a07 FE Kacted
"T'm sorry for all my sins. May God have mercy on my
soul and accept me," he said, speaking through the black death
mask covering his head.
icceeeeee. pitt
The chair was dormant for another three years. On Oct.
21, 1938 it was used to carry out justice for a Will County murder.
John Jelliga, 34, of Whiting, Ind. was strapped into
the chair at 12:01 a.m.
"God bless my wife and my two children," he said, just
th A, “00
g= before wwe volts went through his body. His youngest child
+the 2 £046, I) £:
was born while cumemesreew@ee Un death row.
the was waitingt ‘
Jelliga and Michael Munjas eum arrested for the murder
+weret
of Edward Pansa, a Crete farmer, in December 1937. But Munjas
hung himself in the county jail.
The two bandits had tied up the «uaumnpepmpesned? farmer and his
44 Bsa
wife and wumemuem demanded money. @® said he had none and they
++ +Pansat
him to mae Then they shot the wife twice.
But she didn't die. She managed to get loose of the
ofr
eee anc then crawl through the winter night for a half mile
+ropet
to get nelp at her exe brother's neighboring farm.
No one claimed Jelliga's body. He was buried in the new
prison cemetery, locate. on Caton Farm Road. His was the eighth
WY,
406 Xa ccled
She had visited her husband on death row everyday for two
months. And she brought their small son with her each time.
Hauff was baptised a Baptist a few days before his
execution. And in a special cereomony in his cell, em the
convicted murderer dedicated his 19-mot=nth-old son to the
church.
He also sent a letter of apology to the cashier's
Five months later Gerald Thompson, a 25-year-old
Peoria factory worker, made the final walk to the chair.
On Oct. 15, 1935 at 12:15 a.m. the 2,400 volts were sent
thrfough his body.
“The family is satisfied. We would have taken nothing
less," said an older man who witnessed the execution. The man
was a fellow factory worker. He was also the father of Mildred
Hallmark, the 19-year-old victim who had been raped and strgngled
tat
in a cemetery
Thompson was visited by his parents, grandparents and
_ oof
(ha wor a4
a younger brother, wwe prison for a sex crime, the day before.
+who was in thet
That night he ordered fried chickem=n, stuffed olives,
wilted !ettuce and c= black walnut ice cream to eat.
ie nad accepted the Catholic faith © few davs earlier.
A05 E Kecutidl
Blak
The same day wm was executed, the electric chair at
MenarD +Blink+ Thowea/
the ewepeew Prison was also being used. @um Lehne, an ex-cop,
+N=Menardt +Thomast
was executed for murdering his girlfriend's husband.
A court had sentenced her to death also. But the governor
coguted her sentence to 99 years the day before.
+mm+
The chair didn't hardly have enough time to get cooled
off before it was to be used again. On May 10, 1935, which
was only 17 days after Blink, three men were scheduled for
execution.
John Hauff, 32, Fred Gerner, 27, and Arthy=ur Thielen,
42, had dupe tried to rob ems the Leonore State Bank inespme
January. éieeinehyee But all they got was a blazing gun battle
ake ch Woe”
wie extended over three counties.
+which wast
And when it ended Charles Bundy, a bank cashier, and
Glenn Axline, the Marshall County sheriff, lay dead. A fourth
bandit, David Leech, killed himself just before the capture
Wacewt,
nade in a cornfield near oh
+Macomb.+
The three bandits all blamed Leech emm for firing the
shots which killed the sheriff and the cashier.
Numerous relatives visited the three men on death row
the day before the execution. The last didn't leave until about 11
eae et
Six wméee months later Elvin Wood went to the electric
chair for the murder of his best friend. cpa PLD
"Bi=oys, I want to get this over with quick," the 36-year-old
Morris man told police when he was arrested on Feb. 21. He was
executed on April 14, 1939, 52 days later.
~
Wood's victim was Abner Nelson, a wealthy farmer and
(hod. S Bisitite
former schoolmate. @@™ said he shot the man in the back gma
+Woodt +five times
wm wired oe plot because of money problems. The body was
then dumped in the Illinois River near Seneca.
Wood put on weight in death row. He had shrimp cocktail,
fried chicken and apple pie for a last meal. That was topped off
with two cigars.
It was raining when he was strapped into the chair at
12:01 a.m. And he smiled at the witnesses who watched him through
the glass wall.
eccecee qhsd sts
It was two years later when Leo Jordan, a 23-year-old
°. é ’
By
who spent most of his life in =a sent a message to the
+tinstitutions,t+
warden. He said he would “Qie like a man.
The thin, frail youth had been in institutions since age
en from his mother after her divorse. He was
There wm an unknown number of persons executed in the
+weret
Cook County elecr=tric chair. James Dukes was the last man
executed there in 1962 for the murder of a Chicago police officer.
The old Cook County chair is now a standby chair at
Stateville, which has been designated the only death chamber
undér the present death penalty law.
There are now 13 men sentenced to die in the chair aeuemm
that @2 2 clectrocuted 13 other convicted killers.
institution in Iowa for 10 years. He was out only a few months
Cyl
when he was sent to { Iowa prison.
+ant
He was released from prison in September 1941 and he
went to live with a sister in Fulton, Ill. Three weeks later he
was arrested for murdering a 5-year-old boy.
