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had a pair. of overalls on top of my.

good clothes.”

He said that someone he had met on |.

the train had given him the Canary
Cottage address. He denied that he
knew the names of anyone there. Har-
greaves and I smiled at the youth's in-
nocent tone. Here was a much more
crime-wise person than we had believed.
And he was characteristic of the whole
gang. They didn’t know anything—
not even one another. I wondered who
Mitchell really was, but | was not pre-
pared for the surprise that was to greet
me later, after I had sent out his finger-
prints. .

The wounded man was brought in
last. I was curious to know how he
would explain the arsenal found in the
house. He had an ingenious alibi.

First of all he assured us that his
name was Bert Walker, that he was
forty-two years old and that he lived
right where we had found him.

“What,” demanded Hargreaves, “were
all the guns and nitro doing in your
* house?”

Walker hitched his chair forward in
a confidential manner.

_ “You see,” he began, sober-faced, “I
was lining up a spot to start a gambling
joint. And you know. how it is wit

these stick-up men. You've got to,have.

that stuff around for protection.”.”’,
Ingenious enough! But Hargieaves
wasn't to be bluffed.
“Burglar tools? Nitro?” he asked.

WALKER grinned. He said: “Those
weren’t burglar tools. They were
just tools I had. And I don’t know
where the nitro came from.”

“Tell us how you happened to get
shot,” demanded Hargreaves.

Walker didn’t do so well on that one.
“Drunk,” he said, and shrugged. a |
couldn’t tell you how or where I got
shot.”

He denied ownership of the gun. We
‘Jocked him up. It was after nine o'clock
that night when we finished finger-print-
ing the mob and mugging them. We
sent out their finger-print classifications
_and descriptions to various cities as

well as the license numbers of the plates
we had found in their machine.

It was exactly nineteen hours since
1 had been in bed. I went home and
grabbed some sound sleep.

The next day was Sunday, but Har-
greaves, Gandee, Don Isham, the
County Prosecutor, and myself, gath-
ered at my Office to lay plans. As we
sat there discussing the case, one of the
office men dashed into the room.

“Manes is dying,” he said. “They've
just sent out a call for volunteers for
a blood transfusion.”

I called the hospital to find out what
we could do for him. Less than ten
minutes after the appeal had been sent
out, there were twenty men at the hos-
pital offering their blood. Patrolman
Patrick McAleese, a buddy of Manes’
was chosen. More than a pint of his
blood was given. Manes rallied. Then
he died. .

Our wounded prisoner now faced a
murder charge.

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worked with us, building up his case.

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He was determined to. send Walker to
the chair. The gang and all of the
witnesses were sworn, though: the oath
meant little to them. °

The next day Walker was arraigned

- before Police Judge Earl Cox and held

to the grand jury on a charge of mur-
der, without bail. The others were
placed under $25,000 -bond as wit-
nesses.

Meanwhile, descriptions of the mob
members we had sent out, were bring-
ing in a host of replies. A “Rush” an-
swer came from Detroit on the license
tags. Those plates, stolen in Detroit,
had been on a car used in a $5000 bank
robbery a month before at Sylvania,
Ohio. Sylvania wanted the men.

Our State Bureau of Criminal Iden-
tification at London gave us a graphic
and complete history of Bert Walker’s
criminal career. It began in 1917 with
larceny and wound up in 1923 with
bank robbery. The interim was well
filled with robberies and a murder, the
latter in Kansas City. Walker had
whipped the murder charge when, given
a new trial, the main witness had died.

ANSAS CITY had a one hundred

dollar reward out for’ Walker who.

owed their State Penitentiary twenty-
eight years’ time. They likewise knew
our young prisoner, Frank Mitchell and
our ugly lady, Nellie Maxwell.

Mitchell, alias Charles “Pretty Boy”
Floyd, had served five years in the
same prison as Walker for robbery.
Nellie Maxwell was one of the most
notorious shoplifters in the Southwest
and had served time in five institutions,

Manes was buried on March 13th,
three days after his death. Thousands
of persons lined the streets to pay trib-
ute to his memory. The procession
went through the heart of Akron and
passed the County Jail, right under the
window from which Manes’ slayer
looked coldly down at the cortege.
Manes was buried in Rose Hill Ceme-
tery with military rites.

The next day, Prosecutor Hargreaves
went before a Summit County Grand
Jury. Less than five minutes after
the door closed behind the last. witness,
a first-degree murder indictment was
voted. The trial was set for the earliest
available date. , d

While Wadker re in County Jail
awaiting a hearing, bank officials from

Sylvania came to Akron. Line-ups were .

made of all our prisoners and they posi-
tively picked out Mitchell, Walker and

King as the men who had robbed their.

bank. They even identified the ma-

‘chine used in the robbery, the sedan

from the Canary Cottage garage. King
and Mitchell were turned over to Syl-
vania officers for trial’ in. Toledo, Ohio.

Several days later, I received &-tele-
gram from Lexington, Kentucky. Wit-
nesses were on their way from that
city to look at Walker. He was sus-
pected of having been a member of a
robber gang which’ had entered a ware-
house there a year before and had shot
and killed John Carroll; the watchman,
while robbing the place. They. identified
Walker as Carroll’s slayer.” The. score
against Walker steadily. mounted. He

could not hope to escape punishment.

The Master Detective

On May 10th, the first venire was
drawn. Attorney Robert Azar was
chosen defense counsel. The case de-
veloped into a brilliant verbal battle
between Azar, a clever attorney, and
Prosecutor Hargreaves.

On the third day Attorney Azar
layed his trump card. He knew that

anes had been shot with a .38 caliber
bullet. The guns used by our depart-
ment shot the same size cartridge.

Azar stood before the jury and made
the allegation that Walker was on the
murder scene. Walker, he said, was
unarmed. He had been arrested, had

jerked away from Manes’ The other

officers had drawn guns. They had fired
as Walker fled and had struck him.

But, Azar contended, in that fusillade
of shots one of the officers—and not
Walker—had accidentally shot Manes.

Fortunately. we were prepared for
just that sort of defense move. I had
made a secret trip to Cleveland. Now
we were ready for our surprise.

David L. Cowles, ballistic expert of
the Cleveland Police Department, took

At left is Police Lieutenant Frank
McAllister, with sub-machine gun
and Detective Denny Murray.

the stand. He testified that the day
after Manes had died he had examined
the guns of all the police officers who
had been on the murder scene. Cowles
had examined, he testified, the bullet
taken from the body of Manes and
those taken from the arms of Walker.
He had likewise tested the guns found
at Canary Cottage. :

And Manes had - been killed
by a bullet from none of those guns.

e had been killed by the bullet fired
from the gun found behind the Gannon

‘home by Patrolman Conley. Walker

had been shot by Michaels’ gun. None
of the other guns had fired any bullets
he had received, = > ou

So thorough, so complete was this
splendid testimony of Cowles, that the
recognized. expert in one blow blasted
the last hope of Walker.

Forced to take the stand, Walker
said that he had been on a party and

‘had been unarmed. He said that he

was the man whom Manes had arrested.
When arrested, he claimed, Manes had
slugged him. He had fought back,
jerked loose from Manes and had run.

alker said he had heard shooting, had
felt himself struck. Manes must have
been shot by a fellow officer since he,
Walker, had done no shooting.

In the face of Cowles’ expert testi-
mony, Walker’s story was unconvinc-
ing, ridiculous,

he case went to the jury five.days

after the trial had begun. Seven ballots

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were taken. At no time, however, did
the question of guilt or innocence enter
into the problem. The question of a
recommendation of mercy kept the jury
in debate for three hours. The last bal-
lot was unanimous. It was death.

Common Pleas Judge E. D. Fritch,
on May 24th, 1930, brought Walker
into open court and sentenced him to
death in the electric chair. Azar,
whose motion for a new trial had been
overruled, filed an appeal and a stay
of execution was ordered until the
Court of Appeals. reviewed the case.
The Court of Appeals refused to grant
a new trial.

On November 10th, 1930, Walker
ate a last hearty dinner. At 7:45 o'clock
that evening, he walked calmly into the
death chamber. He joked with the
guard for a moment; was strapped into
the chair. At 7:47 o'clock, Bert Wal-
ker was dead. He had paid the price
for the murder of Harland Manes.

A few words in closing, as to what
happened to the rest of Walker’s gang.

ts. Nellie Maxwell was kept in jail
in Akron until Walker had been electro-
cuted. Then she was released. She
is now in Texas where she is serving a
two-year sentence for grand larceny.

King is in Ohio Penitentiary serving
fifteen to twenty-five years for the Syl-
vania bank robbery to which he pleaded
guilty.

And, last of all, comes the history of
that remarkable and notorious youth,
Frank Mitchell, alias Charles “Pretty
Boy” Floyd. . .

ON the day of his trial for the Syl-

vania bank robbery, he managed to
make ‘his escape from the County Jail
in Toledo. He reached the front steps
of the building when he was nabbed
and returned by an officer who knew
him and who had chanced to be going
into the building as Mitchell walked

‘out,

Mitchell, like King, pleaded guilt
to the robbery charge. The’ chad
was appealed, but the men were not
given new trials,

On December 10th, 1930, just one .

month after the electrocution of Wal-
ker, while being taken to the State Pen-
itentiary, at Columbus, Ohio, Mitchell
climbed out of the window of the train
and disappeared.

Since that time he has terrorized the
Southwest with a band of daring rob-
bers: He is being sought for the mur-
der of two policemen in Bowling Green,

Ohio, which city has a reward of $1000 -

outstanding for his capture,

Tulsa, Oklahoma, officials want him

in connection with the killing of two
officers who attempted to capture
Mitchell—or Floyd—at the house of

his wife. Oklahoma will pay $10,000 -

for “Pretty Boy.”

He is suspected, too, of being one
of the men implicated in the slaying of
six possemen bee's a few months ago in
Oklahoma when he and two others were
trapped in a farmhouse. He escaped.
The two men with him were caught.

As Walker said to ‘me one day while
I was talking with him in County Jail,
“You think I’m tough, but you haven’t

_ heard the last of that Mitchell boy yet.”

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our left was a room, the door ajar.
There were two beds in the room and,
as I rounded the top turn in the stair-
way, I saw a form dive under one of
the beds. In one corner of the room
stood a middle-aged man, his arms
swathed in bandages. He glared about
menacingly at us as we swept into the
room.

“Up with your hands,” I cried. “Kill
him if he moves, Gandee. Make him
get into the corner. Pappano, some-
body ducked under that bed when we
came up. Put your gun under there
and blow him out.”

Pappano leaped between the beds,
shoved his gun under one of them. A
man rolled out, his hands held above
him. He was a young fellow, about
twenty-two years old.

Mosely, Gustavel and Pappano
covered the men while Gandee and |
began a search. Under the bed from
which the man had rolled Gandee found
a fully loaded automatic rifle. Had
either of the prisoners reached it while
we were mounting the stairs, he could
have shot us down like rats,

NOW: he started to edge toward Pap-
pano who held one of the sawed-
off shot guns.

“Look out, Patsy,” I shouted. “He’s
trying to reach your gun. Don’t take
any chances. Make him get into that
corner and if he moves, blow his head
off. He’s bought and paid for.” _

I ordered the men handcuffed. They
were each braceletted to one of our
men. The woman was still being held
by Murray. I stepped toward the man
with the bandaged arms. Ripping one
of the bandages off, I noticed’ a bullet
wound just above the elbow. Patrol-
man Michaels, I remembered, had
sworn that during the gun fight he had
wounded the man who had shot Manes.

This was our man.

“What’s this all about?” demanded
the wounded man.

“You're under arrest for the shoot-
ing of Patrolman Manes,” I informed
him.

“You're crazy,” he replied.
trying to frame me. I never shot any-
body.”

“You'll get your chance to prove
that,” I promised.

He smiled and said: “Gee,-but you’re
tough.”

| ordered them taken out. There was
no one else in the cottage, but a search
of the place showed it to be a virtual
arsenal. We found six heavy caliber
revolvers, an automatic rifle, a repeat-
ing shot gun and a sub-machine gun,
al race The guns had been -con-
cealed in every conceivable place, in
clothes closets, in a victrola, on window
sills, under beds and behind a sofa.

Every bag in the house was packed,
ready for flight. We had got there
just in time. In one of the suitcases
was enough nitroglycerine to blow up
a city block. In another were tear gas
bombs and ammunition. A third con-
tained burglar tools, t

To one side of a window I found a

small dishpan and some gauze, They
had been dressing ‘the older man's.

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Master Detective
(Continued from page 50)
wounds when we drew up to the house.
I realized, then, how luck had been with
us for, had they seen us, we would have
made perfect targets from those up-
stairs windows, for the yy yl

We searched the garage. In it was
a sedan. It had a hole about four
inches square cut in the corner—a nest-
ing place for the sub-machine gun. We
found, too, three sets of license plates,
each from a different state. They
would show up in some crime report
later, I believed. Py

Our next move, I felt, was to take
our man to the hospital to see if Manes,
who was in a critical condition, could
identify him. Leaving two men at the
house, we drove with our prisoners to
the hospital.

Manes had suffered a relapse. At the
very moment we arrived there, prepar-
ations were being made for a second
operation. With difficulty, I persuaded
‘the doctor to let us see Manes. Again,

Detective Ernest Binkley points to

hole in the rear window of the car

seized at Canary Cottage. At right
is Detective Bruce Ward

we found the wounded patrolman on
the table. .

I leaned over him. He couldn’t talk,
but he recognized me. ‘

“We're going to bring in a couple of
men,” I told him. “I want you to tell
us if you recognize either of them as
the man who shot you.”

Manes nodded. I motioned to Pap-
pano. He led the young fellow into

the room. Manes stared at him for a
moment. Then he shook his head.

Not the man!

The wounded man was led into the
room. He stared oy at Manes and
kept his arms together behind his back.
Manes struggled forward on the table.
He was trying to say something.

“Is that the man?” | asked. Manes
was gasping for breath. He nodded
his head and sank back. Our search
was over.

As we left the room, Eppa sug-
ested: “We might as well have this
ellow looked after.”

We led the wounded man into a
room directly below the one where
Manes lay dying. Something oppres-
sive was in the air. It seemed strange
that we should be worrying about the
discomforts of a potential murderer,

while just above him in another room,

his victim was fighting for life. And-~

we could do nothing for Manes. - Noth-

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ing, except perhaps, avenge him. And
that seemed ‘so futile.

The doctor removed two bullets, one
from either of the gunman’s arms. |
placed the bullets in my pocket. We
should need them later. His wounds
were dressed and treated. During the
half hour we stood in that room, not
a single word was spoken. The only
sound was our heavy breathing and the
whistling breath of the wounded gun-
man who scorned to show pain while
es doctor probed deeply for the bul-
ets.

We walked out into the murky day-
light, back to our waiting cars. We
headed back to Lodi Street, to Canary
Cottage, where we picked up the other
men, Collecting the bags and weapons,
we started again for Headquarters.

I placed our two prisoners in a line-
up and sent for Possehl and Michaels,
both of whom had said they could

identify the man who had shot Manes.

Without hesitation, both of them

_picked the wounded man as the Manes’

Nellie Maxwell.
‘tioning her, Assistant County Prosecu-

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trigger-man. And both identified Nellie
as the woman who had been with Mrs,
Gannon.

THE case was shaping up. With
these positive identifications, it
seemed unlikely that any jury would
hesitate to convict. I felt that this
might be a good time to talk to our
prisoners.

Our talks brought us little informa-
tion. We were dealing with profes-
sional criminals of the hardest and
smoothest type. True, we pulled con-
flicting stories from them, but we didn’t
use these to tear down their false alibis.
We were saving that ammunition for
the trial.

: The ugly woman gave her name as
While we were ques-

tor George Hargreaves came into the
room. He got there just as Nellie had
told us that Bertha Gannon had taken
her home the night of the party.

“You see,” Nellie explained, “she
had been to the house earlier in the
evening. While she was there she left
her wrist watch on the dresser and she
came back to get it. But she must have
forgotten it. It was still there when
I got up this morning.”

o Bertha had been at Canary Cot-
tage after the shooting.

Later we played the two women,
Nellie and Bertha Gannon, against
each other. But Bertha stuck fast to
her story that she had not seen the
shooting and had not seen the gun-man
after the shooting.

Saving the gun-man until last, I or-
dered the young fellow we had nabbed
at the house brought in. He came in,
a cheerful look on his face.

“What’s your name?” I asked.

“Frank Mitchell,” he said.

“How old are your”

“Twenty-one.”

“Where do you live?”

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Patrolman Manes nodded. His
oy eyes closed and a look of peace
settled over his features. An hour
ter, despite an emergency blood
Qirssusicn, he died. ©

The gunman now was being held
on a murder charge.

At headquarters he was identi-
fied as Bert Walker, one of the
most desperate criminals in the

- country. He was at that very mo-
ment being sought by the State
Penitentiary at Kansas as an es-
caped convict. He still owed that
institution twenty-eight years.

It was fear of being arrested and
recognized as a fugitive that had
motivated his cold-blooded killing
of Manes.

The other captured man gave his
name as Frank Mitchell, age twen-
ty-one. He was to become far bet-
ter known, later, as America’s Pub-
lic Enemy Number One, “Pretty
Boy” Floyd!

HUMAN
DETECTIVE

“Our glass may not be strong
enough,” Rief pointed out. “Let’s
take this scarf down to the tech-
nicians, in the lab and see what
they can do with it.”

The detectives drove directly to
the Brooklyn bureau’s research de--
partment, forerunner of the pre-
sent elaborate Poplar Street crime

HUMAN FACTS FROM POLICE FILES

Questioning of the. woman pris-
oner disclosed that she was Nellie
Maxwell, a notorious shoplifter who
had served time in five southwest
prisons.

The bullets that were still fester-
ing in Walker’s arms were extract-
ed by a police surgeon. Ballistics
proved that they had been fired
from Patrolman Michael’s revolver.
. After a trial lasting five days,
Bert Walker was found guilty of
the murder of Harland Manes and
was sentenced on May 24, 1930, by
Judge E. D. Fritch, to die in the
electric chair.

On November 10, 1930, after a
hearty breakfast and a cheerful
wave of the hand, Walker went to
his death.

Nellie Maxwell was released. La-
ter, she was picked up in Texas on
a larceny charge and was given a
two years’ sentence.

Floyd was returned to Toledo,

Ohio, police who wanted him for
a bank robbery job he had pulled
several months before. He escaped
while being led to the courthouse.
Captured, he was sentenced, but
escaped again by jumping out of
a train window.

After that, his career began in
earnest.

Johnny King was officially clear-
ed of any connection with the slay-
ing of Patrolman Manes.

The house where Floyd and
Walker were captured, was because
of its color, called the “Canary Cot-
tage” by the newspapers. McDon-
nell resented the delicate appella-
tion.

“Canary Cottage!” he _ snorted.
“Why don’t they call it “Buzzards’
Roost?”

Note: The name Iris Delong is
fictitious to spare an innocent per-
son possible embarrassment.

ENIGMA OF THE BLONDE'S BABUSHKA

(Continued from page 17)

“Nothing that looks like ink,” the
expert replied. “At one place along
the border, however, there are a

few particles of some material
which might be only dirt. There’s
a bare possibility that it’s ink which

Jaboratory. A night technician
was on duty and the detectives
turned the “babushka” over to him
for examination.

“On tracing this scarf,” Hem-
indinger explained, “depends our
\whole investigation of the Rosen-
feld murder. It’s our only clue.
I’m convinced it has been dry
. cleaned and that there’s a cleaner’s
mark on it somewhere, but we’ve
failed to find one. We thought
you might be able to do the trick
by placing the cloth under your
microscope.”

Then, while the detectives watch-
ed, the expert switched, on the
light attached to the microscope.
‘Playing the cloth under the lens,
he passed it slowly back and forth.
It was a long, tedious process be-
cause only a small portion of the

@: could be examined at one
he,

It was almost a half-hopr later
when the technician completed
the examination. He switched off

*¢ the light and looked up wearily.
~ “What did you find?” eagerly
' asked Hemindinger.

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Police Youth Center in Brooklyn, erected in memorial to | |
Patrolman Samuel Rosenfeld, the dark-haired, husky 41-
year-old veteran officer who heroically charged into lethal
gunfire when he saw his friends lined up against the wall.


PALES VE ee

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7 ip

*

Costa Rica Mourns 275 Killed _ 4
__| in Disaster at Railroad. Bri¢

~

SARE UR PRISER eerie ert
; tS Ofiers Se ile Boards.” Sate: Him a :
baa ee (From: Enraged Crowd. After He | oe
| be era Mhrice. Shoots Mother of ak
ce ae fs ‘e ae rah ni * Seven Children. fF , :
is ‘ 5 3 et ‘After shooting’ orm a: Widowed mother and the!

* Youngest of her’seven small' children,.an 18-month
\ oe a ‘old. babe, George Wargo; 59, a railroad laborer and
ae i eat reomers ip ‘the: little Sabo: ‘cottage at, Grand. River, |
; mds

fi ea setae A fae of. the: e ‘most’ cold. blood-,
So he Hee: ia eas ; PES s ae dit pe history. of. Lake’ county.” MEE a eh
ORES ae ens a ‘The Mother, ‘Mrs Annie Sabo,-34, of Heart Street, |
. . moe Grand: River; is‘at thé point of ‘death, at Lake County
os {Memorial hospital; here, and. het infant « daughter;+
be te is suffering’ froma bullet’ ound i in One of her}
ha Rae Y - i) ef ny : t m
ne “BY By his’ ‘own. “confeésio ,-repéated. in, br aken Eng: All ‘Biata Riga fa in riourning-for victitas a the rallréed’ dfs
evalish without: any show: of emotional’ excitement or. af. Virila, bridge, A total of 275: ovnendhy gp tec one ahi 4
S00 ohee) ay) Authorities s say, War ‘ga Shot, down: Mis ‘Sabo, festival at Catingo, Pricey Aree wy beligeend and plunge
nae ady;* because: ‘she’ ‘refused to cook. sortie. cab- 2. forge, Photo: shows some of the wrecked cats... oe
his-supper lest night: -"4 ” MenitGHtat-Rospttal i in a ‘machine driven” ‘bye
oy horities are holding the.man without making Evans’ son, ‘Charles, Who passed the. sheriff’s:.ca
Bd 9 2 ok ae ay ax ss ree, juin him: today, ‘Bending the outcome] the B, ahd: QO. railroad crossing on Richmond road
Be A ieee iad Sabo’s, Con dition.” ‘At lio soslock tt this ahetnpon, : Mira. Sabo was shot down by. a bullet § in nthe

: eet Sa sash peas gina ey TR

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Tyas were! eI eSe BeOS HER hens

cone


‘Another wound tat: mignce es
prought, death was. ‘caused by
bullet, which’ entered the ‘victim’ " , ris: 5
: ‘pack, © just below ‘the sidulder; 5 oy ae oe
\ ; blades and embedded itself in ithe | # — ; a eS
“ . {spinal column. The. physicians. be- eet

* “}iiéve that this’ wound paralyzed,
AR ‘the “lower, pert, of ‘the | woman's
porno ‘third. bullet whicli took. aes

On i in eae ta wea ae sR Dae deen | ‘fect. in Mra. Sabo's bady pierced} wae one
a eee ahs er i Be RE ck BOSE ae ce Tt te eee er left hip,’ nee * from . a b Bee's ae ey
Se OT sea ECS NSCS ot iN PAE Mg OLN, fea ft‘ twag discovered. "tp |

we Awe Neat) OT Uke | ue weg

es : is Seas sien Bee eae SDS cose tea a ae ‘Displays. No: Emotion. me, tf
| a aes RS hehe ge alana cf ses ene, las ~ [° " Wargo, .59, a Tailroad : Jaborer

ry _who!-had roomed’ at the $abo" ‘home’

hs i -for' the ‘past four. ‘years, -exhibited

¥ st ‘|no- emotional’ feeling. when‘ Sheriff:
Ne roty [Rasmussen “éntered the*'cell: blocis |}
Me fo va .fat county jail last. night to. tell: jhe,
veal a peti ey that Mrs:Sabo, was Mead? «
‘Showing ‘the. same stoic” con?!
eae .| Cer that amazed author ities when’

‘. | they . auestioned . him... Wednesday

: : Pe aden Reel Beer ae night, Wargo: simply. sald &TOo f

| eae é | bad? -¢an’t. ‘pe: helped.’? © “slight!
s .: Bere : shrug of the. shoulders emphasized

fis apparent. indifference, ;.-; ee

| He appears to, fecl no. tons: ono
ie enn : of the examining authorities, Bald

| today, * classifying . » Wargo, asa
qanosan: ‘who, while’ ¢. he; appeara ‘
sane “and:. ‘Yesponsible® Pand: Anows |
tthe: - difference, bates. bts

;
. ~— eer as dosh $i iphese

SPO Fe ofa PS OT PRE RNETER po oke eee
rast dearest apee PA Soe RAEN ASE
3 {etre ye, CPA Te AM, ee oe
eS inet é

ae Nica oy

te
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1

iF Ba “erinned,” * aie: Scabies

| said, “when: “we: told ‘him that’ “it
| Mg ea: . "|; Mrs.-Sabo died,:he’ “might. £3
| . HES: i death in the’ electric. chair. , cs eee
| Hs. Ni iets wie “Maybe iso, maybe’ }tonight—ell
| ee right,’ 8, Wargo, is: quoted. Ey Revit
, when -he‘ was. told:
| e ey anes x } gear hee go have to: Day forthe ¢
| : ae MEE AES a pOwn: lifes. tpg

ee
3aho" ig; and fa hy;

Mrs. "Baths einen
- saree Gea o Sie cee Julia, Karte} "of: ‘this ‘cit,
jig.) SE ee 3 shew : 1 Ihe orphaned
13: Elizabeth; 23)

So ’ 8;° Rasy nt 8B ‘Barguer ba

Forni be held at, the yas i

. Rev,’ Alois: As: Krisik. “omeutine
feces ° Burial will be made in ae eee
[oon — cemetery.” a ‘

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COND HUNUNE OURTH | YEARS? AAG) 57

y a a oe SOS ae 5
GT Bees eisai? eae

7 2 Officers: ‘Capture Boarder! ate: Hit
aoe From Enraged Crowd After He
ie“: Thrice Shoots Mother of ne

“pld babe,’ “George

é ast stom er in'the, litte Sabo: ‘cottage at, Grand. River,

E

Mere in ‘his. gall in, ‘county jail here, Jast night and |.

re ah } hos} ital here. and, het”
ie “ie ulferng fi froma bullet’ ‘wound in one of her)

,

oP Reotet fee

at Seven. ‘Children’

Bois ta Ser

abe : iA ler shooting” ‘down, ‘TSwidowed other and the) -

youngest’ ‘of: her: geven small' children,,.an: ‘18-month-|
Wargo} 59: a. ‘railroad, laborer and|

"t -dare, Me -only a few

nee ry: “Of. ieee county.”
ray cAmnie Sabd,- 34; of Henry Street,

reis-at thé] int of death, at Lake County
Liha “4 infant daughter,},

a Wt

‘show? of | notional: excitement | or,
the itiéss say, Wargo. shot, ‘down Mis. “Sabo,
ecause she’ "refused to ¢ ;

pechis-supper lastnight: ">> +:
- re holding. the.man wi
Rage &t him® today: pen nding the: outcome

penclanse, mons ve that, her songition

lis'b believed ‘to hav » been  Boanidedl ‘mortally by
jets that’pierced her back, neck, and right
: Ithorities ‘stated: Iast night. If she- ‘dies, County
Hi-tor Seth Paulin will make: out warrants charg-

\Costa Rica Mourns 275 Killed
rane

had ‘fescved him, from |”
the most, ¢old-blood- Hy

a. ays ” y then

epeated: in, pelea Eng-|

ition. = At 1 o’clock this afternoon}:

in Disaster at Railroad B Bric

It, Cost Amita a it mourning-for victims ‘of the pailrond als
‘ate Aye rier "AY total of 275 persons were “killed and 7h
ously , injured: when’ a’ special train carrying a throng. to a ret
festival at Cartage, left the tracks‘ at the: ‘bridgehead: and plunged
a, rorge. Photo: shows some of the wrecked: Ca¥se. «sw vite

qo Memotiatneapttal in a ‘machine “ayer by"!
ing| Evans’ son, ‘Charles, who passed the. sheriff’s,ca

the B. andO. railroad cr ossing on Richmond road
’ Mrs. Sabo wags shot down by a bullet in the’b

just, as she.was attempting to escape from the ho
according to an account of the fictual shooting.as «
structed by Sheriff Rasmussen’ and authorities f
Wargo’s dethiled | confession ane the stories told
the oldér childr en,

“TRére Was.no hint of horre or or feeling i in the v
last night as’ fie recounted the brutal details of

4. 20: with | first degree-murder, he stated ' last
aia ‘an ,examination of ‘the prisoner.

r mother’s: ices

fee $6 Parente

to he
re wget wd eT hes “Bi i
jae “Mob Threatens Violence *” fhe
Et avick thinking and: sights action: by}
ie Dubie and E..H. Lamos’ sayed War-
a 5 ‘the threatened mob”violence’ of nearly 50

Mrdriited: Grand River.jcitizens who surrounded the |:
ttle-Sabo home on Heniy. street spe demanded his |
e, aes ci ‘ Ye
s+ Wattgo, ah sditing’ os on othe edge “of: the bed nehien
thé-officers burst into:his bedroom and ‘overpowered
#in.-i He had-a “box of ammunition beside him and,
he cers say,” ‘was ‘working: frantically: to dislodge
i ertipt; y shell, thet, was. dammed, it his five-shot 32-
libre. revolver, J aes
Deputy: ‘Lames sprang.’ forward: and: tndcked the
wes to. ne floor,as Dubie grappléd’ ‘with, the man,)
b ined” with’a’ knife that ‘hethad been
ga effort td. bry: rk fouléd:¢ artridge shell!
en ee ath ie yea ea ? ‘
wi ie ee aie the front ‘door of the house “aft:
eighbo ‘taken ‘Mrs. Sabo’arid-the baby out,
a Raliod believe: that’ he dntended,to reload his te-|

me)

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“.lerime;'and showed not the-least sign of fear in

8 months old,.is.in the hospital eles. of: authorities. Nath face ia

‘ohé. jotiher chubby. little. Jegs, She
er oe

; elle, 68 S30 Aa ae
Res rt : Tells of Sksétthe = ay
He told of, chasing Mrs.: Sabo: tent the: “ite
'to the front. of the house, authorities.say, and said |
felled her with a shot thr ough the back and fired fo

more times as she lay pr ostr ate ‘on the floor, senee
ing with tertor. : eds

«He: remembered, he said, that several of the oh
den ran. to their mother’s side ‘when“he started

-|shoot, but said. he did not: know‘ that he-had: hit t

baby. Sse gece 4
i re over Mess!  gabo's refusal’ induence ‘or intoxicants.
to cook. some cftblingé for nis sup tide er even thé allghtesé
per was thet nly: motive h ty) % lips, ‘authoritfes’,
tor hig ack, 2 . aa . he ‘nv [Wargo told vl ree bee
; ‘4 AR Warko: told ° ‘standing |
JT: tie-chor.” he ai plained to -au-] the, woman * caned the: pes
thorities"in broken glish through ‘the pack _had

Wargo, was Serpleved on the paid er.and firing; three
timore and Ohio railroad docks at}bullets:at almost pofnt !
Grand: River.» i He ‘dame to this| range, two taking cffect in
country from, Hungary 31. years Sabo's right arm and aeck and
ago and has roomed with the Subo| third piercing the ier a of
family for the past four years. ° | infant.

He is known to bi the father of], Mrs. Sabo was a’ “quiet” and

‘two sons, vow mothorless, |

» In the

bate country, but -the’ little Grane bnected, elljzent apy hal ‘ght
er community knew'him as , | hard £0. provide, for ade

‘pachelor who worked hard for the| Children after
het hushand’s.#
renter and'.was always seen by ne 25, 1925, Noighbows said.
msolf. jhad Itved Jn Grand + \River*

mt Bleed menmene Af!) eterna har mamket


POMC LIBS age 2 t

. ‘ Bigbi aikag ie eee ae iheeinkce
fh - st NG ot Tae OE HES yf wee nae

just’as shé.was attempting to: escape from the ho

hateee yr according to dh aecount of the fictual sh ooting as «
is believed to te have been’ Wouhdel: rhoitally by structed -by Sheriff Rasmussen: and authorities
iS lets: that; tohave her back, neck, and righ | Wargo’ 8 detailed’ confession and the stories told
thori ties, ‘Stated: ‘Tast get If she. ‘dies, County the oldér children, tah
a} rt ut warrants charg-| Thére Was no hint of horror or feeling i in the v:
¥ j legreemurder, he. stated | last last. night as’ he’ recounted the brutal details of
?: aid! eae - ry Hse i i ofthe prisoner: ©. erime, “and showed not the: least eth of fear in
: oN * Months a is in a the ile legos aie of: Authorities, mgs
* 3, sai ohe of:he «She ein Pelle at Wey rd i
ee ae Be Ne tk Bi ‘Tells of Shubting™ rel
eta pte V he He told ot ehasing Mis, Sabo: from the ‘KiteKél
4 ’ Tens \to the front of the house, authorities, Say, and said. he
3 ion: ‘by | felled her with’a shot thr ough the back and fired four.
: Laie sayed War- more times as she day prostrate on ‘the aon, Scream:
ee encé’ of nearly 50 ing With terror. caer
amas dai who Surrounded the}:
eae  - n Fenty street and, demanded his dr

+ ays tig

‘20. an ; ee onthe edgé-of: the ied. when’ baby

r. é Bye te Ee Ras ser oe

ee ~, Anger: over “MrS,:“Babo's |r ; oe
tse, ‘burst into. ‘his bedroom’ and: ‘Over powered to cook somo tage for nis von Without even the allehtest sag
“He had: 8 ‘box of ammunition beside Aim, and, | 0k tS0‘only motive he gaye) G7 Of his Ups,: “authorites: “say,
cers’ Bay,“\was’ ‘Working: frantiéally: to dislodge for his ‘act. *% | Wargo totd.* of “standing ‘over

pay 14 <
aply’'s elLthat: was s.jammed An. his | Salve 32- AT fiechor.? he éxplained. to: au-| the, woman™ afte - ott” ‘first shot
Sip ACE Fa T8 ea. thorities: in btoken 4 glish. . through “the back had - felled
i ’ argo. wag employed on the Bait h. eT attd: firi ng t-three * more
‘ | timore and Ohio: railroad docks at} bullets. ‘at almost © point “blank
rand: River. - i He ‘dame to this| range, two -taking- effect. in- Mrs:
‘country from, Hungary _31_ years! Sabo's Tight arm and neck. ‘and the
feo and has roomed with ‘the Sabo| third Piercing the. létt: es Of, oe
family for the past four. years, * | infant, hes “3
he He' is known to rob the father’ er Mrs. Sabo. Was a’ ‘auilet’ and te:
fe: }tWO80ns, nov ‘anot etless, in the], ected, ze ' g
| old country, "but. the: little Gran hard to alps a Mowe gras aetna
River community’ knew him asia. Provide, for seyen sma
nd the baby ‘out

ea ee ROR eRilio mrt ennai Bee Wi ee

et

; bachelor who worked hard for the {childven. after her husband's: Hcaths

igh railroad’ ‘andy ‘Was be seen by June 25, 1925, ‘noighbows said. ‘She
ae dd d ‘police balers dea ts reload his. Fe-|himsolt, i {had lived In’ Grand = “River ever
: " I9 5 mee Nees @*man’ ‘stianed manher of _, her marriage
? ro and “ hoot tout’ Sheen he: law, arrived.> Ks # complete... unconcern. over the}: . Children On For Mother |

n “and! PL Kill 4 the » dog,’ dee “and othér pian 9 ght 1 Lalthorities when j: The tragic wid a of vie ayo
se I ey. 60u, to. questi him last!ing was roug! ome to. the

: em nays from ‘the dangeré ous crowd: threat- night. “AS deat’ sg  ditdaes vant bpeokea’ community Jlast night as]?
ote . ee Leet ‘a Serious situation a8'the.two offi. nt aally hace ®. ,Ptlvate ottice the six oldest -ehildeer ran through |

ight ' {
“appéhred ‘at at; the: sae cal the little cottage with ‘the little, have- colnet oe the BP ig erying piteutly | for
paheckley Btisoner: ee

“ Vi em. La nog: anc IDubie® ‘reached “awaiting automo: [2 hoyment ‘om “7 ee Instead door ‘nelghbors, ‘took the children

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i gin aat ety ane made’ Speed to the court house. . a eo ever recone yn hum-feorner pool room and Are Wrens f
" 4 Tatty Y recor - "
ey Piseigesin sy ht es 'Frightenéa Children Spread: Alarm »- ulty. Peete Ray eg ar pede. with her own,

His questioner, ” _ the sheriff, Jackie Sabo, } j pf
. q ‘Sab Evans, } propriétor ofa pool room next door ‘Prosecutor and Fratik Pollock, ag. | Blizabeth, abo, 13. ‘he ys
e Sa 0. héim ine, led: 2 small: group: of _ Courageous sistant brosecutor, asked him if old enough to realize What, shad |

Sap h ; € nasties
rene ee HoMse.& fevr minutes after” the|és moe et Pace shot ame Gt bbors

gic news of the shooting had been learned from the care, bin . iran to the home of and Jackie |
é u rother pehiare fri ghtened children, who were Bren piitys No Fear ‘The nae Charles Ecole, tor help!

are Joseph, |
* Marguerite, | !

‘ { »} q lia, the 1 t
The mothers ten iioniol See weie foind ae He’ told) who wee it debe ee mF
. a ty
(dled together in a Pools of . blood’! just.‘ ‘inside me ‘a Uttle bit" Martie re uate

|
\ KB the afler-) ° Your name on ay eye you se.
‘partly’ openett sdoor,:: Th hey... vere’. “rushed * to! ; “ail that ho leet ree! Order now, DeRarbrion,|
f < i vies ob a tee i Ge es etn ees ‘ Soeur “ Np Rr me. undor the’ NA TCH Tk seas S - QUR-st ¢
Sinisa Webez gag ape “3 ee cab Gee Paget oT ea ein Sahio? ora 1h) pt SHigg eee ey et Hy? ee anne "
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gt: Nee ad -) didda id i } Wi dif ait are u
be Bee : i 4% 4} Hf i g It!
“’ e. Wien — % . x
a es ae ‘ Fm teat
3 ahs ents ode Se, : na ~ = H
ry ee 7 & ngs ET . . r¢
{Woes ics a Livery Sta. men.” he sald firmly, “I want you to] would always be .
Hoprt ac xtble obey me. There must be no bloodshed | would retu ay cde oe } “hed Eradi
rr a ote: xt and: ‘Accomplished. Ita: Pur- “jon our part unless Tilford aturts somes. | had stolen, @she sald hi Pikes Ad | mak ¢
Great eB. ; ‘ thing. He culm, Kren your weapons in | her that he had bought th f ask
as gee ek "pose Peacefully. your pocket and pillow me.” ond hand dealer. She Walt't ‘iow ——
F erie: Rare ~Yioke . eeeemmnumen 47 \ And out of the stable they went In) Where the goods were bein laposed |
‘ Sea cee oe . Po palrs, all marching ulong with regular < I ia auld, buc had heard that some | Wie t
= hon eee >. (read. As other citizenx on the wtreets | 0 em went to (| throw
Fs ee e Nelrnael anvel werrrye
Baz: EUBEN TILFORD IS - Raw the crowd they only stopped long 4 a i Mang woman tn Dayton, whose truth
rte: fy Pa TH enouxh toctnquire what it meant, | Place Ie now being Investiguted by tha; Ma |
“o UNG, Sore Be NOT WANTED ERE When told that it was to drive “Rube” | [oc4! polles, « “thine
= tog gege lege... Me, | t.
Ree. I wy ~ Tilford out of the houae ha -occupled Thea woman will be held une a! ve
4 i Cat nen SCO and which hua been run usa “fence,” | Charxe of muspicton In the bellet that |
> aS they al! Jolned in. Women passing on | Sa@ -willltell -cimmoure - concerning the | Hts
SEN hy the street stopped to Jock at the mob | "¢KkrO, Of whom but Iittle Is known
Beem. 7.5 WHO: that Was preastng south to the home eae 3 ‘a known that he wax once
“ a3) Teoh, cere pee Thlord. “They stepped to the alde | ‘4 e Manaflald reformatory for the | OF F:
3 Fins Boel Jind: Was Under's Bhadow. to let the inen puss, even the hearts of enooting of a negro woman at hin} fore
: hii ieee ees ne . the women of Frunklin were with the | RUM*® whieh he contends Is in Colum.
4 2 Rs ee pags ha determined men, Dua, oe was on parole, He wx
‘2 operating all over thin purt of ;
3 Croumatr th ° pur the Bpect
He MT: IS/BELIEVED THAT Inte a alow trot and by the time the | he hand ank genatever he cuuld wet | "Tt
e : s hands on, anc It was for Ut lar-
mA fs 66 ” pe ar and »
desist AME. ‘CONDUCTED FENCE.’
s noe jae wet o
pink oe 5S SPE Mie - . MEN WHO PIGURED IN INCIDENTS FOLLOWING MURDER O}

Bcs Ped From the House a: and Was
aes Several Times as He

ar.
ce HOUSE:

: the Town Marshal—Mayor Is.

4

<< “mes & Mourning Proclamation.

EE sie Negro Whita-Is Now in Jail in

tanh, Ratt a ha at c :
iter

. ee wo.
are 2 late Swidatd Ms:
Piespicacen or

wees co”
way

SS a

rows Sut i Beserter,

{iP RANKKCLIN, O:-Oct-41. —This staid
fori sp Uttle city” last night sew her first rfot-
‘Vesting, the first mob in her history that
B ted Teally: Meant business, and that auc-
A } 2 eeesfully. carried out its purpose,
AGES, “No -sooner-had-Henry—- White,
Vomegpo>mow confined in the . Warren

: aH ‘¢ounty jafl at Lebanon, shot and killed
fe Daekeahat “Geores_Basore then the cry

Reps Beame?™

the

that seledsto- an enter the little station
phonee*and: ‘take -the- prisoner ‘had no

‘Srryee ow

g mepe recoen! 61 ised “Teader,. “and ‘@:.speech by
Ae Magpr McLean, who blocked the en-

: Ouse wny: sent the men to different
; parte! ot “the: elty,=:---—> se vmmen wats

a Thea: a the_sherift: ‘arrived from Leb-
as coe apa loading: White into an au-
estemediie, took him to that'place and

loeiea pine te gatt:~But the desire for
z eves Fae me pl down., Then some
Fatt ?Reuben Tilford, where. White had
431%. <made his home for the six days he

IOS DAL SAE VES CS:

he house occupied

wae “be-put-put-of- bust.:

% ta 578 , 09 Ge.

- Sy seem,” ~

A of Seo ThaTe. was ni he Dien of @ Jeader this
BS , See ; ime—eoveral volunteered. Quietly the
a ewer oe weet aroun —meet at ene
eo ac wUCH & itvery ptable, 1 n the heart
+ eee», nee at 8 o'clock.” —

ae, a o- Naming a Loader.

a: The Daily News staff correspondent
2 -on-timea One by. one the men en-

it des . a the stable and grouped beneath
‘$7 the' Mlekxering coal ail lanterns in the
‘freer ‘partiof the barn. Finally about

4: pee -obrigregated. “All talked tn
fe yWhispers.and no names were spoken

bY 0 Then’ somes one called for
“i the blection of a Jeader. The name of
a ae ne.of the: moet prominent phynictana
,int: Pranklin wae-mentioned,-and that.
B Piegeademan heavily clad in a long
. FS about’ and with the collar turned

ON m AAanteae AP tha renwA

CLUpC_BUt_ tis” mos [T=

“he would

‘mbout his neck and head, stepped into | {|

ey

MARSHAL E E. SMITH,

’

. UENRY WHITE.

* A. KILPATRICK.

coma bag gt he
” oe < *
nant Soe?
wht ne
4 i's

houre was reached they..were almost |
In w run.
“Surround the
leader, “and don't
Koep your heada”

Tilford Anawered Call,

Btepping to the side wf the house
the leader called Joudly fur Tilfurd. Ie
‘dtd not reapond at the first wall, but
At the second appeared ut un upatalra
Window. Then the leader called out
hin own name loudly and wate:
““Tilford, Fo gtve you my ‘worl of
honor that these men will not harm
you If you will come down and Maten
to what I have to nay, They will not
Gincurb JOU or your property If you
do thla” Thiford answered faintly that

be right down, There was
a walt and yet Tilford did net comet

‘Ones more, Tfomt, I command |
you to come dawn. If you have not
done so tn five minutes these men will ;

the
tout,

cried
anyone

houne,**
let

ee ae ec eee cee ee eee ewes ote

batrer- down the door amd To owilll no:
longer be resepnalble for what they |
do, Are you conning?"
Tho fMve minutes Timaed ised the)
TNOM CAC Vb te crew More \eogry |
FUntiy mote re culiend fur ttiate bem |
te baer the dee (lesen teats

of

all
bali

sen,
1006,

lage (oO wtinpend Tt l treme between the
hours of 2 and 3 o'clock p.m,
yeniber 1, on aceount of the
George Basore, late marshal of
Village, and Tote requent tliat
pace Uf Duslaess be closed ducts ;
tlhe

Given under my hand and offfletal !
the 30th day of October, AL oD,
GRhORGK MOLBEAN, !

Mayor,
’

THRILLS STOLY,

on Noe
funeral

ancl

Wott:

ty Nain ene hen aAppronched | Kenarta
vhe killed,  Iynehin
Tin Doeegy Mavurristange, , mob at
The elty tm ti deep imeurniong over Walked
the affate and nothing for yourn has! Chia im.
FO RhOek el the ecltizens, Abb that one "tected
Hears tn othe atreets. the shops and, oS cell
private restidencem tx the conversation | and au
regarding the murder (tty councty? Feyuest
Heid at mpectal meeting Tuemtay evens | Initny ti
INR WA prtwmeed mittanteter vere! Tuatieuss enn! as his
the death of Hasore, This proclhiuma- | he had
(os) wan tasued Jute last night —by | # mob
Mayor Melean: , etreums
Mayor's Proclumation, | To 7
To pursuanes of the metlon of the! ve oe
counell of the village of Franktin, ts i,
hereby request the clilzensa of sald vite | oe

tance ¢
Linnioe vot
Trilecdeod:
when |
batly x
my Pies
erme ff
retutise
ridinyw »
teh aes
ete ele
mera omy

rat

n

ee
vw.

Lamy Mims m gots ary sroMY. De |
; Shite abc
Si eae nat Weegee Seite ;

waa ibe

(iis AS ie

aim cei tine
(Fi

Nee

ar tts te wet 4 oe

»

—

HE: DAYTON

a

Sar Vea we gto
‘

ie. foot

ees te us

aera rat
ok (ee
By eee

ap Se phat ‘George: Basore “are -evidently in-

a ied FROM CHURCH

; Be —Reports!

ioe

So ye correct. Everything Js quiet here this
i Scsivenes and all. that the-oitizens of

Piles Quis
|

Instant. Relle f
Trial Packa;s
- All in P.

