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| brothers farm in the Bald Hill area,
five miles southeast of LaPorte, where
a young man, with his shirt in his
hand, had been sighted running west
across the farm. Baumgartner and
other officers began combing the re-
gion, composed of ridges, poor farms,
timber and swamp.

Just before 4 p.m. Stayton returned
to the station from Chicago with a
letter from Lieut. Joseph C. Wilimov-
sky, Jr., of the Coroner’s division of
firearms identification: “. . . As the
result of my microscopic examination,
it is my opinion that the one (1) fatal
bullet and the three (3) evidence bul-
lets recovered from the ground were
all fired from the same weapon... .”

Stayton, too, was dispatched to the

Bald Hill area.

a farm wife that a man without a
shirt had just run across the road
in front of her place and into the
desolate east quarter-section.
Cautiously, Stayton drove south,
then east, attempting to find a road
into the section. He turned north.
He knew there was a road just west
of the northeast corner, and at that
corner he Fs mag up Charles Burden,
a Scholl Dairy farm employe, who
interrupted his fence building to dash

ee was with him. He was told by

‘into the dairy farmhouse and grab a

shotgun. :

The two drove into the quarter-
section on a dirt road and stopped at
the isolated John Lofgren farm. Chil-
dren were playing in the yard.

In no direction was there a sign of

their quarry. Arou
woods, swamps and
to the southwest,

herd of cows movin;
to the: barn. :

“Have you seen :
here?” Stayton aske

A boy pointed to
cows. “We saw a fe

Underbrush and
the cows’ course to
ing, the two men ha:
underbrush, warni
back.

They had progres
and were passing tt
ohildren’s cries aro
were gesturing ahe:
pile. Atop the w
made out a man’s
were focused on the

He and Burden ci)
they be spotted.

Stayton was almc
when he called: “C
you. Come on out

Slowly a young m
behind the pile a
Stayton, his hands u)
where I was? If I hac
those cows—!” A
jammed in his belt.

Stayton removed
Smith & Wesson.

Handcuffed, Ches
24, his short, stock)
bundled into the sq
glanced at his watc
car’s two-way rad
nounced Arkuszews
the station a crowd
sion of cars.

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for things to cool c

made me more tt
I gave him a bonus.
give him for giving
papers years before.
I was getting jumpy,
man I might like wou
acop. With Bill I w
of anything.

After we dropped
Bill worked a new ar
Jersey. cigarettes to t
who rip open cigare
two or three cigar
That kept our: bu
dealers in the poo
But it was less expen
long run. It worked,

’ weren’t the only one

weren’t making muc

In January, this ye
arrest of the Wide
owned a stationery s!
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Jersey and using a p!}
on the wrapper. The
imprint from the Je:
of them, Jacob and M:
21-year-old daughte:
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printer.


‘f in his office, Baum-
piling a list of La-

riminals. He figured
vas a local man who
yolly’s habit of carry-
of cash inside of his

list numbered twelve.
striking off: this sus-
slarize, but he hadn’t
a stick- -up. That sus-
< a man up, but he’d
me to murder.
three names remained
3aumgartner nodded.
mnly ones who’d be
for this job.”
> three names to Stay-
tkuszewski, just re-
» Pendleton, Ind., re-
a grand larceny’ rap;
town “bad boy,’ who
for a poker game mur-
id played first base on
e prison baseball team,
Chicago gunman who
a small farm on La-

ts,

ned at the names. “I
rkuszewski or Johnson
ays, but I’ve seen the
1 his garden patch on
all summer.

ing down on his head,
up, the third suspect
a Chicago hood despite
ed clothes leaned on his
1e two officers approach
rows.

azuchoski didn’t make.
ry cell window of the
iim to freedom’s fringe.

“Hello, Chief.

He smiled, exposing yellow teeth.
( Hello, Jim.” Colorless
hair straggled from beneath his bat-
tered gray hat onto his wet forehead.
“T’ve been expecting you.”

Baumgartner asked levelly: “Why?”

“T heard about last night’s job,” the
suspect said, his squint eyes shifting
under the officers’: steady gaze. “I
figured if you didn’t get your man
right away, you’d look me up.”

“Pretty smart boy, aren’t you?”
Baumgartner asked. “If you expected
us, you must have an alibi ready.”

“No,” he shook his head. “I went
to bed early last night in my shack,”
he jerked his thumb toward his brown,
one-story house, “and didn’t get up
till five this morning.”

Stayton and Baumgartner exchanged
significant glances.

“What time did you go to bed?”
Stayton asked.

“T guess I crawled in about 8:30.”

Stayton’s voice was icy. “You were
in bed then from 8:30 until 5?”

The questioned man nodded. “That’s
right.”

_ “You're mighty unconcerned about
it.”

“T have reason to be. I wasn’t in on
it.” A flush was mounting his weather-
beaten cheeks. “You have my per-
mission to look through the house if
you want to.”

A search of the house uncovered a
45 revolver and a small quantity of
money

Suddenly Baumgartner turned on

STATEMENTS THAT:

the murder suspect was in the practice of shooting at any
object in the park, along the shores of picturesque Clear
Lake, launched tree-by-tree probe for sample of lead slug.

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the ex-gunman: “Did you ever know
Pazuchoski before you came to La-
Porte?”

The man recoiled visibly, tumbling
against a kitchen chair. ‘“Say—what
are you tryin’ to pin on me? I—I never
saw the guy before in my life. Don’t
even remember seeing him around
LaPorte.”

Baumgartner led the suspect to the
squad car. Despite incessant grilling
by a rotation of officers, the former
racket man stuck to his story hour
after hour at the police station.

Baumgartner and Stayton found
their second suspect, the baseball play-
er, Oscar Johnson, at his job in a small
uptown machine shop. Johnson’s red-
gy excitable employer hurried for-
ward,

“What is it? What do you want?”

Johnson, a rangy, broad-shouldered ~

man with smoldering brown eyes,
turned to his employer and smiled:

soe:

“They want to know where I was last
night. Tell ’em.”

“He played on the Old Timers team
at East Chicago.”

Baumgartner asked Johnson, ‘What
time did you leave LaPorte and what
time did you return?”

The employer interrupted: “We
pulled out of here just after 6, and
didn’t get back until 2. I drove Oscar
and two more ball players over in my
car.’

As the officers left, Baumgartner
said, ‘“We’ll check that alibi later with
the other ball players.”

Their next call was at 119 Kosciusko
street, Chester Arkuszewski’s home, on
LaPorte’s northeast side. Arktszew-
ski had a police record dating back
from the time he was eleven years old.

Mrs. Arkuszewski said her son had
left the house earlier in the morning in
company with his younger brother,
John, who worked in a local factory.
Chester had no job, she added.

“Do you know where Chester was
going?”

“No—he didn’t say.”

The policemen drew a blank at
Arkuszewski’s hangouts, and started
for the factory.

The two officers accosted John Ar-
kuszewski at his job. “I ain’t talkin’,”
John snarled.

Held at the station on an open charge,
he admitted his brother, a friend, John
Hominiuk, and he had attended a
Polish carnival the night before, but
had gone home about 11.

in a taxi driver’s cap staggered into
the police station.
Baumgartner met him at the door.
“My name’s Gramps,” the stranger
gasped. “Edward Gramps. I’m a taxi
driver from Valparaiso—just been held

ex that night a wild-eyed stranger

Seated and given a glass of water,
Gramps went on: “A young fellow
hailed me in front of a beer joint in
Valparaiso, and asked me to drive him
east on State Road 2. When we got to
the city limits; he jabbed a gun against
the back of my neck and told me to
keep goin’.

“At Westville, the guy took $18 off
me, and said he intended to kill me, but
when I told him I had a wife and kids,
he said, ‘All right, all right. Drive me
to LaPorte.’ On the way over I saw
him writing a letter in the back seat
of the cab.”

“Where'd you drop him off?”
gartner asked.

Gramps led a horde of policemen to
a lonely spot on LaPorte’s southwest
side, but there were no signs of the
hold-up man.

“He’s a young, dark fellow, pretty
intelligent looking,”’ asserted Gramps.
“But that’s all I can tell you about
him.”

All night long the area was combed.

Officer Olsen returned from Chicago
with the report that the bullet in
Pazuchoski’s (Continued on page 78)

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the police right on him in a hurry.”

“Stealing her dough isn’t as tough
a rap as murder. No, there’s another
reason ... Say!”

“What?”

“We've forgotten about something
else. Remember, she was killed with
Tyree’s hatchet. How did Murphy
get Tyree’s hatchet?”

“Stole it.”

Brower shook his head. “That’s
stretching coincidence too far. If he
planned the crime as‘perfectly as it
was planned, he’d have his weapon

-ready. I think Tyree’s hatchet is the

answer to our whole case.”

“T don’t follow you,’ McEwan ad-
mitted. i

“T’ve got a hunch,”

“About what?”

“About who our mysterious friend

|. Mr. Murphy is. We both agreed

Murphy was a phoney name. I think
maybe I know who Murphy is. Let’s
Oo. ” «

“Where? To Tyree’s?” ;
“Not yet. We're going to see Mrs.
Moock first.” ~

T the Moock home, Brower ques-
tioned Mrs. Moock. He told her,
“IT want you,to tell me everything
your husband did after he returned
from pig Mrs. Clarke to Cour
d’Alene on Saturday night.”
“When he came home, he went to
bed.”
“And the next morning?”

“He got up early. He took Mr. -

Tyree’s car back to him.”

“How long did he stay?”

“Only a few minutes.’

“And then?” ‘

“He came home and had breakfast.
After breakfast, he went out in the
garden and planted some tulips. When
he finished in the garden, he came in
and dressed for church. And... .”

“Where abouts did he plant the
tulips?”

Mrs. .Moock led him to the back
door and pointed out the tulip bed.

Brower went outside. He found
a spade and began to dig in the tulip

bed.
“What are you doing?” Mrs. Moock

_ cried.

“I want to seg the kind of bulbs
your husband planted.”

Within a few minutes, Brower stood
up. In his hand was a sealed can. He
tore the top from it.

Inside were a number of letters ad-
dressed to James Murphy. In the
bottom of the can were $1,490 in new

body had been fired from a .32 Smith
& Wesson revolver.
“Say, Chester Arkuszewski used to

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A DOLLAR FOR A DATE

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 31

bills. ,

“It looks like we found Mr.
Murphy,” Brower cried triumphantly.
If we hurry we can get Moock at the
mill.”

On the way to the mill, McEwan
asked: “How did you guess it was
Moock? I thought it might be Tyree
and Moock was covering for him, or
they were working together.”

Brower said: e hatchet decided
me. I thought of Tyree, too, but knew
if he had been in on it, he would never
have admitted out at the scene that
it was his ax. Moock must have taken
it when he borrowed Tyree’s car.

“Moock answered Mrs. Clark’s ad
in the magazine and used Murphy’s
name. , When.Murphy moved, he saw
the time was ripe to get her out here
and after he killed her, he could
blame it all on Murphy if anything
went wrong.”

“But when we left the office, how
did you know...”

“That Murphy buried the money in
the tulip bed? Frankly, I didn’t know.
But I figured he would have to get
rid of it some place. He didn’t have
much time. We questioned him the
following afternoon. When Mrs.
Moock mentioned the tulip bed, it was
a cinch.”

“Do you think his wife was in on
et:

“Not a chance. She’s a. good woman.
He had her fooled—like he nearly had
us fooled with that talk about Murphy.
You see, he had to build it up good
so he could bring her to his home
without his wife suspecting.”

Placed under arrest, Moock vigor-
ously denied he had used the name
of Murphy to lure Mrs. Clarke to her
death or that he killed her.

A charge of first degree murder was
placed against Moock. Throughout his
trial, he continued to insist that James
Murphy was the guilty person and
he was only adupe. The jury thought
differently. They brought back a ver-
dict of guilty with a mandatory death
sentence. f

Moock walked up the thirteen steps
to the noose in the prison yard at
Walla Walla on September 12, 1929.
‘As he stood on the _ scaffold, he
screamed:

“Y’m innocent. Find James Mur-
phy, he’s your murderer.”

The trap sprung. Moock plunged to
his death at the end of the rope. Mrs.
Clarke paid a dollar for her date with
death. Moock paid with his life for
helping her keep the date.

THE BLOODY CLUE

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 37

carry a .38 revolver, didn’t he?’ Stay-
ton asked, as he and the chief returned
to the scene of the crime.

In Fox park
who said he had
along the south

“Are you sure
him’ practicing’

“Y-yes, sir.”
his head. “He
He'd even fire i
show off—”"

Baumgartner
arm: “Those m
willow tree! W
stick made ‘em.

The officers
willow tree on
lake. Frantical

Stayton yellec
a dirty piece «
they kept diggi
covered three b:

“Have the Ch
compare these
Baumgartner 01

Baumgartner,
Bernoske, start
niuk, who had
zewski brother:
the night of t
radio came to |

“Calling all cz
to Kosciusko St
shooting. The \
niuk. Calling al’

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accelerator.

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car, he saw Joh
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atchet decided
_ too, but knew
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the scene that
ust have taken
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her, he could
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d the money in
, I didn’t know.
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He didn’t have
tioned him the

When Mrs.
culip bed, it was

wife was in on

a good woman.
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about Murphy.
uild it up good
r to his home
cting.”

. Moock vigor-
used the name
3. Clarke to her
i her.

ree murder was
Throughout his
nsist that James
Ity person and
‘he jury thought
ght back a ver-
jandatory death

ie thirteen steps
prison yard at
ember 12, 1929.
ie scaffold, he

ad James Mur-
rer.”

‘oock plunged to
of the rope. Mrs.
or her date with
with his life for
date.

CLUE

PAGE 37

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In. Fox park they found a witness
who said he had seen Chester shooting
along the south shore of Clear Lake.

“Are you sure it was here you saw
him’ practicing?” the chief pressed.

“Y-yes, sir.’ The witness scratched °

his head.. “He was always shootin’.
He'd even fire into the ground, just to
show off—”

Baumgartner grasped _Stayton’s
arm: “Those marks around that big
willow tree! We thought By-Golly’s
stick made ’em,”

The officers raced to the leaning
willow tree on the north end of the
lake. Frantically, they dug. =.

Stayton’ yelled—in his, hand nestled
a dirty piece of lead. Encouraged,
they kept digging until they had re-
covered three bullets.

“Have the Chicago ballistic experts -

compare these with the death slug,”
Baumgartner ordered Stayton.

Baumgartner, accompanied by Dr.
Bernoske, started out to quiz Homi-
niuk, who had been with.the Arkus-
zewski brothers at. the, Polish dance
the night of the killing when the
radio came to life:

“Calling all cars. Calling all cars. Go
to Kosciusko Street. There has been a
shooting. The victim is John Homi-
niuk. Calling all cars. Calling...”

Baumgartner’s foot tromped the
accelerator.

When he leaped from the squad
car, he saw John Hominiuk sprawled
out on the sidewalk in front of. his
home.

The chief and doctor bent over the
boy. They saw a ragged shoe edge
where a bullet had coursed harmlessly.

Through the boy’s blue shirt above
the left shoulder was a neat hole
where q bullet had missed the skin.
A third shot had gone wild. No blood
showed. ' ay

’ Baumgartner shook the boy rough-
‘ly. “Get up,” he said. “You're all
right.”

Slowly Hominiuk arose. “It was
Chester,” he cried, glancing doubt-
fully at his body. “He came along
the sidewalk while I was dozing here
on the grass after dinner. He fired
three times and ran that way!”

-He pointed east. ‘ i

“What do you know about the kill-
ing of old By-Golly?” Baumgartner
demanded.

“Nothing. That’s the ‘honest triith.
Cross my heart.” -

The chief commanded other officers
who had arrived to question Homi-
niuk, and took up the chase east
along Kosciusko Street.

“LaPorte’s. entire police force. was
thrown .into the man-hunt. Sheriff
Alfred G.. Norris: and. Deputy Joe
Kowalczyk joined the search, and
Pines state police barracks sent three
cars and six troopers. Who would
Arkuszewski attempt to silence next?

Armed with machine guns, police
searched homes in the area, figuring
the fugitive may have captured a
household. Mrs. Harry Freese, 313
Park street, said she had seen Arkus-

zewski run in the direction of the New,

York Central. :
Calls poured into the station from
city folk and farmers that “a:-man re-

_sembling Arkuszewski” had been seen.

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remembered too late, that he’d left the other man unguarded.
The heroic rookie’s legs went rubbery and he collapsed.

Dimly Mamala heard the two men start to run away. He
fought back to consciousness, shook his head. He saw two
shadows running fast toward Hohman Avenue, 100 yards
west. He still had the second gunman’s automatic. Sight-
ing, he pulled the trigger. There was a futile click! The
gunmen disappeared, turning north on Hohman.

Unsteadily, Mamala crossed to the prowl car, reached
over Cook’s huddled form and: unsnapped the radio mike.
“Send an ambulance,” he gasped. “Cleveland, east of
Hohman, Get some cars down here. Two gunmen, on
foot—running north on Hohman. They just shot Gerka
and Cook.”

When Mamala put the mike back on its hook his hand
trembled, but it was from anger and frustration, not fear.
If he’d only had a gun! But he had none. Neither he nor
Cook had guns. Guns were short—and there weren't
enough for rookies until they finished their probation.

He turned to his buddies.

Patrolman Gerka already was dead. His right hand still
clutched the gunman’s .38 revolver.

Cook, only 21, was in terrible pain. The second slug

Traced through the weapon he used, the other suspect is
brought back by Detectives Pellar and O’Donnell. At right,
an investigator surveys the scene of the fatal gun battle.

12

had ripped and torn, from hip to hip, through the lower in-
testines. Mamala tried to make him comfortable. In the
distance a siren wailed, then another and a third.

A prowl car,screeched to a stop and Mamala, giving a
quick description and directions, sent it barreling after the
fleeing gunmen.

The ambulance was close behind, and with it came a car-
load of men from the homicide detail headed by Detective
Sgts. Michael Leeney and Walter Wittig. They quizzed
Mamala quickly and he repeated his description of the two
gunmen. One, he thought, was about 40 or 45, the other
slightly younger. Both were of medium build. He hadn’t
seen either clearly in the gloom.

The scene now was brightly lighted by car headlights
and spotlights, and Wittig saw blood on Mamala’s shirt.
“You're hurt, son,” he said.

Mamala shook his head—and winced. It still ached
from the gunman’s blow. He felt his scalp gingerly—but
the skin wasn’t broken. “I’m not hurt. At least I’m not
cut or shot,” he replied. “That's not my blood!”

Wie examined him, then jumped to his prowl car
and radioed headquarters: “Alert every doctor and
hospital in this area,” he ordered crisply. “One of the
gunmen is injured. He may seek medical attention.”

The homicide men began a careful examination of the
scene and the gunmen’s car.

Back at headquarters Detective Capt. Sandor Singer
was organizing the greatest manhunt the sprawling Calumet
region had seen in many years.’ Hammond, in the center
of a teeming industrial area, was touched by cities on all
sides—all of them in the shadow of Chicago. Radio
and telephone carried messages to police in Whit-
ing, East Chicago, Gary, Indiana Harbor and Chi-
cago, itself.

Everywhere officers covered bus and rail stations
and airports. By car and on foot they prowled
streets and alleys. Indiana State Police from Dunes

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man 15 months. Cook and Mamala, also combat veterans,
were five-day rookies. He was training them on night
patrol that Saturday. It was 9:15 p.m., January 11, 1947.
“Remember,” Gerka finished as Cook eased the prowl
car back alongside the parked sedan, “more cops are killed
oe down parked cars than any other way. Look
alive.”
' He slid out the right side, walked around the front of

A Hammond patrolman points to one
of the bullet holes in the car used
by the two slain officers that night.

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the police car toward the shadowy sedan. The night was
briskly cold. Gerka stepped carefully over pavement ice.

Maimala rolled down the prow! car window and watched
closely. He heard the man nearest Gerka say, “I suppose
you want to see my driver’s license.” There was a rasp in
his voice that alerted Mamala.

“Right,” Gerka replied. “We're officers.”

The man got out of the car, reaching for a hip pocket.
Gerka, on guard, watched the hand alertly. It might be
bringing out a wallet, or it might be bringing out a gun.

Even before the hand cleared the pocket Gerka saw the
gun—and he was ready. His left hand shot forward be-
fore the gun came level, jamming the hammer with the “V”
of his thumb and forefinger. His right first arced toward
the gunman’s face and he shouted a warning :

“Rudy—he’s got a gun!”

Three things happened in a flash! Gerka pulled clear
of the disarmed gunman. Mamala leaped from the police
car and swarmed over the gunless thug. The second passen-
ger of the parked sedan jumped from the far side of his car
and began shooting.

Ducking low, Gerka fired back—with the seized gun.
Cook, after sending a quick radio call to headquarters,
started out of the prowl! car to help Mamala. As he opened
the door, two slugs hit him—one in the shoulder, one in
the hip. He collapsed, hurt badly.

Mamala had his gunman pretty well under control when
he heard Gerka cry out. “I’m shot.” In a black rage, the
29-year-old rookie let go his squirming captive and started
around the sedan after the other gunman. He saw him
jurking near the front fender and dove—knowing as he

Out of all the clues (above) left behind by the gun crazy
slayers, only one proved of value. And even then, it was as
if the hand of fate pointed the .38 revolver directly at the
killer, At left, the second of the pair to be captured is flanked
by Pellar, right, and O’Donnell en route to Hammond.

11


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their quarry. Around them stretched
woods, swamps and wide fields. Far
to the southwest, they discerned a
herd of cows moving up from pasture
to the: barn. :

“Have you seen a stranger around
here?” Stayton asked the children.

A boy pointed toward the herd of
cows. “We saw a fellow back there!”

Underbrush and woods: paralleled
the cows’ course to the barn. Alight-
ing, the two men hastened toward the
underbrush, warning the children
back.
’ They had progressed about a mile
and were passing the cows when the
children’s cries arose. The children
were gesturing ahead toward a buzz
pile. Atop the wood pile Stayton
made out a man’s head. His eyes
were focused on the cows. .

He and Burden circled quickly, lest
they be spotted. ote

Stayton was almost upon the man
when he called: “Chester, we’ve got
ou, Come on out with your hands
up!” :

Slowly a young man emerged from
behind the pile and advanced on
Stayton, his hands up. ‘Who told you
where I was? If I hadn’t been watchin’
those cows—!” A_ revolver was
jammed in his belt.

Stayton removed the gun, a_ .32
Smith & Wesson.

Handcuffed, Chester Arkuszewski,

24, his short, stocky body taut, was
bundled into the squad car. Stayton
glanced at his watch—5:05. Via the
car’s two-way radio,
nounced Arkuszewski’s capture. At
the station a crowd met the proces-
sion of cars.

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E dropped it for a while, waiting

for things to cool off. But Bill’s idea

made me more than thirty grand.
I gave him a bonus. I began to for-
give him for giving me my walking
papers years before. I was lonely and
I was getting jumpy, always afraid a
man I might like would turn out to be
a cop. With Bill I wouldn’t be afraid
of anything.

After we dropped the tax stamps,
Bill worked a new angle. We sold our
Jersey cigarettes to the penny dealers
who rip open cigarette packs to sell
two or three cigarettes at a time.
That kept our: business down to
dealers in the poor neighborhoods.
But it was less expensive for us in the
long run. It worked, except that we

‘weren't the only: ones doing it, so w

weren’t making much.

In January, this year, I read of the
arrest of the Widelok family who
owned a stationery store in Brooklyn.
They had been getting cigarettes from
Jersey and using a phony tax imprint
on the wrapper. They copied the tax
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had worked it out all by themselves.
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Stayton an- .

Before midnight Arkuszewskisigned

a formal confession. He said he. had
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den beside the Fox Park pavilion.
His brother had urged him not. to
rob the old man, and when “By-
Golly” swung his cane at sight of
Chester’s gun, John Arkuszewski re-
treated. : :
” Chester fired at the old man, who
turned and ran east alone the gravel
path. The killer followed, and when
his victim collapsed, he robbed him of
his roll of bills.

Arkuszewski maintained ‘that he got
only $35 from Pazuchoski- Police. be-
lieved he had cached the remainder
of his loot. ; :

Knowing the fate that was in store
for him, Chester made one desperate

attempt to escape from his cell in

the county, jail, where he was awaiting
trial. In the dead of night, for weeks
on end, Arkuszewski painstakingly
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When he was discovered by Alfred G.
Norris, then sheriff and now mayor of
LaPorte, Chester had gouged out a
hole big. enough to crawl through
and had only. the outer stone facing
to break through to make good his

“escape.

Arraigned in court four months
later, Chester Arkuszewski pleaded
guilty to first degree murder, and the
grand jury ‘indictments against his
brother were nolle, prossed.

‘Chester Arkuszewski was sentenced
to the electric chair November 18,
1936, by Circuit Judge H. Wirt Wor-
den, and was electrocuted March 12,
1937, in the Indiana State prison in
Michigan City. :

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didn’t do that well and we weren't
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But we never got caught in the
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He was always a careful worker. [| !

still don’t know how it was he was
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Just before they picked him up he
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the old-line unions had cut our profits.
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began checking all cars.

At the scene of the shooting the officers discovered that
in the struggle Mamala had stripped off one gunman’s
coat. Another coat was found a few blocks away, and
Mamala quickly identified it as worn by one of the killers.
Both gunmen had lost their hats in the scuffles. Back to head-
quarters went word by radio. The gunmen were hatless
and coatless. They’d stand out on such a sharp, chill night.

The license number on the killers’ car was checked soon
after the manhunt began. It had been issued toa Hammond
man living on Black Oak Avenue. A squad car was sent
there in a hurry.

The squad officers found the house dark and deserted.
They drove their car around the block out of sight and
waited in the shadows near the house.

AN HOUR later, at 11:20, a man approached the house.
He was hatless and wore a light jacket. The two
officers moved swiftly out of the shadows and stopped him.

The man, startled at first, seemed relieved when he saw
the two patrolmen. “Why,” he said, “I was just going to
report the theft of my car!” ’

“Yes?” replied one of the officers dryly. “Well. let’s
go to headquarters and report it.”

At headquarters the man told Captain Singer he had
parked his car about 9 p.m. near a theater a
few blocks from where Gerka and Cook had
been shot. He had gone to a movie. When
he came out the car was gone. He identified

the murder car as his own. seit eve

“Why did you go all the way home before yeti
reporting it?’ Captain Singer asked crisply. peda

“Why ...I... well, it was as close to i
my house as to headquarters. I took a bus Give
re a pet

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“T . . . gosh, I was so excited I never thought of phon-
ing !”

Captain Singer wasn’t entirely satisfied. He ordered the
car owner detained. The manhunt was occupying all his
attention. .

There were other flurries of excitement as the search
‘intensified through the night. In near by East Chicago two
hatless men answering the gunmen’s description were
picked up at a bus station.as they were buying tickets to
St. Louis. Protesting their innocence, they were brought
to Hammond for questioning.

Railroad detectives, who joined the manhunt, rounded
up.a half-dozen suspicious ’bo’s yanked off freight cars.
They, too, went to Hammond. Police were taking no
chances.

All night Captain Singer and detectives quizzed suspects
as they were turned up by the spreading manhunt. As dawn
lightened the sky the police became more and more dis-
heartened. None of the suspects looked “hot.”

Captain Singer quizzed the car. owner at greater length.
The man, a reputable citizen, satisfied Singer that his car
had, indeed, been stolen and not loaned. An extra license
plate found at the scene of the shooting bolstered his story.
‘The plate was on the ground near the car’s rear. The gun-
men, it seemed, had been about to change plates, probably
to make the car less identifiable in carrying out whatever

[Continued on page 50]

Above, Rookie Donald Cook, left, and Officer John Gerka
died in the line of duty. Below, Detective Keller, left, had a
hunch that paid off and Chief Barton, right, now has more
respect for the notes of Maj. O’Neal of the State Police.


O'Neal, too, knew Robert O. Brown,
ex-convict, stickup man and known to be
both quick and handy with a gun—a man
who had an almost psychopathic hatred of
police. The year before Brown had been
indicted, but later the charges had been
dismissed, in connection with the murder
of a Michigan City gambler’s bodyguard
during a burglary.

So the names “Bob” and “Brown” made
plenty of sense to Major O'Neal and
to veteran Indianapolis city police as
well,

They confronted Badgley with the fact
he had been definitely placed in the Chi-
cago-Hammond area January 11, and he
confirmed it reluctantly. He said, too, that
Brown had been with him. But he con-
tinued to deny the shootings.

But it was enough for Major O’Neal.
Early Sunday morning he telephoned
Keller. “You were right,” he said. “We
want Brown. Where is he?”

“IT don’t know exactly yet,” Keller re-*
plied. “He’s supposed to be living in a
trailer somewhere along the Tippecanoe
River. I’ll find out and let you know.”

For three days Keller and Trooper
Delvie Masterson, whose territory it was,
covered the Tippecanoe valley. They

had to be cautious lest they alarm Brown.

The news of Badgley’s arrest was out and

they knew Brown would be wary.
Early Wednesday, i anuary 29, near

Buffalo, Ind., Keller called on an old con-
tact he had known through many years of
police work. He asked about Brown.

“Why he’s in Buffalo right now—at a
friend’s garage,” the man said,

Keller got to a telephone and called
O’Neal. “We’re on our way right now,”
the major said. “Keep the place covered.
We'll have the Dunes Park Post send you
some men.”

At 2:30 that afternoon, hard-eyed offi-
cers led by Major O’Neal and Captain
Barton, crashed into the garage hideout
of Brown. They completely surprised the
ex-convict. He made one slight move
toward a shelf where two loaded revolvers
lay, then stopped. He was hemmed in by
police, all with drawn guns.

Enraged and silent, Brown was taken
to Indianapolis and questioned. He re-
yaa to talk about the Hammond mur-

ers,

“Prove it, coppers,” he snarled.

State police and Hammond officers
began to do just that. Mamala identified
Brown unhesitatingly. A doctor examined

a fresh two-inch scar on Brown’s forehead
and declared it had resulted from a wound
no more than three weeks old. “It’s where
I clubbed. him with the automatic,” Ma-
mala declared. “He’s the one who
spoke to Johnny Gerka. I can’t forget
‘his voice.”

Badgley, facing the electric chair, be-
came more talkative and the net around
Brown, the trigger-man, grew tighter.
Witnesses were found who had seen both
men in’ Hammond as late as 7 p.m. the
night of the shootings. The two gunmen
had, meanwhile, been transferred under
heavy guard, to the Hammond jail, then
to the Lake County Jail.

First degree murder charges were filed
against both men and Captain Singer and
his men went before a Lake County Grand
Jury with their evidence on February 6
and 7, The jury promptly returned indict-
ments against both Badgley and Brown
charging first degree murder.

At this writing they are awaiting the
trial in Lake County Criminal Court that
will deterthine their innocence or guilt.

(The names James Morgan, Fred Williams and
Sam Rogers are fictitious to protect the identity of
ersons innocently involved in the investigation.—
he Editor.)

LURE FOR
MISS BERTHA

[Continued from page 35]

“Four o'clock,” Mrs. Brown replied
nervously. “Frank Webster had to catch
a train at Savannah about 4:30. He asked
Pete to drive him there.”

Counihan nodded. lt sounded logical
enough. Pete was a hackman. However,
he could still have driven Webster to
Savannah and been able to get back to
the Mehrtens’ home by 5 a.m., with plenty
of time to take a few nips from a bottle.

“What time did he come back here?”

Mrs. Brown shuddered. “He hasn't
come back. And I'm scared. I’m afraid
something has happened to him. Maybe
one of those men—” She let the sen-
tence trail off, unfinished.

Counihan thought it was indeed a grim
possibility. Or perhaps Brown was head-
ing for parts unknown as fast as his
cab would travel. “Have you told any of
this to the men who’ve been looking for
him?”

“No, I wouldn’t tell them anything!”

“What kind of shirt did Pete wear this
morning?” he asked suddenly.

The woman shrugged her shoulders.
“I don’t know. He dressed in the kitchen,
and I didn’t see him leave.”

With a comforting word to Mrs.
Brown, Counihan. stepped out on the
porch, “I think Pete’s taken a powder,”
he said to Von Waldner. “We'd better
find him before this mob does.”

This time the ring of men parted volun-
tarily to let the ofhcers go through. But
Counihan looked in the rear vision mir-
ror of his car and noted that one of them ~
was following by car.

“They must think I know where Pete
is,” he said. “I wish I did.” He told Von
Waldner what he had learned at the
Brown cottage.

“What are you going to do?
Waldner asked. -

“Try to shake off our pursuer first. I'll
get out at my house and you drive on
down to the drug store. I think he’ll fol-

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Von

low you. Then I’ll duck around to your
place, get your car and drive to Savannah.
You call Chief Chapman from the drug
store. Tell him how dangerous this situa-
tion is here and ask him to send us re-
inforcements right away.” ;

The plan succeeded as Counihan had
hoped. The man in the pursuing car
paused irresolutely for several seconds
when Counihan stepped out of the car and
walked toward his front door, He glanced
at Counihan and then at the departing car
with Von Waldner at the wheel. Faced
with a quick decision, he shifted gears and
started after the car.

Counihan ran down the street to Von
Waldner’s garage and quickly started the
other policeman’s automobile. In a few
moments he was on his way to Savannah.

At the Savannah railroad station,
Counihan almost gave up his quest for the
missing Pete Brown. He spoke to ticket
agents, porters, cleaners, but the story
was always the same; they had come on
duty at 7 a.m. or later.

HAnpLLy, one employe suggested he
visit old Josh Jackson. “He had been
on duty all night, and if the man you're
looking for came in here, Josh would have
seen him.”

Counihan received directions for find-
ing Jackson’s house and drove there im-
mediately. The sleepy Mr. Jackson proved
most co-operative.

“Yes, I saw an elderly gentleman get
on the 4:35 for Philadelphia. Helped him

on with his bag. But I didn’t see the taxi- .

man that brought him.”

That much of the story was true, how-
ever. Frank Webster had boarded the
train and in all likelihood Pete Brown had
brought him. But how to find Pete?

Counihan stopped.at all the cafes and
restaurants near the station. No one had
seen the elusive Brown. Discouraged, and
leaning more and more to the belief that
Pete was far from Savannah at that
moment, Counihan stopped at one more
place on the outskirts of the city.

“Sure, I saw Pete Brown this morn-
ing,” the bartender said. “Even argued
with him about drinking so much, He was
in a pretty belligerent mood and I told
him he’d have to behave or get out.”

Counihan was elated. His hunch had

paid off. Pete had stopped in here after
taking Frank Webster to the station and
had had enough to drink to make him
surly.

“Just what time was that?” the police-
man inquired, to clinch the case against
Brown.

“Oh, somewhere around 9 o'clock.”

“Nine o'clock! You mean 4:30, don't
you?”

The bartender chuckled. “Brother, at
4:30 I was sound asleep.”

That necessitated a quick revision of
Counihan’s calculations.

Doc Elliott had said around 11:30 that
morning that Miss Mehrtens had been
dead about five or six hours. That would
make the time of her murder approxi-
mately 5:30 to 6:30.

For Brown to be involved, he would
have had to drive from the Savannah
station to the Mehrtens home, walked her
to Pin Point Road and then driven back
to Savannah by 9 o'clock. All that would
have been possible. But, Counihan
realized, it seemed unlikely. Could it be
Brown was not the right Pete, after all?

“Do you know where he went when he
left here?” Counihan asked the bar-
tender.

“No, but I advised him to go home
and get a good sleep.”

Still, he hadn’t arrived home. Counihan
got back in Von Waldner’s car and headed
toward Montgomery Heights. A warning
would have to be flashed over the entire
state for the apprehension of Pete Brown.

In his haste to reach Montgomery,
Counihan turned off the state road
onto a dirt county road, a shortcut. The
car rounded a bend, and he was com-
pelled to suddenly apply the brakes or
crash into a car parked by the side of the
narrow road.

He stared at it unbelievingly. It was
Pete Brown’s taxi!

The policeman climbed quickly from
his own car and strode over to the parked
cab. Pete was curled up on the back seat,
snoring loudly. Counihan opened the door
and shook him violently, shouting,
“Wake up! Come on, wake up, Pete!”
Pete mumbled a few incoherent pro-
tests, and Counihan pulled him upright by
the lapels of his jacket. He shook the be-
fuddled man again. Pete was aroused
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When the captain cradled the receiver,
Mintiens said: “What's the angle? Brown
gave Mrs. Stein the candy, didn’t he?”

“Yes, But he left it at the store. Votta
put the poison in the chocolates before
he gave it to Mrs. Stein.” ’

PANG. Gok

“Votta must have been in love with
Mrs. Stein,” the captain explained quickly.
“That’s why Brown’s rival never called at
the store. Because he was already there
working as a clerk.”

As they headed for their patrol car,
Koch continued, “Votta realized Mrs.
Stein was planning to marry Brown. He
vowed she never would. And he devised
a diabolical plot. Using his key one night
he entered the store and turned on the
gas. That didn’t work.”

The captain paused a moment. ‘‘Votta
then decided to poison Mrs. Stein. But she
didn’t eat the candy he had prepared for
her. She probably got suspicious and when
Brown called at the store, asked him to
get the key from Votta. While he was
there, Brown ate some of the candy.
That’s what poisoned him.”

Mintiens saw the direction of the cap-
tain’s theory. “When Votta saw that, he
realized Brown might die. He killed Mrs.
Stein that night and planted the note
signed Fred near the body.”

“Yes, And he kept the store key. But
he didn’t use it to enter late that night be-
cause that would have brought him under
suspicion.” ;

he inspector said, “He planned to
make the crime look like murder and
suicide, eh?” '

“Yes. And I think when we ques-
tion him he'll have a hard time denying
iG:

But Votta was not on hand to be ques-
tioned. Police discovered Votta had driven
away in his car within an hour after leav-
ing the store. .A statewide alarm was
broadcast. Every highway patrol car was
alerted. The search was extended the next
day to nine states. But days passed with-
out a report on the fugitive. :

The mind cunning enough to plot an
almost perfect crime had apparently de-
vised a certain method of escape. Wed-
nesday morning, January 8, four days
after the murder, the climax came dra-
matically.

Votta’s new, streamlined sedan was
found in a gravel pit near White Marsh
in Baltimore County. A tube had been
wired to the exhaust pipe and led into the
car through a rear floorboard. The win-
dows were closed. The ignition key was
turned on and the gas tank was empty.

The body of the 38-year-old clerk was

slumped over in the back seat. Dr. Car-
mine pronounced Votta a suicide from

’ carbon monoxide poisoning.

Hidden under the dashboard was a .22
caliber gun. One bullet had been fired

from it and ballistics tests later proved it -

was: the gun with which Mrs. Stein was
murdered.

On the seat beside Votta was a note in
handwriting identical to that of the mes-
sage left in Mrs. Stein’s bedroom. It ex-
plained that Votta was infatuated with
Mrs. Stein, but then she decided to marry
Brown. The letter concluded: “I made
sure no one else will ever have Elizabeth.
There was no other way out.”

A postscript on the note was addressed
to Votta’s wife asking her forgiveness.

Reading those words later at head-
quarters, Koch commented: “Votta
planned to make it look like murder and
suicide. Only he made a slight miscalcu-
lation about the identity of the suicide
victim.”

The following day, January 9, 1947, a
murder charge against Votta was placed
on the docket at the Northeastern Divi-
sion police station. Below that entry was
the grim notation: “Abated by death. ...”

(The names Fred and Mrs. Brown are fictitious
to protect the identity of persons innocently in-
volved in the investigation.—The Editor.)

CLUE of the
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their plans were when they were given a
routine check by Cerke. The car owner
was feleased. The car was held until tech-
nicians could’ examine it.

No hospital or doctor had treated a man
either cut suspiciously or shot. A convic-
tion was growing in Captain Singer’s
mind. He called Mamala, again, to con-
firm it. ,

“Are you sure about the ages of those
men, Rudy?” he asked. “Are you sure
they weren’t young—maybe wild teen-
agers?”

“I’m certain, captain,” Mamala re-
plied. He was remembering the gunmen
and the one voice he had heard say, “I
suppose you want to see my driver’s li-
cense!”’ It was an edgy voice with a trace
of sarcasm and contempt, a voice charged
with venom—one that didn’t like cops!
Green as he was, Mamala had sensed it—
and he told Captain Singer. ;

“You. must ce right,” Captain Singer
said wearily. “They’re professionals, sure
—cagy, police-wise and probably red hot.
Otherwise they’d never have shot their
way out of one mess and been able to slip
through the net we’ve had all night. We'll
have to run them down the hard way. I
hope they’ve left us enough to work on.”

The gunmen had. They’d left a bewil-
dering welter of clues. ;

The homicide men who had screened

the car at the scene sorted the clues out -

for Captain Singer. They listed:

1. Two guns, one a .38 caliber Smith &
Wesson revolver, the other an army .45
caliber automatic. e

2. Two suitcases containing soiled laun-
dry that bore identifiable laundry marks.

3. A policeman’s shield, bearing the
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anapolis.

4, Two hats, two pairs of gloves, an
overcoat and a lighter jacket, all aban-
doned during the scuffle and shooting.

5. A handbag containing a few tools
and a quantity of .38 and .45 caliber am-
munition.

6. An Indianapolis newspaper, dated
January 7, 1947—four days Sotare the

~ shooting.

7. A pair of heavy wire-clipping shears
—the weapon with which one of the gun-
men had slugged Mamala.

8. A jack knife, a scarf and a flash-

light. :
Technicians found dozens of finger-
prints in the car—but all turned out to be
the owner’s. They dusted the guns, li-
cense plates, jack knife and wire-clippers
but found no legible prints.

New impetus was given the manhunt
by mid-morning Sunday as Hammond
residents awoke, read their Sunday papers
7 reported suspicious incidents to po-
ice.

ROWL cars scurried about checking

on the reports, bringing in new sus-
pects. But by Sunday night it was evident
that the manhunt, big and efficient as it
was, had failed to net the gunmen.

About the same time St. Margaret’s
Hospital called for blood donors for Pa-

. trolman Cook who was growing weaker.

Tired fellow officers hurried to the hos-
pital and gave blood. Cook rallied, then
orev weaker. Early Monday morning he
ied, F
There were two murders, now, marked
against the trigger-happy gunmen. Ham-
mond police were angry and determined.
Monday morning Captain Singer sum-
moned his entire detective staff for a war
council, —
“Without doubt,” he said, “the men
we're after are professional criminals and

‘they'll be hard to find. But they have left

us plenty of clues—guns, clothes, tools
and odds and ends, The answer is there.
We'll find it!”

He sorted out the articles and began to
distribute them efficiently. To Inspector

Ralph Cramer went the two guns wrested
from the killers—the .38 Smith & Wesson
revolver and the .45 military automatic.

Many of the clues pointed straight at
Indianapolis—the Hoosier capital. There
was the Indianapolis newspaper, the state
fair special policeman’s badge and the
low-numbered extra license plate. Captain
Singer assigned Detective po Andrew
Pellar and Frank O’Donnell to leave for
Indianapolis immediately, taking these ar-
ticles with them, along with some of the
laundry-marked clothing. Detectives Wit-
tig and Leeney would handle all the Ham-
mond checking.

“That atcy -may have been done in
Indianapolis or Hammond or Timbuc-
too,” Captain Singer said wryly. “Tell
mean a lot of legwork—but it may lead
straight to the killers.”

Labels had been eliminated from all the
clothing except the overcoat which bore
an Ottawa, Ill., haberdasher’s name. A
detective was sent there with the coat.

The number of clues pointing to In-
dianapolis led Capt Singer to believe the
killers had come from there. “We've had
a number of cars stolen in this section
recently,” he said. “Indianapolis is the
biggest city in the state and the best place
to get rid of hot cars. It’s a good bet that
our men are there.”

The others nodded. The clues pointed
that way. But Inspector Cramer nearly
exploded that theory. He discovered that
one of the death guns, the .38, was regis-
tered in Hammond’s own police files!

For a moment it looked red hot. Then
Cramer’s face fell as he saw the date of
the registration—26 years before. The
gun had been purchased by Ray J. Heist,
a prominent Hammond automobile sales-
man, from Charles J. Lesser, a former gun
dealer. When Lesser went out of business
later he turned his file of gun registrations
over to Hammond police.

Still, Mr. Heist might recall to whom
he had sold or given the gun. Cramer
began rifling through directories. He
couldn’t find the name. He began calling
automobile dealers he thought might re-
member Heist.

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“Ves—but I believe his widow is in
Florida now.”

The auto dealer gave Cramer the names
of several of Heist’s more intimate
friends. From them Cramer learned Mrs.
Heist’s address and telephoned her. She
was apologetic.

“I didn’t even know Ray had a gun,”
she said. “I never heard him mention it.
I’m sure he got rid of it years ago.”

At Cramer’s request, Hammond news-
papers ran an appeal for information re-
garding the Smith & Wesson revolver in
the hope that someone who knew to whom
Heist sold or gave it might come forward.
The appeal failed.

Cramer had given the serial number of
the army automatic to Hammond FBI
agents, asking them to check with the
war department. Their report came back
in a few days. The gun had been traced
to a shipment to the Pacific early in the
Philippines campaign. There the trail
ended.

“In a combat zone there’s no accounta-
bility for arms,” the FBI agent explained.
“Any one of thousands of men could have
brought the gun home.”

Wittig and Leeney had_ patiently
checked every Hammond laundry and dry
cleaning establishment, seeking identity
of the laundry marks on the killers’ aban-
doned clothing. They were unsuccessful.

A check of hardware stores with the
jack knife, tools and wire clippers brought
them no nearer a solution. The articles
were common—distributed through thou-
sands of stores all over the country.

The detectives sent to Ottawa, IIl., with
the gunman’s overcoat was equally un-
successful. The coat was traced to a young

Ottawa man who, two months before, had
reported it stolen from a restaurant.

Pete LMAN MAMALA spent hours
pouring over rogues’ gallery pictures
of known criminals, seeking a familiar
face. It was a difficult task because he had
caught only glimpses of the killers—and
he’d been fighting for his life.

“Tf I see them in the flesh, if I hear that
voice again I’ll know them,” he promised
grimly, “but these pictures—they just
don’t strike a chord.”

Cramer had only one more chance to
run down the guns and he seized it. The
serial number (60351) of the .38 was cir-
cularized through every police department
in Indiana and Illinois on the chance ‘that
one of its late owners had registered it
again. But again all the answers were
negative.

Captain Singer began to feel certain,
after days of fruitless work in Hammond,
that the solution would turn up in Indi-
anapolis where Pellar and O’Donnell had
been hard at the task of running down
their clues.

At the capital the two Hammond de-
tectives got prompt help from Indianapo-
lis city detectives. They also got a promise
of aid a little later from the Indiana State
Police Headquarters staff which, at the
moment, was going through a violent de-
partmental upheaval. This shakeup was to
produce a new superintendent and other
high-ranking officers and inject an in-
credible angle into the Hammond case. '

Indianapolis police sent officers out to
check all laundry and dry cleaning estab-
lishments in an effort to identify the
marked clothing. Pellar and O’Donnell,
meanwhile, showed state fair officials the
special policeman’s badge one of the
killers had left. The officials shook their
heads.

“We haven't used that type of badge

for more than five years,” one official ex-
plained.

They were able, however, to supply the
name and address of the man to whom
No. 19 had been issued—six years before.
The detectives found the man at the same
address.

“T gave that badge to the children to
play with five years ago,” he recalled.
“There is no telling what they did with
it
Another clue had led into a blind alley.

The detectives weren’t through yet.
They had banked heavily on_ the 1946
license plate found near the killers’ car.
They found it had been issued to James
Morgan at a Capitol Avenue address.

Morgan, a factory hand, was found at
home and taken to Indianapolis headquar-
ters for questioning., He insisted he had
sold his car, with the plate attached, to
Fred Williams, a used-car dealer, late
in December. “I haven’t seen'either the
car or plate since,” Morgan added.

One f the Indianapolis detectives had
whistled softly when Morgan mentioned
Williams’ name. Now he beckoned Pellar
and O’Donnell to join him outside the
room.

“We know Williams,” the detective ex-
plained. “He’s a bootleg car dealer. We've
never actually caught him dealing in hot
cars, but we keep a pretty close watch.”

A raiding squad was dispatched to a
house in a dingy section of Indianapolis.
Williams was spotted in a littered ‘yard,
showing a derelict auto to a prospect. He
was both wary and surly when the officers
approached. Inside Williams’ house the
police found more than a score of 1946
license plates.

Pellar and O’Donnell showed Williams
the single plate which had been left at
Hammond. “A fellow named Morgan says
he sold you a car with this plate on it,”
they said.

“He probably did,” Williams replied.
“T buy lots of héaps. You can’t burn a
fellow for that!”

“But we do for killing policemen,”
Pellar replied, keeping his voice and anger
under control. “This plate was left where
two policemen were killed!”

Williams’ jaw fell. His surliness van-
ished and fear shot into his wide eyes.
“Oh,” he murmured. “I don’t want any

- part of that. What do you want-to know?

I’ll tell you anything!”

“Who got this plate from you?”

Williams shook his head. “I don’t know.
Honest, I don’t. I probably have sold 10
or 15 heaps since I bought Morgan’s. I
don’t keep track of the plates. Maybe I
threw it in the alley when the new plates
came out January 1.”

The officers, dissatisfied, took Williams
to headquarters to see if his memory
might improve. Six hours later Williams
did remember something.

“About three weeks ago,” he said, “a
fellow came to my place and wanted me
to give him a couple plates. He was awful
mysterious about it. Wouldn’t say why
he wanted them. I turned him down, but
I got involved in a deal before he left. I
bet he copped a couple. Maybe he took
that Hammond plate.”

“Know the man?” :

“Yes. Sure. Sam Rogers. Lives on Indi-
ana Avenue.”

Rogers, too, was known to Indianapolis

police. Although he had no record he as-

sociated with men suspected of dealing in

stolen cars. He was found at home the

same night and taken into custody.
“Williams is crazy,” he growled. “I
never took his plates.”
For several hours the officers ques-
tioned the two of them and Morgan in an
effort to tie that one vital plate specifically

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sement seen him in suonths.” Tyler explained that he and Strother would
With that, she entere d her dressing room like ‘information about the three trucks that
coping ’ 6 picked up Bruntlett’s 60 head of feeder cat-

ing and slammed the door behind her. tle on Monday morning. “Did you see the

; : trucks?” he asked.
jb ul Lote Nd te ee “Sixty head? Bruntlett didn’t -have that
TY And. her next step was what they hoped much. stock,” Rothaar scoffed. “A couple

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go 5; itt she would do as soon as her visitor left. She aft but that’s all.”
telephoned Bob Brown. Detectives had * bern at Oe SO
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4 - converéation.
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. “You handled it 100, per cent perfect,
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weeks ago,” Tyler insisted. ;

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Rothaar insisted. “Bruntlett was around his
‘place all day except for a little while in the
afternoon before the trucks picked up his |
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: shot down the two olicemen. : . \ i
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change license plates on the hot car,” he cil Bluffs and went into a huddle with |
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Mere ee clammed up again, growling : “J blabbed too lorities. 7: men! Check all the professions you can think
“in C.0.B,a8.38 much. I ain’t talking no more.” Jackson suggested that Bruntlett be | of and you will find that Identification and
"ranked and ring Brown, too, refused to discuss the case, brought into town for further questioning. ‘Investigation ranks right a the top and offers
JaRANTEE €O-+ except to claim that he was innocent. A If we keep him busy. in here, it will give | you a great opportunity. Think that over !
ah eae long, partly-healed wound was found on his youa free hand out there, he said. ‘Some- | aes 2
ei face here 7. was examined by Dr. B. W. Peco sn High you're sure to pick up | 5
” idlaw of Hammond. Smith’s trail.” ; | 4
yl “That's - where I conked him with the Bruntlett did not seem surprised when 4
\ hedge clippers,” said Patrolman Mamala. Tyler told him he was wanted at the court: 4
300: “Tee Ss cern, te apache agg hott 0 saison. with 5 moore quest ey | tei aE manne .
i he ink Dic . the ex-convict, was now e transaction with Smith. 1 e nty Note that word “regular.’’ Most em! loyes can be
= oo found; He stated that he had sold to Badg- attorney and his assistant Dave Stuart were “fred” and someone else hired St renat Loss to the
: ley. the- 38-caliber revolver which he busy with Bruntlett, Tyler and Strother re- saat Siege ote ye Print aad Iden ae
1 ve ¢ Ps mt rn - 3 Son: cts al
\ - earlier had purchased from Sargent. This turned to the farm to talk with Mrs. Brunt | Expert Feiat mo one else does. He can dean —
. was one of the guns left behind at the slay- i 26 td iil Ferg iadipe on andl t up to the
: : : ; ~year- ye st a quarter ions, ;
sueesee 4 ing, soene by: the PB h bain’ sen they _, Phe 2Oyearrae Teer then Her a quart hight ranking pont work ow wan!
ir money prob- ed, i ; ri ia ; .
ivacy with loans Arraigned before Judge Robert FE. quieted the three small children who played ge a ju Mail _the coupon | for
end 1 ° : b
since employers, Thompson in the Jasper County Court at 0” the kitchen floor, and admitted that she . P a FREE litera fsct and
arene ae : . Renaselaer, Indiana, Brow" and Badgley knew very little about her husband’s bus pay nah oeelitttt teal ton reports of
mail application ‘pleaded not guilty. On ovember 22, 194 ness. : aed bed win,
jetail EB i f “ Lei “ 24, ey ‘terday fi t facts and hi tual f
jetalle tatgation. an all-male jury returned a verdict of guilty I don’t know what Corliss did yester lay | ne esived by finger Zoe ae er haw ene
AN, INC and fixed their punishment at death in the except that he sold our fat steers, she said. | it is to learn this new. fast growing, fascinating
siete 4 poset oie ~~ chair. & “He was out in the yard until after dark. profession NON in OMT Bare ti ALL THIS
; i Brown took the verdict calmly, but by se oie ee that picked INFORMA TIOnd al panacea FREE.
? ; s ee erday morning :
Baie eee ye ye wildly cecited, up fe Ona yo ee =e INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE
+ ("You're a bunch of damn Hoosier She shook her head. “There must be | (A Correspondence Schoo! Since 1916) Se ag
eo skunks! That was 4 kangaroo verdict!” some mistake. We only had 25 steers. 1920 Sunnyside Ave., Dept. 1184, CHICAGO 40
t After appeals for a new trial had failed, Were "there any trucks here yester ls 7 mem WTS es
~} Brown and Badgley were gti ie ag Be (hie ea ony shaw — ™ — ee, ‘
in the electric chair at the Michigan City “No,” she replied. “Corliss brows a mai sneomennglte
t r; . am * ey pplied Science
; . Penitentiary on March 19, 1948. a a to the farm yesterday morning to look at sae ae yeide Av.» Dept. 1184, Chicago 40,11. .
Ay That’s what. they richly deserve, said the cattle and went back to town a hyttle Gentlemen: Without any obligation on ‘ns
vg Chief Deputy Prosecutor Ben Schwartz. later. At noon he said the cattle would be | part miacever, ten ie crate orts of O er
oA “Their long prison records show that they’re moved about 3 o’clock and the Grosse Truck- ator or Prints 0 Yur ae iow prices and heey t
‘ 4} unfit to mingle with society and the only ing Company would handle them. - 4 Terms Ofer ticle age be sent only to
Nature to give * eure . against their crimes is to execute — But he took the cattle buyer to town’ .
»CLOFR. Poe | ”
jividual fitting OF them. ; Strother interrupted. ayree ae : eo 4 Name * a |
in, woman, OF ca iy I suppose so. I didn’t see him but that | oy |
res. Beware of a Eprror’s Nore: The names John Saraent was the only reason Corliss had for lewvines | ue ‘ialliaie meson RED or Zon
f Sige On on i and William “Wink” Dickens, as used in, the place.” — ; |S
ly for you NOW! ee _this narrative, are fictitious. She accompanied the officers into the yard | A cry a ae
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O'Neal. “Tell me this: Who bought the
gun from you?” :

“A Jad named William Dickens.”