He lured the youngster from a school Playground to a
woods. The «mm child was sexually molested and then his throat
was cut.
@mm accepted the Catholic @tmmm faith on death row ana
+Jordant
constantly read from the éudie@mp Bible.
He was strapped inte the electric chair at 12:07 a.m.
On May 13, 1942.
“Keep your chin up, " said Sheriff R.E. Crook, who was
witnessing the execution.
"I've got it up," the killer replied. He was pronounced
dead at 12:15 a.m. His body was also buried in the new prison
cemetery.
vinaesetvncessscs gosta
lett
The electric chair emmmm unused for another seven years.
twentt+
On Sept. 16, 1949 Herman Frederick Weber made that last walk
to the death chamber.
‘ . ; '
“My conscience is clear because I'm innocent. I'm ready
that somethina wit!
410 Cxsetd)
me, the 25-year-old Per=oria killer said.
Five times the date of execution was postponed with
pleas of clemency. But the U.S. dime Supreme Court refused an
appeal and Gov. Adlai Stevenson refused executive clemency.
Weber had killed Dean Fueger, a 20-year-old Bradley
University sty=udent, on Dec. 1, 1947. He was arrested by FBI
agents in Houston, Texas on Dec. 11. Four days later he led
poftee to the youth's mp body which was hidden in @ua=wrr.
river lowlands near Lewistown.
The killer calmly played cards and checkers with
a Sixt
guards and thought e@ammnimems Stay of execution would be granted.
+a sixth+t+
But he accepted the Catholic faith and started reading the
Warden Joseph Ragen had bared any women from witnessing
the execution. But there were 32 men there, including the uncle
of the murder victim.
At 12:50 a.m. Weber's head was shaved and an electrode
was attached. Hanging d= from the electrode was the piack |
_Ltappr
His hands were esuupummb together and his fingers
+strappedt
clinched as he walked into the death chamber. He sat in the
chair at 1:06 a.m. and received the first electrical jolt at
1:07 a.m. Within two minutes he received four shocks of 2, Joo
+44
electricity.
Weber was tame declared dead at 1:09 a.m. He was the 13th
and last man executed in the prison's electric chair.
a i
The electric chair replaced the hangman's noose @erm
tin Illinois int
1928. Seven months before the three men were electrocuted in the
Joliet prison, the last man somiorwehheiet was hung in
.
Illinois.
The morning of April 19, 1928 Charlie Birger was climbing
Xo
the 13 steps em a Benton scaffold. The @tmuaieppmme Southern Illinois
+tot Kana Gre ‘ si din Paieeth
bootlegger and gang leader had helped his @ewe earn the enhwaauZrea
+home areat +namet
"Bloody Williamson County.”
"lt emu truly is a beautiful world," Birger told the
crowd. His neck was snapped at 9:43 a.m. when the trap door
cu ped +
+droped.t+
Electric chairs were used to execute murderers in
Gemmeeerisrnem Menard
+thet +Prison and thet
Cook County Jail. Sixteen men and two women were executed in
the Menard chair between Oct. 20, 1931 and Jan. 28, 1938.
se
There were four mass executions in @n—meitverm Menard
+thet
thaivr: three men and a woman on Dec. 11, 1931, three men on
‘933, three men on July 9, 1935 and a man ar. woman
;
on. Jan....283 ,
Dec. 13, 1991.
Dan:
I obtained a listing some years ago of executions that took
place in the Cook County Jail, but with absolutely nothing
other than names and dates. As I got to the end of working
in the Ill. corrections, I discovered that you had found
Tribune articles on most of these (I found this with the
case of Dennis Anderson whose card I pulled because you noted
his age. From that point on, I checked each of these and where
you indicated a cite, wrote on the back of the last envelope
the names and cites asking that you get articles.
There were others before this, and I am listing here those for
which I need articles, including the ones listed on back of
envelopes. The cites are from the Chicago Tribune:
John Drugan 10-15-1898 (10/3);
Chris Merry, 4-23-1898 (14/1);
George Dolinski, 10-12-1901, (4/6);
Louis Peasant, 4/16/1904, (15/3)
John Johnson, 1/21/1905, (9/2);
Larry Lindrum, 2-16-1918, (8/4);
Edward Wheat, 2-16-1918, (8/4);
Dennis Anderson, 7-20-1918, (13-8);
John Reese, 10-15-1920, (21/1);
Frank Zagar; 10/16/1920, (7/5);
Harry Ward, 7-16-1921, (5/1);
Frank Ligreni, 11/10/1921, (3/6); and
Joe Holmes, 2/14/1921, (10/1).
Also, because Joe James was 18 at execution, would like copy ofthat
article as he was possibly juvenile at crime; if date of crime is
given, try to get that also.
Watt
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ILLINOIS EXECUTIONS. SUMMARIZED BY: CARLO MELE, SCHILLER PARK, Ill. |
(12=12-198h.
SUMMARY- Letiwots Eve crRo cuTlons
TouleT - 3B caqses
Clack - Browt- Bressete- 3 crime- partners Who murdered an elderly Sap-
mer named West (2) near Wavkeqgn, Bressetle, 4 Chippewa Indian, had done
some work around West's (2) farm b noticed “he farmer's cashbox was well
Filled when West (2) pad him. He receuited Clark & Brown To join WM Q Cobbs. a!
ry in which \Nest (2) was slain, This was, | believe, in the catty part ot
(99%. | also believe no one else Was involved in the Crime.