Pillow tx.a.faurfs

oe AB

‘ES, a? wate,

ey far
"Pounds. ofr: Prunes

“(9%

Ai
wis
ES

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i ae three sizes— ~*~ --
~40 ‘to’ a fae aaaae

“EN AN TF WV NIT IPS Fl ES ERD

Hi

am 5

Pe Age ON ADR al de AO A987 WEARS

“Hy 3

na 5

rTttr tn March.

Sy ae Pals s Babes Qe
USS els eK had ee, ie Se WE RS

H EN ny WH ITH __

The above picture ts one of Henry White,
the murderer of Marshal Dasore uf Franklin.
The picture “wae taken in the rogues’ gailery
at SpringQMeld tn 190d, after White bad been
arrested for shooting @ negro woman In Co-
lumbys Ile waeione of the levee reatdbents
of SpringMeid when that place wae destroyed
dy a mob after the qgurder of Polteeman Col-
194. File alleged wife, Radia
Heile Freeman, te ale a nelepheus police
character tn Mpringtleld. Both are now in
the jatl at Jebanon, :

murderer, une a speedy trial after the
dadictme: Wd dled he ow

The fureral of the dead marshal OCce
curred at 2 o'clock this afternoon,
and was onecoaft the Jargest tn the his-
tory of Franklin. Acting upon the or-
ders of the mayor, every business
house was closed from 2 o'clock until
3 while-the Cuneral was In progress.
Marshal Basore was a member of the
Knights of Pythias and of °the Juntor
order, and these organizations had
charge of the funeral. ---The-— former
conducted the services at the home

re ey ee

me the effect

_—<=

‘of United!

cure If you goat

An operation »
rerous, cruel, hi
wanary.

and: the Juglor “Order.
‘American Mechanics took charge of ,
*the ceremonies ‘al the grave, going;
through ‘thelr * deautitul ceremonial

“work. Many were prexent from Leba- |
non, Carllulo and surrounding towns |
and cltten. - . |.

Seutinvent Dying Down, )

The mob apirit’ (s oul, smoullering |
here, but there scems to ‘ba.no ‘Tndlcus ;

“tn now thatarything serious will re- !
sult. The driving out of the village
Of Tbubo ‘Sii ford drach ity clemired offect,
and ‘other ne<eroes who were unsler a
shadow have quietly packed thelr!
tenta and -huve  stlusen- awey in the!
night. A gxenersl reformation Iscint.
progress, aud Frankiln promines- bry :
“the endsof ine weerkstohecnd of herp
undealrable class, and tu bevome wit
the masortty of her clthzens desire her
tao becume--a deeent town to live fa]
anil a credit to her county and her y->
stule. |
While there hus been Whispering to
that wa mole cwhll Daren out
the hamesa of all undestrable uexrcen, | ry

this appears ‘“tom~be—meraly:- aru. 7
The better clasm have gollen together eT ners shane
and cooler heads are nolding down | cured—paliniess,
those who would resort—te——mod Lvicy of your om
Violence, “mid Pie Cure.

Itube Tilford, who was driven from: — \We null nw tel
his home by wa mob Tuesday night wre write.
und who walked, barefvoted-all thar ope wy us
way to Lebanon and xaked to be! yeu the harn
locked In JalJ_for protection, appeared ' thie preat pert pnb
nt. the exe of the village Wednesday :

ded

Pog the way. towa
und sent word In that he wanted (to: Yrpen heise me
get some clothing from hia home, and) ¢geam any OruRK
that If xllowed to dao this, Re would) often nine” bev, oO

tf -the- drugs?

leuve Frank!in fur good... Consent “eI
ormet hing Iist-2

#iven,-aisl.alser-ha—had.-packed—hls
clothing and carted it away; he was

Instructed to never again show his | he A ial more
face In this village. —- relat on. havi

Sadle ‘Freeman, the negro woman | rT} a n nN " ‘s
from Springfield, who waa living with | = ie mek :
White at the Tilford home as hin-wife, | U&* epg sah
-and who has admitted that she Is not! Pe ean ;
and has never been married to him, |]. ks “a be « -
waa tried here Wedneaday afternoon; NOK And be eas
‘on a vchurge-of having upon her per-} the she oo
-mem omtolen property. She _ had - Me * ahaa belived
clothing belonging to a womun ae ey reented ten

Bullding, Marsh:
frea by return n
IL Diary wirw

Curlisle, whose house was wasaeaetoen
it few-erenings ago. The white woman
identified her-clathing-and-Sadle_w

ee ee ee eee

CASTOM OIL IN PILLS,

. Most. everyone has an Iimpreasion
that the “oll” in Castor Oll fs the gen-
eral that routa the enemy of mankind,
constipation. Thin haa been proven to
be erroneous, und If we stop to think

thin Impression should never have
been entertained, for If the ‘oll’ had
thin property, any other oll would do
an well. [Sut tard oll, whales oll, or
animal ollx will not act on the bowels,
Ever think of that?-- We -learn that
It Is the nauseous, acrid particles In
Custor Oll which nourish the bowel-
nerves and thua relleve’ constipation.
The only way to tnuke thle Valuable
medicine and get the effect without
the taste. Ja to ank your druggist for
a sweet Iitthe- pill called Blackburn’s
Caator-Ol} Pils. Mr. Blackburn con.

het ut et a9 300 —bond—which-she+
-Thousandn his

could not give. Sha was taken to |
Lebanon Thursday. morning and, Pry. Daltiesa an
lodged tn jail. _ . the privucy of tt
3 ey No knife and
: ° "hw No doctor and
QUIET AT LEANN, | : All drugglata,
Jall Is @ Htrong One and Could Noe | day for w Cree px
Very Well Be _ Entered. rae.

WS. taken throukch t

Speclal to The Dally Newa._
eral newspaper r

LEBANON, 0., Nov, 1.—There are

atralght story.
no new Indications of the cathering | man with whon
of a mob to lynch Henry White, the] wife as 1 xabeloet

ving together a

murderer of Marshal George Tusore
were not marrilec

‘ot’ Franklin:-~It-wae feared that Reus ford until T began
ben Tiiford, with whom White stayed, a wee bee 1.4
“and ~-who--was-driven- fron Franklin | I dtdn't: knew: ht

Tucaday night by an angry mob,| me that he cam

would be molested last night here, but | Ae me, oe
Aid amy Chiat

yo demopatration resulted, The coun. | pulledt It, but he

trols the manufacture of thin wonder-
ful new remedy mtd dt dws weld by all |

Jeadtew Ureevetate ty ten anmed twenty.

ty Jall tm one of the strongest tn. | interes caminn §
atate und a mob could do Mttle at a pauper mil
towards forcing thelr way In. Tilford; my Joh fer Veelii

er ie ers Se Tre TT 2 Pq Firre fh:

dU ddd

Vtlon now that arything serlous will re-

— meg

ey ror —-

and the Jugloe Order of United !
American Mechanics took charke of
‘the ceremonios af the grave, golux
threugh thelr * beautiful ceremonial
work. Many were prexent from Leba-
nou, Carilsla and surrounding towns

Scutiment Dying Down. | )

The mob apirit: ix «till smouldering |
here, bul there scems to be.na Indicus 7

sult. The driving out of the village
of Rebe Tlford had ity desired llect,
and other necroes who were under a
shadow have qgulet.y packed thelr!
‘tents and-have  stusen--awey in the!
night. A geherel reformativn. sim
progress, aud Frankilu promives— vy |
“the endo ther wee fens hernd wt her’
undealrable clans, and ty becume whal
the maforlty of her citlzens destre her
to become—-a decent tawn ta live fn
and «a crodit to her ecunty and heer
elute, “

ithe effect that a mob cwlll burn aut
the hamesa of all. undesirable .negruen, |
this appears —to—bde—mereaiy—e@-—tuimner,
The better class have gotten together
and cooler heads are nolding down
those who would
Violence. !

way to Lebanon and xaked ta be!
locked in jal)_for protection, appeared !
at the edge of the village Wednesday }
und sent word in that he wanted to:
get some clothing from his home, and
that if allowed to do this, Re would,
leave Franklin Cor good.. Conzent ‘ial
yhven,-aidl- wlber- he had-packad—_his,
clothing und carted {tt aways he was
Instructed to never again show his
face tn this village. —-

Suadle ‘Freeman, the negro womun-
from Springfield, who was living with
White at the Tilford home as his wife,
‘and who has udmitted that she Is not
and has never been married to him,
was tried here Wednesday afternoon
on a charge of having upon her ae
ren stolen property. She hud on
clothing belonging to a woman In
Carlisle, whose house was burglarized
2 few evenings nyo. The white woman

could not give. She was taken to
Lebanan Thursday. morning and
lodged In jail. “

QUIET AT LEBANON.
Jail Is # Hong One and Could Not

and €itle” = e. —-|.

While there hus been whispering to].

resort—iv—mob tvicy of your own home—It_ Is_Pyra-

tube Tiiford, who was-driven from; |
nis home by w mob Tuesday nightt
und who walked, Larefuvoted-all) the

“op the way. toward a perfect cure.

te Pyramid Drug Co, 65

identified her-clathing and -Sadle—_wusi

+t etd—untter—a—3 309 -bond=—which--she +L Dial” wrappers.

“Thousands have heen cured In This t itcts tuth-of troreittes*und-tte-charac 4h

add in a’lai wWrupper, |
Tiles ta.a faurful disease, but cany to oe aoe i om
cure If you go at It right. ‘Ten Millions Added to the Com-
An operation with the knife ta dan- > mon Capital—Substantial ‘Im.
wis y. cruel, humiliating apt wanes’ | /*. provements: Under . Way. _ f
ED ane — anne —

' CINCINNATI:“0., Nov, 1.—An In-
crease of $10,009,000 in the common
capital stock of«the Cleveland, Chica-
go._Cincinnat!.& St. Louls... Rallway
‘company (Big Your) ‘was authorized
: rut a special meeting of sharcholders
A held at the company's :
® Chairman M. E. Ingalla-preaided. The
—additional-capilal tu be wubseribed—witt-

. be used for the purpose of paying for
permunent betterments,’.- Jncluding
j second-tracks De{ween Cincinnat! and
Duyton, between” Indlanapolis” und
Terre Haute and in AWinota fF, future.
Improvements and cxtensluns” are
planned, they hnve not yet been di-
vulged by the cumpany, -At the an-
nual meeting of the xhareholders on
Wedneaduy, ‘which preceded the ape-
com clal meeting, Willfans K.- Vanderbilt,
Sere wt... | Chauncey Mrtlenew, J._Pierpont Mor-
‘e gan and Melville: E. Ingatls. were
-ununimously elected" directors ‘for
three years. A. total of 303,881 shares
of common stoeX and 49,8271 shares of
| preferred were voted. At the special
; Meeting which folluwed, held-for the
purpose of Increasing the --common,

Ls gale ee ek packngctree to all! conital stock, 304,386 shares of-eom- !

bee re
—There Is-just! one’ sure way to be
-cured—puainiesx, sufe andta—the pri-

mid Pile Cure. ~ -

ft will Kive you instant rellet, show : ry, q
yeu the harmicas, palniess nature of were voted, vcs abv a eden
this great remedy and atart, you well .

often one’ bow cures,
If-the-druggint tries to sell © you

Then you can get ua ~Tullesized box | AT THE-THEAT
from any druggist for 60 cents,~and : j ,

’ mon and 49,000. shares of preferred{

headquarters. -—

I

something tastes good ttt + beca une-
he makes more money on the sub-
stitute.
__Mesist_on- having what you call for.
“The cure begins at once and contin- !
ues rapidly until it ia complete and
Pervinanent, : .
You can go right ahead with your
work and be easy and comfortable all
the time.
It Ix well worth tryfng.
Just: «end your name and address
Pyramid

Bullding, Marshall, Mich., and receive output,
fren by return mall the trial packaxe!

easy, patriesx and Inexpensive way, In
the orivucy of the home... : ‘ AD

No doctor and hie bills” .
All druggists, 50. cents. Write to-
day for u free paokuge.

Very Well Be Entered.

Mpecial ta The Dally News... | Yee

LEBANON, 0., Nov, 1.—There are
no new Indications of the gathering
of a mob to lynch Henry White, the
murderer of Marshal George Busore
of Franklins-~It wam feared that-Raus
hen Thiford, with whom White atayed,-
and who: wae-driven- frony Franklin
Tuesday night by. an angry mob,
would be molested Inst night here, but
no demonatration resulted. The coun.
ty jJall Ja one of the strongest in. the
ntate und a “mob could . do. Mttle
towards forcing their way In. Tilford
lx confined Jn the station house for

nafekeeping and an extra corps of po-
Nee guarded him al) laat night. He
will, without doubt, serve aa a prome
inent witngen In the coming trial,

— Tne grand-jury meets—Friday—to-In-~

‘ and-says his shoulder only

Vaativate the case, and should [ta de-
cision not satlafy the public at large
violence ts tmminent. The state will
-da all in its power to rapidly prose-
cule,

White seema to be resting easier:
pains @%

he movers, Late last night ha was

RN ae sae eS ee FS NTS TS NS

COLORADO LOW RATES.

The dry mountain alr of Colorado

taken through ‘the sweat bux by fev-
eral newxpaper men and told a-pretty Tt Is Indeed with
straight story. He nald: ‘The wo-
man with whom 1 Ilved fs not my
wife ax-}-sale-at—firet, We had been
living together about three weeks, but
were not married. I did not know TN- | ttle. role Ezra Kendall hus a typical

St
pe Eppes i §
“Whe Gingerbread Man”: - - f,
.Frederick- Ranken_and_A_ Baldwin j___
Sloane have a large ‘number’ of Bucs [oo
cessful) comic operas and musical
comedies to thelr-oredit, and | their
Names are at the Nead of thelr pare} gy
_Ucular class of Composers and writers, | 5, ,
.--—.} -but nevordid-their-hopeaachieve auch | _
splendid realization as in. the success! the
that has.ao far attended thelr latest | His
“The Cingerbread Sfan.” | Tp:
which will be seen at the Victoria Py
J theater Friday evening, November 2. bd
} ters, such as’ Kris Kringle, Slmple Si-/} the
mon, Margery Daw, Feter Piper, ete., | hin
clothed In real flesh and blood, are] ¢
ihe most appealing stage persons seen | “uF
in many years. A lavish management | wev
provided an all-star cast, magnificent} an}
scenic settings.and costumes. nur
Fura Kendall -- eset
pleasure that: "oF
theatergoers look forward to the corm! op
jng of Kara Kendalf-and his latest of-! jae
, fering, “Swell Elegunt Jones.’ In the} tha
N.

ford ‘until T Dégan MVing at hia Nouse 7 Kendall. part,- and -what-more-coulid ».na

a week ago. If he kept a rough. house

1 didn't: know. b---When—Th ford—tald.

me that. he came pratty near. shoot-.
Ing me, thinking _was_a_Durglar. I |

, it would be advisable to order ‘your

did say that IT had a gun, too, gh Be In advance, If we can lices®

pulled It, but did not polnt deat him, what other cities way, “His ‘greatest

. ‘

~“N

on Suturday; November” 3,

efore coming to-Franklin I worked v0

rlumph. . seas. '
uta paper mill in Dayton. but I_lost}] ste Kendall plays. the title role of
my Job for being late veveral morn- | “swell Elegant Jonea,”’ on whom

Ings. Before that T was cook at the | dame fortune has bestowed a-million

Great Svuthern hotel at —Columbus? [dollays through” an Investment In a!

mine, and Js a very happlly murried |
man, until he takes n Journey to look .

Yer, I know where Carlisle ja, but I
wan never there. 1 wan shooting dice

in Franklin Suturday night and wae] after hia mining interests, and remains
not at Cartisde, 1 bought ‘those gcouds | away fora period-of ssven—-months..In:
~,; the meantime a scheming lawyer,and ~*
No. I did not know his name, I wave | former sultor of his wife's affections, |
'
‘

at Middletown from a colored” man.
learne that Mr. Jones {s away, and
that he and his wife are not on the
heat of terms, atarta scheming (to sep-
urate tham, by telling malicious Mea,
und when Swell Elegant Jones returns
he-qiaces him in compromising posl-.
ie Seca cit, lake tflona by the ald of a female detective, |
“39: apy er 2 . und Nrs. Jones, whoee- mind ta pole.
NEGRO abla’ ul HASTILY, soned by the evidence that confronts:
Sheriff of Warren County Says That Me Ota act pent in
Me WH Mecover Hapldly Nov, the end and onda happily; as ull good
.? at 16 » @ sett oe OPH Os an

$3 aplece for the cloaks and 310 for
Yhe overcoat. The bicycle belonged to
Wh ny, a friend of mine at Day.
ton, and [ had fotended shipping Jt to
him.” Hle showed no algns of weaken-
Ing but was in a rullen mood,

'
) : ty auto

matinee.
und night, at the Victorla theater, and _

; We ask? There will be no advance of t-
Jricen when dr, Kendall plays here |


pice get sires os ek abet |

ee
4ssmeurls

Mtv TE rt Chae Oe ol

Poemilette ( ae i ; : Glen
cited or your Property 1¢ you y Jverretyy Feast (heer Clth sein of sind vil. ‘ ; ee oe eee aS ae
do thin” Thiford answered faintly that | lage to suspend buntuess between the ce : rae & oe : eas An
he would be right down, There was! hourn of 2 and 3 clock p.m, ow Noe! ee stly, wnat | rhe . on : Ves
a wall and yet Tilford did Mel Seme oe yvember 1, on account at (he funeral! = ee ee ce oe at ee
“Once more, Tilford, J command: of Goorge Masore, lite Marehal of ie oe aaa ye . ae
you ty come (lawn, If you have noe! anit Village, and To ple Poa int. os Inge WU Ee ae on
fone wo In fve minutes these men will | all pecs OF Dustnera be closed clurting ay he me un PE a
patacr- down the door and I will no | mall tine, j ' , fooffleiay © &me fare On® Monday: Marudi lief
longer be resopnalhle foe what they | Given under my hand and off le nt reruie@ utter betig oct. | Shee
lo, Are you coming?” veal, the 30th day of October, sh. De Fie A yee ik pene bas
Thy ninutes +6 GRORGH M LEAN, : ud aa
The Tlve minutes pared and tha| 1906. ee Prat hus enough Mun CU OuT nape 4”
nob cach minute grew more Angry. Denes j Dicyele T then went to Marshal [ta. |
rinally sume one called for matcher ee : Lore wat tald han ine CIrCUTAtancun |
Boor the. house... Cader heads, WHITE TELLS STORY, tound that White was ready ty Ku te! hopes Mamoy WHT be nottfte
owevVer, pPrevalled UpOn them iot tw ae : Dawn Moon afterward the MAMA in. true fuctx only. Al present
ae : Mays That He Did Not shout nul eae) be fe Wrest White. and «aia: VTiltord te viewing relatives In a
Sepia enter that house!" come the Marshal Fired ac Him. shot dead | the grand tury will convene F:
iat ee ney pus te Specialty The Dally Newe “foam innocent of any Wronuk dotuy | and the eounty prosecutor ee
e ne Ae : : Q stand tefed te ahd the officers when Ut hurrted action will be taken n
blg rail. Through the rath and onto LEBANON, O., Get, a4 ees ‘ rel ai riers ‘ e tiet aul Frankiinites mx
1e porch: thay Went and with one] White. the Blayer of NMarrehal George! as ee ee me Bo : seat a hat healed will apeedily
nanh the-acreen door was torn away.) Pasore of Frankiln, Is now nate a “When White returned to my house es - a ee ar eit
Hen-—uring the vall ag a baltertng | (he tomba of the Warren county Jall, | at duyliynht, f fold Alin T caine Gone vatlodn ei 5
io Most Upon the door, smash- :
r 4 o-g are,------ eran % :

‘ Makew Ts Eacape,
There Wig a rhol fh the rear of the
ume and Ina wits Callow
cceesalon by many others,
some one cried,
de a dash for “the
ure. Over a high
—nad—tnwi- mH ta
alley he ran,
him. They
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the darktienn
The inen los
returned to the
Gestroying ot, but
Wek sti cool, and

I. Another plstal
uhe of the mob that
Ined Jn the rear. rea}
(hrouwh the yerd and into the al-
The shot Wer anly thread
» but ahe wun ye
“en Hnattatg, -
hen the Nouse wus anterad
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Stolen from a Franklin home
-Wan burglarized Mometime agn
Aether  puckel. wae «a vuinnn x
Nace on ito charm, showing that
la Wright had Braduated from
OKeph's academy ‘at Buffaly, N !
nN June 20, 1901. No such ber.
i Franklin, and tt i<
Peed that the necklace had beer
In some other elly and that the i

tencr-went-TiI- oy

Chit paves} ;
tC wan net Tilford that Nad Taft i” 4
PGKe Bt he tauld noi be found, | ‘
eo SAR flee in the stove nid be.)
a ehalr- nearby whe found av copy | e
no afternoon paper containing al %
thy account-ef the murder. Whilen oF
‘rd had evidently beer reacting | E
Mo sUrprined by the mob. * bya’ FH
RINK Was searched and Im we | E
to wae found a watch that had! |

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The above pieture shows the photopraniera cage In front of the traction Office at Franklin, In front
rwomarshal is Henry Lane. Ho Which Marshal Rasore wr sanding wer te was hot and killed hy Henry White. The spot at the right-hs
aworn in and armed with a Center shows where one of the bullete fired UEC co negro at the marshal ertered the giana, minsiny tle mark.

warrant he deputized several ——
ouse. Ww : ' ° : a 5
va he hdla piece. arc A larwe crowd awalted his arrival With | siting tie ae I thought he wae 4 | WIUTE. 1S Felipe ty pares wee
op to bottom. Not a nook or | the aheriff Tuesday, but showed NOs burglar ard he turned om me with a " )
was overlooked, With the ex- demonstration, ws was fanre dW Wile threat thar ft nad moe ee shant : Se
hn of finding rome clothing, noj| the phyalclana Were  dressfiug Nha Hien Ato (he osetmie thie he Spe APRINGFIELD, Oo. Oct 11.
gooda Hellaved ty have been | wounded aNaulder te muatenttted te WM UE mie revetver wid My muepletona Tec. 15, 1904, Henry White, the n
were secured. Interview and sald DeGween hia Moank | Were than eonficimed, who murdered Marshal Basore
Dally News xtaff man Visited | of pain: i Thtord, who te xS vearn of age, | Franklim on Tuesday morning,
tlon house at 11 o'clock and se- fe referring ts Marsha’ pinup walked tu the pines In Nie bare fent | Srrvated here on @ charge of aha
Permisalon to see the WOMAN T diet not tell me he Had a warrant for wed he wi st Sorry spectacle When nes with Intent to kill. He had deen
ad been arrested with White] ime and To did not krow that he Was reached Lebanon -He pale that he hadi ing In) Bast Columbla atreet wt
he murder occurred, She hai! an offleer, Heo omald that he Warland sca nothin ty hourd a ear, bust feared woman who was noe his wife, and
Iving at Tilford's Place with | me outside the drag store asd CU aia, Wouid thus be able to follow quarrelled. He went away for the
as his wife, . BoMe Officer wanted tu see The eros | MEM Martel hay Cok li thecavanila and the i being and xhe Went to Colur
reporter asked her her name.| the Meee Wen a UG oth. ates (Nepeieulatedl reds: He ane certuln ' There she entered a house of {Il-!
said It tn Badle Freeman. It ahead of Bim and the nee A a a it would Ket Alm und hang sand he followed her and shot her,
t # minute until the reporter know T was hit in the inuiter ares, and the shot ffred at his rest. ; then returned to this city. He
having seen her driven from | bullet. PRE OR a Jenee were heard plainly by him as, arrested here hy Detectives Moore
tious Levee Alatrict in 8pring-| three Umer and he whet twire Pr a weRTiete a te escape the oniies of) Long. He wae returned to Colum
hen that place wus burned on [7 arm Ce VATile fy omy tie ai! ihe en ie Were on lw heele. His! tried there and ment to the Mans
7 eo years’axo. Soeing that fleld ae el ans © 2 Dire ae aa tretel eee Of how a escaped the mob : refurmatory. Luter he was par
known she. told her story | for whouting my aweetheart. My hanes *¢ tne ‘Vdent that for; but has not since been seen in
Bhe left Springfield with Til- | ix in Columbus and | have been amare ie thrilling and A ee see a Hs hag city
ee woekn ago. They went to ried for three weeks” ou ~~ aoe oe “ feat In! Sadle Freeman, the woman who
nd stayed a few daya, then to Towards evening there was talx of Brent, Tllford ae¢ nny sh eh Se (ho Slalaea ins
and remained thare until xix formic a itiob ant anandisg White yetting cut ef harm’ a way. He was eee a “ Nee ok
when they went tn Franklin, | fram the yal! and men We Wun pas Ken tgekt slave and camo tu thin rest wife, tau ee kniewn oe a ae
that Whita dldn'e world any moved fron: the Priaen and taicen fey lett Seat itage Vhase coleh rrisena tne Krent. there ahd wasn driven off o the 7
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the duy, but Jatd around the | (he off_eea uf Dr. oss Nlevens fur. ds. weorrled as tu die Wife's opdilen af y at the Ume It was
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sm with the goods.

He knew they were about to leave town and -a few minutes before
ight o’slock he crossed over to Earhart’s and beckoned to the mana
ep outside. Just what passed between the Marshal and his slayer
will never be known. It je presumed that the officer told the negro he
vau under arrest. Instantly there was a pistol shot and then another.
After the negro had fired twice, fatally wounding the Marshal, theof-
ser qucceeded in drawing his gun and fired at the negro, who by this
time was edging away. Basore followed the negro, both exchanging
-bota, until the Marshal reeled and fell. He had been mortally wound-
ij and lived but.a few moments. 6, ‘

Willing hands raised him and carried him to the ottics of Dr. B..K.
~yans where ho died soon after being placed upon a stretcher.

In the meantime his cowardly murderer ran through Dr. Otho Evan's
door yard and back to the canal bank. Bus vengeance was already
jroused and citizens who had witnessed the brutal deed rushed into
gnover’s hardware store and arming themselves with pistols and guns

gave chase. Clint Sinnard seized the pistol from the dying Marshal’,
.tiffening fingers“and at once followed the fugitive. Dr. R. K. Evans
rushed into Conover's and seizing a pistol, which Mr. H. S.
vas in the act of loading, led the pursuit from another point.

The negro, with the fear of death clutching his miserable heart, fled

-.hrough the Evan's lot to the canal, bis right arm hanging helpless
where one of the Marshal's shots bad shattered the bone. Through the
| sud and water in the nearly drained canal be plunged, vainly trying
.y load his pistol with his left hand. On he aped around the corner of

Conover

him and narrowly missed Mr. A.C. Vail, who was standing near, Be?
fore Vail could realize that the man was being pursued or make a move
to spop him the fellow changed his course and fled up over the hill.

Almost immediately the purty led by Dr. Evans came into view any
the man hunt was on in grim earnest. Citizens carrying guns,, clubés
hammers and weapons of any sort that came firet to band joined ina
the pursuit. Dr. Evans led the rest and soon came upon the negro iny
« corn field in the old Somer’s farm. He yelled to the man to throw up
sis hands and- fired at him, missing. The fugitive stopped as the bullet
whistled by and held up his left hand. The Doctor was now about
thirty feet behind the negro and ordered him to put up both hands
again sending a bullet in his direction. The fellow answered that he
could not raise his arm as it was broken. 4

‘he Doctor then told him to throw away his gun and the negro did
so. Dr. Evans and Will Fink rushed up and seized-the man and were
dragging him across the fleld when a number of others came up. There
was a struggle to gain possession of the negro and one citizen wanted to
shoot him on the spot. ; Dr. Evans fought and pled for nis prisoner,
however,and aftast got him into an express wagon which Joe Vail had
driven to the scene and they hurried to the city building where the
man was locked up before the crowd could get tohim. When the crowd
returned they were re-enforced by a number of other citizensand an
assault was made on the jail doors but without success

While the injured murderer was fleeing acrossthe hill the woman
who was with him picked up the valises and walked out of Earhart’s
turning east on Fourth street. It ie said that after Marshal Basore was
shot he cried out “Get the woman, get the woman!” ,

the Big Four depot, where b bullet from Sinnard’s pistol whistled past |

GEORGE

BASORE.

FRANKLIN’S MARTYRED MARSHAL,

Sheriff Patterson, in company
with deputy-sheriff, Elmer Smith
and Mr. J. A. Kilpatrick, came up

in an automobile. The mbchine
was run around into the school
yard and the prisoner burried out
through the old work-house and
hustled jnto the auto before many
people knew what was being done.
Angry cries of ‘hang-him'’ were
hurled after the officers and one
excited citizen endeavored to seize.

a hammer and strike at the cring-
ing negro as he cowered behind
the sheriff. Not a moment was lost
and Mr. Kilpatrick opened the
throttle as soon as the begro was
ia the auto and whirling out on
Fourth street he turned down Main
and was out of sight befara any:
one could stop him ‘Tbose who}
were not close to the automobile
when the prisoner was thrust into
it will never know how near
Franklincame to being the scene

of a lynching laet Tuesday morn-
ing. lewas just 9:30 wheo Sherif
Patterson left with the assassin,
barely and hour and a half from
the moment of the crime, ‘and, he
"had made an eleven mile drive over
the hills in the meantime. The peo-
ple of Warren county have reasoo
to be proud of the quick work and
cool-headed management of our
sberitf upon this occasion.

While waiting for the Sheritf to
arrive THe CHRONICLE secured an
interview with the prisioner “The
woman was locked in cell number
two and stood in the center af the
iron cage like an animal at bay.
She refused to answer questions
and stood erect with her hat on
listening to the mutterings of the
mob on the outside,

The man who had shot the Maz-
shal in cold blood lay on the floor of
cell number one with his head and
shoulders braced against the iron
partition, He was indeed a picture
of abject misery. His clothing was
wetand smeared with’ mud where
he had raced_through the slimy
bed of the canal. His right arm

Mayor McLane arriving early on the scene was told of this and start-
ed after the woman. Catching up with her on Fourth street he placed
her under arrest and took her to the jail where he locked herup. Ex-
marshal Robt. Fox chanced upon the scene at this time and Mayor Mo-
Lane at once swore him in. Together Mr, Fox and Mayor McLane held

he prisoners and pled with the grief-stricken and angry citisens to
the luw take its course. Bitter were the imprecations and loud were

‘ries for vengeance, but the Mayor and Mr. Fox stoud firm and the
\me of Franklin was saved.
Patterson was telephoned to atonce and replied that he

lay useless by his side, his hat was
gone and a wound on his right
cheek bleed freely, This wound
was-received by a blow from the
fist of Clint Sinnard, who struck
the fellow as he was being fought
for inthe corn field. The man bas
the head and face of a degenerate
and as hecrouched on the floor of
the {ron cage and the whites of his
eyes shone in the semi-darkness

a quickly as possible, City Solicitor Gaynor hurriedly

we asked,

For a second he shifted his cyos
upon us and then looking sway he
said, “I don’t know.’? His voice
It was the
soft voice of the negro and seemed
strangely out of place in the grim
surroundiggs and coming from the

was not unpleasant.

throat of a murderer.

What is your name, we pext ia-

quired? , os
**Henry White,’* came
the soft toneg. 2
Where is your home? ~

“On Long street, Columbus, 0.”
How long have you been away

from Columbus? ——
**About four weeks.’*

How long have you been in
Franklin? ;

‘tAbout one week.”

Where were you going this morn-

ing? ;
“To Dayton.”
To what part of Dayton.
“I don’t know the street.

Miami?
ed folks live.”

wife? ;
‘*Yes, sir.’

Where did you
went to Columbus?

tory, at Mansfield, Obio.

What was your number there?
9299,"

-Did you run away?

“No, I was out on parole.”

formatory for? .
“Shooting a woman.”

ed, ‘'How old are you?"’
‘“Pwenty-four.”

was with you?

‘“Badie Freeman.”

valises?

man at Middletown,”

it wos easy to imagine him an
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Wha ese toe

again jo

To
Little Miami I think they call it.”
Why were you going to Little

‘Because that’s where the color-

Is this woman with you your

live before you

‘7 was in the Mansfeld Reforma-

What was you sent to the Re-

The answer came without a sign
of emotion either of fear or pride
or shame, White told us he had
served a term at Mansfield for
shooting a woman justes he might
have said, “I think it will rain to-
night.’? In all the interview there
was no signof regret nor even of
fear, Not a word to,show that the
man realized what he had done.

Continuing the interview wa ask-

What is this woman's name who

I thought you said she was your
wife. Thistime noanewer. Where
did you get the clothing in those

“J bought them from a colored

Jacob M. Stouds, supervisor of
interlockers, waa instantly killed
and M, F. Potter, superintendent
of bridges, for the Big Four rail-
way, wae fatally injured juet be-
fore noon last Friday, south of
Milford Center, on the Delaware
division, by s special train.

Potter and Stouds started: out
of Springfilcld at 8 o’cloek Friday
morning on a motor car for the
purpose of inspecting some bridges.
Just why they did nos kaow that
the train was coming ie not known.
The special was runsipg on the
Delaware division as second No.
201. Tt was mads up st Rochester
for the Leon Cavailla Opera Com-
pany, composed of Italians.

The special wes taking the com-.
pany to Ciacianati. As it was com-
ing slong at a good rate of speed
this side of Milford Center, it dasb-

which Potter and Stoudt were rid-
ing. The light machine was erush-
ed like an egg shell aad both men
were tossed into the
landed thirty feet or more away al
the side of the tracks.

‘The special was quickly stopped
and the badies of the two men
picked up. It was found that
Stoudt was dead but that hia body
wus not badly mangied as most of
his iojuries were internal. Potter
was still alive, although his skull

;\M, F. FOUer and J. me oe
Train While Riding on a Gasoline Motor.

—

ed into the g3s motor car upon;

air and they)

was crusbed and be sustained in-
ternal injuries.

Upon the arrival of the train at
Mechanicaburg the remains of
Stoudt were placed in charge of
the coroner, while Potter was tak-
en to Springfleld at 12:45 o'clock
and removed to the hospital in the
ambulance, °.

When he was removed from the
baggage car on & stretcher, he
moaned pitifully and said the pain
was killing him. Hishead was all
covered with blood. More than 300
people were attracted to the station
by the report that two men had
peca hurt on the Big Four railroad,

Potter was sean around the
Springtield oltices Friday morning

and appeared to be in an unusually
pleasant frame of mind. Before he
left he remarked, “We are going
out on the motor to look after
some bridges."* When the report
freached the dispatvher’s office that
Stoudt had been killed and he bad
been fatally hurt the dispatchers
were deeply shocked.

Assistant Chisf Dispatcher
Crain said, ‘Potter was one of the
best men in the Big Four servico.
He knew every foot of the track on
the divisions. Everybody - liked
him.’’

LUUU Meu VF Bw pPpYvee

NY , oe
W - Inthe selection of a bank, the first thing
work they had been doing for years. Ww - of importance to be considered is
Potter bead a — avenue 4
and Stoudt lived at 58 Weat Jetfer- '
son street. Both were married and | \jy ABSOL UTE SA FETY.
leave eras ; ’ an w ——- . :
Jacob toudt : of oy . i ank
ceutae 29, 1866, at Bernville, Pe, Ww ~ apoio oa es suggest oe this b fally
aud had been in the employ of the| W meets that requirement. -
Big Four company since 1888. wo. ; —— |
M. F. yg ore NY) . ; |
21, 1844, at Oram gbany w . : . ° '
county, N. Y.,and bad been con-| Th c k| N | B t <
nectéd with ey ae Four since 18- id ’ C ran in ationa an -
81. He was widely known among | ©
the railway men oa all of the di-| Wy Capital and Surplas |
visions among the citizens of | yy . |
Springfield. ; a |
Both Potter and Stouds had their Ww S100, 000.00. |
_ in the Big Four building cast S _
of Limestone street. “ |
Dr. C. W. Russell, ehiel surgevs | Wy oo CATROW. PRES. @& B. PARKS, C4-- |
of the Big Four, stated 0 S20 | me Officers: 5. woexy, icé-Pees. & €. ABAMS. A”
o'clock Friday afteracon that Pot | —
ter sustained acompousd fracture lil

of his left leg below theknee. In
fact his leg was crushed to pieces,
The right leg wae in about the
same conditions,

There was a bad scalp’ wound on
the back of Patter's head and he
suffered concuesion of the brain.
There wae no fracture of the ekull.
The doctor says that Potter had
internal injuries in the region of
his lungs.

Stimulants were applied in order
to keep him alive until bie wife
arrived from Franklin, where she
had been visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Ed. Weaver.

Both men were former residents
of Franklin and, both were mem-
ber of Eastern Star Lodge, F. and
A. M. Each.was given a Masonic
funeral at hishome in Springfield
last Monday, the services being
conducted by the two Springfleld
lodges. A delegation of Masons
from Eastern Star Lodge including
Dr. N. A. Hamilton, J.D. Miller,
W. 3. Roof, H. S. Conover, Carl J.
Miller, Samuel Strauss, C..
Brown, W, G, Anderson and Frank
Stickelman attended the services.

The body of Mr. Stoudt was
taken to Troy on a special car and

laid to ress in the cemetery. Bro.
Samuel Strauss accompanying the
widow and funeral party as a rep-
resentative of Eastern Star Lodge.

The body of Mr. Potter was
brought to Franklin Monday after-
noon accompanied by a delegation
of Masons from Springfleld and
Miamisburg. The brethern of East-
ern Star met the funeral party at
the Big Four depot and escorted
them to the cemetery. In the
gloaming of a dull gra October
day the last sad rites of the Mason.
ic order were said and the bruised

Ticket Agent B. B. Gorsuch said

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field?

Here the interview wascut short
by the arrival of Sheriff Patterson
and the prisoner was hurried away
as narrated above.

The drive to Lebanon with the
prisoner was without incident save
for the rapid speed at which Mr.
Kilpatrick drove his machine.

A big crowd of curious people
had gathered around the court
house and jail before thearrival of
the prieoner. All eyes were center-
ed to the west along the street by
which the sberiff and his party
would enter from Franklin. Crowds
were gathered at every street cor-
ner. ;

At alittle after 10 o’clock the
hutomobile came in sight and sped
quickly up to the prison yard gate.
The negro was hustled from the
vehicle and made to stand with his
head up while being photographed.
When asked hin name and home he
replied boldly, “Henry White,
Xolumbus.”” The crowd followed
him to his cell and was with dif-
culty restrained when Dr. A. W.
Mardis examined his injury, where
he bad been shot. When asked for
u statement about the crime, he
said: ‘‘He (referring to Marshal
Basore) did not tell me he had a
warrant, and I did not know he
wasan officer. He said that he
wanted me outside of the drug
store and that some officer wanted
to sce me across the street. I went
out of the place abead of him and
when I got there I started to run
down the street. The next thing I
knew I was hit in the shoulder and
I whirled about and shot at him.
He shot atme three times and 1
sbot at him three times. I did not
know whether I hit him or pot. 1
shot at bimrunning and kept on
going. I could have gotten away
but my arm was broken, and so I

a) te
but J
hurt.”

He wae several times contradict-
ed in the course of his talk by of-
ficers. When he said that he shot
Basore after having himeelf been
shot, Marsha! Smith, who helped
to bring him over, eaid, ‘You
know you were not shot until Ba-
sore was down.”’ To this the negro
replied nothing, but only lonked
about him in a sullen way.

The crowd tried to scare him by
telling him that the mob which
pursued him et Franklin was fol-
lowing the party to Lebanon, but
he was not moved by thie and kept
his nerve.

The man groaned piteously when
his arm was probed. The bullet
shattered the bone at the shoulder
and bis pain is excruciating.

While the murderer was being
chased and caught and sent to
jail, the body of his victim was
tenderly cared for at the oflice of
Dr, R. K. Evans: All that was
mortal of our village Marshall was
duly prepared for its sad home-
coming by the hands of-his broth-
ers.of the Knights of Pythiad who
will watch beside the body from
the moment the last breath was
drawn until the clay is laid to rest
in the bosom of Mother Earth this
afternoon. 1

A post mortem examination was
made by Drs. F.R. Evans, R. K.
Evaneand N. A. Hamilton, But
one wound was found. The bullet,
of thirty-two calibre, had entered
the chest Just below the left arm
pit. It perforated the lung and
aorta, or artery from the heart, and
lodged in the flesh near the left
breast. The perforating of the ar-
tery cayeed an internal hem-
orrhage which filled the Junge and
produced death {n so sbort a time.

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gave up. They were away behind

M. F. Potter and J. M. S

Jacob M. Stoudt, supervisor of
interlockers, was instantly killed
and M.F. Potter, superintendent
of bridges, for the Big Four rail-
way, was fatally injured just be.
fore noon lest Friday, south of
Milford Center, on the Delaware
division, by a special train.

Potter and Stoudt started out
of Springfield at 8 o'clock Friday
morning on a motor car for the
purpose of inapecting some bridges.
Just why they did not know that
the train was coming isnot known.
The special was running on the
Delaware division as second No.
201. It was made up at Rochester
for the Leon Cavailla Opera Com-
pany, composed of Italians.

The epectal was taking the com-.
pany to Cincinnati. As it was com-
ing slong at a good rate of speed
this side of Milford Center, it dasb-
ed into the g2s motor car upon
which Potter and Stoudt were rid-
ing. The light machine wae erush-
ed like an egg shell and both men
were tossed into the air and they
landed thirty feet or more away at
the side of the tracks.

The special was quickly stopped
and the bodies of the two men
picked up. It was found that
Stoudt wae dead but that his body
was not badly mang'ed as most of
hie injuries were internal. Potter
was still alive, although his skull
was crusbed and be sustained In-
ternal injuries.

Upon the arrival of the train at
Mechanicsburg the remains of
Stoudt were placed In charge of
the coroner, while Potter was tak-
en to Springfield at 12:45 o'clock
and removed to the hospital in the
ambulance, —

When he was removed from the
baggage car on & stretcher, he
moaned pitifully and said the pain
was killinghim. Hiehead was all

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covered with blood, More than 800

VIOLENT DEATHS

Came to Two Members of Eastern
Star Lodge, F. & A. M.

toudt Killed by a Special

Train While Riding on a Gasoline Motor.

work they had been doing for years.
Potter lived on Kast Euclid avenue
and Stoudtlived at 58 West Jeffer-
son street. Both were marrjed and
leave families.

Jacob M. Stoudt was born Sep-
tember 29, 1856, at Bernville, Pa.,
and had been in the employ of the
Big Four company since 1888.

M. F. Potter was born October
21, 1844, at Oramel, Alleghany
county, N. Y., and bad been con-
nectéd with the Big Four since 18-
81. He was widely known among
the railway, men on all of the di-
visions and among the citizens of
Springfield. : ae?
Both Potter and Stoudt had their
office inthe Big Four building east
of Limestone street. ~

Dr. C. W. Ruseell, chief surgeon
of the Big Four, stated at 2:20
o'clock Friday afternoon that Pot-
ter euatained acompound {fracture
of his left leg below the knee. In
fact hie Jeg was crushed to pieces.
The right leg was in about the
same condition. -
There was a bad scalp wound on
the back of Potter's head and he
suffered concussion of the brain.
There was no fracture of the ekull.
The doctor says that Potter had
interoal injuries in the region of
his lungs.

Stimulants were applied in order
to keep him alive until bie wife
arrived from Franklin, where she
had been visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Ed. Weaver.

Both men were former residente
of Franklin and both were mem-
ber of Eastern Star Lodge, F. and
A. M, Each was given a Masponio
funeral at hishome in Springfield
Jast Monday, the services being
conducted by the two Springfield
lodges. A delegation of Masons
from Eastern Star Lodge including
Dr. N. A. Hamilton, J.D. Miller,
WR. Roof, H. 8. Conover, Court d,
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He enlisted in the navy, served with honor and was
honorably discharged. It was then, for some inexplicable
reason, that Norman began to take narcotics. "

A drug user, unfortunately, must increase his doses. By
1949, Norman was taking 16 grains of heroin a day. Now,
heroin is not only expensive, it is most difficult to obtain
even if the addict has the cash.

In July, Walker was short of cash and driven by a
tremendous desire for dope. With a knife thrust in his belt
he entered the drug room of St. Luke’s Hospital in Cleve-
land. There he held his knife at the throat of an employe
and demanded morphine. Before the orderly could make
up his mind whether he should comply with this demand,
two internes entered the room. Walker fled.

He was pursued and captured in the hospital corridor.
He was arrested, tried and convicted. He was sent at first
to the state reformatory at Mansfield. Later he was trans-
ferred to the Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus. On
March 28th of this year, Walker was released on parole.

He returned to his father’s house. He stayed away from
drugs but he didn’t want to work. He didn’t seem to want
to do anything. And during his prison term he had acquired
a phobia for policemen. He not only didn’t like them at all,
he feared and hated them inordinately.

On May 12th, Norman Walker met Mrs. Rose Sustarsic.
Mrs. Sustarsic was 38 years old and lived on Broadway
in Bedford with her 18-year-old daughter, Carol, her son,
Dennis, and Joe and Mary Sustarsic. Joe Sustarsic was
Rose’s brother-in-law. She was divorced from her husband,
Tony.

Rose Sustarsic liked Norman Walker. She was by no
means in love with him, however. Walker told her of his
previous drug addiction and of his prison sentence. Rose
felt sorry for him. She was kind and understanding. Be-
tween the date of their meeting and July 7th, she: went

at the bullet-riddled sedan to pick up the

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killer’s scent before leading the searchers into the woods

out with Norman Walker on about a half-dozen occasions.

On Saturday night, however, Rose did not go out with
Norman Walker. She had a date with another man, Gilbert
Halder, a friend of her brother-in-law. In the early eve-
ning Rose and Gilbert sat in a Bedford tavern drinking
beer. Norman’ Walker suddenly came into the room. He
stood for a moment in the doorway as his gaze fell on Rose.
He glared at her, crossed to the table where she sat,
nodded to Halder and extended his hand. “How are you,
Gil?” he said.

The men shook hands, then Walker left the table. He
had completely ignored Rose.

Halder looked at her curiously. “I thought you knew
Walker?”

“ay do.”

“How come he snubbed you?”

Rose shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t know. I guess
he’s jealous.”

“I didn’t know there was anything romantic between
you.”

“There isn’t,” said Rose. “At least, it’s one-sided. I’ve
never given him any encouragement, but I think he regards
me as his girl.”

Halder hailed a waiter, ordered another round of beers
and the incident was forgotten. But not for long.

About an hour later, Norman Walker returned to the
tavern. He stood at the bar, emptied a glass, then rolled it
around in his fingers. He looked up suddenly and caught
Rose Sustarsic’s eye. He drew back his arm and flung the
glass in her direction.

It landed on the table and shattered, some of the glass
splinters spattering on Rose’s dress. The proprietor came
forward. He took Walker by the arm and propelled him
toward the front door. Walker went quietly. He did not
return.

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‘Let Me See Him’

An unidentified police officer at Independence, Ohio,
holds back Doris Robertson, 18, (photo above) as she tries
to get a look at the slayer of her father, Garner Robertson,
More than 100 officers joined in an in-
tense manhunt for Norman Walker, 32, captured several
hours after he killed the patrolman with a shotgun blast.
The officer had stepped out of cruise car to check Walker’s
parked car.