O’Neal’s eyebrows arched.
Dickens ?””

“Yes, Wink’s his’ nickname.”

Sargent was taken into the next room
to give an official statement.
closed behind Sargent, Major O’Neal called
for the file on Wink Dickens.

“A very unsavory citizen,’ he com-
mented. “He’s done time for assault and
battery, burglary, auto theft and other as-
sorted crimes.”

“Wink

re. NAME struck a familiar chord with
-Pellar. He took from his pocket the list
of police characters living in the Red Circle,
Area. Dickens’ name was among them.
“Mamala looked at Dickens’ picture,” he
of one of the killers.”

‘Don't let that_ discourage you,” « said
Major O'Neal. “Dickens ‘is the type of
crook who goes broke every now and then.
He. probably peddled the rod. to someone
else during a: period of hard luck.
confident that he can lead us to the mur-
derer.” — :

Squads were dispatched to seize Dickens
for questioning. But no trace of the ex-
convict could be found in his usual haunts.
He had not been seen in Indianapolis for
a week. A hat check girl, to whom he had
paid court, said she thought he had gone
South for the winter.

Stool pigeons - who knew their way
around Dickens’ haunts were assigned to
get the names of his pals, especially those
who might be engaged in crime. ;

The informers worked efficiently and
speedily. Before long they had provided the
names of six of Dickens’ buddies, all ex-
convicts.. They had_met behind the walls of.
the Indiana Sate Penitentiary at Michigan
‘City while Dickens was serving a sentence
for burglary.

looked at photos of the. six outlaws. .

“Here he is!” he cried, holding aloft a
picture. “This is the rat who was with the
guy who plugged Cook and Gerka !” ,

The crook was Frank Ray Badgley, 49,
who had a record that dated back to 1917.
It included a life sentence imposed for the
robbery of the Amboy Ind. State Bank. He
had been. paroled two years before, after
sserving 15 year> of that term.

The tailor whose mark -was on the coat
picked up at the killing scene was shown
Badgley’s photograph.

“Pye done business with him,” he nodded.
“Not often, maybe three or four times he
left clothes to be cleaned. I can’t remember

whether that coat was his, though. I have
no idea where he lives.”

Police called in the attendant of the ga-
rage from which the license plate found in
the slayers’ car had been taken.

“That man often gassed up where I
work,” he riodded, studying the picture.
“Pye seen him in the neighborhood, too.
His home must be around there.”

Scores of detectives began a house-to-
house canvass. They soon came across a
grocer who recognized Badgley’s picture.
He said Badgley sometimes stayed at the
home of a relative nearby in the 1600 block
on Ringold Avenue.

Just before midnight on January 27, 1947,
a score of. policemen surrounded. the Rin-
gold Avenue house. They were led b
(’Neal and Captain Barton.
woman opened the door to put out an empty
milk bottle, they swarmed into the home.

Badgley, clad ‘only in his underwear, was
sleeping soundly in a small bedroom, a
loaded revolver nearby. Patrolman Ma-
_ a member of the raiding party shook

im. :

. “Remember me?” demanded Mamala,

announced. “He couldn't: identify it as that

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up. “I’m the cop you didn't kill,”

Taken to a cell, Badgley
answer questions. A slight man weighing
135 pounds, he snarled curses whenever one
of his captors came within earshot.

Searching Badgley’s room, sleuths found
a small notebook. In it was written an ad-
dress in Whiting, Ind.

“That’s only a two-minute walk from
where the cab driver dumped the old fellow

in his shirt sleeves on the night of the mur-~

ders!” cried Mamala. “That passenger was
Badgley without a doubt.”

ees WENT to the Whiting address
at once. It proved to be the home of a
relative of Badgley by marriage. He ad-
mitted that the ex-convict had been there
on the night of the shooting, but insisted
that he had no knowledge that this guest
had been involved.

Questioning other relatives and ac-
quaintances of Badgley in the vicinity,
police learned from one of them that Bad-
gley had left for Indianapolis with a
stranger on January 12, the day after the
double murder.

“Who was Badgley’s companion?” de-
manded a sleuth.

“All I know is he called him Bob,” was
the reply. “And he had the initials, R.O.B.,
on his belt buckle. I noticed that because it
spells out a word—rob, see?”

Grilling failed to -bning forth any ad-
ditional information.

But what they had learned was enough
for Detective Arthur Keller of the Dunes
Park Post of the Indiana State Police, a

manhunter well known for his card-index
mind.

“k.O.B. . .. Bob, that’s short for Robert,
so it’s Robert O. something . . . let’s see.”
Then his face lighted: up. {Robert O.

Brown, that’s who it must be. He’s a bad
actor, a gun-toter who beat a murder rap in
Michigan City three years ago.”

A photograph of Brown was secured from
Michigan City police. Mamala- identified it

| as that of Badgley’s companion who. had

mowed down Patrolmen Cook and Gerka
and then quietly remarked: “A very neat
job.”

“He's ‘probably holed up well,” said
Keller. “With a double murder rap hanging

over his head, he’s smart enough to bury

himself.”

The picture of Brown, 36 years old and
handsome, was shown to the cab driver who
had taken a man wearing a_bloodstained
shirt from Hammond to Calumet City
shortly after the shooting. He identified it
positively, saying: ‘With that baby face,
the guy sure doesn’t look like a_ killer,
does ‘he ?” :

Brown’s police record showed that he
had served reformatory and penitentiary
sentences for petty larceny, robbery and
auto theft. He had been tried in 1944 for
the Michigan City slaying of Harry A.
Akchevoun, a grocer, but had been acquitted.

The warden’s records showed that while
Brown was being ‘held in the jail at Valpa-
raiso, Ind., awaiting trial for the Akchevoun
murder, his visitors had included an_at-
tractive young blonde who gave an address
in Calumet City and described herself as “a
family friend.”

A checkup now established that she was
his girl friend and that she was working as
a strip-tease dancer in a roadhouse in a
suburb south of Chicago.

Posing as a buddy of Brown, a detéctive
called upon her at the cabaret on January
29. He intercepted her at her dressing
room door after she had finished a disrob-
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from an all-male audience and cries of

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In a low voice he told her he had just
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FEW MONTHS ago The Old Sleuth,
in answering an inquiry from a reader,
said he believed from his experiences with
criminals that addiction to drugs was not
usually responsible for crimes of a heinous
nature.. He expected some
comment on this blow at
a somewhat popular be-
lief, but not quite the let-
ter which came from one
reader in Tacoma.
This man admits he
has been a drug addict
for more than 30 years.

From his own personal
knowledge this :eader can
say, “I’m no angel and I
frankly admit that I've
had difficulties with the
law, but 1’; ure that
these terrib! ‘imes do
not stem from ‘he use of
narcotics. An addict may
break the law to obtain
drugs or money to buy them, but that is
about all.

“We're not ail bad,” he continues, “and I
hope that some day something can be done
for us that will take its place among other
‘such worthy causes as the cancer fund, the
March of Dimes, Alcoholics Anonymous, etc.
I’m sure us oldsters would welcome such a
program. It’s a hard life and a costly one.”
Lt % * *

CATCHING UP on past cases—on Jan-
uary 11, 1947, two outlaws shot and killed
Patrolmen John J. Gerka and Donald Cook
in Hammond, Ind. The story of this crime
was told in INsipe Derecrive in April of
1948. On February 23, 1949, after several
appeals, Robert Brown and Frank Badgeley
paid for these murders in the electric chair

self-addressed envelope.
The Third Degree

in the state prison at Michigan City, Ind.

And Clayton Fouquette, accused of fhe
murder of Donald Brown near Las Vegas,
Nev., has been convicted of first degree mur-
der and is in Nevada’s death house, awaiting

execution in the gas
chamber.
* * *

FOR YEARS New
York City’s waterfront
has been one of the trou-
ble spots in the life of
the world’s greatest city.
Recently a new police
commissioner in New
York decided to do some-
thing about it.

In a dramatic’ shakeup
of the police department,
he named Deputy Inspec-
tor Steve Kennedy, whose
photo appears in the cen-
ter of this piece, a virtual
czar over the miles and
miles of waterfront in New York. From
the cut of Inspector Kennedy’s jib, The Old
Sleuth feels that the river front squads hence-
forth will have a tough situation very well
in hand.

* * *

NEW YORK CITY cops proved their
mettle again recently when a berserk gunman
killed one officer and wounded two others.
Within an hour the suspect was in custody
and reportedly had confessed.

* *

DESPITE spring fever, fishing, golf and
the open road... look for the July issue of
INsip—E Detective on your newsstand on
June 10. Until then—Tue Oto SLteutH


3 ea
ith Hina,
Eager.

1ing the
and_ the

that the
some
‘| 3ve me a
the de-
._ to pro-
to com-
in ptart-
8 a good-
cipal’ Of
cipal of.
ejand that
conduc-
8 fellow,
m the de-
Btee not

it

even

So Ming oo ey ee
Pas

th
of

-be

es.

1I-

Beginning with refere
cy of God, being all merciful for mortals
here below, and instancing the Magda-
lene and the penitent thief upon the
cross, and also the royal prophet, David,
to show that. God did, not despise
heart |!
said ~ Bates

€ contrite

“any being,
committed a fearful crime, but he never
,{ Made light of it or ceased to feel that &
is, and at last appeared humble
fore the Lord; that from the fact he
was nota demonstrative man, he felt
what he did not manifest and was there-
fore misunderstood
interpreted; © that
kindness ve

cordial thankfulness for what Sheriff
Garman and hie leas oe Salt ae Tce

wash

YNOFSIA OF THE

public to-day,

el

and humble |
he

much, is evinced b

ES Bates, th
.y | executed murderer, were removed from
+ the jail to H. R. Downing & Son’s un-
dertabing establishment about 3 o’clock
yesterday afternoon, and many persons,
-ealled there for the privilege of seeing!

them, but as the time was needéd i
securing & proper preservation of them,
and they were to be exposed for the in-
spection of the
were admitted.
’ This ‘morning ‘at’
mains were deposited in the hearse and
conveyed to St. Mary’s Catholic Church,
where funeral services were held, as
previously announced, the spacious
edifice being packed to its utmost
capacity, late comers having to wedge
their way in among those standing in
the space to the rear of the pews, and.
out on to the steps,
many lingered on the sidewalk. The
rs were Messrs. Dr. J. H. Lu-
ens, J. J. Varley, J. H. Macke, J. L.
‘| Stough, J. F. Griffin'and N. L. C. Watt,
who will also act to-night, when the
mains are taken to the depot. ~
~The services were of th
character that are wont to be held in all
Catholic churches, and the thought of
the circumstance under which they
were occurring seemingly lent solemni-
ty to the occasion, and all the better
pared both the minds and hearts of
Rev. Father McMullen’s attentive lis-
teners to receive his most appropriate
remarks with the full force an
ing he sought to convey.

_ > THE SERMON, _ :
nce to the mer

9 delock the re-

m pressive

d mean-

and- wrongfully
he appreciated

A]

none

while

re-

his

Sera ans

~bwould secure It hé would not affix it.

|i oDr.

\

/}of the man executed yesterday. The

eo Spe

pose in view, that of -aiding him in an
| effort to save his soul) and that jf his
signature to a potition for pardon

And for that reason if none other, he
| thinks Bates made no attempt to palm’
off any hypocracy on bim while he was
laboring with hint in his ministerial
Hheapachl ya ete ee

he

' To another reporter Father McMul-
len said, in evidence of his confidence
in Bates’s spiritual welfare, that he
Pined him when he committed the
wful act, but not now; since, by the

commission of that frime, he had come
now appears in

to be such a one as
the sath of the Lom. seis
{ibberd this morning filed in the
Office of Dr. T. Henry Davis, the health
officer, the return of the death of N. §,
Bates. The return givea the age at
twenty-six years, residence at county
jail; cause of death, legal hanging, and
duration of disease, fiftecn minutes, —
Some of our people propose to get up
a big benefit for the helpless children

pictures taken by George Stigleman are
to be placed on sale in every part of
the county, and the fund thus secured
will go the children. In the city the
ictures will be found at Iliff’s and at
blir Fleming’s cigargtore.

ea \:

tel
ae

es
e

_ UP TO LONDON, -

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH
of AND AMERICAN RAILWAYS. {|

he Metropolis of the World--Piain,
ta - Heavy Architecture - Hunting a

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go a)

~-|Correspondence of the Telegram.] epg
, Lonpon, August 15, 1886. —
fiLay aside thoughts of business, if you
be of the sterner sex, kind friends, or
the chafing cares of the household, if of
gentler nature, and let your fancy carry.
you away from the heat and dust of
imjdsunimer in Richmond, across the
mountains and sea, to a little station
iu England where ‘an odd-looking
‘railway train has drawn up to take on
{passengers and is now waiting for you
ug step aboard. Take a look at the
stfange conveyance before you enter,
fér unless you. have wandered out of
‘the-of the boundaries of our own be-
Joyed land before, you, have never seen
fay thing like it. True, the interior of
Me Glen Miller tally-ho coach does
Yiave some resemblance to the inside of
the compartments into which the cars
iM divided, and one of Gaar, Scott &
’s traction engines might be likened
the locomotive ahead; but the
ropean railway train is only a sec-
tid cousin to the American passenger
isin and the family likeness is not very

fpngly marked. -In describing it the
e tt

¥

at there are exceptions must be
xerne in mind; for there are some Pull-
han carson this side ‘and a few roads
mye adopted other’ features of the
Acherican system. But this isan aver-

ee aS peer

| through long fie!
rowing for the city market, between
awthorn hedges and stone walla “and
, the metropolis of the

bu

fam

whirl us alon
streets to one.o

voiced affair, very diffe

Away we go,

ds of f
on to London
world, ¥ -

who have arrived to-day
after and every day unti
in the tide of hér-

turn: that © comes —
cities, and’ “New Yor

have been builded with
has never hesitated to po

until it had sent ite shi

ing up more bricks and

more wealth ad infinitum, history wil
have’another meaning and the lessons
we have learned from the fragments of
past kingdoms, cities, and
the Louvre and the British museum,
drift thrown up by the ocea
will have to be unlearned. ©
_ Here I am sermonizing on
are to see before you are fairly lan
a most, unthoughted ‘thin
you should come unbi
your; own ideas and view
are of a philosophic turn you will soon
begin to ask yourself how long this
Babel building can go on, and whether
a few more decades will not see London
swallowing up Liverpool and Ediw- |
as it has the thirty-six townships,
parishes ‘and precincts nearest to it
with‘their towns and vill
mense size of the place an
crease can best be com prehended bycom-
parison with other places. It has more
tland or Switzer-
nd, more Catholics thari Rome, more
Jews than the whole of Palestine, and
adds,9,000 roofs annual
heads of new-Ccomera.
here, as you would have been in Romie
sixt
lead this wa

le than either

generations ago
and end {
Let us call;a hackney

Aiey Enelish train and vou will see manv

#hA aver

the
ey yg GO

writ

his ond of the trnin; then the brake-
man forward gives a similar signal, and
if the road is clear the driver. sounds
his steam whistle, a high-pitched, weak-
srent from the
mellow-toned caliope whistles co
‘into use On American roads. as
t Windsor Castle,

to

becomes the center of power and
wealth and London drope back in the
‘march of time to join Babylon, Ninevah,
Athens, Rome and the long list of cities
whose glory has departed. Even now !
it does not require a strong imaginatio:;
to see the hard hand of the Russian at
the Briton’s throat, long coveted India
wrested from England’s grasp, Australia
a free and independent State and Can-
ada and Ireland. naming their own
rulefs. Other kingdoms and empires

they have perished by it. This nation

weak or helpless people and /brin
them under its rule, and its prou
boast that the sun never sets on its
possessions is only an admission that
its greed and ambition were not satisfied

the globe in its search for territory and
trade to steal. If London goes on pil-

ly
fs)
CTC.2:4.8 3
the smooth ‘asphalt

quie

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conden rmumnenttetientaainattr te ten . — — wee “ $$ ere
bp : i Sm 7 Fees ae | 5 ase Ke , | % i ‘ ae: 4 : ‘
“INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1886.

ming

eee

owers and fruits

You are only oncof the 175,000 visitors |-

,and as many

more will come to-morrow, and the day |~

1 there is a turn

prosperity, a
all ~- great
k.-or Chicago

the sword and

unce upon any

of war around

accumulatin

ples, in

n of time,
what you
ded,

to, do, for
and form
“But if you

. The im-
its rate of in-

to cover the
u will be told

that ‘all roads
cab; it will

rity strength and)
sold in com petiticee
test, short weight
Sold only in cang,t*
106. Wall St.; New "

species
Inherited, Scrofuly
of the Blood, Skin
trom infancy too

Skin disease thé f
face was covered pi.
itching and a i

1

Seeing your Cuticn>”
ommended, conélach
the Cuticura and
and Reasolvent Int.

other week to ha 4
other part of my fat’

Re See ER &
~ 130 E.4th Street,

ste Paes
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“SA pee aC AION GS
‘ pcdnds

For, Rent, . Lavs a ; = =e i Z

= Ba ADC ins, Atopatet Hue He old aie
hich he Wfterivakie Your days are num cred. She came home one
in ich he. Afteriy ards ; Right at rt o’clock and would not sleep in her | + OOM—Furnished for genti TyryEer
ea {2 Open court. > He never: bed She. took Sault ah ay went the feet north 6th st a Se ee
hom to steep, Suspece sOmeth] hens rie eda : apa ere ones f
Be or Hey SmI to) concent | Mnpariedlomehing the HOUSES fog ree feutabte” soca
1 pa Ven es Sees ee “At would not have deen. healthy for mt to tind also several rooms H. H. Fetta 18 3. 8th -
yo eo the court ordered a : pa ybody arora th hotise that night, spoke ie % Ste ite eae er ce ef
eg ORE Tor R Jurys Of 75 per- to hor mot Ch a0out it she next day. Her | ———— Boece 2 Te Ge uae
id awn eR ; ee o-  MO er thoughe she was not doing just right, | Peary oad eae ty” tk. ee en
2 ined ae ay eens » Kitty spoke up saying ‘Yes, the more I try to BONS Containing — geometrical instruments.
WS ANH luted as S att THEY a5 Mghtthe more you two are against me.’ As Please return to Nic} olson’s book . stor
° : ‘o°0 tore
dsthethe JUTY was fuoally im: » \eame'to the shox that day Tsaw the children | ‘ ey
Welt consisted of San] Gy paroush the Neh hr aD LYS the Cornet Dike See es EO pied eC ees ieee,
‘ Dan‘} Tieman ; Churies OMe see t EA, Ol WODLUY, atve JUST gor ao gumpse e ‘ , F on
eters, Gog am ASL yey. seer them aud Tsay sed the grandmother was |. is Seis A . :
feat. Jousthan \ hite, Riley with them, 1 then walredaw hile: Lwent io; favor of the murderer, When it
eeehn Ss; Russe |, UTX Starr, the xrindstone and like eve sya wu T com} Was Known that his last chance for
: Ws atc en Gera ate oe omenced to” shari en my knife. not beeanse it ‘ spite hs , : ee
Olviny, Alon70 — Usborne, beeded it but tO pass. the time awsy. oneal the ine pite had faded aw ay fresh Sym =
“sDemoss Amos a cH WS ehildretyand the old woman got away. Te then i pathy awoke. It is horrible to |
ne Stanley. Join FE Rabhins eWENnt through the stable and got theax handle - think of a Strong: man being: ‘COMm-*)
Bioent artee Mette cree RPC oC Aten Mteslog amen ilod to eres time. Yes
tonot witnesses began on j Kaew her tine had come. ct dpened the door | terday the most st «rn Stickler © for =
The court rooni Was déns ratked in’ She was washing her feet. [> retribution on the scaffold ‘felt his °
ea. The case was giver to [tok hat Uintended.: todo, She bexged” heart sottening toward'the doomed.
ra. ay Sy, | h eee . f t} Moshe screamed} crabbed hereby: man. et Bey ot Poe ‘ Z
fee. POSS A Ye BRA Ye ey ening Of the at and chocked her. Se Contessed all: } Wi i \ ps, op pores
m: two hours atterward they woe Ni her but] When Mrs. Mooyer was here she

Se ee

Bd the following: verdict: | said she would die! said she hoped God, who Seeth and
| » Gefendant, | 3°

Ieee Re aay ae; KNoweth all things.” was more com— —
Laroke Nee Were She folk Rk | Passtonate than she could ‘be, — and
7 pulled: herself up and taid her heaton a chair.) that SUU. might be forgiven and be

Pthen Struck her with the ax handle: She then | eeu tb «\S for her art, Bhe. could

rofed over tn the floors Ttheaghe Phad finish ere -
fed her so Ustarted for t) eorher reg to eat ny not believe any confessions or state-

}Hients he might make, though made _
omits ‘ SHE LING Rea pais fon the “seaffola, — with the rope
iith the defend AL bat mahi tlemced ners ooustene sj | Around his heck.” Me is such a liar
Gea it Ott E mie: a ay aie and ay het-throar -fc23' it reemed imposs ble for him to fel®
oPeeh nies StUCK the khifel in the eft wide and (So Fae Ree
j pee Ppulledie across her shfyoat. Beene knife
HVE . Peay em salt in the. leg. : es
timer Ieoth RSite in mv ‘boot and po = 38
bey ‘hed about the house Tike: & fast
ay Man (idn't know. what ta ‘do,! oS
: & written thouxht of a thousand things. bdrag.e Rag
Judgment “on tea her near the Stairs to. take cher va

Threat. Gor fy Knute cut but coitinot sabe ioe
Gerth then Went back to the Kitchen

the trnthy, == 4 botanists
When-Bates‘ little child was down
here, day before yesterday, George
Stigleman. jr.. the photo artist who
has done all his work since he has 2
been here, was at the jail. ates. ;?

% sencnonse Bee ‘ ‘ ese x
; Pe See 1 bee sig Ooh ae
ase noe : < $ t se :

ferring to the Srand: jury | the “ gaeree

the ill ada to an alléwed
VATE tite indiotment, This
“erruled, <The proseetiter
reprence Of the prisoner,

q@ ofthe eaire N athaniel
Ose To His “feete

as Gest: seact Then the
mtthis court js that you
by the sheriff frém this

@ county jail and there é
eC CONfinement tntil after |—
August 26, 1886, at noon.|

én take you to. the scat.

yOs you by the neck until
d, and may »the Lord
On your soul,” 3

made numerous state ae
to many different per-|

1¢ main they have con-
mm Same. general features,
| those ita to ‘have
y him are full of ridic-
woods. The Jesse James
iS one of these, Jesse
Frank in jail when
Kansas and Missouri.

7 been there a short time
moken and untrustwor-
ad the gang ‘existed it
stupidly’ foolish’ as to
into’ confidsnce on 80
laintance and with such

@ gang and all
n-and shattered

feet. To: the}
“Have you any cause tot
sentence of death should |
rounsed Y "= Bates Gal mly {-

THF KN d Se ie

and het ‘d soa PR pen .
her “Bat SONS SRI
hea rhs ; ent
troise = like.
there va was ee eam Seige gicie
Somebody ja the ether part of the house and t
dragged her back tothe kitchen, staid her
eee daw niet hen L-thotight Po wonld slip
out, ahd go west. but changed my
2 mind, washed my Hands and started
up.to find Marshal: Mur: ray to give
myself up. People say that I raped
her after | “killed cher, but T loved
that woman too much. for anything
f° like thar: Then they said she was so
j= Poor She had but one suit of under-
g « clothes and that was on her. “Shehad
as.good clothes as anybody. She kept
them at Mrs, Hindman's. That Hind-
~ man woman wastob'ame for most. of
hér crookedness. It was nothing but
an assignation house and she coud
not deny it. It ‘was. my intention to
kill Mrs. Hindnian and my wite to-
M gether but there was somethin came
} Up to prevent it “every time, Either
the childrenwere there or somebody
to keep me from if. It was a lucky
y thing foe Hindman thatit did. “When
@ Icut her throat the blood spurted out
@ and made a noise like the water-works
in the back Pass of the jail.”* rhe
» Charley Murray was witness to part
of this confession as was published in
_the Telegram Monday with my name
attached without my consent and as
promised Bates f would not cirulge
this to anybody until the day of the
hanging I can say I did not take ad.
. Vantage of a man behind the bars.
Ree are CL ASJACKSON.
‘When the decision “of the jury
was rendered and.’ ponkence « pro-
nounced few uttered remarks 0
“pproval. Since then — there — has

been a steady revulsion of feelin

iD emma i

diy Bi ie

lighted with them,

18-]

expressed a desire to have. hig: Nae
tratt taken with his children. ‘J ey
Were so taken in the jajl _ corridor.

Last night some of the. pictures —
were taken tu ‘im. He i Was” det
and especially . 5:

the portrait taken at the Stigleman ~
gallery with both the children © to-
gether. tle had them in hig hand

all night last night. Looking ~ at. |
them, he said: “] wish I could liye. -

to see them grown up—that ‘js, ifs.

their mother was alive,’ and sighed. 7

Rey. Father MeMullen Was not
there last night. Bates handed us
the | tter published at the “head of
this urticte, and said that he. had a -
ood deal of reverence for “Father
fac.” “He has been a true “friend —
tome. He didn’t do like the other
preachers, bulldoze mé or -leave me ©
&lone; but he came to see ang

tention to such things.

in some sort of a heraa?

if one didn’t do

from it so

all, N

learned the Way .
Mac. to a better World “tihy
Now, I don’t weaken: for: 3
I believe I could be ‘pony:
out breaking down, F's
up, but T have remo

ia talk
to ine. Before that I never paid at-. ae


ere DA DEW STA DDG.
gunt of this “clear

née and the be-

f that the trial had

jr rfectly fair and

ed the ruling of th
associate Weer :
‘trial Les:

the gar

e county, fron

* he eame;, thence
Friday. the th day

e 7) Stillinan,

ihe approached declined t
the price asked, :
sought nnother, who wa

a
A ampshire :
~ pionee!
. Redd)
. He
“whiskey
wickedly. fight
pie “and oftener. And: do
re deeds of daring than auy§
St ‘ee man inthe Whitewater
valley, but he was never knowu
to go back on a friend. He §
had Y natural abhor ence of thee
negro, but it was © mot in his
nature to ‘refuse a helpless :
man, even though “black. the f
kind of a‘favor that Pitt asked i
sil fthe latter would have adler &
ed money for the service Roddy
would ~ have cursed him . andsé
aft ‘him’ ‘to’ find 4 -hireling.;
CAs itiwas fie agreed - to ao
l nat the dodtors: never: got thr
‘lf body: ) The ath: wus: tai.cnold,

contd - ‘drink © >more

44 ques

named after the. ‘father.

natured,

Atrans {4r betwen Omaha und

phe ae ah Meas 4 45e

but in the dead of the, [

night dug thytn Vy. A

pao r should resurrect
welrcurpse On.

and strode away ipta,

est. Occasiona Wk

part of Hamps

a tree, wi the aw rn

brow, tock a lon ut at.

pottle of corn jiute

Durden and ™

Léhe body he carrie

his progress Was Ow

| Finally, seven mili

sta ,ina, nen

fo. " Mi é
;Stillman Dates paid the Rh ;

Li alty to-day was committed | in
: ereton this courty,

g-.
On ‘the | after-
Hoon of the 23d of lagt “March.
Rates is the youngest “Ok ‘the’ “tive”
sons of Nathaniel Bates, “and. Was
“and. his.
mother, whose - Maiden Aane “Swas 2
fle does not | seem to
hav inherited the good qualities of
either one. Ibe paternal Bates was
wel known in the history of this
‘county on account of his connection
with the stage line. IL¢ was a good- |
ood-brarted, honest and
jovin: ‘pack elor when hel
iAtterwaids he removed to Jlinois
and mariied.
deputy - “sherit ‘of *Pottaw atomle
Wiltinm F., the su-
niow = Paeitic —
Coun-.
il Bu ts; ‘Louis, nigh: y: pee

perintendent of the U

BLO Bik) S708 lary
ejainad at ae te
MT eiphs  herte of coe.

AAKETD :

Sypeavethy ay peek

lived here.” =
“His.cbildren are Ed, >)

jeounty, Lact Jchiny, a awitet man ‘AE
Hae ‘ouneil. Bluffs;


aa’
ee

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miders her

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ection, hastened -t

AS UN- | Matched ‘the |
eee ., “nder] yotver in hand, start
Rpg ‘stances, the depot, A crowd of nm
sealife was] and children ant

mity bap many diréful th

Where he fleagth ia. a ghastly co
RMSE Per sku Was”
to Mont {throat éut trai

territory, | face. was att

Mat littl tothe eruel and reniorsele

Seg SO had s\s the news sp

pa. Shortly [ yive place” to
J moved | Vengeance con!

~ Tattled
jt SUT | tade Of the crime ta
imble. ] Even the more exci
go 8uitul | ined lacked a leader. The material
When | for a first-class neck-ti

> . uibarket. Western school,

an and Hiatt, John

a Sud- | the jury at 6:

étin announced

CH OAV BRK es

own On Organized. The
and: re. Of SAVing his

le MeUtral [lang oigek buir wi

abSas City, or St.

~

jing tate and of his

befors the year 1883. The ‘slugging : »% ve}
mateh under the” wharf at Counell The Bu K
Blots was another absurdity. Fhe} “= DBRS pre tae Me
iver does not rin Within three a a

: miles of the Blutfs and there is no
Wharf on it, neither Is thera one at

J0€,  Proba bly

this confession Was manutactnred
pout he has “tola other. improbable
Stortes that, in view of his sag deait

etfort to p pare

began to} for it ¢o to show that his mind was

finger. and cries for] some times disordered.” In so far as

the Station © housé: Fite Neither win)

WAs present but dis-

gOS OF Pwalt for the trath And during that
©: D8rd | time stood guard over Bates with a
ea O3y Of! drawn revolver, Dm iAts Ba Nee :

eyes cars and Was enroute, the trial Bates commenced telling me about

Finally he had him

deserves ¢redit for

. coolness.”

e he fanded in Wayne

t ordered a
Ty 01.45 per
U; Linde-

muh was appointed as his attorney,
}On May Sth, the jury was finally im-
= arm- pannelied, It consisted of Sam’'} Q,
? Vinder, Dan’] :
doz- Baughner, Jonathan White, Riley

Tieman, Churies

5S. Russe], Ira Starr,

n the | Robert Colvin,
Wm, H. Demoss, Amos Jenking
and Levi Stanley, John F. Robbing
and Judge Fox prosecuted and the
MS box examination of witnesses began 6n

idly May tth. The courr roomn was dens-
the | ly packed, -The cage Was given to

4lonz0 Osborne,

10 In the evening of the

Man) 7th and in two hours afterward they
the

following verdict:

In the ‘county jail”
on the afternoon of

al out and, re- upon her memory. #

and her murderous

+ Warned. What he may have Said reflects or
1 thence | by thesa Ssymptoins of 8 rapd the of- the character of hi
aay tO L0Wa, | Heer determined td take his prisoner | for chastity we
geqttec fall-] to the county

S murdered wife

S pn : vish to say, after |
first: train “careful inquiry into all’ the facts,
aC we do not believe One word of |

if Cast discredit
noug those who

ed with him to Knew how hard “and faithfully- she
toiled for hersélf and children—yes, |

husband. The |

confession which hemade to Chas.
"Jackson, who beguiled his fonesome

hours with music, has been fre- | — es a

Quentely referred to

bot has never |

been correctly “published. lt. may

not be amiss now

of Bares,

He first said “Well Tew

his troubles, He said: «

_ The. marshal Was {tine tora iene had |

rived at Indianapolis and ¢

Sees A} eee tees broke.” Brseny! got
Sova ee y On to her being ctooked was seein the blood
Just three months “On her garments. } knew then she had thrown

: a kid. Then I made up my mind to kill her, Ei by
€vening he tatked i was at Hindman’s one day and as ¥ looked at | (toss Ha

aod Mrs. Hindman, I thought, old girl

night at rr o'clock and would not sleep in her
She took a quilt and went to the front

She seemed restless as if looking for somebody. HOUSES=10 and large

ers { Saar
mo her thought she was not doing Just Yiphet.* ss oo
Ss, the more | try to B

Kitty spoke up Saying ‘Ye
dorightthe more you two
I came to the shop that da

through the window, turni

not see the old woman and just gor a glimpse

had played toa Pretty tough crowd
atthe Phillips opera house at the boxing match-
es and my “Home, Sweet. Home,” hit them
hard.” Ethought I would try it on Bates.” |
played some twenty ininutes, and as Dr. Hib-
berd came in t@ attend the horse-thief 1 fol-
lowed him to the. cell, ~th
where Bates was Secured,

suHe gave nie a ticket and
AGEL ER phe rahe Sh
Bates i\placed me on thecars to 5

y Tsaw the children

lo present it to:

i gyno Leaders. itis as fullows* 26 : |
€ party 0% theta About Six Weeks aco Twent to the jail with

; my = banjo to amuse th
marshal’s only hope beout nor Ret Komething }
: man from a speedy

“ted bis] and just retribution was to get him
March, away before the crowd found a lead-

cet tite! tHe only had a few moments to

é opr Oner'to see if |
tke’ a confession out

€ same apartment

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ofthem and I Supposed the grandmother was

with them, |] then waited

‘ awhile, “Ie went co} favor of the ;
the grindstone and like anybody will I com-| was known that hi

menced to. sharpen my knife, not because it
ueeded it but fo pass the time awey until the

children and the old woman got away,

Went through the stable an
‘and started forthe house
over me that I cannot expl
T knew her time had come

areas ecling oemne tim eS
ain, t was awful, as ick ;
- LT opened thé door terda tickler.

and walked in, She was washing her feet.

told her what Lintended to dow She berger heart SO

for life, then she Screamed.
the throat and chocked he
said three men wére <-

Would. not tell their namace

I grabbed her bei

Fr She confessed all: | man,

| When Mrs.

—— with her Hue
to a

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ra |

[Feb. 8, 1879.

mother. yee after the Shooting: left the saloon
anda few minutes later was arrested near Hog:
shire’s shoe store, the scene of, the. murder of,
Daniel Mahoney by Patrick Bolan on the 17th: of
March previous. Achey’s. trial began November
4th, 1878, and lasted three days, the jury declaring
that he must die, a decision afirmed by the Su-
preme Court on Thursday.
- The crime of William E. Merrick, a livery stable
i keeper, surpassed in atrocity any that has been |
perpetrated in this state.’ It:was perpetrated on
the night of September 14, 1878, five days. before
the Guetig murder, but it was not discovered until
September 22, 1878, when two men living near
Eagle Creek c meto the city with information that
& dead body was lying among the logs and brush
bordering the margin of that stream, néar the
bridge of the Morris street extension. Thecoroner
went tothe spot and found the body of’ Julia‘A:
Merric and the remainsof her newly-born infant,
both tyuch degom posed. Her husband, it was testi.
| fled, took hgr dn a-bugey about eight o'clock on-
that Saturday night. and drove . away from: the.
stable, since which time she had not ‘been seen
until her remains were found. Merrick, who had |
married her to ‘compromise a bastard case, had
made threats of killing her, and the day preced- |
ing her disappearance and death had bought ten
cents worth of strychnine at the drug store onthe .
corner of Morris: street and the Bluff road.” A.
saloon-keeper on Indiana -avenue, near the Fall -.
Creek bridge, on the fatal night sold Merrick, who:
stopped his buggy at hissaloon, two drinks, aglass
ot whisky for himself and. glass of blackberry.
wine, the latter he said for his wife, who was in
the buggy outslde.. The saloon-keeper and a by.
) stander saw Merrick empty a powder into the Blass
1nd hand it to the woman In the vehicle.


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NO APPEAL
ANDERSON, John » and SNYDER, Zachary , hanged at Mt, Vernon, Ind,, Jan. 25, 188),

"Mt. Vernon, Ind, Jane 25, 188)-The execution of Anderson and Snyder took place here today,
The doomed men retired at 10 o'clock last night and slept soundly. ‘Béth were called at 5
o'clock and ate heartily, The Catholic Priest who had been with them, was denied admission,
They had asked for the Methodist ministers, Rev. J. ™. Asbury and Rev. H, E, Wulfsen, The
gentlemen were sent for and promptly arrived, They conducted appropriate exercises. At
9:30 the death warrant was read. It was listened to without emotion,

"At 10 o'clock Anderson was shavéd, the prisoners singing, led by Snyder, who also delivered
a prayer, asking for divine mercy and expressing confidence that his sins were forgiven.
During the scene the prisoner was very composed. Snyder was nervous and excited and talked
freely of the crime, and frequently cried, Andersdn was much affecteds but kept himself
under great self-control, freeky conversing with visitors, and occasionally smiling, This
concluded, he returned to the cell, where he was again attended by theministers and his last
preparations were made, | ~ |

"At 11:0 they were conveyed to an inclosurenear the jail, attended by Reverends Asbury and
Wulfsen, Andergwon was composed, but Snyder eriotional, and prayed aloud constantly. Ander-
son said a brief prayer, The trap was sprung at 11:50 and Snyder's neck was broken, An-
derson struggled and twitched for a mement, Life was extinct in Snyder in seven minutes,
and in Anderson in eight, The bodies were cut down, put in coffins, and conveyed to Wei-
singer's undertaking establishment where they were exposed to public gaze, The arrangements
were very complete, No hitch occurred from*first to last.

; Fi, "HISTORY OF THE CRIME, ° ;

"Lhe crime for which Anderson and Snyder were executed was the murder, on August 17, of James
Van “yer, 17 years of age, The latter tas known to have $18 on his person; was enticed to
a spot selected for the crime, on the river bank, one mile east of Mount Vernon, and while
his attention was directkd the other way, Snyder struck him 6n thechead with a club and
felled him to the ground, then held his head While Anderson, sitting astride of the body,
cut his throat from ear to ear witha pocket-knife. At the first plunge of the blade, the
victim revived and realized his awful position, begging for mercy and struggling desperately
He was overmatched, however, and soon overcome by loss of blood After rifling the pockets
and before iftfe was extinct, the body was thrown into the river and taken some distance

into the stream, the murderers swimming on each side of it, Blood stains and a disturbed
condition of the ground were discovered next day, and the body, after search, wasrecovered
Sunday afternoon, Suspicion was at once directkd to Andérson and Snyder, who were arrested
before a line of denial could be agreed upon between thems and by skillful manipulation by
the officers a confession from each, charging the commission of the crime upon the other,
was obtained. The trial was brief, conviction prompt. Executive clemency was invokéd in
vain.

"Van Weyer was a native of Kentucky, and had resided at Mt. Vernon only a few months, doing
odd jobs, He was an industrious, well-behaved boy, Snyder and Anderson were K&kKK both
from Mt, Vernon, The former was 21 years of age, and a shiftless, Idle fellow, but pre-
vious to the murder was never considered vicious, Anderson was 17 years old, a boot black
inclined to be industrkous, but his associates were bade Snyder's mother and both the
parents of Anderson live and reside in Mt, Vernon," NEWS, Galveston, Texas, 1/26/188) (h/He)

"SLAUGHTERED IN COLD BLOOD, = JAMES VANWEYER MURDERED BY TWO OF HIS COMPANIONS FOR $18, =<
In the month of April last, James Wanweyer, a youth of 19 years of age, went to Mount
Vernon, Ind., and obtained employment with Wm, Gardiner, a farmer, living in Kentucky,
opposite that city. On Thursday, Aug. 23, the young man visited Rosenbaum & Co., Jewish
mekhchants of Mount Vernon, and asked them to pht his money - $18 *-in théir safe, Friday
morning he called and obtained the money deposited the night previous, and that was the
last’ seen of him by the members of the firm, In the afternoon of Friday a large pool of
blood was discovered on the river bank, about 200 yards atove the iron bridge, just east
of this city. On Sunday evening Miller, a fisherman, while running his troutline near the
scene of the murder, discovered the dead body of a many lying in the river close to the bank
The coroner was notified and the body was pulled ashore, when it was recognized as that

of James Vanweyer. His throat was cut from ear to ear, the jugular vein was severed, and
healso had bruises about his head, showing that he had first been knocked down and then

robbed
"The eorhing following the discovery, Johnny Anderson, a bootblack, and Zach Snyder, were


INDIANA.

ANDERSON, John, WM, 17/17 Posey

Murder WM, 17 pg 1 EE4


a a iN i a a

arrested by Officer Hogue on suspicion of having committed the crime, and they were lodged
in jail. Sheriff Hayes immediately went to work upon the boys, and in a short time
succeeded in getting from Anderson and Snyder a full confession of one ‘of the most horrible
_erimes ever committed in that section. Here is that portion of Anderson's story relating
to the murder itselfs 'Me and Zack planned the murder at Jake Niedert's saloon ‘last Thurs-
_day night, The next morning I met Zack there about half past eight and he told me that he
had met Jim Vanweyer in a cornfield that morning, I then said let's go in swimming, and
me and Zack started down to the river, found Jim near the hominey mill and he asked us
where we were going, and upon being told that we were going in swimming, we three started
for the river; arrivéng at the river, me and Zack went in. ' Vanweyer did not go in, but
sat on a logs we remained in the water about fifteen minutes and then came up the hill and
dréssed. The steamer Dexter passed up while we were dressing, Zack then said why don't
you box that fellow, he can out-box you. Ireplied maybe he can and walked up the hill,
Vanweyer followed me and hit me with his fist, arid we commenced sparring in fun, He
threw me and we clinched; I raiséd up, picked up a small stick and s truck him over the
heads; Zack then struck him with a big club * we were both down on the ground, Zack rolled
him over and commenced choking him; I gave the murdered boy my knifé to cut his shoestring
before we went swimming; Zack cut his throat, and returned my knife a short distance below
where the officers found,it. I held his feet and legs while Zack did the work, Im the
scuffle, Jim lost his pocketbook, and I picked it up beside a log," After we had killed
him, Zack got astraddle of his head, and I took’hold of his legs and we took him down to
the river, and Zack pitched him over into the water, He was not dead yet, and Zack waded
out and stood on his body four or five minutes, The murder was committed between 9 and 10
o'clock, We killed him for his money, Sack said he had about $303 that he was showing it
around towne After the murder, we went through Bird's cornfield over to the main roads
Before arriving at the road, we sat down on a box, and Zack returned the knife to me, and
advised me to throw it away; I tossed it up in, the weeds where the o icers found it,'"
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ter midnig Abaca shia atatalow ? 2 We Pi, Opposed — constitutional “ amen4@-!\,,... =
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te slayer, was ; tae Phos icant i aupreme court vote on con- . 3 ae
ad-year ot LaPore $25 holdup agd 5 A x oop A fatitutional questions, : : First Aid To
electrocu! ats’ Pazuchas 2 } a9 >4@ >|- Devaney declared . such amend- , :
caving of TEN ly tothe chair} r : See" [moente would deliver to an “oot ise” “*
Walking catmly th row, Atkus-|2, Chester Arkuszewski, of this }minority of three or four court sus. A firat aid. team
bis cell in Geach Fo ledy and (city, became the first LaPorte|tices theultimate power to say{ Troop. No. 32 of the
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Late in the oti <y brother, | /9St Bight in the Michigan City }stitutional, «| the eastern district Arie
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Joba, who was mise the elderly zuchoekt in Fox park fast sum Norris urged that fit [thee Cayig, aUcttoxtem
and killed the mer during a holdup. Arkuszew-|,.¥° 8 in addition tO! “Three bther teams

recluse tn Fox park on the night; the -president’s > proposal for. en-!
of inst duly 27. and to. bis net pon tr eer ween largement of the supreme court a. the tourney,” They

; i spon

an he ute efforts by Attorney , —— =| time for a corrective constitutional | .ortt, ethouist chugs
ee eae oe 4 Kenneth D. Osborn and ottiers. to -| amendment. the peg reek te 8
DSCREN ka RE REA a etn peommutation to « life term ape, crhe present “Intolerable sta~{ 49) So snscred hy the Me
Ue Bertil Gao ek Raed late in the afternoon when =» | Bon cannot goon,” said Norris} :

Gov, M. Clifford Townsend told #Unless some reasonable degree of | PT: Aw here.

Movelnent go forward atthe aame! troops No. 39,

en be would not inter- control is brought “about, those! On the winning tea

et. ¥ bi ’ old: Seidenthal, How

' gere with the carrying out of the who seek to prevent any. fnnova-/° : . i
ae anally. The governor talk j tion will find themselves” in a {| Howard Myatte, Leon
ed for go hour with Attorney Os} situation ‘where all authority of /*0¢ Paul Bickett.

hh Arknazekski, the {say court to declaré an act of con-| ¢rved as the “mode
: Ber eatner! Mrs. Angelo Fspo-} ST Se] geese unconstitutional will vod game en pty ware
a coat ta ‘garred Vaart $1 ,396.35 Ta en in at Last) ei ste ne reason “why congress | ter of the LaCrosse
gmych. and Waller Wyczaweld.| Week's Tourney ~ [should not pursue ite legislative ie Bheeley 19 troc
g the Polish-American . 4 cr remedies and the remedy by way; Chairman. oe, ae
 qrpanizations of the city. before ine emaim aac sigs On ot constitutional amendment at they, on of a possible 3\ge
“qmpmncing he would pot inter-| Last week's arctional baa¥etball same time”, iy celinie wen orem
: .} tourney for 24 county High school, ~ Another Compromise : ' only fot aston
; Dide’t Expect Clemency © | teama bivke the dept sermon AS Norris spoke another appar- Boat Entel te pons soe
siayer was not ectual-| of revenue paid by fang wi! Sent ‘compromise: judicial. proposal | scote being 286.
the governor bad re-|the gates be) | was presented, Thia was 4 comati- | ght the La
te act on his hewalf, prison)”. The financial report on the tours tutional amendment proposal in-! ,. pele typ Ay
said. He remaiied re-j nament, made todey by Principal troduced by Sen. Charles 0. AN-) nottawattomie. ar
aE ee oe a ae ss kg Srewe Democrat. Florida, It! iso tobe held at t
t acbool, reveals that’ $1,356.35 was would: provide tor. optional retire- Pyaaet,<. Dompéting :
paid in The previous record fur: ment of al federal judges at the! on, Michigan Uity, Me
& pectional ‘tourhament here WES are Gf 70 and eumpulsory tet} ana Porter ‘county.
23089 when the revenue amount ment atthe age of 75. 1 | Martin was chairm
iB dake p> fs Norra, warning foes of tonal et? event.
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; Gapeaynxk! of the Sacred Heart

tnorming.

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~ and. Walter Wycrawski,

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“eC Dida’t Expect Clemene y

The young atsyer was HOt actinal-
the governor had res

i te act on his behalf, prisov
oe offcials said, He remained re:
* oat to fiw fate until the end,

eving fhe governor would not

d> anything for him, officials
| Maledos + Bhp

Witnessed to the execution were

- prison doctdrs and of6cials. - Ar-

was taken from his ceft,
sary GET HIKE AT T2205 this

at 27-09. At a?-13 he was

; ed ead (by Dr Ps BH.
% of the prison staff and Tr.
* Neer te Brooks of Michigen City.
ee he acted in the place of

‘DY. Bohn Miller, the regular prison

physician, who was called xway by
fiineaa in his family.

A few hours before the end

Chester nie his final meal, consist-
ing of fried chicken, French. fried

green beans hot biscuits;

: offee and mitk:
eee cigarets sfter
Im until the end

4

ue ‘priests, . the
‘and the Rev.

| Smith of Michigan

~ Ark mwskt had devoted
time in recent weeks toread-

rs

Bible add to talking about
ith’ various ‘priasts.
ly svaa removed to the

2
x

funeral home tn Michigan
to ene disposition: by -the
re

ae Meeting With Governst.
‘The gmal) group neaded hy. Ate

tormey Osborn sought clemency

mh: slayer yesterday afternoon

governor's office at tndian-

tf.

Spotis,” Attorney. Osborn was ap-
pointed by Judge Wirt Worden in
Ctreult court to defend Arkuszew-

skit when the Iatter at the time of

first/heartling after his capture,
the court: -he had no funds
The local “attorney continued to
take an interest in the case Jong
tfter the’ eanviction: i

a there to give him the
to make an appeal to
tmoaions in an attempt to rave

ia Getter from the qhair:’ ‘The gov-
emor appeared greatly disturbed

the case and naked for details:
of the youth's life and crimes. The
ry toid him ail he knew

of 2!
Pe eee Slaver "He also read

7 under which he waa. sen-
i eetd,@ law. which makes it man
easery for the court to send the
wendant to the electric chair. He

governor the indict-

wa the” sentence which
Worden pronounced. <4

Ms

oe ~The governor wns shaken visibly

ithe reading of the sentehce.
8r¢ asking me to do what 150
rss of the levisiature -wpe-
‘ally decided. the judges of
aMs should not be permitted to
pm this man a life term ine
wa the death penalty,’* Gov.
Nee tee - Poe ge :
te Eepoaito gave way td her
motets and appewied to the
rethee’ to “be lenient. After 6
the conference, ended

A the governor saying he could
A tal the visitors to t
ould ae Fs Just then what

f ; '« Comnen ae y
x oa Aater,, powever:
eee cna

ry

The first current one

Osborn told Gav. Town-|

Jotn M. French® ‘of the LaPorte

l never had ATU
eked on Page f, Colyram BY | a

$1,356.35 Taken.In at Last/

Shenae

the games. - ; ay

Vhe tinancint report op the four!
nament, made today. by Priest
Jobn MO French. of Laeorte High
echeol, reveals that $1,456.35" was
Pa in. The previous record tor
wv erclionst towlament ere: wes
pin 2934 when the reveniie amount-

ed to “$1097.90. wi)
Saturday -night's ing’ between |,

Michigan City and La e brought!
-& Rule of $498.40, the jargest of’
the SIN sessions, © > 7

$135, scorers $10. timers $10, print.»

$1.70, two bas $22.90, Keore bocks
50 cents, “janitors “$20, Uckets
$13.20, . TE sas E

After expenses are paid” the
host schoul, Laparte,> gets stu,
Then -transportation and lodging

to $130.68 ani 6. fespectively.

+Then the host ! gets another -
| $100. The IHS :

gets one per”
cent of the pext "balance $705.
One half bf the next balante -is
divided on @ pro rate basis among
the.14 schools; each s:noo} gettiug :
$I0A2- se iat TREO cl
“Rue remainder is divided among
the schools on +a -pro rate- baais
depending on how, may season
tickets they sold. © Scheowls will ré-
ceive the following, at the fate of

Hanna $3.56, LaCrosse $5.34, La:
Porte "$89. Michigan City $14.24.)
Rotling | Priliric ~ $3.96, = Stiliwel!:

und Weatvillé: $12.46:

tourney.

ee enantio |

c

FEW TICKETS LEFT.

“:TOMORROW AT MLC.