COOK COUNTY G cases.
1 Grecco- Wal- J er/me- pariner's who shot b killed Chicago Police
Pdrolman Esav hie robbing Q drug store oN Clark Sk on Chicago's
North Side. 1 beleve Hrs was in [ete (9&7 on carly (948.4 that no one
élse Was avelyed in the crime.
y 4) Gloyer- Swan- a crime- partners whe shot b Ailled a middle- a9ed
5)
J
a
black Pullman porter who was q customer {a q store they were
pobbing, i Chicago, They were tried & sertenced by Todge Marcus Krqu-
An quah, author of “The Ouminal b His Allies,' published circa [IA8.
Woodward- Shot b hilkd a Chicago poltceman, L beheye in
@ Crossfire § that UJooduard | was holdmp his Victrm hostage. ,
r
| beheve this was in (9484 no one else was jnvolved in fhe creme,
V/ agel- Shat & billed @ motorist during an GHercation over q
traflic incident, atom Scvero{ men b samen wrth Vere! didn't
Participate in the filling b were not aharged 4 Vooel's ee
Was @ big issoe in the Case; the Noispaf es called him C
WAym Slayer.’ | beheve this was in 1929 in Chicago.
I beheve arime occotred in 1928 bno one else was savolved
| |
|
TOF PERSONS LEGALLY EX
ECUTED IN CO
Ox COUNTY BY ELECTROCUTION
OFFICIAL LIS
Anthony
Charles
Napoleo
Morgan
Leonard
OAAW HPWNr
+
Leon Fi
Grice (01d CCJ)
Walz
n Glover
Swan (col)
Aaron Woodard (col)
August Vogel
Shadlow (col)
‘ Lafon Brown (col)
sher (col)
William Lenhardt
Frank J
Charles
John Po
Richard
Frank B
John Re
Ben Nor
Morris
Ross Ki
ordan
Rocco
pescus
Sullivan
ell
ed (col)
single (col)
Cohen
ng
Joseph Francis (col)
George Dale (col)
John Scheck
Alonzo McNeil (col)
George Walker
Walter Dittman
Herman Boulou
Chester
Novak
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69. Jchn O’Brien February 20 1920
70. William Yaney Mills (col) April 16 1970
71. John Henry Reese (col) April 16 1920
72. Frank Campione October 14 1920
73. Frank Zager OLA HEMBEAL 5 "eee :
74. Arthur Haensel November 19 1920 3
75. Nicholas Vianna December 10 . 1920 q
76. Edward J. Brislane February ll 1921
77. Sam Cardinella — April 15 1921
78. Sam Ferrara April 15 4921
79. John Costanza April 15 1921
80. Oscar McGovock June 24 1921
81. Geo. Brown (alias Redding) (col) June 24 1921
82.Antonio Lopez July 8 1921
83. Harry Ward July 15 1921
84. Carl Wanderer September 30 1921 f
85. Frank Ligrengni November 9 1921 :
86. Harvey Church March 3 192) 1
87. Jasper Pastori ? June 15 1923
88. Henry Wilson (col) April 18 1924 : * |
89. Lucius Dalton (col) April 18 1924 Sota |
90. Lawrence Washington(col) May 18 1925 Sachs
91. Willie Sam (col) June 19 1925
92. Frank Lanciano October 16 1925
93. Campbell McCarthy (col) January 29 1926
94. Jack Woods (Alias Wilson) February 13 1926
95. Jo&é Holmes April 16 1926 ~ Behan
96. Raymond Costello (col) April 16 1926 a
97. Charlie Hobbs April 16 1926
98. Richard Evans October 29 1926
99. James Gricius October 29 1926
100. Thomas McKane December 31 1926 d
101. Oscar Quarles February 18 1927
102. John Walton Winn April 15 1927
103. Elin Lyons (col) June 24 1927
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aa John Stone, oy July 10 ‘ 1840
aa | | Hertian Jackson "¢ April 26 . 1857
“3,! William Jackson + June 26 1857
4. Matt Fleming “hg June 26 1867
45, Jerry Corbett: qf June 26 1867 +
Tig {Andrew J. Perle March 1873 ‘
‘ ye Gregory. Parj August 1873 .
_98. George (unint ve fie) May 1874 cutest
3d. William Smith e February 1878
a 10. George Sherry June 2/ . 1878 :