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‘roled convict had kidnaped
in the town of Bedford.
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2dge of Brookside Road on
nee. A man anda woman
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. Simultaneously they re-
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WALKER, Norman E., wh, elec. OHS? (Cuyahoga) January 3, 1958

ill. 2spall

THE KIDNAPER
HATED COPS

‘’m not kidding myself,’”’ he said. ‘I know what

the penalty is for killing a copper in Ohio—and I want to die.”

by D.L.CHAMPION

habitants of Valley View, Ohio, as “Tiny,” had never

( , ARNER M. ROBERTSON JR., known to all the in-
been formally introduced to Norman Edward Walk-

er. As a matter of fact he never heard of Walker until an”

hour or so before his death. Robertson had a full-time job
at the Republic Steel Corporation’s strip mill. Since 1950,
he had been a Valley View special patrolman, donning his
uniform on week ends and other occasions.

Tiny Robertson was a huge man. He was 6 feet, 4 inches
tall and the scales groaned under his 250 pounds. He lived
with his father, his wife and two children in a comfortable
home on Murray Road. Robertson had built the house
himself, hauling huge stones from the Cuyahoga River.

He was an extremely popular officer. He taught the

neighborhood kids shooting in the rifle range he’d con- |

structed in his own back yard. He was a first class hunter
and had trapped a score of bears during expeditions into
Canada.

Once, Valley View Police Chief Charles P. Dalton said
of Robertson, ‘“‘Tiny would arrest someone and then apol-
ogize for it. He always recognized human frailty better
than most people.”

In the public telephone booth outside the police station
in the nearby town of Independence an anonymous tribute
to Tiny Robertson is scrawled on the metal wall. It reads:
“Tiny is a damned good cop.” No one, it appeared, disliked
Tiny Robertson. Not even the man who killed him.

Tiny Robertson died when he was 43 years old. His
death was the result of peculiar, unlikely circumstances,
beginning with the fact that shortly after midnight of
Saturday, July 7th, 1956, two gunmen held up a restaurant
on Route 21, just outside Cleveland. On that particular
night, Robertson had reported for duty at 8 p.m. His tour
of duty was scheduled to end at 4 a.m.

M An hour before the end of his tour Robertson was

MASTER DETECTIVE, November, 1956

‘Robertson looked at each other. Simultaneously they re-

cruising in a radio car with Patrolman Walter Graham. ,
They were notified of the holdup by the police of In-
dependence. Valley View and Independence are suburbs of
Cleveland. The two towns have a working agreement
between their police..One force invariably covers for the
other whenever necessary.

Shortly after the restaurant robbery it became essential
for some of the Independence officers to go at once to
Cleveland to interview two possible suspects. That left
Independence short-handed. Valley View was asked to
help out. This required that Robertson and Graham work
overtime, covering part of the Independence area, as well
as Valley View. Shortly after 4 o’clock, a radio message
apprised them of a kidnaping. The details were blurred
but it seemed that a drunken paroled convict had kidnaped
Mrs. Rose Sustarsic, who lived in the town of Bedford.

At 5:45 on Sunday morning, Robertson and Graham
observed a car parked on the edge of Brookside Road on
the southern edge of Independence. A man and a woman
were standing nearby on the road shoulder. Graham and

called the kidnap message. Robertson got out of the car
and approached the couple. This was the closest he ever
got to meeting Norman Walker in person. f

Norman Edward Walker was 32 years old. He lived on
Logan Avenue in Bedford. He was a tall man with unruly
black hair and dark, brooding eyes. He was the son of an
extremely respected citizen who was a leader in the
Bedford Civil Defense platoon and Veterans of Foreign
Wars. As a boy Norman Walker had no police record.
However, he wasn’t particularly social and kept pretty
much to himself. When the war broke out, his cousin
Charles had been captured by the Japanese.

This outraged Norman. He said to his father, “I’m going
over there and get Charlie. I’m going to bring him back.”


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FRANKLIN--0., Oct.

30. —(leorge

aS yr Henry White, a negro, whom he was
sein ‘attempting to arrest.”
7 “oe Yor some ume the resets of Mi-
b,3s. ammisdure, : -FrankUn and Middletown
marrow ave: been complaining” “thar- thelr
, alae houses have “been entered by somne un-
vo known “pervon.: ‘Monday nignt—an old
<polored: man. named Mufus Tilford,
told Officers ashore that he had a

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Berman and a: “woman, “boarding at his
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eS “of: fine cloaks | ju the house,” which
ekg ‘White claimed. belonged:to him. Ar:
; rangements were made: Monday. night.
~place WHE Unde merce tater
he could not be found Iti was yuy. a
until Tuesday. morning. os

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Ae ey tlokets to Dayton, and hed hale |” The clithzena of Franklin are very
ne Oe ‘dieycie checked, -~ Officer - Mashore, I. much wreuxht up over the killing,
es Pele a ds th itice, | Whd aay that Uney will form a mub
= eet ela ae iam BOE Wrne pee he pane ‘Ke to Lebunon Tuesday night. |
EAP Would lke to see him, White reo | “here they have been’ affered’ help,
ve —upanded that he would b& out pres- This, ne fa Wot thought probe
Pa ently, and for a short thmo epgaked | able, ae lt wodld be next tu Impusslble |
oe en in’ calle tt abt with hia wife, Who} tu take the wgro from. the--cuounty
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Bie Pe officer walked to the’ door autos se ie sale
ip w cg, und. fuur buys.” a whont “ure
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on-the pidewalk. A shurt conversa.

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known, but who was a pal at White's,
cot oul of town while the exctlement
Wie moat Intense, and sturted tawuard
Dayton. A pusse formed tin Allama.
burg, alae {ty Frankitn, md ale
though the negru had mot been caught
at w@ late howe Tuesday, tC fa madd Chat
ft will be Imposslble for him to enter.

one

Dayton without paadng the man who
have been statlaned along the road,
White wax for some thme in the:
Mansxffeld “reformaery, bit _ Jumped |
Ale parole. ‘There way wa $25 reward
for his captura, .~ e- wae-sente! tits the.
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ALMOST A HUNDRED *
DELEGATES ARE HE

Representing Every Part of
‘State and ths Moneyed Inter
“--"—" ests of the Business.

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sand “Adam: Schantz: Will Be
Next President.

Column bua. and haa bean conaldert. by.
(he nuthoritles In Columbus an a dune

Keroun crimiual S

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rhunned= by the- better-negrnesnfthe-
town--—He wal” lately a rosldent of
Sprusgfleld, but’ during ~ ie ory
fled froin the town,

‘tprealdunt. of the Ohlo Brewers’

pernienced In the use of (lrourtna. ahd |

Cleveda

’ Ernest (. Mueller of

a
velatlunopuned ihasanuual con tian
of the organization Ti the reonn
boently vacutad by othe. Commer
“etun ty the “Arcade Dullding, at
o'clock Tuesday amornlng, There
not w large a ndance at the oper
werulet, sees the men who u
having Tatler “tolarrive. carts eno
tobe present at the apening sexstor
Altogether there ure abuoul wxeve:
fixe brewer “in-the Telty Jou, Vialt
representing practically overy pucr
the elates “When the donventlon
called to order, a. brief welcome,

b.
heurty one, wae extended ine behul

Lay po thon: ensued, when without any wWwarne ‘ . the etty by Adam Rehunta view pr
ia Jie the. negro. Urewca-revolver from , oa eee pe a eye ee cent of Une Coat bern: ihe ie
oy. 7) } t at t t _ ——

son pg Seren kb dibu were! The Cirat nullet Clred by the her part’ of Thasealow wan pies ove
ames Ired -by. the_man, but. oy one tunk 3 Lind came. near string ee oe ohne cappelntment ‘Of --ecommit!
BS ere O1leel a. + clerk. o B ok: FT e ae «Ay eta t= thee
tah amnne The: marehal- fell-te the he ground: buts Ce “hour “ler eats rine ude! Wednesday morning, wad al

Si moceeded In--drawinge-his revolver. -bw- completed Shy AV ET

Ge eatin ner on his-ack he fred twice !

= at- the negro, but- ML ale ag each tise, ae came tu xe the lynehing

reurred the Cown! Wun Cie with pers | will 7
tu wis, why. OS ening Es

: ona. from ——nelghboriing |

ae eel

x ‘clilaena__The newn sprees Mike eile
ve oats fire-pbout thetown,.and nearly every
ie man in tows. appeared on the street

with some kind of ao weapon, - For
nearly acrosle .tha- negro ran, followed,
3 hy the infurlated. mob,_-whleh grew tn
eS proportians_as. the distance was cove)
er ered. “Or KO Evans, ong of the

had procured a shotgun, and although
he ried. pevoera!l “Umes-to ahoot, the
ag FUN, refused fo wark:-The-voctor fln-
io—aity browght him -down, however, by
2~'.- strtkin wif utgo U
LS Sh ae Sof ANS ae
‘* brayght back to town. The center of
Ad‘ i the town had been reached when some
343 ong Tustied into the mob With a rope.
isa The erys:qf “jynch him" brought the
w.(; Gased negro to his menses, and he
pears to run, when Clilnt_innard,
‘ the ofty teamster, dropped to his knee,
i*iand taking steady alm over the barrel
be ot @slong’ barreled Colt, dropped the
rat ‘man‘in bila tracks. The negro leaped
te" ‘eto his feet, but was shot egain. The
% ae firet shot broke his arm. while the
ey ys bagi es plerced his beck.
“He was rushed Into the toyen Jall,.
which jag frail structure, ‘und thea
“ crowd immediately repaired to a part
= oe OF the.city where some old telephone
ry Poles were atanding. One of these the
crowd carried back to the Jai), and
Apicwork , waa. immediately . begun to
break. down the door. Each time the
‘¢ battering, cam ‘struck the door In the
| Sarl toad a jast, the acreams of tha
Umegra:vopuld be -héard,

tee bad, gathered, and
weretresorted to In
gt Bt. the man, :

tS aprited: ‘Away.

2 MoCiain. made a talk to the
“men, The. ‘mayor's talk wag a suse
i to held the altentlon of the mob for |,
avtew: _minutes, ‘and “We Proved very

8.

Ente REN acayh

a moat prominent men of thetown, was |
es nearest the Neelng man.. The doctors

wrees

[2 SUID MIBIUM PAL

——

.
(Iw Arrested) by

pom con —Kefures ta THK

+--The-ofticers’ who started froin Mi.
| umlyburg- Tuesday tnorning ft search
of.an unknown negro. who wan trylig
tu reach Dayton, and who ts supposed
to be a-patof- White's, Intercepled {he
Negru Just ae-he was coming Into MI.
-aimieburg. Jie could give nu wccoynt
bile Liareal ly th td Atte AFC oaled ty. bho.
Miamisburg authoritles and placed tn
the city prison, The man refines ta
talk, but hasz not denied that he Is a
working partner of White, who Is an
al) around burglar.

The negro was thoroughly fright:
ened by the crowd which had followed
the Miumlaxburg officers, and he made
no reatstance when placed under ar-
reut.

It tes thought that betwaan = the
negro im cuatody at Alla mlaburg and
the woman claiming to ve’ White's
wife, who is Indged In the Lebanon
jail, that much will be found concern.
Ing White that would otherwise be
concealed. . :

the Mianitisburg Offf-

;

DUE PRECAUTIONS

some

Wl Be Taken by Sheriff, Though He
Antkipates No Trouble. ”’

LEBANON, ., Ovwt. 30.—wWherlff
Patterson arrived here this marning
with Henry White, the negro who shot
Marshal Dusaharg at Franklin. They
came !n an ayto. White has been

Juced In Jogi.
\aithe sheriff nayn that while he ane

Netpatex ne trouble, lie will take all
“precautluns to guard hie prisoner, fi

Noa | ie

About the Iuisbivems:

‘The malntenaner of the canter:
the various soldforal.tmomves anef ti
tullonauperuted by the poverinin
formed @ part-of (he preflininary.
‘cumtton Tuesday, The nasochatter
appenrn,. favers mo cantlimuatige of
cunteen ft the places under the su

“wtton “of---the- revernment. “are
that unlexs beer fs given tuo the
Alums they willl co where Chev ecu

+ dt, and that often tn those other pl
they will ereure whiskey and
drinkaT containing more ulcohol,
atrong resolution favering Che cor
uancecef the canteen wlll be nty
before the convention closes,

The fight that. in bedi
agninat a Columbua company
PCO TO le eT TIT ef Perret ay
In that city was also discussed ut
early seasion, Dut no action waa ta
{tt being atated by-one of the len.
officers that there fs no auch thin
a brewery truat, and each brewery
Qa Reparate organizatlan, and can
trol Ita own output and oregulate
traffic um bent ff ean,

"No Poltden.
A atatemrment that gained cfreuda

wr

Tuenday morning to Che effect
“Une Orwartine (teens welel etvaberrme In:
BK. oCrampbell for congress oon
Democrutic tleket uppears te be
roneoun, Mro Carpeted! does 6
Kiving the soldfers at othe Sold

Mome a bit of beer —something
Semand, and yet Just enough te F
them froin comlbug fate the etty
Kelling drunk and belong arrested
fIned—but he ctl pret) Cigtare Jay
canteen urxuinent, Tle reel

all other Citizens of Dayton tt
atupped ta contemplate thre

that the mien at the bone murat)
a WWetthe beer-—noet Coo muceh—beu
regulation that is now da force,
he doen not, Wke Als opponent,
nbollattag Chie anned toktog Uae y
Hewe away Cron Chee rivenn tial mene
them down ta Che city where they
Urink to Uheir beart a deatre, get ar
wrrel et reetotyed served geet fer three stat


Large card,
WHITE, Henry, black, electrocuted, Ohio (Warren) 7-19-1907.

"NEGRO MURDERER PAYS THE PENALTY. Columbus, July 19. - Henry White,
the negro who murdered Marshal Basore of Franklin, Warren county,
went to his death in the electric chair at the penitentiary just
after midnight this morning. The crime for which White was electro-
cuted was the murder of Marshal Basore at “ranklin, October 30, 1906,
when the officer attemptedto arrest him. White escaped, but was caught
after a chase through the woods, Later he broke jail at Lebanon and
was at large several days but was finally caught in a log cabin in
which he had sought shelter from the mob that pursued him. He was
found guilty upon trial and sentenced to death. This was the first
first degree murder conviction in Warren county for years, White

to marry him. He escaped but was caught the next morning near
Springfield, He was sent to the reformatory but was later paroled,
White a short time ago embraeed the Catholic faith," BHACON-
JOURNAL, Akron, Ohio, July 19, 1907.


ays FRANKLIX,.-O.,

‘ aoe A hse
Te et wed eas Pak pee eee . {
- ry

Henry, black, S100

ahd td A od

RE ag

Tse

reak Vengeance ‘on Blayer

NGRY MOB 08 FOILED

on‘ Jail_ th. an Auto,

“$0.—Henry
are {ibe negro desperado—who
Hina ited Mayebal Bashore in cold blood
pene erg ne, WAR, taken ta. Lekunon
eae th ‘Ume to avald violence at the
4, mr angry mew: of 300° per-

CTT ” oeloek: She rite T. C. Pat-
aEigereaa of. _Wagreo county arrived In.
aN Freakin: ' ‘accompanied -by_J. ‘A. Kirke.

Sat palrick-af, Lebanon, in an automobile,

Ber “The: parte. bed . been ‘telegraphed for
Fewb py. Mayor McClain of Franklin, who
Fever aqred=itae’ he would - be. unable to
bo}d hack the crowd for an-hour, as
: nen taking th: the feof
ewan amaraial pw wecisetts ee
: , While the “‘men-were storming the
fear doors, ot the Jail, White was \aken
Fis from “bla, cell and ‘hurried to the auto-
ait qabile_where ha wes covered with
u iris pobeas tetora’ The men’ ‘reached: the
ay $US machine: however, howerer, a young
Geet ‘passing’: struck the=negro-. over
oes je hed Switth! a “heavy. r_club, stunning
oad At iwas necessary to carry wll
MW TO= tire mactrtre—i themes A~
me-a- boy had notified . the men in
j te RO rear of the’ rn Hatthe: negro- was
¥jpeing spirited away,: anda the trowd
S25"Jm mediately left the rear of. the jail,

Bhie = purrying’ “tq. the front... The automo-

ite

ies i
fe

nd tte tan eee

Sey a ae om

PATTERSON.

| cartel Desperado-Away

STANDARD OIL MA
RESTRICTS: WIDO'

Not MpASen eee

SOUL'S SHOEI REA Tenet

ays

” i as Ral roo
sage fe i ‘ae 4
Raat tcf ae “Att Sr Re SEIT 7
cots Grew a xs. 542-0 ‘ ,
yy at cyst am

aHonan nh. ISNORE; ~

The Marvhal of Franklin, Who Was ae |

Murdered Wh'h jm the Dine hate —~f Llu: 3b EEE
Nutter, by Helward White, a Neste, Tuesday. . ere as
Morning.“ The Trexely Now Threatens to

Be Sct HC oo
Tae, beat & +: , _ a
Uk “3 ied Tt eets ene tek ome
om ar. LY Ss ee + 4
1m . =

Lead tu a hate War,

t
'
i
ne mena ae Say fe -- . - :
!
PLebunen and placed In an autemobife, |
A.yYoung mun. whe walked un to othe
mew Juatias the negro came from the |
door_astruck White across the neal
with a heavy club. fellfuy Ninwto the
Brouud. We woud ve beer beaten --
te death nag tt nat been for the aher—
{fe Fhe eer wae Mrerativrcurrtert tne
the car, where he was pinced boneith
rubles. ey thle time the crowd haa
hecomaasure of what wre Perlive oasis:
aod the sherfff was ardered to ou tau
Kis prisoner.  frstend of conmipiying.
however, be wtartedt the Machine
Heveral attempts were made to pues
Wire the threes with bulleta, but (f Lyey
proved effectual no one was the wider,
us the machine did not atop. J, .A,i
Kirkpntrick, an automobile: man’ of

Pepe Meted ag chauffeur far tha; _ ~
sheriff. i 2 : ); )

One of the wAdedeat parts of the! P bet bog city ‘h uf l aniel ' 1D: _ and his
Whole affalr was: that Marshal Hae! fits Hix lortune if she reimarries. The S
shore’s son John owas compelled tos yen ’ wid.
PUNT B ORM ee WT er ed aa ath pruut SUCHE, eatrictiuus on the wid
Was on an Ice wayon at the time, ane, se doses aa dammense fortune and enstod,
before Ne wus uware of what w: um: maining s single she has Vast Wealth ut ber T
KeIng on the whote were flred that) =

: SaeeenAnee Maomeaih @ mabe ne one Tae okt

ouded- Via lusthegiatife—--.-

A Negro woman, who oat first:
claimed that whe was White’a wile,
and afterward« refused to divulwe her!
Name, bul confessed that she wis not: Pay

the man's wife, Was locked up by the
Officers,

ene. Dile started Just asthe first man put
eg an lg wppearance.- For a moment ae
Si paAooked: as though-there was to be a
" abeecearoa but-the machine spe

eee

oe wagon was necured !

att “ renin Ss some distance.

ca
- Spectal 10 The Dally Newa :
Oct. 30.—George

he ~ Tanore, marshal of this city, wae shot

»

known. but

, |

So desnerite had the crowd bee ame!
when they learned -that the negro hid |

an taken to Lebanen, that it waa:

19Ugh that they would try
the Woman, Nothing, however, waa

(Oo wet ut’
|
fone, other thon threats of hurning |
‘
'

her to the take whieh eatimed the:

there woe
} woman to Jeconys hysterioal

Most Important Subject Is the

pi OG iaasiine: ton aie i at De Tathor

The woman state. “that for xoine ~ Regulation of Traffic and the [ eral of ihe
Unie she ved with Luars Lucas of, they hh.
j Dayton. who remidee on [haxter street, Continucnee of Canteen. uny ichelitd

The pollee of Middletown and Frank.
Ite wre Incline! to belleve that the: TE etecew st tttine
Tues weman has heen

vuctIng as pg
“ret away’ for White's stolen gooda: V ALMOST A HUNDRED
Tamikderge for Ded, j

ie ied wat. DELEGATES ARE HERE:

who was a pal of Whiten. | = See 8s oe !

, ‘

Ana Logrstede
peodlthesad ye
body's ux,

} alt
|
!
\
i
|
' After the
Another

negro, whore


(stew at prtecut ttt at- Tone, tals Be te
‘(toride ef the lial

T, ‘ , frecbhinlee ceed tevreee
PRESS: ip a aL cca Lhe ; SPO

ie com a a
ae a DY 30 ISES Béla i

pe

Crliemin Ltaded ltbegrer Doomed etek a tite

Gud a hae Cpl cnvioveitt : a op
GS : of fix f= cence Cl

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oe acid Weed. QLe Ele

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a

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eluleced, htat lirrzelese

A Aticiwpliex We atach icnee P tLe .
Cteltcllin ay the hekeatiia ag Lhe prceenee
Lake 4h dterceel. An Choy


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aes ig Oe ys a IRE Matyas tot ee es y Sete fh eine Sys wey Fee Seige ape a a
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, 46,
ving
like
the
the
et of
weed-
ps to
nt.
and
ral or
athe
jyrase
re 1
1, the
word
rad or
ill be
in the
clear.
Cham-
other
Cte t
iO
jusuree
make,
assess-
made,
e legis-
power
if those
-creised
ajoined
id only
ision a
sonable
ess 8aVv-
cide.“
ut they

.
wy

Conviction
aunteed by
‘tory Pro-
‘ourt and
asin Crim-
t now Su-
s of Law
fudgment—
ment?’ De-

by gn im-
er ‘son
le sOn-

vot wuaran-
tory provi-

Ma da ene ace Py
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LStta Apilihh Py

Vou. XIII.

WEEKLY LAW BULLETIN. 101

2, At the time the Revised Statutes were
adopted, the jurisdiction of the supreme court
and district court bo review, on error, the
judgments of the court of common pleas, in
criminal cases, was in all respects concurrent,
and extended to every prejudical error properly
appearing in the record, including the power
to determine whether the verdict was against
the weight of the evidence ; but while the
jurisdiction of the district court and its suc-
cessor, the circuit court, remains the same,
the jurisdiction of the supreme court has, by
the amendment to the Revised Statutes,
$ 7356, passed in 1883 (80 Ohio Laws, 170), been
so limited that ‘tin the supreme court only
errors of law oceuring at the trial, or appear-
ing in the pleadings or judgment, can be re-
viewed.”

3. “ Trial,”? in the sense of this limitation,
has reference to a trial upon a plea in bar, and
does not extend to a hearing ona motion to
quash, or trial upon a plea in abatement ; it
commences, at least, when the jury is sworn,
and embraces questions as to the admissi
bility of evidence, refusals to charge and the
charge given, and the like; and it ends with
the rendition of the verdict. GQucre, whether
‘trial’? extends to matters occurring during
the empaneling of the jury ?

4, Pleadings,” in the sense of that pro-
vision, do not embrace motions to quash, but
include the indictment and pleas in abatement
as well as in bar; but where matter not the
proper subject of a plea is incorporated in a
paper denominated a plea, a decision with re-
spect to it will not, ordinarily, be reviewed in
the supreme court upon the ground that it is
an error in the “ pleadings.”

5. ‘Judgment,’ in the sense of the provi-

. ‘ . . :
sion, has relation to the final judgment and

the orders with respect to the * pleadings.”

Error to the Court of Common Pleas
of Morrow County.

C. H. Blackburn, Andrews & Allison,
and Olds & Fluckey, for plaintiffin error.

James Lawrence, Attorney General ;
Thomas 8. White, Prosecuting Attoroey ;
and Thomas E. Powell, for the state.

By THe Court.

At the January term, 1883, an in-
dictment was found in the Court of
Common Pleas ‘of Morrow county,
against Valentine Wagener, for shoot-
ing with a pistol, on December 18,
{8X2, one Daniel Shehan, eausing his
death, the indictment containing alle-

gations suflicient to constitute a charge
of murder in the first decree.
On January 29, 1888, the prisoner
moved to quash the indictment for
- divers alleged errors. The motion was
overruled and exception taken. Aud
afterward, on January 31, 1883, a ples
‘n abatement was interposed, para-
rraphs 6 to 13, inclusive, of such plea
Reiteg as follows: 6. “The grand jury
that found and presented the indict-
ment in the above entitled cause, was

not drawn, summoned, empaneled and
sworn according to the statutes of the
State of Ohio in such case made and
provided,

7. “In empaneling the grand jury
aforesaid, the number thereof was made
up by special venire, and such special
venire was not signed by the clerk of
said court; nor authenticate d by the
seal thereof; nor was the same in the
name of The State of Ohio, Morrow
County.

8 “John Markley, sr., was drawn
as one of the grand jurors of said court
for the January term, 1883, to-wit, the
term at whieh the indictment was
found, and said Markley was not sum-
moned, sworn or empaneled as such
grand juror or excused by the court.

9 “A. 8S. Gardner was drawn as one
of the grand jurors, and was not sum-
moned as such.

"10. “A. G. Gardner was summoned
as one of the grand jurors, and was not
sworn or empaneled as such grand ju-
ror, or excused by the court.

11. “The foreman of the grand jury
aforesaid did not indorse upon the
indictment, in the above entitled
cause, the words, ‘A true bill’ and
subscribe his name thereon as fore-
man.

12. “Because the venire for the
grand jury aforesaid was not served in
the manner provided by law.

13. “The venire for the grand jury
aforesaid was issued in vacation and
was not returned on the first day of the
term, to-wit, January 22, 1883.”

After a mistake in the name of the
juror Gardner, mentioned in paragraphs
9 and 10 of the plea, had been cor-
rected, the court sustained a demurrer
to that part of the plea (paragraphs 6 to
13 inclusive); and the state by reply
took issue of fact as to the other mat-
ters set forth in the plea, and upon the
trial of such issues the verdict was in
favor of the State. A motion fora new
trial of such issues was overruled, and
exception was taken not only to the ac-
tion of the court in that regard, but
@pon the further alleged ground that
the prisoner had not been present at
such trial and had been prevented from
being present by imprisonment.

A demurrer to the indictment was
overruled, and a plea of not guilty hav-
ing been interposed, the cause was tried


é

See article gree ontokitl Lged ity. Uagree
Gt hisutel ele Cohcces; ciheciem teaé aelie
auth imtectiw Pore Peo, Ola ae we

Celid tee taid, “Gace geet Ze Pita.
lUerdte aud Se Lee " Lheadaac pyle f

lrhterte be pcttcd a ALrtl thc H
Aina tdert tn thet tcf etiiodaa hecretieh fer
i hete, Cerwpece if [ete Peace thle
Atttet CAalicdH cetes gereteted Ubagrece . or

atlert,

ard ese Leabuanetalet, Asferned
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WAGNER, Valentine, white, hanged Ohio SP (Morrow) 7-3-1885.

Vou. XIE.

had been commenced but no valid as-
sessment had been made; that, there-
fore, no re-assessment can lawfully be
made under those provisions subse-
quently to such repeal; and that no
re-assessment can be made under the
act of 1878 or the Revised Statutes, be-

cause it isa condition precedent to a,

lawful assessment or reassessment,

under those statutes, that the lots and |
I See Secs. 544, 549, 550, 551, 552 and

lands to be assessed should be desig-
nated in an ordinance before the im-
provement is made, and that was not
done in this case.

We find it necessary to answer but
one of these propositions, that is,
whether there was an express saving
to the city of the right to re-assess
under the acts in force in 1873, those
acts having all been repealed by the
act of 1878, above inentioned. Counsel
for the city rely on the following pro-
vision in the act of 1878: “All rights
and property which were vested in any
municipal corporation under its former
organization, shall be deemed vested in
the same municipal corporation under
the organization made by this title;
and no rights or liabilities, either in

cution or proceeding shall be in any
manner affected by such change, but
the saine shall stand or proceed as if
no such change had been made.” (75
Ohio L., 165, $ 4; Rev. Stats., § 15389.)
Counsel for plaintiffs in error contend
the provision has relation to vested
and property rights, pending actions,
proceeding in the nature of actions,
and the like, and does not extend to or

embrace the right to make such an as- |

sessment or re-assessment. But we are
unwilling to place any such limitation
upon the provision. It is rémedial,
and no violence is done to the language
by holding that it preserves the right
to make this re-assessment under the
municipal code of 1869. With respect
to vested rights no saving is necessary.
If the word proceeding, where it occurred
in statutes relating to practice, has in
one or two instances received a con-
struction which seemed to limit it to

‘litigation in the nature of a suit, that

affords no justification for giving to the
word such restricted meaning, where
it occurs in a provision relating to

‘favor of or against such corporation, |
existing at the time of the taking |

. a . . . {
effect of this title, and no suit, prose: |

matters in fieri under a municipal code.
See Lafferty v. Shinn, 38 Ohio St., 46,
and cases cited. We think the saving
has peculiar reference to matters like
that involved here, and indeed the
municipal code of 1869, to which the
provision last quoted from the act of
1878 related, employs the word proceed-
ing repeatedly in the sense of steps to
mike an assessment or a re-assessment.

583. Where the meaning of a word or
phrase in a statute is doubtful, but the
meaning of the same word or phrase
is clear where it is used elsewhere in
the same act, or an act to which the
provision containing the doubtful word
or phrase has reference, the word or
phrase in the obscure clause will be
held to mean the same thing as in the
instances where the meaning is clear.
Bishop’s Written Laws, § 95a. Cham-
herlain vy. Cleveland, supra, and other
eases were pending when the act of
{858 was passed. They did not in-
volve the power to assess or the justice
of assessment, but the power to make,
or the justice of. the particular assess-
ment in the form that if was made,
and it would be surprising if the legis-
lature intended to take away the power
to re-assess during the pending of those
cases, so that it might not be excrcised
even where an assessment was enjoined
for mere informality. We could only
so hold by giving to the provision a
narrow and, as we think, unreasonable
construction. Whether an express sav-
ing was necessary we do not decide.

Other questions are made, but. they
require no remark.

Judgment aflirmed.,

[T> appear in 42 0. 8. R.]

WAGNER v. THE STATE.
(Sup. Ct., June 20, 1885.)

Criminal Law—Right to Review a Conviction
on Error or Otherwise, not Guaranteed by
Constitution, but Depends on Statutory Pro-
vision—Jurisdiction of Supreme Court and
District Court to Review Common Pleas in Crim-
inal Cases formerly Concurrent, but now Su-
preme Court Limited to Errors of Law
Appearing in Pleadings and Judgment—
“ Trial,” “Pleadings ” and ‘* Judgment” De-
jined.

1. While ‘*a speedy public trial by an 1m-
partial jury” is guaranteed to every person
accused of crime, the right to review a con-
vietion, on error or otherwise, is not guaran-
teed, but depends solely on statutory provi-

gion.

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at the January term, 1884, (February,
1884), and the verdict was, guilty of
murder in the firstdegree. Motion fora
new trial was overruled and sentence of
death pronounced, to be carried into
effect July 11, 1884. A bill of excep-
tions was taken, containing the evi-
dence, exceptions with respect to the
jury and the competency of jurors, ex-
ceptions with respect to the admission
and exclusion of testimony, requests to
charge and exceptions for refusing the
same, and the charg? of the court, with
exceptions to portions thereof ; also ex-
ceptions with respect to the judgments
-on the pleadings and the judgment in
the cause. .

By the constitution of the state there
is guaranteed among other things, to
every person accused of crime, “a speedy
public trial by an impartial jury.”
The right to another trial, on appeal,
error or otherwise, is not guaranteed,
and whether a conviction for crime,
whatever the grade of the offense, shall
or shall not be the subject of review, on
error,'in the supreme court, or any
other appellate court, and if so the ex-
tent to which such review will be al-
lowed, are matters to be determined by
the legislature by statutes regulating
the jurisdiction and powers of the ap-
pelate courts.  Lapperty v. Shinn, 38
‘Ohio St., 46. .

Rev. Stats., § 7356, as amended in
1883 (80 Ohio Laws, 170), provides as
follows: ‘In any criminal case, in-
cluding a conviction for a violation of
nn ordinance of a municipal corpora-
tion, the judgment or final order of a
-court or office inferior to the common
pleas, may be reversed in the court of
common pleas ; a judgment or final or-
der of any court or officer inferior to the
district court. may be reversed in the
district court ; and a judgment or final
order of the district court or court of
common pleas in cases of conviction of
a felony or misdemeanor, and the judg-
ment of the district court in any other
case involying the constitutionality or
construction of a statute, may be reg
viewed in the supreme court; but in
the supreme court only errors of law
occurring at the trial or appearing in
the pleadings or judgment, can be re-
viewed.”

It will be seen that while the district

cause that affords ground of reversal by
the supreme court, yet that the powers
of the district court to reverse for error
in such cases is broader than the power
conferred on the supreme court. While
doubtless the supreme court can de-
qyermine from the record, as a ques-
tion of law, whether the admitted
facts, in any case, constitute a crime,
that court cannot, in view of the above
amendment, look into the evidence,
where it is in conflict, for the purpose
of weighing it, and determining wheth-
er the verdict is or is not in opposition
to its weight. But the district court
may reverse where the verdict is clearly
against the weight of the evidence.
Rev. Stats., secs. 7304, 7350.

For certain errors in the proceedings
preliminary to the trial, the district
court may reverse; but the supreme
court has no such power; nor has that

court power, like the district court, to.

reverse for érrors committed subsequent
to the rendition of the verdict, unless
such errors appear in the pleadings or
orders with respect thereto, or in the
final judgment.

“Trial,” in the clause limiting the
jurisdiction of the supreme court, re-
lates to the trial on the merits upon a
plea in bar, and does not extend to a
trial on a plea in abatement, and errors,
if any, occurring on the trial of a plea
in abatement, or hearing on motion to
quash, are not reviewable in the su-
preme court. “Trial,” in the sense of
that provision, commences, at least,
immediately after the jury is sworn,
and embraces questions as to the ad-
missability of evidence, questions as
to refusal to charge and the charge
given, and the like; and “trial,”
in this sense, ends with .the rendi-
tion of the verdict. No error oc-
curred in this case during the em panel-
ing of the jury, and hence we find
it unnecessary to determine whether
“trial,” in this sense, extends to errors
committed during the empaneling of
the jury. No error occurred during the
“trial.”

“Pleadings,” in the sense of the pro-
vision, includes the indictment, and as
well pleas in abatement as those in bar,
and extends to the orders or judgments
with respect to the pleadings; but
where matter not the proper subject of

court has the power to reverse for any

a plea is incorporated in a paper de-

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Vou. XIII.

nominated a plea, a decision with re-
viewed in the supreme court, upon the
ings.” The plea in abatement in this

Thus, paragraphs 6, 7, 8, 12 and 18 do
not, nor does either of them, contain
the substance of such a valid plea, but
if any error was committed, with re-
spect to the matters there stated, ad-
vantage should have been taken of it
in another way, at an earlier stage of
the case. Forsythe v. The State, 6 Ohio,
8: Huling v. The State, 17 Ohio St., 583.
Paragraph 11 is evasive and wholly in-
sufficient. Consistently, with the plea,
the foreman may have subscribed his
name upon the indictment, adopting as
his own the words then thereon— A
true bill.” Such a plea must be pleaded
with exactness. Whart. Cr. Pl. & Pr.,
§ 427, The same objection also apples
to the other paragraphs above men-
tioned. No error was committed with
respect to the ‘“ pleadings.”

“Judgment,” in the sense of the
above provision, has relation to ‘the
final judgment and the orders with re-
spect to the pleadings. There was no
error in that matter.

We repeat, there was no error in this
case with respect to the pleadings,—
none in admitting or rejecting evi-
dence on the trial on plea of not guilty;

charge given,—none in the judgment,
—none, in short, for which the
supreme court should reverse the
judgment, and hence the judgment
and sentence are on this 19th day of
June, 1884, affirmed.

The prisoner, by his counsel, having
subsequently to such affirmance, ap-
plied to this court for leave to with-
draw the papers in the cause, with
2 view toan application to the district
court for leave to file therein a petition
in error, such request was granted, and
the district court granted leave to file
such petition, and the same is pending
in that court. Practice of this sort is
not to be commended. If application
is to be made to the district court or its
successor, such application should pre-
cede the application to this court; but
the fact that the statute is new and the

‘and circuit court.

judgment, and, persuant to Rey, Stats.,

practice under it not settled, affords

ee

N. 103

sufficient excuse for a different course
in this instance.

So far as the views of this court are
expressed in this opinion, they are, of
course, binding upon the district court
As to other matters
in the record within the jurisdicticn of
the district court and circuit court, but
not within the jurisdiction of the
supreme court, namely,— matters pre-
liminary to and preceeding the actual
trial of the case, and matters arising on
overruling the motion for a new trial
with respect to the weight of evidence,
—it will be the duty of the circuit
court, which is the successor of and
clothed for this purpose with all the
powers of the district court (81 Ohio
Laws, 169, $ 448a; 171, § 454e), to con-
sider the cause in those respects, and if
there is error in the record as to those
matters prejudicial to the prisoner, it
will be the duty of the circuit court to
reverse the judgment and remand the
cause to the court of common pleas for
a new trial; but if the circuit court
finds no prejudicial error, then it will
be the duty of that court to affirm the

$ 7360, fix aday for the execution of the
prisoner. Ofcourse we express no opin-
ion whether there is or is not such error.

As the jurisdiction of the supreme
court to reverse in such cases is pre-
cisely the same, whether the applica-
tion is made here originally or after the
cause passes through the district court
or circuit court, this court has already
given to the questions presented in the
record all the examination it can with
propriety give them,and ex pressed bere-
in an opinion thereon; and re-hearings
are not allowed in this court. Longworth
v. Sturges, 20. St.; 104; Zink v. Grant,
96 Ohio St., 378. The case is reported
to afford information as to the jurisdic-
tion of the supreme court, district court
and circuit court in cases like this.
The matters occurring on the trial and
with respect to the refusals to charge
and the charge given, und other ques-
tions as to the pleadings and judgment,
we do not deem of sufficient general im’
portance to call for a report.

The motion in McHugh v. The State,
42 Ohio St., 154, was overruled before
this case was decided.

Jounson, C. J., was absent when the
case was decided.


KER, Bert (alias Bert Randell), white, elec. Ohio (Summitt) on Nov. 10, 1930, ~

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SUR ep ety

Flight ning,” he said, x‘ing at the crowd

of the} Attorney Robert Azar, py of the . 9 Puls

aemora-{ the trial, was present at: Walker's

orsary.
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ments from Chair

ee ae hed + .

; 3 .gChelr in ihe penitentiary at Coe Ly poe :
h0-¥ lumbug, Mionday night, «!

) night, Case, also was prescnt.

of the |“death house joke,” as ong of the ,
. 1.| Spectators characterized it,. Arar, --.~

‘Jers execution and thet of Chrrles

-Tappear to be. more than

‘jwitnesses following Warden P..E,

Bien 3 Fhe lttie 455¢ to the rear cham=*>—.

——

4} that. room were the two condemned --

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CRAMER CALLED “FIRST

Manes Killer: Follows. Brown E = ne, SRS
~ County Murderer A aarti sa. ,
Paying Penalty

] Death te‘pot a Isaghing matter,
not even when jt 18 Ionced for and : 4 “
welcomed, but Bert Walker, convict- :
ed slayer of Policx Olficer:Harland= = >
Manes, made it’s $dughing ‘matter 9° er or
jas he sented himcelf in the electris *.  ¢:

_ “Rather Shocking Evening? 90) +.
“This is rethe- mmhocking eves .. _

Of witnssses grouped Before him in - : ~ ot.
q@ @emi-circle, And the faintsss “© = c
{ound of @ chuckle at his witticism (°°; 5
followed his remark, his ex!!s cone

jtinuing to itgnt his otherwise ae by
pale features, ed aw 4

*

attorneys who had defended him at

request. Attorney O. L Dally, who
was associated with Azar in the

When. Walker had delivered his’.

standing right in front cf Walker,
replied, “Well, you can be a nae.
}about it, can’t you?” =.

: Denies Being Sport = CS
Walker smiled egaln. “Hmph,” et

ate

‘The said. “No, X.cannot. That's not a
my noture.” And he laughed ezain ' PR.
at his own sarcasm, tha: beg @ pom
sport was not his nature. ' es
~ “Wisecracking to ths Isst,"* was): . aoe!
the consensus of opinion amornz the - shad

60 spectators who witnessed Walx=- .- -
Cramer, convicicd in brown county |.”

-Of-murdeting.«farmer—and

also their opinion that Walker had .
_[Tehcarsed his “shocking” ‘remerz |
severa) times over in his mind bee |.
| tore entering the death chamber, .
that it was not extemporaneous. :
No.one seemed to feel any s¥me ..
pathy for Walker, the cynic. It was ome
different with Cramer, however. The
Brown county murderer was sald to Os
be 31 mer of age, but he cid. B08 SORES 5! Pas
boyish in na oe He was are: re NK

“He was the first of the pair sume ame
moned from the chamber at ths rear -
lof-the execution room. Afcer ths

Thomas hed ploced themseives bee
fore the platform upon which the _.~
chair is fastened, the warden an- ~
* emcee of the guards, “AL.
c .

ber was opened by the guard. Imide - ~

men, several guards and two ciergy--
men, Cramer emerged from the
room between two guards who did. 2.
not assist him. The youth, for that Leer
is whet he appesred to be, stepped -
upon the platform... ——

ut instead of scaliig Bliss >

the chatr ha sold he wantcd to 4 Aes.
shake hands with s few of the men. — - Sop

treiog- ote th eid not odfect. Bes
Tining with the man on the exe §.-
treme left of the front row of wite

nesses Cramer shook hands with tS
each of them to the las! man on the—
rignt end. “Goodby, goodby, goodyy,*-
he seid to cach of them. He aid not
know bus tweor three of thea. i elias
they were al) there to see huu go,
end he was bidcing them farewell _
before he passed ated the ae /
mystery. ~~
tel Btares Biralght Aboud _ aS
~Having-Linisbed. his farewe!!s hee:

seated. himself in the chizr, co. in.

jsubmitting to the ‘operatic: “Ot | ss Wah 5 aPk
strapping him in. He was ver? nate, +: % i
He loc'zed ctruight eherd &: '° cden

Thome until the black rua: wil”

ate

was- ee a ee
opers. tion by o fret rrenurntions, - 4
rrapped of


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= a g

oe a.

‘es Res
3

a ahi anew anccni

pape et ,
rE LV . ri

' ee RR em PRO vig wera tha pale and amiling

os bu ped ch a Walker made himself “the Ule of
wtih Winks bbl Juried . the party” ef Bia own obscq:ica

Pree 0 Dal ferns Dora RO - | 4
ih C3 oad PU BoA Bul Denton, superinvendent of Randell,wee Pal isenuity 1s kpown

“3 i SEE Gn daeaee i. mission, wns bed] Crna auty
see : tue, fesorcate tring walker to conver- cnly to his sttormney. Rovert Asar.
iicron Polico Slayer Makes becetae % Duriag his interview with Azar
: F ig? eB] cu, was with him to the Ist) onaey afternoon Walker revealed
Vinal Wisecrack As He - | Walker treated nim -courteoualy, but| MONON ane but exacted @ prom:

Seats Solf In Onatr « ~ Sarena ati to senene O82 lice from Azar that‘ would Lever
ccossaned Frew Pere O38 fhe-dey,_bad-exaresed bls opinion be, feustce froma highly respected
§ (Cociioued Prova Pese ) of religion in ® rather wpgrac.cud] family.” explained Walker, “I am.
= usi from Warden Thomas cos of | fashion. He edmitted that the prison) 0 ony misfit in the tamlly It
- gay guards knocked on the door of| chaplains, Protestant and Catholic, rood to drag (he
tis Cynamo room, and pressed a| had been to sce him, but he had de- this affair.’
reuner, Ib was the death signal Tm- clined thelr services. 2 eat
rentiately the current of 1920 vols 4 to the last,”
san strapped in while the
.@ Fars tics 8B
the

Rzall Leck of the reques sare : wea :
Licht glowed ther dent to take cbarge of his body, a& “dust or tater Saco

. ---eoutsing through the body-in-the ~~ Denton wil see_that} Cramer of ty
aera : Be Seemed bw: ; ; executed and whils U2 chair way
~ After ths current oe pd |: Acar to partare of prep ect ag her
elaxcrae ad ordered

pier apepeniniallianisn

b

of the peal
’ mit this. Then Waker made-a5e toca Toor.
‘tering, Afr the miner request, that Adar 6nd Dally]
— wus fram tha time Ge
Rurasd off Dr.. Keil prosounced ng : ook ‘want you to hnow th2! I
in ee Ane you fer ail you have done for

of electricity tf. : 1 eartainly sppreoiacs all

with @ hospital bac & anyene, bol, Bp they EH.
Cramer’a body wreng man fer kiis.7 Kives
{> the yard EE? RI Va 2A met ki bie- F did pot
chair was thea pre} - : : hin, The slory f tald om the
executica, frestl1, censored by Miss Ama troth. Bat

pet been tor mr record F feel
tain that the jury would net have.
W wed in Cairo, 1,
May 38, 1000, When he was a year '
6!d bis parents mov to Canyeoa
of] City, Tex, where Luis father became |
a rancher. Bert satiended grads +
ached) untiy be completed the greccs !
ip his lotr year. Hus pares ths. Rn
poaght to provide for his educstion |
under religious — and sent
tata

He id not rec. "1 te year when be
[| decarng enmeshed in the tolls, of
bide Lew the first time, Dut it was
ta } He was
ing funds
a larceny.
opumitted

dhe learned.
pon his Liberation, he

tm the ele;
y Amar had tried tnterest Wal-
er in religion, and sucgestad thet
he permit a clenysnan to miniscr

to him. , ;

. An declining. the offer Wathct

said, “No, Bob. Ihave lived the ro-
cannct

1 eM die ene

‘

train. from ; Columbus
_jmoraing. It/was teten in ue
by Prentice 6 Co. and betore Dewi
wb buried Yi Lakeside cemetary C:.
the Barberton-Springfield rd. Bu:
Denten wag the only pessoa in &d-
to he undertaker’s assist-
conducted 4 brief com-

’ at the grave.

ie ins NZW TRIAL

.| ° TOLEPO, Nov. 11. (AP)—Recenths
sententpd to five years in the peni-

for auto stealing, MAS:


Guns, grips and shells found by detec-
tives when, at the risk of their lives,
they raided Can Cottage, the secret
hide-out of Patrolman Manes’ slayer

EDWARD J.

McDONNELL

CHIEF of DETECTIVES
Akron, Ohio,

Police Department

As told to
GEORGE GARDNER, JR.

32

TERY

KENMORE

HE strident jangling of a telephone awoke me, The
room was jet black with that inky darkness that
accompanies the hours just before dawn. With
sleepy resentment, | fumbled for the bed telephone
and jerked the receiver from the hook.

“Chief McDonnell talking,” I growled.

The voice of Sergeant Kovach of the Vice Squad came to
me over the wire. It brought a terse, startling message.

“Officer Manes has just been shot. In the stomach. He
may die.”

