chive inf)

Joho W- Hunt

serve ag the nd. -
he possesion of her sister and ‘ifs. falling.

into. the - hands. of Hunter led tora. eulres- <j

pondence.and ee sty WO an engaperrent

for marriage. act Saks
Thus matte

‘went on, sae mean-
while having v Sted Miss G. at ber’ home,
until reports co ing (o her through P| sister-
in law residing ja Elm Wall, Mich. , deroga-
tory:ta. the ebaricter _ of © fier. BUE-
or, resulted , fala. coolness between - the
two and. finally “iu: their . complete
uliciation; “sib was the. state of affalra
when, In. May/lasty Huoter Jeft Ein Hall
acd came to Wigurleld With the avowed pac:
pose of se¢ing Chive or “cleaning out the
whole farnjly 2? Arriving at 1 chfleil Center
on Saturday, ‘hy 27, be met the son, Rod-
ney Gargett, and rode home with Gn. _
Mere he wos met by. the ‘old gentleman,
Robert Gargett, lof whom he asked the” priv:
ilege of eceing Shloe, but-was refused and
ordered to! leave tbe premises, Desperate
with anger, he ‘siddenly drew © revolver,
fired, gna the old man dropped, mortaily
wounded, |

: Ae
; “un. “fe th a AMCKTT. Fe;

tie suytl syilor upti

-} ab. Diem, -

Pe NS BY OG Sar Ee em OY, oF Winter 1

Hehe Sch oe geal da 8pse jnto h bce a
ing is ‘continually allernatizg from ore to
another. ~ These demonstration con-

tint ny up . to within, - a. rv tortnight of |
hig execution, when, at ie solizifation |
ot hfs 5 | atlorneys & commission of distin-

guished wwedicat experts mace an ex uming-

tion of. the condition of bis mind, The re-

sult of the examination, which was most |
thorougily and impartislly tonducted, w |
the unanimous declaration ja favor of his|
sanity. From that tive % change came)
over him. Always: before of a most irrita-|
ie remy ament, he dropped entirely his |
PP | stolidity, and for: the frst time |
seemed to have. a re-
proaching « doom by}
pnt ations. thero-
gent peeder: of the,

;

j
j
I
i
'
}
H

alizing. sense. of bis ap

beginning his
le beeamo & aitle
dfy With his apititual Hvlecis Bae
Ong week: before. the date of his exectt:
2 Ave: ‘to jthe pablieis, ldog and full
icknawleds gement of the’ erjmne, at the game
times ‘solemaly firming | that he- Was Un~ |.
cotst¢tous ot his actions) when the deri was
‘perforyncd. He elaimed: to chave «full pare |

t
iis atts, bs ng ed for. ithe Beal

ArreMrT AT dbl

O° ‘positively raséried 3 LAL
ate Fege rihe ; B: i a, “the “Sheri

fut the st werk. wy “e kep hi.n diner, close |
‘yatweillet ce, and oi Suud ¥ hinhy watched |
With: “4 ime ail © enighty: enters) him?
pit, rent “into airake i oa online | ‘ufth:,
engages | fix - conversation) ' Cwrithng: and

reading. | Qa Modday Shetitl Curtiss. mare

a thorous earch of hig. pbrson,” Tort, bed.
ding, fe , and removed: versthing from
the jak. 2 he supposed, - vith: which - lie

troy. “hit ‘ge!

f, ‘And went!,

epeld-sud euly des \,

he ju “of castonblly fo

t ick naling to
oh forencon Was

u
he. cian waa well. -
or seed. § aly, several petaons, -editort,
elergetie *athd Abers “nak ng brief visite fo |
priscafers At nod: be de his; iabeh Ba
tg offer “Whieh -- be} paserd "| backs
along. the | |corttdors, “ear.
Bible tn.) bla’ tiaheés, andy:
om. At about
Lid &, urttes, from
vf obvervation, ‘at the weal end of
By; hab heh is-
tribited’al number of apples ‘Vat nth been
given bh among bis: fellow, prisoners, ond
while they were engaged In eating’ them shef
sew bite eter his cell and close'the Woor’at
tet him... This being wntisual, with bins,.sbe
Sootocd— three symething: was