When the renisining “160 Michi.
fan City regional basketball soure
nament tickets are sold bere today
no more. season ~ tickets Will ~ be
available at. thé \Michigan City

Of the host school: tuld: Principal
High school in a telephone conver-

sation today.if) (
Michigan City: gym. can seat.

of the ‘Aecason tickets, good: fot the
afternoou and, evening’ ~ seastong,
have been pold or alk

between
then. » “Emersog * and Goodland

(4 work. Stanley
aan ite “IL see ho reason why congrede
co Week's ‘Tourney. ».  * jehould not” purtie Ite legtsintive

ichal pan

oifemeies*and the remext w Ee
H £ Seta the Out of a possthle 2 fem
a!

e ; oy (Of constitutional armen:
bast week's sectional basketball same time,”

ptourney for 34 clunly. High achoat!
feama bioks the record for amount »
of revenue paid by tats witnessing | on

EOD { % exceerdin
-. Another Oboipronise pen fede paanta ne.
AS Norris seg! ae ddan teams vt te tontes
JUGICIAL PrUPOGRS peare Keing 254
was presented. This wan a ounsti-; ;
tolional amendment
troduced Wy Sen Chariea Arey pottant attamio area
haiso to be Held atoth
would provide for optiomal ToUres i ania: OConmpeourg
mient of all federal sudgex At tB ed pene Michigan City, 4a
¥ Sen and Porter) connty ¢
‘oP Maciin wae o cBalir

tL coniprenise

ase of 70 and eomyuiser
ment at the’age chia.
Norris, warning foes of onmeéd- >
fe action, that they. might Ssuse |
‘the pendula to swing
other Birecseny ar nee than pets
a yale now adeteat eid pet Sndorke
« Expenses of the tourney amount- Z wident’s opr pods Uirecths
bd lo $604.80 sdivided He tolaira wane ¥ head B.apr pod f
Meals. of tesimes. $302.40, ‘referees! yor 20 :
Nerris pregented » detatlebcanl.
ing $13.05, help $76, jauinentals abt ol“ Feport ines Nehari
Solving the sifudtion either py Con,
stitu tonal minentiment or By ices
vtétive “alatwte and he
congress to try bolh ways ay the

‘LAW SAYS ASSES
MUST TAKE THE

avors thes ently as «hast gr

) fowuship! asscasor s
state Genesis of hv
geo Shi 24! pice
P@iyves ‘tosh p . teus =
i seraOrs | Of -fhia ore Be
task cufinecticn amd
for teains js taken out, amounting ” non prpertyvawsess’ Gam
ie,
 tiié, specifies ih
te¥s act alse”
Boa} have the fask'<
“geass: =}
County Awniitor oR
has’ received supplies &
t) , RUA, witel is require Se
; ia of 2560 and. gery cs

PLANNING.
TELPEL 6.1.0

. “ see
Considers Calling “Emergens uae to | apportion

= = cy Convention”
$2:78 for each season ticket sold;) . %” anal

Pdistricte  AVIth we ie

ballot now. the cerns Po
i jes« The “cld iaw me
“census. to be tax j
(Yeats

By CL. SULZBERGER
x c be United Forse .
$3.54, Union Mille $1.78: United necee cree, Maria 12 Wiliams of Qe census form «

Township” $1.78.¢ Wanatah $10.58 Wedern}

ship assessor, read + fg
and wondered how &
can’ do the census +
have already .compl
their. asseasing and
any-ceneus at those Fi

with the Com-
r Industria! © Organiza-

Green said that allbough he kas
not yet decided Upon his immediat«
‘ course of artion. [is possible he

: ; - ~~. 4 will call such a cial convention
FOR THE. REGIONAL An “unscheduled quecting of the'A
re FY of b. executive council would

be summoned first, he said

“lam keeping
touch with the new developments
that are taking place in the Cus!
0” Green said
upon his return from Chicago.

stallment of Frnnce’s
war over-subscribed
according ta unoffic
day» which osatd
amounted to 15,000,

in’ an. interview | ( $683,500,000).

ter of the LaCrosse thx
Noah Bnealay ba troop i+

aCroase KPOUp BOOT

Tonight the La
represent the eat tert

nights «rent,

Reerlol Oo Copy
Wien = Tian tf

writ SIs 35 es

The law, passed 2%

i

tf’ albomow) one it

Ine ew law trans:ee

president of the America: itrustess to the Asses:

tee ro reac et Tobie that the next :
} f ra Press y he ts considers! this year, shail ta lee es
LaPorte High actrool mince $300 ing calling an ‘emergency conver- Ded 4 :
on the tobrnament, Mr French! tion*-of the AF. of L. to expel the
said) Dut ‘paid $100 of this to the, unions affiliated
OCfvic auditorium ‘for rental fog the miftee | fo:

EO Otto” Dreege,

LOAN OVER-SULL ”

"Pariah, Match 12

TP gin “IT am.prepared to call an em-
au‘itorium, Principal Mol Knapp ergency meeting of the executive
council However, Tam not ‘yet
sure that thig is -reguired at the
moment, I- would summon, a meet-
ing of the council before 1 wouid
: fi call a specia) convention... p
Approxiinately, 3,100 pegple and all}. “At such a convention, I believe
our-fonstitution “requires @. two
7} thitds® vote of our members ‘to
being about expulsion.”

ke com
ting ach ‘ ito MrjP es -
Jee rcaceiea tant Papers “Green paid that he would make

have 2,200 of the th)

LaPorte High achoul
received waa accor

ithe necessity ©f 8) nasketball team at

‘& council meeting
the next few ‘days, and jin
the meantime would observe pro-

is of the C. 1) O. drive ia

up Dis mind on
‘convent

One of the ‘great

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pehanre. fut he 1s an habitual crime {
Pnal pnd. a dangerous charaeter!’)
{he Weclared, © "Fhe iegistature “in f
pasying Almost, unanimously R
} tow! making the death sentence }
lenahdatory, undoubtedly had “ths
| nghrd the public welfare In thie!
nye of automohiles it is rather easy
to take aolife and then fles,* The}
legisiature wished=to combat mut-
der and crime, &

“Thia boy is unfortunate and I)
am sorty for him and for his fam-
fly and friends who seek’ to nave
him, but he“has‘a bad record and
if he ever were to “be loosed on
society again he would continue as
an habitual criminal.” tain

Attorney Osborn had assured the
governor that he was appealing
for a commutation of sentence om
humanitarian grounds only, ‘The
youth confesacd his crime and ex-
pressed repéntence, he inted out.
"The attorney admitted his bad rec-
ord. With him the attorney had
statements from Judge Worden
‘and Prosecutor Mark Storen which
said (hat had they poasessed
cretion in Chester's ‘case y
would have sentenced him to life
imprisonment. a

Polish-American “societies “Here
petitioned for commutation and
Mayor Alban M. Smith asked for
leniency... Mt. Wyczaw sk! repre-
sented the Polish-American sotie-
ties. 15 Air eee |

— History of Case ;

Arkuszewski was captured two

q

Doctor's Bond ‘Continued AS;
Soe Files Appeal

peat Sat 4

‘Waarbingten, © March 9 92—Dr4

Franela i Teansenl pit aze peoer-

n feater, today wens sentence tT.
to Bi cays in fab and nned $160 on
chkrxes of contempt of the Rouse;
risniting when he walked ont of
hearings. of A’ fomniittre investi-:
ging his peasion plan }

Justice Bey ton Gordon aged to:
tontinge Townsent’s bond pet Hist
adpeal from the Tower fourt cp +4
¥iethn’ts the District of Columb:a |
court of appeals. ee

PT bani yet, Sher, Lar, TownsenJ}
said. after “dusticé Gordon © pno-!
nounced sentence, the » minimum {
Under the law vat i

{

*

Townsend) was convicted -by aj:

jury in Thatfict of Columbia feder-
al court‘on charges that ho placed j
daieatrs |p yaniv “the house
by falling.

subpoena summoning him tq. tes-
tify.” The jury found that he vio~ |
fated terms of the subpoena when
he walked out of the hearings in
the midst of questioning.

Befcre imposing . sentence, Jus-
tice Gordon overruled Townsend's)
fmotion for a new trial. In a pre-
pared statement issued. after the
court session, Totensend said;

“Try as they canto imprison
me, they can't imprison that ‘ifea.
The tide is definitely turning, and
my ‘crack pot’ idea is becoming
the ideal which will save America
from economic serfdom and will
tring happiness: and» prosperity to
our people.” gat

“However Mmcongruous this. post-
tiort in which IY appear before the
court, I feel certain that before the
bar of public opinion Tam guiltless
of any Wrong doing. I walked out,
it is true, But what, American
citizen would pot have done like-
wise? hy’ ses
“Vor two and one-half days 1
had, answered. questions with ref-

i

to have money hidden'on his per-

son.

Arkuszewskl was arrested in
4922 as a mere jad for petty tar-
ceny. He was placed on probation
at that-time™ Later in’ the same
year he was picked up for burglary }
and sent to & boys’ echool. He had

days after he had shot and ro!
Pazuchdski in Fox park. Ja
‘Arkuszewski was with his brother
when the holdup .was conimitted
and John “as arrested the folldw-
ing day. He was indicted aa An Re
ceasory but was released from Jail’
several weeks "later, when’ the
charge was nolle prossed by recs

ed for Mrst. degree. mufder, He
J pleaded guilty and was sentented
‘\to death by Judge. Worden (last
Nov, 18" sot Te Re al Le
at :
fnonthe was paroled frdi
atory he. hot»

Three | stealing acring and a

had been Tondrad |e

been a puph'at the Sacred Heart

actiool we Sor ry )
yn 1025 he was sent back to the
boys’ school again for burglary. in
1827 Re was arrested for vehicle
taking and sentenced to:from one
t6 10 years in the reformatory. In
1629 he was picked up a3.a parole

date shown In/the/police’ record, he

vehicle ng and ret to the
reformatory. 4° 2
On Jan. 27, 1934 ‘he arrived in
LaPorte, having served his term.
Ten days later he was arrested for
small sum of
from. Mra. Alice Lincoln.
Ife was convicted of petty larceny

enced taf

gio bo five years,

eto ‘comply fully: With 3}

Violator. A’ short time later, no}.
was arrested at Lafayette. for i

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+=see your Fort Dealer today’
His cnure stock of used r.

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cially priced for quick sate,

Becuuse the new 1937 Ford &

fast, Ford Dealers have take
best used cars in trade, Far-

can ssve themscives jots of «ieee

makes and models~-at priest
Read the classified section
paper for typical bargains
= then examine these ars
eide to come in today and che
want at the price you want to

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a : BAL .: s
“Auihorized Ford Deal

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C eterna ky

‘shrubbery.

_ ARKUSZEWSKI, elec., Indiana |
fe Be
With a? te 4h his :
hands he was a blood-

thirsty terror; but his

. 1 _ bravado wilted when

Indiana manhunters

brought him to bay.

DYNAMITE DETECTIVE,
My

Sheriff Alfred Norris,
above, now mayor of La-
porte, Ind., led a posse in
search for the killer and
later discovered a strange
plot in the county jail. The
murderer, above right, was
the “tough guy” who found
that crime did not pay.

Be Sr pa ening tet secon ee

IGH in the cupola atop
H the towering courthouse

the hands on the big
clock pointed as one to the star-
studded sky. It was midnight
in the little city of Laporte,
Indiana.

A mile to the northward, on
the northeastern outskirts of the city,
two men made their way along the tree-
shadowed pathway near the eastern en-
trance of Fox Memorial park.

The two men kept close together. Both
were familiar with the park but they did
not like its lonesome night shadows.
Their Airedale dog, however, ran bravely
ahead of them. :

Southward, between them and the city
proper, was the moon-glistening expanse
of Clear lake. To the right on a little
knoll across the dark driveway they could
see the shadowy outline of the circular
bandstand. Its white columns loomed in
ghostly contrast to the surrounding trees,
heavy with summer foliage. .

It was Monday night, July 26, 1936,
and a soft southern breeze spread the
fragrant scent of flowers from the luxu-
riant gardens bordering the lake. There
was heavy silence except for the distant
croaking of frogs along the lake and the
shrill songs of crickets in the dark.

Ballistics tests linked murder
slugs and test bullets to the
killer’s dun, shown below.

Suddenly along the dark bush-bor-
dered pathway ahead of the two men
the dog set up a low strange whine. The
lights of the park had been turned off

40 DYNAMIC

MEDI SATE IE

i aq os ate Nt HEN be a

OFFICER John Gerka was the only
member of the police trio who had
a gun. He acted heroically, but
the odds against him were too great,

CLOTHING at left above was torn off oe.

of slayers_in the savage struggle. The .38
nickeled ‘revolver’ was Patrolman Gerka’s and
the automatic was wrested from the killer.

‘diet Na CB! a ead wes

A HAMMOND. police officer points to one of
the three bullet holes in the police cat after the
battle. Another bullet pierced the windshield and
chipped the steering wheel. The driver was killed..

Han
M
Don
Army
batuh
The

years

town.”
CM a

hope in

brawl:

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to an individual. They failed. Nevertheless
they felt one or more of the trio might
help clear up the mystery and all three
were detained on a minor charge.

On a hunch, the next afternoon, Pellar
and O’Donnell showed Williams, who
seemed most willing to talk, some of the
clothes found in the Hammond car.

“Ever see any of this stuff before?”

Williams looked over the clothing care-
fully, a strange and frightened expression
on his face.

Williams waited a long moment. Then
he said slowly, “This looks like some of
my cousin Mike’s stuff. And he had a .38
Smith & Wesson, too... .”

“Could he have gotten that plate?”

“Sure! He’s been at my place a half
dozen times!”

Williams supplied the address of his
cousin, and a carload of detectives sped
there. They found a startled young man
of 26 and they showed him the clothes.

“No,” he said. “They’re not mine!” He
seemed frank and honest.

“You have a .38 Smith & Wesson re-
volver,” Pellar said. “Where is it?”

“Upstairs in my bureau, where it always
is,” the man replied. He seemed puzzled
by the officers’ line of questioning.

“Get it!”

The young man fetched the gun. “Tt’s
registered,” he said. “I only keep it here
for protection.”

The presence of the gun in the house,
by itself, almost completely exonerated
the man. Further questioning convinced
the officers he knew nothing of the case.
Disappointed, they returned to headquar-
ters.

For three days officers questioned Mor-
gan, Williams and Rogers. All three
seemed more than willing to help—yet
none could offer an inkling that would
trace the vital license plate. Overlooking
no possibilities, Pellar and O’Donnell had
Officer Mamala come to Indianapolis to
view the trio. Mamala shook his head. “I’d
say almost certainly none of these three
was in that Hammond car,” he declared.

re LAST police ordered the men re-
leased.

The last of the Indianapolis clues had
petered out. Pellar and O'Donnell, who
had been working day and night, were
bitterly disappointed.

“What do we do now?” Pellar asked
wearily.

“There’s only one thing left,” O’Don-
nell replied. “This whole thing may be
linked to a hot car ring in this part of the
state. Let’s check with State Police Head-
quarters tomorrow. They’re pretty well
settled down since their shakeup.”

State Police Headquarters had, indeed,
settled down, the two Hammond detec-
tives discovered next morning. And Maj.
Robert A. O’Neal, a brilliant officer, had
been advanced from captain of detectives
to executive officer to acting superinten-
dent in ten days. The important factor in
these maneuvers was that they had made
O’Neal clean out his desk.

That single act was about to produce
startling developments that would fit
neatly into an intuitive hunch of another
great state police manhunter, Detective
Art Keller of the Dunes Park post, whose
memory was a living catalog of Hoosier
criminals.

It was Saturday morning, January 25,
that Detectives Pellar and O’Donnell
called on Major O’Neal. He summoned
Capt. John Barton, who had succeeded
him as chief of detectives, and togethér
they listened as the Hammond men
summed up the case and their investiga-
tion thus far.

52

Major O’Neal, out of long habit, was
making sketchy notes as the case was un-
folded. Making notes was an O’Neal
habit. Scraps of information, bits of data,
names, incidents all went onto odd pieces
of paper and into his desk.

He’d found 200 or 300 such notes to
himself when he’d cleaned out his old
desk. He had sorted them out after read-
ing them over and, despite Barton’s josh-'
ing, had crammed at least 100 into a
drawer of his new desk.

When Pellar and O’Donnell mentioned
the murder guns, it prodded a ‘spark in
Major O’Neal’s memory and he began to
poke in the drawer of notes. There was
something about a Smith & Wesson .38
on one of those notes. It would hardly be
the Hammond gun—but...

While Major O’Neal poked, he was re-
membering what prompted him to make
the note about the gun, An ex-convict who
was determined to go straight had come

to O’Neal for a gun permit. He thought.

he might need a revolver to protect him-
self from some of his old pals.

Out of habit, O’Neal had noted the
gun’s make, caliber and serial number. He
hadn’t granted the permit and had advised
the man to get rid of the gun.

He found the old note now—made sev-
eral months before. There were, O'Neal
knew, thousands of Smith & Wesson 38's:
It was incredible to think it might be the
Hammond gun—but it would take only
seconds to be sure.

“Was your Smith & Wesson numbered
60351?” he asked when Pellar and O’Don-
nell had finished.

He saw the answer in their faces even
before Captain Barton ejaculated, “Good
grief, Bob! That’s the un!” Barton
jumped from the room and came back in
seconds with a teletype message that had
listed the Hammond gun number.

It checked!

Major O’Neal reached for the telephone
and-dialed a number even as the other
three officers stared in disbelief at the
identical numbers on his note and on the
teletype message which had come out of
the file. As O’Neal waited for his connec-
tion he caught Barton’s eye. His own eyes
were twinkling. “Laughed at my notes,
didn’t you, John? What do you think
now?”

Barton just shook his head. It was an
incredible coincidence.

Then O’Neal was speaking softly into
the telephone. “I want to see you right
away. Can you come to my office? Good!
Grab a cab!” .

In 15 minutes the ex-convict who had
owned the gun was ushered into O’Neal’s
office. He looked from one officer to the
other in puzzlement.

“What did you do with that .38 Smith
& Wesson you had?” Major O’Neal asked
quietly.

He had kept pretty close track of the

“ex-convict and was fairly certain he had

stayed out of trouble.

“Sold it, just like you told me to do,”
the man replied.

“To whom?”

“Ray Badgley.”

“Oh! Oh!” Barton said softly. He knew
Badgley, an old-time criminal and heist
specialist who had been released from In-

diana State prison two years before after

serving a long bank robbery sentence.

“Where’s Badgley now?” O’Neal went
on quietly.

“He’s been, staying with some people
out on Ringold Avenue, I think,” the ex-
convict replied. “I haven’t seen him for
two or three weeks, though.”

O’Neal quizzed the man for a few min-
utes about his own activities. Then, ap-
parently satisfied, he sent him to another

room while the quartet of officers held
a quick council of war.

“T think he’s telling the truth,” O’Neal
said when the former felon had left.
“We'll put shadows on that house right
away, men who can recognize Badgley.
When we're certain he’s there, we'll raid.”

The Hammond men agreed. They put
in a quick call to Hammond and asked
that Officer Mamala be sent to Indianap-
olis immediately so he could look over
the new suspect, if the trap succeeded.

The shadows—quiet, unobtrusive plain-
clothesmen—were sent out and the rest
of the officers began several hours of wait-
ing as the tension and suspense built up.
At 5 p.m. Officer Mamala arrived, accom-
panied by Detectives Wittig and Leeney
who had worked hard on the Hammond
end of the case and wanted to be in on any
new development.

At 6:15 one of the men stationed at the
Ringold Avenue house called headquar-
ters. Badgley had just entered the dwell-

ing. .

Tadiahabolls city detectives had, mean-
while, been apprised of developments.
They joined the Hammond officers and
state police in a raiding party that num-
bered a score of men. Men were spotted
around the place, leaving no loopholes.

Then officers entered simultaneously by
front and rear doors and took Badgley
before he could move towards either of
two guns he had in the house. Mamala
was with the officers who went in. He
looked hard at Badgley.

“That’s one of the men!” he said as-
suredly. “He’s the one Gerka disarmed!”

Badgley, 49, a slight, prison-grayed man
with a cadaverous face, was tight-lipped
as he was hustled to State Police Head-
quarters for a questioning. For several
hours he denied being near Hammond the
night of January 11, but his alibi was
vague. ;

As soon as Badgley was in custody,
Indianapolis and state police detectives
began to circulate swiftly among his rela-
tives and known associates, asking ques-
tions. In a few hours they found a friend
who gave them startling information.

“YT DROVE Badgley and another man
to Chicago the afternoon of January
11,” he said. “Badgley went there to visit

_ a relative who was in a hospital.”

“Who was the other man?”

“I didn’t know him—but I heard Ray
call him Bob once and Brown another
time. Maybe that was just a phony,
though.” .

But when Major O’Neal heard the
latest bit of information he knew differ-
ently. The two names made plenty of
sense to him. They confirmed an intuitive
hunch which Detective Art Keller had
pulled out of his file-like memory some
time before.

Keller, a big man with a bespectacled
and deceptively bland round face, had
been in headquarters on another case a
few days after the Hammond double mur-
der. He’d chatted briefly about it with
Major O'Neal who was then in the midst
of the departmental turmoil.

“There’s just one trigger-happy mon-
key in Northern Indiana who would pull
a caper like that,” Keller had concluded.
“That’s Robert O. Brown. I’ve lost track
of him lately—but I’ll find out where he is,
just in case you find you want him.”

“Go ahead,” O’Neal grinned. He had
vast respect for Keller’s hunches, and he
knew the big detective would hunt up
Brown on his own time anyway if he
didn’t get a go-ahead. “Just be careful.
Don’t flush him.”

[Continued on page 54]

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The driver was killed..

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brawls, kids breaking arc lights . .

A! -PAIR OF UNARMED rookie policemen oti a routine train-
| ing’ mission set out in a squad car from the city hall in
Hamniond, Ind., on a foggy January evening.

Members of the department for only five days, the two—
Donald B. Cook, 22 years old, and Rudolph Mamala, 29—were
Army veterans who had seen action on blood-drenched European
battlefields.

They. were accompanied by Patrolman John Gerka Jr., 36
years old, also an ex-G.I.

“Take the wheel, Don,” Gerka instructed.
town,”

“Maybe we'll run into a fracas,” remarked Cook, a note of
hope in his voice. “All we've had so far is two-bit stuff—family

a”

“We'll tour the

“Nix, pal, nix,” remonstrated Gerka. “Don’t ask for trouble.
There’s only a single cannon between the three of us.’

But flaming action awaited the one-gun, three-man squad that
night—January 11, 1947. Two of them would die in a fierce
battle in a night-shrouded side street.

The car slowly moved southward with Gerka talking con-
tinuously, like a barker on a rubberneck bus, imparting to the
rr men bits of police lore garnered in his 16 months on the
orce.

“That jewelry store, nice pickings for a heist gang; keep a
sharp eye on it,” he advised. “Two ex-cons, ugly customers,
live over there. Remind me when we get back to dig out

their sheets and mug shots. A-bad corner, this, for traffic
accidents . . .”

And so it went, hour after hour, as the police car criss-crossed
Hammond, a bustling industrial city with a population of 70,000
adjoining Chicago on the southeast..

At 9 p.m., as the fog thinned, the police. vehicle swung off
Hohman Avenue onto unlighted, quiet Cleveland Street, on the
city’s South Side. .

“Ahead—a sedan without lights,” sang out Cook suddenly.

“Cruise by it... slow,” instructed Gerka. He peered toward
the other auto as they passed it, then announced: “Nobody in. it.”

But Mamala, throwing a glance over his shoulder and through
the back window of the police car a moment afterwards, caught
a glimpse of two heads popping up in the parked auto.-

“They ducked down again,” he cried. “They’re out of sight.
now.” :

“Whip round the block,” ordered Gerka. “We'll come up on
them from behind.”

The suspicious auto was standing in the same shadowy spot
when the squad returned. Gerka, his right hand close to -his
holstered gun, alighted and strolled toward it. He made out two
men, one much younger than the other, on the front seat.

“Police officers,” he announced.

The man behind the wheel, an unhealthy looking individual
with sunken cheeks, a pallid complexion and creamy albino-like
eyes, displayed yellowed teeth in a smile meant to be ingratiatory.

| THE STRIP-TEASE DANCER WASN'T AIMING TO. HELP DETECTIVES

‘FIND HER KILLER BOY FRIEND—BUT SHE

‘MIGHT. AS WELL HAVE TOLD THEM HIS

| ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER! _

ROOKIE Patrolman Donald Cook—
unarmed, he was shot dead as he
sat behind the squad car’s wheel.

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“Suppose you want to see our identifi-
cation,” he drawled.

“J got mine, my driver’s license, right
here,” said the other, a man about 35

with thick, brown hair, reaching inside _

his coat.

And then his hand flashed out. Clutched
in it was a .38-caliber revolver.

Lightning fast, Gerka flung himself
forward. He tore the weapon from the
suspect’s grasp before he had a chance
to open fire,

“Why, you dirty-——”

But Gerka didn’t get to say more, for
now the man, with bewildering speed,
produced another ‘gun, a .45-caliber auto-
matic.

Springing to one side, Gerka frantically
squeezed the trigger of the confiscated .38
and pumped six bullets from it so rapidly
that the reports seemed to merge as one.
But he didn’t have an opportunity to take
aim and the lead missed the target.

He tossed the empty weapon aside and
started to draw his service revolver. Just
then a carefully aimed bullet from the
hoodlum’s .45 ripped through his heart.
He fell lifeless,

Now the automatic was turned on Cook.

A bullet from it bored through the side

of the squad car, struck his left thigh,

drilled on through his abdomen and ,

emerged at the right hip.

Dying, the unarmed rookie slumped
over the wheel, as more bullets whistled
in his direction.

That left only Mamala, a husky six-
footer, to face the murderous pair.

Mamala had learned how to carry on
under fire while a member of the 45th
Division in Europe. At the outbreak of
the pistol duel, which had lasted only a
few seconds, he had crouched low behind
the police vehicle.

Peering over the hood of the auto, he
saw the slayer open the door of his sedan
and start to alight.

Evidently unaware that a third police-
man was on the scene, the outlaw laughed
ghoulishly and chortled, “A very neat job;
I got both of them.”

Mamala had only, his fists to combat
the guns of the two men, but he did not
hesitate. Rushing around the back of the
squad car, he flung himself at the slayer,
bowling him over.

TRE HOODLUM, from a prone posi-
tion, started to turn his .45 toward the
rookie. But Mamala kicked him savagely
in the wrist and the gun flew out of his
hand.

With a swift motion, Mamala scooped
up the weapon. At that instant, however,
the older outlaw got into the fight and
struck Mamala on the head with a pair
of hedge clippers.

Stunned, Mamala reeled backwards.
The .45 dropped from his grasp as he
sought to keep his balance. The mur-
derer dove for the weapon, but the rookie
kicked it under the squad car.

Still groggy, Mamala lurched forward.
The slayer, his face twisted with hate,
scrambled to his feet and ran out of his
path, stumbling and slipping on the icy
pavement.

Swinging the halee clippers, his older

* companion, thin-and wiry, met Mamala’s

rush. The policeman managed to wrest
the clippers from his grasp’ and struck

him over the head with them.

The second ontlaw circled around and
returned to the fray. Fighting furiously,
Mamala ripped the coats and other gar-
ments from the two men and slashed at
them with the ‘clippers before he was
finally felled by savage blows.

Leaving Mamala_ stretched out in a
semi-conscious condition, the pair scam-
pered away on foot and disappeared i in the
darkness.

Police headquarters was flooded with

calls from excited citizens who had heard
the thunder of gunfire. Squads raced to
the scene and found Mamala staggering
along Cleveland Street, the slain Gerka’s
revolver in his hand.

“They—they went ‘that way,’ * he mur-
mured, pointing, and then collapsed into
the arms of a comrade. “Oh, if I only had
a gun when it started .

Prowl cars took Mamala, Cook: and
Gerka to St. Margaret’s Hospital. Gerka
was pronounced dead upon arrival. Cook
lived a short time. Physicians ordered a
room prepared for Mamala, who had been
badly battered.

‘“T’m not staying here,” said the heroic
policeman firmly. “Patch me up; I have
work to do.”

In the meantime, other bluecoats had
thrown a cordon around the neighborhood
of the battle in the hopes of bottling up
the killers. Scouring the area, Detective
Michael Leeney came across a faint trail
of blood. With other investigators, he
followed it along’ streets and alleys and
through vacant lots. It ended at the door
of a shed behind a neat cottage.

Detectives surrounded the small ‘struc-
ture and trained the beams of squad car
spotlights upon it. They then hammered
on the shed walls, shouting : “Come out
with your hands up!”

But there was no response from within.
Entering cautiously, the manhunters found
that the shed was empty.

Aroused by the commotion, the owner
of .the property, a bathrobe over his

pajamas, came out of his house and was:

questioned:

“I didn’t see or hear anything out of
the ordinary,” he said. “TI went to bed
early.”

Then he glanced into the shed, which
two detectives were ransacking for clues.

ives O'Donnell

ES did’ fine work on the cdse,

(left): and Pellar,

“Say,” he cried, .“my daughter’s bike—
her Christmas present—it’s gone!”

Word was flashed by radio to roving
squads that one of the slayers might be
fleeing on a red-and-white bicycle.

As these developments were taking
place, a checkup showed that the auto

' abandoned by the gunmen had been stolen

a few hours before the gun battle. from
downtown Hammond, where. its owner,
Glendon Cantrell of Black Oaks, had
parked it while attending a movie.

Patrolman Mamala, returning to head-
quarters from the hospital,-expressed the
belief that the trail of -bloodstains had
come from wounds he had: inflicted with
the hedge clippers.

“Before they knocked me ‘out; ” “he said,

“T got in some telling blows, I know one |

of them was bleeding from his head like
a stuck pig.”

Inspecting the clues picked up at the
murder scene, Captain Sandor Singer,
assistant Hammond police chief, noted
that they included a long, dark overcoat,
a green topcoat, a green sweater, a blue
suit coat, a red-and-white hunting cap, a
blue hat and a muffler.

“It looked like an explosion i ina second-
hand clothing store,” reported a puzzled
detective.
over Cleveland Street.”

“I can clear up that mystery,” smiled
Mamala. “The two rats. were wearing
those things. Early in the fight they lost
the cap and hat. Then, time after time,

when I grabbed hold of one of them, he’d.
slip out of the garment I was chteping ;

to. escape me.’
“If the battle had lasted a few minutes
longer,”

stripped down to their bare skin. As it ~
is, theyll attract attention running around - “| “Well

in their shirt sleeves at this time of the ©

year,”

come across the stolen bicycle abandoned
in an alley in the downtown section. ~~

Captain Singer dispatched six detectives - 4

to the busy area.

“Put yourself i in the place of those gun-

slingers,” he said. “They stand out like
sore thumbs because they’re inadequately

dressed. What would they ‘be expected ©

to do?. Get some duds, of course.

“So.check stores; they may buy .some

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rium | Of the warrant Sherif! Gormon alapped | The police did their duty well, facia the Taw, like whintling at a ‘eh was'the ntup
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Se eae aang a ATA Sod SU Wie 2 Pam gt TRERGKAM “Offlons | WOU Dave paid n big price for a ticket | tinje from what fh
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fo the ryporter that he hoped he would made by blood: the
never move another limb uf he took a éd, and that thé
dollar forany ticket he isaied. end of the green 4

me
ridor | See WAT RHA APR RCH | werd Open nearly all night. renee:
i Meee tae eau eo oe me fA reporter could be found on the
~ | oThere is nothing I Want to-nay” par. | atroeta at any hour of the Night. os
| ticularly. Gentlemen. Fam hore ‘on | The polico re rorlod at hoadduarterg | C0! ©
ae at ales # Lar Ra ei at mt for ane al Yoclotk this morning, >” Phe street scene at the county jail | head was mashed §
my IG a eal ye On ee ee ey aE Thore was considerable atir last night | Was like nto that near the CIrCUs tent, been cut by ‘a lef
which 1 committed on. he 28nd day of | whon the report was spread over Main | W8Gng for the door to open. The corresponded with
March last, and Tam sorry for what TE] atreet that the Governor had commuted | Man with hia Watermelon wagon war Howevér, he was
have done and hope that you will all} the sentence of Bates, ca ceteris 2 Core at pete ps enh "Wit high pie gir and strength of what dae
forgive me for all crin ‘that T, have |. Ollicor Able called on the reportors at| the old man wit UY, CATTAOS | long after marriéd
forgive me for all. crimes, that. Ty have the printing offices this morning at| lined the street under the shade trees, | for which yUrpoee
comniittod.. Thopethe people of Wayne hall-pant one. “i *s ieee sikiins. eis! al the curbing and in the broiling sun, he killed hel We
county will have pity upon my” two] ‘Tom Rowe, Deputy Sheriff of Mont-| While man, woman, boy and girl, youth near Greensfork ur
| pretty little “children “and” “I hope | gomery county, is in attendance, © > een and ghia were packed on ‘ago, when they m
a thee will bs brought up’ aa . ‘Seen John W. Tompkins, Sheriff of Rush | the side street to the south and the al- Grant county, Ind
PRG tee sapere? ‘Tain ready to dig | County, and Thomas J. Newkirk were | ley to the north, as well aa in the street | seven or eight yea
t) be executed and Tam. ready to die. | jy attondance. ©“) | in front, while many lingered on adja- rumored. he mad
_ | 1 prepared myself before and Lam glad | © Sheriff Harper, who hung John C,| Cent street« to hear the rumors that] sion, but a part
that Idid.~ I hope you will all get | Henning and John C. Coffey, at Craw- | Were ever afloat. - ee pat \) | few years ago an
- |atrong in religion.” 2 7, 4 | fordaville, was a spectator. yeas Bice 2 ip a ee | point, informs ‘thé
bal Gok ; la William Davis (Old Probs) from <-> BTATE News. _-; | that it was a false|
oe Chester,came a pene. three apples, yg it age a a he prospered, but |
but they didn’t gt him past the door. John Baldwin, of Redding township, Hicted with theun
Sheriff — Bro of Bartholowew J ; kept on crutches fo
. ackson county, received $384.10 for :
county, who tly was the unfortu- th t . h al? few old residenta
in allgndanc of a huge jail delivery, was |) VUrmeg melons raised on three an was ajudgment, +

1 in allandahcs ee «| & half acres of land, and his net rofita/  Biomt 6 neiie tf
acted like a lady and” bee ; Every conceivable scheme was work- Hae the ‘sales were Lee his is | ey learns that in 83
and kind to me. Mr. Murray. the! ed by people who had no paseea, to gain ey d Netcare forte ‘ eae one Years! a man was suspecté
turnkey, has alad boen very. good and | 8” entrance, butthe orders from Sheriff | Produc 7 Bay for the land. "sy . {ed his wife at H
kind ta me,and I thank him for all hi Gormion were to admit no one without} An election was held on Tuesday In | body. was ‘exhumé
gs ; | 2, ticket, and the order was strictly | the townshi in which Rising- Sun is| held. But while i
dee I also want to BAY &l obeyed. < . art ¥. | Situated to decide whether or not the evidences’ of pois

few Words about Tommy Murray, of pees lal ‘Marshal Cox, and plas! vw rims. ied ope eal a was done, and in-
Hegerstown.’ When he- rested me | Chas, Bloom, of the Mirror are the only | ward building the propx da Louisville, | and the fact that! d
and eal een edd ae” ei "ihe persons frum New Paris. who held Cincinnati & Dayton railroad. The| the name is withhe}
& ee : Ae tickets. °° Need > WEES 4 | vote cast was: for the appropnation, In the summer
and J am glad | The “Madison Founty special” came | 466; against the appropriation, 74.» | Dalby, brother of, W
in loeded to suffocation. There were | i The large barn of W. E. Higgina, five | Dalby, got into -
t a hundred passengers from | miles east of Shelb ille, was burned by | with Hiram’ Bell ix
avekstown, nearly ‘ag Many , from | an incendiary on Tuesda: night, with | town, and Bell struc?
Washington, about'a dozen“from New | its contents, consistin of: 1,250 bushels | knife he had in hii
Castle, including R. E. local] of new. wheat, :300 bushels of. corn, | fatal wound. But,
editor of the Courter, and J. ‘G.. Boone, | twenty tons of hay, farming imple- | cidental than intent
County Recorder, and there wére like| ments, two ho a buggy-and car- | ing boys, no legal co
numbers from other stations! ©) 31 4 riage. Loss, $3, insu for $1 of the sad affzir.
: The Bost Waves! train brogght about in the Continental, New York... | y ebraaty 12th
wenty from Winchester, includin sh Saren aig % “= | was convic oi, m
H. Thornburg, Sheriff, John: Rées ex: A building occupied by J. H. Barge- degree” for the k
Sheriff, John Howard, ex-deputy PL meen! Arag ato ar
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ae tere | Bluits.td see Se MATE to learn
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|mind to hae to Council Blutts 13-120,

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| > The abote facts are gpaned from | XO CLOSE, 121

Mrs. Hoover and W Ee OF = Bates,

yf Add are reliable 5c Ge a eta Ba
“was \Nathaniel __ dirs. Bates: was born twenty-six L
m © Always | years ago last July. Her father Was ‘e
ge ding In soci- fa Union soldier, in an Linois regi-}
exception of Still. He ment. After the war he © removed
=e yeh of February,

4} tO Bourbon county: Kph? rhere he length in < - hast:y coal
net?) and” was} cided @ short tima on a claim. Her skull was
brightand good-natur-} From thence he r moved* to “Mont. throat cut from
he was about twelve | gomery county and: took a claim, | floor Was covered w a
.° Then he Was | laying und was beaten out of it. He. then the walls were Stained wilk
migat depot at Council aA i to remove on the neutral long black huir was clotte, re
bn he was truck—on. the] strip, but not knowin the Ines got crimson, tide and <gher-sie
ng pi of timber. | two miles oyer: jn the? territory, facé was almost hidden &
t fo be peed ate sae he renee and auteds at
_800n revived. ‘His |] this time the writér remem ers her] y Ward as if in a< Aast
h confined him to _ his as 8 bright-eyed, dark-haired little tothe cruel 5
| i r he & short time. but he WAs hey-/ lass of nine or ten years. She had As the ne ‘e
=) aaa tthe same lad cafterward.  When- an older sister who married shortly give place to anger and
/ SERS MOTO WAS Brow going ou, or after her father’s death and moved vengeance could be heard. |
DK, it was safe to say Still. [north of Fort Scott. “From thence 1eSe. of amd
vat, His associates the family finally drifted to Iowa, | heer determined to take his ea
and” roughest. | and the unfortunate girl, after fall-/ to the county jail on ‘the “fips
enongh, but had | ing to t®e Victim of Just, fled to the and, luckily, it y es
“His memory Was/love of a friend ‘for. protection. 2 ee
able. He: never] The intimations that she was ~4N- | marched the criminal’ ou yy
WAS nearly | true to her husband, even © under volver in hand, Started with=

“Toor | the Most distressing ‘circumstances, the depot, A crowd of ment
_Hoov-| are cruel and unjust. “Her life was and children.surged after ‘if
d made | spent in fear of what actually -hap-. many direful threats were 1
rother-in-law, penedes tle . children, ei etenete the air was full of ‘impr
8 mother, Mrs. OOKS, speak of ber ‘fidelity. Her But the minds of the popu ;
yer, jived in’ another | life at Agerstown was One of al- too much” “rattled -by the fe
of the + Still. “obtained an ‘Most incessant toil,‘and her sur- tude of the crime to act in
troduction and began going with | roundings were poor . and humble. | Eyen’ the more excited and | |e
Aliss Hoover in January, 1879. She | Such is not the case with beautiful | ined lacked a leader,’ The
had seduced and was already | women, like Kitty . Bates, .when : art:
pregnant, and freely confessed her their charms aré upon the market.

.

for é ea claes neck-tie partys
: western school, was p “
condition to'her lover. The seduc-4 Bates arrived in Hagerstown on organized. The 3 fare re
_. €t had abandoned “her, ‘She was| the 24th of last December, and ca- | of saving his man. from’ ale
_ wretched, and only to ready too ac-| mained there until he murdered his | and just retribution was to!)

cept sympathy from Any — source. | wife on the 03d day uf last. March. away before the crowd foungs

_ d\las! that she found it ~ in Still. | He had no money and could get lit-ler. “fF mote
io Tete My et eemed really - 9 tlé work, and so he lived most of! wait for th ripe
eae tM 1 € a man Ol; the time as & pensioner on ‘the hard time stood gu O atese
him. He ept sober. Her child] labors of his wife. On the _ day of | drawn revolver, Finale nes te
~ was born Se N oat but he did — not the murder he had been grubbin safely on the care ai d wag: i
en pither soba peat pled in for a man maied pura te (bhort} for Richmond.” ‘The -qwaran tee
tN igi A5e ; a: © Lurnish-| distance north o wh, He brok t ‘da as icra
Valet 2 ed the money to bury it. He ‘and broke equally 80 and deserves’ cre

C] 3
hn foe

aaeee his grubbing-hoe about half past 1,/h . 5 :
elas wile lived at the’ Bluffs about and came to the blacksmith shop tol was lantedne, coolness.

? was ~ landed in the®teounte
ed Tob a tang, Which: he work-| gut it “taendey The blacksmith | about 6 6 On eeapoun es
maga. €d fora transfer company. He had was out, and he went into’ an® ad-

oe >) ek epeated ells “Of drunkenness. joining carpenter shan tase Pine
ets ; ee 2 : ‘broka On B.Inenitaes Bracers Mn “


l is

=<

PL eee ere TT 1aCKed adeader sel He MmAbe. te
Mi Sortileudy |women dike shitty Bates, “when fora first-class neck-tie party, of Be
¥ confessed her | their charms are upon the ‘market. Western school, was present but qe
The seduc-} © Bates arrived in Hagerstown on organized. The marshal's only hie
e@thad abandoned her, “she ” was the 21th of last December, | and c6- | of saving his man, from “A speae
_ Wretched, and only to ready too ac- mained there until he murdered his} and just retribution Was to get:
7; Cept sympathy’ from sny source, | wife on the 23d day vf last. March. | away before the crowd found a les
Bh Ile had no one. and could get lit-ler. “He only had a few moments
_ Bates. But love seemed really to} tle work, and so he lived most of| wait for the train ‘and dwring tip
_ ditt him up and make @— man of/ the time as a pansioner on the hard | time stood guard over Bates: witli”
) him. He kept ‘sober. Her child } labors of his wife. On the © day of] drawn revolver, Finally he had h
was born in J Seal but he did” not] the murder he had __ been grubbin safely on the c
forsake her. The infant died in for & man named Burns, a short] for Richmond. The marshal w 4
» About three months, and he furnish-| distance north of town. He broke equally so an ‘1h
#0 the money to bury ft.” He’ aud] his grubbing-hoe about half pest I,/his nerve and ~ coolness.2 = Pg
his wife lived at the Bluffs About} and came to the blacksmith s opto/was landed in the county) jae
A yeuts, during which he work-| get if mended. The blacksmith | about 6 o’clock on the afternoon
_€d for a transfer company. “He had} was out

: » and he wentinto an ad- March 23d, or just three mont
: eee ells of drunkenness. joining carpenter shop, took ‘out a from the time he landed in” nay had

ket knife and ground the larger | county. . That evening he talkae
emany _ During all this time ladé —the smaller one was broken freely with the reporters telling tie
oft—until it was nearly as sharp as/ the story to which he afterwar
to hare eels é but he frequent-!a razor. “By that time the smith testified in open court. He ney}
. ined that his mother-in- had returned and he had instructed | denied the deed hor attempted
_law interfered in his affairs Final-| him what to do to the hoe. He palate iw oss ag 2 Spee
iy he tet epee sa from the then left the Bop and Nihieice On May 3d the court BeOS
setansier company abd kept on.a | the back way.and e::te Wile et specie nerfor- a jury :of-75-p
gontintions . spree. Things Pres dweiling by the rear door. It was faong Ibis coce ae Spink wie 3) 5.
_ from bad to Worsé, and want stared lovely spring day. The air was | muth was appointed as his attorney
/at his Wife and children. ~ Of these | balmy; and the town was almost as On May Sth, the jury was finally in
the : = quiet as if wrappéd in sleep, Farm- Set et It consisted of Sam']
Was only two weeks Old. | ers were busy at their wor . and] Winder, Dan’) Tieman, Charlie
8 tald his wife he was RO-| trade was listless. Merchanfs doz-| Baughner, Jonathan White,” Ril*
3 help participate in an un-— | ed before their doors, ané ren and Hiatt, John S, Russe i, Ira’ Star
_ lawfhl attempt to gain money. and women lazily plied their hoes in the | Robert Colvin, Alonzo )
~ threatened to kill ber if she “gave it} gardens. A civil case was on trial] \Wm, H. Demoss, “Amos J enki
away.’ He -went. “About this | at the justic s‘s Office, but it attract-]and Levi Stanley. John F. Robbin ae
time the wife acd her mother, with | ed few loungers. Tom, |’ Murtray,/and Judge Fox prosecuted and thie
_- the latter's children, Teceived a/let-| the marshal, sat on a dry goods box examination of witnesses began | oe)
ter anda remittance asking them to] in front of Shiveley’s store, idly | May 6th. The ¢ is ~
~~ go to Lacyene, Lynn county; Kan.,| whittling a stick. Itis about “the fly packed, The case was given an: 4
_ nd make their. howes with.) Mrs. | how rofsin the “afternoun. Sud- the jury at 6:30 in the evening of thee
— Hoover's son-in-taw and datighter. | den y the offi. er glimpses , man | ith and in two hours afterward theype
~ They took the Offer and papeca coming hastily down the © street in announced the. FU ONIRE f
away, eae never to hear of Kates | his direction... What is the matter] “We, the jury, find the defe: tee
again, They Weep usteomfortably with the fellow? “He takes a good] Nathanie _S. Bates, guilty of muri
fixed in Lacygne Ww den the recreant | look _ Uhe man is . excited, ‘and i reed Be
husband Arrived.” He promised something redon his face and |in the first count of the Indictment fe
amendment, avowed he would drink clothes looks like blood. “Without

: L empl ir tore ado the marshal shakeg off his
~~ and was forgiven He remained s0- ennui and goes to meet the comer, | -

Whont he recognizes as Still, Bates’|> On} ay 11th the

OrUnk D He» Ute] As ne draws near, Bates says, in his torney’madé a miotion for a newpe |
own @ blood red. “A fter Again Bet} quiet and dogged way: e250) Sd ts

* ‘ De oI guess you'll have to take me to the verdict did not follow the sta: |
up once more and persuaded ~ the Valsts PSE EOE

2 nore tnd = Richmond. Pte)
family to rémove with him -to Ran |e“ Whatton ee © i
$a8 City, where he said he could al- >» “Lhave killed ray Wife 225.)
Ww “Ob, T guéss not.’ ~ CRs mt 5
: “Yes, Vdone it, by G—d, and I'd grounds referring to tt
a ~ Stull. im-] just as lief die here as any placé.’? ~ | who found the bul and to an alle ed: Ba
- Mediately got drunk and the family} > fe offered No resistance and Mur- informality in the indictment. This § §
_ Qearly starved. “At last they pulled | ray eonducted him to the jail. “As was also overruled. ‘The prosecutor
*up stakes and all went. to. Keokuk, | they went in that direction he told | moved the sentence r. ee
fa. * In all they were not in Kansas | Murray that he had killed his wife] At tne cal of the court XN athaniel |?
~ and Missouri over seven months. | with his pocket knife and that she|S, Bates arose to his feet... To’ the jie
_ Whenever Bates was sober bury | Was down atthe “house. At —the| question. "Hace yowany cause: to pe
have participated in @ robbery he] door of the Station-house the, officer | show why sentence of death should ak
was at work i he Was Only idle when Searched him and found the bloody | not be pronounaed ?’’ “Hates calmly |i
drinking, From Keoku the fami-| knife in his boots. Bates’ face was answered | “No, sir.” “Then the |B
ly returned to Council Bluffs Here] smeared with biood, his ~ shirt judgment of this court is that you |
ates was almost continually drunk | sleeves and his pantaloons were go- fe taken by the sheriff from ¢ is |F
#nd in trouble, ‘Hig head was a ry, his boots were spattered Over}room to the county jail and there |i
__ lass of scalp wounds and ugly | with the red tide of life, "and, al-| kept in close confinement until after |
_. Scars. About half the time he was though he had washed © bis hands, Thursday, August 26, 1886; at noon. |B
eee IO ee and often threatened the iife blood was to be seen under his nails He shall then take you to. the scat- (=
~~ Of his brother Ed., who was the

and at their roots. In less than séy- | fold and hang you by the neck until |}
_ =. Jailor. In the — meantime Mrs,| en minutes from the time that Mur-| you are dead, and may th “Lord | Fe
~ _. Hoover came to Hagerstown, Ind. Dee toeoe marderer he bad him | have mercy on your soul.) <4" |
_. where her son Tom resided. \ Know- | under lock and key and was at the @ Bates has made numerous | state-| fia
~ + .be how Kitty and the “children frightful scene of the awful. occur-|ments and to“ mane. difarne cee

ECT i. Were abused she Wrote far “thaw @n) 2” ois 7 i se RRR EIR as de ee ee! Aa ene ae

ba reg Be RR Mii a ee ae


a 4 fear to his brothers,
> Ham made arrangement

SAAT tA RSMAS eh LA oo Veet DD
During all ‘this time
tte were neayer Known

he ee ee
salty, dut he frequent

to hare a d

_Mmother-in- | h
is affairs Final-|}

from : the
ept- ona
spree. Things. grew
to worse, and Wants
and

ce

p ped

to arrived. He” _ promised
ent, avowed he would drink
PAyINg employment

nh” He remained 'so-
nionths, when jhe

ainted = the little

~ Atter again get-

epths he sobered

_ persuaded - ithe} }

v; ve with him to Kan-
Sas City re he said he “could al-
Ways secure employment. ~They lo-

tated in. {larlem, just across othe

aver from. the city, but Still, im-

- Mediately Sot drunk and t]

~ Rearly starved, 94
a psstakes and

as sot

.

ig head

ho was the
_ meantime a

ded. Know-

and” the “children

wrote for them to

till.

the county Jail,on the 24
834, Wm, F. Bates, of
fer ttment, furnished
réation fer her and her
psf wn. She wrote

POG two or three times,
Dow they were, but nev.
wt $2 COMB.” He contin-
2028 TWeklses, ‘desper-
re vWAE Re Contin-
trouble, expense and
Finalty . Wij-
é ! lent to- send |
~» him out on a Tailroad in Wyoming,

. ual source of

Jin frout of Shiveley's “store,

OI Fwith the fellow? ‘He
User gne when the recreant ||

was” serving a|f

cKet Knife@nd ground thé larger
Blade —the smaller one was broken
off—until it was hearly ag
razor. By that time the smith
ad returned and he had instructed
lim What to do to the hoe. He
then left the shop and proceeded u
the back way and estered, his-witie
dweiling by the rear door. It was a
lovely spring day. The air _ was
balmy, and the town Was almost as
quiet as if wrapped in sleep. Farm-
ers Were busy at their” work | and
trade was listless. Merchants ‘doz-

Women lazily plied their hoes in the
gardens A civil case was on trial
at the juatic 3's office, but it attract-
ed few loungers, - Ton,” Murray,
the marshal, sat on a dry goods aes
dly
Whittling a stick. “It is about the
hour of 3 {n the” afternoon. Sud-
denly the Offi-er glimpses g man
coming hastily down the Street in
his direction,” What is the matter
takes a good
Ook. The man iy -@xcited, - and
something redon hig ~ face and
clothes looks like bloody “Without
more ado the marshal shakes off his
ennui and goes to meet the comer,
Whoni he recognizes as Still “Bates,
Ҥ ne draws near Bates Says, in his

quiet and dogged WAY Sate
Lhave to take me to

tichmonds*- = “Geet
CEN At for yee ee Oe Fa ee nee
“I have killed say Wife ees
“Ob, T guess not.’ gS ed Wee,
» “Yes, Vdoneé it. by G—d, and I'd
just as lief die here as any place.’?.
Tle offered no Tesistance and Mur-
ray conducted him to the jail. As
they went in that direction he told
Murray that he had Killed his wife
With his pocket knife and. that she
was down at the © house. “At-~ the
door of thé station-house the. officer
Searched him and found the
knife in his boots.
smeared with —
elseves and his Tre go-
ry, his b Spattered - over
with the red tide of life,” and, al-
though

blood was to
and at their

“T guess you'l

jane

his nails
In less than sey-

be seen under
roots.

+; €n minutes from the time that Mur-

ray saw the murderer he had him
under lock and key and was at the
frightful scene of the awful occur-
rence. The house ~ stands

street runnin
west half of
cupied.: The
rented b
sisted o

ema
patie crowd whic
und the murdered
Kitchen, fying on the floor,:.;/on. her
left side and partially on her face,
and under her head was an axe-
helve, broken at the lower<end an

p-
m
woman! in the

whittled off, and stained for halt its °

sharp as{ th

ed before their doors. and men and | f

he had washed - bis hands,| Th

{rom the timeche

county, ... %e

freely with the”

é story to whic

testified i

denied the deed
liate j

Speciabvennea for

On May Sth, the
pannel ed,

ly
tl

ruled.
motion

‘byt
room to the count

ursday, August
He shall then tak
fold and han
you are dead

ave merc

@ Bates h

ane In Wy af

orters telling

7h he afterw
Nn open ‘court, © .

sons Whis case and ea oA
muth was appointed as his attorn}
jury was finally
It consisted of Sam
Tieman,: Chu
an White, Rif
usse'l, Ira St
Alonzo ~ (

secuted: and t

Witnesses began ce

‘The prosecutoh
f the prisone

Kept in close confinement until
26, 1886, at

man

He only

short an acq

its wings was br

Still was in Kansng «4

ot 80 stupidly’.
take a man’ fnto’ edh
quaintan
& weakness, > But tha

soda .
be Grr


-s

ORT 8 LOL LINE LET TSO GCE ETE TOSI LE

| The Indianapolis Double Hanging.
“INDIANAPOLIS, ind,, January 29.—Louis Guetig,
who murdered Mary McGlew because: she refused
his suit, having been granted a new trial, but two
of the expected trio appeared on the gallows. to-
day, namely, Achey and Merrick. ... yd

Yesterday the ministers who have been attend-
tending upon Merrick called upon him and made

ilong examination of the religious belief of the:

prisoner, also attempting to induce, him to make
a confession, but, unsuccessfully, he persisting in
declaring that ais wife was alive. As Achey put
on his clothes this morning, he said, with a choke
tm his voice that belied his jocular words, * Well,
Vil make @ ‘respectable looking corpse, anyhow.
1’m ready; bring on the rope.” eae

rose to his fect andin a

like to say something ig

good, It appears thatth

gave in is the only conclusive evidence of pre-
meditated murder, and being one of the robbers
himself the chances are he swore to & lle,Bestdes
he acknowledged it to a man in St. Louis. ‘Why,’
says he, ‘My God, why don’t you write a letter
there. They will hang John Achey.’. The truth of
tho arrangement ia it was not premeditated, and,
therefore, I was wrongfully convicted. The people
here ‘are prepared fora hanging and I suppose

ready.”

my death will make no- difference -anyhow.I.am

Hi Y, John, white, hanged Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 29, 1879
o> % 6 *

’ Achey sat down as coolly as he had stood up and
epoken the few words above, which he did without
a tremor in body or voice. When he closed the
general whisper ran through the crowd, ‘* What
pluck!’ After an interview of a few moments the
sheriff addressed Merrick : “Mr. Merrick, have
-you anything to Bay?) Whereupon he started-up
almost with a jerk, and spoke in an excited tone,
for him, as follows: “1 have a great deal I would
like to say, Dut it would not be worth while to say
anything. The State of Indiana to-day, in the
sight of that Court-house, is doing an unjust thing
to one of her citizens. 1 say,.as I have said before,
to this people and the world, Tam innocent of the
charge. When that drop falls and my life goes out
may eternal peace be still! I wish tosay no more.”’

The white caps were drawn over their faces.