That message shocked every particle of sleep from my
eyes. I asked the sergeant to repeat it; then hung up. |
glanced hurriedly at my watch. It was exactly 2 a.m.

I called Headquarters; got the Detective Bureau, and
ordered out three of my best men: Patsy Pappano, Denny
Murray and Sherman Gandee. | instructed the operator
that they were to meet me at Peoples Hospital. *

Rapidly, I dressed. As I slipped into my clothes, |
thought of Officer Harland Manes; a quiet fellow. He'd
been on the Force six years. I recalled that he was about
thirty-three years old and married, but had no children.
Manes had come to the Akron Police Department with a
brilliant World War record. He'd served in most of the
major battles over-seas; had survived the terrors of the
world’s greatest war; and now....

] shook my head at the irony of things as I recalled the


Legionnaires, the funeral procession of
Patrolman Harland F. Manes, killed
by a phantom assassin, winds its way
through the heart of Akron,

Or

BOULEVARD

tragic news conveyed to me over the telephone by the sergeant.

At 2:30 o'clock, that drizzly morning of March 8th, 1930,
I swung my car into the driveway at Peoples Hospital. |
went inside. Murray was there ahead of me. Sergeant
Kovach was in a hallway leading to the operating room.
With him were Patrolmen Herbert Michaels and Arthur
Possehl. Handcuffed to Possehl was a well-dressed, middle-
aged man.

“Who's he?” | asked.

Sergeant Kovach said: “One of the men in the shoot-
ing. He didn’t do it, but he was with the party.”

I called Kovach aside. He told me that they were about
to operate on Manes in an effort to save his life. I wanted
details of the shooting. I said to Kovach: “Tell me about
it.” ,

“We were out raiding,” Kovach began, “on orders to
clean up that Kenmore district. Michaels, Possehl and
myself were in plain clothes. Manes was in uniform.

“About an hour ago, Michaels and 1 drove up in front
of Bill Gannon’s place at 111 Kenmore Boulevard. Possehl
was planted in the house. He had arrested a girl and fellow
out of the place earlier.

“Manes was coming along the street. He came over and
talked with us and then Possehl came out. While the four
of us were chatting. we heard a woman's voice and some
laughter. A woman came out of the joint. She was drunk.

“The woman sat with her feet
tucked up... Was she hiding
something? ... ‘Let’s see your
shoes,’ I shouted... Reluctantly
she withdrew her feet.... The
soles of both her shoes were
covered with a bright, red clay!”’
A strange clue, but it was to lead
us to the solution of the baffling

crime and reveal the identity
of the killer

Escorted by police and American


ae Tw TERE shinai

34

the next few seconds were etched clearly in his mind.

“Manes was within ten feet of our machine, when
his prisoner suddenly straightened up. With his left
arm he shoved Manes away, as he plunged his right
into his inside coat pocket. His hand came out with
a gun. I saw it flash, Manes fell. Michaels can tell
you more.”

I nodded to Michaels, who had joined us. He took
up the account.

“When I saw Manes having trouble with this fellow, I
got out to help him. Then the shooting started. Manes
dropped and | pulled my gun. The fellow saw
me and fired twice at my head. | ducked
and skot at him. He jerked back as
if struck. But he kept coming
straight for me. I raised
my gun and fired again.”

Sergeant Kovach
interrupted here.

Patrolman Harland F. Manes, the victim of the
mysterious killing on Kenmore Boulevard outside
a house where a fellow officer, member of the Vice
Squad, had earlier arrested a man and a girl

She came over to the car and we recognized her as
Bill Gannon’s .wife, Bertha.”

Sergeant Kovach paused, then continued.

“Then a man came out of the house, crossed in front
of our car, and got in an auto that was parked without
lights at the opposite curb. Bertha Gannon was feeling
pretty good. She said it was her birthday. and that she
was out to make a night of it.

“Amother woman came out of the house and I asked
her where she was going. She said, ‘None of your business.’
She had a gruff voice, like a man’s.. Manes grabbed her and
we took a look. Chief, I’ve seen some ugly women, but this
one was a witch. About forty. Straggly hair and a mean-
looking pair of eyes.

“WELL, she was trying to pull away and glaring at us

with those ugly eyes of hers, when Mrs. Gannon came
up to tell us that the skinny woman was with her party.
We let her go and the two women got in the car across
the stteet. I noticed a second man in it.

“They didn’t get very far. At the intersection of Old
Kenmore Boulevard and New Kenmore Boulevard, they
rammed into a west-bound auto. Did a good job of it, too.
We ran over, and | grabbed the man sitting next to the
driver and took him back to the police car. Manes got the
driver. The women crawled out unhurt.”

The sergeant spoke rapidly, now, as though the details of

The Mystery Killing on Kenmore Boulevard 35
_ mind, “Then he opened up on me. I could hear the bullets go
| 2, when past my ear. I dropped on my knee and got one shot at
his left him when he turned suddenly and ran towards the Gan-
is right non house. We tried to bottle him up in the-alley, but
ut with ran into a high board fence and had to come back to the
can tell street. By that time he was gone. Possehl still had his
man.”
te took A doctor came out of the operating room at this moment.
It took quite a bit of persuasion to obtain his permission
‘llow, I for me to see Manes. | went into the room. _
Manes Manes lay on a white table. Under the blinding lights
: he seemed deathly pale. Bravely he twisted what

had been an expression of pain into a smile
of greeting. .

“T never had a chance,” he said
softly. “He pulled the
gun before I could do
a thing.”

I asked: “Do you

Edward J. McDonnell, Chief of Detectives of Akron,

Ohio, and co-author of this story, who led the in-

vestigation over tangled trails until the elusive
killer was snared

think you would knowhim if youshouldseehim again?”
Manes nodded. The doctor entered. He shooed us
out of the room.

At three o’clock we gathered in my office at Head-

quarters, Murray, Pappano, Gandee and myself. In
’ the rush to get Manes to the hospital, no witnesses had

been corralled. Time was precious and we had but two
concrete things to work on.
We had as a prisoner one of the men from the gun-
man’s party.

We knew Bertha Gannon had been in that party—but
she was gone. : ‘

I ordered the prisoner brought in. Possehl brought him
into the room, took off the handcuffs. The man swayed
drunkenly, blinked his eyes. I realized then—since he had
been much steadier on his feet while at the hospital—that
he was going to hide behind a pretense of drunkenness.

I shot question after question at him—and got nowhere.
He said his name was Johnny King and that he came from
Chicago. But, he insisted, he had been too drunk to see,
hear or remember any of the events of that evening. I had
him taken to a cell.

There was a fancy set of puzzles in the shooting.
marta a What had been the motive?
_ man Herbert Michaels Kovach had believed the entire party drunk. But as |
ne impertonans ee thought it over, I didn’t agree. The gun-man who had shot
as they re-enact the gun-duel at the | Manes had shot straight; had run straight. There was
scene of the slaying on Kenmore Boulevard but one explanation for the crime as I saw it.


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WALKER, Bert, white, elec. Ohio (Summitt) 11-10-1930

Just @ scrawl on a wall—"Cu. F. 2-847" — but it

meant plenty when tied up with some red clay ona

woman's shoe. Like an arrow it pointed unerringly to

the den where a trigger-happy cop-killer was holed up

HE four members of .the Akron
Police Department, Sergeant J.
Kovach of the Vice Squad, and
Patrolmen Harland F. Manes, Her-
bert Michaels and Arthur Possehl
flattened against the wall of the
two-story structure from which
came blaring dance music and the
shrill voices of mén and women.
Kovach nodded in signal; the
men started for the door. Suddenly
it was flung open and a flashily
dressed woman, followed by an-
other woman and two male com-
panions flounced out.
The. woman in the lead was
Bertha Gannon, wife of Bill Gan-

10

non, owner of the joint upstairs.
She recognized the officer and her

‘face wrinkled into a taunting grin.

“Well, well, if it isn’t Kovach, of
the Vice Brigade,” she said with

purposeful loudness, so that her

words carried clearly into the open
hallway. ae
The sleuth grunted. Any idea of
a raid now was hopeless, he knew.
By the time he and the others could
get to the second floor, a veil of
decency and decorum would have
descended upon the occupants of

the flat. =e
“C’mon have a drink on ‘Bertha,

the- woman said happily, “it’s my -:

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by Joseph F. Fishman

crawled out of the automobile.

birthday. Li'l ol’ Bertha’s*:
day!” , ena
Laughing, she and _ the others gi
into a sedan that was parked wif
out lights at the opposite: ow
They drove away. Ee?
Seconds later; there was a loud;
crash. The revelers’ sedan hat:
rammed head-on into a.- west-->
bound Chevrolet at the intersec-.
tion at Old Kenmore Boulevard an '
New Kenmore Boulevard. “! ry
The sedan skidded crazily and*:%
came to a stop, perching on the:
sidewalk. Both women, unhurt, vt

Patrolman Manes was the first. ~
to reach the car. He grabbed the <i
driver, Kovach got a grip on the <a
other man. They headed for the “AW
police car. “ee

About a dozen feet away, Manes’ / *=
prisoner lashed out. He spun the ‘
patrolman around and, quick as a°
darting snake, his hand plunged -
into sei’ ae coat pocket and +2
came out with a gun. He 5s
the trigger. bet

The bullet. struck Manes i
chest; he staggered and fel]. __

Michaels almost tripped over his i

9

e removed her boots
em over to him. He
piece of mud and
the one in his hand.
laced the. boots on
d of returning them

: you tonight that
shoes covered with
d.
said puzzled, “just
s wet and muddy
probably got it the
ey did—in the soft
the club.”
ne,” McDonnell said
s stared accusingly
have mud on your
it is mixed with
. Clay! Red clay!”
like a live thing in
They have mud on
iin, black mud—but
vith red clay! Where

omng escaped
wud, which was
sperados.

did you get red clay on your boots?”

Her hand leaped to her lips as
though to still a sudden outcry.
She avoided his eyes and fumbled
nervously for a cigarette. Her fin-
gers shook as she tried to light ‘it.

“I don’t know what you're talk-
ing about,”. she persisted. “I must
have gotten the clay in the yard.
Or ... ” She paused for a mo-
ment, and finished, “I might have
stepped in some red clay: while I
was walking by the railroad tracks.
Yes, that must be it—at the tracks,
that’s where I got it!”

“What tracks? When?”

“After the accident. I didn’t come
straight home. I was frightened,
and went for a walk along the
tracks at the edge of the district.”

“It’s no use, Miss Dane,” Mc-
Donnell told her grimly. “I’ve. nev-
er seen any red clay there. And
I’ve never seen any red clay in
Akron proper. Where were you to-
night? Where did you go after the
accident?”

“Please,” she whispered, “please.”
She seemed to collapse in her chair
and tears crept into her eyes.
“Please don’t ask me. I don’t know
—I can’t tell you—honestly, I don’t
know.”

He turned away from her impa-
tiently. She was afraid to talk. The
terror in her eyes, the trembling
of her fingers, the way she had
changed from a confident young
woman to a crying, terrified child
convinced him that the secret lay
hidden in the red clay.

“Gandee,” he snapped, “get to
the county engineer. He’s probably
still asleep. Wake him.” He tossed
over one of the girl’s boots. “Have
him examine this. He should have
a pretty good idea where there’s
red clay of this type in the area.”

He turned to Murray. “Get back
out to the tavern. Daniels has a
little office there. I want you to
bring back every telephone number
that’s scribbled in the place. He
said the men called him to ar-
range the party. Chances are he
called them back. Find that num-
ber!”

First to get back, an hour later,
was Murray. He dropped a list of
fifteen telephone numbers on the
chief’s desk. “This is the works,”
he said. “Found them scribbled on

the walls, on loose scraps of paper, .

and a couple on the calendar.”

“Good,” McDonnell nodded, and
began running down the list with
his index finger. He studied. each
exchange and number intently for
a moment. One of these, he hoped,
would be a rural exchange with a
Cuyahoga Falls listing. He frown-
ed as he. checked off the last item.
All were local Akron. exchanges.

“We'll have to go through the
works,” he muttered half to him-
self. “Let’s hope one of them is
listed to a Frankie.”

He called the main operator and
ran through the numbers with her.
One by one he noted the address
and the name of the telephone
holder. Finally he hung up .and
turned once again to an examina-
tion of the list.

“No. Frankie,” Murray said look-
ing over his shoulder.

The addresses were all in town.
Only one number was unlisted by
name, a phone on Lodi Street in
the run-down district at the edge
of Akron.

“Doesn’t look like pay dirt there.”

Gandee entered the office, his eyes
dancing with excitement. “Think
we’ve got something, Chief,” he
said quickly. “There’s only one sec-
tion around here that has any red
clay—and that’s a little road just
this side of Cuyahoga Falls.”

“Lodi Street!” Murray said ex-
citedly. “That’s it! It’s just this
side of it!”

“Lodi . Street,’ Gandee agreed.
“How’d you guess?” Lf

Murray pointed to the unlisted
telephone exchange. “Five will get
you ten that it gets its mail through
the Falls post. office.”

McDonnell hopped on the tele-
phone and checked with the post
office. A slow smile of satisfaction
crept into his face as he replaced
the phone. “That’s it,” he said, and
reached for his coat. “We go to
work. .. .”

EF WAS just a few minutes past

noon when the squad car pulled
up in front of the house on Lodi
Street. It was a clean, neat-look-
ing two story wooden building. The
front porch was partially hidden by
two leafy young trees.

But it was the driveway leading
to the back garage which interest-
ed the officers. The road was noth-
ing but clay—red clay—now loose
and gummy from the night’s rain.

Officers with drawn revolvers
quickly, but silently, surrounded
the ‘house. McDonnell nodded to
Murray. “Come along with me.” He
turned to Gandee and Pappano.
“We're going up the front. Keep us
covered.”

In answer to McDonnell’s knock,
the door opened a fraction of an
inch. A woman’s dark eyes studied
them for a second. As she realized

they were police, she tried to slam .

the door shut again,

The chief leaned hts shoulder
against it and pushed hard. Sul-
lenly the woman stood aside and
let them enter.

“Where are they?” he snapped.

She. shook her head. But she
couldn’t quite resist the quick
glance up the stairs to the second
floor. — .

Murray interpreted the move-
ment of her eyes. ‘“Upstairs,”: he
whispered, and led the way, mount-
ing the steps two at a time, gun

INSIDE FACTS FROM POLICE RECORDS -

in hand. The chief was right be-
hind him.

To the left, a door was open, and
they caught a glimpse of a half

- clad figure as he ran past the door.

Murray darted in. “Hold it!” he
warned. The stocky, hard-faced
man turned slowly from the bureau
drawer and raised his arms.

Murray grinned as he noted the
man’s bandaged left arm. He re-
called that Sergeant Kovach had
thought he might have hit the es-
caping prisoner in .the shoulder
during the brief gun battle.

The chief dropped to his knees
and looked under the bed. A slight
scratching sound had caught his
attention. “Out,” he invited. His
gun swept under the bed men-
acingly. .

Slowly the youth crawled out. He
was about twenty-three or twenty-
four, slick black hair plastered
down, and a set of black eyes mir-
roring intens¢ hatred stared from
his moon-shaped face.

“You’re Frankie?”

“Frank Mitchell,” he scowled.
“But I ain’t done anything. I was-
n’t even with them when the ac-
cident happened.”

McDonnell grinned. “We'll just
take you along for good luck, eh,
Frankie?”

The two men were herded down-
stairs to join the scowling, thick-
lipped, buxom woman who had
opened the door. Gandee and Pap-
pano took charge of them while
the chief and Murray returned up-
stairs to examine the room.

A low whistle escaped the detec-
tive as he opened the closet. “It’s
a good thing we caught them by
surprise!”

The closet was stacked with
weapons and ammunition. Shot-
guns, rifles, automatics, a sub-ma-
chine gun and a four ounce bottle
of nitroglycerine, as well as plenty
of ammunition for all the assorted
guns, was revealed’ :as the chief
removed them piece by piece.

An examination of the garage in
the rear of the house brought to
light more evidence of criminal ac-
tivities. Another black sedan took
up most of the room. In the rear
window of the car a hole had been
drilled to allow the operation of
the sub-machine gun. On the floor
of the car the officers found several
sets of license plates from different
states.

Both men were taken directly to
the hospital where young Manes,
lingering on the edge of death,
could face them. The patrolman
shook his head as he stared at the
moon-faced thug. Recognition
leaped into his eyes when he faced
the second man. “That’s him,” he
whispered. “That's the man who
shot me!”

At police headquarters, the wom-
an gave her name as Nellie Denny.

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prone A MR kN MIE

scription of the wanted man. And
the mysterious ‘Nellie’ too had
made good her escape.

Carefully he went over the re-
ports and the bits of information
that had already been gathered. He
pondered the Cuyahoga Falls tip,
and wondered whether it would be
necessary to investigate every
“Frankie” in the district.

The sounds of a scuffle in the
outer office made him look up. He
heard the shrill, angry cry of a
woman. Then the door opened re-
vealing Detectives Gandee and
Murray, half-carrying a blonde girl
who fought in their grasp like a
tigress.

They released her and she stood
there angrily shaking herself and
brushing the hair from her eyes.
McDonnell recognized her as Sue
Dane, the entertainer who had
been questioned only two hours be-
fore.

“She’s already been.in,” he told
the detectives calmly. ;

“T know,” Gandee grinned. “Did
you give her permission to go pok-
ing around for this?” He tossed
onto the desk a heavy .38 caliber
revolver.

His face grim and hard, MeDon-
nell flipped the cylinders open.
Three were empty. He lifted the
barrel to his nose and detected the
faint odor of burned cordite. The
weapon, he knew, had been recent-
ly fired.

“Looks like the gun,” he admit-
ted. “Where did you get it?”

Gandee explained that he and

his men had carefully searched the
grounds around the tavern for pos-
sible clues. One of the men had
examined the ash can in the rear
of the tavern and discovered the
gun.
“We were still looking the place
over when I noticed this young
lady prowling around in the back.
She was fishing for something near
the can when I pieked her up.” He
ruefully fingered a long scratch on
his cheek. “She sure didn’t come
willingly,” he added.

“You had better tell us,” the de-
tective chief said seriously, “how
you knew the gun was thers.”

“I didn’t,” she insisted, her eyes
wide and*innocent. “I wasn’t look-
ing for the gun, honestly I wasn’t.
I. dropped a brooch back there
earlier in the evening and was look-
ing for it.” ‘

The detectives grinned. “At six
o’clock in the morning?”

“I wasn’t tired.”

She was a self-assured young
woman, cockily smiling at them.
“Can I go now?” she asked.

McDonnell arose and_ started
pacing the floor thoughtfully. That
the girl knew more than she was
telling was obvious; that she didn’t
intend to talk was equally appar-
ent. He kicked angrily at a piece
of mud on the floor. Suddenly he

50

CONFIDENTIAL DETECTIVE CASES

stopped. He stared at the little cake
of mud. A puzzled look crept into
his eyes as he stooped and picked
it up. For a moment he studied
it with interest. He pressed it with
his fingers and felt its texture. He
felt the way it molded and took
shape: beneath the pressure of his
fingertips.

He turned to Gandee. “Lift your
foot,” ‘he ordered. He bent and ex-
amined: the boot. It was covered
with mud, black, dirty mud. “Your
other one.” ‘The second boot was
similarly caked. ¢

“This is sure a funny time to
worry about, mud on the floor,” the
girl laughed.

“Now yours,” he told Murray, ig-
noring the girl’s comment. He
studied them for just an instant
and was satisfied. A slow smile curl-
ed his lips.

“And yours,” he invited the girl.

POLICE CHIEF

EDWARD = McDONNELL:

Obediently she removed her boots
and handed them over to him. He
scraped off a piece of mud and
compared it to the one in his hand.
Carefully he placed the. boots on
the table instead of returning them
to the girl.

“Where were you tonight that
you got your shoes covered with
mud?” he asked.

“Why,” she said puzzled, “just
outside. It was wet and muddy
everywhere. I probably got it the
same place they did—in the soft
ground behind the club.”

“No, Miss Dane,” McDonnell said
softly. His eyes stared accusingly
at her. “You have mud on your
boots, yes—but it is mixed with
something else. Clay! Red clay!”
He held it out like a live thing in
front of her. “They have mud on
their boots, plain, black mud—but
yours is mixed with red clay! Where

Nothing escaped

his keen eyes, not even a tiny piece of mud, which was

unfortunate for a_ trio

of vicious desperados.

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The man with the bandaged arm
offered the name of Bob Randall.
Beyond this, they set their lips and
offered nothing.

The trio were photographed and
fingerprinted, and turned over to
Sheriff Jacob Bollinger. The sher-
iff, taking no chances, set an extra
pair of armed guards around their
cells. -

A day later he knew he had done
the right thing. From FBI head-
quarters in Washington came
startling information on the men
captured by the quick acting Ak-
ron police.

Bob Randall was a well-known
member of the underworld of St.
Louis, and was better known under
the name of Bert Walker. He had
a long record and was suspected
of murder. He was wanted by the
Kansas City police as a fugitive
having escaped from the peniten-
tiary with 20 years still to serve.

Johnny King, alias Nathan King,
was a well-known Oklahoma City
outlaw, known there as Jack Ar-
nold. He was wanted for a num-
ber of holdups, and for escaping
from the prison farm at Jefferson
City, Missouri, in October of 1929,
where he was serving a thirty year
sentence.

The moon-faced hoodlum was
known to St. Louis police as “Pret-
ty Boy’ Smith, a member of
“Egan’s Rats’—a gang of killers—
and he was wanted throughout the
Southwest for highway robberies.
He was known, too, as Floyd—
“Pretty Boy” Floyd.

The trio had met, it was obvi-
ous, while they were serving their

CONFIDENTIAL

DEMEGHIVE

the girls’ names are Pauline Eisen-
kamp and Rose Karpen, or Harpen,
or something like that. Jack can
tell you exactly.”

“Okay, Jim. I never thought I’d°

have to check your alibi,” Mon-
aghan said. “I think it’s kind of
silly.”

“All right, maybe it is. But I
want you to do it nevertheless. I
want you to treat me like any other
suspect.”

“Want to take the paraffin test?”
the detective grinned.

“What’s that?”

“Oh, some sort of a new-fangled
thing which is supposed to show
whether or not a person has han-
dled a gun recently.”

“Sure, I’ll take it. And any other
tests you have also.”

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CONFIDENTIAL DETECTIVE CASES

sentences in Missouri penitentiaries.

The woman was Nellie Maxwell,
one of the country’s most notori-
ous shop-lifters, known by police
from coast to coast.

From Sylvania, Ohio, came bank
officials and police officers to iden-
tify the three men as the robbers
who had looted the city bank, and
terrorized the employees with a
sub-machine gun.

A day later, Patrolman Harland
Manes died in the hospital. An-
other operation and blood transfu-
sion had not been enough to save
his life.

EXACTLY two months later, on

the 10th of May, Bert Walker
went on trial for murder. He faced
a jury of nine men and three wom-
en in the Common Pleas Courtroom
of Judge E. D. Fritch.

In the midst of the trial, Chief
McDonnell was afforded a smile of
grim satisfaction. The defense at-
tempted to show that since Manes
died from the wound made by a
38 caliber bullet, it’ might have
come from one of the police guns.
David Cowles, Cleveland’s ballistics
expert, testified that the police
guns had been sent to him prompt-
ly and that the bullet taken from
the patrolman’s. body had been
compared with them. He stated
positively that the bullet had not
been fired by a police officer.

The death bed identification of
Walker by Patrolman Manes could
not be argued down. After being
out three hours and four minutes,
the jury filed in with a verdict of

Guilty of First Degree Murder.
They did not recommend mercy.
Exactly eight months from the
day the young officer died, his kill-
er, Bert Walker, alias Bob Randall,
sat in the electric chair at the Ohio
State Penitentiary in Columbus.
Johnny King and “Pretty Boy”
Floyd were tried for bank robbery,
and received a sentence of fifteen
to twenty-five years in the Ohio
State Penitentiary. But the mur-
derous career of Floyd, which was
to make him one of the country’s

most notorious outlaws, was just

beg#fning.

While he was detained in a To-
ledo, Ohio, prison cell to be trans-
ferred to Columbus, he broke out
of jail. Police officers captured him
before he left the jail yard. Again,
on the train ride to Columbus, he
attempted an escape. He broke
loose from his guard, and leaped
from a train window to ‘successful
freedom. His freedom lasted until
the autumn of 1934 when officers
shot him to death in a gun battle.

Sue Dane, the nightclub enter-
tainer, was, of course, promptly re-
leased when the trio. had been
rounded up. She was an innocent
victim of circumstances, and had
been frightened into a desperate
silence by the sudden knowledge
of the murderous characters of the
men with whom she had gone for
an evening of fun and innocent
gayety ...an evening which had
turned into a night of murder!

NOTE: Jim Danizls and Sue Dane
are fictitious names to save inno-
cent persons embarrassment.

"TALK...AND YOU'LL DIE!"

(Continwed from page 21)

They went to the office of District
Attorney Andrew Park, where De-
tective Riddle, an expert in the
test, dipped Westwood’s hand in
melted paraffin, put a layer of cot-
ton over it, and then another layer
of paraffin over the cotton. When
it all hardened, Riddle pulled it
‘all off inside out, as ‘thought it
were a glove. This mold with a half
dozen others of people who had
been in Westwood’s house the day
before, was sent for analysis to the
laboratory of County Chemist F. C.
Buckmaster. :

Westwood’s alibi, as Monaghan
éxpected, checked completely. At
least a half dozen people at Eddie
Peyton’s Roadhouse, including the
proprietor, remembered seeing the
Squire and Jack Sayre, with the

two girls, at frequent intervals be-
tween twelve and two, while Pau-
line Eisenkamp and Rose Karpen
recalled dancing with one or the
other of the men during this en-
tire period.

“We were only out of the room

about fifteen minutes,” Miss Eisen-
kamp_ reported. “It got very hot
inside, and the Squire suggested
that he and I go out and sit in the
‘car for a little while.”
Monaghan, who, at his own re-
quest, had been assigned to keep on
the case until he apprehended the
murderer, now turned his atten-
tion to other angles. He combed
the vicinity of Westwood’s home
systematically, talked to all the
neighbors, put several of his stool
pigeons on the job and ran down

the innumerable
which, as usual, fi
quarters. He in
larly any strang
into town just Dis
picking up several]
acters, but relea:
when they establi
Nor did he ove
previous murders
wood’s family. He
bullets taken from
body with those
‘bodies of the othe:
expert found the
similar. This, of
prove anything de:
ent guns could hav
the three differen:
Then he went in
the revenge motiy
either of someone

Judge Westwood’s

labor union antagor

cause of a real or iy
ance. He picked up

along this line, a m:

ino, a decidedly har:

ing in the nearby to
lis, who was thorc
with what was gol
circles. He tried to
into the stony-facec

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he shot at him.

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ing about?” the st:
demanded. “I don’t
about that. Why shc
I haven't anything
Jim. I don’t even
I like Jim!”

“Yeah? Well, som.
labor boys don’t.”

“That ain’t so,” ]
“He’s given them
You cops are always
for something. You ;
to pin but two or -
me.”

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Maybe we wouldn't
many on you if you g
help once in a while

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thing about Mrs. We:
ino insisted earnest):
thing I can tell you.
get around among th
There ain’t much tha
the inside that I ain’
I tell you they had n
with this. That’s abso
level.”

Monaghan believed
leased him on his pri
culate around and se
Pick up any’ informat

The detective was nc
ed by the vigorous prc
the residents of “Bl
that they knew nothir
murder, After his fir
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to be satisfied with tt
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knew.


nery home. He had hitchhiked a ride
and got as far as Eldorado, Tired and
hungry, he went to the local jail and
asked to spend’the night. Captain Crane
recognized him from the description fur-
nished by O'Rourke, and placed him in
immediate custody.

Back in East St. Louis, the houseboy
still stubbornly refused to admit his guilt.
“I'm telling you the truth,” he declared
desperately. “Why, if I had killed Mrs.
Flannery, I wouldn’t have gone to a
police station for lodging.”

“Not under ordinary circumstances,”
the chief admitted. “But don’t forget, you
didn’t know that your little trick had miis-
fired. For all you knew, we were running
around here looking for your murderer,
thinking you were dead. At least, you
hoped that's what we were doing and so
you felt pretty safe about the whole
thing.”

“Want to tell us about it?” Detective
Sullivan asked persuasively. “You'll feel
better if you get the whole story off your
conscience,”

“We don't really need a confession,”
©’Rourke warned, as the youth hesitated.
“Those footprints alone will convict you.
And the blood on the bedsheet. We can
run a test and prove that it came from
you. Only a man desperately afraid to
face a murder charge would put on an act
like that. The only thing that has me
stopped is the motive. What did you

have to gain by murdering a harmless
old woman ?”

“She was going to cut me out of her
will,” Lamb said, low-voiced. “I was
short of cash so I lifted some of the
household money. I didn’t think Mrs.
Flannery even knew about it. But she
found out that some was missing and
began to check up on me. Finally she
caught me red handed.

“T promised that it wouldn’t happen
again, but she said I couldn’t be trusted.
She also told me that she had put me
down for $1,500 in her will, and that she
intended to change it the next time she
went down town. I even heard her phone
the lawyer about it.”

“Then it was the money you wanted,
after all,” O’Rourke exclaimed.

Lamb nodded resignedly. “That $1,500
seemed like an awful lot to me,” he ad-
mitted. “I got to thinking about all the
things I could do with that much money.
And;then I suddenly realized that if Mrs.
Flannety were dead, the money would
still be mine. So I waited my chance.

“After lunch, everyone left the house.
I let the other servants think I was going
to a movie. Instead, I turned around and
came back to the house. I told Mrs. Flan-
nery I wanted to finish packing. Then I
went out in the butler’s pantry and
grabbed that skillet. She followed me and
wondered what I was doing. I stepped.
out, and... well, I hit her over the head

a couple of times and it was all over.”

Afterward, Lamb confessed, he started
wrecking the place to give the appear-
ance of a robbery. Actually, he wasn’t
looking for money because he was well
aware that Mrs. Flannery kept only small
amounts in the home. What he didn’t
realize was that a small amount to the
wealthy widow was a considerable sum
to anyone else. And so he overlooked the
$500 which was in her bedroom dresser
drawer.

After the murder, he left the house un-
observed and spent the afternoon at a
local theater. “I had to do it,” he ex-
plained, “for fear someone would wonder
about it. After all, I did go to a movie
every week and if I couldn’t prove that
I had been there on the day of the mur-
der, the police might have wondered.”

Elbert Lamb had remembered a few of
the details which are necessary in order
to commit the perfect crime. But like
other murderers, he couldn’t think of
them all, And the items which he forgot
resulted in his apprehension.

With the net tightly drawn, the young
houseboy didn’t attempt to defend him-
self when his case canie to trial. On Sep-
tember 20, 1937, the youth entered a plea
of guilty to first degree murder and threw
himself on the mercy of the court. He
was immediately sentenced to life im-
prisonment in the state penitentiary at
Menard, Illinois.

Beast of Troft Run

[Continued from page 17]

known sex offender or suspect, and spe-
cial officers were assigned to certain sec-
tions of Bellaire with instructions to
“just listen to the gossip.”

“IT can almost see the man we’re look-
ing for,” Chief Corbett told Patrolman
McMahon as the two sat in the chief’s
office the next day. “I know he’s a brute
—it must show in his face and his ac-
tions. There was more than just murder
in his heart when he killed Jenetta. She
was beaten, strangled, and her throat
was slashed. There were long knife
wounds in her breast, and her whole
body was a mass of bruises, Her cloth-
ing was torn from her body and even had
she struggled and put up an awful fight,
she would have escaped such terrible
punishment from anyone but a sex-mad
fiend. That’s what we’re looking for—a
sex fiend of the worst kind. I have a
hunch that I will know him the minute
I see him, no matter where it is. And
'll bet he has a background that will
explain this whole thing !”

Late that afternoon Chief Corbett
was notified by telephone that a red
Maxwell car had been seen on the Bel-
laire highway near the scene of the mur-
der. A farmer had seen the car stop and
a man alight. A quick check of auto-
mobile records revealed the names of

82

several Maxwell owners. Finally police
had narrowed their check down to Ernest
Billings. .

Billings didn’t seem very happy when
police told him he was wanted for ques-
tioning in Chief Corbett’s office. At first
they didn’t tell him that murder had been
conimitted. They talked about his car
and where he had been the day before.
Meantime Chief Corbett studied every
movenient,

WEEN, finally, the chief revealed the
real reason for the interview, Bill-
ings, a man of about forty, flatly denied
all knowledge of the crime.

‘Do I look like a murderer?” he de-
manded.

Chief Corbett’s face was a mask. “You
don’t,” he said flatly. “Lots of times,
though, they don’t. We aren’t accusing
you—we'’re just asking questions and
trying to get information. A girl was
killed—viciously attacked and murdered
by some monster. We want to find him.
So... we ask questions of everybody.
We insist on truthful answers.”

Billings, obviously nervous, considered
this at length. It seemed to make sense.

“All right,” he said, “I’ll tell you this:
I did drive the Maxwell yesterday and
I was on the highway at the time you

mention. What happened was this: A
friend of mine, fellow by the name of
Fred Ward, wanted me to drive him to
several different places yesterday. I had
the time so I consented. First Fred
,asked me to take him to see his aunt.
We drove across the river on the Ben-
wood-Bellaire ferry and went to Klee,
where Fred’s aunt lives. We were there
for a little while and then Ward said he
wanted to go to Troft Run. At Troft
Run we stopped at the home of Mrs.
Harry Blane but didn’t stay very long.
Ward was all hot and bothered about
something, I don’t know what. When
we left the Blane house we had trouble
getting across the creek, because it had
rained a lot and the water. was high.”
Billings paused and considered the
next statement. Chief Corbett watched
him carefully.
. “Well, when we got on the highway,
Fred suddenly asked me to stop. He said
he wanted to get out of the car for a
minute. I pulled off the road and stopped.
He climbed out and disappeared in the
bushes. I got pretty tired waiting—he
was gone nearly forty-five minutes. He
didn’t say anything when he came back;
just got into the car and we drove off.
I noticed he was pretty well covered
with mud and his shirt was torn. Finally

,

we got back to W
in and cleaned uw
stay and have s\
aunt’s but I told °
to do. I left hin
last I saw of hir

Chief Corbett
check Billings’ st
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sought informati:
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that Ward was w
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sisters resided in

yme in Troft Run. Briefly
lost in a cavern of darkness
would be back in the bright
ims.

frightened, the girl paused
Was it a voice that she had
steps? Labored breathing?
aughed and moved forward
tunnel again. Instinctively
a strange excitement in her

‘ithin fifty feet of the tunnel
rd the crunch of feet on the
id her. Glancing backward,
nan, moving swiftly toward ~
tched and showing blood.
‘eamed , . . screamed and

in-beast: was faster. Just as
1ed the mouth of the tunnel
-re clawing at her. With
am, Jenetta threw herself
the tunnel. Then suddenly
ak, stumbled, and fell.

en folk of Troft Run were
lot, little given to tears or
ze of weakness, and even on
: pay-day nights when their
g, stony-fisted husbands re-
lieved themselves by bloody

which the ladies often
as considered little short of
for a woman to emit a single
let alone to actually scream.
' wives weren’t the scream-
*y were made of stern stuff!
vas that when Mary Ne-
ding on the back porch of
me in Troft Run that chilly
vening, heard a scream of
or tearing up through the
.¢ Baltimore and Ohio rail-

near the tunnel, she was
sed than frightened. Troft
didn’t scream; they weren't
thing ... including a lot of

until later in the evening,
Negrosky heard that pretty
ella had failed to come home
ire, that she recalled the
_ and not until then did it
ignificance. ;
-grosky went into immediate

Calling together a group of
oman told them what she had

it was Jenetta,” she said.

mething happened. You get

go look.”

Goon several groups of miners car-
rying lanterns were searching the
countryside, beating through the heavy
brush and following a score of footpaths.
One group finally reached and passed

through the railroad tunnel. Almost im-.

mediately the leader let out a cry and,
holding his lantern high, pointed to the
huddled form of a young girl that had
been dragged down the embankment off
the right of way,

Under the flickering lights a horrified
group of cold-eyed men saw. what re-
mained of the battered and almost nude
body of little Jenetta Panella. Oaths
came as swiftly as tight-lipped sobs of
pity, as men stooped to cover the body
and others rushed away to summon of-
ficers of the law. And while they waited,
stern men promised themselves that they
would not wait long to avenge the crime.
Already they were arming themselves
and soon scores of miners were on the
trail of a wanton killer,

First among the law officers to reach
the scene was Chief of Police Clarence
Corbett, of Bellaire, Ohio, followed al-
most at once by Patrolman Francis Mc-

Mahon, who later replaced Corbett as

chief and who occupies that post today.
While awaiting arrival of the coroner,
Chief Corbett instructed McMahon to
make immediate contact with the police
of all adjacent communities and that of-
ficer hurried off to a telephone. Chief
Corbett then assembled several score

muttering miners, most of whom had °

armed themselves with revolvers and
shotguns,

“I know how you meni feel,” he told
them, “and I guess it’s human to feel like
that, Only—we've got to do this right.
We don’t want to make any mistakes
and then be sorry. Yot men divide into
groups of about a dozen each and name
leaders, Then start out in different di-
rections and cover every foot of ground
around here, But keep your fingers off
those triggers unless it becomes a mat-
ter of self-protection. We want the mur-
derer of this girl—but we want to send
him to the electric chair,”

When the enraged miners had left,
Chief Corbett talked with Mary Ne-
grosky and learned of the scream she
had heard some time before she had be-
come alarmed over Jenetta’s absence
from home.

“I didn’t think anything of it at the
time,” she told the chief. “But—” she
shuddered. “That’s when it was hap-

pening, I guess.” Her voice cracked.

From .others Chief Corbett learned
that Jenetta had visited Bellaire to pur-
chase books for the school term. It had
been her custom to walk to town and
return along the railroad. Nothing like
this had ever happened before and the
entire community was shocked.

“It must have been a tramp,” Mary
Negrosky declared.

But Chief Corbett wasn’t so sure. Je-
netta Panella had been a pretty miss and
there were many men who undoubtedly
had admired her and courted her, per-
haps. Girls often had love affairs, some
were married as young as Jenetta. Per-
haps some rejected suitor had... .

When the coroner had come, made his
examination and ordered the body re-
moved, Chief Corbett concentrated on
questioning all available residents of
Troft Run. But he learned little con-
cerning Jenetta Panella that suggested
the slightest clue to her assailant. And,
after two hours of questioning the girl’s
friends and neighbors and receiving re-
ports from returning searchers, Chief
Corbett realized that he had absolutely
nothing in the way of a lead.

Without the coroner’s report, Corbett
knew the motive.

He knew just a little more than that:
Jenetta’s attacker had been a mad, vi-
cious beast. The chief’s eyes had seen that
much as he stood and studied the broken
body of the girl. :

Returning to Bellaire with Patrolman
McMahon, Chief Corbett mentally re-
constructed the attack, Instinctively he
felt that a stranger had been the mur-
derer. Later, when the crime was solved
and the killer apprehended, Chief Cor-
bett marvelled a little that he had been
able to so accurately picture the actual
attack.

At the time, however, it didn’t help
much to know how or why the crime had
been committed. Knowing those things
didn’t suggest the identity or where-
abouts of the werewolf.

With Patrolman McMahon maintain-
ing constant contact with nearby com-
munities, and telephoning details of the
crime to police heads in Martins Ferry,
Bridgeport, Wheeling, Moundsville,
Pittsburgh and other points, Chief Cor-
bett called upon the members of the
Bellaire department to concentrate on the
chase. with the meager information they
possessed. They were ordered to ques-
tion every [Continued on page 82]

The mad ravisher stalked
the girl until she reached
a railroad tunnel not far
from home before striking.

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in and cleaned up. Ward wanted me to
stay and have supper with him at his
aunt’s but I told him I had other things
to do. I left him there—and that’s the
last I saw of him.”

Chief Corbett assigned officers to
check Billings’ story at once. Here was
a lead, apparently a good one—but the
chief was too old at the business to stake
too much on-one man’s story.

While officers were hurrying to inter-
view Mrs. Blane at Troft Run and
Ward’s aunt at Klee, Chief Corbett

sought information on Fred Ward him-

self. Who was Ward, what did he do?
Within thirty minutes the chief had the
answer to these and many other ques-
tions.

Elmer Buzzard, collector on the Ben-
wood-Bellaire ferry, remembered the red
Maxwell and its two passengers of the
day before. He confirmed what Billings
had said about making the trip across
the river.

Buzzard remembered another thing:
Fred Ward, he said, had been wearing a
Warwood police badge! And when Bel-
laire officers checked with Police Chief
Fred Frazier, of Warwood, they learned
that Ward was without authority to wear
the badge. Why, then, had he worn it?

Patrolman McMahon obtained some
startling information from Mrs. Harry
Blane when_he reached her home at
Troft Run. Ward, she said, had arrived
in Billings’ car about 3:30 the day be-
fore.

“Ee wanted me to go with him to the
Wheeling, W. Va. fair that night,” she
told McMahon. “It made him mad when
I told him I would go if my husband
would go along, too. He said three
would be a crowd and he didn’t want any
crowd! Ward fooled around for a while,
still trying to get me to go to the fair
with him. Then about 4:20) he said he’d
be on his way, he was craving compan-
ionship! He got a tomato in the kitchen
and was eating it when he walked out
and got in the car. I don’t know where
he went after that.”

To. Patrolman McMahon this meant
that Fred Ward had been definitely on
the search for a woman companion. Cer-
tainly the murderer of Jenetta Panella
had been similarly motivated ! McMahon
raced back to Bellaire.

1; WAS later and Chief Corbett sat at
his desk assembling all the informa-
tion his officers had gathered in checking
the story told by Ernest Billings. The
whole picture was gradually taking form
and the chief was considering with satis-
faction how clearly he had foreseen what
was now unfolding before his eyes.

Already the chief had issued instruc-
tions to arrest Fred Ward. He felt con-
fident that a confession would be in his
hands within an hour after the man’s
apprehension. .. -

Ward, police had learned following
their check-up, was now @ resident of
‘McMechen, across the Ohio river in
West Virginia. He had formerly lived
in Bellaire and his father and several
sisters resided in nearby Warwood.

Convicted by a
Ghost

CASE in which an American

jury admitted, by implica-
tion, the existence of a ghost, was
that of the murder of young Mrs.
Zona Shue. Not only was the
testimony of a specter admitted, but
its evidence sent a man, to prison
for life. ‘

No one suggested that Mrs. Shue
had been murdered until two weeks
after her burial. Authorities saw
no reason for investigation until
her mother, Mrs. Heaster of Lewis-
burg, West Virginia, announced
calmly that her daughter had ap-
peared on four nights, saying that
her husband had killed her.

‘The apparition told the mother
what had happened after her death,
saying that her husband had taken
her clothes and packed them in a
basket under some planks in the
cellar. The murder and its after-
math were explained in such detail —
that the police made a search. The

- statements. were. quickly verified

and the body was exhumed.

The mother’s vision proved cor-
rect—the last neck joint had been
crushed and the throat showed
brtiises.” det aed

‘The State’s case against E, Ss.

“ ghyue was tried in April, 1897. By:

the defense’s own questions the:
vision itself be -ame part of the tes=.
timony. Mrs. ‘Heaster said that’
she had been wide-awake when’
Zona appeared at her bedside. She
swore it was no dream and that she
had touched and spoken to her

‘daughter, 9 | >

Substantial circumstantial evi-)
dence was submitted, based on the
mother’s talks with the apparition.
Though the court instructed the
jury to ignore the vision, it ad-,
initted testimony which happened’
after Mrs. Shue had died and which »
her ghost had reported. Taek

The prisoner was found guilty of
murder in the first degree—the only
man in the antials of modern law to .

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be convicted by the evidence © a

ghost.

y

What Chief Corbett saw as he sat in
his office and waited patiently, and con-
fidently, was a picture of the man who
had ravished and murdered pretty Je-
netta Panella—and it was a picture of
the man before the crime. It was a pic-
ture that included tragic years in the life
of a man who had set out to beat the law
and who had found, even as he was about
to find again, that it couldn't be done.

It was a picture that showed Fred
Ward in a tiny prison cell in Iowa. As
a young man Ward had become involved
in various conflicts with the law in Bel-
laire; following a cutting escapade, he
had gone west. In Iowa he had turned
robber. A prison sentence followed and
he had emerged a bitter outcast.

When Ward returned to Bellaire he
found that his mother had died. He felt
like a stranger in his father’s house. He
was given a room to himself but it wasn’t
comfortable. He moved out and went on
his own.

How many times he robbed before he
was again arrested in 1919 Chief Corbett
could not guess. But in 1919 Fred Ward
went to Ohio Penitentiary for a robbery
in St. Clairsville. Miraculously, Ward
escaped from the Ohio prison but when,
two years later, he was in a hospital re-
covering from an injury to one eye, he
was recognized. Back to the penitentiary
went Ward to complete his term.

Chief Corbett, sitting there in his of-
fice studying the picture of Fred Ward in
the assembled papers on his desk, knew
that the curtain was falling on the last
act.

Officers Joe Scully and William Blake
found Fred Ward on a street car in Ben-
wood, He was ‘standing on the rear
platform watching the lights on the shore
across the Ohio river. The officers simply
nodded to the motorman and when the
car stopped, they moved in and gripped
Ward by the arms. He made no effort
to resist but something like a sob, the
whimper of a child, escaped his lips, and
his face went deathly pale.

They told him he needn’t talk but he
insisted on talking. Without them telling
him what he was wanted for, he seemed
to know. But he denied it, denied every-
thing. He hadn’t even been in Ohio;
hadn’t been across the river once. Didn't
like Ohio.

When Chief Corbett talked with Ward
he found only a wreck of what had once
been a man. Even as he shouted denials
to the charge that he had ravished and
murdered pretty Jenetta Panella, Ward
seemed to realize the futility of his pro-
tests. :

Less than three months after Jenetta’s
death, Fred Ward went on trial for his
life, on December 5, 1924. Prosecuting
Attorney H. W. Mitchell had prepared
a strong, conclusive case against the man
whose passions had brought him to mur-
der, and a conviction was obtained.

Fred Ward died in Ohio Penitentiary’s
grim little death house at 1:08 on the
morning of May 16, 1925. Frantic, last-
minute appeals to the governor for com-
mutation, proved fruitless.

Note: The names Earnest Billings and Mrs.

Harry Blane are fictitious to prevent embarrassment
to innocent persons.

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On opening day of school,
a vicious assailant waylaid
Jenetta Panella, and slew
her after a fiendish attack.

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By
Karl W. Kessler

HE man-beast crouched low in the

thick brush that made an almost

impenetrable jungle on the hillside
between the winding Bellaire, Ohio,
highway at the top, and the snake-like
stretches of Baltimore and Ohio railroad
tracks in the-bottom land,

About forty, he was panting heavily
from the exertion of the hillside ascent;
his cheeks were flushed and dirtied by
several days’ growth of whiskers, and his
eyes gleaming with excitement. There
were long, wicked scratches on his face
and hands, made by thorns which slashed
at him unnoticed.