ape tor i

lialf past t
ler placé

Wrong. sa imei sent for: her hus.
band. . Hutgying over to the Jail, he found:
he prisiner. sitting {n/a leaning” posture

the slza ol a. sniall goose quill from. bis rete
arm. Dr. J. J. Snyjth,: horhapperied to
be at the.Court. Houre, was iramediately |
called in,’ rho at once bathe hn ‘compress |
upon the o and stopped tho -thiw cf
bliol Th weund was on dng inside of ther

Jefh elbow yhid’ was aboot ba {veh in
lenath, a1 “if is‘eupposed to sii teen in.
flinted- nh emall slivers & ‘gines which

Rheritf Chet sg aflermeattg fcynil* gion. the
floor of his bells > Dr, Sintth, together. with

(hy erime or nrurder. 4:
abort hig: pecustomed » dutids at Use | Cot! 4

; of the jail in pendiness for. ita | setting

Led breakfast; hastily.and nervously

anon his ped, aud the blood spurting in jets).

Dr, Bowen ‘who. WAS sodn aller called in,

ree

hich
ong
and }
ious

ask for a‘glasa of water, Ww

was proinptly giveh him. ‘Taking a
| dranglit he. ag: att ‘closed his eyes
again: passed of into his: half-cons¢

only to

istate. Phus massed his Jast night. on)
earth. i Ree
: - TIE DALLows. ge
The gn lows: upon which Hunter w2g exe

,ecuted ig the’ sanie one, that was origi
built at the’ expense of Summit count
the execution of Parks, for the imurd r of
Beatson at Cuyahoga Falls, It will
éolleeted / that: after Arial, convietion aud

was brought to Akrory and. for a nummy
years was stored in the loft of the: jl
It was safgequently borrowed by: (he. Guy:
ahoga County ofticials for the executfo of | sl
ong of tha, Jarge. number of turderers hat
have. since
belug somewhat . re modelled’ and :

more compact an simpie than when first at

bale Pi A Za! : biect ee ghee b
Six persons, ‘certainly, val perliaps a‘
greater number, vesides Hunter, have

; executed upon “the Fame’ ‘gallows, vig — ae

Paks, fhe the murder. ol eae + De

Bae murderers; Streéte “forthe n r=

ae ab ye Gee Foremost in_Moxit ine ete ack

pooper, for tbe murder of | Joba Rb
l bangti near Kent, in at county
is arranged with a: dip with
8 feet. Iba: ropa useil is the

gaine as

which “several of the, above babual crints
nals were: hanged, Both th gallows and |
the’ repo?) will, be yrefurned: 0 Res ;

county, it bein f ervently hopad that &
mit may never arn bé eglled ppoa to 3
cule or otherwise punish. a hu

{SHR DAY OF EXECUTION
Dawned gidomy and lowering. | ;
aS pigsage front the Gbretaoe ha been},
receiv ed the evening before’ agein| decliatng
in interlere with the due exeeation of| the
law, and préparations for fhat | event. wes
agtoplingly hastened forward. e
~ Long before daybreak the: c:

conveyed the gallows. withia.

had.
tors |
up.
nrne |
the}
cell
pair:
ced

ie nters
he cori

At cighto ‘clock the several catpeciers ¢
wiletheir saws ond tools to! qomplete
aK. Hunter was still ising in his
and, when awakened nnd asked ifhe d
refi
to touch. anything % Whatever.