Rev. Dr. Bayliss said: “I-commend you to the}
mercy of God.” Then. Sheriff Pressly pulled the
lever. The drop fell with a resounding clang, and
there were two bodles swinging inthespace below.

Merrick did not show much signs of pain. Hé
hung limp,from the first, his shoulders showing
on two occasions only, that he was respiring. | His
rope slipped, with the face to the front, throwing
his head very far back, and tt was evident gis
neck had been broken, “at aix minutes Dr. Henry
Jameson reported his pulse at 100, and at six and
‘a quarter minutes pronounced him dead. Achey

died harder. His knot remained under the left

ear, and he was strangled to death :
Achey’s crime was the murder of George Leg-
gett, o well-known gambler of this city, who was
standing in Chapin & Gore's syloon on the after-
noon of Tuesday, July 16th, 187%, when Achey
entered, and without @ word of warning, dtew_a
revolver and tired two shotsat Legkest, ee strik-
ing Din below the breast bene, COUPES ENT ‘death in
twenty minutes, The xvause. ot the murder eX:
isted Tne waimbling opernten in whic Leggett and
aeamebder raaetnered: Brown teaeed Ay trey cout “ot
overak pamtred: toLiars, of whitch tho tindec “me ine

Hosscaedou ib short tires bre feat be che \s ails i ¢ tris
¥ oh a 7 3 *



death warrant: to each, and on con-
clusion said: ‘Boys, this i is|the bard-
est thing I ever did :
Snyder responded:

you for it, Mr. Mayes.” “at 0 o’clock
Anderson was haved,’ after which
they joined in singing led b
who also deliveted a prayer, asking
divine mercy and expressi

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During the scene the prisoners were
composed. Sny uke ‘was neftvous and

excited; he
crime and f
‘son was muc fects bat under
‘great: self contral, freely cpnversing
with | visitors ionally| smiling.
This concluded, they returnéd to their
cells and were "again attendpd by the
ministers and iia last P rations

made,
At 11:30 the ndenned en were

el out a J il and carribd. to'the
| Asbury | singing
“There Bs = more £0 there,”
followed b bs Pg prayer\from both: the
condemn nderson was very
composed ; Snyder was emofional and
rayed aloud co ntly. After bid-

ing the sheriff-and ‘others -bye
the trap was sprung at 11) rie


THE DEATH ‘DROP

at os

Or John Anderson a Zarh Snyder

| so [ie cr

Fer the Brutal) Murder
Van Wye, near Mt,
. Last god t.

|

Mn. VERNUN, Janua ry 25
trary to expectation, Mt. Vi

ve
prnon

James

ernon was
N othing

unusually quiet|. today.
would be noticed put of the
daily occurring events, exc
large number
streets. No mor

admitted to the erection, fn
ing but the morbid desire t
hanging can accbunt for

ence. Anderson and S
doomed men, retited at'10
night. During the night

nose commenced bleeding a
came 60 seriously alarmed
guard was called.| It conti
eral minutes, after which
soundly.. Both | were
o'clock, and ate ht rtly. . ‘I
them durin eel confine
denied admission+-they bad
the Methodist Hii, 1

| Asbury and H.j E. Wil
‘gentlemen sent for promptl
and conducted appropriate
Yesterday the men were
having professed —
the church. =

pt for the

d he be-
that the

he slept

talled at 5

e Catho-

ent was
asked for

xercises.
baptized
nd join

5.-— Con-


| the trap was sprung at 1148. An-

derson’s pulse , ceased béating at
11:59%, and Snyder's at 12 o'clock.
Snyder’t neck was broken, bet Ander.
son struggled and twitched for some
moments. The bodies were cut

lic gaze. _he| arrangeme
very complete. |There was }
from. fist to last.

poms —- =

| The Men and Their (ri mies.

, The crime for which these men
sufféred death, js one of the most
heartless on record. It wag not the
intention at first |to cagmmit the deed
for which they today suffer the death
penalty, but their plains could not be
consumated without the murder of
the yictin. As will be seen by the
confessions, Snyder accuses Anderson
of throwing away the murdered man’s
hat. Since, he has admitted, that he
took the hat from Anderson and
threw it inj the cor field.
This also corresponds with the state-
ment made by the latter. Anderson
further says that their idea; at first
was only to rob /Van Wye, | but this
was found to be| impracticable with-
out the other crime of murder. An-
derson says that ithe night before the

was committed he and Van Wye


Detective Henry Ohime, of the New
York Central Railroad, arrived at the
scene. Sergeant Bach had told Ohime
of the murder and he had immediately
offered his services. Bach’s call had
‘routed Stayton, one of LaPorte’s day
officers, out of bed, Baumgartner
brought them up to date.

“Wouldn’t be a bad idea to check
back on By-Golly’s movements right
away,” Stayton suggested.

The Chief agreed and when two of
the searchers returned, he sent them
to an uptown bakery and a restaurant
where the old man often slept. Officer
Cichon reported back from his search
of the park. He had in tow a tall,
paunchy man, whose dark eyes glared
behind rimless glasses, and a_ wide-
eyed blonde who seemed to be having
trouble with the shoulder straps of
her summer dress.

“These two have me guessing, Chief,”
Cichon said. “When they saw me com-
ing, they hid behind a bush. I haven’t
been able to get a civil word from
either of them.”

“What is your name?” Baumgartner
asked.

“Gresham. Stanley Gresham. I de-
mand—”’

“Address?”

“I don’t live in LaPorte. I mean, I
do. Rumely Hotel.”

“Occupation?”

“Er—Salesman.
you to—” -

“Is this the first time you’ve been
questioned in a murder case, Mr. Gres-

What right have

SPOUT I

napping on lawn of hom
killer sought to “silence”

3 es

ham?” Baumgartner asked quietly.

“Murder?” Gresham’s eyes blinked;
his jaw slackened.

He grabbed his blonde companion,
who was on the verge of fainting. “We
didn’t hear or see a thing,” he ex-
claimed. “My wife and I haven’t been
in the park more than 15 minutes. We
were sitting on a bénch over there.”
He pointed vaguely toward the north-
east.

“Where are you from?”. Baum-
gartner asked.

Gresham wilted visibly. “I guess
I’ve been seventeen kinds of a fool,”
he said. “You see, Officer, I didn’t
come from Chicago and this girl isn’t
my wife. I’ve been trying to bluff my
way out of this mess.”

Tears were doing Lucy’s mascara
no good. “That’s the truth, officer,”
she sobbed. ‘“We weren’t married—
not to each other. Please don’t let my
husband know about this. He’d di-
vorce me.”

Baumgartner rubbed his chin. yl ig
have to send you to headquarters and
take statements. Don’t worry,” he
added when the two started to inter-
rupt, “we won't purposely cause
trouble for you.”

One of the officers who had traced
Pazuchoski’s movements — reported
back. “By-Golly left the bakery at
9 o’clock. He told the baker he was
going for a walk and that he’d be back
later and sleep in the basement.”

“Did you learn anything of his past
history?” queried the chief. “Who his

people are—where he came from
originally?”

‘Not yet, Chief. We asked dozens
of people. They say he just appeared
one day, but when it was or where he
came from, they don’t know. Most of
them have even forgotten his real
name. He’s just By-Golly—from no-
where.”

“See that the papers play up his

description. Put it on the radio.
I think the motive for this crime lies
in his history, and we’ll have to dig
it up. Nobody around here would harm
the old boy, for he didn’t have any
money.” i

“He wasn’t so poor, Chief,” the offi-
cer replied. “The baker says By-Golly
always carried several hundred
dollars.”

Baumgartner whistled. “That broad-
ens the field. I wonder where he got
the dough. Maybe he never spent a
nickel.”

An extended search of the hard-
packed ground showed no tracks, but
the gravel path to the east of the body
was pitted as if by By-Golly’s walk-
ing stick.

“J don’t think he was killed here,”
Baumgartner said. “The gravel around
him isn’t disturbed, but there is a
trail of walking stick holes leading
up to:this spot from the east. I think
he bled to death while he was run-
ning from his pursuers.”

Phillips interrupted. “Look at these,

Kise trying,” Baumgartnerordered.

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a mile northeast of uptown
Leaving their car parked, TO!
ed along the path toward Ww his neck...
ing pavilion on the north  Hipped open and
ear Lake. A flashlight flick- side out.

d. Baumgartner hastened
and came upon Officer Lange
uard near a clump of bushes.
stood beside him and a hud-
lay at their feet on the

‘h,
‘By-Golly’, Chief,” Lange

rtner sites ete -Golly” = t e Sear aum-
nite-haired Ignatz Pazucho- “Gage. partner turned to the two nervous men
tric town character. The looked at the slip of
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target for small boys who
laughed at him because of
hirts, three pairs. of trousers ; ae ae
hats, worn all at the same - ‘Now, Herbert,” ‘Ba
slept in store basements and 4m ‘ ‘What do you
_odd jobs for his meals. He Aree
nicknamed “By-Golly’’ after
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centric’s walking stick lay
‘and blood trickled from
: right shoulder. A_ bullet

434

THE GUN THAT——
killed ‘‘By Golly” is examined
by Officer LeRoy Phillips who
helped bring murderer to task.


‘e he came from

We asked dozens
ay he just appeared
1 it was or where he
jon’t know. Most of

forgotten his real
By-Golly—from no-

3aumgartner ordered.
» papers play up his
Put it on the radio.
ve for this crime lies
id we'll have to dig
und here would harm
he didn’t have any

poor, Chief,” the offi-
baker says By-Golly
several hundred

vhistled. “That broad-
wonder where he got
ybe he never spent a

search of the hard- f
showed no tracks, but
to the east of the body
‘by By-Golly’s walk-

< he was killed here,” :
id. “The gravel around :
irbed, but there Is a E
ig stick holes leading
from the east. I think
th while he was run-
pursuers.”

rupted. “Look at these,

Chief. Piéces of paper, burnt matches,
cigarette wrappers. They were inside
By-Golly’s shirts.”

Nodding, Baumgartner moved east-
ward. Five hundred feet from the
body, at the base of a large willow
tree, he saw indentations similar to
those on the gravel path.

Baumgartner frowned. “I wonder
why he poked around this tree.”

Dr. Daniel G. Bernoske, LaPorte
county coroner, made a brief inspec-
tion of the body and ordered it re-
moved to the A. J. Reiser funeral home.
Baumgartner cast a lingering glance at
the scene. :

“T’ll go with you,” he said. “We went
through this park with a fine tooth
comb and I haven’t seen anything that
resembles a clue. If you can locate the
bullet, that may give us something to
work on.”

A morgue attendant removed the
victim’s miscellaneous clothing, and
inside the garments he found various
articles: bits of paper, string, burned
matches, small cloth tobacco sacks and
an empty cardboard box. Four quarters
were discovered in a pocketbook fas-
tened to Pazuchoski’s inner-most shirt.
No other money was on him.

“The bullet,” Dr. Bernoske said, ‘“en-
tered the right side of his chest just
below the neck. It coursed downward
and pierced the jugular, causing him to
bleed to death.”

The doctor extracted a misshapen
piece of lead from the spinal region.

Baumgartner studied the

bullet.

WALL$ DO NOT——

se | prison make, was murderer's concept of his plight when he dug out twenty
bricks In wall of his cell in desperate bid for freedom. He was through to

“outer wall when Ex-Sheriff Alfred G.

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“This won’t help us much It’s a .32
calibre bullet, but so battered it'll be
hard to tell if it was fired from an
automatic or a pistol.’”” He summoned
Officer Charles E. Olsen. “Take this
slug to Chicago—Coroner’s division
of firearms identification. Hop into
your car.” He turned again to the
coroner. “Anything else you can tell
us, Danny?”

Dr. Bernoske shrugged. ‘‘There’s
not much to go on. Judging by the
temperature of the body, I'd say death
occurred between 10 and 12 o'clock.”

Accompanied by Officer Stayton,
Chief Baumgartner returned to the
murder scene. The sun was up, shoot-
ing yellow, early-morning rays into
the park’s greenery and dissolving the
lake haze.

Stayton, puffing his eternal cigar,
asked, ‘What do you make of it?’

“If we knew what type of gun was
used,’ Baumgartner replied, “we could
round up the boys and check their
guns. But now we won't know until
Olsen gets back—if then.”

Where Pazuchoski’s body had lain
they found dried blood, the only evi-
dence of a crime. Marks of the walk-
ing stick in the gravel path again
seemed to indicate the eccentric had
approached from the east, but nowhere
along the path were the officers able to
find indications of a struggle. Baum-
gartner pointed to the small holes at
the: base of the willow tree

SYLVAN SCENE
was end of the trail for shirtless
fugitive. Officer James Stayton is
re-enacting climax of grim manhunt,

35


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LA PORTE’S——
ace. sleuth, Officer James Stayton
who was at chief’s side throughout
trying days of long and hard hunt,

NOW MAYOR——

then sheriff of La Porte, Alfred
G. Norris, whose alertness balked
desperado’s cunning freedom bid.

“© TOP OFFICER——

“© Chief of Police Cari Baumgartner »
. who directed every phase of long

hunt for old eccentric’s killer.

36

“They don’t make sense,” he said.

“Let’s work westward,” Stayton sug-

gested.
” Five hundred feet west of the mur-
der scene they found unmistakable
marks of Pazuchoski’s cane. The in-
dentations led directly to a trampled
flower bed at the pavilion. Baum-
gartner and Stayton studied the ground
carefully.

Ruefully, Stayton smiled. “We
asked for footprints and now we have
too many.” :

Baumgartner agreed. “Even if they
weren’t in such a jumble, the ground
is too dry to make casts of them. One
thing is sure though. They aren’t all
the same size. We know By-Golly
was here—the cane marks prove it.
The other footprints show two others
were here. Do you see what that adds
up to?” .

Stayton nodded his head. “This is
probably where he was shot. He ran
east, with the two other men at his
heels.”

They continued their search through
flower beds and bushes.

ACK at the station the chief re-
BR ‘ceived reports of questioning of

suspects.

A note from the officer who_had
been in charge of the grilling of Gres-
ham and his girl friend reported them
“in the clear.” Phillips’ report said he
had not yet been able to uncover any-
thing on Pazuchoski’s past, except that
he heard he had come from Chicago.

ONE JUMP——

Locking himself in his office, Baum-
gartner began compiling a list of La-
Porte’s known criminals. He figured
that the killer was a local man who
knew, about By-Golly’s habit of carry-
ing large sums of cash inside of his
clothes.

His completed list numbered twelve.
Then he began striking off: this sus-
pect would burglarize, but he hadn’t
guts enough for a stick-up. That sus-
pect would stick a man up, but he’d
back out if it came to murder.

An hour later, three names remained
on the list. Baumgartner nodded.
“Theyre the only ones who’d be
vicious enough for this job.”

He showed the three names to Stay-
ton—Chester Arkuszewski, just re-
leased from the Pendleton, Ind., re-
formatory after a grand larceny rap,
Oscar Johnson, town “bad boy,” who
had been in stir for a poker game mur-
der and who had played first base on
the Indiana state prison baseball team,
and a reformed Chicago gunman who
lived alone on a small farm on La-
Porte’s outskirts.

Stayton frowned at the names. gt
haven’t seen Arkuszewski or Johnson
the past few days, but I’ve seen the
other fellow in his garden patch on
Tipton Street all summer.”

Hot sun boiling down on his head,
eyes squinted up, the third suspect
who looked like a Chicago hood despite
his sweat-stained clothes leaned on his
hoe watching the two officers approach
along the corn rows.

the man charged with the killing of Ignatz Pazuchoski didn’t make.
Ex-Sheriff Joe Wolf indicates the second story cell window of the
murderer whose persistent digging had taken him to freedom’s fringe.

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PpATROLMAN JOHN GERKA, with 16
months’ experience on the Hammond,
Ind., police force, was acting as “instruc-
‘tor’ aboard the squad car as it cruised
through the darkened, snow-edged city
streets. ‘
His “students” were Patrolmen Donald
B. Cook, 22, and Rudolph Mamala, 29,
rookie cops who had seen plenty of action
as soldiers on. European battlefields but
who had been sworn in as policemen only
five days earlier. It was the evening of
January 11, 1947.

plenty. to
’ . quicker you learned it the better off you
were.

“Keep an eye on the jewelry store,”
Patrolman Gerka said. “This supermarket
too—a good touch for burglars. See that
house? Rocco Morino lives there—just

_ out of prison, but itching for trouble.

Better get acquainted with his picture

and record in our files .. . And when you

stop anyone in this district, keep your gun
-handy. It’s a tough section.”

Mamala and Cook had to grin at that.
Right now Gerka was the only one of the
three who was armed. The two rookies
had not yet been furnished with revolvers.
It was kind of funny, being a cop’and not
even having a gun to carry.

But it was destined to turn out to be not
so funny before the evening was ended ...

Hammond is a busy industrial city of
70,000 people adjoining Chicago on the
southeast. Mile after mile of arc-lighted
streets rolled behind the officers as they
made their rounds, and it was 9 P.M. when .
they turned from Hohman Avenue into
Cleveland Street on the south side of town.

Halfway up the block they passed a
sedan parked at the curb. They eyed it,
not because there was anything unusual
about it but because a patrol car officer is
supposed to be suspicious of everything.
It seemed to be unoccupied. ;

“Hey—wait a minute,” Mamala said,
looking out, the back window. “There are

THE HARD-BOILED HUSSY TRIED TO

SHIELD HER KILLER BOY FRIEND— nf : s-
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Crack sleuthing revealed

BUT SHE EXPOSED HIM INSTEAD!

killer's girl friend was o night club
* stripper. ‘She knew his hiding place.

(Photo posed by professional model.)


.. reports to superiors about his wild

Rookie Patrolman Rudy Mamala (top)

battle with two unidentified outlaws.

two guys in that car, They must have
ducked their heads when we went by,
but raised up again after we passed.”

“Queer,” Patrolman Gerka muttered.
“We'll go around the block and ‘come
up on ’em from behind, just to see if
anything’s fishy.” :

Cook wheeled the machine around
the next corner, and two minutes later
they drew up behind the sedan. Gerka
walked up to the car and opened the
front door.

“Police officers,” he said. a

There were two men in the car. Th
man at the wheel was slender, middle-
aged and gaunt-faced, wearing a snap~
brim hat that cast a shadow over ‘his

age ak
Ab Seles

Above are some of the items found at
the slaying scene, including clothing
torn from the killers in the struggle.

’

eyes. The man beside him was much ,

younger, probably about 30, with a dis-
arming smile on his handsome face.

“Tet’s see your driver's license,”
Gerka went on. There didn’t seem to
be anything wrong about these two
birds after all—no doubt just a couple
of honest citizens gossiping after a
few drinks at a tavern.

“Sure,” said the younger man, reach-
ing inside his coat. “I got mine right
here.”

His hand came out—but in it was a
'38-caliber revolver.

There was no time for Gerka to bring
out his own -weapon. In the nick of
time he reached out and grappled for

the yun the man was trying to sim at /
him. With a powerful twist he got it

away. ~~

“What is
“Vou: Wes gf
He cut his words off short because
the handsome young man, with a
snakelike motion, had drawn another
weapon from somewhere in his cloth-

ing—a ».45-caliber automatic. .
’ Gerka‘had no choice. He pulled the
trigger of the confiscated gun six times .

this?” he demanded.

‘jn quick’ succession, but his adversary

dove and. dodged so that the bullets
missed.SThen, as Gerka was reaching
for his service revolver, the handsome.
gunman, '‘took careful aim and put a
bullet through the policeman’s heart.
Gerka fell, dead instantly. ae
Patrolmen Mamala and Cook, sud-
denly made aware ‘by the gunfire that
this was.no routine license checkup, .
started to get out of the squad car. The
saw Cook and let go a volley
of shots at him. With a bullet in his .

- abdomen; the young rookie slumped

back in the seat, dying.

Mamala, however, succeeded in get-
‘ting out of the car unharmed. Crouch-
ing behind the cruiser, he saw the gun- |
man walk over and peer at Cook’s body
behind the wheel.:

“That’s what I call a neat job,” he
called’ back to his companion. “T got
both of these cops.” — og

It was then that Patrolman Rudolph
Mamala, unarmed and only five days
on the force, must have faced one of
the most difficult decisions of his life.
Clearly, the two strangers were not -
aware of his presence. They thought
there were only two policemen, and
that they had accounted for them both.
Their next move would be to make a
speedy getaway, and all Mamala had
to'do was keep mum and let them go
and he would not have to face the
prospect of fighting an armed man—
probably two armed men—with nothing
butchis fists. .

way. A strongly-built six-footer, he
had heard plenty of bullets whistling
past him when he served with the 45th
Division in Europe. And he was mad
clear through at the cold-blooded
shooting of his two comrades.

Like a halfback making an end run,
Mamala tore around the front of the
police car and bore down on the startled
killer. The man tried to raise his gun,
but Mamala was on him too -quickly,
bowling him over on the icy pavement.

\ paey A CURSE, the thug rolled over

and raised his weapon once more.

-Mamala kicked him in the wrist and the
45 fell to the street.

The rookie patrolman could hear the
older hoodlum.running up to help his
comrade. Mamala picked up the gun—
and just as he grasped it the older man

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An ex-G.l., Patrolman. Donald Cook
(top) had been on the force only five
days when he met blazing death.

Patrolman John Gerka (above) grap-
pled with the thug and took away one
gun, Then a second was aimed at him.

Officer at left points to bullet hole
in police car door. Another pierced’
windshield and nicked wheel (arrow).


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hit him over the head with.a pair of
heavy hedge clippers he had brought
from the sedan. |
The blow almost knocked Mamala
unconscious. He staggered back, try-
ing to regain his balance, the gun falling
from his fingers. ,
The killer was now on his feet again,
and he made a dive for the.. weapon.
Mamala kicked it under ‘the car. and
rushed at the younger man—only to be
met by the other thug swinging the
hedge shears. © =! 9 23 tat a

aged to wrest the shears away. He hit
his opponent with them, -but by this
time the killer had circled:behind him
and gave him a vicious ‘kick: in the
kidneys. 43 ed. ae

Now the three men were locked in a
fierce struggle. Fighting more by in-
stinct than anything else, Mamala
dropped the shears and encircled the
two men in a bear hug, trying to bring
them to the ground. ae pi

The younger man wriggled away by ®
twisting out of his overcoat and suit-
coat, which he left in Mamala’s hand.
He turned and rained blows on the
policeman from behind while the latter.
was busy with’ his other adversary.

A heavy blow on the. head finally
knocked the courageous*rookie to the *
street, unconscious. The two men
didn’t wait. They got out of there fast,
on foot, leaving the sedan at the curb.

The thunderous gunfire had already
aroused residents along. Cleveland
Street, and dozens of telephone calls
had gone in to headquarters warning
of the battle. Several squad cars
rushed to the scene. The first to arrive
found Mamala, bruised and bloody,
staggering up the street with Gerka’s
gun in his hand. :

“They went that way,” he mumbled,
still only half conscious, “If only I'd
had a gun when it began .. Bel '

Gerka, Cook and Mamala were taken
in squad cars to St. Margaret’s Hospital,
where Gerka was pronounced dead on
arrival. Cook, who was still alive, died
an hour later.

Mamala, though badly battered, re-'
fused to take the hospital room assigned

“Just patch me up,” he said. “I’ve
got plenty toda.”

Meanwhile, at the scene of the slay-
ings, patrolmen and detectives had
circled around, hoping -to pick up the
trail of the. two killers. On a sidewalk
nearby, Detective Michael Leeney
found a few drops of . blood. A little
farther on was more blood, and the:
trail eventually led the investigators
to a garage at the side of a neat cottage
several blocks away. ©

“Come ‘out with your hands up!”
detectives shouted after they had sur-
rounded the place. ;

There was no reply. Finally the

Though still groggy, Mamala man-*’

sleuths battered their way in, only to
find the place empty.

Aroused by the commotion, the
owner of the cottage came out in his
bathrobe.

“I went to bed early,” he explained.

“T didn’t hear anyone prowling around
here.” :
He went inside the garage. “Say!
My daughter’s new bicycle is gone! It
was a Christmas present——” :

Squad cars were -igamediately in-,

formed by short-wave radio that one

of the killers might be fleeing on a red,

and white bicycle.

Other investigators had already,
checked on the car left at the curb By
the fleeing criminals. As they ex-
pected, it was a stolen car, taken from

“a street in downtown Hammond only a

few hours before while | its owner,
Glendon Cantrell of Black Oaks, was
att¢nding a movie. =. |  S
- In the street near the car they found
an astonishing assortment of men’s
clothing. It included a green topcoat,
a black overcoat, a green sweater,. a
blue suit coat, a red hunting cap, a blue
snapbrim hat and a muffler. Under the
car they also found the .45-caliber auto-

- matic which Patrolman Mamala had

wrested from the killer.
Taken into headquarters, these clues

"You're a bunch of skunks! Frank Ra
} yelled at the jury whic
found him guilty of first degree murder.

Badgley. (right

\

The other suspect, Robert Brown, is at cen-
ter below between Detectives O'Donnell

(left) and Pellar, who helped c

rack case.

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were inspected by Captain Sandor
Singer, assistant Hammond police chief.
His eyes widened when he saw: the
articles of clothing.

“Where did all these duds come

from?” he asked. ‘

“T can’t figure it out,” admitted the
detective who had brought thern ' in.
“They were strewn all over the street
near the stolen car.” .

Mamala, who had just returned from
the hospital, grinned.

“The two hoods were wearing those

things,” he said through lips that were -

still puffed. “The cap and hat fell off
early in the fight. Then every time I'd
grab hold of one of those birds, he’d
wiggle out of his garments. to get free.”

Singer nodded approvingly. “If you'd
only had a little more time,” he re-
marked, “you'd have undressed: them
entirely. The point is, those fellows
must have made their getaway in their

‘shirt sleeves: They'll stand out like |

sore thumbs in this weather until they
get some more clothes.” 5
The captain summoned six detec-
tives. “I want you to check all the
clothing stores that are still open,” he
said. “See if any men have come in
in shirt sleeves to buy more clothes.”
The telephone rang. It was a police-
man,reporting (Con tinued on next page)

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fare of his soul.

ed to die and ack nowlodged he deserved
to be executed, but at heart ho con fess-
ed that he would rathernot be. |
‘domestic trouble he
sorrows in. the overflow-
ing bowl, and that he had to regret, at-
tributing to drink the
him t
warming! igo Ye oy eae) Dee
A’ ma
the threshold | bet
eternity is supposed

death itis with us

ed ye ae a heer? se 2
Our only affair is the

forta us in thinking of

of people filed: in and out to

n the

gO ae
Raid he

Ho was resign-

peptining of the
1i8 Crime, A

ressing his in-

make ,U8_con-
which is sinful,

comfortable enough for

{your mind and getting out after once

in- 4,"

Hobin dotandsseothind and one the
continent... The Ongine it aAmall and
haa no “oow-catcher” in front Or énk
for the enpinoerand fironiain, the wheels
Are winall and. the Coches, which are
plain ingidy and out, are divided Croaa-
Wine hy partitions, hich Iuake three or
foir aopamte computiments from éach,
Tho doom are at the side where you
have been acenatomed to pee windows
nnd there nave but two weatn Capable of
accommodating four or. five YOrHOTIA
each, in iw eon mrtment. One Vialf of
the passengerg bis it) tho direction the
train is moving and the others toward
the rear, and the knees and toes are in
close: proximity, uncomfortably go. in
some of thé inferior care ~ There is no
communication between the divisioris,
each one is a coll to itself, and the per-
son who ridedin itcan not tell whom
the adjoining one contains, pee a
Having taken a look at the train —in
which you are to complete the journey
lo London, you point out your iE LARC
to an attendant in uniform and ask for
chocks, but you will not get them, for
they tell you over here ‘it is easier to
Ret out and watch your trunks and ya-
lises at the stopping and connecting
stations ‘than to \ fe bothered — with
checks. There is I danger of losin
property in this wa¥ than one would
Suppose, and the deep concern for the
safety of your fraveling traps which
possesses you early in the journey soon
wears away. Englishmen carry as many
boxes, bags and bundles about with
theny when on the move as a Philadel-
Toke spinster, but they seldom loss,
hem. After having decided upon firal,
second or third class transportation,
/you select a compartment accordingly ;
all three may be in. the same coach.
The first-class ticket entitles you to ride
in a seat covered with blue Cloth and
having arms to keep your ‘neighbors
m encroaching on your territory.
There is seldom an lack of first claas
or it is said that
hone but the ‘nobilit ,  Ameri-
cans and fools ride first” claas,
The second-class ticket costs less and
secures a comfortable seat, as ‘00d, per-
aps, as the other, but wit out. the
}arme to define our boundaries and hay-
ing Brussels instead of cloth cushions.
‘Unless there are to be ladies in the
‘party you may economize still further
by taking a third-class compartment,
which(may not have any cush ions, but,
Gn most roads, will be ound clean and
a short ride.
‘The chief objection is that you may
find disagreeable companions inthis
‘part of the carriage, there is only a mere.
chance that. there will be any annoy-
nce, certainly not more than in a
smoking car at home, Whichever way
mon es you will not find a tank of ice-
fwater or any of the other conveniences
‘provided by American roads. Moreover,
ha ord you from changing

Rigs

accommodations,

0ing in, the brakeman, or guard as he
(is designated ‘in the company’s rules,
behind

and hun-é

upon the

erown out of: this: method of shutting

rsons
in’ political and social life haye

passengers with strangera and some

tal attacks have. been. made _by.,
arunken men on defenseless persons.
whe nearest approach to the bel -cord is
indicator used on some of the fast

fore

earri
and

anit
in | &
the |

thieves
Of pr

porn
resid

KbOone
Wig t

level
hide

and

any,
ony

bars,

archi

stran

ality

name
by the house maids in white caps that
they fairly blazé on the dark-stained
dooys and help to liven up the mourn-
ful countenances
iron knockers that hang above them.

T.

8

the d
it, ag
built.

yard

lum
now
thing

on

while

435>

+y You at the next stopping’ }
ex rum can past ieee Atanas

the horn city po, and wet uy down be-

fortwenly livecente These two whealed

of parks, and you wil

the outside. world: and only open tw

most others, the building is extremely
plain. A
colored paint covers the front up t) the

there

sober |. :
the house jut out above the doors, and
Re pesy windows are guarded by iron

a penitentiary. The effect. of London
city ie not altogether

but you miss the spotless green and
white. shutters over the windows, and
the warm red paint and ore penciled
joints in the masonery. Theh

packed together in rows like cigarsin a
»0x and have about as much individu-

set echoes to

and down the stairways inside, and.

through the halls from the kitchen in een es

the cellar to the servanta’ quarters in| _ ‘Itls indispens
the: attic. Were you to knock’ as Wecant do with
lustily on the old’ tombs in Weeat- | *ickness.’—Rev.
minster — Abbey you” would — ex-

Pes to awake the dead from their sleep
an

about among the cobwebs and dust, but
a sma]! brass plate tells you this is’ not
enough and asks you to
also. A survey and search with both
optica fixed on the door fails to.-reveal
anything resembling a bell or even the
slightest resemblance to
unless it 1s the knob which, in this part
of the world, sae set in the center of

@ joke an
practical jokers do not g0 about placard-
Ing. equine candidates

within,” or the greengrocer’s apple bar-| ~5 >...
rel “samples: take one” in the land of} |

discovered that one of the spear heads
the iron railing leading up the steps
to the door is jointed and bas a chain
instead of a
we have rung the bell or smashed all
the crockery and knocked down the
skillets and pans from the shelves in
the kitchen bel
be apt to wake somebod
& servant to the door, :
are not realized

the cupboanis and the pois and kettles |
re)

did not move

the other end of the chain was cracking
its tongue’ against the’ sides of ita
brazen mouth like the neighbo Ti

det-monger. with x froeh™ Hie of

PTI
fee. CURE
Your Catheuk
inedicinea, ET k@
fomtra and paw
clirsin every €&
have failed. ‘ad

Frapklin Fa a
7 cure
Arenal hy ali i

4
KRKOLVENT, th
DaUG aND Cie

BEAD et ge hh bade eg ef bet hen Ha ne
the duor-toe which we are destined

Mges ate remarkably comfortable,
are the only bodies, animate or in-
ite, grout or suiall, that travel fast
Ondon, but they have no Iydy it but
‘ores’ wbility ta go... Thin in a city
fine that each of
tao-callod Muares Containg a Htripy
wn nnd slirabhery, fenced in from

ma holding adjacent houses. The} > sit
onces “face the parka and have Bs
Y slope wilh stoutiron railings lead-

YU ‘ No singly ding
1p to them. In this Inélance, as in

Or hastened the ba
than Catarrh.
% y sight, of beari
coat of drab or’ rich creani- one or more, she
throughout the
force, and break
tutions. Ipnor:

of the second floor, and above
216 nOthing but soot and smoke to

‘ raVv-Tre: we ‘ 1c stood, by muat
the dull groy-red bricks. Cornice By eiacks aut
window caps, there are none ; if | it have little h

80 light as ‘to relieve the monot- | of the grave.

i , ‘Ont treatinent of the
but little. . Bali ONICS, AS within the reach
and straight - gided AS | at once compote

and hitherto u
Sanford in the
has won the bed
is tnatantanecou
colds, sneezin de
‘ s breathiug, and
tecture ng seen in thig part of the pressive sy mptof

plcssing {o the ng the breath, ©

. . taste and hicari
Philadelphia, tutional tenden#

longs, liver anc

Sanford’s Rac
of the Radical ¢
vent, and Imprde

Porrer Deva

reavy and harsh lined énough for

ger’s eye. It recal

OUSes are

£3 60 many clothes pins, The brass
) plates aré. eo eareiuily polished

Pain
Speedy antidote
druggists, 265c.;
Potrrer Drug@a

of the old-fashioned

ree or four raps with the knocker
chasiug one another u

tart the bats and rats to skurrying

ring the bell

a_bell pull,

oor instead of to the free edge of
was done when your house was

The brass plates would look like
here save in England, but

for’ the bone

with the legend’ “oats wanted

uddings and pale ale, 80 you
that if was not intended f

for any-
but sober earnest. Now we have

hitched to it. There!

Ow stairs. . Either will
up and bring
r worst fears
: the crockery is still in

save to their ears
the old-fashioned ding-w-ling at


ee BATES, Nathaniel. Se, white, white, 26, hanced “Richmond, Indes 8-26-1886 =

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f milan Yr mae RE DS On Cee Abou Miner khpe: fol eH hae Fick Tite
Unlen thera ates te he ladiow in’ the mamiall braw plats loll4 you thin ia not ever tad hay
Joriaoniesie: quoted hin nnyiny patty ye MAY GCONOMIZ ALLL farther enough and auken you toring the bell {Ik proved a
onthe point “of “death, “Now 4 ry ta ing third claasy compartment, alno, A Aurvoy nn wear li with both ly teatify to fi
bi which may not have an cunhiona, but, Optica Hixod ou the door faila to reveal | unbounded.

remombor thé evils 1 did in Joranatlom" ee { { BLES } ‘
‘ inhed tiie he if | O8 Moat ronda, will bea foun clean ant Anything rosembling a bell or 6ven the Thone ars hy
Pahd the] aud admonished hin hoarere that so it , 'y ¥, K
Ino, wond| Would be with us all; that pamwion while | Comfortably onougle for a ahort ride, Mightost resemblance ton bell pull, eunenie, ot)
ony f y oa Bo ati ; ‘ Pe : uring the pas
Sf in hoalth and atrength mako ud_con-| Phe chiol objection is that you mayb rantevw it in the knob which, in thin part lor the origins
“Fegimont | sidor as iiiocont that which in winful, | iid dinagrewnbte Syopantong To this | of the world, they mot in tho contor of ULM R, mado &
rf ee 46 but whon it como to death it in with ug | PALE OL thO carriage, there in only a more | the door inutead of to the free odye of 9-8 }
hattles of naif waa with Antiochus, Wo realize | Chance that thare Will bo any BODOY Lit, wn wan done whon your house was | =
f Corinth, | What waa evil, be CRs

dapat
ie nnoe, oortainly not more Chan in wm] pvsile ThE bran plates would look liked” ELY’S
Our kreatoat, our only alluir. ia the sf

tN ae (SALLAPM AALity Mada

the Gonriiiwioa of in’ oxtivmes In

thier! smoking Gar ay ct P eure WRY Ta joxean Me hd in TU ANS pul
Me 4 rattoncaot. wouln! ay | JOU RO you wi HOt find a tan Ol ICO | ractical okem do nol goabout placard- B.
Ceres ow oti aa iin | aya ath mtu atin ‘ie |O@M._B
ten” Or} ua and heaven, be it the aacrilioe of the | provided by Amorican roadn Moreover, yard with the legend “oata wanted (ives Relicf al
ousand of | Hmilos of frignds, social standing, emol [10 ordor ty prevent you from changing within,” or the Kreengrocer’s Pi bar-
nit sholtor, | Uuents or proformerita Of Whatsoover | Your mind and Kelling out altor once | rel “samplo: lake one” inthe land of
a grogitke ki » in. conclusion, “he said, | FON in, the brakoman, Or guard aa ho plum mddings and pale ale, so you COLD IN H
hope ver Ttriatir tira ts namo | 8 denignatod in the Company #® rules, now that it waa not intended for any- SOATARK
Ul the hére . Da ies, : will lock. the door behind you and thing but sober Carnest, Now we have HAY FEV
bp walk away with tho key. Aa thoy discovered that one of the spear heads 4
Ho not have bell-ocords you may have | on, the iren railing loading up the blepa | Na Liquid,
to submit to” the assaults Of tun- | ty the door is jointed and has a chain or Buwder, free,
alioa, if there be “any in the com- inatead of a mad hitched to it. There!
hse TLS or fight the ‘battle yourself, | we haya rung the bell or smashed all
or often nO means aro provided for} the crockery and. knocked down the

“and cures

i Rae Bis 4 BA
foal LEB 9 te ay | abbructing the attontion of the ongineer skillets and pans from the shelves in Fhe Canieen ia
i o clock this aftern n to the Lor guarda Scandals involving persons the kitchen below stairs. Either will | main re.’
hour of going to prosa, “4 o'clock, ‘the high in political gnd social Ife have | be apt to wake somebody up and bring
body Woz boned bo view 1 Ms casket terown out of this’ thod of shutting | a servant to the door, Oui worst fears
al Ht. R. Downing & Son's, and_hun- ‘Up passengers with gers, and some | are not realized: the crockery is still. in.
dreds ol. People , filed :in and out to brutal attacks ha been made by | the cupboards and the pots and kettles

look with Curious © upon the drunken men on defenseless persona. did not move save to: old their ears
features of the ill-fated man, which do! The neareat ®pproach to the bell-cord is while the old-fashioned ding-a-ling at
not look much chan ad from what they | an indicator used On some of the fast | the othes end of the chain was cracking
would have ap At-1n life, were one trains which. notice can be sent to its ‘tongue aguinst the sides of ita] oo ys.; i
to have seen» him sleeping’ being far went him to come] brazen mouth like the neighborhood Per anne
more natural than when seen by the stopping place, and scandel-monger with a- fresh bit of KITKNG
masses who saw him at the to stop the ip fo peddle. These London door Ust, 1586, fm
the execution. : ia the ve beon in | belle—Y hope you are not nervous, my | ber Kttormeyn: P
will be taken _ to. the r two Jines, friend — they do sound like a rat | Scaines aya
ue] ON the “= eve “fof if , Ol bat: rt of their !'Ward Cleveland & Hendricks Club jol- | cuase, on sssaure.
*-| of the Ohicaro traty, Ock, 67); re! lifying. This one has the Oxtra «ac: | Daren aay
= ee Ga: 8 a waeae cortiplishment of being able t6 delude Gartner are not
gor Council} Big! you into the belief that the yellow dog | Ma
will be enac , with tin can bangles is headed the and Peter Ga

i . ed of the tiling

wy HY f plaint against ¢

tren th-| 3 of OH the | 7 .

uilds u : ; ey. ; ; pre

i palatable on nu hamed, mencan : HERSCHEL FISHER,
0 y

clo near ane county jail i ioe
a an n wy = i
toe es ref h cian, retired from prac-
Ler a8 direct _ bar ; ‘used. Wi ‘Ae Placed in his hands by
+ Missionary the formula
egetable remedy. for the
and banent cure of) Con-
pears nchitis, Catarrh, Asthma

i

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‘ hanged at Madison, Indiana, on February -15, 1878,

ms i at ane! MAl gtr
oy Jonn Beavers

—— ee

- ~—— ~

BEAVERS, Jape 7
rie!

— y

{
H
|
j ¢
| :
| | Convicted Killer Hanged ah ;
: | Gf : People started pouring into Mad-|
! | ee ison from the Surrounding country
i In Court Yard For Murder aes on the day of execution, and by
a va ef Why AC } 11:00 o'clock the city was “swarme-
It will likely never h4pgen ag4ir 4 | and then I thought of decoying him| ing with humanity.” Thousands
, but Jefferson County once took the; to New Liberty Church. As there tramped past the courtyard and
law into its own hands, tried a'was some trouble in that church; peered through the fence at the!
4 man for murder, won a conviction, | among the members, I thought] enclosure which had been especial-}
‘ and executed the defendant by | I would commit the murder there, | ly built around the gallows.
,. Ranging. set fire to the house, and it would The scaffold eight by 10 feet]
j . , The grisly execution took place! afterwards be charged to ather! square, was 14 fect high. Its con-
te in the court house yard 81 years! Parties. struction included two main uD}
}.° ago—on Feb. 15, 1878. The vic-| We traveled on to the church.! right timbers above the platform,
- Um of the noose was John W,! The old man sat down at the! A heavy ring on the upper main
b _ Beavers, a man about 35 years| Church door and said ‘Beavers, I! beam held the rope by which the
: old, | can’t go any further tonight, I have| doomed man swung into eternity,
: He forfeited his life for the! given out.’ A trap door supported by a bolt
j brutal murder of John W. Sewell,| I told him I would try to get in| on an open side was withdrawn by
i 54, gy a gg - ho uy house, nips ; tir ct the ie a lever. f
» was lille a iperty urch on; 8naq we would rest unti morning, . , he A
i, the night of Nov. 3, 1877, went to the east side of the house, Ae or dee ie Was }
‘ Beavers was a native of Scott| took a glass from a window, hoist-| ackoq to pray for him. Soul ~ fi
i County and served four years with|ed it, and went in. I called the stirring hymns and prayers fol-|)
i the Union army in the Civil War,| old man and helped him in, lowed. As the clock struck 11: j
t pe a : : : . As *K struck 11:00,
p - _ According to records, the mur-| He was very tired and Im-' “The Dying Thief .Rejoiced Tol?
V? dor Was committed to obtain pos-! mediately laid down pn a bench; sce,” and. “Over There” echyeds
} session of a farm. Beavers visited! and was soon sound asleep. I had! over the court house yard, '
: the real estate office with which|to lay down, but hearing him Drs: 2-H Matth : Col ;
f° Sewell was- connected, ostensibly | breathing heavily, knew he was|,.--TS. 4. H. Matthews, W. A. Col-}}
ig re hs pak ss tas 3] . lins, G. A. Kunkler and Isaac May-);
: purchase a farm, stating that he| as eep. ied we ttendi Audio! f
sought a location in the southern| I got up and looked around fo? pore BMCAGIRE - PAYEICIANS: !
. part of the state. something to kill him with, as I} .Main Cross (Main) street and}
i The realtor recommended a{ had Jeft the piece of iron outside, the housetops were lined with peo~;
:. farm that he owned in Ripley | I found a stick of wood about three | ple.
; county. Beavers subsequently visit- feet long and about the size'of my| As the clock struck 12:00 th e/
' ed the property, then made an en-|'arm. I walked about near the} tap was sprung and the body
sSagement with Sewell for a meet-| stove where the old man lay on| SWung around several times. At 832
ing at North Vernon. a bench, and struck him a fatal! minutes the heart was still beating
They hired a horse and buggy | blow. but there was no pulsation at the
and drove to Versailles. Sewell| He fell off the bench, his head| wrist. At 10 minutes the heart
carried with him a blank deed to| falling near the stove. I think} beat 120 times a minute, no pulsa-
| the property that had been signed|I killed him the first lick, but| tion at the wrist. At 11 minutes the
: ‘by his wife, and-he in turn filled|I hit him six or eight licks more; heart beat 84 strokes. At the
} eut the paper in the court house} to make sure work of it. thirteenth minute there was no
i at Versailles. I dragged the body of the dead| heart action. The man was pro-
‘ Thereupon Beavers informed the; man out and let him lie straight | nounced dead.
| realtor that his money was at his|on_ his back, so I could build -a, ere m Wa
home, and suggested they return|fire near the stove. I built a fire,!’
j to North Vernon, take the train| for the purpose of ‘concealing the °
i ‘and go to. the home of a relative crime, and why it didnot burn is a
| } named Holman. mystery to me. I missed it by not
Beavers later confessed his dragging the body into the pul-
plan to make Sewell believe he had pit and building the fire there,” 2
the money, get possession of the Beavers made his confession to
signed deed, then murder the! J. W. Benham, a guard at the local
victim. jail, after he had been arrested \
In the confession Beavers said: | and held as a suspect. i
“My intention was to murder He entered a plea of not guilty:
in him on the road from Versailles | when arraigned in court on Nov. 23,'
4 back to North Vernon, but I had | 1877. The trial dragged until Dec.
NX { no good chance. I had prepared| ember 8th when a jury returned, a
: myself with a picce of iron about! a guilty verdict, aa
z ' 14 inches long which 1] expected A motion for a new trial was’
‘ to use in disposing of him. overruled, and sentence was pro-;
NX ~~ { ! intended to kill him as we got| nounced by Judge J. G. Allison on:
{ on the train at North Vernon,} December 19th, as follows: :
AN Ss ‘ then I intended to get on the car| “It is ordered and adjudged by
> eee and kill him as he got off, and|the court that you, John W.
- leave him on the track. I intended Beavers, be taken from this court
WY f ' to take the gripsack and buard| room to the jail of Jefferson
m4 H ‘ the train first, and as he came on| County, Indiana, and there kept
ENS { ; the steps, to strike him down} in close confinement until the 15th
i , With the piece of iron. I failed day of February, A.D, 1878, and
bon } ; there, at 12:00 o’cloek noon on said day
eh ‘ "  Soveral times later I intended to you be taken by the sheriff of
VY 1 » kill him but it was dark and I! said county .to a gallows to be
of } .. could not get good aim. erected as near to said jail as possi-
Sr { Several other times T was on i ble, and that you then and thereby
e | ! ; the verge of striking him a fatal by said sheriff be hanged by the
Q) } : blow with the iron pipe, but my} neck until you are dead, and may
ne i ' plans failed to work out that night,! God have mercy on your soul,”
be, ‘
, Q j
‘ ne ae


_ {teu inem 40 stronger bands, a8 history | ‘Achey Justifi f

ek crowded with the record of enervated races |
Toe and. Says i
, ,|shows. Thereshas been something of an ap- | . a

7 prosdh jo; this condition here, This cammu- ns, P ‘emed
| ity [?bas’ looked : ae} *mutdérg’ with |) t ae |
oe that.  Maaksiedd. ; ‘that, hag. | powated oom y- °

“one after angther until probably two huge | The
dred lites have been sacrificed in Mation | ~ |
““eounty, ‘and, not until the. mia talned 4-—~
‘blow after blow, with rach ‘patting ka dity: Pd
As pa the last year bas seen wae there a sentiment |.
» strong enough to rouge s rense of the awful Merric s Neek J
aD3.popp ole took who allowed the |laws |, Minutes and,

hee bir cofnmon protection ‘to De trampled :r ;

phon, - It, a9 the. jenfo nt, of | -

h Pratention that these sxecatjons to-da t
fe and will have influence, pc aa ow. they Passes |
", Woffetog falls on the tranigressor, . niger Farth—Deties no

deention Phere
diy :

“wofrow comes. to those who are. fo}... ‘ring th 6 nt

; chim Wy the-lawa pf: life, they have the | _ - i pipe ear is en dot
. ‘common congolation A all. But baby ar “Seoted jie ub yyy Wo Pod ‘ he’ val oe "They “thew
: i » A Ca en’
_ beyond the reach of “any, They arp the. | a acest A Beaty pine Wabtber |. with: | Achey, ° into
wages of | sin “exacted .solely* - by! th | | ‘cps it od beta aces
gloner, and be offers no ex , — leven at Anite a d
fees he epds bis life on the gallows, ‘That’ Boot Atl
Sa|stmoply the penalty attached by sociaty to Wm, Merrick and Sch uey, | 1

nd oat td the street, the
for-them ontil they min-
ctowd that Sarrooaded

Behe that inverte its mafety. It offers every | the penalty fred Pye

Sfecrment it can aghinst such. acts, nad | They were hung prom
thing there were none, | Bat | andthe Sqllow\ng t

J Wha there ie it canobly execute eipbat: of their last how 4nd Ht } py:

he ‘Whas sttactied fo them; ti deter otherg: from i;

; : sommitiing them in the fatare and Crtes | as | Merrick ates

| far sain human pombe cant Spoare ft own | hour, making

Vian a jealling Sor writing). many |
hp == vos 8. | | ‘several letters. to bis! attdeh
as a ee i 4 i Beg .
Poly SEATS aEWs. » 1 11 One of these, bp eat, w

fe | Bokigion Romig, one of Latayeta’s tase } did sot to bes tii
“eth btizens, died reorder, his 7%b ‘virth- as ognal, dots 4 ver. of
' day,

i. 4. M. Cower, a teacher in. the Wlothester | ‘Beylies, of Ro
bile ectiogls, attempted to chastive » papli:|:
‘yesterday, when some of the lar sobolars |...
1" , Anterfered with knives and clebh” The boys advleers; had left him:
4) were zretled b Buperlatendent Butler-gnd | ight Merrick Ache}
were im ately reinst hool |
board... Gower bas rovlgoue his Lh noed roe celle fit ,
~dteacber and Bawler as superigteadent of the: thoning, w- A
Ur askoala, 1, “tempts at. self | destryctit
+ So NT enys that the predsnre, bof of news., might bé Inclined to
t paper men generally, - a © pays aa ti re will Father Besson
- come when truth wilf prevail | oat omen
“asd prejudice be one bf the thi gs an were. which time he

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been Dn ; H ’
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mit. Vernon, Ind.

Mr. Vernon, Ind., January 25.

‘ Anderson and Ssyder, the doomed
mon, retired at 10 o'clock last sight.
Daring the night Anderson's nose com:
| menced bleeding, agd became #0 ser-cus
that the guard was oulled. The bleeding
tinued for several minutes, after wh:cb

he slept souldly.. Beth were called at 5
o'clock and eat ‘a hearty braaklast. A
Cathelic priest who had been with them
| was denied admission, they baving aekod
for Methodist ministers, J. W. Asddry

ead H. X. Wolfeen. Thess gentlemen
wére sent for and prompt'y urrived, when
| they conducted appropriate exercises. At

- | 9.30 the death warrant was read and was
| jutened without emotion. At 10 o'clock
Anderson wasshaved. Singing wae led
‘by Soyder, who sleo delivered a prayer,
asking divine merdy, and ¢xpreesing Con:

fidence that his sins were forgiven. Dar-

goene : thé prisoners were
. Snyder was
Refvous aud excited, and talked freely

!

of the crime and frequently cried. An-
derson was much ¢ ffested, but under grrat
self control, freely conversing with visitors
and occasionally smiling. This toncluded
they returned to their celle, where they
were altended by their ministers and the ,
last preparations made, At 11:40 they
were conveyed to the enclosure near the
jail, attended by‘Rave. Asbury and Wulf-
sen. Anderson was very ocompoved, bat
Sryder was very emotional and‘ prayed
aloud cotstantly. Anderson flared a
brief prayer. The trap, was sprung at
11:50. Sayder's neck was’ broken, but
Anderson atraggled and twitched a
few moments. * Life was extinct hy Soyder
in seven minutes, and Anderson in eight.
The bodies were cut ddwn, put-in coffins
‘and conveyed to Weiser’s undertakipg ee-
tablishment, and exposed to public gas>.
‘he arrangements wero very cdmplete, |
and ro hitch from first to last. —


~e

The crime for which Anderson and
Snyder were exsoutei was the murder,jon

| Acgust 17, of James Van Weyer, 17 yeare
(of age. The later, who was known to have
bad $18 on bis ‘person, was ‘antioed to 2

spot selected for the, crim, on the river |
bank aboot a nule eastof Mt. Vernon.
While his attention was directed the other
woy, Sayder etruck him on the head with
with a olub and felled him to the ground,

than held Lis head while Anderson, sitting ,

astride of his body, cat his thfost from
ear to ear, with bis pooket knife,, Atthe
first plunge of the bladethe victim revived
and realized: dis awfal position. Begging
for meioy he’ ‘etruggled desperately, but
WAS overmatched, however, amd s00n Cver-
come by the loss of blood. Alter rifling
hie pocket aad before life was éxtino', the
body was thrown into the river and ¢akon
ont into the strcam, the murderers

| swimming on each eide ef it, Bloodstains

and the d-sturbed condition of the ground +
wers discovered next day, and the boody
after a search recovered Sunday afternoon.
Suspicion at once directed to Anderscn
and Sayder, who wero arreated before the
line of denial could be agreed upon be-
tween them. By the skillfol manipulations
of the officers each confessed, charging
the crime upon the other. The trial was
brief, conviction prompt, and executive
clemency invoked in vain. Van Meyer
was @ native of Kentucky, had resided at
Mt. Vernon only a few months, doing odd
joba, and was an Andustrioug’ acd well-
behaved boy. Snyder and At deraop' both
lived at Mt. Vernon, the former 21 years
of age, a shiftless and idle fellow, but pres
vious’ to the murder never considered
vicious. Anderson was 17 - -yOars old, a
boot- black aud inclined to be. industtious,
but his associates were bad. Soyden's
mother and both parents of, Anderson are

alive and reside at Mt. Vernon.


and the d.sturbed condition of the ground |
wers discovéred néXt day, and the boody
after a search recovered Sunday afternoon.
Suspicion at once directed to Anderscn
and Sayder, who wero arreated before the
line of denial could be agreed upon be-
tween them. By the skilifol manipulations
of the officers each confessed, charging
the crime upon the other. The trial was
brief, conviction prompt, and executive
clemency invoked in vain. Van Meyer
was @ native of Kentucky, had resided at
Mt. Vernon only a few months, doing odd
joba, and was an industrioug and well-
behaved boy. Snyder and Andarsop' both
lived at Mt. Vernon, the former 21 years
of age, a shiftless and idle fellow, but pres
vious to the murder never considered
vicious. Anderson wae 17 -years old, a
boot-black aud inclined to be industtious,
but his associats were bad. Ssyden's
mother and both parents of. Anderson are
alive and reside at Mt. Vernon.



of the crime and freqaestly criei, An-
derson was much ¢ffected, but ander great
self control, freely conversing with visitors
and occasionally smiling. This toncluded
they returned to their celle, where they
were attended by their ministers and the
last preparations made, At 11:40 they
were conveyed to the enclosure near the
jail, attended by’Rave, Asbury and Wulf-
sen. Anderson was very compoved, bat
‘Sryder was very emotional and‘ prayed
aloud ocosstantly. Anderson cffsred a
brief prayer. The trap. was sprung at
11:50. Sayder’s neck was’ broken, but
Anderson airaggled and twitebed a
few momente. * Life was extinct ih Soyder |
in seven minutes, and Anderson ia eight.
The bodies were cut ddwn, put-in coffins
‘and conveyed to Weiser’s undertakipg ee-
tablisbment, and exposed to public gas>.
‘Lhe arrangements were very complete,
aod Fo hitch from first to lact.