Crouched there, the grotesque figure
remained motionless, eyes glued on the
slender form of the young girl who
walked slowly, yet gaily, along the rail-
road tracks.

For ten minutes the man had watched.

Suddenly he could restrain himself no
longer. He started crawling through the
brush, moving slowly but surely down-
hill toward the tracks andthe unsuspect-
ing girl... .

Sixteen-year-old Jenetta Panella was
one of the prettiest, gayest and most pop-
ular of all the girl students at the George-
town, Ohio, school. This was the opening
day of school—September 2, 1924—and
Jenetta had hurried to school that morn-
ing from her modest little home in Troft
Run, in the coal-mining section, so that
she might obtain information from her
teacher, Miss Helen Kreis, to guide her
in the purchase of new books. With a
list of these books, Jenetta had walked to
Bellaire, made her purchases and spent
the noon hour and early afternoon with
friends,

Late in the afternoon she had left Bel-
laire and started the hike back to her
home in Troft Run, planning to arrive
in time to help with the evening meal.
It was a beautiful day, crisp and invigor-
ating, and the young girl hummed hap-
pily as she walked along the railroad
tracks.

It was good to be young, to be pretty
and popular; many months of exciting
adventure stretched before her at school,
for in this somewhat drab section of
Ohio, thick with coal mines and hard
work, long hours and little recreation,
school offered youth an attractive escape.

Ahead of her now loomed the railroad
tunnel beyond which lay the path which

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led to her home in Troft Run. Briefly
she would be lost in a cavern of darkness
and then she would be back in the bright
sunshine again... . i

Suddenly, frightened, the girl paused
and listened. Was it a voice that she had
heard? Footsteps? Labored breathing ?
Silly! She laughed and moved forward
toward the tunnel again. Instinctively
she hurried, a strange excitement in her
heart.

She was within fifty feet of the tunnel
when she heard the crunch of feet on the
cinders behind her. Glancing backward,

she saw the man, moving swiftly toward -

her, face scratched and showing blood.

Jenetta screamed . . . screamed and
ran,

But the man-beast was faster. Just as
the girl reached the mouth of the tunnel
his hands were clawing at her. With
another scream, Jenetta’ threw herself
forward into the tunnel. Then suddenly
she went weak, stumbled, and fell.

[HE wonien folk of Troft Run were
a hardy lot, little given to tears or
other evidence of weakness, and even on
those riotous pay-day nights when their
hard-drinking, stony-fisted husbands re-
laxed and relieved themselves by bloody
combats (in which the ladies often
joined) it was considered little short of
unbecoming for a woman to emit a single
peep in pain, let alone to actually scream.
Coal miners’ wives weren’t the scream-
ing kind; they were made of stern stuff !
Thus it was that when Mary Ne-
grosky, standing on the back porch of
her little home in Troft Run that chilly
September evening, heard a scream of
absolute terror tearing up through the
dusk from the Baltimore and Ohio rail-

road tracks, near the tunnel, she was

more surprised than frightened. Troft
Run women didn’t scream; they weren’t
afraid of anything... including a lot of
pain!

It wasn’t until later in the evening,
when Mary Negrosky heard that pretty
Jenetta Panella had failed to come home
from Bellaire, that she recalled the
scream ... and not until then did it
carry any significance.

Mary Negrosky went into immediate
action now. Calling together a group of

-men, the woman told them what she had

heard. .

“Maybe it was Jenetta,” she said.
“Maybe something happened. You get
lights and go look.”

OON seve

rying lan
countryside, b.
brush and foll:
One group fir
through the ra:
mediately the
holding his la:
huddled form ;
been dragged «

the right of w:

Under the f:

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mained of the

body of little
came as swift]
pity, as men st
and others rus!
ficers of the Jay
Stern men pron
would not wait
Already they

and soon score
trail of a wantc

First among :

the scene was (
Corbett, of Bel]
Most at once by
Mahon, who J,
chief and who ,
While awaiting
Chief Corbett ;
make immediate
of all adjacent
ficer hurried off
Corbett then a<
muttering miner
armed themselve
shotguns,

“T know how :
them, “and I gues:
that. Only—we'y,
We don’t want 1
and then be sorry.
groups of about a
leaders. Then sta;
rections and cover
around here. But
those triggers unk:
ter of self-protectic
derer of this_girl—
him to the electric

When the enra;
Chief Corbett tal’
grosky and learnec
had heard some ti;
come alarmed oy;
from home.

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time,” she told the
shuddered. “That's

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RETURN J. M. WARD, Hanged Lucas County, Ohio, June 12 1857 comnre-

Confession from Toledo COMMERCIAL: "Qn Tuesday evening, Feb. 3, 1857, Mrs, Ward and
myself had some words, during which “rs, Ward struck me on the head with a field lamp,
also on theright side of the nose, causing the same to bleed freely, I begged her not
to strike me, took the lamp away<from her and went to bed, «We arose between 6 and

7 o'clock on Wedensday morning, when I spoke to her.about the blow she had given me,
showing her where she had struck me on the evening previous, also the lood on the
bolster and tick, She said she.wished I had bled to death and, picking up a stick

of hickory wood, she attempted to strike me, I warded off the blow, which.fell

upon my right thumb, taming it severely, The stick fell from her hand, and as she
stooped to pick it up, I seized a flateiron andy in thecheat of passion, struck.her
with it on the right side of the head, upon and under the ear, driving the ear ripkh
into her flesh, She-fell«to-the floor, exclaiming, 'Oh,<Ward, you have killed me}!

I drol dropped the flat-iron and went to her, she lying on her:side;. I turned her.
over on her back and placed a petticoat under her head, supposing that.she was only
stunned, I used all means in my ety? to restore her, but in-half an hour she died,
“having only spoken once, 'Oh, my Nellie,' meaning, as I suppose, her little girl,

"After she was dead, I wrapped her head in a petticoat and drew the body.under the .

bed, to conceal it in case any one should:come in, About 8330 o'clock, Wm, H,..Nathan,
a mlatto boy, came to the door with some milkj:came into the shop, took the milk
from him and he teft, 1 then went to. Liba Allen's grocery and bought a pound of
sugar; told him I.was going away. I then returned to the house and after a short

time commenced cutting up the body, I tpek the clothes.open from the neck down, I
then took a small pocket knife and opened the body, took out the bowels first and put
them in-the stove, upon the wood, They being filled with air, woyld make a noise

in exploding, so I.took my knife and picked holes through' them to prevent the noise;
then took out the liver and heart.and put them in the stove; found it very difficult
to burn them; had to take the poker and frequently stir them before the could be des-
troyedg found the lungs very much decayed, I then took out the blood remaining in
the cavity of the body, but placing a copper kettle tlose to the same, and scooping
it outewith my hands, I then dipped portions of her clothing in the same and burnt

it tbgether, fearing that it might be discovered, 1 then made an incision through the
flesh, along down each side, broke off the ribs and took out the breast bone, and
throwing it into a large boiler, unjoined the arms at the shoul ers, doubled them

up: and placed them in the boilers; then severed the remaining portions of the body by
placing a stick of wood under the back and breaking the backbone over the same,
cutting away the flesh and ligament with aiknife, Then tried to sever the head from
the body; it proved ineffectualk and I put the whole upper portion of the body into
the boiler; phen took a large carving knife and severed the lower portion of the body
unjointing the legs at the knees and again at the hip-joint; cut the thighs open

and took out the bones and burnt them ups; they burned very ‘rapidly.

" "On Thursday night I commenced burning the body by placing the upper and back
portions of the same, together with the head, in the stove, On Friday morning,
finding it had not been consumed, I built a large fire by placing wood around and under
it’ and in a short time it was wholly consumed, except some small portions of the’ larger |
bones and of the skull, The remaining portions of the body were kept in the boiler
and in tubs, under the bed, convered up with a corded petticoat, and were there at the
time the first search was made on Saturday by Constable Curtis,

. "Hearing on Saturday evening that the citizens were not satisfied, with theesearch
made by Mr, Curtis, I proceeded on Suday morning to destroy, the remainder of the body
by burning the same, in the stove, cutting the fleshy part of the thighs in small str ips .
the more readily: to dispose of them, On Monday mopning I took up the ashes in a smal 1
keg, placing the same in my overcoat pockets, which I scatteked at variousplaces in the
fiblis at different times. Also took themajor portions of the trunknails, together
with thehinges, and scattered them in different places. 1 then burned her trunk and
every vestige of her clothing, disposing of small portions at a time, to prevent
their creating too much smoke,

On Apeil 6, the murderer was brought into court, dressed in a fall suit ob
black, appearing much downcast and as the court comandedhim to stand up, he arose,
breathing heavily, his eyes fixed upon the floor, and only momentarily seeking the
face of thejudge. With one hand he leaned heavily on the chair, while the other

hung trembingly at his side. After the judge had pronounced sentence of death (to

take pl ce on.dune.12, 1856), Ward knelt down, and, leaning on the chair, buried his
face in his hands, weeping and groaning until conveyed to jail,? :

RICHMOND ENQUIRER, Richmond, VYaey X& April 11, 1857 (2-33 3 .
"The Sparta GEORGIAN says that Mrs, Ward, the unfortunate woman who was horribly
murdered by her husband ‘at .Toledo, Ohio, a short time since, was a native of
Taliaferro County, Ga.,.and a daughter of William Peek, Esae, now of Gedar Town,
Polk County,. Her first husband was Joseph, Zvans of Hancock County, and Ward, her
second husband and mrderer, was formerly a carpenter in Sparta,# SOUTH ALABAMATAN,

May 16, 1857" .MOBILE REGISTER, Mobile, “las, 5 e19=1857 : ; ea

"From the TOLEDO COMMERCIAL, Feb, 18, 1857-On the evening of Feb. 3, Mrs, Ward, the wife of
Return J, M,- Ward, in Sylvania, disappeared in a very mysterious manner, The ensuing morning
her husband’ visited Mr, Aklen's grocery, in the village, and informed him that he and his wife
were going away, and desired Mr, Allen to tell those who might wish to see him that he had
left his place, On'the thursday following Ward again visited the grocer, and had another con-
versation with Mr, Allen, He this time said that his wife had left him again. (She had once,
in. consequence, .as.it is believed, of ill treatment, left him for a brief period,) Allen
asked himg'When did she leave?! Ward replied:'On Tuesday night last, She took, the cars here
saying that she was going to Californias! Ward made this statement to a.number of the citi-
gens, and it was so mch at variance with his previous statement at Allen's, that suspicions
of foul play were immediately excited, . vO ‘

"These suspicions were furthered by other circumstances, and it was determined that the affair
should be thoroughly sifted, Ward was arrested and examined.before Mr, Justice Clark. It was
proved at the examination that Ward's last statement at Allen's was untrue, but the evidence
was not sufficient to warrant the: Justice in committing him, Some of the citizens, however,
were by no means satisfied of Ward's innocence, and they endeavored to still more thoroughly
solve the singular affair, They thoroughly searched Ward's premises, and found most indubite
able evidence that the woman had been foully murdered, and that her body had been burnt in
her own house} Ina pile of ashes near the house human bores were found, an upper jaw, al-
most entire, and pieces of a skull, Two finger-rings were also found which were recognized
as those worn by. Mrs, Ward. . ;

"The citizens who mde the search found abundant evidence, as, they thought that the effects
of Mrs. Ward had been all burnt, The lock of her trunk, pieces of dresses, hooks and eyes,
and other artiicles were found, The citizens searched further, The bed-clothes in the

house had the appearance of having been recently washed, On opening the bolster and bed,

the feathers were found covered with blood, Blood was also found on a mat in. the upper

part of the house, A minute search revealed traces of blood in other parts: of the. house,

“!Whether the woman had been stabbed or shot they could not teljs but that she had been
foully murdered and her corpse burnt, they were satisfied; and at once proceded to cause
the second arrest of Wards He was arrested and again examined before Mr, Justice Clark,
and was committed to the jail in this city to await trial before the next berm of theCourt
of Common Pleas for murder in the first degree, i . ,

"During Ward's trial the Justice's office was crowded to suffocation, and the excitement i¢
tremendads throughout the townshipe :

"Ward is a tailor by trade. He has been married three times, He married the deceased in
Adrain some time last Summer and carried her to Sylvania, We are told they did not live to-
gether pleasantly, Once, as before stated, the woman temporarily left him, in consequence,

it was supposed, of bad treatment, , cia ;

"Ward is about O-years-old, of medium height, thick-set and florid-faced, and his head is
somewhat bald, We saw him in jail yesterday, He was lying on a rough bench, apparently

in a deep sleep." TIMES, New York, February 25,. 1857 (S/1)

Many legends and tales cling to the Huron River
valley as it traverses the Firelands. Some of the stories
are simply legends, and some have basis in fact. One of
the more macabre stories centers around the area of
the Old County Seat north of Milan near Fries
Landing—known at the time as Abbott’s Bridge.

On June 12, 1857 Return J.M. Ward was hanged in
the Lucas County Jail at Toledo. He had been
convicted of murdering his wife at Sylvania in Lucas
County about the first of March, 1857. After his arrest
Ward confessed to two other murders at a place called
Planktown in Richland County.

Neighbors in Sylvania had missed Ward’s wife for
several days. Upon investigating they found bones in
the fireplace of the house, and had observed a big fire
burning in the fireplace for several days. Ward had
hinted that his wife had left him, but remains of her
traveling trunk and clothing were found in the ashes,
and the bedroom showed signs of a struggle. Ward was
arrested and indicted by a Grand Jury. The woman,
his second wife, was from Adrian, Michigan.

During the trial Ward made a full confession, and
admitted to murdering a merchant named Noah Hall
at Planktown. Hall had owned a store there, and
boarded with Ward and his first wife. They operated a
hotel known as the Eagle House, owned in part by
Thomas Griffith who had no part in Ward’s other
activities.

It was well-known in March of 1851 that Hall was
ready to make a trip east to buy more merchandise.
One night Ward crept into the store and beat Hall to
death as he slept. He took a pocketbook with $800 and
buried it in the back yard for six months. Later he dug
up the money and used it in small amounts until it was
gone. Suspicion hung heavy over two men in the
neighborhood, but they were acquitted. Mrs. Ward
worried so much about the murder that she eventually
lost her mind and was committed to an institution.

JANUARY 16, 1976

Legend Of Three Murders

we
(Ww OT r g

When Return J.M. was hanged in 1857 she was living
at the Richland County Infirmary at Mansfield.

Apparently the Hall murder was Ward’s first. Some
time later a tin peddler named Lovejoy stopped to
spend the night at the Eagle House. He was conducted
to a room to rest. According to his confession, Ward
awoke in the night with the idea of killing the man for
his money. Ward went to the barroom for an axe, and
applied it as the peddler slept.

Ward put the body in a packing crate with the man’s
tinware, except for a few pieces which he kept for
himself. In the morning he told the family that the
peddler had left early, and that he (Ward) was going to
Milan to collect some money owed him by his father.

Return loaded the packing crate into his wagon and
weighted it down with old iron. He drove all day, and
by nightfall had reached North Milan. About a mile
and a half above Mason Road (Abbott’s Bridge) on
present Rt. 13 Ward turned off toward the river at a
secluded lane. He then dumped the packing crate
containing Lovejoy’s remains into the Huron River,
and it sank to the bottom. Possibly the remains are still
there, buried by the silt of the past century and a
quarter.

Although a search of the records fails to connect
Return J.M. Ward with the Ward family which lived
north of Milan, he must have been a son of Col. Jared
Ward (one of the first settlers in Milan), or of his son
Elam Ward.

Planktown in Richland County was killed by the
railroads passing near it but not through it, and by the
bad name Ward gave the place. By 1881, when a
history of Richland County was published, the
townsite was nearly abandoned, and the Eagle House
had fallen into ruin. One can only wonder whether two
murders were worth the $850 and a few pieces of
tinware which Return J.M. Ward gained.

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overran ese AY t oeir ay Tee Vib bbe when arrested? He
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pat the blood on tile ooat, 8 I
was buteher|ng hogs about a week hes
fire’ Poth. look his coat? ON) aid
foolial itd Te bie yee ob kaw sone shia
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Hiewelircd a bes tee) seth ad fap linet
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1 (ivdschgEi nae x Phe Knot ine
string Merreaponted = withthe: Jett]
Ineahot PaerEringome the Tight boot,
afd at corpespoqded with the knot, Eis
det Hot ach ssi vehi placket rope
Piha wentto. Webbs hones  Ronnck
a OUGL thine Trerey and taldchare ipess
belyigedets. MroAyertis Loasked air
Ed eat them Bats replied thats
he hat always lold-his wife to keep the
deorabul, is there was u good deal ©
-iculing seeing an, undothey” auld
Pech ae Chen der ne anal they
pode Wanied for ite We sald: (06g
thine adst juve. been “throwt intd
thelpo nina: otonhis deots and ead
balances hinclothing aa soon ua Lcok
to thee Stution-house, [Boots presenr
tod d- Phone are the. boots’ Saw blood
onthe rikht boot én the front» part ©
theley.  Metitid bléod-on pair of nite
tens. Hieright undersleeyelookad ‘a8
if-it had been Washed? d1-looked like
blogd. -dumessuredthe width of the
right boot, He.said that the bload got
oy bis vost by cutting off a chicken’
toe, Petold nie'three ditferent times
abotit the-bludd; at one time that hb
jar his hand gand” got Iteon in that
Way, THIS avas the next days 1 asked
hint what be went out to Finney’s for
He sald lie wasn't there,-and didn’t
kuow Kinney: Hesald he did't ki
Finney, [Table-cioth peer aieae al
found >that ii astrunk ‘up stairs ia
Webb'sdiouse, [Gun éaps shown} of
found them in a box in Webb's housg
On theevening of December 6th Tsay
Webb criss Sfarket street going ou
he was uéar the Norvh American. EH
was sbout: 9 o'clock, ~ Hé- told me: be
went directly) home, and-got home
about 31) o'clock. ‘ ck |
‘The prisoner was ably “defended V
his counsel, ? Hon D.> Dirlam, ang
John W. Jenner MAy while the State
was, represented” by Prosecuting A&
torney Jolin C. Burns and Hon. GY
Geddiss So convincing, however; w#
the testimony; that the jury came ton
verdict of murder in; the first degree,
within a short time, and so ‘renderdl
thetratecision. : ;
HISTORY OF TILE MURDERER.
See diarentaclicmey
in jaily, Webb” hasebeen. singtlirly
reticetit. ns to his past, life, and bgt
little ass been Jearned of it, nnd this of
an unreliable and doubtful charactey.
Woe hive been able to glean a few stale
menta made by hinvin this regagi
when he Was first arrested, and. oap-
parently. unconscious of fthe territge
erimegie had committed’ From thege
we gather the following: dic was bot
in-South Tennessee, and li¥ed in tgs
Fouth near Huntsville, Alabama, t
Was ieslave, when the rebellion fi
brokesont, wid was cultivating copa
wheu the Union forces made their figt)
appearuce io Alabama, His’ Hastfr
at thiaitiine was named John Pent
front who heran away atid joing!
the pray, neting as water boy for abet

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with se Ryund to Delaware, where he

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chicken’s toeto: caré Theol crarg pein
Other, that it was done. in Witéher

hogs,sandeaatith another that hz
eidentally hurtius Band while building
a chicken CoOps these con fieting states
ments were lit ply: Sutinfactory Cepeci-
ally as he eau lds give no eoroborative
proof. :
gui with whicis thee deed had “hese:
committed dad teeth seen ine Webb's
possex-lan, ariet that it liad been <10len
fron MrsvAxery pe relative af-the
Finneys -whedived & short distance
from the sccue, “The goods found itt
Webb's lronse had HHeen stele from
Mr. Ayer. > Webb Ane aegounting Jor
their presence gaveas tip Excuse

and thriay thent infat the door”
: Ais STORY. fi
as told upon being arrested anti Asked
to account fur his) whereabouts on the
nightof the murder fs.a5 follows =. =
Lleft my house about four o'clock iu
theafternoon and went down to Doc.
Kelley's. eisa Balf white man, and
lives on Walnutstteet; near the Bo &
O. freight depots He. was -owittg “he
sone money forsover- two years for
ome meate, 1. saw-bim defore the
whistle blew and staid until atereight
Oelock) He saws wood.

diferent things, jhe cold oweathes
abont@achst bad theoh, going en
Cleveland, are ‘i 7
i PIR MURDER THERE,

And the Mt Vernon hanging case,
took supper atchopie before] léft.4
«ame from
barber shop:
establishing a colored churef bere. We
talked there aboug one hour.-: Lt was
near ten o'clock, Tithinkgwhen T jeft,
Mr. Pleasants and twe girls units cous
in were in-the shop. After ciesving
Pleasants’ TP watkedup Main street fo
Hooker: & Richy hy where. DP stants
few Inintites lovkidg in the windewat
some shoes, Patid not-eo iM bat just
stood nt the doors | Twas calseotoo hing
down anil ppestrect, auc pout were
passing: op andedbwh,o Phen Worries
On tipe street audi passed: Mth Faron
ahd another gentleman about the rth.
die af Market street) Meolenon went
on down sotith: = L was going home. i

Fey eet Molatnd tte | ’

It waselady shown thatthe lal

tliat’
“He suppased: sorbebody «stele ther

Visiter cant
Wye tiitat we
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long. My site whe type when tL went
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had. She sat Tipit sleep ayh sims
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WEBB, Bqyard, bigot» hanged Mansfild, Phioy, 5-31-1678 yilltte

Hey BN 1875 Lie Gijd wofcsede,

RICHLAND SHIELD AND BANNER June 1, 1°78 Page 1 (First column of story)
One of the most brutal wurders that ever was perpetrated in
Richland County or in the State, was committed on Thursday night betwean
12 and 1 o'clock at the residence of William 8. Finney, on his farm,
14 miles south-west of tnis city, on the Lexington road. We visited the
scene of the awful tragedy on rriday morning, and on entering the house
found the body of the murdered man lying covered up near the place in
the room where the foul crime had been committed. The remains were
with

terribly mutillated, the face being one mass of bruises and covered
blood, while a ghastly wound in the back of the head, showed where the
blow had been given. The wife was in a bed near by, provved up with
pillows, in an insensidle condition, her head and face near the right eye,
masned our of ail resemblance to humanity. In an adjoining room, the son,
Rev. J.P. Finney, was sitting in a chair with his head bound up in a
handkerchief clotted with blood, and the right side of his face mashed to
a jelly, while in a room upstairs his wife was lving on the bed with her
face bandaged up and snowing evidences of the murderous affre2y. From
the information furnished »y the son, Jonn Neal, and others, it seems
that Mrs, J.P. “inney, who, with her nusband and crildren occupied a
room adjoining that of her father ard mother, was awakened about 12 o'clock
by moans, proceeding from their room, she got up and going to the door,
was confronted by a man who was either disguised as a colored person or
was the prisoner now under arrest, who immediately struck her with a gun
over the head and knocked her senseless. Mr. Finney then grappled with
the murderer, prasping the gun in his hands; the assassin succeeded in
getting 1t away and struck iir. Finney with the barrel, (the stock haven
been broken off) who fell to the floor, but soon recovered snd went up
stairs to arouse the hired man who slept up there--on coming down they
went to the father's room and were met by the ghastly spectacle of his
body lying dead near the door where the murderer nad entered, while on
the bed lay the bleeding form of the mother. The alarm was suickly given
and the neignbors aroused--footprints leading from a »broken window in
the kitchen showed that the villain had taken a southerly direction, and
about 100 yards from the nouse a broken lamp was found.

The robber evidently had effected an entrance through a window in
the kitchen, out of wnicn he had broken a pane of glass, and opening the
door leading thence to the old gentleman's room was confronted by hin,
when the rerrible result followed. The fol.... (con't on microfilm copy)

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THE RICHLAND

LD AND BANNER ' June 1,

1878 .

mow ie

MANSFIELD, RIGH

Toys Wice~ clinacrsitey wall Seis y thik
tun OF the reo:

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(ONG NTO. ETERNTY

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peptcseuis the kitchen: iivthe
rectevcedpivday Wri S. Finney and

Eahe roan ocenpied by Rev. A$
PAVinmeyy wifeound chikiven. » C the
bed ou whieli Mr.) Finnesatik wife
Were abet oD) hilchen doar aeross
Which thé bodys of Mr Pinby4 was
fonnd, fai bvithe

Wobler

FP bol in room occup
sare fami. Gr stairs y, Pals
Ube wwiisahiseot cred that the ¢tin’ Used

-of the Negro Webb.
ali ; ; ° !Yvthe useacsin had been stolen tant

falltroni tbe son-inelawof Mr Finney,
sho liveson the places The oljcct of
the raurderer, was, Tro doubty obtain

or the \] urder af Whe. Hiaievens Mire Finieyswas Known to

have shld sone ors November aouy,
4 ‘ A “gl
~—S. Pinney:

foravbich liedhed received Srs98, atid
it is supposed he had other. funde ty his
posseasion. Mr. Finney was About 60
scars of are, and was thie last Of three
brothers. Tomas and Blijah having
Ne eomethree rears «ago, Fe was 8
Tyatt of gencrous inipulsts; And owas
Ay jist mortem exurimition: was
hideat Eheinstanee of the ¢oroner,in
whielr Drs. Craig, Mowry “antl Race
assistcdl, “Phese founds that oMr, Fine
fey scent avascaused by 1 Diowon the
jright side ofethe temple producing &
+ fraeture wiiich éstended through the
phise ofthe trai producity aimostin-
tant deuttr. 5
cag RN
j AM
dey eon,

istory of the Crime!

-—

Appearance of the

ee MGs

i Anesmpinationol the negro
Dies Hotine revedted a Suit of child's
which Aas identified
Playing heen stolen from Sinney’s
bioite duatetall: athe springfield
Hoatiised a tho murdrOus asset; lias
Ue Beebe Sts Ole Whiely int
R : i Tt Solon trout: Ah ney law,
a & See's Gr HAOUtlEs” Ara,

wre £ et ELS tei tau ey we ein
Details of: (he: BX Ge Be eon wl
. é es oe Pg OM bee, ae ed G1 plipigion — pl

‘ oo.5° pomp tence ved in the Mrs Ginerord

Prey Ge em won rs lefty hifls aw re-
bea i boy youtlel: proat

byte

~~ cution!

PS is pies CBS Bi WM > *e

143+ hake als Lh oak

a APs

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ae deal BEE G Vat

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Witter!

frye (yap
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widely known for Bis kindmea of beart;

loténu be wale thal be-had butsone coe

ney be the world aud that was himacif
ie wakhuown allever the country os
Cah of strict integrity and henort
bir atl dia deali age.

His astaldleath avill cruise
lerror all Over (he tonunun ity, apdall
repret wtb snicirar bis uptimely cri:
Hewnsifold <dbséeriber of the Siri,
nty-five years, and
¢. frievdslitps tas

We, with hun-
n his terrible end.
was written

a Whrillof

Vhusibg taken ibiwi
Garing this tie gou
Hever been marred,
dreds of others, wGUur
Yo, ren—dinee theabove
a nerfo named Webb dias been -arres-
ted aud is now ih pull. Phe tracks lead-
jug from the houseswere traced to with-
ii alvart distance of hiv house 1 the
xoutliwentern part.of the city, Au ex:
atination of tua clothing disclosed
blodd stains on hig ¢eat sleeves, ant it
is anid the trackk found correspond
with the -slioes Avorn™by) hini, and
other evidences point straightway te
hint i “being. the murderer. Webb,
ontil withiu a short time, was work-
ing for Henry Cook, on his fermi near
Mrobinney’s, and «was well acquain-
ted with the family of the latter.
Was softanid covered with snow, Think
no suow had fallen in the tracks after
they Had been nile, as they eppeared
fresh, I found a broken lamp in the
niiddle of the tield near. tire: track.
f Pome shown.] ¢Thaty ia the lamp.
Found no chimney. Measured
track a numberof times. Measured
botivtracks,* The right track was lon-
ger than the left~ The track of the
rizht boot showed it to have been run
over, and not the left: one, and had
small nails around the edge—the left
one had not.. Inéthe heel of the left
there were heavy; square nails,andthe
right had sinall npils, Took the width
of the right foot.* Followed the track,
and next got intal a meadow. Twent
a considerable distance west of old Mr.
€Cline’s and back of Ezra Cline's):This
js the only track J found. 1 measured
the track a umber of ‘times after Tleft
the wheat field:3 I: went straight on
downto Ritter street, atid then “went
down streefand directly to Pine strect,
and then turnedto the right and went
straight “to Webb's house. © Weblis
house stands within five or six fect af
the street, and right on the alleys) To
got there asthe. 8chool bell: was ting;
ing—-about 9 o'clock: «I mieasured: the:
track the last time before: reaching,
Webb's: Louse at “the. corner of Pine®
aud Ritter streeta. Went directly into!
Webb's house, anit! found hit, bis wife
and Mrs. Stambaugh at breakfast. I
was there buta few minutes...-Hestops
pen eating a short time after] went in.
saw. blood on lds right coat sleeve, Iti
Wasa light coat:? (Showa coat] That
isthe coat: [Overalls shown.) “Those
are the ones, or fist Hikethem. {Waist
presented.) That is the waist, or one
cimilareto: it. While sitting there 4
notieed that Webb's right boot Was rut
over very mndeh¢ While te left oie Waa
not. When we élarted be puton i
fat: <[Shown het.) 7 then took: hin
to- the station-hduse.” Capt. Cununind
wentin with m@ Lasker hip how-he
vot the blaod ob tis. doat, © He “said leg
Wis butchering Bogs abouts week be
fore 1 then took “hin coat ail nnd
fonkeLat thesleg ve.” T saw somesinall
faid large Kpots af blood-upor It Tthe}
imeasnred thin @ob with a tape thas
Phe sieht boot t eagured Twelve dehes,
biteda ket in ® ged he Knoatig
string eorreapodded withthe Tet 4
preasived’the Mtgihgeon the right beat,
intich Yt air espa plest with the kKaot Hp
dlish rot Kome why Ploeked tiny ant
Dihenwentte Webbs heute 2 sung
ight of things the fo, ahieh COUT re they
hetory eb bo MS Ayer
wtiére te get Hert

*

cee reper Th
Heaviest Keey Ee

the f:

Po haked Doh

fap COUNTY, OH10, SATURDAY M

bine, 4
goure tip

hate
was uid k
fart higdie
this ways though: the crow
ered, Injurihg, comEe ofeth
with bisk nif, andthen
dwas suppose lat the Aime
gone ty f ‘ada od LIA ObjE
Wea tlie rolbery abil. per!
of thé Giniily. 8s “Bang. ©
know Mio hace tous erah
their possessols AS wit!
the fetters to Marsh hen
fully) identified as hein:
who committed the fient
Everything gore: te sho
guilty of miiny ether ceria
EkKnown, woul exjitul (bat
Pole murder of Win. SF st
atten ptesl slaughter of
Subjoined alse is a Teter
Marshal Lemon. from He
‘giving other parlieulaty Tr
Sandusky attair: hese le
Jy in reply.to these in wh
ron hadenciosed plotogra
Sanprsky, 0.72%
HOWé Lemos? Essay M
. DEARSin: In reply t
F15ty inat., willsey the neq
refer to, was found under 4
Rudélphs nine years age
fore Christmas. He bad
erknife, which isnow49
the familly, hroken® int
effecting hivestape, He
at the time, and Las pev
here since. ee ;
The parties whoare hu
facta are Heinri¢h Radolj
H Rudolph: -Theyare
the same persoti as'show:
tograply sent me. “Any?
tien you may: Want frou
furnish. Yours; &
x iy adie
Se chi
SANDUSKY CITY, Lb
HAW S-LeMose Esq, €it
- Pear Str: TD found.t
said Webb tried toc mia
about 9 years age this 7
have his capand shoes,
butcher knifein their jx
They koew the picture
wawe lt. Henri t
AlthOugh ¢tlorts have
hice Other murders thai
jinn Bo Finney, to Wet
evidenee lias been fornd
heliof of positive certain:
eumstancespsuch as tis
the house byiawhir Nips:
gisbrltally andmdored soz
aud this a> shopt.time
Hendish hilligot tie
Woan tot nave
cuninritied tht aks

Or rather RAY
Coane dead Gear he ws.
fve GRALY WOAT AKO. fers
ia hin
Robinsad cial will vers
tatley was acquittal alt
the prs wiih Thal he ph
thal hewas at Beutes ai
déod ayns sad te have bk.
atmougt, Oinaarity vel
diviiew thal sh SOE te bt |

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THE RICHLAND SHIELD AND BANNER June 1, 1878

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up oat thats Sco hititeaienrad
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doube Tetow de WAV herr On ny Way Owe
durder | Pun Vicnaule sD Tank (hey were past
Miitheny wvore) ting out the gietietite oT ayn die
qihetoneyoin psinglelarrebad Shotyun whhielpl pe
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mec vallatinpeerost ‘Sie! Git ye at forite. ie Caddy.
felis} flemiptey SUR Was still tethe finu-e asters :
fi ple pias aa bate a. AA Ea ee ps, Wikkina Nt ap
ues ty ave tht tie ts Past Ered Deeper dn the bust 4 $9157 th
tisal ta moraled weit te bigest : ia :

Sectors which of Dhit-iever
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srdcral Wau Fiubey and Che po ‘ cs
Pstieaiptecd “yagi of. tas Tinile. tbe’ ies ‘ vit bea aeconet aie
GiaareN cn a Tee 4 ‘ ‘ : - int Nhe) SORP hG :
eye ater revedvied hy ~The evidence betsre> the Court was trial, tee 'S Shae, cre PAVE?
tik te yardiog sii SUistaltialls the sitkeas t hut protucedt | casted ys Bp ott inet
marticdiars Popa rk’ ‘ ie Bs Cae : at
ih ue he mt lelte rs ATO parts ute: Coroters Tivestigation and be~ ea ele net ve tdi
7 rie Fi wert - . 4 1S bs }
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‘ f 2 se i as Rais Se t
lotoxrsp his yf wv eb: Hompcey the fury awhich oun Bin, indictment, piresel ics Ye

Diving Asie rihiab ef

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etn £4 dy,
Sica! oe deny Ft: iene se ToSthhs

se he Rage sdes epuapl litatey

reoiw! avert

! dusky an
abe reply 8 Ls
Asal s Clos: “ih

‘bad pe
f sé@ic

apy tat

Hee aL coc bits Orptenc 10: eats Cuuaee ene Tas Soy ems nC ar gon Mee et a ei
WW. ., eMON, 2 ae “SMansticld, Ove pout best cttiven ACR ERE MATS aii jake wee as
ak Sine in reply te yours of the Sauce Meo’ ure Troy. . Wek Nay Pass ie eet . ty

Atic ipst., will say the negro Webbyon) David Long, Case He ERhutor Poke
pefet te: wus fo juMdarnde irthe hed of the} .Gharles ¢ phe a Sharon uponth regia mi
Radi Aptis nine sears ago /the day be: rep Cone Wert, Maimtlit: Z sey judbre titi ’
fore bist: aa,” He had itlarge buteli- | Sacol Mauiin vcr? Madison “4 rani Wen : rik Re rcp
derknite, which 13 now in possession of Robert Weer Share, jail of the eognts ay :
the familys book du-four pieces inji Sams Reed, Piyniouds ; ilay of Maye ved Mees
éffectitie his encape. He was ot caught George BeSechiristy Ruder, said a: 1) iat: F Beauv
atthe timecuud tras never teen seen} Williain Wiley cppdbeticl ie i Ttirs.of tena Post ras
there since, wits HOB. Mutt’ es mharon. ae Weogk PLM NE hu taken uF
oT ie parties Whonreckhowing to they FOS. Drinks? fynvouth. afte counts Atoréade a
facts are Heittich Rudolph and George | Amos dry eds fersety. the tteck util he be ileal.
HeoRudoelph: They are: ce riainkliv*is OFS E PRIEUNERS ‘Thasds Whéresiréeita 35

Raine persed. As shown Tmethe pho- apie teh aS reve Lida yprade pie eae

Seto: sheave Anyoniore interna: iontinementin Jail, Webb Me es Ae ae Sa be
mh te ? . ‘ « Pi tit Charis SEO Pu stag

ait yo x froin here? We will | wawah enignnta physidlogist., while} oj arm fC is
tien you tinvewant : 2 2 Riis sald fhirtw-first Vow of Mav, 3
¥ furnish. LPits, BP e fattinies manifesting aalecp. religious fand beat oO Shdcthirty db
i * : t ~ ; Py F x a Pe) ‘ ir
Wart Be iolice p Vfecling. whit. sas Sshown in his| Maye a oD TSrs) het

Ghickel Ponce ; feu aR tO Ay Mb ari
Mw You taku the! add

derotioual VXcreincs® ia daily prayer

POMS SPEER Y. Cire SDeelts Jara and oedovertation, set “Chit taekiie bay ay ts: Faoa attannt bia 2 a ERE ‘at Day tents?

LEO AY: Las Sb City at arslial, Sllemmoniaeal® spirits Withino wohl} tes Lewy be fini by theta hint hal gine es
abr seo found the hae i "ie frequently develop its fia: seine art {thal Ne stehal : PAL

anid Webb tried tu murder,< theys say of this arate: I VOGk Pte bareecida@o?

Coe about) years ico this month. They Which timde i949 ident tht de EW ce eco eet faa:
Hidwediis cap aid shoes, seart and the fadinan hie wonlds take anibrage at tusel forth ith 1
butcher kuilfein.their possesion wet tiv one who arenliidivite by aeword Wy TNESSS Liresnits SDE 3
They Knese the picture ite soon 2 TMS T that lie was & Wty od Was shivn when seid | Court, nd tbe acats
Wieipic. 3 - HENRY HARMON: BMiarigiledd tm sail pouty;

smo ap ht

or Veen plas

TEPOTLETS PO}

aield citizen forsyhom hediad werked

Ttlicuywiz efforts have ted amiade to ? ‘ Pe 2 talsy 62 May ALD TS7s
: vate oe an ate er ay ie APANIE asked him why ie did it, when Webb ; 3 Tress »,
v4 ti ’ 2 5 * Fs : Ps
: i 4 told binkte yet opt oand: Weuld aay’ | i
tana S. Piercy. to Webb vet no direct Fete j ;
nothing nwre to says duet View ed the to ifs AS

aah feitats et ta sy Lorrawt ft
vf certainty: PEELE eife

< Widkeuce hascty

prospective luvin Inthe ight at Wis Bante
anihelanes ret 48 hin Anmnies ycot frugre joke ant ensed te fike ts ride itd ins: Ory seeds te
Hie bunt fy whiten Mire. T aitisford was Lids amie 2 Bape) hore Yehr bad Sb dS Motiizy

Gian eee bt phere t Faas & Age anbelfer well 1:
ii ve tinged CAS Bagot htt; when,
, ht Webb winted
v¥ ANG teniehit Alive

Ayers

ha Cts mar eee a
yer T
sys Soria) se bare Oey eA FS RO,
PRS Wi en bthis: 4 osieaph tine frto the
ise es not (Hat urforuinate
UM bebiad 7 i ;

¢ al Var aired velo yes that Wie
owe, foie avi Es af Stat her jilurder,
tice WO og railicn brardigeot Hat

ftieis tight

Devil docked:
Visiter virhig ase:
wild wear tee:

ss i bain We Aa AV etek i : ee

“Y ue f 3 ci ee aties hit M ie teins bie teu thi

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How much did

‘Five dollars

Didn't you te
you found the cl
Held?

Here the interv
by the arrival of
and the prisoner
as norrafed abov

The drive to L
prisoner was wit
for the rapid spe
K{lpatrick drove

A big crowd o
had ‘gathered a
house and jail be
the prisoner. All
ed to the west alo
which the sberiff
would enter from
were gathered at
ner.

Ata little after
hutomobile came {|
quickly up to the
The’ negro was hb
vehicle and made
head up while bein
When asked hia na
replied boldly, ‘
Columbus.’? Tho
him to his cell and
culty restrained wit
Mardis examined hi
be had been shot.

ms Btatement about
sail: “‘He (referr
Basore) did not tell
warrant, and I di
wasan officer. H
wanted me outside
store and that some
to see me across the
out of the place ab
when I got there I
down the street. Th
knew I was hitint
I whirled about an
He shot at me three
sbot at him three tir
know whether I hit
shot at himrunning
going. I could bave
but my arm was bro
gaveup. They wer¢

FRANKLIN 1S BOWED WITH GRIEF,

Though the Cross is Heavy There’s No Blush of Shame,

Desperate Negro Shoots Marshal George Basore When Placed Under
Arrest, Killing Him Almost Instantly. / |

7]

Atrocious Crime Committed in Cold Blood on the Streets of Franklin in the Presence
of Many Witnesses Among Whom Were Children on Their Way to School.

Grief-Stricken Friends and Angry Citizens Cdpture the Miserable Assassin and There Was
Loud Talk of Lynching, but Cooler Heads Led by Mayor McLane Prevailed '

and the Fair Name of the Village Was Preserved.

Not in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not oven at the time of
the famous Holweger murder, has the village of Franklin been so shock-
ed as it was Jast Tuesday morning whenthe news spread from lip to
lip that Marsbal Basore had been cruelly shot to death while in dis-
charge of his duty. Strong men stood with. tears in their eyes and
gulped atthe lump which came welling up into their throats. ‘The quiet
life of the village gave way to the wildest excitement and school child-
ren on their way to their tasks gazed in awe at the splotches of blood
which stained the pavement where the cruel deed;was done, or crowded
about the physician’s office where the dead body lay. It all came eo
suddenly, like a fiash from n clear aky or a horrible dream in tha midst
of a peaceful sleep, that the people paused in their daily avocations,
etunned, sick at heart and bowed with sorrow at the awful crime that
had been committed.

There were many who witnessed the tragedy, as it occured in the
very center of town about eight o’clock in the morning. Under the
strese of the excitement which prevailed the details do not alwaye
agree, ae related by eye witnesses, but the facts seem to be as follows:

For several days past a negro and a woman of the eame race had

been boarding at Reuben Tilford's colored boarding house. They
claimed to be man and wife and aaid they came from Columbus. Laat
Tuesday morning the couple made preparations to leave earl; and with
two telescope valises went to Earhart's Drug Store to take the trac.
tion car. ‘Tilford trrd-bees. suspicious of thevouple and had informea
Marshal Basore that he believed they were thieves and that the valires
they carried contained stolen goods. The Marshal had them under sur-
veillance for several days and was awaiting the opportune time to catch |
them with the goods.

He knew they were about to leave town and ‘a few minutes before
eight o’clock he crossed over to Earbart’s and beckoned to the man to
step outside. Just what passed between the Marshal and his slayer
will never be known. It is presumed that the officer told the negro he
wae under arrest. Instantly there was a pisto) shot and then another.
After the negro had fired twice, fatally wounding the Marshal, the of-
ficer succeeded in drawing his gun and fired at the negro, who by thir
time was edging away. Basore followed the negro, both exchanging
shots, until the Marshal reeled and fell. He had been mortally wound-
ed and lived but a few moments.

Willing hands raised him and carried him to the office of Dr. KR. K,
Evans where he died soon after being placed upon a stretcher.

In the meantime his cowardly murderer ran through Dr. Otho Evan’s
door yard and back to the canal bank. But vengeance was already
aroused and eftizens who had witnessed the brutal deed rushed into
Conover's hardware store and arming themselves with pistols and guna

a cy

VI0

Came to
Star

M. F. Potter a
Train Whil

GEORGE BASORE
FRANKLIN'R MARTYRED MARSHAL.
Sheriff Patterson, in compan

with deputy-sheriff, Elmer Bmith
and Mr, J. A. Kilpatrick, oame up
in an automobile. The michine
was yun around‘ jnto the echool
yard and the prisoner hurried out
through the old work-house and
hustled Into the auto before many
people knew what was boing done.

Jacob M. Stoudt,
interlockers, was ins
and M.F. Potter, s
of bridges, for the B
way, was fatally inju
fore noon last Frida
Milford Center, on t
division, by a special

Potter and Stoudt
of Springfileld at 8 o’
morningon s® motor
purpose of Inspecting
Just why they did not

tet aL AB. RAO

we asked.

For a second he shifted bis eyes
upon ue and then looking away he
sald, ‘I don't know," His voloe
wae pot unpleasant. It was the
soft volce of the negro and peemed
atran esis out of place in the grim
eurroundiggs and coming from the
throst of a murderer,

gavechase, Clint Sinnard seized the pistol from the dying Marshal’,
stiffening fingers and at once followed the fugitive. Dr. R. K. Evans
‘Tushed into Conover's and seizing a pistol, which Mr. H. 8. Conover
was in the act of loading, led the pursuit from another point.

The negro, with the fear of death clutching his miserable heart, fled
through the Evan's lot to the canal, his ri
where one of the Marshal’s shots had
mud and water in the nearly drained canal be plunged, vainly trying
to load his pistol with his left hand. On he rped around the corner of
the Big Four depot, where b ballet from Sinnard’e pistol whistled past |
him and narrowly missed Mr. A.C. Vall, who was standing near. Bev
fore Vail could realize that the man was being pursued or make a m
to stop him the fellow changed his course and fled up over the hill.

Almost immediately the party led by Dr. E
the man hunt was on in grimearnest. C
hammers and weapons of any sort that
the pursuit. Dr. Evane Jed the rest and soon came u
@ corn field in the old Somer’s farm. He
his hands and. fired at him, minsin

ght arm hanging helplces
shattered the bone. Through the

vans came into view any
itizens carrying guns, clubm
came first to band joined inJ

put up both hands
wanewered that he
selzed the man and were

Dr. Pyene
‘ rer

Porat wed pled for nis Prive

Angry ¢riee of ‘hang him’ were
buried after the officers and one

excited citlven endeavored to seize.

a hammer and strike at the cring-
ing negro me he cowered behind
the sheriff. Not a moment was loet
and Mr. Kilpatrick opened the
throttle aw soon as the negro wae
inthe auto and whirling out on
Fourth etreet he turned down Matin
and wae out of sight before any:
one could etop him ‘Those who
were not close to the automobile
when the prisoner was thruet into
it will never know how near
Franklincame to being the ecene
of alynehing Inet Tuesday morn:
Ing. Itwas juet 9:30 when Sheriff
Patterson left with the aesaesin,
barely and bour and a half from

pon the negro Imi the moment of the crime. ‘and he
Yelled to the man to throw up
8. The fugitive stopped as the bullet
whistled by and held up his left hand. The Doctor was now about
thirty feet behind the negro and ordered him to
again sending a bullet in ble direction. The fello
could not raise bis arm as St was broken.

The Doctor then told him to throw away hie gun and the negro did
so. Dr. Evans and Will Fink rushed up and
dragging him across the fleld when a number of others came up. There
was a ntruggle to gain possersion of the nepro and one citizen want
shoot him on the epot.

‘had made an eleven mile drive over
the hilledn the meantime. The peo.
ple of Warren county bave reason
to be proud of the quick work and
cool-heeded management of our
sheriff upon this occasion.

While waiting for the Sheriff to

arrive Tux Cnronicre secured an
Intorview with the prisioner
woman Waa looked in cell number
two and etood In the center of the

rAtaygtronenge Whe an animal at bay |

SNe pofeeme P ta tnewer Goethe
’ ‘ j \

The

What ie your name, we next In-
quired?