ys RE OERT *Connaly June Z,J 1878
'. 12. James Tracy September 15 1882
13. Theodor®& Jacobsen September 13 1884 an.
14. Ignacio Sylvestro November 14 1885
¥ 15. Augustine Jurado © November 14 1885 ois
; 16. Giovanda Asura _ November 14 1885 sag Oty
“~ ‘17. Frank’ Mulkowski March 26 1886 ities
: 18. Albevt R. Parsons . November 11 1887
neh: August Spies November 11 1887
mL’ (+ En Ado#ph Fischér November 1l 1887 a
21; acaprEe Engle . November ll : 1887 ;
: 22052 éphyr Davis (col) May 12 1888 Sat oe
| 29x GGeorge H. Painter January 26 1894 ere
ais 24: ‘Thomas Higgins (alias Buff) March 23 1894 - mG
* “25 ypatrick H. Prendergast July 13 1894 }
& 426.5 sdarry Lyons (alias Butch) October ll 1895 q
et 292. Henry Foster (Alias Black Bear) January 23 1896 :
#28 Alfred C. Fields May 15 1896 ;
‘g542%y Joseph Windreth June 5 1896
hpi 3Q7 Jul Nang eber 30 ene «v1. L896
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MAST Sohn Latimore May 28 1899
Lf 933. William T. Powers May 28 1897
Me? 34. Chris Merry April 22 1898
fe 35. John: Drugan October 14 - 1895
36. George E. Jacks October 14 1898
i Robert Howard February 17 1899
38. August oe Becker November 19 1529
39. Michael E. Bollinger November 17 1899
40. George Dolinski October 11 1901
41. Lewis Cc. Tooms August 8 1902
42. Louis Peasant April. 15 1904 :
43. Peter Heidermeir April 22 ua 1904 foe
44. Gustav Marks April 22 1904.05 5 ey
45. Harvey Van“Dine . April 22 190g. Ot ee
46. Frank Lewandowski September 30 1904
.* 47. John Johnson January 20 1905 4
48. Robert: Newcomb February 16 1906 q
49. John Doriajanovich-Miller February 16 1906 q
$ ,20. Johnson Hoch*. ~ February 23 1906
51. Richard C. Ivans June 22 1906
S23. De. Francis, * October 12 1906
53. Richard Wal??™(tol) December 13 . 1907?
54. Andrew Williams 9a. 7 ake pee ;
55. Thomas Jennings (col) +t 197 i
56. Frank Seiblowski «4 fale OG ~ 1992— 4
57. Ewald Seiblowski . a February 1 EYL2
58. Thomas Schultz * February 16 191%
59. Phillip Somerling February 16 191a—
60. C. F. Smith February 13 1915
- 61. Edward Whead :~3; February 13 195
‘ 62. Larry Lundgren February 137 1935
63. Dennis Anderson July 19%. 1918
64. Lloyd Bonn December 6 1918
65. Albert Johnson February 28 1919
66. Earl Dear - June 27 1919
67. Thomas Fitzgerald October 17 1919
172 PIONEER HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
sixty-five years of age. On his death-bed he said “he did not
desire to live any longer, as he could be of no further usc to his
family or country, and might be a source of trouble if he lived
any longer.” He was perfectly resigned to his fate and died
with that calm composure that always attends the exit of the
“noblest work of God,” an honest man.
The person of Judge Jones was small, but erect and active.
His complexion was dark and his hair and eyes very black.
His eye, when excited, was severe and piercing.
Judge Jones lived a life of great activity and was conspicuous
and prominent in all the important transactions of the country.
In his youth, altho not bred to the military profession, yet he
was engaged in the wars against the Indians, both in Indiana
and Illinois. The death of Judge Jones was regretted by a
wide circle of friends and the public generally. His integrity,
honor, and honesty were always above doubt or suspicion. He
was exemplary in his moral habits and lived a temperate and
orderly man in all things. He left a large and respectable *
family. His sons have filled, with credit to themselves, many
of the most important offices in the country, and one, at this
time—Hon. G. W. Jones—is in the senate of the United States
from the State of Lowa.
Rice Jones, the eldest son of John Rice Jones, was born in
Philadelphia in 1781. When his age permitted, he was placed
in the institution in Kentucky, and was a classmate of the late
Colonel Richard M. Johnson of that State. Young Jones was
endowed with great intellectual powers and thereby made rapid
advances in his education. He quitted the school in Kentucky
with a reputation for talents and education not inferior to any
student that was at the institution.
After finishing his education, he studied medicine in Phila-
delphia, and graduated from the medical school with a diploma
and what is better, with much honor.
After practising medicine a short time and disliking that pro-
fession, he abandoned it and commenced, in Litchfied, Conn.,
the study of the law. After some years of intense study, he
quitted the institution with increased honor.
He located himself in Kaskaskia in 1806, and opened a law-
office. No young man at that day, and not many since, com-
menced wi!
Rice Jones
endowed W
and impetu
than his fa’
friends ne¢
paigns.
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the mani
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one of the
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Tree PIONEER
HISTORY OF [LLINOIS
}
CONTAINING
THE DISCOVERY IN 1673,
AND THE
History OF THE COUNTRY TO THE YEAR I8I18,
WHEN THE STATE GOVERNMENT WAS ORGANIZED,
LY
JOHN REYNOLDS,
Late Governor, MEMBER OF ConGREsS, STATE SENATOR
AND REPRESENTATIVE, ETC,, ETC.;
AUTHOR OF
“Joun Ketty”; ‘‘A GLANCE AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE IN THE CITY oF New York”;
“My Own Times”; ETC.
SECOND EDITION,
WITH
PORTRAITS, NOTES, AND A COMPLETE INDEX.
(First Epirion “PusLisHep By N, A, RANDALL, BELLEVILLE, ILL., 1852.)
CHICAGO:
FERGUS PRINTING COMPANY,
185-193 ILLINOIS STREET.