The crime for which Anderson and

Snyder were exsouted was the murder,jon
Avguet 17, of James Van Weyer, 17 years

of age. The later, who was known to have |
had $18 on his ‘person, was snticed to a,

‘spot selected for the, crim», on th® river
bank aboot a nule eastof Mt. Veraon.
While bis attention was directed the other
woy, Sayder etruck him on the head with
with a club and felled him to the ground,
then held Lis head while Anderson, sitting
astride of his bocy, cut his throst from
ear to ear, with bis pocket knife,, Attne
first plunge of the bladethe victim revived
and realizzd-bis awful position. Begging
for meicy he’ ‘strugyled desperately, but
was overmatched, however, amd soon cver-
come by the loss of blood. Alter rifling
hie pocket and before life was extino’, the
body was thrown into the river and (aken
out into the strcam, the murderers
swimming on each eide of it. Bloodstains

Chester appeared before Judge Wirt
Worden, in the circuit court. It was the
saine courtroom where as an 11-year-old
boy, Chester had been convicted of steal-
ing a revolver.

Calmly he now listened to Sallwasser,
one of the men whom he had vowed to
kill, read the indictment.

“Are you guilty or not guilty?”

Chester leaned over and whispered with
his attorney for a brief moment, then
faced the court.

“Guilty, your Honor.”

The judge’s voice, kindly but stern,
hardly carried to the few scattered spec-
tators in the old courtroom:

“It is the duty of the court and he does
sentence you to death and fixes the time
of execution as March 12, 1937... .”

The killer paled, swayed slightly and
then managed a sickly grin.

“You pleaded guilty that your brother
might be treated with leniency. I have
the assurance of the prosecutor that the
charge against your brother will be nolle
prossed.”

That night, as the younger brother
was released from jail, he came to the
cell of the boy who was to die for
murder.

“Go straight, kid,” Chester said. “Crime
never pays. It’s costing me my life.”

Body in the Moat

[Continued from page 27]

inquiries at No. 15 Bellmansgade, home
of the victim. Questioning of neighbors
threw added light on the mystery. The
inspector learned that Hansen had not
only been Mrs. Dalby’s boarder but also
her lover. A daughter had been born of
their unsanctioned relations. Both the
man and the woman, the detective learned,
had repeatedly voiced fears that Dalby
would make serious trouble when he was
released from jail.

Had their fears been realized? The
question throbbed in Jacobsen’s brain as
he pressed his inquiries further. Dalby
had been released from prison on Nov.
19, 1930. His wife had last been seen
alive during the day of Nov. 21. Was
there a sinister connection between those
two dates? Jacobsen’s jaw set grimly.
Apparently the pieces of the jigsaw were
falling into place. This theory was
heightened when he found that Hansen,
apparently alarmed over the safety of the
children, had taken them to a welfare
home on the following morning and had
then disappeared.

Jacobsen chafed. There were a few
questions he wanted to ask Frederik
Dalby but the man still was missing.
Forced to bide his time until the ex-con-
vict could be found, he decided to learn
more of Hansen’s background.

The results were illuminating. What-

ever the neighbors might have thought of
the Dalby domestic arrangements, they
were emphatic in their praise of the man
who had cared for another’s family as his
own... .
“Without Hansen,” testified one, “those
kids would have been in a bad way. Mrs.
Dalby didn’t care for housework and
Hansen did all the washing, cooking and
cleaning. The children loved him. They
called him Uncle Peter.”

Said another: “Hansen was a good
fellow. Took any job he could get to
make an honest dollar. Sold flowers on
the street, worked in the markets—any-
thing. The woman? Well, she was
flighty. Kept late hours and drank far
too much liquor for her own good.”

These statements were corroborated at
the welfare office. A woman official
lauded Hansen but had scant praise for
the man’s slain sweetheart. No, she had
not seen Hansen since the previous De-
cember. At that time he had cashed a
Christmas fund order to purchase gifts
for the children.

Despite the wholehearted indorsement
of Hansen, Jacobsen did not place the
man entirely beyond suspicion. It seemed

odd that the man had not come for-
ward to offer what testimony he could
in the baffling case. The story’had filled
the Copenhagen papers for days and it
was unlikely that Hansen had not seen
some notice of the finding and identifica-
tion of the moat victim.

Whatever lingering doubts concerning
Hansen the inspector might have had
were dispelled when he returned to head-
quarters. There he found that Hansen
and a married couple, relatives of the
victim, were waiting to see him.

Jacobsen chose to see the couple first.
Their testimony served merely to cor-
roborate once more what had already
been learned—that Mrs. Dalby was not
exactly an estimable woman but that
Hansen, except for his domestic aberra-
tions, was a good fellow.

Denies Dalby Is Killer

HOR Frederik Dalby the young man
had few words of praise. “Aw, he
isn’t much good,” he exploded.. “If
Henriette had divorced him and married
Peter she would have been alive today.”
Questioned as to whether he had seen

Dalby after the man’s release from jail, | |

the young husband nodded. He had
given the ex-convict a small amount of
money late the preceding November but
had not seen him since.

Dismissing the couple, Jacobsen asked
to see Hansen. He found the man more
than willing to cooperate and shed what
light he could on the mysterious affair.
Before the inspector could launch an
opening question, however, Hansen took
the initiative. :

“Inspector,” he said in level tones,
“there’s just one thing I want to get
straight before we begin. Frederik Dalby
didn’t do this terrible thing.”

“What makes you say that?”

“Hunch, maybe. But I know he
wouldn’t do it. I don’t like him but he’s
no murderer. I’d stake anything on that.”

Then, with perfect candor, Hansen
went on to describe his association with
Mrs. Dalby. He had known her for about
three years and their life together had
been born of a mutual wish.

On the night when Mrs. Dalby sup-
posedly disappeared he said that he had
been selling flowers in the courthouse
square and had arrived home around 8
o'clock. He remembered the date because
it was the birthday of the daughter born
to him and Mrs. Dalby.

He had felt somewhat put out when

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Reluctant to talk at first, the killer soon
began to expand at finding himself the
center of attention. Almost boastfully
he began to recount one of the most cal-
lous slayings in Indiana history.

When Pazuchoski had refused to hand
over his money, Chester had hit him
over the head several times with a
rock. The old man had swung his stick
to good advantage, however, and the boy
tried to grab the stick. Failing, he drew
his gun and fired.

Pazuchoski, shot through the chest,
ran several hundred feet before dropping
with a groan. Chester, chasing him,
searched the many pockets and found $35
in bills. Then someone carrying a flash-
light approached and he ran.

On Tuesday he had gone to Valparaiso.
Upon hearing that his brother, John, had
been arrested, he decided to return to
Laporte to shoot Hominiuk whom he
blamed for the arrest.

He stated that he had been practicing
with the revolver to kill Officer Schroeder,
former Judge Link and Deputy Prosecu-
tor Sallwasser. He would have got them,
too, just as he had killed old “By Golly”
and Hominiuk, he boasted. He was dis-
appointed to learn that his shots had
missed the boy and he refused tp believe
that the youth had done nothing to cause
his brother’s arrest.

On Wednesday morning, before start-
ing out to kill the neighbor boy, he had
written the following confession and
dropped it into an outlying mailbox:

To Whom it may Concern: I, Chester
Arkuszewski, being of sound mind
and body, do hereby confess that on
the 26th day of July, 1936, at 10:30,
I shot and killed Ignatz Pazuchoski
at the Fox Memorial park, for resist-
ing my robbery of his money.
Through prejudice information given
at will by John Hominiuk, my
brother was arrested and is being held
as an accomplice for the murder of
Ignatz Pazuchoski. I do hereby state
that my brother, John Arkuszewski,
is innocent of this charge. He is not
guilty of accessory before the fact, as
is charged, for all the evidence against
him is circumstantial. I do hereby
conclude with this statement, that
John Arkuszewski is innocent of
every charge.

The confession was addressed to Chief
Baumgartner but was not received until
the following morning—Thursday, after
Chester was in custody.

On Friday, Prosecutor Sallwasser ob-
tained an order from M. E. Leliter, judge
pro tem in the circuit court, for Chester
to be transferred from the county jail to
the state prison at Michigan City.

Despite the older brother’s insistence
that John knew nothing of the robbery-
killing, the police still held him. And on
August 1, John confessed to Sheriff
Norris that he was with his brother when
the murder occurred.

John claimed that he begged Chester
not to rob the old man and not to shoot
Pazuchoski when the recluse resisted, but
that Chester replied that he wanted to
“set”? the old man. Asked why he did
not run away, he said that he was afraid
that Chester would shoot him if he ran.
When Chester tried to get him to accept
some of the $35, John said he told him:

“Tt work for my money.”

On August 5,a grand jury indicted both
Chester and John. The former was
charged with first degree murder; the

48

latter on three counts, first and second
degree murder and manslaughter. It was
the first time that John had been in serious
trouble, but Chester had a police record
that went back 14 years.

On October 5, Attorney Kenneth D.
Osborn, of Laporte, petitioned the court
that Chester be declared of unsound mind,
but this was refused. Three weeks later,
with the date of the murder trial approach-
ing, Chester was returned to the Laporte
county jail and placed in a single cell on
the north wing of the second floor. There
was one large window covered with a
heavy steel screen on the inside and with
both bars and a steel screen on the out-
side.

Unknown to the turnkey, Chester
soon filched a spoon from a tray con-
taining food. Feverishly he began
chipping mortar from between the bricks
of the window, using the handle of the
spoon as a chisel. After hours of chipping,
he was able to work a brick loose. The
next brick came easier and the next still
easier.

Bricks and mortar were carefully stored
on top of newspapers under the mattress
of his bed. He kept the hole concealed
by hanging towels in front of it. Jail
attaches, who brought his food, suspected
nothing.

During the noon hour, when Turnkey
Kowalczyk went home for lunch, Chester

worked to escape, covering the noise of
chipping and pounding by running the
lavatory in the cell.

On November 18, after weeks of work,
he could see daylight through the outer
masonry. Impatiently Chester waited for
the noon hour when Kowalczyk would
leave the jail. Below him a door opened
and closed. Chester turned on the water
and began working. Suddenly he
stopped, rearranged the towels, and
rushed to shut off the water. Someone
was coming up the stairs.

Killer Plans Escape

T WAS Sheriff Norris. The sheriff

stopped at the door of the cell.

“What’s the idea of running that
water?”

“It stuck for a minute,’ Chester re-
plied glibly. “It’s all right now.”

The sheriff surveyed the interior of the
cell curiously for a moment, then he re-
turned down stairs.

In a short time the sheriff was back,
accompanied by Kowalczyk. Going into
the cell, the officers uncovered the hole
in the wall, and immediately moved the
chagrined killer to another cell—a steel-
lined one. His desperate bid for freedom
had failed.

That afternoon, three hours after his
attempt to escape had been discovered,

“I gotta catch the kissing bandit!”

ad

Kivi ste~

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2 Ks and through

@ pw.ice station a
les Olson, heard and
tion that the local
e berserk and had
wanton gesture of

ef Baumgartner in
_ was Stayton, who
rom Chicago with
ned by Chester had
a killed the old re-
‘ chief in charge, 14
stectives rushed out
va dragnet around

a.
the Deputy Joseph
id car, joined the
the Indiana state
cks brought three
quad cars, manned
ers, Delvie Master-
lifton Ward, Ray-
eller and Charles

of armed officers
he scene, combing
questioning scores

of residents in the vicinity for news of
Chester; but the gunner had seemingly
vanished, and police were glum.

There was one cheering note in the in-
vestigation, however. Chester’s second
victim had miraculously escaped death.
One shot had grazed the boy's leg, while
the other had simply torn a hole through
the shirt near the shoulder. He was badly
frightened, but not seriously hurt.

Search for the armed killer revealed
that he was last seen as he headed toward
the railroad yards. Believing that he
might be hiding there, intending to “hook”
a freight train, police centered their
search in that vicinity but no trace was
found of the fugitive.

Back at the police station the alarm had
gone out by radio and telephone for all
farmers to be on the lookout for the bare-
headed, bandit-killer, dressed in overalls
and a soiled shirt. :

Calls came tumbling in from excited
farmers. Almost simultaneously the fugi-
tive had apparently been seen,in half a
dozen widely separated places. All in-
formation was sifted and passed along by
short wave radio to the searching officers
and dozens of armed civilians who had
joined the search, aroused by the cold-
blooded attempt to kill the neighbor boy.

Then, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, a
call came that a man answering the de-
scription of the killer had been seen on
the Ohio street road, east of the city. A
squadron of city and state police hurried
to the spot. The man had been headed
eastward toward the Bald Hill region.

With drawn guns more than 50 officers
and civilians went through barns and
sheds, searched fields, thickets and un-
derbrush over hills and through swamps
for trace of the killer. But again he had
vanished.

At about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, res-
idents of a farm located about three miles
east of Laporte reported that they had
seen a youth, answering the description
of Chester, carrying his shirt under his
arm and running across a waist-high corn-
field, headed toward a swanip.

Story of Slaying

[BE sector contained several hundred

acres of woodlands, fields and swamps.
Along the roads patrol cars kept a close
watch while squadrons on foot beat
through the fields and marshes for the
quarry.

Finally, at 5 o'clock, word came that
the fugitive had been seen near a dair
farm in the vicinity of Bald Hill. Al-
though other broadcasts had described
the killer as clothed in overalls and a
soiled shirt, this last call stated that he
now was wearing dark trousers and a
clean white shirt.

At 5:30 p. m. Officer Stayton entered
the back yard of a farm home near Bald
Hill. A short distance away, on top of a
woodpile, he spotted the fugitive.

“Come down from there with your
hands up!” he shouted.

Meekly, the killer obeyed. His air of
bravado was gone. In his pocket was a
.32 caliber revolver but he made no effort
to use it. Jim Stayton was a dead shot
and the killer knew it. Brave enough when
he faced helpless victims, gun in hand,
Laporte’s “tough guy” wilted when
brought to bay by the law.

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whether the coat the slayer had left
was a piece of superfine tailoring or a
bargain-basement item, but they were
going to do everything in their power
to identify its owner. They telephoned
Hammond, and the coat was rushed to
{Indianapolis by special car. -

The tailor shook his head when the
detectives brought the coat to him.

“This,” he said, “is a piece of cheap,

' factory-made merchandise, It’s exactly

like hundreds of other suitcoats I see

every week. I am sorry but I cannot ©

remember who brought it in.”
That was that. O’Donnell and Pellar

‘walked away carrying the coat which

had failed them as a clue.

“If this thug had only worn expen-
sive clothes like some gangsters do,”
O’Donnell said gloomily, “we'd have
him spotted by now.’

“There’s. only one thing further
we've learned,” Pellar replied. “Our
man had his clothes cleaned in the
same vicinity where the license tags
and the guard’s badge were found.
That makes it just about a dead certain
cinch that he lives somewhere in the
neighborhood.”

“That's right—the plates and the
badge were taken only recently. Well,
we'll make that neighborhood our Tar-
get Area, so to speak. We'll ask the
Indianapolis police to give us the dope
on every known hoodlum in that aréa.”

The Indianapolis police fooperated
by combing their files and bringing out
pictures and data on 58 questionable
characters who lived in. or frequented
the Target Area. The pictures were
shown to Patrolman Mamala, ‘eae
studied them one by one.

“No,” he said at last, “Neither of our
men is here.”

“There are 16 toughs from that sec-
tion on whom we don’t have pictures,”
an Indianapolis officer said. “We'll
bring them in and let you see them.”

The 16 men were taken in tow by
raiding squads and were paraded. in
front of Mamala. Once again the
rookie shook his head.

_ “Let ’em go,” he said wearily. “I'd
know these men if I saw them, and
neither of them is here.”

jX HAMMOND, Captain Singer re-
ceived a telegram from the War De-
partment about the .45-caliber auto-
matic. It had been part of a shipment
to the Pacific on which records had
been lost during the war, and there was
no way to trace it, '

The attempt to trace the 38 revolver
also met with failure. Florida author-
ities informed Singer that the man in
whose name it had been registered
years before had died in 1946, and his

wife had no recollection Whatever of |

the weapon.
The clue of the bleyelae the cab

drivers, the guard’s badge,.the stolen’

_ tonishment.

license plates, the laundry marks, the
two guns—all had been painstakingly
investigated, only to lead nowhere.
The hedge shears had been processed
for fingerprints, but only smudges were
found. The same failure was recorded
in checking the stolen car.

It was a case in which hundvede of
man-hours of able detective work had
been expended by several different
police organizations, and the result ap-
peared to be utterly discouraging.

But fate, which up to this point
seemed to be in league with the crim-

. inals, was soon to reverse itself and

turn against them’ in the form of a
most amazing coincidence.

Feeling that they had explored every
possible avenue of investigation in In-
dianapolis, Detectives O’Donnell and
Pellar telephoned Captain Singer and
asked if they should return to Ham-
mond.

The captain debated a moment. “No,”
he said at last. “You've got your Target
Area there, and I’m convinced that ‘at
least one of the killers comes from
there. Keep working on that end.”

In desperation, Pellar and O’Donnell
called at the headquarters of the In-
diana State Police and discussed the
case with Major Robert A. O’Neal,
hard-hitting superintendent of the
force, and Captain John Barton, chief
of the state detectives.

As he listened to the details of the
investigation, Major O’Neal
down notes on a scratch pad. He kept
such notes relating to criminal cases in
a drawer in his desk, and the sum total
of them amounted to a personal file
which he found very useful.

Pellar told about the many leads they
had followed, only to arrive against a
blank wall. He described the failure to
trace the Army .45, and the .38-caliber
revolver.

“A .38?” the major said.
Smith and Wesson?”

“Yes, it was.”

“Remember its serial number?”

Pellar had memorized the number.
“It’s 60351,” he replied.

“We've already checked our gun
registration file,” the captain pointed
out. “It’s not here.”

“But don’t forget my own personal
file,” smiled Major O’Neal. “I remem-

“Was it a

* ber now—a couple of months ago I got

a phone call from a man who wanted
a permit to carry a gun. I refused him
the permit, but I took his name and
the type and number of the gun.”

He rummaged around in his desk
drawer. “It was a .38 Smith and Wes--
son, and I don’t suppose there’s much
chance it’s the same weapon, but we
might as well see. Ah—here’ 's the note
I wrote.”

He read the number he had written .

on the note, and his face mirrored as-
“It’s 60351!” he exclaimed.

jotted ©

The other officers could scarcely be-
lieve him, but he showed them the
note. On it was written plainly the

“telltale serial number. It was a piece

of luck which might happen once in a
thousand years.

The faces of O’Donnell and Pellar
lighted up. After fruitlessly running
down clues which should have paid off,

they now had what looked like a hot

one literally donated to them.
“Imagine that!” breathed O’Donnell.

“And the name of the man who. wanted :

a permit for that gun—?”

“It’s Ellery Bush,” the major said:
“I jotted down his address too. We'll
get him here pronto and see what he
has.to say.”

A squad car raced to Bush’s home
in Indianapolis and within a half hour
the man was in Major O’Neal’s office.

“That revolver you wanted a permit
for some time ago,” O’Neal asked him.
“Do you still have it?” .

Bush shook his head. “It was of no
use to me as long as I couldn’t get a
permit for it,” he said, “so I sold it.”

“Who'd you sell it to?”

“A young fellow named Herman
Beggs.” .

“Herman ‘Beggs. Hmm—is he the lad
they call Peaches Beggs?”

“That’s the one, all right. I sold him
the gun six weeks ago.’

Bush was taken to another room to
give an official statement, and Major
O’Neal ‘sent for the file on Peaches
Beggs.

“He’s a bad actor from way back,”
he nodded. “Did time for assault, bur-
glary, and several other crimes.”

Detective Pellar was looking over his
list of police characters who lived in the
Target Area. His face fell when -he
found Beggs’ name among them.

“He can’t be our man,” he frowned.
“Mamala looked at Beggs’ picture and
didn’t identify it as the mug of one of
the killers.”

“But we’re on the right track,” the
major insisted. “It could be that Beggs
loaned or sold the gun to a pal. We'll
work on that:angle.”

A squad was sent immediately to.
bring in Peaches Beggs for questioning.
But the man had vanished. from his
rooming house and could not be found
in his usual haunts. His landlord said
he thought Beggs had gone to Florida
for the winter.

It might take some time to locate
Beggs, who was a slippery character,
so stool pigeons who frequented his
part of town were told to get a list of
his pals, particularly those criminally
inclined.

Within 24 hours the informers sup-
plied a list of six buddies of Peaches
Beggs, all of whom had met him be-
hind the walls of the Indiana State
Prison at Michigan City while Beggs

was serving a sentence for burglary.

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MEANWHILE,

overcoat had

to Captain Singer that the stolen bicy-
cle had been found in an alley in the
downtown section.

“Wait a minute,” Singer shouted to
the departing sleuths. He gave them
the information he had just received.
“Let’s see,” he mused. “There are two
movie houses right near where that

bike was ditched. A theater would be

. an ideal place for the killers to hide out

for a few hours and keep warm. Two
of you check both those places.”
The detectives hurried off on their
errands, and the captain turned to
Mamala.
“Our men found a trail of blood
leading away from the battle scene,” he

said. “Did you wound either of the
- pair badly?” ;
Mamala said that before he was

knocked unconscious he had gotten in

‘some telling blows with the hedge

shears. “I cracked one of them on the
head,” he recalled, “and must have
opened a wound because he was bleed-
ing badly.”

It appeared likely that the hoodlum
would treat the wound himself, b
the captain
doctors queried in case the thug sought
medical attention.

the canvass. of cloth-

ing stores brought no new leads.
But at one of the two theaters, a ticket
collector recalled that a
man wearing neither suit. coat nor
entered the place about
an hour earlier. —

“Tt figured he must have worked
nearby and didn’t bother to put on
more clothes,” he said.

“Let's go in and find that man,” the
detectives cried. . ;

“No use—he didn’t stay to see the
whole show. Hurried out 15 or 20
minutes ago.” . ;

At this point a usher appeared from
within the theater. He recognized the
investigators. :

“You wouldn’t be trying to find who
stole those coats, would you?” he
joked.

“What do you mean?” the detectives
demanded.

“Why, about a half hour ago there
was a fuss in one of the rear rows and
I went to see what was the matter. A
fellow sitting there accused
man seated near him of trying to w
off with his overcoat, which he had
parked in an empty seat between them.

“The other guy apologized. He said
he had put his suit coat and overcoat
on that seat, and he thought he was
picking up his own. He claimed some-
one had stolen his two coats. H
beat it out, wearing only a vest and no
hat.”

The detectives knew that it was one

of the killers beyond a doubt. He had
tried to steal a coat in the darkened

ut

‘. “Y didn’t

alibi when he was caught. —

The theater cashier also remembered
the coatless man, and said he had paid
for his admission with a ten-dollar bill.

bald, He was without doubt the older
of the murder pair,
the man who had done
killing.

When this information was reported
to him, Captain Singer swung into ac-
tion on a:new front. ;

“Te went into the movie for the ex~-
press purpose of

the actual

out of sight, so what would he do?
Hire a cab, or I miss my guess.”
Detectives were assigned at once to
check all taxicab drivers.
Meanwhile, Singer and his aides were
examining some clues left in the stolen
car by the slayers. They included an

Indianapolis newspaper dated only four

f

Indianapolis; and
a pair of 1946 auto license tags issued

ers are from Indianapolis,” the captain
remarked. “I have a hunch

their stolen car when Gerka and his
squad surprised them.”

The state police were enlisted to aid
in this phase of the hunt. In the capital
city, 150 miles to the southeast, they
called at midnight on the Indianapolis
resident to whom the tags had been
issued.

“T just got my new plates a week
ago,” he explained. “I don’t know
how the old plates happened to be in

. that stolen car.”

“What did you do with the old plates
when you put on the new ones?”
do it myself. A mechanic
at the garage down -the street put on
the plates, and I don’t know what he
did with the old ones.” ;

The sleuths checked the man’s car,
parked behind his house. It bore new
1947 license plates, and its motor was
cold. It clearly had not been used for
some hours.

The next step was to arouse the
garage mechanic from bed.

“Yeah, I changed them tags,”
“J threw the old ones in a pile of scrap

metal at the side of the garage. I guess’

anybody who stopped for gas might
have picked them up.” + i
- Next, the detectives went to the home
of the man who was listed in state em-
ployment records as holder of Shield
19 at the state fatr. ;

He looked at the badge. “That's mine,
all right,” he admitted, “but we don’t
use that type any more. We were is-

hooking a coat,” he’
‘said, “and he failed. He’d have to keep

a special policeman’s’
- shield, No. 19, issued to guards at the

. the coats the-killers left,” Singer said.

“Indianapolis, you may be able to trace

- had picked up 4

‘ sued new ones, so I gave this old one

to my nephew only about a week ago.”

“How old is your nephew?”

“Don’t get ideas that he’s a suspect,”
the guard. grinned. “He’s only seven,
years old.” .

He woke up his nephew, who lived
in. the same house. The lad eagerly
‘reached for the badge, and was crest-
fallen when told he could not have it
just yet because it was evidence in .a
murder case. He had lost it while play-
ing some in the neighborhood, he

Dispatched to Indianapolis to aid in
the investigation there, Detective Ser-
geants. Frank O’Donnell and Andrew
Pellar of the Hammond police were
informed of the failure to trace the
badge and license plates.

“There’s only one interesting thing,”
Pellar said. “The home of the kid who
lost the badge and the garage where the
plates were taken are only a couple of
blocks apart. It would seem to indicate
that at least one of the killers comes
from that neighborhood.”

By telephone from Hammond, Cap-
tain Singer ordered O’Donnell and Pel-
lar to continue the
Indianapolis.

“There are some ‘cleaner’s marks on

“Since the pair apparently are from

them that way. I'm sending you copies
of the marks immediately.” j

In Hammond, the check of cab driv-
ers had been ‘widened to include all
cities in the Calumet region, W ich.
includes Gary, Whiting, Calumet City
and several other populous commu-~
nities.

On the next morning, William P,
Haas, a cab driver, reported that he
middle-aged man in
shirt sleeves near the theater at 10:20
on the previous evening. 5

the theater. I took him
block on John Street in Whiting.”

“Did he go into a house there?”

“No, he -just stood there. and waited
while I drove away.”

The man’s actions were those of a
seasoned crook, but just to be sure,
detectives canvassed houses for a two-
block stretch in that area. They found
no one who had seen the man. .

“He knew better than to get off
where he was going,” Captain Singer
said. “He no doubt hiked some distance
to his ultimate destination.”

It was another dead end in a case
already replete with dead ends. But
an hour later another cab driver call
at headquarters. He had been reading
the description of the killers on the

-mimeographed sheet which had been.

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Sallie Mae. The name was different
but I figured she’d married again.

“Well, when I got out of prison I
came to Little Rock to find Sallie Mae.
I soon learned that the woman whose
picture I had seen in the paper wasn’t
her.”

met her in front of the place several

‘times and told her I wanted my money

it to me—threatened. to call the law
and have me' put in prison again.

“I saw red. I pulled out the gun.and
let her have it.”

The officers listening to this, account
believed it with the exception of the
reflection cast onthe slain nurse.

questioning,, had manufactured the
“money” story in an attempt to gain

ville, sleeping in a nearby cornfield
overnight.

“T really didn’t intend to kill her,”
he finished. “I just wanted to scare
her with that gun and get my money
back. I guess I just went haywire.”

None of his auditors placed much

Prosecutor Dunaway immediately
filed first degree murder charges against

whether the coz
was a piece ~* ~
bargain-base
going to do

to identify its ow
Hammond, and t'
Indianapolis by s

“How did you find her?” Dunaway Sallie Mae Barner, they were con- credence in this tale. Smith had come The tailor sho .
queried. _vinced, owed Smith nothing and wanted armed to the scene and had pumped detectives broug!

“T knew she was a nurse, soI began only to be free of a man she had come five bullets into the nurse’s body, and “This,” he said
checking the hospitals, and finally I to fear. They felt sure that Smith, a_ if this did not indicate premeditation - factory-made me
‘located her at University Hospital. 1 man schooled in the ways of police they wondered what did. like hundreds of

every week. I « ©
remember who b

and belongings. She kept putting me sympathy.. Robert Louis Smith, and the 42-year- _. That was that.
off—didn’t want to talk to me—and I Smith further related that he had old ex-convict went to trial on May 23, walked away ca!
got madder all the time, thrown his jacket away in the alley 1949, in the courtroom of Judge Gus had failed them :
- “The other morning I was there wait- _ and raced to the nearby railroad tracks Falk. It took a jury only 35 minutes “Tf this thug h
ing for her when she came to work. where he caught a freight for North to weigh the evidence in the case, find sive clothes like
I asked her for the money again, and Little Rock. From there he walked Smith guilty and set his punishment at O’Donnell said ;
she told me she wasn’t going to give along the railroad tracks to Jackson- death in the electric chair. him spotted by n

“There’s. only

aoe,

sent to each taxicab office.

(Continued from page 14)

Patrolman Gerka had wrested away

CLUE OF THE STARTLED STRIP-TEASER

borhood as the home of the boy who

we've: learned,”

man had his cl
same vicinity w)
and the guard’s
That makes it jus
cinch that he liv

“Pm sure I had the younger guy for from him, and the .45 automatic with lost the badge. We can be pretty sure neighborhood.”
a fate last night,” he said. “He seemed which Gerka and Cook had been that one of the killers lives somewhere “That's right-
to be about 30 or so, and he wore no_ killed. in that area, and if he does he'd most badge were take:

we'll make that n

coat or hat. Not only that—his shirt
was spotted with blood.”

The man had flagged him down at
9:45 the previous evening only about
three blocks from the slaying, the cab-
man went on.

“He was friendly and talkative. I
told him he looked as if he’d been in
a fight, and he said yes, he’d gotten
into a brawl in a beer joint with sev-

On the automatic was stamped
“UY. §. Government Property,” and
Captain Singer dispatched a telegram
to the War Department asking their
help.

The serial number on the .38 revol-~

ver identified it as once having be-
longed to a Hammond business man
who ‘had registered it in 1920. Police
called at the address given at the time

likely have his: cleaning done nearby.”

“Right,” said Pellar. “We'll start
looking in that vicinity.”

They started canvassing cleaning and
tailoring establishments in the neigh-
borhood. Two hours later, after having
met failure at a dozen places, they
entered a small tailoring shop operated
by an elderly man of Italian extraction.
They told him their errand and showed

get Area, so to :
Indianapolis polic
on every known !

The Indianapo!
by combing their
pictures and dat:
characters who li
the Target Area.
shown to ™*--

eral other men. He was so badly out-of registration and found that the man him a photographic copy of the clean- studied the:
numbered, he said, that he scrammed had moved to Florida in 1944. er’s marks. . ; “No,” he ;
without even taking time to grab his Another telegram was sent to Florida “Yes, it is my mark,” the tailor said. men is here.”
Goat and hat.” authorities, asking them to locate and “I do not do the cleaning myself, but “There are 16 t

Both of the hoodlums, it was evident,

were skilled at inventing plausible rea- -

sons for their unconventional ap-
pearance.

The cab driver said he had let the
blood-spattered young man off in a

’ night-life area of nearby Calumet City,

Ill, a section filled with saloons and
strip-tease cabarets.

“When he got out,” the chauffeur
continued, “he told me: ‘A friend of
mine runs one of these joints and I’ll
get some clothes from him. I'd better
go in the back door, though, with all
this blood on me.’ ”

Cc ALUMET CITY police codperated
with the Hammond authorities in
checking owners, bartenders and en-
tertainers of the night clubs in the
district. They could find no one, who
would admit having seen the talkative

‘ killer, and his trail disappeared in a

dead end like that of his comrade.
Every effort was being made to

trace the two guns the slayer had car-

ried—the .38-caliber revolver which

question the man.

Patrolman Mamala meanwhile had
looked through all the pictures in the
Hammond rogues’ gallery without find-
ing any which resembled the killers.
He went to Chicago and studied thou-
sands of pictures in the criminal files
there with the same result. He jour-
neyed to Indianapolis and . went
through the same wearying procedure
in the local rogues’ gallery.

He shook his head in discouragement.

“So far I haven’t found the pictures of.

those two men.”

Detectives O’Donnell and Pellar
were also still busy in Indianapolis.
They had now received copies of the
cleaner’s symbols found in the killers’

garments, and the question was where.

to start looking in a city which con-
tained hundreds of cleaning estab-
lishments.

“It would take forever to check every
cleaner in the city,” Pellar groaned.

“Don’t forget that hunch you had,”
O’Donnell said. “The garage where the
plates were stolen is in the same neigh-

send it out to a wholesaler. That is the
mark I use so the wholesaler will send
me back thé right suits.” ;

“Good!” exulted O’Donnell. “This
mark was in a suit coat. Can you re-
member the owner of it?”

The tailor shook his head. “You do
not know what you ask. I send out
hundreds of suits every year, and the
owners’ numbers are clipped to the
lining. When the owner gets his suit
back, the number is taken off and
thrown away.”

The detectives were in the agonizing
position of seeing success almost within
their grasp, only to have it elude them.

“But listen,” Pellar pleaded. “Do you
think you might’ recognize the suit if
you saw it?”

“Maybe yes, maybe no. I am a good
tailor and I like clothes that are tailor-
made. If this one was tailor-made. I
might remember who brought it in.
But if it’s one of those cheap ready-
made suits’’—he shrugged—“then I’m
afraid I can’t help you.”

O’Donnell and Pellar didn’t know |

tion on whom we
an Indianapolis
bring them in and
The 16 men we
raiding squads ar
front of Mamal:
rookie shook his h
. “Let ’em go,” h
know these men
neither of them is

N, HAMMOND,

ceived a telegra:
partment about t)
matic. It had been
to the Pacific on
been lost during th
no way to trace it

The attempt to t:
also met with failu
ities informed Sing
whose name it hi
years before had d
wife had no recol
the weapon.

The clue of th
drivers, the guard’

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Patrolman Mamala, who had done
little else than look at criminals’ pic-
tures for days, hurried to Michigan
City and scrutinized the six photos.

“This is the guy!” he shouted, hold-
ing up a picture. “It’s the older of the
pair we're looking for!”

HE CRIMINAL was listed as Frank

Ray Badgley, 49, who had a police
record dating back to 1917. He had
been given a life sentence for the rob-
bery of a bank in Amboy, Ind., and
had been paroled two’years previously
after ‘serving 15 years of his term.

Badgley’s photo was shown to the
elderly tailor, who recognized him as
a man he had done business with. But
he had no idea where the man lived.

The picture was next exhibited to
the mechanic at the garage from which
the license plates found in the gun-
men’s car had been taken.

“That guy often bought gas at the
place where I work,” he said. “I’ve
seen him around the neighborhood, and
he must live somewhere nearby.”

There was nothing to do but assign
dozens of detectives to make a door-to-
door canvass in the Target Area, and a
grocer was finally located who knew
Badgley and said he lived with rela-
tives in the 1600 block on Ringold Ave-

_nue,

Just before midnight on January 27,
1947, a score of policemen led by Major
O’Neal and Captain Barton surrounded
the Ringold Avenue house. The occu-
pants seemed to be preparing for bed,
for several lights were extinguished in
downstairs rooms, and when a woman
came to the door to put out empty milk
bottles the policemen piled into the
home.

They found Badgley sound asleep in
an upstairs bedroom, a loaded revolver
within. his reach. Patrolman Mamala,
a member of the raiding party, woke
the man up. Badgley opened sleep-
fogged eyes to gaze into the muzzle of a
shotgun.

“Remember me?” Mamala demand-
ed. “I’m the cop you didn’t kill!”

While Badgley was hustled away to
a cell, detectives searched his room for

clues and found a small notebook in |

which was written an address in Whit-
ing, Ind.

Mamala nodded. “That’s only a short
walk from where the cab driver let off
the guy in shirt sleeves the night of the
killings,” he said.

The police in Hammond and Whiting
were notified, and a squad called at the
address given in the notebook. It
turned out to be the home of a relative
of Badgley by marriage. He admitted
that the ex-convict had been there the
night of the shooting, but declared he
had no idea Badgley was involved.

- Questioning other acquaintances of
Badgley in the vicinity, police learned

oe

that on January 12, the day after the
double slaying, Badgley had left for
Indianapolis with a stranger.

“Who was this fellow with Badgley?”
a detective asked.

“All I know is that Badgley called
him Bob,” the informant said. “T no-
ticed he had the initials R.O.B. on his
belt buckle.”

And that was all that could be
learned about the companion of Badg-
ley who was undoubtedly the younger
man who had done the actual killing.
Badgley himself was being grilled in

his Indianapolis cell but he merely »

sneered at his questioners.

Who was R.O.B., the man known
as Bob? The question was put to De-
tective Arthur Keller of the Dunes
Park post of the Indiana State Police,
an investigator known for his remark-
able memory.

“The first name’ must be Robert,”

Detective Keller mused. “Let’s see.’

Robert O. Something.” He pondered a
moment, then exclaimed, “Why, it must
be Robert O. Brown! He’s a gun-slinger
who beat, a murder rap in Michigan
City three years ago.”

A photograph of Brown was secured
from the Michigan City police. Mamala
who identified it as that of Badgley’s
companion, the younger man who had
killed Patrolman Cook and Gerka, then
remarked, “That’s what I call a neat
jo ”
Brown’s police record showed that
he had served time for petty larceny,
robbery and auto theft. In 1944 he had
been tried for the murder of Harry A.
Akchevoun, a Michigan City grocer,
but had been acquitted. His age was
given as 36.

Brown's photo was shown to the cab
driver who had taken a man with a
bloody shirt from Hammond to the
night club section of Calumet City on
the night of the killings. The cabbie

identified Brown immediately as his.

fare. .

With a double murder rap hanging
over him, Brown undoubtedly would
have gone into hiding. Where? All the

‘police knew was that he had been last

seen in Calumet City and had men-
tioned knowing a night club man there.
Detectives delved back into the rec-

ords seeking to learn who had called |

on Brown when he was being held in
jail for trial in the Akchevoun murder.
They learned that his most regular

visitor was a red-lipped, peroxide-.

blonde girl who gave her name as

-Marie Visconti and described herself

simply as “a friend.” But a checkup
disclosed that Marie was Brown’s
steady girl friend whom he dated
every chance he could get, and more-
over, she had given an address in Calu-
met City. If anyone knew where Bob
Brown had holed up, it ought to be
Marie Visconti.

An investigation revéaled that Marie
was a strip-tease dancer by profession,
and was now employed at a roadhouse
in a suburb south of Chicago.

0% THE NIGHT of January 29, Marie
Visconti stripped down to the legal
minimum—and maybe a little bit more
—on the stage at the night club while
several hundred male patrons roared
their approval and urged her to “Take
‘em all off!” Then, after the required
number of “bumps” and “grinds” done

to the tune of a’noisy band, she hurried

to her dressing room.

She was surprised to find a man
waiting for her at the door. He was a
detective, but he didn’t tell her that.
Posing as a buddy of Bob Brown, he
asked her help in finding him.

He told a good story out of the cor-
ner of his mouth. He said he had just
been released from the Illinois prison
at Stateville, and that a pal there “told
me I could get in touch with Brown
‘through you.” °

She was instantly suspicious. “How'd
you find me?” she demanded.

“No trouble at all,” he grinned. “I
checked with the booking agents, and
one of ’em told me you were working
here.”

Marie’s greasepainted face hardened.
“Get out!” she snapped. “I don’t want
any truck with jailbirds! Maybe I knew
Bob. Brown a long time ago, but I
haven’t seen him in :months.” . She
walked into ‘her dressing room and
slammed the door. :

The police had anticipated that the
hard-boiled strip-tease queen, un-
doubtedly warned by her hunted boy
friend, would give them a brush-off.
They had previously tapped the road-
“house’s telephone line, in the hope
-that the girl would warn Brown of the
inquiry. :

That was exactly what Marie Vis-
‘conti did, and detectives listened to her
conversation with Brown a few min-
“utes later.

“I’m pretty sure the guy was a dick,”
she told him.

“Nice work, babe!” Brown compli-
mented.

The call was traced to a garage and
filling station in Buffalo, Ind., a small
village 90 miles south of Hammond.
The following morting, Detective Kel-
ler and seven state troopers walked
into the place and surprised Brown as
he lay flat on his back underneath a
car he was repairing. The two loaded
revolvers on a nearby shelf did him
no good at all.

Insisting he was innocent, Brown
was taken to Hammond and put in a
cell. But Badgley, who meanwhile had
been escorted under guard from Indian-
apolis to Hammond, changed his tune
when he learned of Brown’s arrest.

He admitted his part in the double

nance cli . Se sR ST.

slaying, and
the actual :

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but by the
convict had
and refused
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and found a
on his head.

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Sexi Paves


A tender early photo of Nathaniel Bates with his daughters
before committing his “crime of passion.” After the axing, the
girls went to live with his wife’s mother. The axe handle is on

display at the Wayne County Historical Museum.

——H- EXECUTION OF

NATHANIEL S. BATES.

RICHMOND, INDIANA,
THurspvay, Auaust 26, 1886, at 12 M.

* NOT a ed

serupe of Wayne County.

The old jail yard is shown during the execution of Nathaniel
Bates of Hagerstown, the last hanging in Wayne County,
August 26, 1886. Bates was convicted of killing his wife at
their home.

Tickets to the Bates hanging

were issued to the press and
notables of Wayne County by
Sheriff lsaac Gormon.

In front of the police
station on North 5th
Street officials destroy
barrels of illicit mash,
probably during the
Prohibition era.



By ALICE JANE SMITH

Murder is murder, Cut and
dried,

To nose around in its heavy
moral overtones, go to thetrial
or to church — but not to the
newspapers,

Cold . blooded? Fiendish?.

Greed for gain?

You won’t read it in news.
print,

Confessions? They're for the
birds,

The early 20th century edi.

tors who flavored newspapers
with salty wisdom (or polson
ink in the next sentence) have
fallen victim to the times, too,

Witness the story of the only
execution ever to occur in Jef.
ferson County,

The day after Valentine’s Day
1936, The Madison Courier re. '
printed the story of the execu.
tion in 1878,

It had a flavor all its own,
“The murder was a deed

Jetrerson County’s Only

which finds few. parallel3 in
the annals of crime,’? The Cou.
rier commented, “The cold.
blooded, brutal and fiendish na.
ture of the act was a subject
of discussion throughout this
section of the state and the
country at large for many
months,’?

On Feb, 15, 1878, John W,
Beavers was hanged in the
Qourtyard for the murder of
John W, Sewell at old Liberty
Church on Noy, 3, 1877.

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“The design of the muxer F
greed for gain; the plan ¢ it |
the place chosen; the cow: L
fee of the deed and its blo’ ody
perpetration, each and all,+ were
revolting phases of the tnan’s
soulless, heartless depravity,”
according to the Evening Cou.
rier printed on the day that
Beavers was led to the seaf.
fold,

Beavers made his confession
to J, W, Benham, a guard at
the local jail, after Beavers

INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL. 5, 1969

'

Continued from page 1
partner were talking about mak.
ing a ‘raise,’ according to
his confession,

Sewell was a member of the
tirm of Daniell’s, Pease & Cos,
a real estate firm in Indianap.
olis,

Beavers had visited his of.

. fice with the excuse of buying

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a farm in southern Indiana,
Sewell referred him to one in
Ripley County,

Two weeks later, Sewell re.
ceived a letter from Beavers
asking to meet him at North
Vernon to make a trade, on
Nov, 1, They met and hired
a horse and buggy to drive
to Versailles,

Beavers agreed to take the
160-acre farm at $1,700, The
deed was filled out in the Ver.
sailles courthouse, but Beavers

* said his money was at home,

é

t

cy

They returned to North Vernon
‘to take the train to the home
of a relative named Holman,

His confession was filled with
‘intentions’? (never the best)
and folled attempts to murder
| the real estate man,

He continued;

“After I visited Sewell’s of.
' fice and learned that he owned
‘a plece of land in Ripley Coun.
¢ ty, this is the manner in which
H I intended to make the ratse:

er ee

To make Sewell believe I hac .
money, get the deed made, anc;
get possession of the deed by'

~ decoying him into the country’

and murdering him,’’

“Sewell had the deed made}
and we hired a rig, My inten.
tion was to murder him on th }
road back from Versailles tc,
North Vernon; but I had no gout‘
chance,’ he said,

“T had prepared myself with:
a piece of tron about 14 inches
long which I expected to use)
in (sposing of him, I had in F
tended to kill him as we got
on the train at North Vernon ,

t

Kecution Occurred In 1878;

as

then I intended to get ontr -

car and kill him as he got a :
the car and leave iim on ‘ls j
track, I intended to take 1 4
eripsack and board the tri ss
first, and as he came on tu
steps to strike him down with
a plece of tron, I failed there,
Several times later I intended
to kill him, but it was dark ,
and I could not get a gore
aim,??
“Several other ‘imes 1 wart
on the verge of striking him af

* fatal blow with the tron pipe’

but my plans failed to work}i

out that night, and
Liberty church,”’ f
“As there was some troudia

In that church among the mem.

then Ji:

thought of decoying him to New if

’

a

had been arrested and held as
a suspect,

John, Andy Crozie, a Cou.
rier reporter, wanted the ex.
clusiv@ scoop onthe confession,

He asked Richard Nugent,
the sheriff, to forbid other news.
papermen from entering the jail

\ while he was talkingto Beavers,
but the sheriff couldn’t prom. —

ise,

“I want to pray for him .—
you won’t let any of them in

s

t

ass

\

Jefferson County’s Only Execution

bers I thought I would com.
mit the murder there, set fire
to the house, and it would af.

te:wards be charged to other .

parties,’

The two trayeled to
church,

“DBeavers,’? said tho old man,
who sat down at the church
door, “I can’t go any further
tonigh:, Ihave. given out,”

Beavers offered to build a
fire in the stove inside so they
could rest until morning,

After finding a window open, .
Beavers called Sewell and help.
ed him an,

“He as very tired and im.
mediately laid down on a bench

the

‘and was, soon sound asleep,’’

Beavers jaid in his confession,

\ built a fire for the purpose .

while I’m praying, will you???
Crozier asked,

Crozier started praying for
the doomed man after he had
furnished the Courier with the
story, and prayed until it was
too late for the other news.
papermen to get the story,

, Some say he prayed for a
full day,

Execution day had the atmos.

sands tramped by the court.
yard and peered through the
fence around the gallows,

The fence was specially made
for the execution,

The doomed man sent for a
Judge Allison, who was asked
to pray for Beavers, Soul-stir.
ring hymns and prayers follow.
ed at 11 a.m, As the clock
struck, “The Dying Thief Re.

Vilaad

thy 1b?

Housetopé were Lined -
people; the courtyard was J
med with spectators,

As the clock struck twe
the trap was sprung and
body fell with a heavy tl
swinging around several tin

On the 13th minute, the «
tor reported no heart act
The man was pronounced de

“TI first conceived the {

phero of a circus, joiced, to See’ and “Over of murdering Sewell abou
By 11 a.m, Madison was There echoed over the court. year ago, as I and anot
swarming with humanity, Thou. house yard, Continued on page &
v Ny s wo ke ee ee ee ’ ig
y °
Pen aa
z =o Re eee Se og
“2 RECALLS BEAVER’S HANGING 4
4 —— e
ress z Papcr Found In Possession of Thomas!
Beavers heard tho heavy ® > Farrel Contains Accoun “4
breathing and knew the man & 2 AG af 8
was sabees “I got up and looke = Q Oy ‘ A copy of'the Madison Dalif Even-'
ed around for something to ze ry Star found in the effects of the’
kill him with, as I had left - om ate Thomas Farrell contains an ac-}
the plese of iri on tes bab } a ycount of the hanging of | John Ww.
side, I found a stick of wood @ Beavers which occurred in the local
about three feet long and about e r jail at noon on Feb. 15, 1878, The!
the size of my arm,” H 7) Paper is a small] five-column sheet!
“I walked about near the’ and fs marked “éxtra” and dated one
stove where the old man lay | + P. pane ;
on a bench, ard struck hima |} © Inside of the paper is all ad-|
fatal blow, He fell offthebench, + vertising and names long since gone’
his head falling near the stove, , ° : from over the doors of Madiscn busi<
I think I killed him tho first | mess houses are found there. Among
lick, but I hit him six or eight = [them are Stearns & Hill, who advere
licks more to make sure work 1 4 tise overcoats at reduced prices; By
of it,” 4 1S. Moffett & Sons; W.F, Bruning,
“I dragged the body of the jjAmerican Novelty Co.; Orr's; Linck!
dead man out and let him He © ;|& Bellamy; Henry H. Meyer, sign!
straight on his back, soIcould / {/Painter; Genter’s bakery: G, Wj

build a fire near the stove, I

. of concealing the crimn, and

, Why St did not burn is a mys.

Qs we. Be

tery to me, I missed it by
not dragging the body into the
pulpit and building the fire
there,” ‘ rie

Roane?

Cy

in

'| Smith, attorney;

W. V. Cleugh &

if Co.; Paul Braun, A. MeTyrey Jr., Ar-}
Sus D. Vanosdol; Thomas S.* Tones, )
j Henry Niesse at the Western hotel,

{and Robert R. Rea.

James H. Crozier,
and Robert Jackman
for treasurer in the October election
and Geonge
and Isaac B. Taylor and George W,
Smith are announced for. jtistice ‘of
the peace for Madison township ‘in

election.
: (+ Tae

the April
See

Charles Wood
are announced
Spangler

for trustee


monly dressed, and had the appli.
ance of a green farmer boy. For sév-
eral days he visited the sajoons and
dives of Mt. Vernon and showed a good
sized roll ef money, intimating that
it was moch larger than it really was.
He called at the store on Wednesday
of Rosenbaum Bros., of that place
and requested them to d t hie
money in their. safe, as he said he had
beeg robbed of $18. The money—

‘envelope and pa@ inthe safe. The
‘next day, however, He called for his
‘money, and that was the last that the
‘Rosenbaums saw of him, On Friday
a gentleman coming down the’ river
road, saw blood on some a stalks,
and eyidences‘of a scuffe. He
also noticed where the reeds had
been epmpled down and a path mado
through them leading to the riyér.
At the water’s edge he found a small
black neck tie, covered with blood.
‘These indications were reported to
the town officials, and the river drag-
ged that and ,on the following day,
but nothing was discovered, On Sun-
day evening, as Tobe Miller, a fisher-
infan. was putting. out-his lines, he dis-
‘edvered a body on thd shore;-that bad
evidently been washed there He
immediately notified the officials, and
when they arrived, the body was ree-
bgnized as thataf young Van Wye.
‘His throat was found to be.cut from
rto ear, completely severing the
ugular vein, his|h showing eyi-
ences of having; been struck with a
club. On Monday ‘a yonng fellow
amed Burt Campbell and . Snyder
nd Anderson, were arrested for the
crime, eameel was afterward ra-
Jeased as the acknowledgement of
them both that they had cothmitted
the crime alone, cleared him. eay
der afterward withdrew his plea of

guilty, and was tried, and notwith-
btanding so great was the feeling at
he time, was eloquently and ably de-
ended by Hof. Milt, Pearse and Mr.
. E. Owens; WUpon a verdict pf
guilty, Anderson also’ came in court
and pleaded guilty, nd the sentence
as then award them that has heen

fatally carried but today; _ . t |
«sal “

ae a Sno

$13—being counted, was placed in anJj

7


ANDERSON, John and SNYDER, Zach, whs,
Ae des ~ ~

1884

Indiana, on Jan. <5,

| THE DEATH DROP

Of John Anderson si Zarh Snyder
| <% é .

Cd

‘an Wye, near } t.

For. ee Brutal Mn A. James |
a” | . Last [August, |
| an

oo
!
|

eee ee ~ 4]

Mt, Verso, Jauuary 45,
trary to xpectation, Mt. V

unusually quiet |. today.
would be noticed put of the
daily ccurring events, exc pt for the
large’ number Strange
streets. No mora than 12 could be
admitted to the ec ecution,
ing but the morbid desire ¢
hanging can ace unt for
ence.! An yn and §

guard was called.| It cont;
eral minutes, after which | hie slept
soutdly,. Both | wera ¢

o'clock, and ate he rtly, . ‘Ihe Catho-
lic priest who had|been ; Ministering to |
them during their confinement was

Wheehurch, | ||

the Methodist ministers ]

deniad adit midiey Ie asked for
Asbury and H/E. Vil

hanged Mount Vernon,

death warrant een on con-

Anderson was shaved, aft r_ which
they joincd in singing led

During the scene the prisoners were
composed. Snyder | vous and

excited; he d.
crime and f ntly cried} Ander-

‘great: self con conversing
with | visitors
| This concluded,
cells and were
ministers and
made,

: very
composed; Snyder was emotional and

rayed aloud constantly. After bid-
cing the sheriff-and others -bye
the | trap was sprung at 11 #8. An-


the trap was sprung ‘at 11 g. An: get ran Wye ott on one

derson’s pulse | ceased beating at streets, and make some fe case i

11:598, and Snyder's at 19 o'clock. lea ng him. when hé would Giovdach
with bis cogt turned wrong |eidé jout

Snyder’t neck was broken, but Ander-| | |
won struggled and twitched for some and/rob him. This Anderson

moments. The@_ bodies were cut tiyely refused td do, aud thea it pee
down, put in coffins and co veyed to '} made up to rob him if they ¢p id a
Weisinger’s. untlertaking éstablish- Van Wye to gol in eeiciatne: get
ment, wher they fwere expo after the trib had-come « - ee }
lie gaze. _ Che) arrangem r,and the three eat on all of| the |
very complete. There was {| iver bank, Mncdar eh ve Wear |!
whi¢h Snyder bad cut, as hea! said to
murdered |boy, far .a| walking
elder and promater of the scheme. is
morp to blame than his comgade ive
today with him, | suffered the extreme

The Men and Their Crimes.