‘Henry White,"* came again in
the soft toneg.

Where is your home? :

“On Long street, Columbus, O.""

How long bave you been away
from Columbua?

“About four weeks.”

How Jong have you been In
Feanklin?

‘About one week,”

Where were you golng this morn-
ing?

To Dayton.”

To what part of Dayton,

“I don't know the street. To
Little Miami I think they call it.”

Why were you going to Little
Miam|? ed

“Recauee that's where the color-
ed folks live.”

le thie woman with you your
wife?

Yen, alr.'!

Where did you live before you
went to Columbaa?
“Twasinthe Mansfeld Reforma-
tory, at Manefleld, Ohbtbo,
What wae your number there?
“9y9e,"!
Did you run away?
sabes Towser outon parole"
Ws Bena tis

the train was coming i
The special was run
Delaware division as
201. Tt was mads up
for the Leon Cavailla
pany, composed of It

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pany to Cincinnatl. A
ing slong at a good ra
this side of Milford Ce
ed into the gas moto
which Potler and Stou
ing. The light machin
ed like an egg shell an
were toseed into the al
landed thirty feet or m
the side of the tracks.

The special was quic
and the bodies of th
picked up. It was |
Stoudt was dead but th
was pot badly mang'ted
hie injuries were Intern
was still alive, althoug!
was cruebed and he a
ternal injuries.

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Mechaniceburg the 1
Stoudt were placed Jn
the coroner, while Pott
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Chronicle reported on the shooting death of ag .

Ct issue, sure to cause much comment among the
Village Marshal George Basore. The mar- older Franklin residents who remember that
shal was shot at.8:00 o’clock early one fall ’

\ | 4 day. The page is another in a series of local
morning in late October, 1906,:and-was .

a ~ history-making issues of the Franklin
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1, 1906. : | /

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Vol. XXX. FRANELIN, Outo, Noy. 1, 1906,

‘How much did you pay him?
“Five dollara for each cloak."? .
Didn’t you tell Mayor McLane

you found the clothingin a corn-
feld? ;

Here the jnterview wascut short
by the arrival of Sheriff Patterson
and the prisoner was hurried away
as narrated above.

The drive to Lebanon with the
prisoner was witbout incident save
for the rapid speed at which Mr.
Kilpatrick drove his machine.

A big crowd of curious people
had gathered around the oourt
house and jail before thearrival of
the prisoner. All eyes were center-
ed to the west along the street by
which the sberiff and his party
would enter from Franklia. Crowds
were gathered at every street cor-

FRANKLIN IS BOWED WITH GRIEF.
Though the Cross is Heavy There’s No Blush of Shame,

Desperate Negro Shoots Marshal George Basore When Placed Under
Arrest, Killing Him Almost Instantly.

FRANKLIN CHRONICLE.

Devoted to Local ana Cxoperal ITeurs and the Interests of Franklin and its Wicinity.

them and told them I would gur-
render. They wanted me to throw

but I could not, because I was
burt,” .

He was several times contradict-
ed in the course of his talk by of-
ficers. When he eaid that he shot
Basore after having himscif been
shot, Marshal Smith, who helped
to bring him over, said, ‘You
know you were not shot until Ba-
sore wag down.”’ To this the negro
replied nothing, but only looked
about him in a» sullen way,

The crowd tried to scare him b
telling bim that the mob whic
pursued him at Franklin was fol-
lowing the party to Lebanon, but
he was not moved bv thie and kent

me, but] threw my gun toward).

up both hands before taking me, | -

han

BURGLARS!

Your money is not safe at home, Why take i:

.

: THE MIAMI VALLEY
Building & Loan Associ:

right here in Franklin will keep your money -
pay you interest on it at 2 PER CENT, for c:::
PER CENT. for two months, 4 PER CENT. for +.

and 5 per cent. for six months. We acce-

SMALL amounts.

ERANKLIN IS BOWED WIT GRIEF.

ough the Gross is Heavy There’s No Blush of Shame.

iperate Negro Shoots Marshal George Basore When Placed Under

Arrest, Killing Him Almost Instantly.

cious Crime Committed in Cold Blood on the Streets of Franklin in the Presence

’'-Stricken Friends and Angry Citizens Gdoture the Miserable Assassin and There Was

— of Many MVaiiesees Among mhom Were Children on Their Way to eqneet

‘

Loud Talk of Lynching, but Cooler Heads Led by Mayor McLane Prevailed |
and the Fair Name of the Village Was Preserved.

n the memory of the vldest inhabitant, not even at the time of
ous Holweger murder, has the village of Franklin beon 80 shock-
was Jast Tuesday morning whenthe news spread from lip to
Marshal Basore had been cruelly shot to death while in dis-
of his duty. Strong men stood with. tears in their eyes and
it the lump which came welling up intotheir throats, The quiet
he village gave way to the wildest excitement and school child-
heir way to their tasks gazed in awe at the aplotches of blood
tained the pavement where the cruel deed{was done, or crowded
16 physician's office where the dead body lay. It all came ro
y, like a flash from a clear sky or a horrible dream in the midst
ceful sleep. that the people paused in their daily avocations,
sick at heart and bowed with sorrow at the awful crime that
1 committed.
were many who witnessed the tragedy, ns it occured in the
yterof town about eight o'clock in the morning. Under the
the excitement which prevailed the details do not alwaye
a related by eye witnesses, but the facts seem to be as follows:
vera) daye pasta negro and a woman ofthe eame race had
ding at Reuben Tilford’s colored boarding house. They
to be man and wife and said they came from Columbus. Last
morning the couple made preparations to leave early and witb
cope valises went to Earhart's Drug Store to take the trac-
Tilford thrd-beer. eespicious of thevoupie and had informea
| Basore that he believed they were thieves and that the valises
| ried contained stolen goods. The Marshal had them under sur-
for several days and was awaiting the opportune time to catch
vh the goods.
ew they were about to leave town and afew minutes before
‘lock he crossed over to Earbart’s and beckoned to the man to
tide. Just what passed between the Marshal and his slayer
2x be known. It is presumed that the officer told the negro he
er arrest. Instantly there was a pistol shot and then another.
> negro had fired twice, fatally wounding the Marsbal, the of-
seeded in drawing his gun and fired at the negro, who by thie
edging away. Basore followed the negro, both exchanging
itil the Marshal reeled and fell. He had been mortally wound-
ved but.a few moments,
g hands raised him and carried him to the office of Dr. R. K.
here he died soon after being placed upon a stretcher.
meantime his cowardly murderer ran through Dr. Otho Evan's
d and back to the canal bank. But vengeance was already
znd eftizens who had witnessed the brutal deed rushed into
s hardware store and arming themselves with pistols and guns
se. Clint Sinnard seized the pistol from the dying Marshal’,
r fingers’ and at once followed the fugitive. Dr. R. K. Evans
ato Conover's and seizing a pistol, which Mr. H. 8. Conover
2¢ act of loading, led the pursuit from another point.
gro, with the fear of death clutching his miserable heart, fled
the Evan's Jot to the canal, his right arm hanging helpless
‘eof the Marshal's shots had shattered the bone, Through the
water in the nearly drained canal he plunged, vainly trying
is pistol with his left hand. On he sped around the corner of
Four depot, where h bullet from Sinnard’s pistol whistled past
narrowly miseed Mr. A.C. Vail, who was standing near. Be?!
could realize that the man was being pursued or make a mov¢
im the fellow changed his course and fied up over the hill.
t immediately the party led by Dr. Evans came into view ang
hunt was on in grimearnest. Citizens carrying guns, clubs
and weapons of any sort that came firet to band joined in.
ait. Dr. Evans Jed the rest and soon came upon the negro i
a in the old Somer’s farm, He yelled to the man to throw up
sand fired at him, miesing. The fugitive stopped ae the bullet
by and held up his left hand. The Doctor was now about
et behind the negro and ordered him to put up both hands
ding a bullet in hie direction. The fellow answered that he
$ raise bie arm as St was broken.
octor then told him to throw away his gun and the negro did
tvane and Will Fink rusbed up and seized the man and were
‘him across the field when o number of others came up. There
uggle to gain possession of the negro and one citizen wanted tg
2 on the spot. y Dr.
wend at eet pot hire fate an exprees wayro
ot ; , rot Vs cud Vo Os. 0!

oe Vail bis

vocity bethtiae ete: th,

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thea made

GEORGE

BASORE

FRANKLIN'S MARTYRED MARSHAL,

Sheriff Patterson, in company
with deputy-sheriff, Elmer Smit
and Mr. J. A. Kilpatrick, came up

in an automobile. The mibchine
was run around into the school
yard and the prisoner hurried out
through the old work-house and
hustled into the auto before many
people knew what was being done.
Angry cries of ‘‘hang him'’ were
hurled after the officere and one
excited citizen endeavored to seize
a bammer and strike at the cring-
ing negro as he cowered behind
the sheriff. Not a moment was lost
and Mr. Kilpatrick opened the
throttle ae soon as the negro wae
inthe auto and whirling out on
Fourth street he turned down Main
and was out of sight befora any:
one could stop him Those who
were not Close to the automobile
when the prisoner was thrust into
it will never know how near
Franklincame to being the ecene
of a lynching Inmet Tuesday morn-
ing. I¢was just 9:30 when Sheriff
Patterson left with the asssesin,
barely and hour and a half from
he moment of the orime. ‘and he
an eleven mile drive over
the hills in the meantime, The peo-
ple of Warren county have reason
to be proud of the quick work and
cool-headed management of our
sberiff upon this oocasion,

While waiting for the Sheriff to

arrive Tnx Crroxicre eeoured an
Interview with the prisioner “The
woman was Jocked in cell number
two and stood in the center of the

iron cage Hke an animal at bay.

Evane fought and pled for nie prironer, jShe refused to answer queethonsa!

tood erect with her eat op

and
Yioe Tenge Dar OMe nyt?

we asked, ;

For a second he shifted his eyes
upon us and then looking away he
ealid, ‘I don’t know.*’ His volce
was not unpleasant. It was the
soft voice of the negro and ecemed
strangely out of place in the grim
eurroundiggs and coming from the
throxt of a murderer.

What ie your name, we noxt in-
quired? |

‘Henry White’? came again in
the soft tones.

Where is your home? ;

On Long etreet, Columbus, O.”’

How long have you been away
from Columbua?

“About four weeke."”

How long have you been in
Franklin?

“About one week,"*

Where wore you going this morn-
ing?

“To Dayton."

To what part of Dayton.

‘I don't know the street. To
Little Miaml I think they call it.”

Why were you going to Little
Miami?

“Because that's whore the color-
ed folke live.”

Ie thie woman with you your
wife?

**Yea, alr!

Where did you Uve before you
went to Columboe?

“IT wasinthe Manefleld Reforma-
tory, at Manefield, Ohto,

What wae your number there?

"Q2900, ia)

Did you run away?

“No, Dwar outon parole."
What vi reaver cated te the
farts ty fen’

Re.

How much did you pay him?

“Five dollars for each cloak.’’

Didn't you tell Mayor McLa
you found the clothingin a cor
| field?

Here the interview wascut sho
by the arrival of Sheriff Patterso
and the prisoner was hurried awa
as narrated above.

The drive to Lebanon with th
prisoner was without incident sav:
for the rapid speed at which Mr
Kilpatrick drove his machine.

A big crowd of curious peop]
had ‘gathered around Se oour
house and jail before thearrival o
the prisoner. All eyes were center
ed to the west along the street b
which the sberiff and his part
would enter from Franklin. Crowd
were gathered at every street cor
ner.

At alittle after 10 o'clock th
hutomobile came in sight and sped
quickly up to the prison yard gate.
The’ negro was bustied from the
vehicle and made to stand with his
head up while being photographed.
When asked hie name and home be
replied boldly, ‘Hen White,

Columbus.*? The crow followed
him to his cell and was with diM™-
culty restrained when Dr. A. W.

Mardis examined his jnjury, where
he had been shot. When asked for
& statement about the crime, he
said: ‘‘He (referring to Marsbal
Basore) did not tell me be had a
warrant, and I did not know he
was an officer.
wanted me outside of the drog
store and that some officer wanted
to see me across the street. I went
out of the place abead of him and
when I got there 1 started to run
down the street. The next thing I
kvew I was hit in the shoulder and
I whirled about and shot at him.
He shot atme three times and I
shot at him three times, I did not
know whother I hit him or pot. I

shot at himrunning and Kept on
going. I could have gotten away
but my arm was broken, and a0 J

He said that he

gaveup, They were away behind

Star Lodge,

Train While Riding o

Jacob M. BStoudt, supervisor of
interlockers, was instantly killed
and M.F, Potter, superintendent
of bridges, for the Big Four rail.
way, was fatally injured juet be
fore noon last Friday, south of
Milford Center, on ¢ e Delaware
division, by a special train.

Potter and Stovds started: out
of Springfileld at 8 o'clock Friday
morning on a motor car for the
purpose of Jnapecting some bridges.
Just why they did not know that
the train was coming is not known.
The special was ranning on the
Delaware division as second No.
201. Tt was made up at Rochester
for the Leon Cavailla Opera Com-
pany, composed of Italians.

The special was taking the com..
pany to CincinnetlL As it was com-
ing along at a good rate of speed
this side of Milford Center, it dash.
ed into the gas motor car upon
which Potter and Stovdt were rid-
ing. The light machine wae crush.
ed like an egg shell and both men
were tossed into the alr and they
landed thirty feet or more away at
the elde of the tracks, -

The special wae quickly stopped
and the bodies of the two men
picked up. It was found that
Stoudt was dead but that his body
was not badly mang'ed as most of
his injuries were internal. Potter
was still alive, although his skal!
was crusbed and he sustained in-
ternal Injories.

Upon the arrival of the train at
SMecbaniccburg the remains of
Stoudt were placed Jn charge of
the coroner, while Potter wae tak-
en to Springfield at 12:45 o'clock
and removed to the hospital in the
ambulance, *

| a bd

When ho wae removed from the
ureenroon on ttreteher,

Pyittfee ys nabs
Woh . 4

t

wh the y

M. F. Potter and J. M. S

helt

VIOLENT

Came .to Two Mer


WILLIAMS

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N TEN minutes they had a ren-
dezvous with death. Com-
pletely unaware of it, the

four officers chatted idly. A
cold, biting rain chilled them and
they turned their coat collars
higher. It was the 8th of March,
1930. Rookie Patrolman Harland
Manes, twenty-three, standing
erect and proud as a young tree,
glanced at his watch. "Two
o'clock,” he said cheerfully.
“Glad this night's over. A warm
bed will feel plenty good:"

Sergeant Stanley Kovach nod-

ded absently, and casually ob-
served the black sedan pulled up
at the curb in front of the Ken-
more roadhouse. Detectives
Herbert Michaels and Arthur

Possehl glanced up as the sounds ©

of loud, gay laughter reached
them. Two couples came out of
the tavern and climbed into the
car. The men were stockily built
with collars turnéd high and hats
pulled low to protect them from
the rain. The women were over-
dressed, laughed too uproarious-
ly and their gay giggles hinted
at a couple of drinks too many.
The younger woman Kovach rec-
egnized as an entertainer in the
readhouse. He speculated for a
moment on the identity of the
second woman, a buxom bru-
nette.

He turned abruptly. “We’re head-
ing back into town,” he told Manes.
“Want a ride in?”

“Thanks,” the rookie grinned,

They were in the outskirts of the
rubber city, Akron, Ohio, in the dis-
trict of Kenmore, where the three
detectives had been conducting a
routine vice investigation.

“Almost ten after,” Manes com-
mented as they crossed the street
toward the patrol car.

He turned and noted the black
sedan rolling rapidly in second
gear approaching the corner. At
the same instant he caught a
glimpse of another car pulling into
the intersection.

“Watch it!” he shouted involun-
tarily.

Even as he called out the warn-

ing, he knew it was too late. There .

was the quick sound of brakes try-
ing to grab, of wheels spinning and

then skidding on the wet pavement.

.Then the crash as the cars met.

The silence of the night was split
by excited, panic-stricken cries.

Manes was the first to reach the
sedan. He opened the door, helped
the two men out. The girls, shaken
up and «frightened, climbed un-
steadily from the back.

Sergeant Kovach took a firm grip
of the driver’s arm while the rook-
ie patrolman held fast to the sec-

. ond man. Possehl and Michaels ran

to the second car to make certain
no one had been injured. ;

“It’s okay,” Possehl said, coming
back. “No one hurt. More scared
than anything else. Lucky thing
for these birds.” He eyed the two
men in the grip of the officers.

Kovach ‘caught a strong smell of
liquor on the breath of the driver.
“Thought so,” he grunted. “Drunk-
en driving. It’s a mighty good thing
for you that no one was injured.”

He turned. “Girls, you’d better

..” and stopped short. The girls
were gone. Somehow, in the excite-
ment, they had quietly slipped
away. He grinned. It would be
simple enough to pick them up
later if necessary. “Let’s go,” he
told the others.

Kovach led the way toward the
patrol car still holding tightly to
his prisoner. The min leaned heav-
ily on his arm and seemed dazed.
Behind him came Possehl and Mi-
chaels. Bringing up the rear was
Patrolman Manes and the sullen-
faced second man.

They were almost to the car.
Suddenly he jerked wildly, pulled
his arm free from the patrolman’s
grip. His right hand snaked into
his coat pocket and came out with
a heavy revolver.

Manes didn’t have a chance.
Even before he realized what was:
happening the prisoner pulled the
trigger.

The gun was tight against his
side. His eyes opened wide. The
blood seemed to drain from his
handsome features. His hands jerk-
ed convulsively to his abdomen.
Suddenly his knees buckled. Slow-
ly, without a word, he slumped in
a heap to the sidewalk.

The gunman dashed madly
across the street as the three offi-
cers whirled around. Michaels leap-
ed to the side of the wounded offi-
cer, and cradled his head in his
lap while Kovach and Possehl drew
their revolvers. Kovach took quick
aim and fired.

Almost at the side of the tavern
the man stopped dead for a mo-

M

ison

of

ment. His left hand jumped, then
hung motionless. But with his right
hand he began firing, and he start-
ed running again in a twisting.
zigzag fashion. Michaels took a
couple of quick shots, but the gun-
man disappeared around a corner
of .the tavern.

Kovach held on to his prisoner.

Possehl whispered, “Easy, fella,
easy,” to the groaning policeman
from whose lips blood was now
dripping in quick, short gasps.

Michaels raced after the escap-
ing prisoner. But ,aided by the

‘darkness and a half dozen possible

exits from the back yard of the
roadhouse, the” gunman melted into
the darkness. Regretfully Michaels
returned his service revolver to its
holster and joined the others.

“Report to headquarters,” Kov-
ach ordered him. He slipped a cir-
cle of steel around his prisoner
binding him to his own left wrist.
“We'll be at People’s Hospital. The
kid’s hurt bad.”

BY THE time Possehl reactied po-
lice headquarters, after making

‘his report by phone, the pursuit of

the mad gunman was already well
organized under the direction of
the brawny, veteran crime investi-
gator, Chief of Detectives Edwari
J. McDonnell.

A half dozen patrol cars rushed
to the. Kenmore district to prowl
the alleys and the nearby hangouts
of the night-lifers. kvery poolroom
and tavern would be investigated.
Every street corner lounger would
be questioned.

McDonnell ordered the taxicab
companies to report immediately
whatever fares were picked up in
the Kenmore District between two
and three o’clock. He warned them
to -be on the lookout particularly
for two women, one, an older, bux-
om brunette, the second, a pretty,
slim young blonde.

The description of the escaped
prisoner was relayed to every pa-
trolman on the sirects.

He called in his ace homicide
sleuths, Detectives Dennis Murray,
Patsy Pappano and Sherman Gan-
dee.

“This man is armed and a killer.”
he told them. “We can’t take any
chances. There’s only one possible
reason why he would take a chance
on murder to escape a minor
charge like drunken driving, and
that is because he must have a
record as long as my arm.”

“He came out of that tavern.”
urray said ‘Maybe it’s a regular

T ¢

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ar

PATROLMAN HARLAND MANES:
Fortunately, he lived long enough to
identify the bestial bandit who hadn't

given him a chance to defend himself.

FRANK MITCHELL, alias ‘PRETTY

BOY" FLOYD: Police throughout

the Southwest were anxious to talk
to this moon-faced hoodlum.

hangout of his. Anyway, plenty of
people must have seen him there,
especially the entertainers and the
owner. I'd better skip out there.”
“That’s your job,” McDonnell
agreed. He faced Gandee. “Take a
squad and go. over the grounds of

24

the shooting. See what you can
find in the back of the roadhouse.
You might pick up some foot-
prints.”

He turned. “Pappano, see what
you can do about getting a lead on
the two women with them. And I
want the roadhouse owner and all
the entertainers brought down
here. We'll give them a going over.”

The black sedan was turned over
to the laboratory experts for ex-

amination in the hope of finding -
. “”

telltale fingerprints.

Before leaving the office, McDon-
nell covered the gunman’s last av-
enue of escape. Patrol cars were
dispatched to cover the main roads
out of Akron forming a police cor-
don around the city. The bus sta-
tion and railroad depot detectives
already had a description of the
wanted man. ;

He drove rapidly to the hospital
then where he found the de-
spondent detectives and_ their
shackled prisoner waiting outside
an operating room.

Kovach nodded a greeting, and
jerked his head toward the room.
“He’s in there,” he whispered. “But
it’s pretty bad. The doctor doesn’t
give him much chance. Bullet is
in his abdomen.”

The prisoner gave his name as
Johnny King, and refused to add
any more information.

“Who was the man with you?
Who were the girls?” McDonnell’s
bulky frame loomed over the man
and his eyes burned accusingly.

He shrugged. “Bob,” he admitted.
“Bob something-or-other, I don’t
know what. Just met him in the
roadhouse and we decided to have
a party. Picked the girls up there,
too. Had a couple of drinks, and
then started to go for a ride. That’s
all.”

“Why were you so anxious to
shoot your way out?” McDonnell
quizzed.

“Not me,” King grunted. “Look,
you ain’t got nothing on me. Sure,
I was driving, and I had a couple
of drinks too many I gusss. I was
responsible for the accident. All
right—that’s what you got on me—
drunken driving.”

“Is it?” the detective chief purr-
ed. “I'll tell you. why your partner
was so anxious to break away—
willing to murder, if necessary. Be-
cause he’s a three-time loser. No
one was hurt in that accident, and
no man’s fool. enough to stick his
head in a noose for a minor charge
like that. And a killer like that
doesn’t pick up just anyone. You
were his partner, weren’t you?”

“Find out for yourself, copper,”
King sneered. “You’re doing all the
talking.”

Kovach handed over a small 32
caliber automatic. “Found this
when I gave him the once-over.”

“What about it?” McDonnell ask-
ed.

The prisoner tightened his lips in
a grim, hard line, and refused to
answer.

The door of the operating room
opened. The doctor, peeling off rub-
ber gloves, looked at them with a
frown. “He’s very weak,” he said.
“You can talk to him for a minute
if you like. But don’t excite him.”

“Will he pull through?” McDon-
nell asked anxiously.

“He’s very weak,” he replied, re-
fusing to answer the question di-
rectly. “We'll have to give him a
blood -transfusion.”

The wounded officer lay pale
against the white bed sheets when
they entered. He managed a weak
smile when he saw them.

“Think you can recognize the
man who shot you?” McDonnell
asked softly.

“T’ll be around to identify him,”
Manes promised. Slowly he added,
“Make it quick, will you?”

Outside the doctor stopped them
for a moment as he handed a small,
metal object to McDonnell. “The
bullet,” he explained. The detec-
tive nodded, slipped it into an en-
velope, and pocketed it.

T WAS close to five in the morn-

ing when they returned to police
headquarters. Johnny King was
relegated to a cell. In McDonnell’s
outer office, a dozen young women,
entertainers at the nightclub, were
stamping about angrily, still brush-
ing sleep from heavy eyelids.

“Be ready for them in a minute,”

he told the desk sergeant. His in-*

terest was centered on the bullet
taken from the abdomen of young
Manes. “A thirty-eight,” he told
Kovach, “the same caliber as the
police special.”

He toyed with it for a moment.
Veteran of a score of courtroom
battles, he knew that a smart law-
yer could make much of this. A
smart criminal attorney. would
argue that the bullet that had cut
down the officer had come from
the gun of another officer in the
midst of the gun battle.

“Turn in your revolvers,” he or-
dered Kovach and Michaels. ‘““We’re
going to make sure in advance that
this bullet came from ‘the killer’s
revolver, and not from our own.”

The two revolvers, and the bullet,
were dispatched to Ballistics Expert
Inspector David L. Cowles, inter-
nationally recegnized criminologist
of the Cleveland, Ohio, police de-
partment.

Satisfied, McDonnell leaned on a
desk buzzer. The door opened and
the troop of girls marched into
the room. They were all lithe,
young blonde beauties, with a
hard-faced sameness about them,
cold eyes and fixed expressions.

One by ons, they told the same
story. Johnny King, the man in
prison, and another man, had
visited the roadhouse three or four

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of the operating room
2 doctor, peeling off rub-
looked at them with a
’s very weak,” he said.
alk to him for a minute
But don’t excite him.”
pull through?” McDon-
anxiously. |
/ weak,” he replied, ret
nswer the question di-
ll have to give him/a
fusion.” /
nded officer lay pale
white bed sheets when
d. He managed a weak
he saw them.

ou can recognize the
shot you?” McDonnell

ound to identify him,”
ised. Slowly he added,
ick, will you?”

e doctor stopped them
t as he handed a small,
> to McDonnell. “The
explained. The detec-
slipped it into an en-
pocketed it. -

e to five in the morn-
hey returned to police
Johnny King was
a cell. In McDonnell’s
. dozen young women,
it the nightclub, were
ut angrily, still brush-
n heavy eyelids.
or them in a minute,”
lesk sergeant. His in-'
ntered on the bullet
ae abdomen of young
hirty-eight,” he told
same caliber as the

ith it for a moment,
score of courtroom
ew that a smart law-
ike much of this. A
ial attorney. would
e bullet that had cut
icer had come from
nother officer in the
zun battle.
‘ur revolvers,” he or-
and Michaels. “We're
sure in advance that
me from ‘the Killer’s
1ot from our own.”
vers, and the bullet,
d to Ballistics Expert
td L. Cowles, inter-
gnized criminologist
ad, Ohio, police de-

Donnell leaned on a
ve door opened and
girls marched into
fy were all lithe,
beauties, with a
1eness about them,
fixed expressions.

they told the same
King, the man in
nother man, had
house three or four

times during the past two weeks.
‘Occasionally there had been. a third

man with them, a round-faced,
husky person with slick, black hair.
“Their names?”
The girls exchanged puzzled
glances. They had heard the men
call each. other “Johnny,” “Frank-

ie,” and “Bob.” Bob, it appeared,

had been Johnny’s mate in the
car.

Continued questioning brought
nothing further. Théy knew noth-
ing about the other woman in the
party, nor how the couples had
come. together.

“Where is the girl who was with
them?” McDonnell snapped.

In. answer to his question, the
door opened. Pappano entered with

-&@ Man and woman on each arm.

“Jim Daniels, the proprietor,” he
introduced him, “and Sue Dane,
King’s girl friend tonight.”

The other girls were dismissed.
Sue calmly seated herself and
crossed her legs. She was a viva-
cious, slip-hipped creature who
seemed to know her way around.
She produced a cigarette, lit it, and
relaxed.

Daniels, a chubby little man,
shuffled his feet nervously until Mc-
Donnell told him to be seated.

“Let’s have it,” he turned to the
‘girl.

She told her story in a monotone
as though-she had learned it. by
repeating it over and over to her-
self. She had just finished her rou-
tine on the floor, and was minding
her own business when the pro-
prietor asked her if she would like
to go out on a little party. He in-
dicated the two men and the bux-
‘om woman at the corner table. So
she changed into her street clothes,
had a drink or two with the men,
and left. “That’s all there was to
it,” she finished.

“You never saw them before? Do
you mean to sit there and tell me
you were willing to go out like that
with two men you had never talked
to before?”

“Oh, I’d seen them around,” she
replied. “They came in the place
two or three times before. And, af-
ter all, if they wanted to have a
party, who was I to object?”

Like the others,. she insisted she
had never heard their last names.
The men called the other woman

“Nellie” but that was all, she ex-

plained.

“Why did you two disappear right
after the accident?’ McDonnell
snapped.

She shrugged. “I didn’t want to
be mixed up in it if I could help
it,” she smiled. “I suppose Nellie
felt the same way.” She stared at
her boots, and calmly brushed some
mud from them. “I didn’t know
anything serious had: happened un-
til that man—” —she nodded her
head toward Pappano— “came
busting into my apartment.”

BERT WALKER, alias BOB RANDALL: Exactly eight months
from the day Patrolman Manes died, this kill-crazy fugitive
was strapped into the electric chair at Ohio State Prison.

Wearily the detective chief turn-
ed from her to the nervous tavern
proprietor. He grinned for a mo-
ment at the way the man was
wringing his hands.

Like the girl, he repeated the
same story. He, too, insisted that
he had never heard the last names
of the men. “They just called me,”
he continued, “and said they want-
ed to have a little party that night.
They wanted me to ask one of the
entertainers if she would like to
go along. So I asked Miss Dane.”

He stared at them pleadingly.
“T’ve never had any trouble with
the law before. I run a nice clean

place and try to keep it that way.

Believe me, if I could tell you any
more, I -would.”

“They’ve been in your place a
number of times,’ McDonnell
pressed him. ‘You must have some
idea where they live. Sometime
they must have dropped a hint
about it.”

“No-o,” he said slowly. He wrin-
kled his forehead as he thought
it over. “Come to think of it, the
man they called Frankie—well,
once he said he had to leave early
because he had to make the post
office at Cuyahoga Falls before it
closed.” He studied them hopeful-
ly. “Will that help you?”

“Anything else?”

(Continued on page 49)

25


as 1 know. We’re
angers.”
ward an offset in
vhich blocked his
man’s room. Here
yvecomer to Kearney
and the manager’s
old man, ill, hitch-
past,” didn’t sound
ae big fellow, arm-
as who had aban-
.a tank nearly full
itskirts of the city.
open and a tall
king chair beside
need at the pages
iper. Bell coughed,
unged to his feet,
‘copped the paper.
ie,” he muttered.
t here?”
routine check
; and hotels,”
urprised at Ander-
re. “You got here
night,” he suggest-

it?” the man snap-
e country, isn’t it?
yn when a man can

e quavering voice—
ead, and the glasses
nderson’s eyes were
r startled brilliance
his claim of illness.
er your identifica-
“If everything is in
yn my way.”

y papers. I shipped
yead,” Anderson re-

noticed Anderson
the bed where a pa-
on a partially fold-
moved forward and
Anderson and the
; your stuff?” he ask-
weling pretty light.”
eed. Give it to me.”
out his hand.

the palms were cal-
e skin on the back,
de a quick decision—
bring in anyone who
ous and particularly
d after 2:30. “Come
ed. “I’m taking you
You can talk to the
ll send you back in

sssed the paper
adle on Chief
2w minutes later,

iced at the clock and

on on a report blank.
Two hours and twen-

ty-five ‘minutes had elapsed since
Shorty Vreeland called him.

pee ‘argued with Bell for
a moment and then whirled toward
the chief, “What have I done? Why
was I brought. here?”

“We're looking for a murderer,”
Frank retorted. .

“Murder! My goodness,” the

. elderly man almost whispered. “I’ve

killed no one.”

“Your name is Anderson,” Frank
said after Bell told him why he
brought him in. “Why don’t you
have something to prove it?”

“T’m an old man, fifty-seven
now,” Anderson’s eyes filled with
tears. “It doesn’t make any differ-
ence when I die or where. I’ve no
relatives.”

The chief glanced curiously at
the man on the other side of his
desk; unfastened the bundle on his
desk, shook out a few articles of
clothing. As he examined them, he
compared the description of Stew-
art with that of the man opposite’
him. The girl’s description might
have fit him.

Brown eyes—Anderson’s were al-
most black brown.

Glasses—Stewart’s had no rims— -

Anderson’s were rimless.

Height—Stewart was tall. Ander-
son over six feet.

Thin—She said Stewart weighed
about 160 pounds. Anderson could
not have weighed more.

Hair—Stewart’s was brown and
thin. Anderson’s was dark, graying
rapidly and he was partially bald.

Age—She insisted Stewart was
past fifty—Anderson admitted 57.

A Gillette Safety Razor case lay

CONFIDENTIAL

DERE GMIMES

Daniels shook his head. He
glanced at the girl. “You’ve got
me,” she grinned. “I’m all talked
out.”

Satisfied that they had nothing
more to add, McDonnell nogded in
a gesture of dismissal. As they
walked out together, he knew that
all the questioning had added lit-
tle to their information. The men
had been very careful to keep their
real identities hidden. The tip on
Cuyahoga Falls, a suburb of Akron,
wasn’t worth too much, he knew.
Probably hundreds of “Frankies”
were serviced by the busy rural
post office.

A telephone call to the hospital
brought the information that the
officer was sinking rapidly. Patrol-
man Patrick McAleese promptly
left the station to offer his blood

a See oes

af INSIDE FACTS FROM POLICE RECORDS

among the articles of clothing the
chief examined. He picked it up,
opened it and glanced at the razor.
An instant latet he bent forward,
studied some letters in the bottom
of the case and then smiled broad-
ly as he tossed it across: the desk.

“There are no _ identification
marks on your shirts, undercloth-
ing, handkerchiefs,” he mused. “I’d
turn’you loose except for one thing.”
He waited. Anderson seemed to
slump in his chair.

“If your name is Anderson,” con-
tinued Frank, “why is the name
‘Ed Stewart’ written in. the bottom
of this razor case?”

“You know,” Anderson shrilled.
“You know I’m Stewart. Yes, I kill-
ed her—and I’d do it again.”

“Why? What had she done to
you?”

“Nothing. I was jealous. She kick-
ed me out for a younger man and
told me to go back to California.
I sneaked back to the house last
night and waited for everyone to
go to bed. I hid in the basement
and when the girls went to their

. rooms I sneaked up the stairs to

the front room and listened at the
window while she talked with Wil-
hemi. After he went to bed I went
out on the porch and tried to rea-
son with her but she told me to
get out—I was too old for her and
when she got up to call for help, I
shot her. I went back into the
house to see if any of the others
were awake and I planned to kill
them too to keep them’ from giving
the alarm. Then I got the keys to
the car and drove over here.”
“Where’s the gun?” Bell asked.

“Under the blanket at the foot

of the bed in the rooming house,”
Stewart, alias Anderson snapped.
“I tried to reach for it but you got
between me and the bed. If you’d
stayed by the door you’d be dead
now.”

Frank wrote out the killer’s con-
fession, pushed it across the desk
for his signature and about 11:30
ordered him taken to the detention
cell. As the turnkey unlocked the
door, Sheriff Crites and County At-
torney Sampson hurried into the
chief’s office.

“We, were told you had the
Franzenberg car,’ Crites began.
“Where is it?”

“Parked out near the edge of
town,” Frank grinned. He pointed
down the corridor. “See that fellow
they’re locking up?” he asked.
“That’s your murderer. Ed Stew-
art.” He tossed a sheet of paper
across the desk. ‘“Here’s his confes-
sion—and so far as evidence is con-
cerned, the case is closed.”

Stewart was taken to Central
City and lodged in the county jail.
Less than twelve hours had elapsed
since he blasted the life out of Mrs.
Franzenberg and sped away from
the murder farm. On June 30, he
was taken before Judge Louis
Lightner and listened stolidly while
County Attorney Sampson read the
formal charge of murder. “Guilty,”
he muttered when the judge asked
him how he pled,

He was sentenced to Nebraska
State Prison for the remainder of
his natural life and was behind the
grim gray walls several hours be-
fore the body of his victim was
carried to her grave.

SINISTER ENIGMA OF THE CRIMSON CLAY

for transfusion in the hope of sav-
ing the young man’s life.

“We've got to get that killer be-
fore Manes dies,” McDonnell de-
clared gruffly. “His identification
will prove invaluable to the prose-
cutor.”

A half hour later, Detective Pap-
pano returned from the laboratory
with the report on the car.

“No fingerprints,” he told Mc-
Donnell. “They managed to get a
smudged print off the steering
wheel but it’s useless for identifi-
cation purposes. Two gallons of
whiskey was found in the back
seat.”

“Anything else?”

“Well, the license plates—”

“Were stolen,’ McDonnell inter-
rupted. “I expected that.”

“Stolen is right,” Pappano

(Continued from page 25)

agreed. ‘Listed about two months
ago from Detroit. But here’s some
dope. The plates are also listed on
the getaway car that robbed the
Sylvania, Ohio, bank about three
weeks ago.”

Convinced that they were on the
right track, and that the men had
long records, McDonnell ordered
King’s fingerprints and description,
along with the descriptions of the
wanted “Bob” and “Frankie,” wired
to FBI headquarters in Washington
and to police officers of the larger
cities throughout the Middle-West.

He made a routine check with
the railroad and bus depots, and
was satisfied that the gunman was
still holed up somewhere in Akron.
The taxicab office reported that no
driver had picked up a fare in the
Kenmore district answering the de-

49


searchers into the woods

hut a half-dozen occasions.
Rose did not go out with
hag another man, Gilbert
“in-law. In the early eve-
Bedford tavern Reintine
came into the room. He
ay as his gaze fell on Rose.
he table where she sat
his hand. “How are you,

Nalker left the table. He

Lake OF thought you knew

“I don’t know. I guess
ything romantic between

least, it’s one-sided. I’ve
nt, but I think he regards

| another round of beers
it not for long.

Walker returned to the
ed a glass, then rolled it
up suddenly and caught
k his arm and flung the

tered, some of the glass
ss. The proprietor came
arm and propelled him
ent quietly. He did not

ae! : ay

For 48 hours, the heavily-armed posse scoured the woods for the man who “became a different person when he saw a policeman.”

At 4 o’clock on Sunday morning, Carol Sustarsic, Rose’s
18-year-old daughter, sat in a parked car at the rear of
the building in which the Sustarsics lived. In the car with
Carol was Gus Barber, a 19-year-old friend who lived in
Northfield. :

Suddenly, a man appeared in the parking area. As he
approached the car the youngsters saw that he was carry-
ing a shotgun and Carol recognized him as Norman Walker.

“Carol,” he said sharply, “where’s your mother?”

“J don’t know. She’s not home yet.”

“Tf she’s not here,” said Walker, “you’ll: do. Get out of
that car. You’re coming with me.” He leveled the shotgun
and ordered Barber to remain in the car as Carol got out.

The girl was frightened, but she did not lose her head.
As they walked into Interstate Street, she kept her hand
on the barrel of the gun so that Walker could not effec-
tively use it. The instant Walker and the girl were out of
sight, Barber ran to the house for help. As he reached it,
Rose Sustarsic came in. The youth blurted out his story.

Rose ran down the street where Walker stood arguing
with Carol. She seized Walker’s arm and said, “What’s the
matter with you? Let Carol go.”

“All right,” said Walker, “you go with me, then.”

Rose was frightened, too. But her first concern was for
her daughter. ‘Very well,” she said. “If you let Carol go,
I'll go with you.” She spoke gently, trying to calm him.

Obviously, Walker was under great emotional stress.
He turned on her suddenly, aiming the shotgun in her
direction. “You want it here?” he asked. The words were
vague, but there was no mistaking his meaning.

“Let Carol go back to the house,” Rose said again.

Walker nodded. He turned to Carol and said, “Go back
in the house.”

The girl ran for her home and the telephone as Walker
took her mother’s arm and led her to his parked car.

Walker tucked his gun between his left knee and the door,
then he reached into his pocket and produced a sharp-
bladed knife. He held it up and it glinted in the street light.

“You see that?” he asked.

Rose nodded.

“Y’ve already killed someone with it. And there’s going
to be some more blood on it, too.’’ He laughed maniacally
and stepped on the accelerator. Walker drove crazily along
Alexander Road. The frightened woman kept trying to
calm him, but he laughed and shouted, ignoring her efforts.

The drive continued for some time. On Brookfield Road,
Walker drove off the highway and brought the car to a
halt. He faced Rose and grinned without mirth. He placed
the edge of his knife against the flesh of her throat.

“Isn’t it pretty?” he said. “Isn’t it a real pretty knife?”

Rose was afraid to answer, afraid to struggle. Suddenly
Walker moved the knife from her throat and ripped open
the front of her dress with it.

Desperately stalling, Rose said, ‘I’m thirsty. I’m terribly
thirsty. There’s a creek back there in the woods. Let’s
go and get some water.”

Walker agreed. He was thirsty, too. The pair left the car
and walked into the woods. Walker took the knife and
shotgun along with him. When they reached the creek,
Rose bent down to drink. As she did so, she held tightly to
Walker’s hand, not from affection but so that he couldn’t
aim the gun.

When she straightened up, Walker glared at her in
sudden realization and growled, ‘“You’ve been double-
crossing me.” He smashed the gun barrel against her side.
She staggered and fell into the creek. Walker dragged her
out and pulled her through the woods, back to the car.
They were standing at the side of the sedan when the
police car with Robertson and Graham drove up.

Walker’s eyes narrowed and his muscles tensed. He said


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The Kidnaper
Hated Cops

(Continued from page 11)

Norman was home. They told me he’d

| killed a policeman. He’s been in trouble
“before.

None of my other children ever
was. But it was all kid stuff. Ask my
neighbors. Norman was considered a good
boy. :

“Norman got bad when he came home
from the navy and had trouble with his
wife. That’s when the trouble started.
That’s when the narcotics started, too. I
always asked him what good he was do-
ing with that dope, but he couldn’t help
himself. I’ll do anything for him.”

But at this point, there didn’t seem to

| be anything the elder Walker could do for

his son. Even Norman appeared to realize
that.

“I know I’m going to the electric chair,”
he said. “l’m not kidding myself. But I
don’t give a damn. I’ve mixed up my life
ever since I was a kid. I know what the
penalty for killing a copper is in Ohio—
and I want to die.”

, Walker told reporters that he had no
clear memory of shooting Robertson. He
said, “I recall putting the knife blade up
against Rose’s throat—but the next thing
I know, I’m running through the woods
and the sun is up. I came to a pool. I
stopped and said to myself, ‘What are you
running for?’”

Walker went on to say that, early on
Saturday night, he had engaged in a bar-
room brawl. During the melee he had been
hit on the head. “After that,” he said, “I
blacked out three or four times during the
evening.” °

When the depositions in the case weré
being taken, Rose Sustarsic met Mrs. Rob-
ertson. They greeted each other emotion-
ally—two strangers brought together by a
bond of grief.

“TI feel sorry for Norman Walker,” said
Mrs. Sustarsic. “But I guess he’s better
off dead. Naturally, I feel even more sorry

| for Mrs. Robertson and her family.”

Mrs. Robertson also said she felt sorry
for Walker, but she added, “I’ve done jury
duty and I know he’ll get what he de-
serves.”

Rose Sustarsic went on to say, “There
must be something wrong with Norman.
I never told him I loved him. In fact I
only dated him five or six times. I guess
I’m lucky to be alive myself. God knows
I certainly thought he was going to kill
me with that shotgun or slit my throat
with that knife.”

The murder of Robertson quickly drew
the attention of editorial writers. Walker

was on parole and several crimes had re-
cently been committed in Ohio by pa-
rolees. A Cleveland newspaper announced
that it was concerned about the fact that
a narcotics addict who had been sentenced
to 25 years in 1949 was a free man in the
spring of 1956. The paper continued, “Too
many of those paroled, because of mal-
adjustments, switch quickly to the old life
of robbery and assault because they are
desperately in need of money and because
they resent their prison sentences. ;

“We indict the system as it now stands
in Ohio. Only a complete overhaul will
correct present conditions.

“The strictest type of supervision of re-
leased criminals is essential and some
way must be found to relieve the parole
officers of their impossible burden of cases.
This threat against the lives and safety of
Ohio citizens can not be permitted to
continue.”

James Schiffer, parole officer in charge
of the Cleveland district, replied in a pub-
lic statement, “Norman Walker reported
to his parole officer, Frank Harrold, last
Friday. He seemed happy and well ad-
justed. He was happy because he had been
given a raise in his hourly rate as a mold-
er’s apprentice at the foundry where he
worked.”

Schiffer quoted Walker as saying proud-
ly, “The foreman says I’m due for an-
other raise if I keep on working the way
I have been. ” Frank Harrold stated that
Walker “seemed to have made a very
good adjustment.”

“But,” went on Schiffer, “this is a very
frustrating job. Someone ought to carry
the torch for more parole officers because
parole means strict supervision.”

Schiffer has 16 officers in his district and
each has a case load of more than 100
parolees.

“It stands to reason,” said Schiffer, “that
supervision would be stricter if each case
load were smaller, say, about 50. I don’t
say that such supervision would wipe out
crime overnight, but it certainly would
help to reduce it.”

Norman Walker had reported regularly
since his parole in March. Harrold had
checked up on him at his home and at his
job. On the surface, at least, Walker
seemed a good parole prospect. But such
talk comes a little too late as far as the
family of Tiny Robertson is concerned.
They and all Valley View mourn him and
he will be missed by many.

The fact that Tiny Robertson’s killer is
odds on to finish in the electric chair is
no solace at all to any of them. ¢¢¢

Epiror’s NOTE:

The name, Gilbert Halder, as used in
the foregoing story, is not the real
name of the person concerned. This
person has been given a fictitious name
to protect his identity.

His Passenger
a Dead Brunette

(Continued from page 21)

Kirk Street address or the Sunnyside
School?”

“No one at all. Fern either shot her-
self, or she was wounded inside her own
house.”

“The doctors say she couldn’t have shot
herself. Do you know anything about this
gun you found on the car seat?”

“Sure. It used to be mine. I gave it to

Fern. She always carried it with her.”

“Why?”

“For self-protection.”

Sproat looked skeptical. “Maybe 75
years ago in Dodge City, that would have
made sense. But what was she protect-
ing herself from?”

Barron shrugged. “I don’t know. She
just seemed to feel better when she had
that gun.”

“Where’s the gun now?”

“In the Arkansas River.
the Coronado Bridge.”

The officers asked several more ques-
tions, but Barron seemed unable or un-
willing to elaborate on his original story.
He was placed in a cell while the sheriff,
the county attorney and Chief House went
home to rest for a while. Later that morn-

I threw it off

ing Sproat got into
to the Coronado

boots, he’ waded
stream. Half an hot
the bank from the
hand was a dripp
which he had rece
bed.

The weapon and
Fern Crossley’s boc
state ballistics expe
was asked if he wo
tector test. When
linson, a polygrapr
was summoned. Be
preferred a_ first-
against Barron.

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bullet extracted b
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fired without an al
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in a low voice, “Rose, get in the car and lie down on the
floor.”

Trembling, the woman did as she was told. The police
car stopped. A huge man got out and approached Walker’s
sedan. Walker drew a deep breath as he lifted his 12-gauge
shotgun. A moment later a loud blast ripped the silence of
the night. Robertson fell to the road, killed instantaneously.

Carefully keeping the sedan between himself and Patrol-
man Graham’s line of vision, Walker backed off the
highway into the woods. Then he turned and ran.