1887.
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and active.
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in Indiana
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s integrity,
‘icion. He
iperate and
respectable
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me, at this
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as born in
was placed
of the late
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made rapid
| Kentucky
rior to any
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1a diploma
Ss that pro-
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: study, he
oned a law-
since, com-
9,
menced
Rice Jones did.
endowed with
and impetuous disp
than his father. He pr
friends needc
pans.
not equalled at any
ticia
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PION]
with prospects of a more brilliant career of life than
He possessed a strong intellect, but was also
ssive ambition, together with an ardent
e Welsh temper more
and his,
an excc
osition, and showed th
actised his profession some time
d his talents and energies in their political cam-
about Kaskaskia with a violence
Many of the prominent poli-
Young Jones caught
Altho he was
t the head of
raged in and
‘time since.
y on the subject.
cessively zealous.
rgy he was a
ad been elected a member
f Indiana, held at Vincennes, and was be-
coming a very conspicuous character in the country. The other
party did not like his prominency OF standing with the people.
In this excited state of the parties, and Jones at the head of
one party, it was not difficult for the parties to quarrel or even
fight.
A controversy growing out of polit
Party spirit
ns were almost craz
ecame eX
eung, yet from his talents and enc
one of the parties in that day. He h
ics commenced between
him and Shadrach Bond, the first governor elect for the State
of Llinois, and a duel between those persons (Jones and Bond)
was agreed upon. The parties met on an ‘sland in the Missis-
sippi, between Ste. Genevieve and Kaskaskia, and when they
1 about to fire, Jones’ pistol, having
had taken their positions anc
qa hair trigge!, went off by accident. Dunlap, the second of
Bond, said it was Jones’ fire and Bond might fire at Jones; but
Bond, with that.greatness of soul that appeared in all his actions,
public and private, cried out, “it was an accident.”
The parties settled the controversy on the ground on honor-
able terms; but 4 bitter quarrel ‘ensued between Jones and
Dunlap on the subject. This controversy waxed warmer and
more malignant, until at last Dunlap shot
streets of Kaskaskia. Jones wae stan
{ the gallery and talking to 4 lady, when
on the railing ©
came up behind him and shot him dead with a pistol.
This horrid murder of such a talented and pr
d the community and to some extent quie
for a time.
man shocke
party feuds
; vA
Jones in the public
ding in the street, leaning
Dunlap
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PIONEER HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
destroy witchcraft.
ance, will be troubled with this suy
The Creator gave no power to
change the laws of nature at their di
vex and harass mankind at their will.
I think it is blasphemy to believe tha
rents of God to change his laws at their
/ In Cahokia, about 1790, this superstition
(of reason, and several poor
) the shrine of ignorance for this imaginary off
negro, called Moreau,* was hung for this
It is stated that
soned’ his master, but his mistress was too stron
mancy.” Another slave, Emanuel, w
crime, and an old woman, Ja
power to destroy persons an
le and all the children were
southeast of Cahokia.
Many grown peop
\\approach.
“AI countries have
never again return to such scenes 0
demon of ignorance.
In May, 1791, Joh
but escaped. It will
was, a few years before,
dead. This pioneer was
Illinois, dead or alive.
James Lemen, Sr, Joseph Ogle, 5r.,
Ryan, William Bryson, John Porter, and Danie
this party of Indians, who wer
The hottest of the battle w
of the camp-meeting cround
and not far east of the road fron
tion. This was a running fi
fleeing and the whites pursuing.
ing,
* Tn “Fergus
“Col. John ‘Todd’s record boo
of Negro Manuel, a slave,” an
of militia to “guard Moreau,
Kokos,” dated “ June 15, 1779
The people, in proportion to their ignor-
yerstition.
the demons of darkness to
abolical pleasure, and to
t witches are the vic
pleasure.
1 got the upper hand
s were immolated at
An African
e on a tree not far
he had said, “ he poi-
g for his necro-
as shot in Cahokia for this.
as supposed to have the
d property by her incantations.
terrified at her
African slave
had their zéches, and I hope Illinois will
f bloodshed, to appease the
n.Dempsey was attacked by the Indians,
be recollected that this same Dempsey
scalped by the Indians and left for
determined to stand his ground in
ight men, Capt. N. Hull, comman
Benjamin Ogle, J.
| Raper pursued
e double the number of whites.
as fought in the timber northwest
at the Big Spring, in Monroe Co.,
1 Waterloo to Whiteside’s Sta-
ght from tree to tree, the Indians
This bloody conflict was kept
” Historical Series, No. 12, By Edward G. Mason,” may be found
k,” and on page 58 is the order
d on page 59 is the order for th
a slave condemned to execution,
for the execution
e detail of a party
up to the town of
pte eee 7
ARON 9 TSAI SN se Ra ts
6 EB GE REGS I pi oma
174 PIONEER HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
This murder occurred in 1809. Dunlap escaped to Texas
and was never punished by the temporal courts.
Thus ended, in his twenty-cighth year, a young man of ex-
ceedingly great promise. Judging from the character he acquired
at. school, and what was known of him at Kaskaskia, it is not
improbable that his superior was not in the country before or
after his death.
The whole community mourned for the death of this fine
young man—cut off in his prime by an assassin. It was indeed
shocking to the public.