="5

THE chown OUTSIDE. 1 ref
At ay: tatty . houy in the niornidg
crowds t began to gather around the all

yard and inthe streets, Most. of these
were fromthe eduntry, who cama in
either with the, iden that the execution
Was pudlte, or that they could gain. acess
to the Jall. In both these partion ara
they were entirely disappointed as a, full
foteg Of pollcer: én? quite barred thet
entrance even rnside’ the yard. The
large throng, including many Tac ies,
nevertheless stood gazing at the build.
ing as if to plerce thé very walla, (But
the walls fulladito open up to their gaze},
and reveal the awftl tratisaction lat
wag going ou within. be
THe RXK@BFION. | e

ain! D {tion was. held over fhe body, conduc’ E

the

“been codyicted in that-coun sit i

tall of'atbout)
phat) 43
antes

: ve de “atthe r xis’ ‘the Xs Me. c. AL An
yl cee don city, oo ta t Saturday.

ss Gentlemen ¢ fie Club:

babet tote? vty wllurciota ttn ty dey Moat 15 fate kOe : Aaa Ee hod Led ane
tion the body is to be given in charge of tbe
gentlemen nathed above who ate to have it
interred with sucli ceremonies as they may
think prove r.:

eae

eet MOSTEM EXAMINATION
At {wo 0 ‘clock P.M. a past znortem ‘€x-

‘ed by, Dr. B.

m ing were remayved tothe, debtors |
room alae some ten or. twelve phy siclans
wele gathered. The skull was first opencd.
‘and the | brain examined. Icwas found to|
1} be in: ‘A gpod: heaktby condition and weighed

six aud one-halt ounces, conside rably
Atha averse. No inarks of’ concus
A any external blow could be fuund..
=the a ai verdict was. peony ad-
. 0

5. Chase. For this purpose |

~ ft Was. ‘found . that? he had
ae ae: a Yelv, and not’ an
je showin’ : ‘that from, this alone |
(he ebuht not haye resulted. ith this, |
Tithe exupioation, the body, out of |
nee to the Cying wish of the prisoner; }
no jarther mutilation, It cen.

soja tro antl ‘one-half hours, and
Teli fed ie me t intense interdst va the part!
ot thos preset t. seuling at reth as it did.

8 | all dod is, iad to (tie sanity ot abe excen! et
|

Tete

saul By ai: bnthly Me eting
Tiere tie Inter
a

{
“te Anotter i i a te sting , pee ‘piatiable session |
e Summit Cotinh | Baraiers’ Club’ ce |
[ |

BRE attends we wss Lot so large. as usual,-|
though qpiite :pespee! able, ihe folios or
members hetig present: S: . Pitkin, |
Akron; Wim. fh Alten, Akron, fee Miller, |
‘Portage; Chas. Rinehart, Akror; We SB |
Btdrer; Por eg; Dew Sewetty Middlebury;
Geli: be Vi Besee, Akren; “Thes Rrown-. “|
less,” Akrots . Giram Dellaven, Picionte k's

Jy 0. DyLaht ster, Akron, and If, S, F wor, |
Cuventry. ' : ‘ |
| After roaglh a the minuies of the en

meeting, Gen. [. V. Bleree Whe called ppon

atid free. the following csany:),
THE HAQ,

'
*

“When notified by our worthy President, | |
on ‘Thursday Inst, tHat T must make the |
opening remarka at this ineeting ; and
bring out.q subject of: disepssion : 1 wrs
much at los} to know what subject J could
propose that would either futerest, or bene-
fitthe Club, I. at first, thoughtof ‘the ef
lect: of .movnlight on the germination and
growth of plants, and the growth avd de-
velopement of aulmals"—butss [am fin a
vam minority in my bellef on that subject,
Lwag fearful you would think oy theory
tnd’ femarks were nll moooshing, snd 1
abandoned tbat idea’ wud adopted a Voy
common, but anpopular subjtet—tig neo

“The hog is, generally. unpopular, He is
tooked upot nse filthy, Inzy, pbstinate art-
mal, withept Jove or-affectiby, 1 am a
filend to b oygs— and if LT cane argh them
An all their: actions, Eclat, Ghat there is
much to,be said in their favor,

“The hog iz, by nature, nw scavenger,
whoce . appropriate business it is ta dispose
list thecoffis of the kKifchan—thereby remov

it read by Bowdt

verted that he had ques-
Sensabaugh, then highs
“tment purchasing agent.