Graham, unaware of Walker’s flight, snatched up his
radio mouthpiece. “May Day,” he shouted, giving the radio
code word for all possible reinforcements to join him
immediately. ‘“‘May Day. Car 38. Brookside Road.”

He then dropped the mouthpiece and directed a blast
of fire at the parked sedan. There was no answering fire
and Graham decided to wait until help arrived. Four
minutes after Graham had broadcast the alarm, a police
cruiser from Brecksville arrived. Within 15 minutes a
dozen other cars were there. When something moved
inside the car, the officers began shooting. Suddenly the
door opened an inch and a fluttering hand appeared. The
shooting stopped and the door opened wider. Rose Sustarsic
stepped out. She was weeping and almost hysterical.

“He’s not in the car,” she cried. “Norman Walker got
away. He ran off into the woods.”

-Two ambulances were summoned by radio, one to re-
move the body of Tiny Robertson, the other to take Mrs.
Sustarsic to a hospital. It was now almost 6 o’clock in
the morning. Police Chief Allen Baur of Independence was
notified. He sent out a “Signal 2” which gave the In-
dependence police a clear radio channel and priority on
all Cuyahoga County police reinforcements.

By the time it was broad daylight 175 law enforcement
officers were on the scene. These included the Independ-
ence and Valley View police, the Highway Patrol and all
the available men from the Cuyahoga and Summit
Counties sheriff’s offices.

An armed perimeter was set up throughout the area. As
Chief Baur later explained, “We posted men on Route 21
to the west, Brookside Road on the north, Riverview Road
on the east and Fitzwater Road on the west. This was to
catch him when we drove him out. Then the main body
went into the woods, up the gullies and through the
streams after him.”

In the meantime, Rose Sustarsic was treated for shock,
then taken to her home. Carol, who had reported her
mother’s kidnaping to the police, greeted Rose with happy
tears.

Mrs. Sustarsic, calmer now, spoke to the reporters. “He
was just jealous, I guess,” she said. “He told me that if he
couldn’t have me, no one else could. I guess he got jealous
and didn’t know what he was doing. I’m sorry for him
now, but I’m sorrier for that policeman’s family. I’m glad
my kids are all right. I only went along with Norman to
get Carol away from him.”

Tiny Robertson’s body was carried back to Valley View.
Not only his family wept. Almost all who had known him
mourned the popular patrolman.

In the meantime, the posse scoured the woods for the
killer. By 10 o’clock two bloodhounds and a helicopter had
been pressed into service to aid the search. Shortly after
10, Bill Baur, a University Heights policeman and cousin
of the Independence police chief, spotted the fugitive at
the dead end of Dalebrook Road. ;

Baur called on Walker. to surrender. Walker ran to-

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ward cover as Baur sent a shotgun blast after him. A
dozen members of the posse heard the shot and came
running up. More than 40 shots were fired as Walker raced
into the woods. The party deployed in that particular area
but somehow Walker evaded them.

The search went on. At 1:23 p.M., three Seven Hills
officers, Jack Lingler, Stanley Jablonski and Oliver
Feuerstein, beat their way through a heavily wooded area
near Route 21 and Fitzwater Road. Suddenly the officers
heard a crackling sound. They were standing at the foot of
a hill and the dense underbrush made it impossible to
see anything.

Jack Lingler took a chance and cried out, “Throw down
your gun and come out with your hands up.”

There was no reply. The three officers advanced slowly,
their guns ready. They came into a small clearing. Norman
Walker lay face down on the ground. The shotgun was a
few feet away, where he had thrown it.

But as the policemen approached, Walker suddenly
stood up and reached for the knife in his belt. Three guns
aimed directly at his heart.

“Drop it,” said Lingler.

Walker threw the knife away. He was promptly hand-
cuffed: and searched. In his pockets were nine shotgun
shells.

Norman Walker was escorted to the Independence
Village Hall, where he was questioned briefly in the base-
ment. Then he was put in a cell as Chief Baur broadcast
word of the capture and ordered the posse to disband.

On Monday afternoon, Walker was given a hearing: in
the chambers of Sheriff Joseph M. Sweeney in the
Cuyahoga Criminal Court building. Mayor W. Pete
Wisnieski of Independence presided. Walker was charged
with the first-degree murder of a policeman. The Ohio
statute makes it necessary for the state to prove only that
a policeman was killed while discharging his duty. The state
need not prove premeditation as it must in any other
first-degree murder trial. But the death penalty remains
the same.

Mayor Wisnieski formally held Walker for the grand
jury on the first-degree murder ‘charge. After Walker’s
rights in the matter had been explained to him, he said,
“I wave any preliminary hearing. I want to go right to
the grand jury.”

He was taken back to his cell in the county. jail.

In the meantime, an organization called Bluecoats, In-
corporated, which had been founded for the purpose of
rendering financial aid to the families of officers killed in
the line of duty, announced that its first award would be
presented to the widow of Tiny Robertson. The award
will be a check in the amount of $1000.

Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 3483, held graveside
services for Robertson on Wednesday, July 11th. The
gallant officer was buried in Mapleshade Cemetery in
Independence Village. His casket was guarded by a police-
man, a fireman and a VFW member.

“My husband was the finest man who ever lived,” said
Robertson’s widow. “He loved his work as part-time po-
liceman and he didn’t have an enemy in all the world. I
feel sorry for the man who killed him, but nothing he gets
will ever replace my loss.”

While Mrs. Robertson made this statement, the killer’s
father waited in the jail anteroom for a visit with his son.
“He means everything to us,” said Walker, senior. “We
were very close—my son and I. He was what I was living
for. I was living for him.”

Tears were in the father’s eyes as he continued. “Norman
was afraid of a policeman. He had that unreasonable fear.
He became a different personality when he saw an officer.
He didn’t like them because he was always afraid they
would pick him up.” 4

The father paused. Then he said, “I didn’t know any-
thing about this until 8:30 on Sunday morning. The police
awakened me and asked if (Continued on page 88)

Innocent victims of the tragedy were Mrs. Sustarsic and
Doris Robertson (below), daughter of the slain policeman


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WASHINGTON, Aaron G., black, 21,
eleé. Ohio (Montgomery County) on
‘Paly 26, 1918,

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He went directly to Cincinnati, where he remained but
wo days, and took passage 1 the steamboat ike
= Lauisville, accompanied by a man named ‘Thomas V ig.
—~ gins, an inhabitant of that place. The first night alter
© their arrival they committed a burglary ata dry . s
store, and carricd off six hundred dollars’ worth of ery —
 poads. ‘They packed them up and put them on the boat
Pike, intending to send them to a receiver of stolen
at Cincinnati. Wiggins and two of his companions went
~ in the same boat the chest was in, but Washburn went
on the boat Feles. On their arrival at Cincinnati an offi-
ve Leer from Louisville was in waiting for them, and the
~ coinpanions of Wiggins were acrested with the chest in
their possession ; but Wiggins, possessing keen eye an
a light pair o heels, managed to escape with Wa
burn. ‘Those arrested were tried and sent to the
pnitiary.
eAVashburn then went to work for Mr. Peter Townsend,
at his brick-yard on Decr Creck, where he —. _
"steady for three weeks, when he became acquaint ore
— Matthias Hoover, which resulted in the atal de
} =. which he was condemned. They, t ether with one
» = Davies, committed various robberies in that vicinity pre-
i vious to the murder of Mr. Reaver, for which thoy were
acy went to Mr. Beaver's house about eleven o'clock
at night, and knocked at the door. The old man —
them what they wanted. ‘They replied they oboe
something to drink before they retired to rest. ver
entered first, took the key out of the door and handed it
to Washburn ; Hoover followed him. Washburn remain-
ed outside to: wateh, while he held the key in his hand,
and kept the door a little open, so that he could seo =
was going on inside. Some words arose with Davies an
Mr. Beaver, when Davies struck him with an iron pin on
the forehead—he fell. Then Hoover struck him seven
times on the back part of the head with a heavy stick.
They cornmenced searching his pockets and found a
bunch of keys, when they commenced searching the

house and found five hundred and: fifty dollars in gold,

Bre
ng

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just a faic?

silver and bills, also a w
Lag, and Davics placed
out of the house, and Washburn locked the door, and
left the key in the door. They went ;
from the house, and then sat down and counted the
ey. Davies was to take care of the whole o
following night, when they
house to divide their boot
On Monday morning
work at the brick-yard, w
in the forenoon, when he was arrest
the murder, and shortly afterwards
who immediately confessed that W
ted the murder, and swore to it on trial, by which evi-
dence principally Washburn was convicted.

He was sentenced to be executed on the 25th
vember, 1836; but in consequence

atch, which
it in his hat.

f it until the
to meet at Hoover's
Washburn up and went to
here he remained until ten o'clock

ashburn had commt-

of a confession made
xe Governor un-
; bstance of the
ed that he had sworn falsely
against Washburn, and that he was entirely
any participation in the murder or robbery ;
made so many different
lieved, and Washburn was
time set before a vast assemblage of people.
The following are his last words, spo
fold fifteen minutes before his death.
“My Farexos: I am about to die to expiate a cata-
logue of the blackest crimes ever commi
man. I deserve to die this death.
existence in perpetrating damnin
low-men. I commenced
yout and continued it unt
as overtaken me, and why

f Hoover, a respite was obtained from tl
til the 6th day of January, 1

confession was that he admitt
innocent of
but he had

was not be-
accordingly executed at the

statements his wo
ken on the scaf-

tted by mortal
pent my brief
g outrages U
my caree ays of my
Lat last the hand of justice
should | not submit to so

“Suffer a dying man on this awful occasion to warn
the youths who are present to witness this execution, to
beware of the manifold allurements which are calculated
to lead them to the same igno

bfought. The first step towards this is intemperance.

minions end to which I am

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-but-was-convieted- ofthe -brital, murder and -he-was haged.at
Mansfield on BJ May’31, 1878, A fence had been erectéd |
around the gallows, but a trowd estimated at from 10,000
to 15,000 had gathered and they tore the fence down in ore
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Photo of Webb in Mansfield News-Hournal, 6-18-1969


WEBB ’ Edward

Webb,. born into slavery in the Southern part of Tennessee, was raised
on a farm near Huntsville, Ala. During the Civil War, when Union
troops first appeared in North Alabama, he was cultivating corn. He
beft the farm and traveled with the Northern Army, serving as a water
boy and assisting in the building of forts and other military in-
stallations., After the war, he settled in Mansfield, Ohio, where he
obtained work and as farm and blacksmith helper. On the night of
Dec. 6, 1877, he entered the home of William S, EXRKSE#S Finney, an
elderly and FSE$SEXSR prosperous farmer, for the purpose of robbery.
When Mr. Finney surprised him in the process of searching for loot ’
he bludgeoned the old man to dea th. He then went into the Finney s
bedroom and severely bludgeoned Mrs. Finney. A son and daughter-in-
law, Rev. and Mrs, J. P. Finney, were in another bedroom and they,
too, were attacked. Both of the women and Rev, Finney, though
seriously and painfully wounded, survived and were able to testify

against Webb at his trial. When his house was searched, bloodstains
were found on some of his clothing and items taken from the Finney

home in KKSEKSEX#SSESH¥ an earlier robbery were also recovered.

Webb maintained that he was innocent, but the proof against him was
overwhelming and he was convicted by the jury following a short de-
liberation, He was hanged in Mansfield on May 31, 1878, A wooden
fence had been erected around the gallows, but a crowd estimated at

from 10,000 to 15,000 had gathered and they tore the fence d
order that they might witness the execution. omn in my

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TERMS TO SUIT

HENRY WHOTE—

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at

z
a

EOLUMBS. On July” ‘9.—With a
oi etfix i tightly. “grasped In his hand,

ai Rodginpanted : Monly. by the faithful
iritiat ‘adviser whb solemnly chant-
az pas aba TiUsH,wanry “White the
seg o*desperado, who bo” ruthlessly
apy Werdered: ‘Marshal George Basore at
epanklin- “astQctober, walked to the
al actrh drigtchalr ahortly_ after Jast mid-
ear Htend: pald the penalty of - his
rairitde.;: He. ~maintained the samo !n-
ee trerenit?: manner’ that characterized
exis aithrough ‘his career, and seemed

ort

swede

de Hes
ee “himaelf-in’ the
at cat of death“ “and “pald but the wmllght-{
gta ttention=to=tho: Gsaz who were die §
e Scted_to. serve him with the samne-de-
: + of-punishment as he had meted
eae etyTunvotficer: of the-lawrwho was
tO ng hia duty when ithe fatal bullet
Urded his: life.

ig

id

St cee

‘ When: ‘asked by. Warden Gould if he
mrss erin t= ee

aig etre ts cemetery wiry
ihe NWhite’s lps, Aegan awalt-
3 her Acer current-that-made his
temdy (asthing of the past. It: took
a roas,:, the--pr iphyasiclan,

A minutes to pronounce. him dead.
Hite but recently. accepted religion

i L

i—tecel ved—Into-t
whurch:~

The: “execution: was te ccatul. al-
sesh rh -{t took three contacts to do
fe-aceotntted for,

vedere ee ee oo

i

pe FERS

Bg

‘hes first contact-was held: on him-a
iute,."and, when. the examination
se fe Mae DY Vie" pHysiclans Wiles
rt! wus, Dae iae to be. beating rather

Oe ene eee oe

ay

Jad that theiawtul: fate ‘deoreed ed himt
nobf_at han

athe, fact ot White's small stature. |

tured, after being shot In the arm by
Dr. Rice Evans. The woman waa

ABOH Bea

wee ee

—

“Whit © enjored
oe o

pare for executlon.—
himself with the other inmates. 0 a

:death call. playing. “{rrcse out” Ile
talked and laughed ug If hla ume of

Hfe was of Jonger duration than bu’ a
few hours

Ainong those preacnt from the vi-
cInity of the scene of the er{me who
-withessed- the execution were Kobert

Zecker and Jt. Lb. Carlund, Middle-
town, and Everett Dechant,” Howard
Anderson, Dr. R. K. Evans and Clilin-

oo.
we

ton Sinard, of Franklin,
Wito's Crinna,” wa

White killed Murshal George Musoro
of Franklin, tn frunt of the, traction
office there in October, 1908. _

rs on

-e-

| torlgua “leves"
been tn Franklin bot a few weeks.
Several thefts. had been committed
and {it was belleved ney eWre respon.
sible for thern.

Nealizing that thie authorities were
SON J oe “nxkeetrttora rar fori her -
White and the womans atarted to
leuve the place. They were at the
truction dupet when Marshal Hasore
upproached them and told White: he-
wanted to talk to him. ‘The neKro
drew a rewlver and began firing, one

to! oe the cbullete taking..cffect tnuthe.

ile sfagKered to the
eige of the aldewulk, dropped dead,
and White sturted to run, He was,

marshal’s body.

Tocked Up, whd rog-arneged: To;
evening and her. pust- record given the
authorities,
Mob Stonned Jal. ine

A inub aturmed. the. litte. "Yas at
“Mrnanktines in —-the- moming—atlen— Uhe-}+
shooting occurred, but there was lack
of a leader und a lynching was pre-e
vented. The nexro waa hurrled | ta
Lebanon, promptty tried, eongieted
nod sehlenced to dle, --

While In Hrankiti ne had been ttv-
{ug with a nexro named Meuben Tt-
ford. Tilford’s presence wus undeslre
uble tn the nelghburhuud and on the
evening a mob formed ‘In a Mvery
atable, xelected a leader and wentto
THeord’s house to order him out oft
town, Thinking they wanted to lynch
hd “Milford escaped through @ “rear
door and Darefouoted wulked over the
nf frozen Kround io eebanon, where he

=| Memorable L
Rike Dry

The Employes Entertained to

Inaugurating ao Friday ¢

~-agement for the Heated
of the Occasion.

—— ote

Wome ee articles were
flenti(led by Uhelr owners,
strength of this und later
own udiibwastort,
Was sentenced In the

dds - ence mee

White wu eg rautie ih VIVE In
Columbus shootingwghtis—negra: BYOB I-——-
heart, He wae caught at Springfield, +
bul owing to hix« age wax sent ta the s°
reforiatory, He served a while and |
was paroled, He was a desperate man |
And would net stop at murder to gain .-
his, liberty, He escaped ?rom the jal
In Tabanon and the country Was
xecoured for hin. Hie was cuuKht seve
gral days later near Cinctnnits

Upon the
upon her
Woman

the Freeman
&

seven years

~

—chited—by ath KEY CHO A msTetVs Sves Goes

}

MAYS

DPT EE PRG EY Kt

Turned. Oa - Again, --__-
tewas - -turned.on again for. a few.
dss;-and--the- examination. davele
ict thdt the heart wus still working,
Bt the third current was suffictent to
ye thin, 7?"
sa Tha body-was-tuken‘in-charge by
pv uther. -M, Rumagxi. who altended
ts baler was buried in Calvary cem-

Jing ar

¥

53
a
-

story today. °°
t {pm apite of the fact that Whito waa
Rohog a reatdent of this city, and was
ahd dw
ee og @: np local hotel, where ha
1 wbost-ofaoqualtitaynces-bufure he
merarted on the downwurd path, not a|
BiNele. person called to bid him fure-
ene Saddle" Freeman? his’ paramour, |

serving time Inthe female
ompllice Jn recelving
RI: Diunder of his numerous burglar-
Dp ow—salnules—with_him_int.

iv e ‘annex at His request,
} ime-he- war: -told to-pre-

oa °

$a.) eeremen -medow:

Who

Lanes January, Released From
Prison Upon Presentation of
a Petition Yrom- 60,000.

1

DAYTON POSTOFFICE MEN “j | %
WILL PICNIC ’AT-CARTHAGE | |e 7%

‘Ae Given ut jue Cinelnnath: Kore!
Ball Game WH The One of tbe
See Features, :

About half a hundred of the em-
ployes of the local postoffica depart.
ment will be entertuined Sunday by
the clerks and curriers of the Cincin-
nut! officy at u country club in Care
thage, O, An excellent Cina ta ox
pected.-— Out ‘of -the employes” who
will attend from_thls clty ut ball team

v

: FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kae, July
1p AN Milaie- dunuars, calito, Chorio
W, Anderson, for Whuse pardon a Aig
{itlon contulaing the slknaturesn of G0,-
009 persons, War -preventod to Preni-
dent Roosevel( three months ago, wan
Telused roy wna rederat prison there:

AU ers will return to Kun-
bee iY Where he Uw ened ye Ut
Dus|pess. ee
Nnidermon Wade convieted Ll yours
nee oof robbing aa Okiehornn Preest-

afflee ahd sentencod ta Qe pectadiutn-

Rast Me Feet to Feet”’

te

lary for three youre le essen gerd feo

will bo pleked, and a game will be
cpluyed in the morning, After the |
dinner, which will Conslst of-neveral]
courses, uo number of talks will bo
mada by Men prominent {tn “postal
work, and ou xoctal thie will be apent |
until evening,
ween Fhe: headwe ul tho. dlylelons..oF..tha.
Cinefnnath offices will be tn attends |
nnee, und will help to make Ute boya fr]
have an enjoyable Cmee, :
alte he al employes at this thane ne

eer Bare ae. Sot e

~


IDENTIFYING ESTABLISHING
AND A NATIONAL
DOCUMENTING MEMORIAL |

THEIR DEATHS

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.”

Abraham Lincoln

312/694-5661 312/529-1369
RONALD C. VAN RAALTE ‘ JUNE 8 1987

Law Enforcement Historian (- _ 4 oY .

Post Office Box 72883 Wiel - c chip ya pmaiina 4 —— AED Nh OA
Roselle, IL 60172-0883

Post Office Box 174 DR. G.H. BASORE te A Lye LAY AY S#, € Hast ANDI
Scottsdale, AZ 85252-0174

135 YALE
Chief of Security FRANKLIN, OH 450 oO be a QL Lo SA 2. oe A

Great Lakes Zone

- Avis Rent A Car, Inc. | . > |
DEAR DR. Ty ee tees WI orn saree

eee eee eee eee eee

Deputy Sheriff H-2 we 7 Lay ol 7

wearson City, Nevada THE REASON FOR THIS LETTER IS THAT I UNDERSTAND YOU ARE

eee eee eee eee eee eeeeee

THE GRANDSON OF GEORGE BASORE CBASHORE?), A MARSHAL OF

Sergeant (Retired) FRANKLIN WHO WAS MURDERED IN 1906.
Arlington Hts. Police Dept.

Certara tenet eee enetawawen

mast President I AM A RETIRED POLICE OFFICER ENGAGED IN A PROJECT TO
Int. Assoc. Auto Theft inves. IDENTIFY AND DOCUMENT ALL PEACE OFFICER DEATHS THAT HAVE

seeeeeeeeseeeraecaterereesnees EVER OCCURED IN THE COUNTRY. NO NATIONWIDE RECORDS EXIST
PRIOR TO 1972. SEVERAL YEARS AGAO A LETTER TO THE FRANKLIN

AD on Aseactuterstae - POLICE DEPARTMENT FAILED TO ELICIT A REPLY, INDICATING

And Local Historians THEY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF AN OFFICER EVER BEING KILLED. HOW-

ene ts eri EVER INDEPENDENT RESEARCH DISCLOSED THE MURDER OF YOUR

Org. of American Historians GRANDFATHER, AND THE SUBSEQUENT EXECUTION OF THE KILLER.

eee teeter nee eee eee

Western History Association THE LACK OF RECORDS ON THE DEPARTMENT IS NOT THAT UNUSUAL

a THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, WHICH IS HOW THIS PROJECT STARTED.
Fogmer Texas Rangers Association
pe reeewesesnecesecccconesceneees IT WOULD BE APPRECIATED IF YOU COULD SHARE ANY INFORMATION
_ Nat Assoc. of Outlaw and ON BENEFITS THE FAMILY RECEIVED FROM THE CITY, IF ANY, THE
Layman History BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON THE CHILDREN OF MARSHAL BASORE,
as ANY MEMORIAL PLAQUE, HEADSTONE OR MONUMENT THAT WAS ERECTED,
ee eee cccace A RETURNABLE REPRODUCABLE PHOTO.
Mich, Assoc. Chiefs of Police = THANK YOU.
Ill. Assoc. Chiefs of Police
PTT TTT Terre TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT SINCERELY YOURS,
Amer. Soc. Ind. Security Cy le
we eeececcenseececcceseccceaes Coo modk
Police Management Assoc. a p
ee ee ree renecereneecerrereseres RONALD C. VAN RAALTE
Amer. Society Public Admin. ROSELLE

P.S. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO MAKE SURE THAT PERSONS
SUCH AS YOUR GRANDFATHER ARE NO LONGER FORGOTTEN, AND MAY BE
PERMANENTLY REMEMBERED IN A NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL
MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.

GA

NM. a Cid ld id ee ae ¥...¥ “7 @ |
Dp SECTION: — io room =i

RIDAY. NOVEMBER 2.1906. | ee .

re

. wen" i “He
Z| Mure erer- hite. ot a
siping | Yet Out. of Danger
‘WEAR DRESS GOops: : be re
XN : | Plaids!’ Plaids! Plale nee:
< i 5 4 ser oie os We {if they d ot sub e ,
~ | rhe largest assortment ta.the city #1 | Mob May Be Formed if rie | ts Ca rr i ee
Ses, unc Veie Ste Gd $1 25 . ment Does . Not Satisfy colored men and women were Toandoe

i the Public. huddiing around a charcoal! fire {n: thes
: .- oe natural gambling den south

here, known as “Happy Hollow. Ser
They discussed. the advisability “of*{4

‘LEBANON DISTURBED | leaving the city, and the posstbility-ofoat

hormuine m pouy te resists yn cnae

kn 36 - mob, ormed. en they discov~

_ OVER UGLY RUMORS. ered they were seen, they scattered: Be
a \s Orit aonetaa "unit ont yee

w no e .molest unt!) after « 4

o —_ ne a ~action~of~the-grand "jury today-
‘Prominent Citizens” Doing” All| ie Snaictment brought by that bodyz&

They Can to Prevent the Possi- does het natlsty the crowds, ae
a ciAime yncening moo w ea
ble Assembling of a Mob—Busi-| talked of. There are about 300 Deree:

’

nd aaa 92: : Bee these before buying speeenere
ee TOC EE ae ois

sey Fleeced Vests * 35 : JUST RIGHT... or
nts, each ..soo- C i SUILTINGS

e Jersey Ribbed 50
1d Pants, euch.... C New Herringbone Sult- $1 25
Vo0)--- Vests —and—Pants,— —ingw,-a-yerd os =e

TEC aoa $100 | *Sistings's sera... 100

winter —.. -- New Invisible Plaids,
~? we ee i ee -. 0c a yard . $1. 75 ness Suspended at Franklin sons here who would gladly assist: a3
he, winter or 8 “atte 4: oo ‘ hen 2 pe mob from Franklin, though prominent % $3
ne ro cio euite ’

extra quality ... 69c Ingw,m yard—s...... m YF 00: During Basore’s Funeral. reittaens, ate- doing all they can to OM
ts, fine aid de RE . are Badle Freeman, the colored woman
TAO ccc aceeee 89. . eur AN poder Cheviot. —75¢*: Ns ace beame Bente Gnas de oe —p-who wae living with “White, “ta no

ix entra fine sibtahinnin’ tities dene Bpecial to The Dally News in the county jall on a charge of lary
ST) ren St, 00 ~Stylsh Mixtures and Tnviste- 48c- FRANKLIN, O., Nov. 2.—On Thurs-| ceny. She pleaded guilty and was un: c=
ts, white or grey wool, ble Ptnids, a yard ....00. @ay afternoon all | businesa_houses. | $010 t0 OptaD singfald 0. anata wee

manufacturing concerns and schools] potable character in the eyes of thes
closed during the hours for the fus| police of that city, In her prelimbfe
neral services of Murahal George Ba- tire Brien Stone she mado the’ following ae
sore, Services were held in the Meth- “! have known White for thee st
‘|odist church at 2 o'clock, the pastor | weeks. I did not know he was a thief:2¢
of that church, Rev. Creighton Wones,{-ot first. I stayed with him_hecause’ss

. - he promised to marry me-.He: ale
Pofticiating. Rev. Wones was assisted ways carried’ a pistol and sometimes 741 a

“by the Knoichta of Pythina of whichtnasors-- —-He-shot- at -the--off

“lodge Mr. Basore was a member, ---| Umea before Basore seturned-the the Frese
White had told me no one could

~—-LEBANON,; O.,: Nov. 2.—Tho-wnve [rest a atone-and he- would-killanyes
one who-tried.”- Se
of moral reform han swept from These stutements reveal two imporez:

: Franklin to this clty amd negroes bear-| tant fncta. It was not known betore'ss
Ing doubtful reputations are leaving | that-White shot first and that he. had 2s)

; made threats to kill anyone’ attam
tewn. Talk Is strong here of forming Ing hia arrest. These.facts will p

Ta peaceful body of men to request cer-| 41 {mportant part in the bringing’: of
taln colored Individuala to shake the] the Indictment and will make a. :
dust of Lebanon from their-feet, and| degree murder charge more probadi

HYDRAULIC COMPANY leges that although used with his coneY
° ~ + sent for-pubdtt =
ton of damages, was never_appropria %
ated by -the eity and they had. neve
—- SUED FOR. DAMAGES recelved any compensation for~, Mes
property. —- “eX SO

SPD $200 | iia ae. $8

A GREAT SHOWING OF -

VINTER-W RAPS _

ian OF ALL-KINDS =. =
EVENING COATS =

at-demand for thése we are now amply able to supply |
the prettiest garments-shown-this -scason, and at-most -
rate prices. Here are some stylishly made garments of
quality Broadcloth, in black, white, grey, red, and tan,

sige Het” $90.00, $22.50 one $25,00-

¥ “JUST TAKE A LOOK AT OUR

IG TIGHT: -FITTING COATS. we eee ef The -city” maintained, yp werel aah

re becoming very popular? They are. 50 inches long, and the land had- become_its own-on sows

of fine black kersey or ~~ aa $12, 50 1. $20. 00- : Cross-Petition of Wise-Schieble Site aga. ate aatoee aa

cloth. Priced .. eee ee eee Company—City Defendant in, The decision in the case”

WR CARRE FIP I PROR INR RE: DS? cE Bit Lee a Eth k hecete hae hi nial oa hae cae codec ned e abhiba des alin’ cclset ainaiaia Seaiil nila, Randeoih kia

Shorten tes tatty a ke : ete

Bia

t d. oe  pebe
rere are Jaunty Styles in Bhort Jackets, made $10, 00. Injunction. Cases. ores = want an Injunction: Ҥ5555
be eee 5 eee ei eet tater Ke Bh d that-the-defendan'
og peded cloth, well lined, and only .0:. :.....QlUsUy iow 3 ee eee ctr ant or ees oon

E | ‘PANAMA DRESS “SKIRTS [eer inveommon pleas court against Wookie

McGrew et al. to enjoin the. remo

‘Made to fit and priced to please— _ fi) swer and cross petition to the sult of | of certain farm product contrary.
As "_ 4 | the Cooper. Hydraulic company, which. the agreement. entered rs
gp. 00> $750; $8; 50a $10: 00 eth M | secks to collect water rents alleged man'a Kennedy. cepa ‘Carr,: : 3.
| to be owing for a number of years, |: i Broker’ Caen ae
r st 1ere are none prettier, and, for wear, none ean’ : The defendant. corporation avers Re: in is

: _ Mj) that the plaintiff impalred ite suppl oar the case of Walter A.' Blact
th iese. Nis ot Mes water gandrary, to mpnirheh and se. | John G."Webb,. the defendant: files,
nied {ts patrons adequate water serv- | motion for the appointment of = ap
ice. S.On account. of the shortage of | cial master commissioner to audit: th@ gs
water the defendant alleges aleo that accounts of the brokerage concern &

{{ wan cumpelled to resort to steam volved. ene een es

ower. CoA. Cralghead and D. B. an
Van Pelt, attorneys. us __ -~-MONTHLY REPO | De ba,

Clty. Is Saed, ow £0
Superintendent of - Markets “Jarpe -
YENTP Sa alrIp- of tand on Constable reported to the board “*"

I Dakota atreel wan [nvoived in an In-

se eels wt Pn oe warnalntac


capture.

nat I should
{ somewhere
clever. And
be captured.
sing game.

. But there
e was. But

3annon had
2 fellow and
immediately
ouse on the
vise ordered
ar the scene

’atrick Con-

) search the
I sprang
aw what he

nunced. “I
an ash bar-
yard of the
noticed the
barrel was
side. When
in there, |
ddenaway.”

ive Gandee,
“he gun was
ag. Gandee

was on the
ivers picked
levards. He
blocks from

o the squad
to the hotel.
< took us to
third floor
ind a voice
there?”
aid,

ted to find

ee

The Mystery Killing on Kenmore Boulevard 37

Mrs. Gannon and the ugly woman. But when the door opened .
we foutd the two women to be girls who worked in the Gannons’
place, I ordered them to dress and we returned them to my office. _.
I questioned the younger of the two girls first. She was about °
twenty-two years old and pretty. (aan

She said that her name was Peggy Young. I asked her. who
Mrs. Gannon’s friends had been. She began to cry. I sensed
that she knew something, but was afraid. I calmed her, finally,
and she said: ; ;

“Honestly, I can’t tell you who those men were. They came to
the place a couple of times. They spent lots of money. thete,
but they didn’t talk about themselves.” — Wg.

“Didn’t you ever hear their names mentioned?” I asked. ©.

“Well, they called. one of the men Johnny. He used’ to
there with an old woman, an awfully ugly one.” iP

She described him. He was the man we weré
holding. ae

“The other fellow,” she continued,
“was a young man called Frank.
And the. third. man was Bob.”

When she had finished a descrip-
tion of “Bob”, I knew that he
was the man we wanted. °

“Now tell me from the be-
ginning what happened and
what was said at the house.”

According to the girl’s story,
the crowd, including the old
lady, whom they called Nellie,
had come to the house early .in 5)

‘

f*.

Above is Frank Mitchdll, better
known as Charles ‘‘Pretty Boy”
da got — aay) found agg

anary Cottage....To
the left is Mrs. Nellie Maxwell,
called the “ugly woman”. She
was ohe of the first to be ques-
tioned regarding the killing. ...
At extreme left, below, Johnny

King, whose capture helped
toward the identification of the

birthday-party murderer

the evening. They sat around drinking and teasing Bertha
about her birthday. Then they left.

About midnight, they returned, Peggy said, and she told
him that the Vice Squad had arrested a girl and fellow.
Gannon and Frank left to bail out the couple.

An hour after they were gone, Mrs. Gannon suggested
they go out and celebrate. Peggy said she heard them go
out. Then she heard a crash, and then, shots. From the
window, she saw Mrs. Gannon. Doris, the girl who was
with her, suggested they leave. They got a cab and went
to the hotel where we had arrested them.

In answer to a question, Peggy said that Mrs. Gannon
and the other woman, Nellie, had not come back. to the
house after the shooting
while she was there. Detective Sherman Gandee,

Gandee interrupted at with some of the guns found in

this point t S- the slayer’s hide-out. He aided
daa Ce PSE Srques in the solution of the mystery

‘ and participated in the raid on
(Continued on page 49) Canary Cottage


36

Above is Mrs. Bertha Gannon,

wife of the proprietor of the Ken-'

more Boulevard resort, whose
birthday celebration resulted in
a murder. Her peculiar actions
in hiding her shoes started de-
tectives thinking along different
lines. To the right is her hus-

band, Bill Gannon... . Extreme |

right below, Peggy Young, the
girl who gave the first important
clue in the shooting

The Master Detective

The escaped man had shot because he had feared capture.
Following this line of argument it was inevitable that I should
atrive at the conclusion that our man must be wanted somewhere
—and for a serious crime. He was desperate and clever. And
desperate and clever criminals don’t wait around to be captured
We had to work fast—or find ourselves playing a losing game.
Our prisoner, I knew, would be of no value to us. But there
remained Mrs. Gannon. We didn’t know where she was. But
plenty of our men knew her.
_ Just then we received a telephoned report that Gannon had
gone to the Kenmore station, where he bailed out the fellow and
girl arrested by Kovach earlier in the evening. | immediately
ordered Murray to plant himself at the Gannon house on the
chance that one of the gang might show up. I likewise ordered
checked every cab taken by women near the scene
of the shooting.
As Murray left, Patrolman Patrick Con-
ley, who had been sent to search the
Gannon home, entered. | sprang
from my chair as | saw what he
had in his hand.
It was a revolver.
“Chief,” he announced. “I
found this gun in an ash bar-
rel. In the back yard of the
Gannon place I noticed the
cover of an ash barrel was
knocked on one side. When
I flashed my light in there, |
discovered this gun hidden away.”

The’ patrolman handed the gun to Detective Gandee.
who broke it. Six shells had been discharged. The gun was
the same caliber as that used in the shooting. Gandee
smelled the barrel.

“It's been fired recently,” he said.

Things were beginning to break for us.

Then the telephone rang. A cab dispatcher was on the
wire. He reported that one of his company’s drivers picked
up two women near the intersection of the boulevards, He
had taken them to a downtown hotel not five blocks from
Headquarters,

“Let's go,” I said to Pappano. We hurried to the squad

car and drove to the hotel.
The mysterious assassin of | he room clerk took us to
Patrolman Manes, captured in a room on the third floor

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“Peggy,” he said, “try to remember.
_ Did you ever hear any member of the
party say where he was staying; men-
tion any place at all?”

_ The girl thought a_ moment, shook
her head and said: “The only time I
ever heard any one say anything about
an address was when one of the men
said he had to hurry up to Cuyahoga
~ Falls to get the mail before the .post
_ Office closed.”

That was all Peggy could tell us. We

* tried Doris. For five minutes she stared °

» at us blankly and chewed gum with
‘utter unconcern. Then we gave her
up. She lied, and we could have torn
down her story, but we decided to let
it stand  temporarily:\since it was
© obvious she could give us no more in-
* formation than

_ phone rang again. Gandee answered.
“Send him in,” he*instructed., He
turned to me. “One of the precinct

~~ was alone

pondered aloud. “Get Murray on
‘the telephone out at Gannon’s plate.” A
moment later Murray Was on ‘he tele-
- phone. “Listen carefully,” I instructed.
» “We just got Bill Gannon. We’re fairly
f .° sure that he hasn’t seen Bertha yet.
ie: You wait at the house. Watch that
*. ‘telephone, and above all, don’t let any-
» one but yourself answer calls.

mS “She'll probably try to reach him at
©» the house. Now, Murray, if that tele-
» .. phone rings and it’s a woman’s voice,
- cut her short. Ask whether it’s Bertha.

other word. Just say it’s Bill. Tell her
you’re in a jam. Tell her, wherever she
is, to grab a cab and get home right
away. Then, don’t wait for an answer.
. Don’t let her answer. Just hang up.

* “Be sure to disguise your . voice.
-- Sound -nervous, excited, worried.: Un-
derstand? Fine.”

I hung up. The trap was set—and I
hoped it would work. ed ait
_ Bill Gannon was brought in. He was
sleek, well-dressed, flashy. There was
“racket” written all over him. It was

_< remotely possible that he might. talk
to profect his joint.

> “Sit down,” ordered Pappano..: Gan-
- non sidled to a chair near my desk. He
"seemed nervous and his silence warned
“us that he had already heard about th
~ shooting and knew something. -
He answered questions slowly and
- ) deliberately and told-us that he had
=~. been out on a party with his wife and
~ .~ some friends. He got home late and
-. found that a girl and fellow had been

, arrested in his place by the Vice Squad.
a He said that he went over to the Ken-
*. more Station to bail’ them out and
ee that he had been driving around look-
Be ing for Bertha, his wife, since then.
Bat “Who was the friend you went to

asked.

“1 don’t know his name. Just met

 him-a couple of days. ago. We just -

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Peggy. ‘She had .
~ scarcely left the room.when the tele-

- men just picked up Bill Gannon. He

: “GO his wife wasn’t, with. himy” I.

If she says yes, don’t let her get in an-

the Kenmore station with?” Pappano ,

lling on Kenm
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called him Frank. A friend of: mine.
introduced him to me.” '
“Who was the friend?” rene
“A fellow by the name of Bob.”

“Was this Bob with you on the
party last night?”

“No. I haven’t seen or heard from

him for three days.” Esa Say
*“Who were the others on the party,”

I demanded, : i :

_ Gannon got to his feet, denials on his

lips.’ He began to, protest vigorously.
“Sit down,” I. rasped.

damned well what it’s all about. ‘You’

know plenty, Now you're going to_tell

everything you know or rot in jail

until you get ready to talk.” ie

Gannon slumped back. in his chair.
He swore that. he didn’t know anyone —

on that party but his wife. He. said

Johnny and Frank. Frank, he said,

was the fellow.who had gone with him > ©

to the Kenmore. Station. He said he.
had left him downtown when’ he’

started driving about to look.;for

Bertha: He didn’t know where Frank
lived—or any of them.

Bob was the man who had _ in- >

troduced him to the others, Gannon.
said. He had met him in a joint in
Hot. Springs, Arkansas. He had: told
him.to look him -up if he came to
Akron. That had been two years be-
fore.

“Anyone else with that gang?” I
asked. he Se

“Just an old woman called Nellie.”

I shot a leading: question at him.

“When did you call them to make
arrangements for the party?”

Gannon, wary, saw through that one.
He knew I wanted the gang’s telephone
number. He was shaky. His face was

covered with sweat and he kept his.

eyes on the floor as he replied.

a DON’T even know if they have a

telephone or whether Bob called
me from the house.”
Then Gannon shut up—except for’ an
occasional yelp that he be released. He
ducked our’ questions and began talk-
ing about seeing his attorney. I. or-
dered him locked up.
Gannon had been at the Kenmore:
Station at the time of the shooting.
He had a perfect alibi. But I knew he
was lying when, he protested ignorance
of the gang’s hidesout. And from’ his:
stgry, and Peggy’s, I was .certain that
this mob which had not been in town
long, must have ‘a telephone. .. It would
have been newly installed; not. listed

in the directory. \ Bill was shrewd.” If

that gang spent money freely, he would
have ‘kept in touch with them, some-
how. And: if. Bill Gannon -had their
telephone number, it would be written
down somewhere in his house. °Tele-
phone numbers are hard to remember,
and theirs couldn’t be found: in: the
book. I decided on another long shot.
I called Murray, the detective sta-
tioned at Gannon’s. house.. ee:

-“Look through the house carefully,” 1

“You know |

phone number you can find around the
place—off the walls, scratch paper,

. everywhere.” ‘

ithin a few minutes, Murray called
back. He had gone over the entire
.house with Jasper McKinney, one of
the district men. They had found five
telephone numbers. | instructed Pap-
pano to have each checked.

*By this time it was 6 a. M.. It was
“still dark and I hoped, somehow, we'd
find the gang’s hid -out before dawn
so that we could use darkness to hide
our movements. Tips began te flood
‘the Bureau.. Our squads, weary from
lack of sleep, ae from the pace
‘they had kept throughout the might,
were Bue They raided house after
house. They found nothing.

pent was shining through the window.
The telephone rang again. I answered
it

“It worked, Chief,” came Murray’s
-exultant voice. “She called just after
- you hung up and she bit, hook, line and
‘sinker. She got here a few minutes
“ago. But she -didn’t come straight for
the door.

“GHE headed right for the ash barrel
“where Conley found that gun.”

- We were getting the breaks. That
message of. Murray’s meant one impor-
tant thing. Mrs. Gannon had spent
the time between her disappearance at
the shooting scene and the time of her
‘capture, with the man who:had shot
Manes.

For only that man could have told
her where to find the gun. :

We spent a long quarter of an hour

awaiting her arrival. Finally the door
opened. Murray came in. Ahead of
‘him he pushed a raging, defiant Mrs.
Gannon.
+ “What's all this mean? You can’t
get away with this stuff; dragging me
to. jail for nothing.” She pounded on
my table.

- “Sit down,” I ‘said.

‘She slumped into a chair. Her face
held a sickly pallor. She was coming
out of a bad jag. ;

_ “This is a swell birthday party,” she
moaned.

. “Bertha,” I continued, “I want you -

to, tell us: where you were last night
_and everything that happened.”

» “Twas on a party, that’s all I know.
I was pretty drunk.”

And that was all we could get out
of her: about the party—and the shoot-
ing. With drunkenness as a refuge, she
refused to admit that she had seen,
heard or done anything.

’ “Well, where have you been in the
last four hours?” Gandee demanded.
at walking around, I guess.”
_ “Walking around where?”

. “Around the streets.
“railroad tracks.”

“Down* by the railroad tracks,” |
“repeated. ‘Well, why did you head for

that .ash barrel when you got home?”
» “I went right into the house. Who-

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ever says I went to some ash barrel
is crazy,” she replied coolly.

“You knew that gun was there, didn’t
your”

“What gunP
about a gun.”

The woman was calm and unshaken.
She was clever. The only nervousness
she betrayed was at one instant when
she looked at her wrist as though ex-
pecting to find her watch. She ‘fumbled
with her arm.

“What's the matter”; I asked, “lost
your watche”

“Yep, I guess I lost it while I was
drunk. Bill will raise hell. He gave
it to me for a wedding present. It had
a big diamond in the case,” she sighed.

I don’t know anything

We were not especially interested in’

the watch just then, although it was
to play its par later. We could get
nothing further out of Bertha and we
couldn’t shake her story. I ordered her
locked up in a cell by herself. - ;

I asked Murray: “How long did you

say it took her to get home after she.

_ called the house?”

“Around three-quarters of an hour,”.

he said.

J MULLED that over. The Young:

woman had said the gang went to

Cuyahoga Falls for their mail. It would:
take about three-quarters of an.hour to’

ride to that town in a cab,

But, if Bertha Gannon. had. gone’

there after the shooting—and we. had
no way of proving it—where in ee
hoga Falls had she gone? We:checked

the cab in which Bertha had arrived

and learned that the driver had picked

her up on the street near the railroad’
This seemed ‘to’ bear.

tracks in town.
out her story that she had been walking
near the tracks. It was one big puzzle.

I looked at my watch.

went out for a bite to eat.’ When we
got back we found that the telephone
numbers sent in by Murray had all
been checked.

One was to an unlisted telephone at
731 Lodi Street. Lodi Street was at
the far side of town in a small, sparsely
settled district. That didn’t seem to
mean much, 3

Murray leaned forward thoughtfully:
“Chief, Lodi Street is on the other side
of the Cuyahoga Falls road. It’s pos-
sible that that mail, territory covers
that street.” He picked up. the tele-

phon, “Get me the postoffice at Cuya-

oga Falls.” :
moment later he slammed down

the telephone. “That’s the place, all
’ right. They cover that street.” +

“Take it easy,” I suggested. “We'd
better not go off wild on this hunch.
Let’s take another try at Bertha Gan-
non. She may give us a tumble. We'll
try the address on her.” : :

Bertha was brought in. She glared
at me. Not one word was spoken
until she asked what we wanted.

cided to talk,” I told her. “Bertha,” I
demanded, “what were you doing out
on Lodi Street after the shooting?” «. .;

aay

Not a quiver of recognition did ‘she.’
“It had.

show at the name of the street.4I

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It was two’
o'clock in the afternoon, now. This was .
the first let-up in our investjgation. We

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been- a blind stab—and ‘a failure.

“Lodi, Street?” she asked naively.
“Never heard of the place.”

There was a dead silence in the room,
I sat wondering what to do next. A
scraping sound disturbed my thoughts,
I leaned forward. Bertha Gannon ner-
vously was rubbing her shoes together.

In a flash the full realization of what
this meant struck me. I remembered,

_ now, that Bertha, throughout the entire

questioning, had sat with her feet
tucked -under. her chair. She was at-
tempting to hide something. I got up,
strode toward her.

“Let’s see your shoes,” | shouted.
pspe jerked them back beneath the
chair.

“Let me see your shoes,” I demanded.

Reluctantly, she withdrew her feet
from under the chair. She kept her
eyes averted.

The soles of both of ber shoes were
covered with a bright, red clay.

“Where did you get that stuff all
over your shoes?”

Her. voice trembled. In a_ hushed,
hoarse tone, she said: “Just walking
around after the gang left me at the
place where the shooting happened.”

“Where did you walk to?” I per-

' sisted.

“Oh, I can’t remember exactly. 1
guess it was down around the railroad

yards.”

: “Railroad: yards, nothing,” 1. said.
“You know there isn’t any red cla
around railroad yards. It’s all blac
dirt and cinders. » You’re lying. You
got that away from town somewhere.”
The woman tightened her lips. She
refused to answer any more ‘questions.
I ordered her taken from the room.

“(ET into your car, Pappano. Check

G the Lodi district. Find out ‘if
there’s. any red clay out there.”

In a moment we heard the car roar
away from. the station. Twenty min-
utes later the telephone rang, Pappano,
his voice shaking with excitement, was
on the wire. .

“Chief,” he said, “this is a new real
estate development out here. The
whole place is banked with red clay.”