In early times the inhabitants of Illinois were in a small
degree tinctured with the absurdity and nonsense of witchcraft
and fortune-telling; but in after-days this ignorant superstition
has entirely disappeared.
The French at no time were troubled with the apparitions,
ghosts, or spirits. Haunted houses were out of fashion with
them. It is true, they had an imaginary being they called /
loup garreau—the growling wolf. This was hatched up more
to scare children than the grown folks. Yet the ancient French
in Illinois believed that the negroes in the West-India Islands
possessed a supernatural power to do injury to any onc that
had incurred their displeasure, and had power, also, to look into
futurity. This power, the old French ladies believed, came from
Africa and was retained with the African negroes. It may be
said that this belief of fortune-telling was mostly fema/e, as the
intelligent among them, as they do now, laugh at the nonsense.
The French in Cahokia dreaded to incur the displeasure of
certain old colored people, as they could do them injury, even
to death, by these African incantations. The great empress of
France, Josephine, had her fortune told her in the West Indics,
which to some extent influenced her conduct thro life. The
old sibyl in Martinique said to Josephine: “You will be queen
of France.” With all the good sense of that celebrated woman,
she rather believed the prophecy, yet laughed at it.. It was the
belief of some people and families that an old woman living on
Silver Creek, Ill, had the power of witchcraft to take the milk
from her neighbors’ cows without seeing or touching them. All
this ignorance and nonsense have disappeared from the minds
of the people by a proper education. School-houses always
destroy wi
ance, will
The Cr
change th
vex and h
I think
rents of G
In Cah
of reason,
the shrine
negro, cal!
southeast
soned’ his
mancy.”
crime, an
power to
Many gr
approach.
All col
never aga
demon of
In Ma
but esca}
was, a fe
dead. T
Illinois, «
ing, Jam:
Ryan, W
this part
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of the ca
and not
tion. 11
fleeing al
* Int Be
“Col. John
of *Negro
of militia |
KKokos,” da
of the
‘oberts*
cd him-
- profes-
id inde-
sailors,
for sup-
> bread.
loes his
ction of
nd thro
intation
sucecea
ited by
rve the
justice-
ic office
| these
himself
‘hen he
ind the
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urt are
ed under
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1839, he
1842, he
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| Josiah,
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PIONEER HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. 303
important to the community and they require the most ¢expe-
wise men in the county to perform them ina
McRoberts possessed the sound mind,
good sense to fill such office
rienced and
proper manner. Judge
with long experience, and practical
and he did so to the improvement of both the county and the
morals of the people.
This venerable patriarch, after living
and seeing his family raised and doing well, died on his farm,
in September, 1846, aged eighty-six years. He was moral,
‘n all his acts, public and private. He
lived a long and interesting life. His life may in truth be said
to be eventful, altho he resided ‘1 one and the same locality for
nearly fifty years. His emigration to America was an impor-
tant event; the next was his services in the great and glorious
Revolution; the next was exploring and settling in Illinois at
such an early day; and the last and greatest was his continued
and uninterrupted residence on the same place for forty-nine
years. This pioneer seemed to me to have performed all the
ordinary duties assigned ‘to man.
The aged and respectable matron,
McRoberts, is still alive, a monument of fe
fulness. This lady possesses a strong mind
ihe independence of character. She gave her tender offspring
1 they were prattling around her
d from those wise and proper in-
1ost part are respectable
a long and useful life
punctual, and correct
the widow* of Judge
male worth and usc-
and a just sense of
the proper impressions whet
nee and they never departe
structions. Her descendants for the n
The conduct of this matron in her family
and interestin 2.
ar attention to the moral
proves the propriety of paying particul
and correct education of the females; as it is the mothers who
their children the first impressions. If these impressions
give
children will become worthy and respect-
are good and wise, the
able citizens.
Altho emigration
nest in and about 1800, ye
‘nto Illinois had commenced in good ear-
t the country was new and much in-
fested with reckless savages. In 1802, a single young man was
returning from Kaskaskia to the States and about fifteen miles
east from Kaskaskia, on the Massac road, an Indian shot him.
* Mary Fletcher, born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1776; married in 1794; and died
in the spring of 1862, aved 86; surviving her husband 16 years.
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took the pistol and shot and killed the victim. Both were electro-
cuted.-Complete Det., Jan., 1949,p24,
Actual killer not known.
- Settimi DeSantis, hanged Williamson Co., February 11, 1921.
Both he and his accomplice, Frank Bianchi admitted participation
in the murder, but each claimed that the other was the actual
Killer. As Bianchi hanged himself during the trial, the truth
will never be known. Front Page Det., 1/1939,p12 (article by
Deputy Sheriff.)
NON-TRIGGERMEN EXECUTED, WITH DISPOSITION OF CASE OF
ACTUAL TRIGGERMAN, ILLINOIS, 1900- .
Jerry Graves was hanged, Williamson County, July 10, 1903.
Calvin Price, the actual triggerman, was executed at the same time.
Histori¢al Souvenir of Williamson Co., JL; by J. F. - Wilcox;
Effingham, IL: LaCrone Press, 1905,pp163-164.