¢ that

2
«
4
<<

es
m he went

¥
ae 4

It should be, according
cavit as read by Bowen
w= » Tire & Rubber Co.'s bids
“ced at the same time, for

ee SS, Ss Waa the Xenia
pe lCording to the testimony.

weer 2 MANY AWARDS.
ted aw long Lst of road
“- ardt in which the Amies-
if » low —bidse-—were not ac-
' place. the percentage of
business being distri-

OWS: sa ares
~ ad Improvement, 48.11,
cg 4 per cent of the tote!
2 CUM, £245 per—eent,

2 per cent of the total
“- Amiesite, 0.44 per cent,
Per cent of the ot

“= ation between Bowen and,
© ton. the latter: with the’
* Mpeny. was repeated br
~ wnt, who declared that
ae “= < informed him thet he
eee tS Kil state orders at-his
ae Purchasing --portion—of
» from one_of_the other!
op bidding higher.
1S -BECOME-LOW -
was also called by Bowen
~ that in duly, 1830, the
' otdders suddenty - became
bidders by reducing their:
Amiestte stood still.
18SC, the Ohio Road was
0 per ton ahd the Mar-
86, whereas in July their

etn would have made a
itself on Its low bia. 74

. at his
pany would get none of]

“to Robert
highway director, and
“med him that his bid was

Gene Renews Sie

| acd "FA wEahzauon Fee

to the , basement “evel entrance of th: a
Norwich hote! ee ehor, Wher br’
“jlost his a §& the MAC hy.

tors
federation” Vapewes their demands
yesteztsy - for tse equalization feel ve
provision in- the “Federst marketing,
act.

two-day closed meeting. said
time had arrived to ask the present
congrese for amendments to the mar-
Keting act to correct its weeknors and
limitations.
Discussion of this matter took es
much of the board of directors’ time
that they were unable, they said,
cengider proposals for stabllisstion of
cemmodity prices -@ establishing a
“100-cent doller” prepared by a spe-
clal committee “of -farm — leaders,
economists and agricultural: corer nd
editors last, week. i

——
e

Couple to Make Three.
Year Honeymoon Cruise|®

GLOUCESTER, MASS., SEPT. 24.—
(INS) —Out of this port of hardy

Petr cominitenent; --tseued- “etter ba
the:

es \
He Pi tong

a recat) e Rady FATS 2 '

= — tar obd
Farmer, Wound amc

LIMA, OHIO, SEPT. 34. —- Ce.
Oftcers were searching toca: for four
unidentifie¢ men who shot and mete.
leomr-Mobowck, ages 42. farme- Bel
pees Vaughnsvilie and -triticallr: q
wounded Prank Conway, aged 8&5, con
stable of Sugar-Creek township Yast!
night, t
Mobowck and Conwy surprised ‘eel
four men when ther were Bwtempting:’
to steal Mobowck's hogs, Cot way said!
The men escaped and Cotrway, was’
brought to a hospital here with bul- |
let Peabgre nos his ebdomen and
shoulder. ;

—

Cotten Diet ‘Aids Child.

Gahermen, a -young-—coupie -ezil today

—_Whe “Sw, allowed Nail

in a 26-foot sloop on a. threte-yee:
Hhoneéymoon voyage arrows the —At-.
lan®&c tO the Mediterranean. 2
The young. couple, J. Edward
Crowley, jr. former Brookln -archi-
tect, and his bride, the former Car-
men Stella Pernande? de Cornejo of
Buenos Aires, were married at Brook -
ine, e i

ids. were 43 50. and S6.Ba
ahaa)
4 | pee te

unmtant- wittaes also ‘cited
here the Standard Blag:
igstown concern, had ob-
da on bids which would
s much as 70 cents @ ton
WAT oe —

Tors aiagl

Been

¢ eta

= Wocpen: Sei ioanled =

-iire, Roth Carr:-agsd Bi toler. of
342 East Btauring street, ‘wa: shot
through the thigh early Thurtdss, by
ab unidentified Negro, whom ashe
claimed forced open the front door of
her home and fired at her without
prerocation. She was treated at 8t.