, The crime for which thi
suffered death,
heartless on record. It w
intention at first [to cgmmi

for which they today suffer the death. punishment of the law. If :

penalty, but their plains co Jd not be that! is said of Ahderson, he h is true
| consumaterl without the murder of of the worst bl in Bio in Power
the yictim. As will be seen by the county. It is skid that he on = bf
confessions, Snyder accuses Anderson of Hume Redménd, the sil ih i ep
of throwing away the murdered man’s er, who suff death at the 1 er
hat., Since, he has admitted, that he of an outraged people, and abe b ae
bat ey at from Anderson and| — |intolthe jail of |Vanderburgh o broke
threw it in| the cor field. | and) because they cond hh Py ace
This also corresponds with the stato- with bim su fully, killed hin ay
nent made by the latter, Anderson | the btrevts of Rennsville rath ny On
further says that their idea) at first that be shonld escape t ti ben
wasionly to rob |Van Wye,| but this Geance. | | en-

was|found to be| impracticable with- |:
out the other c

eof murder. An-
derson says thatthe night before |the

. . to Mount Vernon a young As
Webster county Rontrey. A Hee
, abont seventee "years “of vf ’ _

deed was committed he and Yan Wye
walked up the street and took a feat
‘nthe doorway of the First National
bank; that just revious to’ this Sny-
Aer had said tol Anderson {he must

ee

ya 6 A.RAe =e

-- 2 3 at he et at

HOCsina Mane@InG.

The Manging of twe murderers at
mt. Vernen, Ina.

Mr Vernon, Iad., January 25.
Anderson and Ssyder, the doomed
men, retired at 10 o'clock last night.
Daring the night Auderson's nose com-
menaced bleeding, became #0 serious
that the guard wae oailed. The bleeding
gontinved for several minutes, after wh:ch
he slept souldly. Bcth were called at 5
o'clock and oat 'a hearty breakfast. A
Cathelic priest who had been with them
was denied admiscion, they baving aeked
for Methodist ministers, J. W. Asbdry
end H. %. Walfeen. These gentlemen
wére sent for and prompt!y urrived, when
they conducted appropriate exercises. At
9:30 the death warrant was read and was
listened without emotion. At 10 o'clock
Anderson wasshaved. Singing was Jed
by Soyter, who also delivered a prayer,
‘asking divine merdy, and expressing con:
fidence that his sins were forgiven. Dar-
ing the soene : the prisoners were
vary < composed, . Snyder waa
nefvous awd excited, and talked freely

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to amend so. as to pay th

arshals. and

Teen
t was reported to
ten me H

o the Soy ecnine

; Pepa:
interest to give the names

{ Ano her: hemo

Lk dnoef Eevee Ae Rev, :

Bing well”
Ve ‘sinple- minded, -

Si the boy
‘idle fellow, but had 1
or Vicious: In fact, he

ACA NIAN Yer Ww
and. War twenty ‘one

1 years older than the
x | parents Were poor. ae

uring the late |
drinker and xe are
jobs about town, but
Via moth
rood
the reepect ot allow
was familiar

az kind-hearted and i

ae clates were, for the n

| ited ie oe nal

ia 0 ile tt AeA Slot. Al eA A A PMN BA ABE

a} the store of Ne Bry) merchants of he

6 talk vat Weper presented
drew the money, and soon

re the three then proceeding to-_
| gether to th \ spot selected for the murder. The

place chosen. waa on the bank of the river, about
a mile cant of town. :

eke eres Atiderson

‘form. of) lottery

enaes witht a 6 olerk oe in . Naw

: assented, but, as Byase sald in.
he must: me saint that me :

John. ‘Anderson wa

and was about thea

for several years a be
to be industrious.

| Vernon and are. res
| His father js) a 608
Sorking man. see

“Aveest. of ‘Gen
New Yorx. : dan.

: | cau, ex-mayor of I
the Police Court to di
| ing the lottery laws,

éral manager of the 4

| Com any, an incorpe

of which, as stated. a

| fund for the purchase

ment, and distributio
Bonds are issued mor
A portion of them are
‘| method of distributin
they arm declared t
dra
General, Macan ey Wi
nee for ¢ examinat

Oe ORK, Jan.
Church’ has > tendere

1} vault of the church,

ception of the remai:
Long and comrades

{their way from Rus

appointed a committ
ary honors for Jerom

ae | ‘Threatened
-Kraston, Ont., J
dulce are in da
topping trafic. . i
that unless he

to close down his ‘a
fairs peyes existed ix

-Fonp po Lac, Wi

| Cathedral burned to

SRE gaa” "AB Mi

RE Wee cael

vv

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lace i SiN AECTEEE ARORI eOg

Vas he expressed it, ‘to glory,”

; JANUARY 26, 1884—TWELVE PAGKS.

PRICE FIVE GE

BLACK CAPS AND THE NOOSE

OE

Execution of the Murderers of James

Van Weyer at Mt Vernon,

, cneaneuiaeael

‘Both the Criminals Satisfied as to Their Own

Salvation, but Very Anxions About the
Future of Their Victim.

ae

Mei Last Hours Passed in Singing
‘Aymns and Making Prayers,

nec oe ~_

| History of the Crime for Which-They Were

Hanged—One of the Most Atrocious
Deeds Ever Committed.

eI

“A DOURLE EXECUTION,
ee
Hangiog ae Kad ccna and Snyder for the
Murder of Van Weyer.
Epectal to the Indianapolis Journal,
Mr. Vernon, Ind., Jan, 25.—The execution of
-nderson and Snyder, the manlerera of James

| Van Woyer, took place promptly at 11:50 o'clock.

| Both retired at 10 o'clock last nights Snyder
H slept soundly, but at2 o'clock this morning An-

| derson’s nose commenced bleeding.
| tempted to stay the flow with a handkerchief,
j and afterwards with a sheet, taking it from his
p| bed.
| the guard, who promptly summonoda physician.
[| The bleeding continued’ Afteen minutes, and

He at-

His movements attracted the attention of

Andersen, at its conclusion, was greatly ox:
hausted, In reply te an inquiry he said he had

| been restless and fel unusual painain the face
| and head. After the flow éf blood had deen
| stopped he slept soundly, and said he was much re
| freahed. :
r} der

When awnkenad he called.
to know whether he was
and gavé him a. cheery good morning. His
cheerfulness, however, was aksumed, As he ac.
knowledged afterward to a friend who talked to

to Sny-
awake,

] him, and to whom he said he was very fearful of
| theend awaiting him.

He anid he felt. that his
sins had been forgiven, but wae oppressed with
the notion that, having killed a’ boy who was
possibly not prepared to meet his Maker, it was
not possible for himeelf and his associates to go,
although his kpir-
dual adviser assured him he had nothing. to
fear. ee
| Both were called, at the tr request, promptly at

‘So'clock, and ate hearty broakfasta. The Cath-
| olie
| presented himself, :
f} mission. The prisoners had asked for two
| | Methodist printators, J. W. Asbury and H. E.

been with
was denied

them
fd

who has
but

pricet

a fearful blow on the head from behind, which
felled him to the ground. He was unconscious
whon the youthful municrers jamped upon hie
prostrate form and bogan their bloody work.
Snyder beld the head of the victim while Ander
son satastride the body, and with a very dull
pocket knife cut his throat from car to car.
The first incision of the knife had the effect to
revive the victim, who in an in
stant realired his awful position.
Vainly he cried’ for mercy, piteously begging
the young butchers to spare hie lifa He
struggled desperately for an instant, with al-

‘most superhuman strength, to free himself, but

he was overmatched, and waa aoon rendered

powerless through the Joss of blood, which:

flowed in streams from the ghasdly gnah in his
throat, The work of murder almost accom:
plished, the young demons then turned their
attention to securing the money and any valu:
ablea to be found upon their victim's person.
In order to cover up the traces of their bloody
work, they dragged the body to the river, and,
before life was entimly extinet, threw itin, one
of them holding it with his foot beneath the
surface until the ‘last’ sign of, life had diaap-
peared. They then swam some distance from
the shore with the body between them, hoping
that the ewift current would carry it far beyond
the danger of discovery by anyone who had known
the deceased in life,
THE DISOOVERY OF THE CRIMRB.

They then returned to town by a circuitous
route. On the way they hid the knife used to
perform the horrible work, and also the hat of
the victim. On the following Saturday evi-
dences of a fearful struggle, in the shape of the

blood spota upon the weeds and ground,
were discovered — by & countryman
passing — along the road, Hurrying
on to Mount Vernon, he — reported

the circumstance and his suspicions, Soon large
numbers of persons had collected at the spot in-
dicated, and various theories, which ignored
murder, to aécount for the blood and the dis.
turbed condition of the earth were advanced, It
was the grneral opinion, however, that n great
crime had been committed, and searching parties
were immediately organized to scour the conn-
try in the neighborhood and to ‘drag the river.
The search was kept up until the following after
noon, when the body of the murdered Boy was
discovered, It was much swollen and discolored,
but was easily indentified,
The excitement among the citizens when thie
Saag became known was intense, and hundreds
t pe reons of both sexes and all ages visited the
sii ‘raking establisliiment to view the remaina,
Among the number were Anderson and Snyder,
neither of whom betraved the least emotion
while looking upon the form of their victim and
discussing with those about them the probable
motive of the crime, Both, however, from vari-
ous cipciimstances, were suspected, and on Mon:
day morning they were arrested and locked up.
Their arrest was xo spdden and unaxpected that
they had arranged no line of denial between
them, and ax they were confined In different por:
tions of the jail, it was an casy matter to obtain
aconfession. Snyder was-made to believe that
Anderson had ‘told everything,” charging the
crime upon him (Snyder), and vico versa, Each

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Ate PRS Pee

NATIONAL CAPITAL |

wo i

The Senate Finance Committ
Takes Action on the Curt

Schchcintad

-

And Agrees, by a Majority of One,
bly Report the Measure Intr
by Senator McPherson.

od

'

Views of Colored People of t!
on the Douglass Marri:

oer Rie re

Comparative Statements of Intern
—The Board of Trade Conver
Miscellaneous News,

ee epee IRI ma eet |

BANK CIRCUL, ATION

le

The Finance Conmmition Finalty
McPherson's Mensute,
Fpecial to the Indianapotie Journal
Wasittnaton, dan. 25.-—-It was) e
that the Senate finahe
could not come to anything like a an
cision regarding a bank bill, The
bill reported today was brought ont
mittee by a bare majority, the vot
to5. The affirmative vote was cast |
ocratic senators and by Senator She
it should be noted that some of the '
voted in the affirmative are not stra:

daya ago

to the McPherson. bill, and thy
favor of reporting — it began
were opposed to the other
eussed by the committee, fa

they desired to dispose of the nub jee
mittes, and bring it beforw the Se
delay. It should be said, however,
for some time been the opinion of Ny
observers and inquirers, both in and
greas, that the only plan for relievin
which is atall likely to pasa both
serston is that embodied in the Mel
But it is at present impossitde th
any certainty the outcome of the id
the Senate,
The MePherson bill provides Hie '
posit of the bonds required by liw) 4
association shall be entitled to me
Comptroller of the Currency circulaf
exceeding the amount of the a
bonds deposited, provided that atl
the total amount of notes issued tq
ceed the amount at such time wo tte

its capital stock. ¢
MIN tee
FRED,

et

DOUGLASS'S M A {

Po ound the enclosure was filled

, tim. and to whom he said he was very fearful of
 theend awaiting him. He «aidbe felt that his
} wins had been forgiven, but wae oppreased with
P the notion that. having killed a boy who. was
possibly not prepared to meet his Maker, it was
not possible for himeelf and his associates tu go,
| as he expressed it, ‘to glory,” although his spir-
“ual adviser aseured him he had nothing to
a. ty a
1 Both were called, at their request, promptly at
Soclock, and ate hearty breakfasta. The Cath-
ole priest who has been with them
preseuted himself, bat was denied ad
mission. The prisoners had asked for two
Methodist priuisters, J. W. Asbury and H. FE.
}, Wulsen, who promptly reeponded and remained
| in the jarkyome time. piu, apis?

‘At %Oo The death warrant was read, and lie:
tened to without emotion.
prisoners were shaved; both men then returned
| to their cells accompanied by their spiritual ad:
Visors,

At 11:30 the prisoners were taken from the
jail to « beard enclosure in the rear of the pris:
on A numberof invitations had been iseued,
The tien mounted
}} the scaffold with a firin tread) Revs. Asbury and
| Wulson accompanied them, ‘The former, at the

a . a * .
request of the prisoners. led in” singing
the hymn: ‘Phere ll +be no Sorrow there”
and the prisoners _deinted in, Snyder

F) Singing Inn loud voice. During the singing
3 Snyder's eyes were closed, but Anderson was
Fi restless; he looked about) him, recognizing ny
qnaintances, and showing his recognition by a
ight bow, He was much the more. composed

of the two. Snyder Jed in prayer, and @x-

fident he had made his peace with his Maker,
asked forjriveness, and said, he forgave the world
for what it had made of him During the prayer
tears came from his éves; his voice at times could
be heard two equares distance. Anderson also
followed in prayer; be was more composed, and
talked in a very low tone of voice, nany being
unable to understand mich that he eaid. After
another hymn and a dnrief prayer by Rev.
Wulsen, the black caps were adjusted, and at
exactly 1b the trap was sprung. Tho necks
of both men were broken, There wha not a
movement of Anderson's body after the trap was

sprung, and only a alicht twitching of Snyder's:

body. When the bodies were cut down they
b | were placed in coffins and taken to Weisinger’s
b-) undertaking establishment, where they were ex:
posed to public gaze. The details of the execu-
tion were intelligently arranged and admirably
carried ont, nota hitch occuring from first to

neem

‘ncannliiaa Nd Kat

HISTORY OF THE .CRIME,

mm om |

One of the Moat Oold-Blooded and Atrocions
‘ Peds Ever Committed,
Bpecial to the Indianapolia Journal.

Mount VernNoy, Jan. 25.—The crime for which
young Anderson and Snyder were hanged was
one of peculiar atrocity. On Friday, the 17th of
last August, they by appointment met their in-
tended victim, James Van Weyer, near a hominy
mill, at the eastern end of the wharf leading
from the Ohio nver to Water’ street, in Mount

rm Ts >

[a2 s...4 >. &. x. >...

At 10 o'clock the | : : Dns
were concealed, and, without hesitation, each

: ’ on the eoutrary, at first
pressed regret ut the crime} he said he was con-

but was easily identified.

The excitement among the citirens when’ thia
reaylt became known was intense, and hundreds
of persons of both sexes and all ages visited the
undertaking establishment to view the remains,
Among the number were Anderson and Suyder,
neither of whom betrayed the least emotion
while looking upon the form of their victim and
discussing with those about them the probable
motive of the crime Hoth, however, from var
ous circumstances, Were suspected, and on Mon
day morning they were arrested and locked up.
Their arrest was so sudden and unaxpected that
they had arranged no line of denial between
them, and as they were confined in different por
tions of the jail, it was an easy matter to obtain
a confession. Snyder was made to believe that
Anderson bad “told. everything,” charging the
crime upon him (Snyder). and vice versa Each
wishing to shield, himself, accused the other,
By thismeans theiy guilt was eatabliahed beyond
the shadow of a doubt. But, to inake assurance
doubly sure, they were taken separstely to the
places where the Knife and hat, respectively,

walked dircetly to where the damning evidences
of their guilt were hidden. ;

At the preliminary examination. which oc-
curred soon afterward, in the fawe of his confes-
sion, Anderson pleaded not guilty, on the ground
that he “did not do the tutting!™ On the follorw-
ing day, however, he withdrew this plea, and.
with Snyder, entered a plea of yuilty. They
were held without bail to await thetr trial at the
September term of the Cirenit Court. “At the
trial an acquittal was asked for on nb plea of in
sanity, but it was, of course, not entertained for
n second. The trial was brief. and the jury
womptly returned a verdet of guilty, and -ndice
Vo FO Parrett pronounced the  scutence of
death, and named to-day as the tine for the exe
ention. Executive clemency wae invoked in
vain.

From the day of the arrest Snyder was ap

couversations with those who. visited
sobbing and moaning like achild) Anderson,
Was very deflant, and
showed his indifference by dancing and singing
in his cell and making a clown of himself gener
ally. But he became more subdaed, as the time
for the execution approached, and) within the
past few days frequently expressed his regret at
the erime. Public sentiment from the first was
strongly against them, and lynehing was fre-
quently talked of. But the certainty that the
law would be allowed to take its course and that
the erime would be punished, spared Mount
Vernon the threatened disgrace,

Zacariah Snyder was born in Mt. Vernon, and
and was twenty-one years of age, being four
years older than the boy he helped to kill. His
parents were poor and illiterate, and his father
during the ‘late years of his life was a han
drinker and generally worthless He did odd
jobs about town, but nothing steadily and noth
ing well. His mother, who is still alive, is a
simple-minded, good natured woman, who has
the respect of all. who know her. ‘'Zack,” as
the bey was familiarly called, wns a shiftless,
idle tallow: but had never been regarded as mean
or Vielous: in fact, he was generally looked upon
as kind-hearted and inoffensive, though his asso-

the jail,

1 clates were, for the moat part, “Hard cases.”

John Anderson was also born! in Mt. Vernon
and was about the age of Van Wyer. He was
for several years a boot-black, anil was inclined
to be industrious His parente reside in Mt.
Vernon and are respectable, though illiterate.
His father is: a cooper by trade and is a hard
working man.

coed mo
Arrest of General Dan Macauley.

New Yorx, Jan. 25.—General | Danicl Ma-

eauley, ex-mayor of Indianapolis. was taken to.

the Police Court to-day on the charge of yiolat-

‘ing the lottery laws. He is president and gen-

eral manager of tha Mutual Union Improvement
Company, an incorporated concern, the objects
of which, as stated, are the accumulation of a

Be ie Ca eee ee a ae oe el Be es oe ye ON

sersion ia that embodied in the Mil
Rut it is at present impossille th
any certainty the outcome of the
the Senate.

The McPherson bit! provides that
posit of the bonds requinsd by hue!
association shall be entitded to recei
Comptroller of the Currency circulat:
exceeding the amount of the par
bonds deposited, provided that at 4
the total amount of notes issued tq 1
ceed the amount at such time weotuid

ita capital stock. $1
so Pesoye “ ean mt

FRED. DOUGLASS'S MAR
nN ‘

How the Alilance Ie Regarded 1
ored People of the Distr
Special to the Tndianapotie Journal

Wasrtsoton, Jan. 25.—The man
Dougliuss and the white lady wis
general to day
the papers

discussion
ovening

among

publish

fund for the purchase of real estate, ite improve-
ment and dlictrihbntion amone the rharcholders. |

{

ie red
{
}
|

Views: with’ a Ouunber = of it

on the marrige, from: :
pears that the allianee ts) various!

men

One colored man oxypresaes the opan
marriage iS diseraeeful, and al vil
the colored women of the district. ie
Donglass in efectsava no worn of
fit to be his

not surprised af Douglisk's selec tio

Wife, Ex Coturressiht

always helieved ina broad hianiantty

race distinetion. Rainey deex not

: effect of Douglass's marrige will wiih
pirently full of peniterice, frequently closing his |

his influence and leadership wilh
{

people. ‘
The groom ts sixty sixvand the »

three years of ages Mrs. Doughissif
very handsome und peculiarly white
member of the Woman
and has been a coutributorto Mrs W
livation known as the Alpha. The
place at the Congregational Charl
mony beinig performed by the Rev |
pastor of the Fifteenth street ecolb
There were but two witnesses pres:
Douglass's daughter, it ix said, did)
the affair at a date hour this afterh
diately after the wedding the 14
‘couple repaired to the groom's weal
Washington.
The young lady is quite attract)
heavy black curly hair, ft las lew
six months that Mr. Dajaielass Wis ¥
to her, frequently driving out aith
marriage was unexpected Ther}
this District forbidding intermant
races, but Mr. Douglass, after tak
view, resolved to brave the conseqt
eral kimilar marriages have aro
prosecution. Miss Pitts well
writer on woman eulfrage aud 1
After the wedding they drove te th
Mr. Douglass, at Anacosta. It ty
heretofore denounced miscegenat
mental to the welfare of the colore
BE By RR ek ER GS

INTERNAL REVENU

Ne Fh
‘Statements of the Receipts for

“and Past Fiscal Yean
FPS ae ae eee ee Pe me | TET Oe

Suffrage!

is


ARCHER,

Sam, white, hanged Shoals, Indiana, 7-9-1886 Pb. %. Box 84
“16, Indiana 47661
Januory LO, 198s
Mee ebb Bapy
Taw Library
Box 6295
University, Alabera 35486

Dear Mr. Rspy: Ra: Your letter of 1/4/1985

Samuel Archer was 28 years old (b. 1)-4-1857; d. 7-9-1886), wos unmarried,

and as [I understand it he lived with his parents. The femily lived in a rural
community and probably farmed on a small scale and possibly worked at whatever
work the community afforded at that tire.

Samuel's brother John, age 35; and father, Thomas, age 60, were hanged y. the
mob along with his father's brother, Martin Archer, age 45. The mod ang vw eal

hangings were the outcome of Samuel's brother, Mart ape 18, having been killed

by a cousin; and the murder of Samuel Bunch (unre lated) and the turning of state
evidence by John Lynch (unrelated) , members of the gane in addition to the Archers.
There were many crimes of theft in the community and neighboring towns attributed
to the gang composed of the archers and several other persens» «Also there were
many crimes committed which were balieved committed by other gengs on Archer credit

My parents who were living at the time of the disturbed conditions, bub not living
in the Archer community, said that at the time of the legal hanging of Sanue L
Archer, there was a sense of sympathy for him amorig many people, who felt he was
more or less a victim of circumstances; and in view of the mob hanging of his
father and brother there had been suffering enough and they would have approved a
a sentence short of death.

This I know to be true, that Samuel Archer wrote a letter, while awaiting his
exenution, defending his mother. He stated in effect that many rumors end stories
had been circulated that she too was involved in the orimes committed. He said

these stories were not true - that she was not involved, 1 saw the letter one
time. So far as 1 know it was never made public. Unfortunately, it has become
lost as many old papers do in the handling of estates. As there is no cvidsnae
of the letter ever having ex risted, plense do not include this information in your

azoount of the lerel lynehine, nor use my name as an informant in the “reher Story.
Quoting from the article in the Shoals News: "His (Samuel's) mother was Jane
Wolfingeton, whom old timers say was a fine women" "Nembers of the families of
the men hanged continued to live in the community until their deaths. They proved
over the years that they were uprieht and law-ab ding citinens and thev won the
respect and confidence of their neighbors and all had become their friends."

In my previous letter 1 said Sanuel Archer was spprehended and arrested in Fountain
County and was taken to St. Louis. In rereading the Shoals News article, I under-
stand that arrest was for another crime and he was returned to Martin County and
was free on bond made by his father. lt appears the last arrest was made in Orange
County (adjoining Martin) as he and a girl friend were about to enter a church.

The News article is somewhat confusing concerning these arrests and what followed
immediately after each. I have checked our Museum records, but we do not have
copies of the original 1486 newspsapers. if you wish copies of the 1964 papers, whi
includes pictures of tombstones and the Archer Tree, let me know.

$j Angpretys, : Lo py
Z CO Dee ln A Mben-
PS; I can understand the funding prob}ém. 1 published a penealogy in 1957 after
12 years of research. however,/1 funded it myself.

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“What would you do if you were on that
jury? What will the verdict be?”

The case resumed on’ December 28 for
summations by both sides. Prosecutor Mac-
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self-defense. “That is clutching at a straw,”
he told the jury. “It’s fantastic. It’s plain,
vn cold-blooded murder and nothing
else.” .

Referring to his eloquent opponent, Mac-
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a dead man all: through this trial. Frank
Upton is not on trial here. It was too much
trouble for Mrs. Upton to get a divorce.
Instead, she decided to kill her husband.
Her love turned to hate, and then: to

Gorman, he said, “took it upon his
shoulders to be -the Almighty’s . execu-
tioner.” Referring to the testimony about
the knife, MacLean said the threat to Mrs.
Upton from Upton’s knife had not been
proved “and the whole thing is just as
phony as the rest of her testimony.” .
“The defense,” he concluded, “has tried
her dead husband throughout the trial, pic-
turing him as the sadistic individual they
want you to believe he was. All crimes are
bad judgment. But murder is the worst
judgment of all. I ask you jurors to return

a first-degree verdict against Richard Gor- -

man and Josephine Upton.”

Attorney Benjamin Watson dramatically
pictured Mrs, Upton as “a woman in Pur-
gatory,” and defined the killing as “a simple
act of self-preservation and self-defense .. .
a clear case of justifiable homicide.” His
aide, Ray Conley, followed him with a
more graphic appeal. “Put yourself in her
place!” he pleaded. “How long could you
have stood to see your children heaten with
clenched fists, rubber hoses and thick sticks?
How- long- could- you- have- stood being
choked and beaten?” - ‘

“As a final appeal,, Watson uttered only
two sentences. “Frank Upton got what he
deserved. He had no place in the school
of human life.” — .

The case was now in the jury’s hands.
County Clerk C. Ross Hilliard arose and
shook a box containing the names of the 14
jurors. From this he selected two, the
names of Mrs. Irene Laxton and Mrs. Julia
E. Spaun, and motioned them to withdraw.
Their presence up to now, said the judge,
was a protection against sudden. illness of
some of the jury during trial, which would
require a retrial. With: six women and six
men remaining in the box, he began his
charge, defining. first-degree, second-degree
murder and manslaughter. He gave them
four possible verdicts; these three and not
guilty. ny

The jury withdrew. An hour or so later
they sent out for additional legal instruc-
tions about manslaughter and second-degree
murder. The judge thought the jury would
return presently, and ordered the defend-
ants and the attorneys to resume their
places.

“How do you feel, Richard?. How’s
your pulse?” asked a reporter. .

“Oh, fine,” grinned Richard. “I’m’ all
right. I was just going to sleep down there
in the cellblock when they told me to come
back here.”

After four hours and. 14 minutes the
jury returned.

“We find the defendants guilty—of first-
degree murder!” ;

There was high excitement. Reporters
dashed for telephones. Mrs. Upton began
to weep again. Her parents buried their
faces in handkerchiefs and sobbed. Richard
Gorman sat. quietly and expressionlessly.
The foreman of the jury, Floyd . Bartlett,
added a recommendation. for mercy.

This was a well-meaning, but futile, ges-
ture. Under Michigan law. a first-degree
murder verdict makes mandatory a - life

‘sentence. With a sigh, Judge Hayden re
manded the pair to jail again to await the -
unpleasant chore of consigning both of them _
to life imprisonment. :

One ‘of the. jurymen, next day, ‘told-a
reporter, “We had a terrible time. The six .
women on the jury demanded first-degree
murder right off the bat, and wouldn’t hear
anything else. We men tried our best to get
it cut down to manslaughter, but we got
nowhere. We would, have been there yet if-
we hadn’t given in.” °

Not noted by the press, unremembered
by the public, was a singular fact. Twenty
years earlier, almost to the very day, an-
other woman—a pathetic little bootlegger
trapped by questionable methods and prose-
cuted in unusual proceedings—stood before
a circuit court judge in Lansing. and heard
herself convicted as an habitual criminal
under a four-felony act which mandated
life imprisonment for’ her fourth sale of a
bottle of gin. She, a few years later, won
clemency from Michigan’s governor. Could
Josephine Upton look forward with hope?

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But my.

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“But,” persisted O’Donnell, grasping at
straws, “if you saw the coat, you'd recognize
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“If it was a fine, tailor-made suit, a $150
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“We'll get the coat for you anyhow.”

Detective Pellar telephoned Hammond
and a squad sped to Indianapolis with the
coat. The tailor squinted at it through
thick-lensed glasses.

“Cheap, cheap, cheap,”
grily.
See this skimpy shoulder padding!
crime, making clothes like this!”

“Pop, let’s get down to: brass tacks,”
“All we're after is the
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the tailor. “This is a transient neighbor-
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With the aid of local police, all Indianap-
olis’ laundries and cleaners’ shops were
visited,

“That Red Circle Area is still our best
bet as a hunting ground,” declared Pellar.
“After all the tailor, the garage and the
kid’s house that are Jinked to the killers are

he muttered an-

It’s a

_in the center of it.”

Indianapolis police began a check of their
records to list all known crooks in the Red
Circle Area. Stool pigeons were called upon
to provide the names of the section’s bad
characters: who were not registered at
headquarters.

About this time the War Department in-
formed Hammond police that it had found
it impossible to trace the killers’ .45-caliber
automatic. The weapon had been part of a
huge shipment sent to the Pacific during a
tense period of ‘the-war. Field records of
the distribution of the weapons to individ-
uals had been lost.

A discouraging report was also received
concerning the slayers’ .38-caliber revol-
ver. The Hammond business man who had
registered it with police 27 years before’ had
died in Florida in 1945. His widow, .a resi-
claimed she had no: knowl-
edge that her husband had ever possessed
a gun.

“Somewhere reer guns may have been
more recently registered,” insisted Captain
Singer stubbornly. “We'll keep checking—
with police, gunsmiths, sporting . goods
houses. We'll begin with Indiana and take
in every state in the union if necessary.”

IRCULARS describing the weapons were

sent to police departments and ‘sheriffs’
officers throughout Indiana. Accompanying
them were letters urging officials to make
it a point to see that each law-enforcement
agent under them ‘studied the message.

“If you know a suspicious character who .

ever had such a .38 or .45,” stated Captain
Singer, * ‘make sure he still possesses it.. If
he can’t produce it, he can be regarded as a
suspect in “the double murder.”

The names of 58 questionable characters
of the Red Circle Area were listed by the
police. Photographs of most of them were
on file and Patrolman Mamala_ viewed
them.

“Neither of our men is among them,” he

“Don’t lose hope,” said Pellar. “There
are 16 whose -mugs are not in the rogues’
gallery.” .

Brought in by raiding squads, the 16 men
were lined up for Mamala’s inspection.

- cally.

“Look how the buttons are sewed!

but no other mark was identified. -

“Turn them out,” he said wearily,
“We're still batting zero.”

Every avenue of investigation having -
brought them up against brick walls, De-

tectives Pellar and O’Donnell felt that it~
would be useless to remain in Indianapolis ’
They asked Captain Singer
whether . they might return to Hammond. °**
: ordered Singer emphati-*
“The killers came from Indianapolis,
. I'm sure. They’ll never return to Hammond’ -
of their own free will. If we ever score, it'll ©

any longer.

“No, stay: there,”

be in’ Indianapolis. Just keep plugging.”
Seeking a lead, Detectives Pellar and
O’Donnell visited the headquarters of the
Indiana State Police and talked to Major
Robert A. O’Neal; brilliant superintendent
of the hard- hitting” force.
As ‘the

Major O’Neal jotted down brief notes on a
scratch pad. This was a habit of long
standing with him. He saved such notes,
shoving them into the bottom drawer of his
desk.. When the drawer became full, he
would skim through the bits of. paper and
discard those that were no longer of value,
saving the ones he believed might prove
to ‘be useful. :

Every now and. then, Major O’Neal in-
terrupted to shoot questions at the Ham-
mond sleuths :

“Have you asked the Army about tracing
the .45?”

‘oa you look for fingerprints in that
ca

“Did you try to ‘find where the hedge
shears were purchased?”

Pellar reached the point in his recital
where he began telling of the’ fruitless efforts
to trace the .38 through firearms registra-
tions and gunsmiths. :

And right then, when the outlook seemed
blackest, came a break in the case—an
amazing, hard-to-believe development.

“That 38, was it a Smith &- Wesson?”
asked O'Neal.

“Yes,” nodded Pellar.

“Know its number ?”

Pellar_ grinned. “It’s engraved on my
brain—60351.”

Captain John Barton, chief of state de-
tectives, was present.

“We've checked our gun
file,” he said.’ “It’s not there.”

“But my file hasn’t been checked,” said
O'Neal, diving into his drawer of notes. “I
just remembered. ‘Some months ago I got
a phone call. A man wanted a permit to
carry a gun. I turned him down. But before
I did that, I took his name, the type of gun

registration

he owned—it was a Smith & Wesson 38—:

and its number. There’s. just a slender
chance, but . .. Ah, here it is.”

He spread a bit of paper on his desk,
glanced at it and then lifted his eyes to the
other police officials,

“You'd make a good poker player,”
commented Pellar. “From your expression
I can’t tell whether it’s yes or no.”

“It’s yes,” smiled O’Neal, shoving the
sheet of scrawled notes across the desk.

The others jumped up, leaned over it and
saw the number that was. written
there—60351.

The man who had telephoned Major

O’Neal to ask for a gun permit was ‘John
Sargent, a resident of Indianapolis, .

“Have a squad look him up,” O’Neal in-
structed Captain Barton..
to him.”

Within a half hour, Sargent was ‘ohana
into’ O’Neal’s: office. -

“Do you still have the revolver you
wanted a permit to carry?” asked the state
police superintendent.

“No,” answered Sargent,
Without a permit, it was of no use to me.
I’m in business, carry large amounts of

money sometimes. There’s always danger
of holdups. I wanted protection.”

“Let’s skip that,”

: Hammond detectives described
the course their investigation had_ taken,

“T want to talk.

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ughter’s bike—
's gone!”
adio to roving »
vyers might
2 bicycle.

were taking
| that the auto
, had been stolen
run battle from
here its owner,
‘ack Oaks, had
+ a movie.
turning to head-

al, expressed the

bloodstains had
ad inflicted with

me out,” he said, .
ws. I know one
om his Head like —

picked up at the
Sandor Singer,
lice chief, noted
x, dark overcoat,
1 sweater, a blue
te hunting cap, a

sion in a second-
oorted a puzzled
vas scattered all

mystery,” smiled
ts were wearing
he fight they lost
». time after time,
one of them, he’d-
« I was clutching

red a few minutes
nger, “they’d be
- bare skin. As it
‘1 running around
» this time of the

ohoned that he had. © 4

: bicycle abandonec
yntown section.
itched six detectives

= place of those gun-’

They stand out like
they’re inadequately
1 they be expected

\s, of course.

they may buy .some

Pees GD ss

Bee ac

the movie house near where the bike was
dumped; the darkness. of the theater

would be a perfect place to hide out for a -

few hours.”

The canvass of clothing stores produced
no results. ;

At the theater, a ticket collector recalled
that a bareheaded man, without either a
suit coat or overcoat, had come in off the
wintry street an hour before.

“{ thought nothing of it, though,” he
went on. “I assumed he worked in an
office or store nearby and didn’t -bother
to put on more clothes to run over here.”

“Point him out to wus,” requested a
detective eagerly.

“You're too late; he left 20 minutes.

ago—hurried out.”
_ An usher came up at this juncture and
recognized the police officers.

“You'll solve the theft of our
customer’s coats, I suppose,” he
remarked lightly.

“What coats?” the ticket taker
queried. “I haven’t heard a thing
about it.”

“That’s odd,” frowned the
usher. “I was attracted to a,rear
row a half hour ago by a dis-
turbance. A gent had accused
another man of trying to snatch
his overcoat, which was on the
seat between them.

“The first fellow, who was
weating only a vest, apologized.
He said he had mistaken the gar-
ment for his own. He had placed
his overcoat and_suit coat on a
seat, he claimed, and they were
missing. I told him to report the
matter to you.” °

“Well, he didn’t,” said the
ticket taker. “But I saw him
when he came in and he was
wearing only his vest. So the
coats-were not lifted here.”

The theater cashier also re-
membered the man. He had paid
for his admission with a ten-
dollar bill. She had not noticed
his departure.

His description—thin, balding
and about 45—fitted that of the
companion of the gunman who
had shot down the two police
officers.

FRANK BADGLEY— he cursed his
captors and refused to talk. But
he opened up after he learned that
his companion had been trapped.

clothing. And make an investigation at

“There was only one wise move for
him to make after leaving the theater—
hire a cab to take him to a safe place,”
said Captain Singer. “He ‘had enough
money—the change for ten dollars—to pay
his fare.” ©

Singer assigned a brace of. detectives
to check with taxi drivers.

As this was going on, state police were
enlisted in the hunt to follow other clues
which pointed in the direction of Indian-
apolis, the state capital, 150 miles to the
southeast.

These clues, left in the stolen car by the ©

slayers, included: ¢

i. An Indianapolis newspaper dated
January 7, 1947.
~ 2. A special policeman’s shield, No. 19,
of the type used by guards at the annual
state fair at Indianapolis.

: HUSKY PATROLMAN Rudy Mamala had seen plenty of
action in the Army, but never any more violent than
on the dark Hammond street, The courageous rookie
igs seen in civilian clothes reporting to his superiors.

3. A 1946 state auto tag with a low
serial number issued to an Indianapolis
resident.

yas MOTORIST was visited by inves-
tigators at midnight. His car, im: Bi
garage -behind his home, bore new 1947
plates. Its motor was cold; it plainly had
not been used that evening.

“I received my new plates a week ago,”
he related. “I had the attendant at a
garage where my car is serviced put them
on for me. I don’t know what he did with
the old ones.”

The attendant, routed from bed by the
manhunters, recalled tossing the old.
license plates onto a pile of scrap metal in
the garage. ,

“The pile’s between the men’s washroom

‘and the main door,” he went on. “Any

one of hundreds of persons who stopped
to buy gas could have picked them up.”

A burly state employe, listed as the
holder of State Fair Star No. 19, was
astounded to learn that it had been found
in the auto of a pair of killers.

“The badge is of a type no longer used,”
he explained. “We were issued new stars
and I gave the old one to my nephew not
more than ten days back.”

An investigator, his face brightening,

leaned forward.

“Describe your nephew,” he requested.

“Take it easy,” grinned the state em-
ploye. ‘“He’s clear—but wait; here comes
Jimmy now.”

A pajama-clad, sleepy-eyed, seven-year-
old boy, evidently aroused by the men’s
_ voices, came out of another room.

He saw the star and eagerly
reached for it. °

“Mine, mine,” he chanted hap-
pily.-“I looked all over for it.”

- He said that he had lost it in

after it was given to him. He
howled vigorously when the
sleuth started to depart without
returning it to him.

“It’s evidence in a murder
case,” explained the detective.
“I’m very sorry, bub.”

“It’s not; it’s mine,” sobbed the
boy.
Detective Sergeants Andrew
Pellar and Frank O’Donnell of
the Hammond force were dis-
patched to Indianapolis. They
read the disappointing reports on
the tracing. of the auto license
and the badge.

“How far apart are the garage
and the home of the lad who lost
the star?” asked O’Donnell.

“Three blocks,” replied an In-
dianapolis policeman.

“Pretty close,” mused O’Don-
nell, “That fact may be signifi-
cant.” ;

After getting a report from
O’Donnell and Pellar, Captain
Singer, in Hammond, ordered
them to make Indianapolis the
center of their investigation.

“Here’s how I got it figured
out,” he said over the telephone.
“The killers are Indianapolis
hoods who came to Hammond to
pull a job. They swiped that
auto here to use in their getaway.

They feared it would be re-

. ported missing and, that a radio message

would be put out on it. So they parked
in the dark on Cleveland Street to switch
license plates. Before they got a chance
to do it, though, Gerka and his squad
came along.”

Captain Singer said that he would at
once send O’Donnell and Pellar copies of
the laundry and cleaners’ marks on the
clothing picked up at the double murder
scene.

. “Try to trace them there,” he instructed.
“We're doing the same thing here, in
Calumet City, Gary and Whiting.”

Back in Hammond, a painstaking check
of cab drivers had been launched. Notices
describing the wanted men were mimeo-
graphed and (Continued on page 46)

the neighborhood a few days .

13


prea PITIEY UPthiC Clase ee Airy,
re his tinie, and when: Ke HOLA E “out
tend a dite

cut life) a Sy
aS Abont halfatier J2o'clock ites rout
a Wud Tarikey Miirny locked tip (he
prigoners aid, they took: Hit place at
the front Gf Bates cell ns ‘the death
wateh, Bated slept fairly well not %ae

toe Of his klumbee Tuesday night he
sud that he drenniedat ood” de:
ould n't rene mbep tlic dyoaniay a
Ttia ditieilt t Gouiprehend ” fit a
man who has only, adozen Hours tO live
ein He of such Pou chee realthough, he
ecms fully to. reilize iis Tatg. T

truth of he matter 4 Ts that Weis rere
i lysresigned? > He aay H he, is. fully
4 aie ‘dy and. that he expec fs s00rt to be
hi Neavens We says’ his folks’ were all
inclined lowitd thes Methodist” faith,
‘though he himself, had’ been. BO, Tiny:
au With: ‘Other matters that he never §
sany time to the consideration. rf

es

any

kpecinl faith "He Now” “Rays? that
he realized. while SAN “prison. that
“there was a *fature- and

Jife,”
in that if be expected éternal Vite le » could
/ouly get it through conversion, toe the
© doctrines of Christianity,
J ik sincere and feels Saved through: the
tostrumentality of: Father, MeMullen,
for whom he has the. kindest expres-
gious. He compla Litik a little of ‘the
“ne wspapér criticism on ‘hisstmanner of
Y salting his: brother, | who. Gamé Mon-
wag go day. to see him. He Simply said “ How
‘are you, Bill,” and shook. hands’ with
ep He says he wasn’ ‘t going © to fall
On his ncek. and. boo-boo, and says his
us “reason for not so doing was because
he “was no chump rea oe ae

Bates's ree eral th

vantth has been good,
' though, of course, his confinement has
es reduced him considerably. | When he
was first putin prison he weighed one
“hundred and_ninety-four, pounds; his

a Best weight is about one hundred
' and forty.” His ap reien has been good

~ allalong and_ he has slept refreshingly.
| He says he sees no reason why he
‘should not sleep as well his last night
on earth as at any other time. As he
was talking a kitten walked along the
“ corridor. Said he, “There’s a_ kit
_ that takes the cake. I used to have
Baits Bailother one, but I gave that to my
bam + little girl to take back with her to Hag-
ar _ erstown. By the way, did you see the-
j= .-sépictures of my little girls?” The. re-
_ porter replying that he had not, the
“prisoner produced several. In one of
them the father is’ sitting between his
little girls. Stella, the elder, aged six, is
leaning ‘lovingly towards her father
‘while her hand is resting on his arm.
Se pare aged four, does not, of course,
realize §) the © situation.” In — two
‘other “pictures Bates — is: citing
ass one a front view, the other
a. side ~ view.’ In ~ another
“the little girls are above, their faces
‘resting loving! y against ‘each other.
Of this picture Bates feels most proud,
and said with marked feeling as he
' looked at it, “Poor little darlings.” He
says the photographs are to be given to
his brother. When the reporter, being
tired of standing, said he would sit
- down on the iron railing, adding that

By:
Re
a

bo)

said: “{. ama ~-Democrat, too I
‘never voted anything but the Demo-
cratic ticket, and have done so ever
~ since I was nineteen. The, balance of

“expect I would n't be here if I had
been a Republican,” and he smiled en-
joyably at bis facetiousness. ©

4 “About o'clock, being Stivited toring,
he sang several touching songs. The
_ following verse of “Jim Fiske,” he sang
with muh feeling; :

tee

sore

well as he did the night be ford. Speak

Yeon |”

pave

‘Ve says he}

+ he was thoroughly democratic, Bates |

ithe family are all Republicans, and 1}

SUERUE F GOR MON

on ee
ata ae (be ad asap ie ter ony

berts. ‘and ee F athe + Me ated ter Y
wshort consultation: with Sherif Gor
nion they repaired tO Bate’s cell and
remained with him: until he Wits led
Pian. Papen tase

5 | ‘The ipeath Warrant.
State a Indiana, Wayne Co,, x8.

~The State of Indiana to the Sheriff of
W ayne County, greeting >

Bates. No. 5571 a ee
Be it ronterabered that’ on the 7th
day of May, 1886, the same being the
1ith judicial day of the April term,
1886, the Wayne Circuit~ Court,
jury ‘theretofore impaneled charged and
sworn in said cause to try, hear and de-
termine the issue joined between said

Nathaniel S. Bates, returned into open
court the following verdict’ to-wit:

We, the jury, find the defendant,
Nathaniel 8. eevee uilty of murder in
the first degree, as charged in’ the first
count. of Pidictmied and s assess ve
pu nishment at death.” (Signed)

; MENG A Bovauner,
» Foreman. —

Be i it farther membered that on the
11th day of May, 1886, the same being
the fourteenth wee day of segd pores
of said Court, ©

The said dsfendanteeia Rien i in
person and by counsel. ino nm coirt,
was informed by the Conrt of the_ver-
dict of the jury that had. en render-
ed as aforesaid, and being asked by the
Court whether he had an oe cause
to show why judgment alice d not be
Siononenad upon ‘him, said he had
nothing to-say. ©

Be it further roonibered that the
Court thereupon proceeded. to render
judgment ugainst said defendant upon
said verdict as follows, to-wit:

It is therefore considered and <de

Bates, the defendant in the above en?

Photographert by SAGs

ae aN

State of putas va. Nathaniel 'S.

the

State of Indiana and said defendant,.

qnesed by the Court thatsaid Nauhanied |:
titled cause, be taken ,by the Sheriff’ of

fear ey you Hake after I an gone, I
will come back and haunt you!’
~“Dryil a fear for me, ‘Mishter Bates.
O1y wont dhrink a drap whin I get
out, an’ if FE doos I will go #0 far away
you can’t tind me.”

The idea of Pat's bolrcetne that ho
could get away #0 far that. a  gzhost

TURNKEY MURRAY. _
(Photographed by Stigleman.)

wouldn't find him, appeared to Piece
Bates immense. ~

Alex. Charles, the darke wiic ‘was
putin a few days ago, made the ail
resound with his yells. He would com-
-mence in a low moan and end ina yell
that fairly shook the building. Poor
Charles is not suffering with elirium

tremens. He is undoubtedly insane.’
: “INDEED I WONT!” e

‘Bates came down out of the corridor

hs eave OF %

Be oe

EXECUTION -OF-

NATHANIEL S. BATES.

RICHMOND, INDIANA,

‘| firm voice, aud bl ue

= |to bes hanged” y

re Ee

fare,

presented bimwel:
rea ae ft i
spoke pleasay ie

Wad dreamed

him. He wore |

necktie, He wi

prone ‘rited a Kool

asked, hl fives mill

berd, how he wid
replie i “Aloutd
At afew minty

prisone r took fina)
mon, Mrs. Dorm
connected with tf
Also witl
about the jail. I
taking Bates did 1

least ex pression t

the jail,

aatie!:

ing him, Heclinc

7s

gether, | hough hi
moist, ue me } Be

=i

a]

The Prisoner Ww:

any assistance and 5

fold with a fearle:

At fiye minute ;
emn march aiarlede
cell in} the. follow
McMullen, Fath
Gormon, Bates, Def

DIED IN RIF TEEN

Alter ‘Bates had
he walked. with a
was going up to. vig
country instead of
and when he faced
with a) terrible net
he gared around hi
the last time a view
the beautiful sun-l
the center of the.
mon stepped for ;

dead, Bates’s limbe
an ague shake, and
swelled | in’ and | ‘0
symptoms. “were | - pe
those close. to him.
of the warrant She
to one side and Ba
Then i in a loud, el

‘cormmittiaa Al fate


the little girl

nod said (with mar
— todked at if, “Voor Ti
ays the pho

down on thé vous rn
he was. thoroughly.
(euidi= ©"E ant in

Says he: “T

Bee Ina

in
» = pretty bab

fee This ais
“them all.”
~~ s minded him of
seemed to be ve

“said: “When
‘and lived alo

the’

“Y= ‘came on hom

+ and Iam ready to gi
$4 pony any: but it is
4 a Bae

&

i

would have to pay
Crime with his.own
lutely resigned

as much composure
though he had done a I

if

on the morrow. |

‘He aid

x

_law came to live with ns,
-man. I didn’t earn much,

-the
a,"

nila 2h Ww, 2 tn
4 are above: t
“resting lovingly” ngainat- ep
OF this picture Ratoa foe

kad
ttle

oni

veup my life.” lam
is too late now,” °» #
tes made -up his mind from the
_ time the crime was committed peau!
penalty of his
i. He is abeo-

ent to bed with

a ntly as
Sata da lire
_' and expected to’ resume h

«
rng

she hands a
hter,’ who’ says
prettiest. flower
Bates said the little girl’ re- |/~
his dear little girls. “He
very much moved and
Kittie and I were married
née, before my ‘mother-in-
was a happ
but when
e and my little girls used
to. meet me
‘T used to take the little

Lait

oan

2m)

bath
heir: fae
“each othe

Id moat proud,
Jeohng aa he
darl a hes
foxraplis are tobe piven. to
his brother” When the reporter, being
tired of standing, shid <he Would ‘wit
itn,

accompanied him to his cell, which. is

decorated with all sdrts. ‘of pictures,

here is the prettiest of all,”
nting toa picture wherein an old
y_ is gathering flowers, and ufter hav-
g completed a bouquet
y to her daug

of

was a

“| fell

aia
er
4
a a

od as aforeanid, and boing naked by t
Court whethor he had ily legal cai

to show A judgmont whould noe
pronounced tpon
nothing lerany,”

jud

SA. Tate the
titled CUURE,

digt of the bury that tial been render

hit, anit he had

Be it further remembered that the
Court thereupon proceeded to render

he
er
ba

wouldn't find dam
Hato immense, :

Alex Charles, the darke
putin nw few dayd ago, made the jail
resound with hia yells, He would com:
monce jo alow moan and end ina
that faifly shook the buildin
Charles ia not suffering (with ¢
tremiona, Ble in undoubtodly IN AANG,

NTP.

Butos came down out

(Photog: aphed b

th day

“MOUNDEED 1 Wo
Pidind ‘

y Hligleman,)

» APpearod

de Mas

2 a a

t

‘ ?
Of the corridor

*. s
= gn, © qeearteatnmmontebiney:! Lichd ribs ats <n ate

there in close confinem

Atigust 26th, 1886, at twelve o’cloc

entuntil Thu
taken by eaid Sheriff to the scaffold and
hanged by the neck until he is dead.
And the Sheriff of this covauty is
charged with the execution of ‘this
judgment. Ve :

ed to execute said
Court on the 26th
at 12 o’cloc

judgment of said
day o August, 1886,
{nssn) in the manner.

: t dnid-of Fait PPE FID
hercinunder make,dpe return. ies
Witness my natnd dnd the seat er
|Court at the city of. Richmond, "gas
‘26th day A ae A. D.. 1864 §
Remi, 4 M,

. SCHLATER

ee s ih a pore %

: The condemned man
by Sherif Gormon. Th

day,
Cain} of said‘ddy, and that he be then

ou are therefore hereby command-

and.
ver Ft 3 e

1 Clerlactet

“ How are you feeli
~ “Oh, rather old fash
you feeling?” 5:
‘Finst rate. You mus
morrow.”
“T wont
“Tadeed
“Why,
bellow lik
“Indeed
do ”

ey

wl At 70
4;| Weisbrod, the South Fifth ‘9

#4 Mra. Gormon.”:
sor] edid, but the

, but you will.”

I.wont.” po
yes you will, Bates.
ea call.”

*

it. Just the

ore.

SHAVED FOR DEATH.
‘clock this ‘ mornin
t

.

ber, came to the Bot and shaved the un-

ee #:4 fortunate man, Bates requesting a nice,
“The rope ae mea] Clean shave, for it would be the last he
ity: twenty féet a4 would want. Hen ve him just
inch in diameter, ; |
‘chase it at Covin , .. THE LAST GOoD NIGHT. «23
& Schrader,who ny
pore for hanging Sri
be ng already tied.
the heriff was arrangin
on.a TELEGRAM reporte She steppe ta the grated doors
in Oekd eping bat: d’ said: | night, Mr. Bates. I
“prope would hold a ayeey. &j hope you will sleep well.” Bates was
without breaking. Wh. sf] sitting up in the corridar and at once
the rope straigh ed replied: “Thank ty

&

Yo MIB PouRRAL Arrimg,’ ©
abe suit

Alex)
1oned. How are

I gan}, now you gee if I
And. the prisoner walked
as if he meant
Bi sight of a

would say nothing m
about the hall, smoking a c

eB
a few ster
n he caught
Ms réperter, an
He walked
igar. ik

ayou..} Good nigh
“at waa’ not what he

tn’t weaken to-

«
oe

dou will

i

i:
gz Henry
Reet bak

Sep way he said ig, tht was po}:
; | touching and aflocting. bere esa!

es

ie Me
earn eS

to ploane

who waa

youl

E- Poor
clirtam

thee taut gente,

of “t

An ague shake, a

to one side And

There is hothi

acted like a lag
and kind to n
turnkey, has also
kind to me,and I
kindness, I

Hagerstown.” W)
and brought me }
risk of losing his’
that he brough

my confinement, .
repent.; Tam sor
crime, and I am g}
for the crime. “TH
and she was a g
woman. (4;

seatatas | The, suit (consist “ol a’ plein. bok
ial OE ag So aL te iwakehed ale ithe short-cut sack: coat
he Was] and 9 collartess ‘vest, and (At hia’ well

made form’ to" periection. le . wore

swelled in and fe
nyimploma wore p
thoad close to. hi e
of the warrant $ u

‘ fo ‘e
Thenjin a loud, ¢

few .words abouth: :

by the! time Ip

feo”

a.