Thomas McWayne, hanged Chicago, 12/31/1926. James Gricius,
actual triggerman, hanged at same time. Gricius conceded that
he alone had shot the three victims. Times, Scranton, PA,
12/31/1926; Mas. Det., 5/1931,p40.
Dominick Bresette & John Brown, electrocuted from Lake County
12/15/1928. Though they had joined in beating and abusing the
elderly robbery victim, the shot that killed him was actually fired
by John Clark (who was executed with them (Clark was the first man
to be electrocuted -in Illinois).-Daily News, Waukegan, IL,
12/45/1928.
Anthony Grecco, electrocuted Cook Co. Jail, February WAI ge
1929. His 17-year-old accomplice, Charles Walz, fired the shots
that killed a policeman (Grecco was in back room). Walz also was
electrocuted. Walz is the only person who was under the age of
18 at the time of the crime whose execution I have confirmed in |
Tllinois.-Tribune, Chicago, 2/20/1929.
Charles Rocco, electrocuted Cook Co. Jail, October 16, 1931.
He fired in the air while accomplice John Popescue stabbed victim
to death. Popescue executed at the same time.-Daring Det.,
8/1939,p14.
Edward Balbin (Balling) & John Drue (Krul), electrocuted from
St. Clair Co., July 9, 1935. Actual triggerman, Van Buren
Dedmond (Dedman), executed at the same time.-Tribune, Chicago, IL,
TPOFIESSS: Ch e3y
Marie Porter (female), electrocuted from St. Clair Co.,
January 28, 1938. Her lover, Angelo R. Giancana, who she hired
to kill her brother was also electrocuted. Angelo’s younger
B ditienee te John who had eee him was given 99 years’ imprison-—
ment.-Tribune, Chicago, IL, 1/28/1938.
John Jelliga, electrocuted Will Co., October 11, 1938.
Michael Munjas, who fired the gun that killed victim (Jelliga had
taken part in beating the elderly man), committed oa Rana while in
custody before the triai.-Master Det., 11/19406,p3
Frank Michalowski, electrocuted Cook Co. May 17, 1940. The
self-confessed triggerman, Victor Wnukowski, was electrocuted at
the same time.-Inside Det., 6/1940.
Alfonso Najera (Alvarez), electrocuted Cook Co., April 21,
1950. He fired gun at victim but it misfired. Then Frank Varella
2
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304. PIONEER HISTORY OF ILLINOIS.
This murder was committed on the waters of the river Mary,
No inhabitants were living near the place and the whole coun-
try was a wilderness and crowded with Indians. The murderer
was a straggling Delaware from the west side of the Missis-
sippi. When he committed the murder, he took the man’s
saddle and some other articles and escaped toward the mouth
of the Big Muddy, in the Mississippi Bottom. The whites dis-
covered the outrage and employed the Kaskaskia Indians to
assist in the search for the murderer.’ The Indians found the
Delaware in the Mississippi Bottom and brought him to Kas-
kaskia. The friends of the murdered man proved certain
articles the Indian had with him, which, with other circum-
stances, convicted the Indian. It was rather a sham to try an
Indian, as the juries would always convict them if there was
the semblance of evidence against their old enemies. Late in
the fall, this Delaware was hung by George Fisher, the sheriff
of Randolph County, on a honey-locust tree on the bank of the
Kaskaskia River, a mile or so above the village of Kaskaskia.
This was the first man I saw hung and the revolting spectacle
made a lasting impression on my mind against capital punish-
ment. I recollect, the poor savage in his death-struggle reached
his hand to the rope around his neck and it was with great diff-
culty the sheriff could extricate the Indian's grasp, so he could
be hung until he was dead. How revolting it is to Christian
principles, properly understood, to execute a human being ! pe
Another barbarous execution was committed in Kaskaskia in
1804. Emsley Jones killed a man of the name of Reed in the
Mississippi Bottom, some twelve or fifteen miles below Kaskas-
kia. Jones was executed in the commons, south of Kaskaskia,
in the presence of a great concourse of people. I never would
witness another execution after those of Jones and the
In the carly settlement of the country, when the people were
too poor to erect suitable prisons to confine these malefactors,
they were compelled, in self-defence, to resort to capital punish-
ment; but at this day, there is no excuse for this barbarous and
anti-Christian practice. I think it is horrid to force the mur-
derer before his God with his brother’s blood red on his hands,
The convict should enjoy his natural life for reflection and re-
pentance. Let him be put in a dungeon, so that he has an
Indian,
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Joe Hart. (894. Chi'caso Tribune 3(17/44 47. Only other legal honging ar this
county was that of Alfred Countryman on 3[(27/56. The crime wes Committed on 4($(93.
Murdered his tuo sisters , Mary and Nellie Hart, for motive that was never disclosed. No
ages given but judging from his woodeuct portrait, he was in his 20s. A very messy hanging -
James French. (897. Chicago Tribune 6[12(97 7:5. Uxorcide on 7/14/96. His
wife had left him becuse of his brutal nature so he accosted her after work one day and
ishot her eight times. His real name Was Scalicia Santo Nikoli, a Calabrian imigtant.
He fainted on the scaffold and was hanged Unconscious.
12[17(98 2:7 reports hanging of Richard Collier at Urbanna. Ist legal execution in
Champaign County. Killed a man named Freebryant. Claimed self-defense. But Find
no mention ofa. Carter Martin at Charleston.