=
TR en Nt, ates f

soner bee Bi

rer. Is Returned ,

2, QHIO, “SEPT. 24. —
try Wilkes, Columbtansa

thie’. eecaped from the
er carnp of the Mansfleid

Prarnicts boeplial and then returned to

corte bev:

Tne chamber of deputies last . night ae
requested Pree:dent Oriis Rubio to req! ..
jmove Cerloe Trejo y Lerdo De Tejada

ber hore. “ene Fetan eros:

et te 3

_*
cineca! ‘she paeginlh

r a 0 nee

Urge Carn 8 ar
MEXICO CITY, SEPT. %.—(#).—

‘fton diet and the latest pictures, at-

hoe.

LOs ANGELES. SEPT 24. —&. ook
paiet— or “raw —cotton —disg Gined in

spinach, -the X-ray-at the Genera!
hospital-informed physician: today te:
saving the Hfe of 6Ssyear-old Mar-
vella Donovan, who swallowed a mai!
Yast Saturdzy.—
She finished her f fourth ciiy of eat.

_jtendants at the. ita) said, show

Ohio ‘Garden Cub Flot,

BANDUSEY, OEIO, SEPT. 34.—
(INS)—BMrz. George KEighfieisch, of
Tiffin, today assumed her duties as!
=ctat-
Ohio following the election of ote |
oers ST” the -armuel—meeting

Mrs. Kermode F. Gill, Cleviland, was.

— - = veep el _ ~-
= = pe — Se x f. Aa Site A Sc Ee. ke ath. Lu
: twee. : . be Be Bien oe ND BR debs v ET We Ream ES. < Sn i : Poa os Sa
cag? e = ; s papa | : :
of : ae
pgm Eee is ae Pern oom eng on nee eg Fee poe ala eee ee a Ss se

fur Hom, Janzs A. Rropes =. Ree ‘Rrcuanp UN. Jenreon
GorERwon or OHIO 7 ee oe oe as 185-075, 0.P.

a a ge
LweZe . 5
- . _
oes ae ° - - oF

ATTACHED ARE CURRENT PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC EVALU<-
ATIONS OF JEMISON PREPARED BY Mr. W.W. Gruperntr, PsycHoLogiss
4nd A.J. Levcurxer, N.D., Psycurarrarsr. Since Da. Leocuren's
REPORT CONTAINS COMPREHENSIVE BACKGROUND INFORMATION OM THE

SUBJECT, If SEEMS REDUNDANT fO INCLUDE Jenison ‘s. PERSONAL HIB-
TORY IN THIS LETTER. cae 8 8 BSP ge | oe

Upomw ENTERING fHE Pens rENrrany, JENIBOM LISTED MO LIVING ~

a ALLATIvES. Hs DID, HOWEVER, LIST THE FOLLOWING FRIENDE:
¢ — Roperr CoLuins : 1565 Counsarome Ro," CoLunavs, Onto |
= Jim D. McDowatp —-.-:« 2808 W. Hrox sr, _—-. Gobumaus, OxIO |
‘ Grevg STIDHAM 5421 Houmes | . Kansas Crrr, Ho.
j 8 =
z THE SUBJECT IS DESCRIBED 45 FOLLOWS: e
Wane: Ricxanp H. Jemrson —SS Dare oF Braret Nance 12, 1909
x Race: Wurtz . _ Proace " ™. Crmcrxwa TI, 0x10
i Aarn: Brown + Bereur: =, ~—s& "103"
* Compuezion: Farr Wereets B05
? ., Epucarron: 0 Bywet Bue
¢ RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
a Haron ve CARDWELL
3 Wanpes
: AJC suur
Incue-2
cc 3FIue

Marcw 21, 1969

Mr. JERRY WEINER
ATTORNEY aT Law

88 East Broap STREET
CoLumsus, OHIO

Re: Rrcwaan H. Jemiaon
# 123-073, 0.P.