=

: a OS aes | ticularly, Gent! By
c an Occasion to be t
eee 2 © oi fa E c ¥ TK ON 3 E Se wigs which fT conimitt 3,
“dongs gn at OS eae ie Romine Rem hA . Ot | Mareh last, and Ipe
ne songs: eae eee Sa page ea. ae ee, #
, Lae es 4 a 1ave done and hd
“Jini Fisk x NATHANIEL S. BATES. si
me = Piss) eben oe Oa Oe a ear forgive me for al
Pas RICHMOND, INDIANA, SR yeaa committed, [hoyh
or the i! es THurapbay, Auaust 26, I886, ar i2 mM. - -| county will haye di
a At the difference UH sho ari rt pe ee Bee ee : eR eL yrett little chi oa
Retwixt the rich and the poor, pe LE goo eat SP ANEFERAOL E x, treet rs te ba on ihe:
. tt > 2. oe eo ° ES ae aes els ; y bs \ ) ae
; pa antes EA ER Bence, 82 SG aomit One Reporter Richmond Telegram. — +6 ‘
ts aly ane plenty of stamps n hold up your = ss doe SEE ea OE NOT eae ee EES FG ih a Shee to be executed ar pee
reheni Pe NE ee ss pa BEN an ee: ee , Ch Sete ; ae
8 Walk out from your own ptison door. eee Sey o A. Gormon aig era I prepared myself
UR) Kae Sant AND. ha FF Uo Breawe or Wave County ~ that I did. is ~h “25
Auslletthe rich go, hut hang up the poor.! } ‘ si atrong in religionfae
| Bates smiled and looked at the ‘re- | ALR eT ee ee! There are a few}
77 porter, and anid i {That's pretty near — ee == =< like. to speak of.
aan Sr Nig ke 23 +” ott iy Re hr aa ‘ an MY Ae oa Nad Ba ena Ok * . : 33 cs ay
38 e 80, ain't it?” His voice istather a sweet | Are FACSIMILE OF TICKET TO THE EXECUTION, like'a gentleman Ee
©.) one, being a high tenor. - Pipe ei ase tH § ee BRE BEN Sea SS ties arate tiacstes, te te eee ee
+ Bates retired at 12:30. “He paid he Paste PEPECIs Seren ear as § oe : ee re ~~ | done everything is
wanted to have a good night's rest for Warne county, Indiana, tx Bia. yah ane} once last night and talked with Sheriff] me, ‘and his ws
«the business to-morrow. The reporter the county jailef faid county And kept | Gormon, een


~ ‘| beliove T have anything elao to eay.

* | finished, all on the scaflold arose, Bates
eS arising without assistance, or without
~)}@ tremor. He walked to each friend on
..| the deaffold'and ‘hednily shook them
_| by the hand with a good bye, God bless

4° He was then

lio, but Tam thankful tothem. I don’t

{At the conclusion of his ‘speech
Batos kneeled beside Father McMullen.
Behind and = tt hia nile
were Father

McMullen uttered prayer for hin sow

and asked that he be forgiven’ by his
enemies. When Father McMullen had

You. aes

on the trap,
or rathor he pped boldly on
the door ‘and eld his — hands
by his, side while Sheriff Gormon
pinioned him, making everything se-

view of

men of a man:

arm, thirty-two, and leg, thirty-one.

When | .
cap, but I gave it to a drunk and h
wore it away with him.” — ia

&

Mh a m iy

excellant piece of carpenter work, stron

lows ractl!
eighteen feet long. The trap, which is

uently very heavy. The lever is.

rob! iid eutenda ai about two fee

above the floor of the gallows. BR

» Around the wall of the jail yard is

placed a canvas two and a hall yards

wide, rey effectually shutting off the
@

o'clock and it consisted of roast veal,
At the time dinner was served he was:

employed im behalf of hie spiritual wel
fare. | pth, ares a!

amnnka nlaanan Hd Sl as

plain white shirt, With 0 collar, white
stockings and neat slippers. The suit
cost $25, Bates was a splendid speci-
His bust measure was
‘| thirty-eight inches; waist, twenty-one;

His hat that he wore about the jail
was an old one of Charley Murray’s,
and he said laughingly that it bad been

hotographed a good many times.
EWhee came in,” said he, “I had a |”

was erected by Fee and sons, and is an

d sabstantial. In. size it-is 10x12, % :
nine Feet froin thd floor and to the gal-j trap, which fell with a crash, and the
beam. The side pieces are exactly: body of Nathaniel 8, Batea shot

eultonet gnebe Seems ane oat +reaking his neck. “When the body

| fax4 feet, made of 2x6 stuff, and at shot downward it whirled rapidly five

execution from the adjoin-of the body, but not a struggle, not a
ing house-topa. ~~ 5 Hah
eee ooh 3 ike pet

ue abe or Sueeet F Fe ree (Laudience. Pte a pe Se ea
BASES tae The Execution. oe st ot Pe At 12:23 the ae es
~ Dinner’ waa sérved for Bates at 11! Wi pe ee BODY FELL

potatoes, pie, bread and butter, cup of iby Dr. Hibberd, were as follows :

coffee, watermelon and. peaches. He; Ast peal, nA times .76
however, did not eat any dinner, tell-'j;
ing the guard to give it to the boys.\},

Bie ; ‘ ; 4
with his spirtual advisers ‘and did nos
want to Jose any time that might be:

At twenty-five minutes of 12 Bates’
presented himself on the corridor and |

cure. The rope was then placed about
his neck by Sheriff Gormon, the knot
coming just behind the left ear. When
this was completed Turnkey Murray
placed the black cap over the doomed
man’s head, and as the cloth hid the
face from the crowd, Bates said in a
loud, clear voice: “Good ‘bye to all of
you, dear friende. God bless you all.”

|, Father Seiberts and Father Mc-
Mullen bowed their - heads in
prayer. Sheriff Gormon stepped
back to the northwest corner of _the
scaffold, placed his hand upon the lever,
and with one quick jerk sprung the

qdownward five feet, the! jerk

times entirely around. Dr. Hibberd
if aught him on one side and Dr. Dwig-
'gins on the other.” The death must
Phave been painlesa, but there was a
Guivering of the limbs and a trembling

}mishap to further startle the horrified

Sad the record of the pulsations taken

4 Jeeta ee ay eg ee 182
“3% 126

pa 124
oa 110

th minute, Sg Pe Beam _88
/} no longer perceptible. =. 2)

|  Bieberts, — Bheriff
| | Gormon and Turnkey Murray. Fathor

{short time Officer Willis Carter appear-

| quests be given to his brother, and sent

+

ment of death stood the phygicians and
reporters, tise BP. Reis
Joputy Sheriff Dormer had chargo of
the entrance to the Sherift’s residence
through which the reporters, jurors and
Witnesses pansod. Wall was very_kind
and accommodating, and saw that no
one not entitled to do no entered.
Hf. R. Downing and Son. had charge
of all matters relating to the funeral
and disposition of the remaing.
Bailiff Charley Benner chi »ped off
piege from the lower part of the scaffold
yesterday, and from the splinter made,
with a common pocket-knife, two
chains, each attached to an’ imitation
basket containing a ball.” It was a good
“piece of whitling” and quite artistic in
‘ita way. 2 Pa echie
~ About 12 o'clock last night the sound
of a'police whistle was heard, and in a

ed and had quite a little talk with
Bates. The prisoner- Appeared rently
pleased at the call, and said he was feel-
ing about as well as he ever did in his
life, but felt awful sorry that he had
committed such a crime as he had, bt
was ready to goif it had to be: ~
Every person who entered the yard
was obliged to have a-ticket ére he
could the guards. This ticket was
prin by J. M. Coe, on plain white
card board. A facsimile appears in an-
other column. ;
George W. Stigleman, jr. has taken
photographs of Bates ail his children
in different posRions, and these he re-

to his friends‘and family out Weat.

Suigleman, however. ©. ys ts)!
Yn many occasions the rope that
hangs a man is eagerly seized by curi-
osity hunters, who hold on to the bits to
remember the event. One man at
Muncie has a watch chain made from a
hangman's rope. Sheriff Gormon will
have no dividing of the rope. It ree
mains as part of the furniture of the
Sheriff's office, era ask
Chief iff, on invitation of. Sheriff
Gormon, with the entire police force,
acted as guards. Two of. the officers
were at the inside gate, two at the outer
rosidence, and two at the entrance to
the yard on the north side. The rest
of the policemen were walking among
the crowd. <?#'Siy aa Pee ee

*. About 11 0’clock last night the report
was current that Judge Bickle had _re-
turned from Indianapolis and had
brqught back the news that the con-
demned man’s sentence had been com-
muted, and that a meeting of the mem-
bers of the Friends’ Society was bein
held. A TELEGRAM reporter called at
andes Bickle’s residence and aroused
the Judge and told him his errand.
Mr. Bickle said that he knew nothing
of it and that he had brought no news
of that kind. The reporter apoligized
and left. The Judge went to Cincin-
nati this morning on the earliest train
to escape importunities, 9 8
W. F. Bates said that of the two men
he was decidedly the most nervous, but

{

he.didn’t think he would break’ down;
and he was sure that Still would ‘not;
for he didn’t: believe. that he realized
what was going on.)In° regard to the

TELEGRAM: THURSDAY, AUGUST..26. 1886, _

‘}) us and I thank them: They belonged
| to a different church, but am a Catho-

Copies of these will be retained. by Mr. |/

gate, two at the entrance to the sheriff's | 7

j

& | red on what ig
*bridge farm, :

'David Nolan, John}

Tig ees S. a

ee

THAT HAVE OCCU
~~ COU

A MUCH LONGER!
THAN ONE we

4

The execution to
one to occur in Ws
1822, and the third ¢
Criminal history; the
for the first two m
within her confines.
The firet murder
Henry Crist in the :
in-law, James Chemnt |
treated his wife. i.

pe

fall of 1815, in Washi.
Crist first went at (im
butcher knife, and
bed a rifle and shot

Pee

oe
ES

Salisbury, the first cop
‘between Richmond ab
April Ist, ‘1816. A: #5
out from under him
hanging to a tree. =
! The chief witnesse
& neighbor woman
wife, daughte? and 2
latter was called to

years of age, pulled thi
a sled, teil aniles thrips
alone at night. -He P= 3
months, yet the’ bill a
$115.10. The sheriff
was John Turner. %)

The judges were
man, circuit judge,
Flemming and Dani ‘
ate judges. The ju ‘OBS ts

Convicted Crist werd! a

terson, Caleb Harvey, f=
Clawson, John’ Smale
Lewis Hozier, Michkegr
den Ashley, % . |!
The second murder
by Hampshire Pitts ifs

nowh,
t foe =
Richmond, on the?
1822. Pitta suspected#
with a woman with wi
tensibly as his wife, a
stabbed hiny to the bh
change of a few words:
victed in November! of
hanged the 6th day’
month on the site of i
in | Centreville, imme
where the jail. stood
seat was removed
cart was drawn out f

bi
i

At the end of the tenth minute Dr.

children of the’ condemned man, their

and he was left hangig =

fata Thats wave Pui 2


BAe Lo ROR VOU: dor ale atts SSS RODE VELL
ee ANAS Li ANAND AHO EV L

TF o'vloek and it con tof Toant veal,

‘ Polatoou, pid, broad and butter, cup of

3s e Wi se Oe ORT ke
cotloo, watéermalon nud peaches, Ilo,
Ms + < ea in x, ¥ f

however, hd not oat any dinner, tell

ing the gunn to pive it to the boyn,
Mr, and turin Cas is 3 Y att of TMD, Ge | ,
giao ae a At the time diunor waa mOrVOd he wr

With Did apirtual advisor, and did not
: eat HO TE BAR CAE RE a RR as

Want to je ae AY: time “that” might he

half of hot wpiritaal wel: saan aegiae

io hae [and HOATCE
; Mth minute,
94 no longer pore Sea
At the end 6f the tenth aminute Dr,
Hibberd examined the heart and
that a blight fluttorin
until Hfteen
when bo wat pr MOUNCOd ai

recognized,

Presented himsoll on. the
Kpoke ploasy

Wan dremel

& was perceptible
Minter,

When dead, Sheriff CGormon
body” down and daid it in tl
placed in the ya
looked life-like
black and blue nh
it wan. placed 4
and. the people —
view the remaina They will be kept
in the jail, 30 that those who wish may/] who
m, until to-morrow morning, | W. F. Bates walkod from the jail with
a°y"8 | win a HB co aoa tty cas an pone.

tre ! leave of hig brother, fearing that the
~ Ag 800n as the body was Pronounced | parting would cause him to break down,
dead the following persons signed the | 40d for that hoeon Went away without
wh si 19 gence saying good- rye, Bae :

Mem accordance with the _. Bates wrote two letters at 11 o'clock.
ih Allen, Chas. One to Mrs. Jessie Btevenson at Corn-
ill_Trindfe, Nathan Lamar, ing, Iowa, which he ended. with “May
George H. Smith, Thos, | the Lord bless you,

G. Vaughan, J. Lee Yar. | beaven. God bleas ‘you. From your

16 collin

id natural, BAVO @
k around the throat,
1 the jail yard

when they will be taken to St. M

will hold religious services.

death syarrat
>| law: Allan D. Bond, John
wy oS Al Sinex” W
g without

Pp the scaf-

Major Finney,
Judd, Edward

fold with a fearless step. = ©
At five minutes past. twelve the “sol
emn march started from the ‘prisoner's
cell in the following ,
McMullen, Father" Seiberts,: Sheriff
Gormon, Bates, Deputy Chas, Murray. e

ere in the jail yard about one
and fifty people.

the railing in front of the gallow
the (twelve witnesses who
the death warrant
undertakers, H. R, Downing & So
ed by Oliver Davis, of Willia
The physicians who witnessed
rs. Colburn, Wil

“order: Father} _
pa hundred |

8 were

: Ta RE TS vec Re ea SS Fh , fee
DIED_IN FIFTEEN AND A HALF MINUTES, » the reporters, the

_ Alter Bates had ascended the scaffold
he walked with a firm step, as if he.
was going up to view the Surrounding.
|| country instead of geing to his death”
| and when he faced t
with a terrible ner
he gated around him’
the last time a view of
the beautiful sun-light
the center of the scaffold Sheriff Gor."
ed forward and in a clear,’
firm voice, audible all over the place, :
sadly solemn in its sounds, he read the’
“which is printed ip)
Bates listened ats,

word, | coughing)
twice spitting cf

cution were D liamson,
he crowd he stood

Once or twice |
ag if taking for
the clear sky a di)
. After reaching’

Pree Card.
ed representatives
press, desire thus

We, the un
of the Ric

hmond city
to thank Sher

mon stepped us in alfowin

audience wi
that he had
disagreeable

death . warrant,
another column.
tentively to every
once or twice and
When Gormon reach

W.
‘=T. C. Coprma

Ping Wir Act tg: Be
ge P. Early
mercial- Gazette,

+ Sheriff Gormon
man with’ the iron
“Whenever Bates
‘i dren, he showed the

The tAllira’ Ma le

“only td) ke of his chil-

rant Sheriff Gormon ‘etep

‘ak Pee mK Lhe

tha Jrvdyes and. told

Uke Mr. Hickla anid that he kine
4129) of itand that ho had brought no news
<7 126) Of that kind: The reporter apolivized

peg] and left. The Judye weit to Cincin

fio] M84 thin morning On the. carlies
s te ORCA IM: tm portunities,

102 WF. Bates waif that of the
36 Phe wan decidedly the
: he didwt think he would break down,
oy] @ od he was sure that Bull would not:

: for he didn’t believe that he realized

what was poiny on.

with them. Mrs.

and would then tell
ton would be made

cut the | thing was sure, he would seé that they
were well taken care of, During the:
rd, and asthe featured altfort time the reporter was talking to
mrt oa him Mr. Bates was very nervous, speak-
ing in «low tremulous voice, and when
he was told by the-re
to his inquiry that. it
“to | Ulex passext 11 o'clock; he turne paler
and walked out of the room. Mr. Bates is
an Object of Sympathy with every one
saw him. © At half-past eleven

friend, N. 8. Bates.

hlater 48! The other is to Mra. W. E. Unthank at
eat Council Blufis, and ends: “Well, good
bye. May the Lord save you. Tam
happy and willing: to die.”. Good bye
for the last time on this earth. From
your friend, N. 8. Bates.” ie
Sheriff Gorman believes in repayin
signed | €vil with Gite When’ he captured
1orse thief, Court Corwin,
3 the marshal of Eaton,
n,essist- | thief from the Sheriff
msburg. | home. This morni
the exe- | 2pplied for a ticket
yn, | Promptly gave him one. aE eA
a if A strong, pressure was made to ive
&gins and Hib- the prisoner respited for thirty days on
tet seer | the grounds that one of the jurors said
after the trial that when he read the
he Rane
mind that if he got onto the jury Bates

Inside

Moore, the

newspaper accounts

would have to hang.

>

porter about.the base
e believed he would

hold, A TKLEGQKAM re
74 | Judge Bicklo's tonide

Children of the condemned mun, their
anid | Unele aaid that the Matter was in the
hands Of Mrs. Hoove
he didn’t know wha

~~ | would write to him when he yot home
him what dis posi-

May we meet in

ng when Corwin

t Police at Xenia,
iff Gormon for who has been an oflicer of the law there
mpartial courtesy to | as constable, deputy sheriff, | marshal
entrance to the jail and | and policeman for twetity; years: John
x, Marshal of New. Paria: Marshal
Corwin, of Eaton: Dan Peters, sheriff of
but yetcan | Preble county, and George Cain, sheriff
performed it | of Henry county, were in attendance.

ent manner. | ‘Tom Hoover, brother of the murder-
éd woman, inquired o

Harner, Chief 0

f a TELEGRAM re-
ball game, sayin
put in the rest
the day there, after’ the execution,
which he said he would witness,” eer
POE SS Bee Bite beating of a hese eal ie the
‘the Com. | eve of the execition, bya sma y in
re for. the | & Wagon, on the sides of mbloh mere
muslin sigas advertising the game ©
maybe called ne base ball at the Henley park this &fter-
noon, sounded to one whose mind was
filled with thoughts of the awhil flan.

UES HOWs thabect by seis
dm ned ninn’s wonton

; é : fae Diuted, and that a me
and the record of the pulaations taken | bern of the Friends’ Bocie

hy Dr, Hibberd, were as follawa:
lat taints,” ;

60 had been com-
Witingof the mony.
ty warn being
porter callod at
noe and aroused
him hin errand.
W nothing

t train

two men
most nervous, bat

In reyard to the

r at present, and
tL would be done
Hoover said he

of them, but. one

porter in answer
was twenty min-

God_ bless” you.”

tried to take ‘the
while on the way

heriff Gorman

eii<
have

Cart wus
and he wa

Of expense
who execu
The same
able ream)

Jones, | Eni
Lewis Ho:
Jessup, Jol
eph Hende

doctors for #
one Christ
ent with 2
& wagon, aie
Roddy tri
over night 4
seven miles

teacher nan
near Foun

on his farmi,
New Garder
big meeting

day,- and thd "i

ing between
man’s wife, ab
he would do #
ned him, af

rested On suspe

4 conviction’
» The third |

Richmond.
ful young

about to sus
she went to th of
in-law, David Tp)
received the at)
Kehm, whose

Methodist pref

Nordyke’s cali, §
ington, who ow!


opereeent 4b_ cao against such and ihey werehang | om fl
+, thas thire, were none, | Bat | 8nd the ‘Milowis} ty

ieee when there ate it can obi 6 ecute thelf eet
» Whas ott ed fo them, tot opherg: trom :

Ls  gommi{ttin g them in the futare and

Be
: oa

alc

‘f
—
18
:

>| far sain Leena Pome cant fonarg ft own | hour” meramveke a oe
| hafety, ae ee phe | calling sor w "I ihe
Yicck goo SE 1s | V eevarad tate, he
fi ak STATE NEWS. Ad ‘| One of these,

| Bolimon Rosnig, one of Lalayette’s waalthe } did not go tot
"Heit ebtzens, died reeraeye his 78th birth-
'. day,

| ‘gloves were
i 4. M. Cower, a teacher In. the Wiochester Boy lies, of Ro SA yard Meer
blic ecliogle, attempted to chastive * paplt |.

esterday, when some of the larger scholars |.
 finterfered: with maby and clubs, The boys |
* were expelled by Be uperintendent Butler god. Dight Merrick a
‘were immediately reinstated by the school | ‘one cell with:
board.. Cower bas resigaed his position’ as |
'Aeacher alu Batler as ' maperigtendent of the | Moning, to -

es tempts at, self ‘deateuc
oN! ays that then pr nre. ‘ off of news-, hk

Paper men generally.” We rays ve tice will
., Come when truth wilt p prevail | tions Father Bessoni

“iaod prejudice be one Of the thi osthst ere. which time he b
_\Philgsophy will prevail, aod J. N. ei short. | to his Jate. Ac

yy be vindicated. J..N, speaks st Thorntown JAigious adviser,
‘en the 1tb, Lebanon the 17th; and Zionsville |:

; Cor
Achey {)Merri -

‘ the 28th,» : Jn tie caart pene at Labanos a ha ., i P aon: walke _fb¢ 7 Ui me, an
years o ted the vet ow frien Jobin {nde. <7 et) NGG ra ‘ nen w ae

if ea; he thourands now. J N, is clos" | Jailor Richard (Brian ‘as ¥ §

oe is-on # world. “He yan

yb H seal i i a o’ ho |
Yindicate | mony taking place In tl : bom jofitl| Merrick
te Ha is hi: Ideal, wt dag ! | Frick

Rye his Deputy Shenff Reynold © West, Merrick next,

Po, CD her
a. of the ‘jai, Mprrick’ pe and then Fat
9 George Sheets, 0 ineat citized 9d affected, ae said| nothing with | . uartion
owner of Bhoa rose financial div: ‘Yesterday the ek telediiz The)
ee ty-nome oaths age ings hes his father’s ‘upon. Merrick ci @-scene to fol- |
: Deme without ‘pathority several notes. | \one exar tl of observation.

 Hewas indicted for-fo rgery, Pak believed his |

asstesersco

Ly £F¥ 100 anxious- 4
“father would not devas ein ) When rd,” at tho” gallows, teh,
“hq-went to the vrak room day he’ persistiog | ppe, aa the noose | - 'ebe
fond hig father th¢re: * Thi pom as poste 4 alive, & gos, Of the

Wilh nati] afternoon, an in Bee
bite rivery'on the rallr ga’ bit ¥2 Both
home, Bheets placed bis hakdshto his ld

not atall s0-math
+ head, and with the \exclams pred, hie my ay

te rt, tGare shaved, but:

, Head” Jubiped off and was Merrick semed sehr’

a
aah 4 Chriptianey Nominated, . Te merle ‘alte
' ‘ Wasmneree January 29,-—-The resident ‘Balan
.', hha nosainated Isaac P, Christlancy, of Mich-

+ Sheriff Paws
an, . ¢nvo f Hol @ ng began the readin of
RA dpe extrao paery and: w. Ded store! it him! M hi (not! Ibet da pred) imp a a siding of
: sarthal of the’ aie ang WY. nd-'} ouincs of flesh "dan mead | codfthemebt | hk) reading.” pied four - min-
mid a Ctof Indigna, © while Athey, Di the” entire
“Re. “wire. ‘at Durmingham, Rugidaa. | first put inthe jalf, pay |

ife)
J

Ro Pe no aftention
LAs he put on sh nor Te of

og. Het)
On 8 | said, with a choke in i beiidd
o'} his jocular words: “We kb. a rp |
tpectable- a p tT

Aap dL bel

a

WY thal,

ly Gaile

fein


ILIS, WE

dtiraby Witthe e|
ke theinewd, that!
ito Athey Rt the

Alps: | |
a Chief Trav{s,
‘hty mon, armed
eld muskets, the |
at-general of the |.
is farce was com-
6. regular poli¢e
policemén, and
the deputy sher-:
gil yard, the po- |
each man with
8 and with |
: crowd witbaut
retchtd on the |
y feet: from the |
and south sides ||
fifty feet. ‘Four |
arding, Charlés |
t and Joseph |
vf the scaffold.

slds and Juaildr
: scaffold assist-

\

AND GALLOWS, |

of pine oxcest |
‘he platform is }:
» four by! nine |
two large ‘iron
the rope’ are
| screwa, js 16 |)
hickness. From |
is 8 and h half
to the bedm a
| of four feet
ited for thp
Chie ‘will let the
hang to within
> ground. Thp ||
is three-eighths
no strands of |
g for the dread,
stened. ||
‘RS, : ” cy
and Tevis en-
jafl office with
2y8, Mr. Feibel¢ |:
them. ‘In ans-
‘eibleman as. td
wored, “Well, |
°. nk question *

aa, pide fh
. Tam indocen
ey then shoo

to whi
the" ome
Iman, who h }

‘, said’ he never
He and Acheyi |,
uits, Both had ||
being smooth,
veard and mous-

t the’ jailat 7
as with Achey
tistering ta him
word's supper,
he ' came
ld | conver
had given hi
0k entitled the
rey sald he “9
i¢ trusted, writ
‘eased himself as | |
he now trusted || |
e said, ‘Yheaven ||
‘ it, ‘teed not

S

Hae

SeecaFEe 342085

ae

han, Iie land 0
diftenepce anyhow, 1

i” ine, emt

nid ul bopedit was : :

ae Ee Se

fame &
peor

Sepeas

it and ther ;

re, After ah i i fond nhmtet in

ie mom nts th

at

¥

Merrick, fave] i yor
artod oP almost w
or him, “hs fol Jowst ||
Y rould ie iat but it

Soe

rae a ve excited to

2-2
“as

Fris

and s Iife Le

‘alluded fo oe court b

=
=_

of his guiit, ,
e with re than |

men jn thec

et ace

ray d that while ther =

CP pall kinds |

je fa Noth tea

Title | Thig feelin resets itse
Ng shudd r. a8 the fhardened

"bral and

* fon enddavor-

were! eeply

| com te oa fate.

nutes past 12 Rev. Dr
made} a brief and
| Prez era whith he sinha for the m

akibdon m
advapced ‘an

hey were Bo speed

fae me me

ay . cdl
da Jorea on! peoni

xpressad, aol
ndeéd,| all | ah ‘all

i=

“tthe Pm Her ne
inal the ext xtbe My hey

4 the fe “was nbt lon
7.) There was

ne who ‘ha

2p gcd i

+e
4 ok ‘4

He told |\/f

\ ow, “full
me leave the |

22s pe FS | oe ee ee —s_a


4 foiled Gduwn
They then:
Achey, into

il office, where
ming distinctly
ite a distance
2 the berbavead
i, after hididi cig
the Jail: dover
the atreeh, thr
ntil they min-
‘at sorrennded

\FYOLD,

« fa oor va

1t Gat to the.

‘e Merrick was
ty iaors, The
if teyno! da
green’ jeord,
1? -each took a
focketa, with
he murderers.
ed with a reir
‘ares, er-

did Achey’s

1 getting them
‘ls gloves were
Was ready, and
| yard, Shenff
fray Liss comity }.
ith? Jailer
ad: Rev, J,

uid Apiritual | 7

followed, bup-

olds and Fith- |)

1g om erucifix.
ter 12 oO chock
i.

e jail to’ the
© gallows was
The crowd in-
ed themselves
limited accom-
from Captain
sovered as the
# steps, Ufon
their advisors
of the drop,
ad Dr. Tevis,
Merrick next,
then Father
th & .Blole
1. carrying
ucifix, The
scene to fol-
of observation.
down, , stolid
oked anxious
the gallows,
ay the noose
yne of the

' shaved, but-

tall go mu¢h
pected undr

mid pe of |.

a bad loaking
he clear eye
e being, how-
ado, or any-

herif’ Presaly
the reading of
1 of Merrick,

four min-
the * entire
y 00 attention
the document.
é warrant for
vhile that was
h an eager at-

rulped down a

d the warrants
Avs |
ng to say before
o esevakion.” |
a. clear voic#,
| .|
: Sf T thought {t
it the evidence

e ouly conclu- %.

wed A tar ced over
lhead to} Baiyat
Doct rjite no Res lh uel, bu

[Tbe |

ed.”
t 12:20) and pei
Portor. Bayliss an

‘1
% \drop fell to the lace
thingy and herg
j
Mert, signs of paln.
He h qr. limp from the ‘first; hia| shot d¢rs
how iby on'twp. oceasjunh oped bi
peor Ue rope. bipped
ace tht @ front, throwi tir
a ond it wa "evident hsollars os
srokeg, At sid milantes Dr. Henry Jas
reporter palse | at \ 100,
ant

es lea di he \ stran =e
Jeeth.| ee drew up bis legs cony “ee

| pany ve t fhe while hia be

| and trimbled whh the mrbgeles. From
pulse t to 120 at the beginn o%

| tig bth! m: obte, pad whenithe cei 0
‘pad Mater Sod

‘ oune ‘i him | dead.

| Wisbetd then rade a formal official ex
| pation
/modt

‘bis

mi- |
le lies, and at 12:37 the sheriff

ief of police | retested the sy :
bdraw. ‘

fur the "gent
hty,, by -
ilmrate n
The fig werd cut down and p
| toffins for them,- as s
| were, ‘face Was..much disco
jae A nied quite a nat rl
|The: h

med paroles.
1 ia COVRIN® AND 2A BriuAL.

| The Goffns arq of imitation, rosewood, npat-
‘ly trimipetl, and) were brought to the jai
th o' Hogk iy Kreglo &|
Have ¢harge bf thé | bodied
| bodies | | Were tment to; Rregio's i

(efablishment immediately atta

lexecuti 7 ae alert,
ito Crown Hill ithere.
@ vault{} Merrick will ates to- ne
‘Greenlawn cem ery, Sheriff Pressly
|his fundr xptnses. he | ex}

|| Ad t ¢ exe
| tviewed| Rey. Dr. aylis at; his?
: au spoke of Merrick as ful ws

pitkd hi ryltrd ve oe y

to feel anes Hi
hole jh@ shad.

done him,

|

| for

e Rea

apa

dur thelt, aise DOW) oF
from, J ‘an

ling and drinking, ta which
iets hi -nself early all
ears tie | dealt fart

of his mg Bthep
g barder'th n ever,

i
“or

< ib El rom then drewiput ithe
ce | his mone , whigh h t lost i

K ¥tterly | ithout
JPorrow |) $25
er \y {thor ts p

‘give hh

t bel wor d HO oa
1 es ent. chey at thls béc Bs furious, |
‘pistol, and ‘}

e went away, proturg

arted gut | find

t last found standing,
1:

whom he

gett be sald in sits
the victint:tur faced bin royni

cbdomentwnd

nd shot |

gett died in thirty
wounds and Achey
On th

in

Pahl vm

nthe mt ie of he eae

mn ns eis
alkior shea :

ot, Merrick’s shorseyy
rk, or at Ieast

‘ae “wand fr


» the’ ja)
as wit

Khe

ajl at 7\| |
Achey
tistering to him
0Fd'8 — supper,
' came
‘id a
had given hi
0k entitl the
rey said he
ie trusted, Wit |
‘eased himself as |
he now trustied |
e said, heaven |
‘8 it Unieed not
He told
* ow. ‘fully |
vonld leave the |
vere possible to
rime like his.
his mether, of
t tenderness, in\

cemetery, and \

be carried out.
%.

his brother in
is txvo_ nieces,
last look and a
The = meeting

jail office, 4
in’ the iros
‘oom, and was
obbing viulent-

kissing him
“s rolled down
Thay then-
Achey, into
il office, where
ming distinc tly
ite a distance
22 the berbkaved
1, after hifiding
the fail: door
the street, the
intil they sin-
‘at surrounded

VPFOLD, ~?
+ jattvloor was
ZOU wat to the.
‘a Merrick wae
Ly jsore, The
if - Reynolds
green’ (eord,
lf-each took a
pockets, with
be sourderers.
-d with a
flares, “f-
did Achey’s |i
geting them
“le yloves were
was ready,and
| yard, Sheraff
thay Lisa coming },
vith °
od Rev, J,
nig apritual
te dein eup-
olds and Fath-
1g &
ter 12 (o'clock
. )

ie jail to’ the |

® gallows was

The crowd in-
el themselves
limited accom-

from Captain
covered a3 the
¢ steps; Upon
. their advisors
‘of the drop,
ad Dr, Tevis,
Merrick next,
then. Father

th’ a .stole
1. carrying
‘ucifix, The

scene to fol- |’

of observation.
down, , stolid
oked anxions-
the ‘gallows,
as the noose
yno of the
’ shaved, but:
tall go math
pected undir

nade public of |
a bad locking

| 7 ine
| goody bre

nd Pr
thei h ero first ba
jthemf nd their

Jailor |:

Tiifix, |)

jplay @e oak Ww
conch on the
‘ kieced
|away.with h

} -

1} ehid, “G
Hatter r tilled,
.| Presa}

nds

He hy

phowip

wt six aq
(lead, |b) |
| Ac

with the
Jeft \

bod Tne

ay

ly tiie,

ha clear eye

er helng how.

‘them,

Iw tub Hi found D

oune d

fithe be

quilg short, and at

revere is er stooped |

sel fi and thé
+n ere a
ot

mer ntrol q em ys
if! ion TH peor: |
i tli 8 services over, tle me

‘lwest tot ee oat
2,

nds} beyan
thera

igs, b e,. John,”
nae Deal ¢

ade; ~ th
tho
attend

ley and O'Brien to M¢ rick,

8 |
|piece pfj green rain eo d. His legs)
\tied tig ther bélow the khees with t
sort rd, An — the} Peas Ad
\abou thei ;
hooeeh — adjast "1 tb Ache Ae -
‘jsajd ¢ ( bie eh the
rohg nt it 6 wb th Doe
plied ‘Tes only m
thou and | Achey, id, oy at's
ae

in what. he.

but a was! notideable that |
i" ress ian O’Brien | pelsied fing
wierd f — d offices Merrick. |
befor caps were placer he
iheads ac said ity Born
* Doeth a povonly ctuel, but it’ ge:
The kate we nt bn ht 12:20, and
all st : ing ~ ba a. Pate
img, |,
mercy ‘| of ¢ ‘Gos | | shoum
pulle lev » tbe \drop fell

Meath. } He dre
r } tmany bs tight

=f bis legs . conydisix
times, while bia be
ed with the te bei ¥rom }
vey)

tn ed |
a
If ieba ben 6 aad a pate offic |
ies, and at 12:37 t

eons reuspeves it 7 '

(PB ns arg of imitat rr

ndcnffed
bound! .w

rage and (her
h t e space f.
ot Luh mach signs o

A limp \from the ‘frat, hia sho

lo

Pressly
to thelblace
were

bind

>

gett at cha n.& G
noon 0 July 16, 18
age, api liv,
vn is f ther

Ia;

. tetror a
fring hitizen .

itlinois
loon,

ret! in fr
ames|Ache
served two tetrns in
for thef|

in 186}/¢hot hnd kille
the ie lying in| mf

thetd H worn
ry. {|
urdered “Geo

r ’s paldbn, on igh
8, is fort} neigh yearn

Abbe
cDpwell, aad three
John was the

Hing (niarrel, on
t Tom Dumis’s sa-
y, _brdther, has’

B nand Doc i ' +
of Ache whi thee 4 , nt!

din hid i city,t heap
a the late Henty Achey,
jg clty With” hid family
) | purchasdg the
leh bi ed
popular
Ach

dihg their time {n |

ry, and being |

id gat and Jaw: |
ally Ds ” Achey was,
bh McCulloch, :

tingnished. bt
once owned
- . He did not

EELS:

Fiptatit:

9 2 = 35 =

D oS

Fol

Rod
SA :
=) yeas
26 owe en oc

nhcge

=) _ bee-&-? wae oe = eet -
8 3

~-


get Van Wye a on«ne of the hack
streets, and make some exteuse | for
leaving him. when hé would approach
with bis cogt turned wron aide jout
and|rob him. is Anderson posi-
tiyely refused to do, and then it was
made up to rob him if they eould get
Van Wye to in swimming; and
that after the trip had-come out of the
water, and the three eat on a log near
the river bank, Boy der winked to An-
derson to hit Vah Wye with a ¢iub
whieh Snyder had cut, as he said to
the | murdered jboy, far .a| walking
stick. Snyder, lof the two being | the
elder and promater of the scheme, is
more to blame than his comgade, who
today with him,| suffered the, extreme
punishment of the law. If all is true
that is said of Anderson, he has some
of the worst bl in bim m Pusey
county. It is said that he is the | son
of Hume Redménd, the wife murder
er, who suffi death at the bande
of an outraged people, and who broke
into the jail of |Vanderburgh county,
and) because they conid not get away
with bim successfully, killed hi
the streets of msville rather then
that be shonld escape their

geance.

bout the } of Aughst

ca to Mount Vernon a
named Van yo, from 0
Webster county, Kentucky.)

, abont seventeed years of


neither of whom bet
hing upon th
with those

OUs ¢ irchumetaners, Wwe
day morning they wei
: Their AMIvAL WAS SO 1

crime upon him (Snyc
wishing to sbield. hi
By thimeane their
the shadow of . doubt

sot ts

their guilt were hic
t the preliminary
urred soon afterward
ion, Anderson pliende
e “did not do th

ie however. he
with: ayer oente red

arrett pro
and named to-d

a fevt . lays fre
the crime, _ Public BO}

ernon the threaten

nd was twenty “ONO
years older than the b
1 he were poor anc
during the late yen
drinker) and general
) t town: but

or vicious; in fact. ho.
as kind- hearted and ir
ciates were, for the m
— dohn Anderson wa:
and waa about the aj
| for several years a bo
10. be. Andustriour
| Vernon and-are res}
| His father. 4a

ing th ttery laws.

{| eral manager of the M
‘Company, an incor

Lot which, as stated


x hen the eouthful mu
prostrate form and >
Sny der held. the head | °

pocket knife. ent. his. ;
The first incision of th

thes young butchers ©
atruggled desperately
most superhuman stret
he. was) overmatched,
powerlesa- through | tt
flowed in streams from
throat. ‘The work of
plished, he young det
attention to securing t]
ables to be found upot
aty order. to cover up t!
work, they dragged the
before life was entirely
of them holding: it wit
surface ‘until the | ‘las
peared. ‘They. then 4
the shore with t ho. bod
that the awift current |
: the Manecof discov.

Le

Ranier’ ot pornons Nb
dicated, and various:
| murder, to account f
turbed dondition of the
was the general opinio!
crime had been ecommi'
were. immediately oreu
Re in the neighborhoo.
The search was kept u
noon, when the body o
discovered, It was mu
‘but was casily indentit
“The excitement amd
) | result heeame know
pay Of. Femens of both sexy
undertaking establistin
“Among, the number w
either of whom hr
while looking. upon the
discussing with thos
| motive of the crime,
OUR: Pee il w
‘day morning they wee


monly dressed, and Mid the appear-
ance of a green farmer boy. For sév-
eral days he visited the saloons and
dives of Mt. Vernon and showed a good
sized roll ef money, intimating that
it was much larger than it really was.
He called at the store on Wednesday
of Rosenbaum Bros., of that place
and requested them to seen his
money in their. safe, as he said he had
beeg robbed of $13. The money—
$18—being counted, was placed in an.
envelope and pa® in*the safe. The
next day, however, He called for his
money, and that was the last that the
Rosenbaums saw of him, On Friday
a gentleman coming down the’ river
road, saw blood on some on stalks,
and eyidences‘of a scuffle. He
also noticed where the reeds had
been trampled down and a path made |
through them leading to the rivér.:
At the water’s edge he found a small
black neck tie, covered with blood.
‘These indications were reported to
the town officials, and the river drag-
ged that and ,on the following day,
bat nothing was discovered. On Sun-
day evening, as Tobe Miller, a fisher- |
infan. was putting. oat: his tines, he dis-
\edvered a y on thé shore,;-that bad
evidently been washed there He
immediately notified the officials, and
when they arrived, the body was ree-
vgnized as that of young Van Wye.
His throat was found to be. cut from
ear to ear, completely severing the’
jugular vein, his; head showing evi-_
dences of having, been struck with a
club. On Monday a yonng fellow

amed Burt Campbell and _ Snyder
and Anderson, were arrested for the
crime, Campbell was afterward re-
leased as the acknowledgement of
them both that they had cothmitted
the crime alone, cleared him. Sny-
der afterward withdrew his plea of

guilty, and was tried ,, and notwith-
standing so great! was the feeling at
he time, was eloquently and ably de-
ended by Hof. Milt, Pearse aed. Mr.
i" . FE. Owens: WUpon a verdict of
uilty, Anderson jalso came in ¢ourt
and pleatien guilty, end the sentence
was

en awarded them that has heén
bo fatally carried out today, — . }* |

SN Re Rage CS ree TE


7.

Tracing the victim's last movements, officers found

that he had been seen at the bakery above late

on the night of his death. This testimony helped
to set the time of the slaying.

/

The entrance of Fox park loomed up and Baumgartner brought
the car to a shuddering halt at the gateway.

“There’s a possibility that whoever killed the old man may
still be in the park,” the chief said. “You stay here, Stan,
and don't let anybody out. Phillips, you take the entrance at the
other side of the park. Jim and I will look the ground over.”

The chief and Stayton turned up the footpath. There under the
bushes on the north side of the pathway, a scant 100 yards from
the park entrance on the east, their flashlights revealed the form
of the ragged, eccentric Ignatz Pazuchoski. He was dead.

Killed In Robbery

ROBBERY-MURDER was plainly indicated by the cloth-

ing of the dead man which was disarrayed as from a search.
A puddle of blood had welled from a bullet hole in the old man’s
chest; just below the neck.

The officers approached the body carefully shining their lights
about in search of footprints or other clues to the murderer’s
identity but the hard black path revealed nothing.

In the graying hair of the dead man’s head were two swollen
knots where Pazuchoski had been bludgeoned. Gripped in the
old man’s right hand was a short broom-handle stick which he
usually carried. Attacked by robbers, he had evidently resisted
and had been shot to death. Since the body was still warm and
the blood not yet dry, the murder had been committed not long
before the body was discovered. Anyone in the little park at the
time must have heard the shot.

Even as the officers searched the grounds for clues, a dark sedan
shot along the driveway toward the eastern entrance.

The officer at the gateway halted the car. The chief arrived to
find two badly scared young couples. They had been in the park
on an innocent spooning party. An hour or so before midnight
they had heard something that sounded like the backfire of a
car. It might have been a shot. They had seen no one.

Satisfied that the occupants of the car were in no way in-
volved, the chief allowed them to go. He then telephoned to a
martuary and ordered an ambulance, and to a photo studio for a
photographer. Before moving the body he planned to have flash-
light pictures taken, because the camera eye might see some clue
that the officers had failed to discover.

By long distance the chief got in touch with the Laporte
county coroner, Daniel G. Bernoske, at his home in nearby
Michigan City. Then during the early morning hours at the
funeral home, the police and the coroner disrobed the body of
its strange, miscellaneous collection of clothing. Although the
July temperature had been hovering around 100, the elderly re-

42

cluse was dressed as for winter, wearing a ragged blue
mackinaw, a sweater, a shirt, two pairs of pants, and
heavy woolen underwear. :

In the garments were the trifles he prized. including
papers, strings, burnt matches, women’s discarded com-
pacts, a wrapped-up penny, small cloth tobacco sacks, a
small empty cardboard box and other valueless items,
all wrapped up in complex packages as though of great
worth. In a small pocketbook were four quarters. There
was no other money.

The bullet which had caused death had entered the
right side of the chest just below the neck. Coursing
downward, it had pierced the jugular vein, causing the
old man slowly to bleed to death.

Police, led by Chief Baumgartner and Detective Stay-
ton, began a check on Pazuchoski’s movements preced-
ing his death, beginning in the Polish district, located
near the park where the body was found.

The old man had been last seen at a bakery on Ellis
street, a few minutes walk from the scene of the murder.
The owner of the bakery said that Pazuchoski was there
at about 9:30 p. m., when he was given some food for
his work in the afternoon. According to Dr. Bernoske,
the murder had occurred at about 11 o'clock.

Discovering that some five years before the eccentric
had been permitted to sleep nights in the basement of a
cafe, the officers quizzed the proprietor. He explained
how he happened to have had Pazychoski as a roomer.
The recluse had eaten in the restaurant occasionally.
Once, when Pazuchoski did not appear for several days,
the proprietor asked about him and learned that the
elderly man lived in a shack at the edge of Laporte.
Going to the shack, he found Pazuchoski ill. He brought

Gunfire shattered the stillness of Kosciusko
street (below) when the “tough guy” sought
a new victim who was seated on the steps
of house marked with arrow.


Tough Guy!

[Continued from page 43]

a shot at him Monday morning while he
was in Clear lake ina boat. The brothers
had ‘‘kidded” him about being scared of
the shooting.

He said that he had gone with the
brothers to a Polish carnival on Monday
night. He had left the brothers at about
10:30 near Park street on the McClung
road and had gone to his home. John
Arkuszewski, a dark, slender 17-year-old
Polish boy, later was picked up for ques-
tioning. Chester, his 24-year-old brother,
still could not be located.

Meantime, at the order of Baumgart-
ner, the bullet which ended the life of the
old recluse was extracted from the body,
and discovered to bea .32 slug.

John Arkuszewski told officers that he
knew nothing about the murder and noth-
ing of the whereabouts of his older
brother. A warrant was issued for the
arrest of Chester on suspicion of murder.

That afternoon Chief Baumgartner and
Detective Stayton cut from the telephone
pole three bullets fired by the Arkuszew-
ski brothers in target practice on the pre-
ceding day. The soft pine wood had failed
to flatten the bullets. They were the same
caliber as that which had killed Pazu-
choski.

Early Wednesday morning, carrying
one envelope containing the lethal bullet
and a second with the three slugs taken
from the telephone pole, Stayton went to
Chicago to get a ballistic comparison of
the bullets. There in the well-equipped
detective bureau, together with ballistic
re Stayton examined the pellets of

ead.

Stayton knew the principle used in the
identification of projectiles. He knew that
a bullet rotates at great speed, due to the
rifling in the barrel, and that the rifling
marks the bullet in sloping grooves. He
knew that from the spacings experts could
name the make of the weapon, and that
from the sloping grooves, supplemented
by imperfections in the barrel, they could
determine beyond doubt whether or not
any two bullets had been fired from the
same gun.

From the bureau Stayton wired his
superior: “Bullets from post and body
fired from same gun.”

Identify Death Gun

VW oR? had gone out by radio and
newspaper headlines Tuesday that
John Arkuszewski was being held by
police and that Chester was wanted.

That night 22 miles to the westward in
the neighboring city of Valparaiso, on
state road 2, a young man hailed a taxi-
cab and climbed into the back seat.

“Where to?” the driver asked.

“Head out Route 2.”

“I’ve got to know where I’m going
before I head anywhere,” the man pro-
tested.

But the pressure of a cold gun muzzle
on the back of his neck changed his mind,
and the cab bore eastward through the
night. Chester, the tough guy, was com-
ing back.

Near the town of Westville, which
borders the state road halfway to Laporte,
the gunman halted the cab only long
enough to relieve the driver of several
dollars and then ordered him to drive on.
At Lincoln way and Detroit streets in

46

Laporte, only a few blocks east of the
police station, Chester stopped the car

and stepped boldly out under the street:

lights.

“Get back to Valpo, and keep your
mouth shut if you want to live,” he
ordered.

The driver took him at his word. Then,
as the taxicab started back, the man with
the gun headed northward toward the
scene of the murder.

At about 1:34 p. m. Wednesday, young
John Hominik was sitting with a group
of smaller children on the steps of his
home on Kosciusko street. Suddenly
their laughter froze to dead silence. Along
the street, coming from Lake Boulevard
a half-block to the westward, a youth
stalked. It was Chester. In his hand
was a revolver.

“Scram, you kids!” Chester snarled as
he raised the revolver to cover Hominiuk.
Then as the youngsters leaped off the
porch the gun blasted twice and John
fell with a startled cry and lay still.

With smoking gun still in full view of
startled neighbors, Chester dashed across
to Park street, turned southward to West
street, then over to Pulaski and across

the New York Central tracks and through
the yards.

Meantime, at the police station a
startled officer, Charles Olson, heard and
relayed the information that the local
tough guy had gone berserk and had
just shot a boy in wanton gesture of
bravado.

Closeted with Chief Baumgartner in
the detective bureau was Stayton, who
had just returned from Chicago with
proof that the gun owned by Chester had
fired the bullet which killed the old re-
cluse. Now, with the chief in charge, 14
city patrolmen and detectives rushed out
in squad cars to throw a dragnet around
the Pulaski street area.

Sheriff Norris and the Deputy Joseph
Kowalczyk in a squad car, joined the
chase, and a call to the Indiana state
police at Pines barracks brought three
more radio-equipped squad cars, manned
by six grim-faced officers, Delvie Master-
son, Paul Wilhelm, Clifton Ward, Ray-
mond Dixon, Arthur Keller and Charles
Walker.

More than a score of armed officers
swooped down upon the scene, combing
every lot and building, questioning scores

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by
CHARLES D. PIFER

and countless stars and a bright moon
failed to break through the thick foliage.

The strange sounds made by the dog
caused the two men to halt in their tracks.
The older man listened intently as the
weird cadences were repeated. Then in
an unsteady voice he asked the younger
man for his flashlight.

They. walked forward until the beam
of light fell upon the dog. The animal
turned toward them with staring eyes.
Then the wavering beam spread over the
figure of a man slumped under the bushes
along the side of the path. The flash-
light dropped from the man’s hand. For
a long moment the two men stood frozen
in terror. Brief as had been their view,
there could be no mistaking the distorted
body, the agonized face and the dark
crimson stain on the soft green grass.

A short time later Officer Schroeder,
at the desk in the Laporte city police
station looked up in surprise. The outer
‘door had slammed and at the little win-
dow fronting the hallway appeared the
face of a frightened man, eyes distended,
lips trembling, breath coming in gasps.

“What's the trouble ?” the officer asked.

“There’s a dead man out in Fox park.”
The man wiped the perspiration from his
head with a trembling hand.

Schroeder shook his head _ disbe-
lievingly: “Probably some drunk.”

“No. There’s a big mess of blood.
He’s dead.”

DETECTIVE

The officer reached for the telephone.
“Who is it, do you know?” he asked, as
he dialed the number of Chief of Police
Carl R. Baumgartner.

“Tt’s old ‘By Golly’.”

“Pazuchoski? Who'd want to kill
him?”

“T don’t know nothing about it. When
eee

“Hello, Chief,” the officer broke in,
speaking over the telephone. “A fellow
just reported that he found a dead man
out in Fox park. Says it’s old ‘By
Golly’ Pazuchoski—you know, the old
recluse,... Sure, I’ll hold him.”

Schroeder dialed another number. As
he did so he turned again toward the
window. “Come on in here and sit
down; the chief wants to talk to you.”

“T don’t know nothing, except what I
told you,” the man protested as he moved
down the narrow hall and into the little
office while the officer at the desk was
issuing terse orders for other police to
hasten to the station to begin a murder
investigation, .

Pazuchoski, the victim, was well known
to Officer Schroeder. In fact he was
one of the town “characters.” For years
the elderly, inarticulate immigrant had
been a familiar figure on the streets of
the little. city. Butt of many jokes,
dirty, unshaven and unshorn; Pazu-
choski’s record was good nevertheless
and he had never run afoul of the law.

Familiarly known as “By Golly,” he
was often seen on the downtown streets,

Supremely self-confident, the youthful bad-
man figured that the Laporte county jail,
above, was an easy, crib to crack. But
his ego took a licking as his plans failed.

always wearing several extra items of
clothing and with his shirts and pockets
stuffed with papers, small trinkets and
cloth wrapped in bundles, which caused
his figure to bulge ludicrously. A slouch
cap was usually worn draped over one
ear and often he wore an old hat in
addition to the cap.

Not unlike many of his kind, he eked
out a slender existence by doing odd jobs,
occasionally taking work as a day laborer.
And, as usual, there grew up around him
the myth of hidden wealth. This per-
sisted despite the fact that since April
Fools’ day, 1936, he had been on the
Center township relief list in the city.

This was the character that Officer
Schroeder recalled as he thought of what
had befallen old “By Golly,” and which
had at first made him discount the report
that the recluse could have been the vic-
tim of any slayer.

Chief Baumgartner wasted no words
when he reached the police station. In

‘a few minutes he was at the wheel of the

black police sedan and was zooming
northward to the park. Beside him was
Detective James Stayton while in the
rear of the car were Patrolmen Stanley
Cichon and LeRoy Phillips with the man
who had found the body.

“You say the body is on the footpath—
the path with the covered archway?”
Baumgartner called back over his
shoulder.

“Yes. It’s in the bushes before you
get to the archway.”

41


the recluse down town and after a few days the old man re-
covered. Then the restaurant owner allowed him to stay in the
hasement. He had lived there for several years but finally the
oroprietor had to ask him to leave.
' Learning that the recluse had been on relief, the officers went
to Lauren Arndt, Center township trustee. According to Arndt,
a man named Peter Gera, of Fremont street, came to the office
n April 1. Pazuchoski lived with him, he had said, and while
he was perfectly willing to permit the old man to remain, he
could not afford to furnish food for him.

Seek to Question Suspects

A FIER investigation, Pazuchoski was placed on relief. Al-
4 though entitled to a grocery order each week, he did not
always call for the order, Arndt said.

From Gera the officers learned that the murdered man had
not been living recently at the Fremont address, but
had been sleeping outdoors, probably in the park. Asked
it Pazuchoski had carried a roll of bills, Gera stated that
he hadn’t seen any.

“Some fellows asked me if he didn’t have money, just
vesterday,” Gera added.

The officers pounced upon the statement, as it tied in
vith the robbery motive. Who were the questioners ?

“It was three Polish boys,” Gera stated. The eldest
ot the trio had asked the questions. They lived on
\osciusko street.

One of them was a 17-year-old boy named John
‘fominiuk, only he wasn’t the one who had asked about
the money. Gera didn’t know the names of the other
two youths.

On the way to Kosciusko street, while driving along

Intent upon avenging a supposed “squeal,”
the mad slayer opened fire upon an erstwhile
neighbor, as shown in photodiagram, right.
This is a closeup of the scene below.

In the same court-
room where he
had first been con-
victed when an 11-
year-old boy, the
killer heard sen-
tence pronounced
by Circuit Judge
Wirt Worden.

McClung road near the scene of the murder, police learned
from a park employe that two Polish boys had been firing a
revolver at a telephone pole along the road near Fox park on
the previous day.

“It was the Arkuszewski brothers, Chester and John,” the
man said.