3/1 [02 433 Joseph Hinkle. Uxorcide on 9/18/01 “because she refused to support him !
11/21/03 8:4 Artonio Romano. alias Michel Angelo Fillipisse. he was a matiosi who
murdered one. Nicholas Tomasso . Confessed that he had been involved in the 91 murder of the
ew Orleans Police Chief tor which were lynched and that a contract had been put out on
omasso because he demurred in thatlcri >
Find no mention of Ely Bugqs. 1%05.
Find nomention of Frank Rapetto. 1415.
Find ho mention of Vincenzo Marteletto. 191.
Find no mention of William Carter. 1918.
Find no menhion of James Cleary ~ 1918.
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The witnesses [ were facing a glass wall. It was dark on
the other side. They could smell the fresh, gray paint of the
At 7:10 a.m. the dark room was suddenly flooded with
Lights. The men were momentarily blinded. When their eyes focused
they could see the big, wooden chair on the other side of the
glass wall.
John Brown entered the room. The 32-year-old black man from
Chicago was flanked by a chaplin and four guards. The right leg
of his brown slacks was split.
He was offered a black death mask, but he refused. He
walked to the chair with no hesitation. The guards @tqegem® strapped
At 7:12 a.m. 2,400 volts of electrict=ity were sent through
his body for 30 seconds. That was followed by 500 volts for
30 seconds, and another 2,400 volts for 15 seconds.
a.m. three doctors said that John Brown was dead.
At 7:22 a.m. the procedure was repeated for Claude Clark,
a 41-year-0Old ¢memmm man. And at 7:35 a.m. the procedure was again
tChicago black+
repeated for OOominick Bressetti, | a 33-year-old Chippewa Indian
from wm Wisconsin.
ELECTROCUTIONS AT JOLIET PRISON.
5 tana cee 11-1-4 executed
‘ “John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the graesve..."
a
(Tals af
(Thomas Brigham Bishop,
Fe]
Ohn Brown's Body")
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John Brown's grave has been in the old prison cemetery
a half century. The name has started to weather away on the
small cement marker.
The grave is in one of the back rows. There are 174
OK) mate
@mieewe graves. The cemetery, located about one-half mile north
+other inmatet
Of ete Caton Farm Road on prison property, hasn't been used since
the 1930s.
John Brown, prison number 2380-E, was the forty-fourth
inmate buried there. He was the first man in Illinois to sit
in the electric chair.
The date was Dec:. 15, 1928. Official Sunrise was 7:12
a.m. Forty witnesses, supe mostly reporters, waited in the
ae oR the
early morning eevscnmebmenseememeanda darkness euuuitepnniiiersspuryrere
++ tof thet
' prison.
At 6:45 a.m. Warden Elmer |. Green said, "Gentlemea, there
pul} no mere smoking. Youn are ¢ pe as quiet as though you vere
Ln owt hia
He led the mer across the prison yard to the newly
constiuc. Wb tithe oie iS ahey iy seated .:. thre: r ) OM nO
\e
+N OR Cee te
ee cvactabl
to relatives. The Indian was the only one to eat when food was
offered at midnight. He ordered ham, eggs, toast and coffee.
He was also the only one to offer any last words.
"God be with me," Bressetti said, as he was strapped
in the chair.
The three men were convicted of murdering William Beck,
a Waukegan farmer, in May 1928. Bressetti had worked for the
vicy=tim.
The farmer loaned him money when he first started. And
Bressetti reportedly saw where the farmer hide his money.
Brown and Clark were recruited in Chicago to help in the robbery.
@m The farmer was shot and his eummimmm aged mother was
severly beaten in the robbery. Semin ramwamigewmdnms Th orc
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mesnewr_emmummines MONths between the murder and the executions.
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The chair sat idle for almost three years. But on the
morning of Oct. 9, 1931 the electric chair was used agéin.
John Preston, a 34-year-old Chicago man, had been
iting nis death sentence for almost two years then. He
seen entenced «e to death ewww by a DuPage County court
Preston had murdered Agnes Johnson, a stenographer,
‘92. There were t
his AEE
He sent the warden a note emp to tell news reporters
he was “going out like a man." He was strapped into the chair
at 5:12 a.m.
At 5:18 a.m. when doctors opened his \ shirt: to
determine there was no longer a heart beat, they saw a tatoo
on his chest which said, “Lillian Forever."
Lillian was the faithful wife who aided him through eae
the two-year legal battle. But she wasn't there.
ecee cree es HAAR
Fred @am Blink told reporters he only had one regret
about going to the electric chair on April 23, 1935.
The 43-year-old truck @quaamienm gardener who had killed
five persons said he wished he could take the chief witness and
Bi lllifial Count
omame prosecutor to the chair with him.
+the Whiteside Countyt
"tT only wish they were going to sit on my lap, he said.
Blink shotguned to death two women and three men near
Fulton in September 1934. A sixth victim was blinded by the
The killer had been quarreling over a $40 debt.
He tried to tell the court he had drank some alcohcl
eunmugmen which vas drugged by the chief witness, a husband of
victim,
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4ay before his execution, Blink damm lunch in his
+calmly hact
death row ¢c with his wife and five children.
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