KILPATRI CK, John
Kilpatrick, alias Kirkpatrick, a 26-year-old black native of Virginia,
was living in Steubenville, Ohio, where he was employed to help about
the house and serve as a stable boy for elderly Charles H, Steele, a
partner in a wholesale drug company. One Sunday night Bilpatrick
broke a date with his girl friend, broke into the Steele house and
hid in the basement until Mr, Steele came down to stoke the furnace,
Kilpatrick bludgeoned him to death and stole his money and a gold
_ watch, He became a suspect when he started spending large sums of
| money and he was arrested and charged with the crime Nam after he had
pawned Steele's gold watch in Wheeling. A crowd gathered in Steuben-
ville to lynch him, hut their plans did not materialize and he was
tried,yconvicted and sentenced to dea th. Prior to his execution,
Kilpatrick max stated that he had nothing personal against Mr. Steele
and this his sole purpose in killing him was to rob him of the large
Ssumuof money and gold watch that he knew Steele carried. He was elec-~
trocuted at the Ohio State Prison on Feb. 5, 1910.
TH STEUBENVILLE HERALD, Steubenville, Ohio, August 17, 1975.
KILPATRICK, John
Kilpatrick, alias Kirkpatrick, a 26-year-old black native of Virginia,
was living in Steubenville, Ohio, where he was employed to help about
the house and serve as a stable boy for elderly Charles H, Steele, a
partner in a wholesale drug company. One Sunday night Kilpatrick
broke a date with his girl friend, broke into the Steele house and
hid in the basement until Mr. Steele came down to stoke the furnace,
Kilpatrick bludgeoned him to death and stole his money and a gold
watch, He became a suspect when he started spending large sums of
money and he was arrested and charged with the crime wm after he had
pawned Steele's gold watch in Wheeling. A crowd gathered in Steuben-
ville to lynch him, hut their plans did not materialize and he was
tried,convicted and sentenced to dea th, Prior to his execution,
Kilpatrick mat stated that he had nothing personal against Mr. Steele
and this his sole purpose in killing him was to rob him of the large
summof money and gold watch that he knew Steele carried. He was elec-
trocuted at the Ohio State Prison on Feb. 5, 1910.
THE STEUBENVILLE HERALD, Steubenville, Ohio, August 17, 1975.
KILPATRICK, John
Kilpatrick, alias Kirkpatrick, a 26-year-old black native of Virginia,
was living in Steubenville, Ohio, where he was employed to help about
the house and serve as a stable boy for elderly Charles H. Steele, a
partner in a wholesale drug company. One Sunday night Bilpatrick
broke a date with his girl friend, broke into the Steele house and
hid in the basement until Mr. Steele came down to stoke the furnace.
Kilpatrick bludgeoned him to death and stole his money and a gold
watch, He became a suspect when he started spending large suns of
money and he was arrested and charged with the crime wim after he had
pawned Steele's gold watch in Wheeling, A crowd gathered in Steuben-
ville to lynch him, hut their plans did not materialize and he was
tried,convicted and sentenced to dea th, Prior to his execution,
Kilpatrick wet stated that he had nothing personal against Mr. Steele
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