The Arkuszewski boys also lived on Kosciusko street, almost
directly across from the boy whom Gera had named. Police
decided to investigate. Chester was known as a self-admitted
“tough guy.”

Arriving at the Arkuszewski home, they found that John was
at work in a local factory. The other brother, Chester, had not
been staying at home and his whereabouts were unknown.

Young Hominiuk, however, was at home. He admitted that
he had been with the Arkuszewski brothers on Monday, the
preceding day. He said Chester had a revolver and had taken

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led that Marie
by profession,
it a roadhouse
hicago.

uary 29, Marie
vn to the legal
little bit more
zht club while
natrons roared
| her to “Take
- the required
“grinds” done
ad, she hurried

> find a.man
oor. He was a
tell her that.
sob Brown, he
ig him.
nut of the cor=-
id he had just
Illinois prison
pal there “told
h with Brown

jicious. “How’d
anded.

he grinned. “I
ng agents, and
were working

face hardened.
“TI don’t want
Maybe I knew.
ne ago, but I
months.” . She
ing room and

pated that the

queen, un-
er hunted boy
a a brush-off.
yped the road-

in the hope
1 Brown of the

‘at Marie Vis-
listened to her
na few min-

uy was a dick,”

Brown compli- ~

o a garage and
o, Ind., a small
of Hammond.
Detective Kel-
coopers walked
rised Brown as
; underneath a
[The two loaded
shelf did him

ynocent, Brown
d and put in a
meanwhile had
ird from Indian-
vanged his tune
own's arrest,

t in the double

slaying, and said that Brown had done
the actual shooting.

“We were just going to change li-
cense plates on that hot car when the
cops came along,” he said. “We in-
tended to pull a heist job in Hammond.”

A stenographer was hurriedly sum-
moned to take Badgley’s confession,
but by the time he arrived the ex-
convict had changed his mind again
and refused to talk further. “I already
blabbed too much,” he growled.

As for Brown, he still claimed com-
plete ignorance of the crime even after
a Hammond physician examined him
and found a long, partly healed wound
on his head. That, said Patrolman Ma-

\

it to the officer in charge.”

He and his wife were ushered into
‘Captain Lamb’s office, where they iden-

tified themselves as Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Bott of Concord, N. H,

“We've been worried about a friend
of ours,” Bott began. “His‘name is Hugo
Schultz, and he runs a chicken ranch—
or at least he did when we last saw him
—ncar Epsom, N. H. He was a widower,
61 years old, and the last time we saw
him was just after Christmas.”

“Why are you worried about him?”
Lamb inquired.

“Because he’s disappeared, that’s
why,” Bott said. “You see, Hugo was
lonely, and he began corresponding
with a woman we never heard of before.
Before we knew it, he seemed to be in
love with her and said he thought she’d
make him a fine wife. We were a little
worried about Hugo taking up with
some woman he’d never set eyes on, but
late in December he told ‘us it was all
settled and he was going to marry her.”

“We've never seen or heard from
him since then,’ Mrs. Bott put in.
“Early in March we drove over to his
farm, which isn’t far from our home.
The place was deserted—all the stock
gone and the buildings locked up.”

“DUT IF SCHULTZ is a New Hamp-

shire man,” Captain Lamb said,
puzzled, “why are you reporting his
disappearance to me?”

“Because this woman he said he was
going to marry lives in Delaware, not
far from Dover,” Bott explained. “He
told us her name was Inez Brennan.”

Lamb leaped to his feet. ‘Inez Bren-
nan!” he exclaimed. ‘

“That’s the name.
of her before?”

“A little,” the captain said, subsid-
ing into his chair. “Go ahead with your
story,” y

“Well, we’ve known. Hugo for years

Why—you heard

mala, was where he had struck Brown
with the hedge shears.

Another link of evidence fell into
place when Peaches Begg was located.
Begg admitted that he had sold to
Frank Badgley the .38 revolver which
he had previously bought from Ellery
Bush. =

Badgley and Brown pleaded not
guilty when arraigned before Judge
Robert E. Thompson in the Jasper
County court at Rensselaer, Ind. But

‘an all-male jury found them guilty

when they went to trial, and on No-
vember 22, 1947, fixed their punishment
at death in the electric chair.

When he heard the fatal words,

COME INTO MY PARLOR

(Continued from page 21)

and he’s one of our closest friends. He
said he’d write us, and I’m sure he
would because he’s not the kind to for-
get old friends. But we haven’t heard
a word from him—not a single word!”

“We just took a trip down to Florida,”
Mrs. Bott related. “We’ve been think-
ing about Hugo, and when we drove

.back north we decided we’d look up

this woman he told us he was going to
marry. We didn’t like to interfere in
other pcople’s affairs, but we were
terribly worried about Hugo and we
thought it was our duty to at least
make inquiries about him.”

“So you called on Mrs. Brennan?”
Lamb qucried.

“We did. We found the farm with-
out much trouble, and my husband in-
troduced us to Mrs. Brennan. He told
her we were old friends of Hugo’s and
were just stopping in to say hello on
our way north.”

“What did she say?” the captain
asked. His flesh was creeping a little,
for he realized now that there was
something sinister about the Brennan
farm, and that he was on the threshold
of discovering the answer to one of the
most awesome riddlés in American
crime annals.

“Mrs. Brennan seemed surprised,
and asked us what Hugo’s last name
was. We told her, and she said there
must be some mistake, that she had
never heard of a man by that name.”

“We knew better than that,” Bott:

took up the story. “I had written Mrs.
Brennan’s name down on a slip of
paper, and I showed it to her. Well sir,
she turned pale. Then she thought a
minute and said she remembered writ-
ing to a man named HugoSchultz whom
she had met through a lonely hearts
club. But she said they had exchanged
only a couple of letters and then their
correspondence ended and she had

never heard from him since.”

Badgley leaped to his feet, his face
livid. “You’re a bunch of damn Hoosier
skunks!” he shrieked at the gentlemen
of the jury.

The two outlaws were sentenced to
die in the chair at the Michigan City
penitentiary on March 19, 1948, But
the pair, through various legal moves,
won postponement after postponement.
They lost their courtroom skirmishes,
however, and both were finally exe-
cuted on February 24, 1949.

Eprror’s Note: The names Rocco
Morino, Ellery Bush, Marie Visconti
and Herman “Peaches” Beggs, as used
in this narrative, are fictitious.

“And that can’t be true,” Mrs. Bott
said warmly. “Hugo told us he had
exchanged dozen of letters with ‘this
woman, and he finally said he was go-
ing to Dover to marry her.”

Captain Lamb was reaching for the
telephone. He was already convinced
that Wade Wooldridge was dead, and
that Hugo Schultz, was dead, and he
was wondering how many more might
have met the same tragic fate at the
mystery farm. z

He put through a call to the New
Hampshire state police at Concord and
gave them the facts in. the case, He
asked them to make a thoroughgoing
investigation of Hugo Schultz’s depar-
ture and to‘search his. farm and try
to trace whatever property seemed
missing.

Turning again to the Botts, the cap-
tain informed them it might take hours
before the check was completed, and
the couple left for their home in New
Hampshire with the assurance that any
news of their friend Schultz would be
relayed to them.

It was next morning before the New
Hampshire officials called back, but
when they did it was plain that they
had looked into the matter with char-
acteristic New England diligence. It
was Sheriff George Colbeth who tele-
phoned the report. .

“We talked to the neighbors,” Col-
beth said, “and they all say that Schultz
married a woman down your way.
Several of them saw a woman and a
boy come to Schultz’s farm around
January 10. She and the kid loaded
Schultz’s furniture on a Chevrolet
truck he owned, and drove away. It
happened that there was an attachment
of $400 against the truck because of a
debt Schultz owed, and the state police

stopped her near the border. Well, she.

paid the $400 so she was allowed to
drive on.” '

81


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IVAN DS that have been sold for the taxoa,
and partioa ownlt q sama ty jee they were

@ lost, oan Mod purchaser by addressing JAMES

BENNKTT, 131 Hewoa pitted Hea A yn,.N: Y.
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MANTED-<AT ONCK- Dae Aanired head
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Hatficid niet SN a Mea Stable.

82-44 RIDER & Mui. LER. .

ils LIFE, |

is ‘mother, and, paid :
felt ns if I had been thrown out on the

Tn ee ee ep drewegediantnn: Geena genet e

4 o'clock. but dazed off. again. for an

houror a0, and thon arose and até hig

breakfast, which waa prepared for him
M Mra. Gormon. His moal consiatod
icco of ateak, two fried eggs, bread

ana as some mulling anda cup off — eu Ag
He. ate it with a hearty |: >
relish, showing ul that che. nat Rot, un}

strong coffee,

nerved.. sa
\(siowiNa HIB Tr HOTOGR APH,

, “Att hine o'clock this. morning Bates Lewes
door and talked} —— aA
with someé ladies to whom he showed] > ;

stood at the grated
hia pho PED. and spoke of his own
hotographs in a joking manner,
eine ri to one of them he said; “That
Hooks as if I was in @ beer garden after
a drink, and that other looks like I did

3 after I got the drink.” One of the

ladies made some remark about his
hard lot. “Yes,” said Bates, “it’s hard

} {but it is honest. I realize what I have]

He spoke feelingly of his
“When. she died I

done.”

world without a friend.” His talk was
80 affecting that one lady burst into

‘tears and .w Iked ave cog With bse |

nine Bated « id he

a é so much that he believed he would ‘RG

is rl HIS PATE. COOLY. ‘Bor
+ NOT INDIFFERENTLY. Vo

peaks from the Sraffold and Says
f That He Never Committed Another

& |. Muarder—All the Incidents
ee a i of the Bay.
Ye sai i ;
x j ae
¥ f ‘whe Last Nighe, :
‘ AtSo tclock last eveninga TELEGRAM

© rporter went to the jail to pass the
SMivht with Bates, the last night that
Jae unfortunate man would spend’ on
perth. Charle piureay, the turnkey,
ad Charley Benner, bailiff, were on
“ity, while Sheriff Gormon- personally:
: pervised_ everything, and did évery-
#91ng possible in his power for the re-
ee >rters who were presents as did Messrs.
® aurray and Benner. While Bates. a
Sjared light-hearted and jolly,. the oth-
prisoners in the jail were frightened
nost out of their wits. They had but
tle to say, silting around with pop-
Mngz eyes and blanched faces. They
Tuized that one of their number on
morrow was to be: han for an
ful crime, and they actually appear-
more frightened than the victim,
Hawkins, the horse-thief, said that
could n't sleep. He could shut bis
4, but sleep was out of the question,
i he finally-got up.’ It is said that

ful crime, ‘and declares that he will
aul guilty to the charge against him,
ve his time, and when he gets out
l lead a different life,

# bout half-after 120’clock Bates Hels
qand Turnkey Murray loeked up the

‘ duties of

girl.

wkins has learned a lesson from this | -

to his cell and lio down.  Baflif Bene
ner accompanied him and assumed thp
e death watch. ee

© ar AD THE NERVE. © :

“This morning, by order of the physi-
cians attending, Sheriff Gorman bought
a nervine, which he offered to Bates.

‘| The condemned man looked at it for a

moment and then coolly «replied:
“Alex, I don’t want anything of that
kind. I have plenty of nerve. Why, I

was born with sand and plenty of it.”

*At 10 o'clock Dr. ; ibberd arrived
and going in to see the condemned
man, was surprised ta see him in such
good shape. He absolutély refused to

| A wonderful man, syrely.

~ | take any nervine, and when the physi-

cian felt of Bates’s pulse it was 80,which .
Dr. Hibberd said was a good pulse.
This was two hours pelos the execu-
tion.

“Batea’s brother was ‘at Hageronti

yesterday, and was unable to be at the} ~~

jail last night, but this- morning he
came in. When: he ‘came in Sheriff
Gormon shook han al him and
asked him‘how he “Tam = very
nervous,” was the sewer When the
brothers met there was a shaking of
hands in a warm, brotherly grasp, and
then they sat down on a bench and
hel@a private: consultation that lasted
for some time,

Stella, the oldest Gauchier this morn-
ing sent-to her father a large bouquet
of flowers and a more touching tribute
could not be im rhe Poor little
Unfortunate

“Hs SPIRITUAL’ ADVISORS |

Aynved at the jail about half after ten
o,clock. They, were ‘Rev. Rather Sei- |

Be

thus holding the. hands firmly at ‘the
sille and dapreventing. | the least move-

Life _ON THE SCAFFOLD.

Sherif Gormon; Turnke ey Murray, and
Fathers McMullen ‘and Sieberts were
the only each of the: scaffold be-
side Bates.

aka ‘FLORAL GIFT—THE COFFIN.

i" lar
Marecha

e wreath, made of tea and
Neil roses, made by Beach,

‘the florist, was sént: to the jail last

night and was placed in the cellar of the

‘Sheriff’s residence. ‘This morning the

flowers were shown to Bates and he was
well pleased with the present—the gift
of Sheriff Gormon. During the execu-
tion and since last night at 10 o’clock
the coffin rested banesth the gallows.

» The coffin is a plain one, imitation of
a walnut, made by J. M. Hutton & Co.,
with silver handles and silver orna-
ments. .Qn the silver plate are. he
words, i in old German letters, ©

“NATHANIEL 8. BATES,”

The da and date bein
The coffin in size is five feet, nine by
eighteen inches, The pine box in

mach it ig to be placed is addressed
apy to Council Bluffs, Iowa, care of
friends on the train. “As soon as the
body was*cut down it was opinions

ed and placed in the coffin.
- Good ADVICE TO PAT ROGERS,

One of the e praonen in the jail is Pat
Rogers, a bum ‘and wag, who
spends hal hie. time in jail, and whén
he isn’t in jail he is soaking his hide

with whisky to get back there. | Bates

was walking in the coerndoy, and corn
ing to Pat said:

‘i pat you must quit, ‘drinking. Tt I

-1*When »

amit

| fee white shirt, with n4
stockings and neat slip
. Bates was a 8}
men of’a man. His busi
thirty-eight inches; waist}
arm, thirty-two, and leg,
His hat that he wore :
was an old one of Char§
and he said laughingly th
photographed ‘a. good
| came in,” said &
cap, but I gave it to a dae
more it away with him. a

emt rene

ae oe pers

was s erected. by Fee and's
excellant piece dfcarpente
and substantial. ~In. size>
nine feet from the floor ap
lows beam. The side piece
eighteen feet long. The t
situated at the extreme [ie
replat faces east
x4 feet, made of 2x6 stuf
quailty) very heavy.” The
iron, and extends up abé
abdve, the floor of the gallop
“ Around the wall - “of the
placed a canyas two" and sb
wide, ee effectually ant
viewsof{ the oe Fan

o'clock and it ‘consisted
potatoes, pie, bread and i
coffee, “watermelon and
however, did not eat” “any ¢

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on Of a manager: He
morning on the

Phin last héties a) meunn of cles ntleman who has but little social ani-
is

‘peune spirit, but when he picked them } that you would never be jea

. feefings that others thought he was not} No one would everelope with her. Dol.

eT LETTER ABOUT Ir. but changeiPhia*m

Bluffs wasi not the

ys: T, McCant Stewart

Fore 2
tem ‘ee
aibad nT
your gralllyfng letter to re
r@appointment ‘of Matth
much hope thie act wi
aa In. any way defiant

thetgait again, hopiig t have an inter: has the wherewhith. She hax Ibet hér orapKeeThe b

ableytoo, that thé children /would. be casions, “but xbe ‘now “haa! j
00; Maat I

to the Senate, ora
pear heroic. if hate
he question involved’ tn
One rising. above
& test Of

the Tit raram last evening that. visi- though we think not,

he got to drinki torty#ho numbered over eight hundred} Then there ia Miss Gertie Gushi who site Skin Bemiuaer, externally, andicitiedra:l

ng 80 hard and act-

ail frpm to-day on hundreds cate and aOfa as naturally as Mule doek ts} the smatlinmpe cas beat them) cradaniiy tiagy-
. : , a Haturally asa u & “tg

and he aid the 6 weres admitted | to” the wl-yard. ti} fodder. Gertie never ays “Anything | AUPeared: @

who) was’ living
beertsthe cease of some

Rees the > seaffold, ) > there cae A) especially worth hearing, bat ld greatio | inatur, Veavius, twee
mean ins his diagust he

constant stream) in ~ that direc. kissing: the hey good bye 5 Chertic: ig | Witas ‘ter tet tte St ng oF ttky me Oerthg
Hon when the reporte? deft tis alter} gent natured, The ealficbat ithe indy Botines iy) WeagOl hw he cna nae tae a8

hoonepresenting,a scene like Unt the | ition ‘are Chat) ates will bes spl. thre | aiaty oudeelth, teenteh y (eb retecnie ity hig
Pate, + { Me j i i

every honorable WAY wee bo-stip her and

upon him to shape picture Cititha® “Going to the Fair.” market‘a lang time.

‘And there ware a few admittak to the Po wy AP yla i

Jal for special reasons, anche as FepOre | Susie Starling. She te. dine Ww thdns | my health, any barpiipsa, aud my Mle f

erm photon her, Some ye. Mattia, of and, She has Awl wetiide ard ix always ka .

Hierstiwn, the farmer owith © whi a lady Everybody who koiwe ber Kemetiony gaw Wook

Rats blest) chit tise ph? Wad admires Her. © She. tea lulyocin’ the] My repty waddert ie
'

tom Kansas City,
Keokuk, where the old

Hagerstown, “and © the
turned to Conwerl Blithe, where hia wife:
and’ followed hermother,

& long while and

Soume, hisepiri¢ial advinor, Rey: Father | cay pCGOk oct ORs uneRt sit
MeMullén, of St. Marys  Cathotre Wetiseury, Gr talk inteHivently Upon
eburch.. The latuer said to the Trem Current theniés, She! in eliientest fat
GRAM reporter that injustice had been duty and she Perfortm if, Whatever it
done the truth if fot Butex in the re Wray be Teerlully Shei COusintet thy yiy Weuae tg aunty “elty in they. wohl hort
Pore (lat bei aA itriovable. ax PET eoondnieal and has a liltappreeiation t

of slo, Ment itis tot in Hin tr be QT Of values » he wonk? bave the hereiginy
Monstrative, hot he believedt he. a Pts wear cation if her hisband could nit ee ay POP Rage sy He +.
Sbeprely. repeatant: that, thirty Hays Pallond costter yeanlas Shes WHE DE 9 fio SOR Oe MioR ale tl New Vie FN
Bee Rates baci coutidential and int ,

while he wenta Jvit repeat what he Toul
sine eg te Liluy eontidentially it WH fre de 2 Shee . tae
CUOMLN Lovouvines hing he wie honest
Ph bys Hevheratioria ui Him sthal one
think fed saidy not confidentially, was re few ark witiny taker, »
“T dene rue tolang wod then he daring dh” fy io RRs
that orm the evecaf bjs baptisay, for May
eral days yaat Ne had heen pecially
Peperituit; and hat when We deecur

never heard a-eroad w
“| } Uptil thie trombl
of te rin bing wo. a

‘ *Nondof the orher brothers are at all
Sand the Trunk
Is relative t the elessvica-
teee! gocehe baw obeeh
dob an experimental

wlhto wast written. tipi fy

fast Tite Ges the jolly
i Wistar Vian koe wt i
“ 2in the forties),
er Ant Eremem.

ane rail ea
on of cottiuy
micably sere
asin! that j
minds from. New York
wu ollered by Comisiiedon
ncemion Us the
hie offer has
ly by the me
hich thia mte fax bee
a, ginvhame,
Jeachod or

SUI sent me that my
ber of hearing my. tl
towne fem inently lo
MOR, acceyitext vne odor Weve ob been for the -
Thik knook@t tha’ Id
me, and before T left hon
thinking about it. 1 con

m tired are ‘cali

muting bis. senten and. I menial altar, ‘and. to enlarge | in 1817 and for more than fifty years
ould pry 2 surprised if thet wait for | soméwhat upon their availability, in or- | was the leading physician of the place.
he has made up his mind todie [ der that our young ladies might’ have What was particularly sul in his case,
hear the Governor'is coming here to-}some information to guide them in | he is now entirely destitute of means
morrow, and I guesu it is wo from what making an advantageous matrimonial | for support and no friends to. rely on.
I have learned, that. he will be here to- alliance. We now think it no more} He lost his property by security debta,
” Hg 991 than jostice that our young men be giv. | and. being several years retired from
* Jena few pointers concerning some of | business, without income. Afterall his
{| Our young ladies who are on the mar- resources bad become exhausted, he
ut in} ket ready to be disposed of when’ the was certified to the county infirmary,
type Bates’s brother hag Galaeltided ta ty maliohsctors: ; vas) | but the citizens of the place, to their
tate the body home with him Thurs We beg leave first to call attention to | credit, collected a: fund sufficient to
day night After talking with Sheriff Miss Semantha Lightto » Who isa per- | keep him comfortable the few remain-
mea afraid of grave-| fect blonde, . with phabaize man- | ing days hé may yet live. :
robbers getting the bod for some dig-| ners and great ability in chewing | [visited the old cemeteries with a
secting room. 4/5 eh et eh ae gum. She is a” good Gromer, pia pe Pee teiy yx hie he ‘
> phe Sorte: ery | an eighe one hundred an. ; forty / ancestry and many old acquain aah ca
MEETS His BROTWRR AND His CHILE EN. poate See good order. She has, | alec the mew and nicely kept cemetery, song
- Leaving the reporter at the Arling- good « ite, being always ready for | where repose the remains of Thomas{ — ~
ton, Bates's brother went direct to the oysters amet Btn’ ice cream in sum. | Corwin.” A respectable but not very
county jail, arriving aboot 10 o'clock | mer. She is a good feeder the year | Costly monunient marks the spot. :
aoe remaining ugtil 11 o'clock, and a round, and the gentleman who wins assing around through the heigh-

“A CORRECTION. i

hour after his arrival Mrs. Eliza | ter will have her—on his hands. borbood where I was born, and obtain-
beth Hoover, the mother of the mur. We next cal! attention to Miss Lillie ed the little schooling Lever: uired, ea hey
dered wife,came with Bates's two little | Lawlaw. This lady issnineteen and| in rete tude. log house, found none} ~ + 42)
Old séttlers left, and only a few at

girls, who Wide ey eee Lari hees never gels older. She has pece nine- o 78 i: } ait the : eens j 2
lather until 1145, when t ey were taken [ teen for five and though the} of theif children and grind-children. ; ‘
to the residence part of the jail, where years come and go she is a stayer.. She | It afloried; however, great satisfaction 8,000 Yds, Very Fi
they and their grandmother temained |} by no means handsomé, but she bias | to visit the old, though greatly changed [oo 4 5) ful Tints and
for dinner. Tae an obliging way about her that makes scenery, perhaps for the last tinie <> De ale
ere was nothing very affecting ta| her deservedly popular. Bhe never de} 2/4 3. Boo DS Drake Nag on this lot i-
report, however, in eithey the Meeting | clines an invitation, being dlways Teady ¥ i) : " th
(of Bates with his brothtie or children or | to oblige anybody who invites her to them quick ©
i whatanbsequently t spired. When anything or place by a fore ac ' 4 ~ brs
Mbhe brother wad “usl@red into the] ceptance. She has a small bank ac. (2 000 Yds at Quew
eeplion cortilor,. Bates eame down count which she proposea to keep in at ect MS. 4 ve SA aa
ftom his. Gell, ig. the. upper | her own name. - ; gant Desite
ltier, and stood momentarily with his} Next iy Misa Sallie Simper. Salle Pog eahg -) s
‘arms akimbo before he reached out his makes ‘mirth. Everybody laughs at t cents. a y
hand and said, without exhibiting the | hérand she laughs at everything. She a =m
warm weathe
»)'.. yards for $1.8
35 Doz. Gents’ Im
' price 83c. a =

lot at 17 centeh
A big bargain

ou and‘) how are “the folks ?” she never perpetrates one. Sallie thinks
hen” they “wt down on -a bench everything perfectly jolly. She thinks
in the. corridor > and > talked | Emérson is too jolly for anything, and
ata couple of men would on. a niatter dotes on her knowledge of books. She
basines, ) the brother directing | is a great Magazine Birt, but not much
the — conversation ~ inj a way to lon omesticity.. Salli

te is now ready for

Paewiblé, bat it had no | more | quecn of some reputable establixhment
othect Abperently in cheering him than Then there ia Mimi Dollie Dull, who
adverse things buve bad ia rendering {| would make a suitable wife for some

and» despoudency. Thea came ition. Dollie in’ not handsome, and
children, whom he met much in the] never adya mich, She is a oung lad
» ere of, ff
up t kiss them and did. not speak, it} you took her to a picnic orany social
wits thought by some he could not; that gathering and found her a seat, you
he bhokedl beyétid utterdnce, age dy do could leave her with the amtirinee that
making so little outward show of his| she would be there when you got hack

0.

Our En

in “the lenat., Mribly, pfected : zs lie woul grow old very natarally and
brother” says, = iowever,~ that €twould be a tip-top partner for. the ;
nofed that he was _ softened | charactar of gentleman'named. Absolutely Pure. ie
copatderable. by the jtone of hit} Miss Fannie-Flat iad young lady of} yj, bowser never varien, A marvelot pli.
co! tay aftér their comin » but he | faw words and. few ideas. She laughs | rir atreogth aud-whsleaomencas, More eoon- |
coubl not detect ‘that he shed a tear rather prettily; however, and has a re. py Get Lompeltnnr ent Tye eae Seats
ands (it is perhaps. as. he once | markable faculty for the Consumption | teat, abort welght, alum or poosphate pawsders.
wilds Sheriff + Gormon, — that - he | of taffy. She is intensely found of at-| Sold ool Sens. Royal Baking rane a ae

108 Wall St; New York.

gap not weep.” Both: of the children tention,’ because of its Tarity. Mins
bed strange yy, ae eae they did ne Flat is prolifically susceptiblé and is ore Tee TEL: 7 De
now him, but Stella, the oldest, w now waiting for sonie_ géstleman of Zin
wad Bix Years of age the Mh of June, | nerve: . a Se atl ASG AES From 5. bs, 4 a(t al) : lbs
recognized him'after hvr fright abated MA EE MS Rye Sse 2h re Geel
and Sthen he Hevotesl mout of mfis : ,
ime to the youngest one, Mattie, who a honey-covler._. Pinkie do ; Health, My Happiness,
was fonr years: old the 10th of thix and is always up to the la! at Hand MW i tate ,
month} fondling her moat of un hie great consume : i asta Le rie s
in a seeming effort Urawaken a ook of | wonderful ability in Sopplying the def) = PR aeER EE ERS: ;
ognition, with which he was not re- | fects of nature, She pain bs Deas iti fully pesky Ala te see oh ooo hentaaeke 4
wart 24 9 Bree Bie and does something, tn carvings Misa Jenteagecan oF aickts Soaps thekathe FI
went to} Prim can love any youn than that Beck, rrhgtog ih alts frond A chierry stone to ab

This afternoon his Brith

¢ Lareeoaed were frigbetul Bo Todk
‘Mt aot painfad bears p ple wrned snide
4 4 fi : When'they asw meth dieeuet, “abi tw
repaired and in god condition. AU) ashamed t he on the airootor in wwiet ye’ Phy:
18 Just a8 good ws new to wear out Avy | sicians ana their treatment, and all meliéines’

Yiew with him alone, and it wag prob-| heart on. two or three different

t ite
“ 1 ra him again f a fe:
ee OE VISITORS 2a | youbg man will find her’ just ‘ax “Tepe. | tailed w do aby Ki,’ In emomeatot deapair
Albeit Shoritr @ormoif announced in sented. A young man mightdo Worse, | Firted the Cuticura Memetioa ulieuray the
# reat Skin Cure, aot Cutieura Suapyan exgus-

ay

i
eotnlay, would be excluded from the | is a natural sweetheart. She takes to'a Resolvent, tie Hew Blond Purifier. inBrnalty :
thy Latredpes Broke jh athe

two weeka, Weharging targe Oantibee at
SMO sear Tuy neeks

Weight Reo wae Ong Nita test wed Bftonee slew?

7
¥ Af leaaly tive toet fre te hes my traveled tT
4 < dew od Ane CURiCUTA Remodien Noh, Roet fe
+ Miss} kk

. angig S
by callatten tig: abt ant Wests TUG i rura/emnalion? nace

vrowinent N ‘Yuk Trhwetet Rebel oe th
other dag VEL Ge the Coteus
+ temitney
avs. thay
Wee ecm

Mie BoCouple. uf ometithis, And 7 kitthen or jn the opeirtar. 2) Ste

Pruthine and othey Rie
re Werk Ryilt te ir
aa. oa a eee

at toate ae i
bf & tic” Sa

* 4
Rea
.

ate tre Sip i
ie

sene Oot huingthiiey : wth fo thet la tietre Ihe ot
Hee Ata Dereon, wee the dhe Wit he
Tarety aed of ever ente Tro abr ag store.

. 4 SM HES AN trad).

“ Outituta emmpeey dre ck postin dare tar
“Svery teri WSU and Bleed Pecan *) from
Jerri vubere Price
On sictra, 6a ° #25 Ge tha. Ky merry
‘ 4 ~ m + Drow tt Meme
WA over pig fOLO Prepare Parte : E
: ‘ ¥ q FAT UR, HeleGi. Mase sent tire
{OF fast budh a mirl. They Skin Dinganen oe EG “ae eB
‘itieeae] PIM Rs Herne te shine nieimmher end] 5
Waby Uy mor ous Cater Seis,

Pian ples wr Soy

“#

ACVINGT To Onte”

B ne

» Sneezing Gatarrh,” fae

An Interesting Vienser Meeting Od

rhe and checks, corse
= CaM brics,

ee Soib : oy S|

brother John, next younger thar
reed ¥

CUTE yesterday afternoon): 2 he TNcehed Whiweri Mel OC thik sid Acca | AYRE Uatromalnys snoavas Wilk rendan! Ne
Wit sof miata ality errest SA hat bad Deparica_— Aertd, watery Alethateus train the ayia and
a heniber of the church: fiat yet Wika Mt y

WHEW RAS prim head eho tne | The Bitione


He WOU ee ceiope Wwitlherc Dab fr &J WW i i .
i the dunt visibly atfected? oc Hia f lie would grow old very natirally and

% A sbyulex montis telary beseanie here fi A her Pott 2 { y

6 DEEL LTR A Ae Y mpreleiae Be Da Ls Yr) brother. mays “lowever, ~ that he would be a tip-top partner ‘for. the

os GS oe ante: ° but changed hit mind, meying Council) noted © that. Nes was woftened character of fontlomas natued, Absolutely Pure.
t) nr a

Recep we Re ae apes ©) SSP Blutly wae not the place for binj, and coomidorable “by the tone of hin] Mim Fannie Flat isa young lady of "ps : .
FOTW) He Te Ging People Ree Hera Goad, bet} for a whilihe wont ws the country 4nd | conversion iher their coming, but he | few words and few ideas Site faa cits athemgts aed eheeracnae eee ae Gers, 25c.
Cone bo Mat Me Decan's Neo Why They} worked On a farin. Drinking ‘wilw hia td { hat heat ‘ seth : omical thanshe ordinary kinds, aad canaot be a J igh get
Rakin | Seren pkeasa’ wenscs it ma ital could not detect that he ated a tear | mther prettily, however, and has a re sold In competition with the meatiitede st low * =
nad Pewee ae A p> | trouble, and'wo tried every way ta ko anid it in perhapa us hé — once | markable faculty for the consumption teat short weight, alum or phosphate powders. } ee os
6 AT Ngw hy a C8 STi 2 hrait him from getting liqnor, “When he Kt htt Rheri (orion, that — hel ot taffy. She ia intensely foud of at- | Sold only lo cane, Koyal Raning Power Co.
thin mMohiing dyn! Y, McUnpt Btéwatt « drink he conte not atop and would | oan not weep. Both of the children tention, because of its rarity. Mine | C Wsilse..New York ad
wrote to the Preadent Qakt he apy iene Wrink stall vile enough to ball «nan. aeted xtrangely, ax though they did not! Plat id prolifically susceptible and ia | TT ett :
tod the peliuka for git the narrgw- | Eden't believe « man Whis eau not taka} prow him, but Stella, the olde, who] now waiting for some gentleman of F 15 fh to 16] Ibs
minded) neu ef both be chi in’ ret a drink without going wit iss much of was #ix years of age the Mh. of June: nerve, rom S, ‘
Feat My. > Matthey a socged |e man in bis head, amd I think brother recognized him alter her fright abated We expecially call attention to Mins
“redenck Cale at hat Dey Me: Still ino eee, amcr ke Rast and then he devoted rire of hy Pinkie Prin, who may be dcseribed aa f
Winetration wna hberalisiaye nr Wivids > 2 Nor ray in ara HEAD, time Ws the youngéat dpe, Mattie, who a honey-cooler, Pinkie dotes on atyle, Ry Health, My Ha Pinees, s
ing the colured vote. He received the TW, har PaO tad was four yenra old the 10th of this | and is always up to the Tatest, She aa : e i . 1 4 7
following anawer: a oto We boys (his brothers) had Uelked month, toning her moat Of the time great Rinaniies of conivieticn and lias and. My Utes 826 Main - St.,
o)  EXkuTivye. MAneion 2 i 1 iw acoming effort to awaken i look of | wonderful ability in supplying the: de A ah eae pelea eat tie ce ‘hab’ had aS b= me is PA

‘

a
%

- SWakrixoton, Ade 11, (haa, recognition, with whieh he was not fe | fects of naturd: She paints beautifully speak Kindly of the Catioura Remedies. even
My- Jase Bir-1 ei aot feria the: war ed. } He TE Hey aru does something it carving. Mins eat Sige, al! of a toseo Pumpa. turmet ou my 7
tise igi thy Wy dele SLs! tang This Afternoon his brother went to} Prim ean love any young man. that neck: rnoging in aize frou a cherry slone to an ei ; 3g
>hRL AAT tA Bs redobpt ‘af the jait Again, hoping te haye ain inter-} has the wherewhith, She has loat her orange.) The large ones were. frigtttul to look CASH AND ry
Ting letlir in rotation ty Uys view with him alone, and it was prob- heart On: two (or three different oe- atand painful wo beat; people tarned aside :

able, too, that the children would he} casions, but fhe now thas “it all | wean they naw me, io diegust, apd 1) was #0 81 antw ;
taken into him again: ‘ repaired aad im goad condition. It ashament Ly be on the atreetur in society. Pby- ;

ee ae - ig Just ad good as new towear out. Ad sictaoe aul their treatment, ant ali medicines
2) OTHER VIStTOR ; eg oe man will find ber just as rapa fafled todd say goad, bn s moment of despair
‘hia Albeit Sheriff Gormurt announced in sented. A -yonng man might do wore, 14 uied ine Cuticura Remetiea —Cutioura, the
ee 2 the TELFGKAM last evening What visi- though we think not reat Skin Care. and Cuticura Suap, an exyut-
tors, who numbered over eight hundred Then there in Mina Gertie Qush; who] arte skin weautiter, externally, and Caticurs
yeatorday, wontd be exclided frony the i A natural sweetheart. She takes ti a Resulvent, the new Riuwt Putitier, Interpalty :
jail from a on, tindreds came und | sata as naturally as & mule doew! ty | the mmall lumpedas Ceall them) grads
tos tata Nhs mother whee wore admitted “to the jailyard ty fodder.” Gertie “never says anything Geet weckeraere eke ee,
abdurdtd * then ‘J see a A eal crt being a foe een seeing bret 2 reat in to-date cell chaapape et ay eee
erhing® 5 orbhecn conatant “am n Ae direc. | kissing ‘the bby ROO bye, srtie iw + < ne store ul my bo te
a pps ts vetiti Saati tion when the reportyy left this after- | post natured, like w ealf, fut the indi | ™* Haat, eMdhak te wintes , ae sth le
tk hime ther hoon, Prec nlhig & scene like inks t 1e cations are that she will be dn the peepee et _ the ade ye bps xr thats rhe
picture entitled “Going U) the’ Fair.” t market a mre time. = F NF by onetd rt tan hed Rarkelics, North. auth,
And there were a few admitted t the} We are glad to call attention to Minn | Bane Tat -wests Vocenrare Kemelion I owe
jail for special reasons, sucly as report: | Susie Sterling She is one in a thone | my health, wy Wappinens.” abel my life. =A
erd, a photographer, Jone ph Martin, of Paid, She has good sense and. ix always : ork avaga
Hagerstown, the fardger with whom | a ludy. Everybody who knows her Kemedjen, you loo! 1
Paige orient child “has > been avin admires her, She is a tady in the | My mevly wae. ear iil ET eee nate COR. SEVEN
or a couple, of niauths and, of | kitehen or in’ the) parlor, She | aenont usivg the Cuueure Kewetive."’ Some- 4st 4 ao
phat ate ok MeMiton ot Re Mary's he | oa OM a steak eal Ht] wt aa ea fey we Pmithing aid other Repairish
Se tee eee uk yeti de®; MeMullen, of St > Mary's Catholic necesuiry, OF Ualk Tutelligently upon | Be eat af: thay will-onabe. GF InCiE: Semone ced Bait &
SCENMION MADE Te KANTERN church. The latter anid to the TELE Feurront themes: She. ix educatet for | betieye the sauce as thowe thatuac them. as]. Work Bailt to Order...

* Fresh G Fi 6
“r thy trea hia. boon | dit } ab ort it, whatever it | dotens have whom Phare told. May the time :
: he GRAM reporter that injus Ii duty and she performa it, whatever i Sup} ET. C. LARSE:
a se Bue done the truth if not Bates in the re Tinay be, cheerfull She in consistently Din ven: ieotechealey patted werk tor ee may ik-Smoe-d 2 we. me
= port that he is ag immovable aaa piece | economical and _fias a fine appreciation At of humanity, where thet uticnra Rome: se
/} of stone, that it is notin him w be de-| of values: Bhe would have the heroism [er ees Ot acer Selarieaia ert ’
al] | MOnstrative, but -he helieved he “is | to wear calico if her husband could not M. UUsHa?d
ike my father, | *ineerely “repentant; that thirty days allord costlier goods, She would) be a », 210 Falton s€, New Yor 3
nup in the Tervoram | 80 Bates became contidential and Uiat | wife that woul always kecp @xpensea} Cutiours Kemedioe are a positive sure for
laat June (ax the jolly, good:natired | While he Would not repeat what he bad | lew thayr incomen, She is kind and wetelac Bove eostionien atten
and popnlar Yankee stage nianager fy | since maid to hint cou identially it..was | considerate. She wont be on the mar-| Cutioura, 0 conte: Soap, 25 conte. Kebolvent,
Riehmond ‘way lack in. the fortica), | CHOugh lo convince him he was honest ket long, fora million of YOUN men | $1.00 Prepared by the Potter Urug aad € berat-
™ y ‘| iw hia leclarationy to him that one took inart ‘hw girl. © They | t8! 0%, Noswe, Mana. Send for “How to Cure
Still sent me that ape: and I remem- MR tik BF Tou! ne or just such a girl. bey | Skia Diseanoa. (
ber of hearing my father speak of this to eae
town frejuently. of sed to be

thing he said, not nfidentially, wax lare féw and soon taken ae PI PLES, Hiackheade: Stic Biemihéa aad
father over ‘agnin, Powis told, but of

“Tdeserve tohang an hen be damned;” Fe ae SOR te Ps .
Gr on the eve of hidpaptiam, for Boye A VISIT To onto. Baby Mumors, use Cuicura Seay
have n't been for the ‘wix months | {ol days past, he hadk been especially et ee
This knocked the etd clear but of pee and that when it ‘oceur- Am Interesting Pinacer Méeting oi Sneezing Catarrh.

Ee eye

me,and, before -T feft home f got so | Sprred,. ‘yesterday, afternoon, . > he Meemes Wheace 109t Of the-old Facea| The «fistressing ancete, brerte, aneea, the
hervoud thinking about it 1 cou id net onmialekably, earmests © that] mad me pected. acrid, watery Alecharers frew the erey and
work, (avian Lae eR Tepe, a meriber 2 cf * the ehareh, WN, RE Ries LP ricqram noes, the painful infammation extesd ing to
J cam bricx, cloth, Sta. } “My brother Sotin, next younger tha ty ae pitticeliss anit Ky ys abe "4 cette 4 hess meepahee tiahsl-aeharte See ee
ble 6h cloth ae aprén checks Med thirty-two yew of age), who “is fe fyi he yd Seay ei ® terri re crime turnin Bn A visit Ww several | caustag choking sensations, « cing
hale ied I Astana | witcbtaan sin’ the” yard. ot Colingit 48 He replied: “Yeas hut God is great pointe tn Ohio, -perhapa a few of my | notseain the heal and splitting bealaches:
single aeed ) Sotton eet tet, Blietise. wad tO iash pacer Some tune age PA! good Enough ta forgive ite | Observations may be of interest to your | how famtliar fnear aymptums are to thousands.
Cottonades, denims, ticks, ducks, “ritle Hitt hie denuded oe laine Lek that ref) the: purpose Of Joseph Martin. in readers. . Piawing through Montgomery, | who suffer periclically trom heat wafie oF i6~
. “falling was fo consult Kates relative. to} Biitler, Warren, Greene, Fayetu, Clark, Auenza, and who live in ignorance of the fact

cotton warping yarn, grain. bags, ausiall od ae }
kitids of twitted: Pac pititottand off, aod: fina ly caved en- ] copes . t . . ‘ that a single application of Sanfont-s Radical
adopting his little girl na his own, | Mianii and Durke counties, I noticed Cure for Catarch wilt adori-tuctactacenn ce

tirely, shying’ be -could. fot stand it. i . A 2
eve Ex if Then Taleternined to come, and start. | but Bates neither aeented nor object- | the crops were very fine. Never, in all | jer

k ed righGoll, wo uy brother, Stitt, does [ed miyidg. the “mattcr had. better| my life did Lowe aech, Mammoth corn | But this treatment ip cases of simple Catarrh
packaxe, f » At,

[the shipper’| net know Lani here yet “25s beJeft open until after the execution, | as in #utler and Warren, and the best Sih rect Uenhir ehereite breathing Na
Of the shipper}! Tins'¥ey- elie Daz on as tha | Speaking of ‘ }
aso detwst. 2am going to the Jail as soon as the + ake B

g it as unconcernédly a4 | seemed to be that on upland which had | opatructed by hoking, pari) mucous accuma-
landlordt, Mr. Gi a ot Ott gh it-were a mere pleasure trp he | been enttivated for seventy or eighty | iations, the ‘he riig adecuy, .
falne | Qndlord, Mr. ME tate) seeds was going to embark upon, Previous: | years. This fertility of soi , I was fold. guider Pet eee

aod taete
shipment” > itt We. thereafiér | down witht pre, My Treuncak Sheri ‘ atny tect! upon t Aiitatedt
‘ Ce eee orgtt ; Ss peaking to Sheriff Gormon. tipon | had been secured by a general «yatem o _ Thon itie that the marvelous cura
required to pay the) regular’ elas piled mare then gin ia ree Ye Whos is the subject of the children, he aaid-he plowing under ctover with ripened seed, Power ot Sanfort’s Natical Cure manifeate
onall further shipment The retical uucht yardfoaster forthe T& M~/at . : . : ; . , Ne in instantaneous and grateful rehef
u eect : Denver, was born At Fairfield, Iowa, | WOuld not object to. their Hein which enriches the soil for four or tive Cure begias from the fret application. It is

i adopted by good people who would | years. The land then being allowed to | radical, permanent, economical, safe.

me phen Ne let? Bay étjetethiecChutiseod poke lived tt i :

i ver weet . ten 1 1 nee ree ere. : * Peay fs i
yan Be Chea ~ weet Heh The aint my tythorhating known. thant educate them, but in tnquiring | rest the seed in the ground would pro- |. santoris Radical Cure consists of one bottle! Te clean ent a lot of Reco
fol sega’ ; t Re. 1 Kebalbeat hy oie Richmond, named hint after the land. | 4" Mm Hoover concerning the | duce another crop of clover, and thus | of Sitacd dey daventueaters pres: erate ga for the “Starr” U prigh :
ited a entiy ae mat Wns Hrotltae Apa ke ple Stella waa with, he said he hated | the soil is kept constantly renewed. bboy depts 4 hha LOA Ree iB bias j x SP coum sy ear?
Tol y ae ey acre pee te “My oldewt brother, Fa thirty-seven | & have them separated and would |. J rtopped awhile at Middletown, | Portes Dace ann Crewreat, archos i ; f eh
air | Bye hae ber 2 wi? 4 byenary of agey? is hates bailiff at | ther for her to keep them than to have which. is becoming quite city ACHING BACKS ¥ } : ‘ ;

ny, Indy 4s isp Frans ol pis a a atl ihe 4: ° : mined it Pheine 4 tUY
. ry Council Bluth eed : ein go One) iia and about being ‘incorporated as
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Bs LD BS et. “age 2 Z 3 9 ee H Weak Hack, Pain, Weakness and | % t
4S 4 a : i att such. This isa mannfacturin place, Jdammation Mf the’ Kuineya, Shooting AND ON TERMS TO
AM INDIANAPOLIO MAN’ CRIME. Of ee THE HaBi ae gs For Hay Fever. i Pomedaing much wealth and enterprise. Palue through the Lotwe, Hip and Side} yo your chawastos
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PE gS ore ar peepee See ty sd ROT aR hoy, was the ive Ely's Cream Balm a trial. This} The leading business ia paper_making; | « (hapten De Bp ipl sec ie og
He Commits _ Deubie rder aed lam gtad Ty hear hie halies are here. juatly Relebralad remedy for the cure of} also paper hag and tobacco manufacture. ihe wutieone ‘ud-Pain. tanter, waret ; e
Takes His Own Lite With Chlere | wait ty aoe the Tittle ones, and had my cereh hay fever, cold in the head, &c. | They have water-works with a soaring | SEP ae aleueeh aay Thfaltiale a :
Meayiens eee CS eee] mind. nade. ww “to rap of at fh be obtained of any reputable drug- | of Apres pl ient ir ia that of any cit $L.eo: Of pasinge. tree of Weesey Ber 3
Evuira, N.Y. Aug: 21.—News waa Hagerstown tht morning and bring | giat, and may be relied upon asa sale | éver visited. I drank of water which Chemical Ce., Renton, Mans. 2 i 1 Feig
receited Thactlay night that Elbert P| thera over with me, but I afte aj and plearant remedy for the above com-| came direct from the hydrant, as clear — weeaillyr, O33 MAIN
Cook and his oldest daughter had been | con¢lidel 20 bomterhere” gant pet! ti), tb and will give immediate relief.| and cold and free from onpleasant M.A. SUMMONS LIVER MEDICINE, : ts tk Shae
killed 9 Buenos Ayres, Sout: America a) have « talk with Sherif Gornidn’ Cis not a liquid, snuff or powder, bas | flavor as any well water I ever tasted, WHAT IS BAID OF IT. Fy - ——— —
on July itth jaxt, by. pistol shots fred. first. I yuenn thay came on. the“*ame no’ offensive. odér and can be used at | The water is obtained from a large well Stile ieaeeeakS kas Mainrions Caeeee E ;
by aa insane man. It appears that | train I did, or at feast Iam told so, bot | aly time with good results, as thous-| sunk at the edge of the. Miamt Dh bai 9 adeaon without !t. It saved us from much
Cook, who was president of the bank of | I did not know them if f saw them, for | snd can -testify, among them some of | and is pumped direct to the hydranta, -sicknoss,’—Rev. J. C. Weaver, of Texas. :
Havean, N.Y, some time ago, embes-| I have not seen them in « long while. 1 | Up attaches of this office.”—Spirit of the | © E attended the pioneer meeting of Twonty years of suffering from Indigestion
tled all the available fands, drove to thia | always thought a great deal of the child- | Tienes, May 29, 1836. =) $435 | Warren and Butler commties a. Monnaie, (ees Liver was relieved by a package
city at. midnight, and took a train for | ren. % PROS Ea aire. yt a gy a pee | Which was attended “by an SOUMEN ES foe tt. Rev. MIL, Callum, Grapevine, Texaa,
Canada, since which. lime his move- x: WL oe hag Se nia Nena Ss eS Hu) of bg Dy reaps! vey le ntecrante a he “Tt has Gone more to relieve and cure me of
Whentt have been “« anti te CONS HE c nk merits o! Trawad river burst | he a ublol grove, somew in- adache other remedies I
Pibsahvre Af ha hie tract Hh “No, indeed, ft witt not witness the inythis Sty yesterday, So rapid was | jured by the cyclone last spring. I met Loeradinty i. Souestrog ty Carolina. 5
went imniédiately WGitanate acne execution.» I have witaesed a gnod the flow 6 ter that in. a few | several old acqaaintances and” achool- “It proved & biessing to my family.I cheertut_
America, ‘and waa joined at Buenos | Many, byt there is not money enough | tioments the whole — district was | mated of early youth, but by far the ly testify to ite merits.” Its popularity here ie
Ay rea, last fall, by his famil , consisting | ia Todiana_ to induce me ww see this Bgided from four to twenty feet | larger portion had passed away, or. be unbounded "Rey. 8.0 Shaw, Ratesville, ark.
of a wife and four little girls, the eldest | One. “I believe Still is’ reall et The engineers at once cut the} come too old and. feeble to attend. bese are but samples from among the many

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aged thirteen. A. young man ‘named | ‘ant, and long n south of the city to allow the Among the pioneers present were « ot .
Glock) from Hndieda Tia, was an in-| Pind. tox die, ors to subside... Fifty thousand per- dozen or more whoee ages ranged from ier the original MA Simmowe' liven Nest
mate of the family residence of Buenos | b $0hs are to-day homeless, Mery. flood | ninety-two down to seventy-tive. Bome | scima, at 8t Louis, Mo Take 20 ether
rea On July 11while Mr. and Mm plies storogare swept away. The re-| of these had come a great distance} #8 Pap sha
(Dok fr in” the doorway talking, { 0 t will. be “pproach to ‘famine | The principal speakers were Jamen B. : ;
ack’ walked out from another room an go to the penitentiary. | arnong homeless People. ‘ Graham, of Lebanon, president of the CATARRH
iwhere ha had been writing, and, with-| He also writes us to very: much the Us, ; coe = Association, and General Vandeveer, of
out the dlightest warning, shot Cook, | "ame effect as he has talked on other | he beat medical authoritiesacknow} | Harriton. Impromptu addremes were :
killmg him inntantly, @ then turned | Matters. and I believe has said nothing édge the value of Ayer's Cathartic Pilla} made by severa persona, among the
‘}and shot Mrs. Cook, when the eldeat | of hate that has not been _Te- frequently prescribe their use with | "umber Dr. Webster. of Connersville,
daughter, Thankful, who was up stairs, | PO here, a ogi Oa] thd utmost Confidence, as the most ef-| Ind, who was born eighty-one yeam be-
pe down and yaa shot through the| - WILL RETURN FOR THR BODY. taal remedy for diseases caused hy | fore within sight of these grounds, also,
le, -dyidg foatantly. With the derangements of the stomach, /liver,| ™ F. Drake, of St’ Paul, Minn. and

TK ituck then inflicted |. “I will leave here on the Chi and bowels, Major John, of this city, both very old a c . art
ia oO nee bide is ate wha pioldoate of Warren ~ county, An Teas ess arness a Pe
sn roo Bhp atk s

y “ Mra. Cook’s head | train Thareday night, but will not PUORAS Saha wa. i
which rendered her ineensible. He | the body with me. My purpose ia to .) Wasnixaton, Aug. 21-—No intima- usual, the meeting was enlivened : : :
d tha bodies to the cellar door, | *Tange with Sheriff Gormon concern- tion has been received at the Slate by singing from the old Missouri Har- i i Se tae &

a en bommitied suicide by taking ont ite keeping until my brother John Department of -the alleged pur, mony with “back wheat” notes, by some . A 4 f | runks a
chloroform. It is supposed he was in-| Ot I come after it about six weeks from of the Mexicans to pardon Cut-| fifteen or {wenty old-timers, male and - g
sane, as the family never had any have es ee mond aad wish owe ting as soon as he shall have suse It was, indeed, a very enjoy- : ; ' he eee

ith hi j ; ; sooner e, : ra pane d Br q i *
Vyas belt Labs : ‘F known I waa to have come, but Ido not or ag Beit He fe aero gimmbeiogn- per ate both he he, bp daeed A particle le appited into each acetril and is Latest Novelties In Dr

i Baek Statement, 5 seo what good I could have done un- an act of clemency, the govétamrsnt Lalao visited my old native town of masksregtteret: ws 5 7 GC NE
New Yorx, Aug. 21;—The weekly bank | leas it was that my presence would have | wi} andertake the task of securing «| Lebanon, ten miles east, which I left ? ELYB ruggiste, I low Harness, ~Olis
statement of the Associated Hanks of | been comforting to my brother.” - Fenunciation of the claim of extra-ter- | just filty years ago, to find bat compara- | 3 : wena, N.'¥. . T il %
y ow Yorly shows tha following changes: COR FESaED uucn. *~ | ritorial jurisdiction. - tively few changes in its general ap-| +. s. warra, =. 3, Ee. Watrs, w. 2. oue Hit

ccrease, $473,350; loans, de- |”. ; Ate —————_____ Prarance, it having increased only « DOCTOR WATTS & BON, +). Bee
crease, $7,017 500; specie, increase, $796- ce gante py Of lagtevening’s TRL» | | Weak pe 9 spitting of blood, con- | lew hundred in population since I ott. PHYSICIANS AN® SURGEONS,
800; tedilera, decrease, $4,055,800, | Gra to'send home, but the first of that sumption and kindred affectiona, cured | But few, very few, of those I formerly | Otice and Reakienco, No. 28 N. %h St,
ee ee 142,606, circulation | confpesion about hye having been con- | without physician. Address for treatiae, | knew were remaining. \[ cated upon  ouocenatully ail tormeed atone: tak. 58
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30,700, The banks now hold | n with the J Jarmes {with 10 cents in stamps, World's Din- | two of ite former most active citixena— om

7; 6 in ex ‘of the 26 per cent. pare ab thosé two men and 5 ae pen Medical Association, 663 Main one, John KE, , 96 and 7
5 Sik Wess ing one udder 6‘ whart' at’ Council Hreet, Butalo, N.Y. Betts poaed Mh old, he og has nies almost seltybuaedl og ooabsee

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