Dear iin. WeINERS

Wz ARE WRITING TO ADVISE THAT THE DATE OF EXECUTION

W THO CASE OF YOUR CLIENT, THE ABOVE NAMED INMATZ, HAS

BEEN Srr For Fripay, Marcy 28, 1269,

[HIS NOTICE 18 SENT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH INSTITUTION
CUS?TO.%

IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY TAKE ANY ACTION YOU DEEM
NECESSARY.

VERY TRULY YouURS,

HAROLD J. CARDWELL
WARDEN

AIC:MLF
cc :FILE-2

Ween

Marcz 21, 1969

Tue HONORABLE JaMES A. RHODES
Gorzrnor oF OHIO

Stars House

Cotumspus, OHIO

Re: Rrowanp A. Jeurson
# 125-073, 0O.P.

s4aAR GorERNOR RHODES;

Tue ABOVS NAMED INMATE WAS RECEIVED AT THIS INSTITUTION
Faox Fraénevin Cocnry on Nance 31, 1966, uavinG BEEN FOUND
cuibty or Lurper Frrasr Degree (TWO CONCURRENT cHarcec). His
pecree BY vHE Cour? wAS DEATH AND THE DATE OF BXECUTION WAS
sev ren Jury &&, 19656.

Ox Jurc 20, 1966 AN INDEFINITE STAY OF EXECUTION WAS
oRAN?oD ey Tar Franevin Counry Counr OF APPE&LS AND, ON APRIL
23, 1908, £N INDEFINITE STAY WAS GRANTED BY THE OHIO SUPREHE
Couns. Tree Cocrt, on Decenper ¢, 1966, SET THE NEW DATE OF
Execuriolw FoR JANuARY 2¢, 1969 anv, on January 8, 1969, GoveR-
wor REODES GRANTED A REPRIEVE UNTIL Harnce 28, 1869.

Recoxnps oF OHIO PENITENTIARY SHOW THAT ON OR ABOUT THE
197u pay or May, 1965, Jemison DID PURPOSELY AND WITH DELIBER-
ATE AND PROMEDITATED MALICE KILL Virginia L. Jenson (isr Counr)
anp Joun Lyzan (2n~p Count). THE TRIAL BEFORE 4 PANEL OF THREE
vupGES BEGAN Mancy i¢, 1966 anv, On Marca 19, 1966, JEmIs80N Was
FOUND GUILTY 4S CHARGED. AE 4PPEARED BEFORE THE COURT AND RE-
CEIVED THE DEATH SENTENCE ON Marnce 28, 1966.

UPON ENTERING THE PENITENTIARY, JEMIBON sato, "Ar rHIs
ring, ] HAVE NO STATEMENT TO MAXE CONCERNING AY casr,”

Tue SUBVECT'S RECORD SHOWS SEVEN (7) PREVIOUS FELONY con-
MITMENTS ON CHARGES OF Foroery, FaLse PRETENSES, GRAND LaRceny,
Issvine Cuecks with Insurricirgenr FunD8, 4NpD Math THEeFr. fe Has
BEEN CONFINED IN INSTITUTIONS IN TEXAS, KansasS, VIRGINIA, WAsH-
INGTON AND ALABAMA, AS WELL AS TWO PRIOR SENTENCES TO OxI0 Peni-
TENTIARY.

"STATE CF OHIO |
DIVISION .OF PSYCHIATRIC CRIMINOLOGY
P.O. Box 517
Columbus, Ohio 43276

a ae

PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATICN:

DATE: Marcu O, Flo:

NAME: SembSOh, KICKARD He. NUMBER: 125=073 pop, S12-03 ace, :
ADMITTED: ARCH ST, 1806 leet bocce eens CHARGE: Punese, Fo. Ly,
SENTENCE: CEATH ww. LSH STAT. Be.

Fsy.-1G2 1C Pads—4-68-OPP (F-54)

Loch §S & OCRVYEAR-OLD MAR WHO WAS CORMETTOCO TO THE CHIG PLOOLTONTIASY ah 0: OF
& t

BT . Cee * a) tee wy * :

fO0G iv Tut FRankean County Common Porcas Count, FOLLCH:
re T

GOSRLS PURGER ON TWO COUNTS. GURIKS THE ENTERVicw, JEMISON CLALDCE ADSEnES © T#e
EVO MVliCd LEG TO THES CONVECTION, FORTHkanont, MO AieuLSo To misseet it -e
ALO CTS OF WIS LIFE WHICH HAD ANYTHERS TO SO WEYS B$o processes ~-
STCPSTIGRS ON CHIO AND SCVERAL OTETR SvTAvTCS,. THOCRCPOLE, Pie iaGeesees Pe. oo
Teel ettOF OF THO TREAL EN TARCH TOO, Pee ON RATION Feah Ton Lina Uvavs bess. 0 0 cu.
bi. OS eONS COTARNED EN PERSONAL §YEiueVEEWS,
VEO WAS CORVECTED FOR THE MUMECR Of RES WIFL ALD A Blue ctoa: ite eee 8H ae ak
Gus. LOT EVENTS OCCURKES of fay TO, TOOS. Tos HuUaL ES uF Bove yon
we LISCRILEOG bik GETALL © VEM{SON ENTERED THE Lave efont, wos. °
- bor Go tice - Of D APS pote ewe GG ary at: . be * ne ~. be oo! thee
iis . Pe Soar dy CF Bi 4 oes Sewn b asec cies or ae he oF $,euw Ff eloe a ee ee ee 4 MG
Tos. ho WALKED UP TO THE oRUG=SToRE Toe Asis UIE Aid Gce.c. -
SUPlIVESOR, VENISON Kaw GOTH RE, ieiacoas A FEW WOURCS WET VOCS, Peto :
CU FNS ULDER A TRENCH CGAT, WRATH KE aivap Bree EleG BOTn fF
THC OLva—S¥ORE MANASER OLEO cnory7cy pinnate THE ROCICOsAL SUPESYICES S2 ~
Ciici es
DONS Weed NAD CLER AX EMPLOVES OF THES c = meunw? ioe, 4
FO GhORENGESS A SALE", GUE WAS GALLS 5) ae SCOY tiles ao.
MuGicetne G2 Tho GRAY bDRUS SToee CHIR: Vis @ ea fate OY FHA &
STi oS TSMASERe MRE, SSMESOR Haw SOMES MinOh PLLUESS Fo. ge AYE 4?
BAG lO ULOUPLOVED. SKE KAR SOND OAL INOS WETE Tet EUacaAy oF Girecovocioy oc See
Covie (2 (hERE WORE HO WiThEsc2s To THO oucoTiNSs Ge Mas. Uihicsnu. {2peck oc.
Rat ~ a wet oT eA bLe ALLE SH RS was SuUCGeGucniey CUVENLS Mee en by cLsiaston 2 nu! we
PCLLSLIGG THE SHOOTENG §N TNS ORUG STORE, JEMISON WAL GUSERVED TO TARE A Tati:
VO Ti GREYHGUND Zus STATION, #8 CoLumous, WENO Sis CAR WAS PARADE. FS Bacv.
AWAY E22 UAS APROSTESO on May 12, TOSS tn Soutias, Weansis From teponconearice
Ao GROCENINT GFF ECER AND TRANGPGERTENG A STOLEN Venicne ASKOSS See vietinn.
~ Oa. TO HAVE STATCS TO THE ARRESTING GFFETER, Ml weAS REDENG ARGUE Vo Lb: “ae

wUNE TA CAV PRIGR TO THE SHOOTINS, HE AND 45 WEFE RED VISIVIB S2n fevion, -
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Containers:: Box 31 (2-Documentation of Executions), Folder 7
Resource Type:: Document
Description:: William Hobbs executed on 1938-07-06 in Ohio (OH)
Rights:: In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Date Uploaded:: July 3, 2019

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