We were on the right track at last.
I ordered Pappano to come back in;

“Get the best shots we’ve got. Tell
them to put on the bullet-proof vests
and meet me here in ten minutes. Get
out the sawed-offs and the automatic
rifles, ;

Cuyahoga Falls ... . A scribbled tele-
phone number .’.. Lodi Street . .. and
finally, the clue of the red clay. It

then I turned to Murray.

all added up.
Fourteen hours had passed since the
shooting. I wondered if we would be
too late. Sidetrackin
we filed out. We didn’t know what—
if anything—we might expect: at our
destination, but we were prepared for
anything. Tear gas bombs and riot

; . guns were in our two police cars as
“We thought you might have-+de-’:

we sped out of the garage.
Through the side streets at fifty miles
an hour, not daring to sound our sirens,

~ we headed for Lodi Street. On the way
out, I formulated some plan for cover-
ing the house, ‘There’ were eight, of us.

ys,

newspaper men,»

Bruce Ward was driving our car, and
with us were other detectives, Richard
Mosely, Sherman Gandee, Denny Mur-
ray, Patsy Pappano and myself. In
the other car were Detective Louis Gus-
tavel and another man.

If the men we were seeking were in
the house, and began shooting, we
would have to blast them out. If we
made it unseen, we would trick our way
into their lair and then rush them.

Dark clouds hung over the city. In
some houses, lights were burning. We
came to the Lodi Street district. Red
clay banked the narrow road, | noticed,
as we turned into that street. Finally
we saw the building. It was a veritable
fortress atop a high knoll. It was a
yellow house, later to be called Canary ©
Cottage, because of its color. Windows
at each corner gave the occupants un-
obstructed views. It was a_ perfect
hide-out.

“Give it the gun, Bruce,” I whispered.
“Let’s coast up that driveway and may-
be they won’t hear us. If there’s no
shooting, Murray and I go to the front
door. ‘The rest of you keep out of sight.

A light in the ian window told us
that there was someone in the house.
However, we never knew until later
what kind providence permitted us to
approach unseen.

urray and I reached the porch all
right. Our pre-arranged plan was this:
Murray, who was a short and rather
thin fellow, wore glasses and didn’t
look like a detective, was to go to the
door and knock. I would crowd against

_ the wall and stay out of sight until that

door opened. When it-did, the rest was
up to-us,

Murray: knocked, while I flattened
myself against the wall. Footsteps

fsounded in the hallway,

., Murray‘smiled and said to someone
Yinside: “Is the lady of the house at
home?” °

“What’s that?” came a voice. It
sounded like a woman’s voice. But it
was gruff and deep. The lock snapped
back. f

As the owner of the voice opened the
door, I caught a glimpse of her face.
She was a very ugly woman. Bedrag-
gled gray hair hung down over her eyes.
At that moment, she saw me. She
jumped back, and pushed on the door.

BUT in that instant, Murray’s foot

was out, holding the door. | Sprang
forward, seized her by the throat with
my left hand, shoved the gun in my
right hand against her ear. Murray
pinned her arms to her sides.

“Make one move or let out one
squawk,” I assured her in a whisper,
“and I’ll blow out your brains,

She was the woman whom Bertha
Gannon had led away from the officers;
the woman Manes had talked to on the
street before he was shot; the woman
Bill Gannon and Peggy Young had re-
ferred to as Nellie.

“Where are they? Quick,” I com-
manded. ’

Her eyes swept toward the second
floor. _Pappano and Gandee rah into
‘the house: now. Still clutching the

“woman, we rushed up the stairs., To >
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ee

T that hostelry, McDonnell and

Pappano learned that Bertha
Gannon had not put in an appear-
ance there. But in scanning the
register, the two sleuths came upon
the name of Iris Delong, a good-
looking blonde of uncertain tem-
perament, who had already been
tagged by Kovach as a frequenter
of the Gannon place. *

“Better look in on her, eh?”
Pappano. suggested.

His chief agreed. The Delong
woman herself .answered their
knock. Disgusted, she stared at the
officers.

“What, again?” she muttered.

“All we want is a couple of an-
swers,” McDonnell assured her.
“Were you at the Gannon place
tonight?”

“Sure. I got a phone call from
Bill to come over. He said there
was a guy named Bertie flashing a
big roll of bills. I stayed a couple
of hours and then pulled out.
What’s this all about, anyhow?”

“I want you to try and remem-
ber everything that was said up
there,” the chief of detectives told
her earnestly.

After. a half hour’s questioning,
the two sleuths were convinced she
knew nothing of the shooting.

Back at headquarters, McDonnell
found Gandee waiting for him. ‘The
tall, bespectacled detective was ex-
cited.

“I searched the house like you
told me to, Chief,” he related, “and
I didn’t find a thing. Then I re-
membered the alley the guy. with
the gun had ducked into. I search-
ed every foot of it, and in an ash
barrel against the wall I found this
gun.” ;

McDonnell sniffed the barrel of

the: Colt Special. He broke it; six

shells had been discharged.

- The gun was a 32 calibre weapon,
the same kind that had wounded

Manes. It had been recently fired.

The important find was turned
over to Ballistics for comparison
tests with the bullet recovered from
the dying patrolman’s body. Also,
fingerprint experts would make an
attempt to lift prints from the
gun.

At one o’clock on the afternoon
following the brazen shooting of
the cop, Bill, Gannon walked into
the office of the commanding offi-
cer at the Kenmore precinct sta-
tion and announced that he was
ready to put up bail for Johnny
King, the man arrested at the time
of the shooting but not directly in-
volved in it.

The news was relayed to Chief
McDonnell.

“Keep him at the station house,”
the officer instructed. “Don’t let
him leave till I give the word.”

McDonnell hung up and immedi-
ately dialed the Gannon house. De-
tective Murray, who had _ been
Planted there earlier, answered.

“Denny?” McDonnell snapped, “I

Ptlmn. Harland F. Manes
who died a hero's death.

got something I want you to do.
We got Gannon and we're going to
keep him here a while. You stick
close to that phone. It’s a cinch
Bertha will call sooner or later.
You know her voice. It’s high-
pitched, a real falsetto.

“Cut her short. Ask her if it’s -

Bertha. If. she says yes, mumble
that you’re Bill, her husband, and
you're in a tough spot. You want
her to come over to the house right
away. Disguise your voice.

“Wait ere. Minute she shows
up, nab her. Bring her to my of-
fice!”

Forty minutes later the phone
rang on McDonnell’s desk. The caH-
er was’Murray. A note of elation
was in his voice.

“It worked like a charm, Chief,”
he related. “Bertha telephoned and
after the spiel I gave her she came
tearing down here in a cab.

“And guess what? Minute she
gets out of the taxi, instead of
coming upstairs, she slinks around
the alley to the ash barrel and
looks for the gun! The gun that

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Killer (above): "I'd blast you
cops to Kingdom Come!"

shot Manes! How would she know
it was there unless she had been
with the man who hid that
gun after he had cached it?”

minutes later, Murray

reached headquarters with the
loudly-protesting woman in tow.
“What right have you got to high-
hand me like this?” she demanded.

“A policeman was shot down in
cold blood only hours ago,” the de-
tective told her severely. “It’s an
even bet he’ll never pull through.
Right now, you’re our best bet to
tell me who did it.”

“Why me? All I know is I gota
tough break. I was sitting in my
own apartment with my husband
and friends. We decided to go out
and celebrate my birthday.

“We got into the car. I sat in the
back. The guy at the wheel went
suddenly berserk running down a
car and shooting an officer. Was
that my fault? Of course not! I
had no hand in it.”

“Who was the man at the
wheel?”

“He called himself Bert. He horn-
ed in on my party. And that Nellie
is a friend of Bert’s. That’s all I
know about them.”

“Why did you run away after the
shooting?” .

(Continued on page 33)


ber was for a new residence on th
700 block on Lodi Street. ‘

‘It was the house in the newest
development that was heavily
banked with red clay!

Back at headquarters, McDon-
nell, Gandee, Murray, Pappano and
a dozen of the best shots in the
department, armed with bullet-
proof vests, sawed-off shotguns,
tear gas bombs and riot guns, piled
into two long, powerful cars and
sped to Cuyahoga Falls.

Entering the Lodi Street district
they slowed down and when they
reached a narrow, clay-banked road
at the end of the street the
halted. .

The sleuths. spotted the house.
It stood off by itself, high.on a
hill, a veritable fortress.

‘

Chief McDonnell mapped out a

plan. Detective Murray, who look-
ed more like a bespectacled book
salesman than the brilliant officer
he actually was, would walk up to
the front door, knock, and while
engaging the person who opened
the door in talk, McDonnell, who
would be flattened against the wall
‘only a few feet behind, would rush
the door.

Once inside, it would be every
man for himself, with the rest of
the officers pouring into the build-
ing from the rear door and cellar
as well as in front.

“Ready?” McDonnell asked.

Murray went to the door and
tugged at the knocker. McDonnell
was right behind him but invisible
from any window in the house.

There was a slight pause, then
came footsteps and a woman’s
shrill voice, “Who’s there?”

The sleuth mumbled something
unintelligible. The door began to
open. A woman in her late forties
stared at him. “Well, what do you
want?” she barked.

Murray jammed his foot in the
door opening. A look of fright
crossed the woman’s features. Be-
fore she could scream a warning,
McDonnell leaped inside and grab-
bed her around the mouth.
‘“Where are they?” McDonnell
whispered.

She rolled her eyes in the direc-
tion of the upstairs.

By this time, Gandee and Pap-.
pano had crowded inside. Still
holding the woman, the four offi-
cers made their way up the carpet-
ed flight of steps. There was still
no indication of alarm from up-
stairs. a

~The door of the bedroom on the
left was open. From inside came
the voices of men engaged in con-
versation. .

Sub-machine gun in hand, Gan-
dee kicked the door wide open. As
he did, a man who was sitting on
a chair near the window made a
dive under the bed. The other oc-
cupant in the room, a flat-faced
man of forty-five or a little older,

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glared at the officers. Both of his

arms were swathed in bandages. .

“Good thing for you guys .I’m
helpless,” he sneered, “or I'd have
blasted all of you to Kingdom
Come!” "

The man under the bed was
dragged out. On the floor was a
fully loaded automatic rifie. It had
been cached there for just such an
emergency. Had the man not been
seen diving under the bed, he would
have killed one, maybe more, of
the raiders. .

McDonnell ripped off the older
man’s bandages. A bullet wound
was in each arm.

Patrolmen Michaels had stated
that when the shooting began he
had nicked the gunman who had
shot Manes, at least once. —

“What's all this about,” the
wounded man snapped. “You can’t
go bustin’ into—”

“You are under arrest for the
shooting of Patrolman Manes,” Mc-
Donnell told him.

“A cop? I don’t shoot cops.”

“You can tell that to a jury.”

ites men were led out of the
house. A thorough search of the
eight rooms revealed that there was
noone else there. But the place was
loaded down like an arsenal. In a
phonograph the searchers found
two loaded automatics. In a win-
dow box they found two more. A
sub-machine gun was in the closet
nearest the bedroom. An automatic
rifle, a repeating shotgun, two more
loaded automatics were in a big
wooden chest under the sofa.
There were plenty of suitcases, all
packed. In them, the police found
nitroglycerine, fuses, ammunition,
burglar tools, knives, even brass
knuckles!
' The wounded gunman was hus-
tled off to Peoples Hospital. Patrol-
man Manes had suffered a relapse:
but he still was conscious. Asked if
he was strong enough to attempt
to identify the man who had shot
him, he nodded his head. The pris-
oner was brought in.
Manes stared at the smirking
gunman and a look of recognition
filled his half-open eyes.

beg

“Is he the man who shot you?”. 4

McDonnell asked.


fellow-officer. He whipped out his
service revolver and slipped the
safety catch. The gunman fired
first. He sent two bullets whistling
past the patrolman’s head.

The light was bad, the nearest
street lamp being about twenty
feet away. It was probably this that
had made Michaels a bad target
and saved his life. The courageous
officer didn’t flinch. His own gun
spat, and the prisoner seemed to
‘ shiver as though struck. But he
didn’t go down.

Sergeant Kovach had meanwhile
handcuffed his own prisoner and
flung him on the ground. He and
Possehl joined in the gun-fight.
points to The gunman turned and ran back
car toward the Gannon house. To the
left was an alley. He disappeared
. inside and in the pitch darkness
made his getaway.

Patrolman Manes was uncon-
scious. He was rushed to nearby
Peoples Hospital where he was pre-
pared for surgery. An immediate
blood transfusion gave him a faint
fighting chance. But when Chief of
Detectives Edward J. McDonnell ar-
rived at the operating room, he was
greeted by a negative shake of the
head by the Chief Surgeon.

Manes’ face was chalk white. His
lips twitched as the chief of detec-
tives leaned over the stretcher. Mc-
Donnell asked a single question,
“Could you identify the man who
shot you?”

Painfully, the patrolman’s head

nodded in the affirmative.
Back at his office, the chief call-
ed in Kovach and Michaels and
got the full story of the shooting
from them.

Next, the prisoner captured in

Det. Benkley
hole in window. of

seized at Canary Cottage.
At right is Det. Bruce Ward.

‘ name as Johnny King, was brought
' in. “Bill Gannon is an old pal of

—_ Mitchel, later known
"Pretty Boy" Floyd, was
found under bed at Fideout,

Arsenal found by police at
cluded submachine gun,

the shooting fray, who gave his.

"Buzzards'
nitroglycerine, knives.

‘mine,” he replied in answer to-Mc-
Donnell’s ‘questions, “and when I

came in from Detroit this morn-

ing, I went over to his place. After
supper, Bill and Bertha and I were
sittin’ around, drinking, when this
man and woman walked in. He was
about forty, tough-looking, and the
dame with him was older, maybe
fifty, with the ugliest face you ever
saw.

“About two in the mornin’ Bertha
suggested we go someplace and
celebrate her birthday. This guy,
Bertie they called him, and Nellie,
the old gal, insisted on tagging
along. Bill stayed home so [ went
in his place.

“No sooner we got in the car
than Bertie rammed a Chevrolet.

. Then he started shooting. I didn't

know he had a gun.”

King was led back to his cell to
await a full check of his statement.
The chief then called in his three
aces, Denny Murray, Sherman Gan-
dee and Patsy Pappano, and to-
gether, they drove to Gannon’s
place on Kenmore Boulevard. They
routed Bill Gannon out of bed to

.find out what he knew about “Ber-

tie.”

“That punk?” Gannon sneered
“What would I know about him?
Trigger-happy guys aren’t in my
line. He came up here with his
funny lookin’ dame and mentioned
a couple of pals I used to know in
Toledo. I got no idea who.the guy
is.

‘“Where’s Mrs. Gannon? Didn’t
she double back here. with. Nellie

-after the shooting?”

“Uh-uh. My guess is that Bertha
got scared and holed in at some
hotel.”

“Any particular hotel?”

“Try the Palace.”

Roost” in-


2

quarters. There they were booked
on homicide charges and then
_ transported to the offices of the
Queens District Attorney at Long
sland City. Questioned by Assis-
tant District Attorney Charles W.
Froessel, aided by Detectives Du-
gan and Gallagher, the suspects
at first steadfastly denied their
guilt. But as the witnesses were
brought in te confront them, the
youths broke down and began to
show signs of weakening.

The first witness to identify the
five was the cab driver who had
taken them from the scene of the
crime to the speakeasy in New

_ York.

“Okay, Gallagher, you can bring
in the cook,” said Froessel. Grella,
the cook, was led in before the
prisoners. “Do you recognize these

men?” the assistant prosecutor ask-
ed.

“Yes,” said Grella~ unhesitating-

ly. “Those three held us up.” He ~

pointed to Green, Daunt and Koer-

“Which one fired the fatal shot?”

“That one!” accused the cook,
leveling his finger at Koerber. The
slim youth blanched and licked his
dry lips.

Froessel motioned to Gallagher to
lead the cook out, then turned to
young Koerber and asked calmly:

re you ready to talk now?”

HUMAN
DETECTIVE

“I had been drinking a lot. When
all this gunplay started I lost my
nerve.”

While she was talking, the sharp
eyes of Chief McDonnell noted with
particular interest that she kept
shoving her feet under the table as
though trying to hide them from
view

The head of-the city’s sleuth’s
said quietly—“Where did you get
that clay on your shoes?”

“Near the railroad tracks.”

“Youll have to do better than
that, Mrs. Gannon. There isn’t a
speck of red clay down there!”

The veteran detective chief
pressed a buzzer. An aide entered
and was instructed to scrape some
of the clay off the shoes and hand
it over to the police scientific lab-
oratory for analysis.

hen came the awaited report on
ae red clay. The information it

contained was terse and brief. Sim-
ilar clay was to be found in the
‘Lodi district around Cuyahoga
Falls, a town about three-quarters
cf an hour’s ride by car from the
city of Akron.

Veins pounding in his temples,

the youth replied: “Yes, I did it,

but I didn’t mean to.”

Wee a police stenographer
took down his words, Herbert
Koerber made a full confession. He
and the other four young men had
been sticking up restaurants and
lunch wagons for the past month,
he said, but never thought they
really would have to shoot. On the
previous night, Saturday, they held
up a cabaret in Harlem just be-
fore midnight. From there they
drove by cab to Jamaica and stop-
ped at a speakeasy on Hillside
Avenue. They had a few drinks
and then robbed the place before
they left. Taking another cab, they
drove to the Long Island Railroad
depot. But finding they would have
to wait twenty minutes for a train,
they couldn’t resist another heist
job. So they walked over to the res-
taurant of Angelo Mahairas—with

fata] results.

“Everything would have gone off
all right if the owner hadn't tried
to knock the gun out of my hand,”
Koerber complained.

“Did you get any money there?”
Froesse) asked.

“Yes,” Koerber answered. “Daunt
grabbed a roll from the cook, who
tried to hide it. But when we shot
the owner, Daunt got scared. He
was afraid we might be traced by

HUMAN FACTS FROM POLICE FILES

the money, so he left it all in the
cash register as we went out.” .

Less than a week later, on March
29, 1926, the grand jury returned
indictments against all five de-
fendants charging first degree mur-
der as well as assault and robbery
in the restaurant holdup.

Herbert Koerber was given a sep-
arate trial. On April 5, less than
three weeks after the murder, he
was placed on trial before County
Judge Frank F. Adel and a jury. -
Five days later, after five hours of
deliberation, the jury found him
guilty as charged. Two days later
he was sentenced to die in the elec-
tric chair at Sing Sing.

While Koerber was in the death

‘house, his erstwhile companions in
crime went on trial before Judge
Adel and were allowed to plead
guilty. The court at once sentenced
them to from 20 years to life on
charges of second degree murder.

Koerber meanwhile was granted

@ new trial and on February 7,
1927, was found guilty of second
degree murder. On. the following
Friday he was sentenced to a term
of from 20 years to life, which he
and his four cohorts are still serv-
ing. :

Note: The names Mike Clayton
and Dominick Grella, as used in
this story, are not real but fictitious
to protect innocent persons.

THE CANARY COTTAGE HIDEOUT MURDER

{Continued from page 13

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By watching her eyes roll, the cop
knew where to search for a slayer.

PANO and Gandee made a
hurried trip to the Lodi district

to reconnoitre. At Lodi Street, on
the other side of the Cuyahoga
Falls road, was the newest of the
developments and the whole place
was heavily banked with red clay.

McDonnell telephoned the Ken-
more precinct station and talked
to the commanding officer. “Can
you send a man over to pick up
Bill Gannon and his wife?” he ask-
ed. “Just hold them an hour or
so.”

Twenty minutes later the request
was complied with and the detec-
tive chief and Murray were driving
toward the Kenmore Boulevard

hangout. The chief explained their
errand:

“From what I can gather, this
Bertie spends plenty of dough in
Gannon’s place. That means Bil}
Gannon Keeps in pretty close touch.
It’s a cinch the gunman’s telephone
number is somewhere in that house.
A phone number is hard to re-
member. Gannon must have writ-
ten it down.”

Arrived, the two men began their

‘search. In the kitchen, about two

inches over the sink, was a scrawl-

ed notation on the wall paper. It

read: “Unlisted—Cu. F. 2-847.”
Cu. F.—Cuyahoga Falls!

The operator was instantly con-
tacted. She revealed that the num-


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JOHN WASHBURN.

lars in specie, with goods to the amount of five hundred ~

~ dollars. The \
~<a store on the bank of the river about twelve miles from

~ where the murder was committed. ‘They then sunk the
boat and-returned to Memphis, congratulating each other
on their good fortune, and seemed to think it was @ much

| - better way of living than by hard work. tes
> eMhey then bought two horses, pistols, &c. and equipped

themselves for the highway. ‘They travelled about two —

hundred and fifty miles to a town by the name of Glay-
den, put up their horses, aud retired to a tavern, a short +
distance from the town, where they remained some time —
before any thing of consequence trans ired, but Giually
they met with a mail cart a few miles from the town. |
Washburn caught hold of the reins, and Desy pulled
the driver from his scat, and they puta hafidkerchief over
his eyes, and rifled the mail, which they found to contain
about fifteen hundred dollars.

bed entered a store and stole near two thousand dollars’
worth of goods and money. The next morning t
went into the woods and buricd the money ina er
returned to hear the news. They went digect to ¢ store -
they had robbed, where a crowd was assembled, and Den- _
ny stole three pocket-books, the contents of which amount-

to seven hundred dollars. se

They soon after fell in with a young man by the name’
of Henry Roberts, and they all three went about seven ©
miles to a farmer's house, where Roberts had once lived. |
Roberts knocked at the door and applied for lodging for
himself and friends. The old man readily agrecd to this,
and showed them up stairs to a bedchamber, where they
laid down but did not undress. After the old man had
retired, they got up and_ Roberts led the way down stairs.
Roberts took an axe and went to the farmer’s bedside, and
cut his head off with two blows. They then plundered
the house of cighteen hundred dollars in gold and silver.
This murder was committed in the winter of 1827.

Washburn then left his old companions inj crime and
went te Natches, where he became acquainted with Lov-

oods they disposed of toa man that kept _

“and the other his head.

They then relcased the » |
driver and returned to the tavern, and before retiring to —

JOHN WASIIBURN,

ett, Jones and Carter, and comm i
zi e..ced busi t -
- ett. ne aaa first crime was to amen pe, no
: ter, — they met coming from the bank where he had —
xed 5 - ig = st gor ial yr oe They went out of |
, and waiied till the planter c
; “hery they caught hold of the Sana bridle: wad be
at him at the same se Pesce ball entered his breast
heac ¢ fell and expired immedi ;
her a — ind goPat oe res turned the hoe
* oa the in the hollow st
- tree and covered it with nea *s. Thi ie the oi
mer of 1828, and during the latt Sed of thet outa
| ter period of that
. was busily engaged in oe | ei yaad be
like, 00% § weae burglary, picking pockets and the
ry folowing. Washburn and C
«ged aeledabadarrmgs rn t eu ee dissipated
table and fost one tobe: it Motiars bal oi their ice
nd dollars, but on their re
met . = — — him of fifteen hundred dol.
lars. Soot pr they broke into a jeweller's st
avy ney ce na te the = of two thousand dellocs
isted to the care of one He Wi
who took good care of it, f with the'le
' » for he cleared out with tl
Sone long time they led a life of drunkenness sind ie.
. sorvtd . : he A se Pies robbery was at the house of
: wey knocked at the door, s!
in, and they then told her if i ahr thew whens
, he did not tell t!
ee iaosteyfarat ate ier if s them whicre
by was, they would take her life. She
i ih eda “ide of her drawers, Geta wrhick
hurd Pye teodké 10 she possessed, amounting to twelve
hey then returned to Natehes, and i
: on their
Sapa a robbery to the amount of twelve eosdred
ose me of the passengers. A great noise was made
pects bay ast Stig a eshte but Washburn
pice: s © blacksinith’s sho il
night they arrived at Natches ot wen domee
oVe be *S, n i i
vie ore from the boat, stole nr “aie Sn cy. ve oe
vp brea seven hundred dollars in gold. ae
kde aoe stayed at Natches for three months, in all
ver of crime; one burglary in particular, where Lov-


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JOHN WASHBURN.

~ ett, who had again

vant gitl by knockin
after which they rob
_ in money and

lars. ey then
ri and threw it

any person they knew to

ment, broke jail a

nd escaped. They

land, at the mouth of the Cumberland river,

were again arrested, on

three months, and again broke jail and esca

ville by stage, where the remained concealed for three
out only in the night, disguised. One
the Exchange Bank, through
door, by means of a skeleton Key, but could not gain an
ondness of the
‘in a desk

months, venturin
night they ente

_- entrance to the vault on account of the g
“| lock, but they found a package of moncy

amounting to three thousand dollars.

In the year 1829, he received a
begging him to return home, and although
deeply entered crime,

in money: with a part of

nasociated with him, killed the ser-
her head, with a large hammer,
the store of five hundred dollars
cods to the amount of two thousand dol-
took up the body of the unfortunate
down a well at the back part of the
ousc. At this time t

> here were a number of persons at
~ Natches termed

Sences, that is, receivers of stolen rer
They would purchase property to any amount, and o
! a Pree a thief. This robbery and

> murder was committed in the winter of 1829. For this
crime they were arrested, and after three weeks confine-

then went to Smith-

the same charge they had been
confined for in the Natches jail, where they remained

Ietter from his mot

where they

to Nash-

he had 80
he seems not to have lost all feelin
for his parent, and he aecordingly left his companions a
went home. On his arrival he had three thousand dollars
it he hought her the lease of about

fifty acres of land, farming utensils, and houschold fur-
niture, an? turned his attention to industry.

he thrived in his new occupation,
married a second husband, but he and his ste
ngrecing, he again left his home, and crery t

purchased.

He once more went to N

iherty, and they

whenever an opportunity presen

For a time

after which his mother

father not
hing he ed

ew Orleans to find his old com-
nions, and sneceeded in finding Lovett and J

all took different boarding houses, and

ted itself at cither of the

the back

ones at

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found.

Carter, with a hatchet, struc

cut the head from the body.
fessed the truth. The others
Dugin and Cicorge Dickson,

a small sail boat and went to
where they remained a short

ata tavern kept by a negro,

hoped their stay would be of

In the fall of 1831, they were all concerned in a most
inhuman murder. They received the information that
the master of a fiat boat had sold out his stoc’. They
received their information from a man named Rims.
While the master was asleep they went on board, and

acquisition ; he concealed their plunder in his house, and

houses to commit a robbery, they never failed to embrace © y
it, and the one that obtained the booty always passed it © ‘
to one that was outside by appointment By this means, Pee
in case a scarch took place in a house that had been rob- Ress ae ayy}
bed, which was frequently the case, nothing could be — Rar brad

the man across the fore- “Tay

head and completely opened his head ; after which he

This done, they searched

the trunks, and found cighteen hundred dollars. Carter : '
and Sims were arrested for this murder, and Sims con-

escaped.

Washbum proceeded to Bayoa Plaqnewine, where he ie
became acquainted with two men by the name of Wm.

and they soon after broke

open the cabin of a schooner, from which they obtained
twelve hundred dollars in cash, with which they bought *

a place called Last Island,
time, and set sail for Pad-

dy’s Island, seven hundred miles from Last Island, but
falling in with head winds they had a vough time, and
on the fifth day lost one of their companions, Dugin.
‘They arrived at their destination in thirty-one days,
where they remained about a week, and then sailed for
Metamoras, where they met with great success, and finally
were made constables of. They then wrote to Lovett, ‘,
Jones and Carter, informing them that it was a good place Y
to make money, and they soon followed them, and com- : .
menced their ald business of plundering. ‘They boarded é

whom they fonnd quite an

a long duration, as a more \:

hoyorable set of gentlemen he never met with. They

stayed at Poe place six months, and still held their situa-

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Ria ae : ! The great Westerm Robber,

who was concerned in umeards of thirty murders,
and exccuted ut Cincinnati on the 6th

of Junuary, 1837.

Joun Wasuavan was born in Rockingham county, in
the state of North Carolina, of parents who wore poor
but respectable. His father was a shoemakor, who died
when he had arrived at the age of twelve years. He had
very lite education, being ouly able to read, although
his parents used their best endeavors to bring" him up in
the way he should go. After his father’s death he was
put ake the charge of an older brother, a farmer, with
whom he stayed one year; but owing to the ill treatment
he received he left him in the winter of 1826, and went-
down the river to Randolph, at which place he remained
about three months, employed in a brick-yard. Here he
commenced his fatal carcer of guilt by stealing from his
master twenty-five dollars. :

From Randolph he went to Memphis, where he again
obtained employment in a brick-yard, and worked steady
for two mouths. Hore he unfortunately became acquaint-
ed with a man by the name of Denny, who persuaded
him to quit work, aud live by the samc means he did,
namely thieving, and they. became sworn friends. One
Sunday evening they went down to the landing and
boarded a trading vessel, under the pretence that they
wanted passage down the river. Having proceeded about
three miles Denny drew a pistol and shot the owner of
the vessel, through the head, and throw the body over-
board. ‘Ihey then took from the boat six hundred dol-

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JOHN WASHBURN.

tion as coustables, and committed rubberics too numerous
to mention, and fourteen murders.

They left Mctamoras in the Lady Franklin, with one
hundred thousand dollars. . Some passengers supposing
they had coine by the boxes in which this money was in
an unfair way, accordingly scized them and said they
should be detained until satisfactory proof should be
shown that they had peen honestly obtained. They af-
firmed that the money had been intrusted to them by the
people of Metamoras to place in the New Orleans Bank,
and the passengers agreed that when this fact was prov-
ed, the money should be returned. Carter wrote a letter
to the negro, with directions to him what answer to re-
turn. At the time expected the answer came, and was
satisfactory to them, and the money was given up.

At New Orleans they then opened a coffee house, two
dance houses, a roulette and faro bank, and they ail en-
tered deeply into gunbting and were unfortunate ; so
much so that in one year they gave up their whole es-
tablishment, their money being nearly exhausted. e

After giving up these establishments, Washburn and
Carter left New Orleans for Pensacola, and they soon af-
ter sent for Lovett, who followed them, and they again
commenced their carcer .by committing a most barbarous
murder. Their intended victin was an Englishman,
whom they observed to enter one of the ny banks, accome

anied by another man. Lovett followed them into the
Prank me saw one of them present a check for six thou-
sand dollars, which was paid him.” After theie victims
had come out of the bank, they followed them for a num-
ber of hours. At length they went down towards the
wharf, and suddenly they missed one of them, and it be-
ing dark they were not certain which of the two had dis-
appeared, They then ran round a square, and meeting
the unfortunate man, Lovett caught hold of him by the
collar of his coat; Washburn stabbed him seven times in
the upper part of the abdomen, and his bowels gushed
out. They then robbed the deceased of his pocket-book
and watch. The book contained sixtysfive dollars. They

ts,

had murdered the wrong man, the one who disappeared
having had the six thousand dollars,

A woman witnessed this bloody decd, who was looking
from the window of the house close by where the mur-
der was committed. This woman observed them plain
enough to give their description, in consequence of which
they were all apprehended, tried and sentenced to die.

looked into the yard of the jail, and was strongly secured
by six iron bars, but their friends outside furnished them
with two small spring saws, with which they cut their
leg irons and four of the bars from the window, which
made sufficient room for them to get through, which they
did, and made all possible haste to theirs old quarters at
New Orleans.

From New Orleans Washburn went to the upper part
of the state of Mississippi, where a free negro informed

| keeping considerable sums of money in his honse, which
was situated on the bank of the river. Washburn ascer-
tained that his wife was about leaving home for a few
days to attend on a relative who was sick, and he thought

pose, and accordingly went to his house, alone, about
eleven o'clock at night. He found the door secured by

ter asleep. shburn weut up to his bedside and in the
most deliberate manner stabbed him seven ‘times in the

five hundred dollars in bills and specie. He then went
into a baru and remained till day-break. This murder
was committed in July, 1834. From this place he went
to Natches and returned to his favorite employment of
picking pockets.

He finally returned again to his mother’s, who had then
removed to Wabash county, [linois, and in that vicinity
remained, pursuing a very regular course of life for him.
until the fall of 1835, when, getting tired of home, he left
it, and for the last time.

The night previous to their execution, they were all con-:
fined in one room. This room contained a window which .~

him that a man named Wm. Foster was in the habit of .

this would be a favorable opportunity for his bloody pur- -
the latch wae he opened it softly, and found Mr. Fos- af
a

breast. He rifled the house, and in a drawer he found |

pis

NW OF A NOTORIOUS NEGRO MURDERER.
D, Ohio, May 31.—Edward Webb, the
negro who murdered William 8. Finney, seventy
years of age, near Mansfield, on the night of the
6th of December, was executed this ‘morning.
At the time the murder was committed the pab- |
lic indignation was so great that Webb narrowly
escaped lynching... He is known to have beon
guilty of many crimes;but never confessed any.
| of them, and has always managed to elude :jue-.
| tice. He was brutal to the last degree, and fre-
quently joked about his execution: At about 11
O'clock a mob of about 20,000 persons, who had
congregated to see what they could of the hang-
ing, made # rash, overpowered the guards,
scaled the jail yard fence, and in a few minutes
had torn down the greater portion: of the. en-
oloeure, Sheriff Ritchie immediately telegraphed
to Governor Bishop, informing him of the fact,
aod saying that unless he hanged Webb publicly
the mob would tear down the jail. ‘The Gov-
ernor replied, directing him to carry out. the
sentence of the law. At 12:20 p.m, Sheriff Rit-
ohie and Sheriff Gay, of Knox county, appeared.
with Webb between them. On reaching the out-
side, Webb glanced all sround:with a amile on
his countenance. The noose ‘having been ad-
justed about his neck and a short prayer offered,
the drop wae sprung, and life was pronounced
extinct ton minutes afterward. Ro nee

1) Aegan

Tz | Chins Gaels.

et : ,
ety The crowd began to gather early in ‘Saiiieedels Mans. WEBB
nu BM q
att ae field the warm morning of Friday, May 31, 1878. eres The Mansiield That yas idwaind
ad Hotels and dining places were jammed. All the livery. esis ey ee ese STANFIELD _ ae black,
Darna were full and horses Biche to buggies and car- po wa a hanged
riages were tied-to every available rack and bec bby gh gn
: : brought) in more people every hour. ' S, ropa eck.
a! an oy There was ani air of, tension, Manstield v was ; to see ue e: 5=31-1878,
frst hang ging.” pe ge he ree -
Lie “Edw rard Webb; oavicted of ap edags was scheduled to
die on the gallows at 12 noon at what now is East Third
St, and. Franklin Ave. For’ several days ‘Sheriff James’ |”
“* Ritchie and his men with a few helpers had been busy eh ‘
-erecting the gallows which had been’ obtained with Jb pate et
| ee, aut charge from Montgomery County: (Dayton). ; 4 nw a
eon is, In those | days. prisoners condemned to sea" ‘were ae
Bens ot hanged ; in the counties where the crimes occurred rather :
ah, -. *< ¥ than in Coluinbus. The task was left to the sheriff...)
Say aaa The hanfilig was scheduled to take place in'a. ‘Bimal’
2... oes enclosure behind a high board fence. The ‘sheriff had is-
go. 7:7 {sued-only 4 few tickets to the hanging. They went to doce .
hc Eo tors, ministers, officers from other counties and any oth- iced REE
aes ee ers ‘the sheriff thought had a right to be there.-No wom- ne he Ne
re rn received tickets. Sealperg 'y were getting as. much, as oh Wee genes ee ects :
bo ie. 06 88 2ch for the tick Rebs RETR Aree) ra Ae ol ee Penta
. oo # By 10 am. the day of the execution: the town ¥ was” oe AS “EDWARD WEB 5 .
ae) swarming g with people who had only one desire —.to see.) = a) Aes paar Got Cals Te we nis
ae eS TANS hanging. Forty - four officers armed with muskets . ” ppi Waponer eae Taal it are: ee obtained ane orn $
vit coy My Stood by. to keep order and to hold back the crowd, AS ~ ‘the tickets re =, hanging ny the family of Sheriff Rit-, -
© the execution hour. approached, however, it became ob -chie, said his father often. told him of the execution and :

, ious the throngs wouldn’t be easy to handle. <Ohio Gov- ~ the behavior of the crowd, ERT sh oa ee
ic..> 2). etnor Bishop had told Sheriff Ritchie earlier that Ritchie — - fei Peeps oes ere
“si: cts 2°) stad no power to ‘call on the see for help other than: (ote He mentioned how a roe who was an 1 expert with.) Big s

ean es ‘the men located i in the COUNTY. sii Lig EL ee: blacksnake whip cut a woman’s umbrella in half and» oe

ire ie» Biba? ow the parasols which had been shieldir 1g the. women » oe est
sai dh “As the ‘execution time ereeached:? ‘the big ed | : i%, pedi tk Meh
o> Fie ed forward and someone ripped.a board off. the ae OE ie hey aun suddenly isapps eared. SSE te ER ee Fe

- fence that enclosed the gallows. That was a signal. With-- » It was “estimated that. the area ‘around the ‘gallows +. :

‘Gn moments the fence was torn down, y expesing the age k. ‘held 100 people for every 10- foot square area that day.*: ie a
~ ‘lows to the thousands surrounding it. eh diag RTE ; om crowd was variously placed at from 10,000 to rts ie,
: y newsmen and officers. it was the createst throng that.
_ Many poeple” had climbed: to roots ‘of sheds | in the - Mansfield had seen up to that time and one of the largest:

7 ag
eign e®

area and in some cases the weight was so great that the- La eek
tz roofs caved in, ‘spilling the clusters of: curious onlookers. : LON er be gather peter: gb a Pree tea eS hs She = CP tee.
vo I a: : -gFortunatel y no one was hurt seriously. |The Peon Had. come, from towns all over this pait of.
2 P= ee As ‘As the thousands rushed forward to get a better iook;' “Ohio. Sahai Le IRE Ue, ; Sy ee
iii tthe armed guards were shoved aside: and their. rifles - ‘The ‘day v was ES erhans ‘the Jorriedt in 1 Manstield’s his: Cs a hed Ss ge
A “were taken from them. There was no. report, of any. 2 ne Sird. It has never been forgotten by: the children et Ree. I tee
: ‘xdempts to delay the execution or to reach the prisoner.’ ‘Uple wi were there.. BTS PRE “ES AR ES Pic ae

“At 12:23 the sheriff and his men appear ‘ed with Webb es pe es

; eat was accompanied by one -of his lawyers,’ John W. © ;
#73 "§ “Jenner, Webb surveyed the crowd, showing no, emotion.

-| He was asked if he had ai alr fo okt He poomened si- 2

- lent. ; ue pike wait

ou “All is ready,” ‘Sherif? Ritchie. “sald: The: “trap was Pn aes |
"sprung at 12:32,.:Eleven minutes. later ‘Webb was~pro-'.-}™
“. nounced dead. His body was removed. at the end of an-

rother 20 minutes, placed in a apooden, coffin, ane taken '

to the county J jail; te 5 : i Ney }
aff. The body later. was buried in 1 the *Mianaticle Geotery. ,
ee “by Faust and Wappner, ti ineral directors. The: Wappner
half of the firm was Phillip Wappner, father of the amia- -
‘ble. Phil Wappues oh the. present, Wappner, 2 elas
“Home. ves ee ee : . 4 wy: oe ie st? x # Ee a Re ‘
"2° phe Webb grave is unmark ed. It is Visited accasinnale
dy] by. curious MangHelders who kno w of the hanging. eo

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; pcre
Praderiad Lee tek: se

Fe One ‘of the witnesses to the hanging was the late Allen”
‘s Beach, a long - tine Mansfield attorney who was only —
14 at” the time. He was so disgusted at the behavior of «
sb athe § crowd and ‘so’ determined to try to do something -
* about saving prisoners from the fate of Webb et he

vowed to become a lawyer.’ - Rate ae

ti “He was admitted to’ the bar as a young man aa ler \
! Swag county clerk of courts: and prosecutor. He practiced

A Le cpr oe i » {Slaw until she was in his nineties. He died in 1960 at’ Ake

age of 96. Ries

ee “Mr. ‘Beach's’ e daughter Mrs. Fred “Quick, 65 Helen.
J*\ Ave., Says. ‘she remembers ‘her. father’s report of, the |
_ hanging and his strong feelings ‘about it. She prizes .a.

we tsed ae

ried a report of the execution. ete 2 ue

an Bee fe ~<“Webb, ‘the man who'went to ‘the: sales 1 that day 91
‘uf ley. & years ago, insisted to, the end ‘that he was innocent.. He -
a i 3) %<. ) was found guilty in the county court in February of that
ma ede a year “of the slaying of William 'S.: Finney, an elderly

Bil ientiasecie

a farmer who dived) in fe-present, chevy C qhase Rd. area of
ae Woodland, in; hala ft

et AKA: y : of fore Be;

Finney was 4 besten to death 4 in. ‘his rae the. nisht ‘e:

cys Bara gerioen tA ead the Rev. Finney’s wife were badly beaten, apparent-. .
Wig 2 Ges oe Ty with a gun which,‘ it was found, had been stolen sever-
Sot MR ah teal weeks Previously from one of the Finneys. ° — aA i.

i the’ elder Finney was reported, to have sold some hogs.,

the general vicinity of Distl'Ave. and Spruce St., west: of»
south Mulber ry St. and north of Glessner Ayers pes

Evidence soon ‘began to ‘pile up. There was blood on.

', Injured. while repairing: a chicken coop. Tracks in ‘the ©
. Mud near the crime scene matched his shoes. One of the’
'. Rev.-Finney’s children, 12- year - old:Minnie, said she-:

: ES ANS. A Snag

ON te Bs “Webb, aes Jife iu ip ‘to that time was. ‘something of ‘a ae "

"ite laisee of mystery, was regarded as:a good worker. He was:em-.
°°. ployed on farms and in Mansfield blacksmith shops. He -

-. v2 1 said: he~came..here’.from™ Columbus after «being , dis-:,. “|
» S* -* eharged from the Union Army in.the Civil War, He Was. gor:
“1 wounded at. Petersburg, Va., he said,: and‘ was sent to". se)

Camp Chase in Columbus to fecover. Ag a Ries he Bald - ae

ian ye Oat easel Pye WAS a slave in.Alabama,’ #

Officers’ investigation. ehowed! fe came sph rove"
' Sand usky where he-had been in some trouble. He had at)
| one tide been linked to a playing but aeiores couldnt”
prove. a case against him. ah tet Sea i wi

The reaction of the crowd ‘that trdubled is ee = , i
expressions of fear from the two Mansfield newspapers, °°.

ea es : copy of the old Mansfield Shield. and Banner which: gare. j :

_ Dee. 6,. 1877. His wife;: their. son, the\Rev. J. P Finney;

‘The ‘motive was ‘believed to have been. robbery. since- Ms e

Webhb’s clothing. He said it was from his hand which:he apa

_. the Herald and the’Shield and Banner. The Herald. criti- ~~”

cized the way. authorities ha nied: the : ate and the: 3

cl rowd for its unruliness,’ fore

: see ay

vf 2°. Phe Shield and Banner Somitanted: An pater sy

Me a F law has been vindicated, and let us hope that as.this was.
the. first so it will be the last public execution ae will
ever occur within the limits of Richland County. ee ite

st 6S J

an Lee ‘There hasn’ t been one since then. ’ oft ee

eden tinge ay Ree

Sue

He was a mai of be etter - than - - average means, ¢ eters fi :

§ 2 "4. Officers: investigating’ the crime found: ‘Webb. at- his’ : ss.
_»* home at what then was Pine and Ritter Sts: It now isin...

recognized see in the Finney peme the Bight'o of the. ‘slay: > if ef. 8 |

Swe pe

* Fr i sat
if Oa SERA: Pe ree

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| & BLACK, BUTCHER, TO SWING, ©).
| Ma (SELELD, Obj 0, May 14.—Edward We b, the
negro fend | ee an lism Zeb, the
aged. seventy: years, and. committed terrible:
havoo with a Springfield rifie while searching for '
plaoder in @ honee containing ten persone near |
thts town on the night of the-6th-of-laet--Devem-.,
ber, is to be executed for these and other crimes
on- Friday, the 3lat-inst, The Dayton gallows,”
which was Idst used for the execution of William |
8. Bergin, the Mount Vernon murderer, on the
day that Webb was arrested, December. 7, 1877;
has been secured for the hanging of. the. negro,
At the time of the Finney tragedy the excitement
and public indignation ‘ran so high that it was
feared that the murderer would be lynohéad.
Such would probably have been the case had it
not been eo apparent that the conviction must
follow a trial,) There are. persons who openly '
talk of tearing away the encloanre probably of.
boarde, that will be erected on the occasion of.
the expiation of Webb’s crime. “If the ‘soldiere,
usually engaged are present a lively scene: may '
ensue, and broken heads, if nothing worse, be
borne away. . Webb seems to grow to look. more
like one of Paal da Chaillu’s gorillas as cach day
passes. Hé jokes occasionally about “de awing-
in’ dat all masseo.” It is aid that he will never:
confess his crimes. ~);'.


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7 / Ld bia Y ae et ae. :
From: he. bikes ad 4 per-’y y /7O J

SEARING SHOCK

MERCILESSLY CRUEL, IS NOT A PROPER MODE OF EXECUTION, ACCORDING TO A
CAREFUL STUDENT

Professor Louis R. Coleman, known well for acute and accurate
observations and his reliable opinions on all civic matters, believes
that electrocution as a mode of execution, deserves no place in our
modern system of punishment.

He says: "The killing of murderer White was a merciless one. No one
can tell what the creature suffered in the thirteen minutes that he was
bound to the chair. It is stated that he was rendered unconscious after
the first shock, yet who can say to a certainty that he was oblivious
to the effect of the current after the first contact or during any of the
time after the first shock. The writhing of the body within the chair,
the subsequent stiffening of the limbs cannot serve alone as indications
of the-physical effect that a current would have upon any animal matter.
They are an indication of torture. Think of searing sensations from every
part of the body crowding in upon the brain simultaneously.

It is almost as cruel as the old time burnings at the stake. There
were not as many failures or faulty executions with the old method of
hanging, wkx with which death was usually instantaneous if the arrangements
were perfect.


p « WHITE, Henry, black, 25, elec. Ohio (Warren) 7-19-1907,
From: The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio Thursday, July 18, 1907

WHITE DIES TONIGHT
MURDERER WILL ATONE BY SACRIFICE OF HIS OWN LIFE

SECOND EXECUTION IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY AND THE FIRST IN FORTY*- ONE
YEARS

Efforts to save White are in vain, unless Governdér intervenes this afternoon--
f he resighs himself, saying, "I bear no hard feelings against any man"

"An eye for an eye: a tooth for a tooth; burning for burning; a stripe fora
stripe" says Old Mosaic Law, but slowly and surely the gentler doctrine of
the Sermon on the Mount is gaining the ascendancy.

Tonight, after the clock strikes twelve, Henry White, who slew Marshal
George Basore, of Franklin, must appease the demands of the law with his own
life. Stained deep upon the mind of humanity since the time of the prophets,
the inexorable dictum, "Alife for a life" still lingers in the judicial sense
of the law givers.

Tonight, the hope expresséd by witnesses at his trial, that the negro
should die in the electric chair, will be gratified. The desire for vengeance,
so freely spoken about the scene of the tragedy, will be satiated.

All is in readiness for the electrocution. Henry White, himself, is
prepared. Some months ago he embraced the Catholic faith, under the spirit-
ual guidance of the evangelical prison priests and now awaits the end, in
a strange, unearthly spirit of content. Reports from Columbus state that
he shows but few signs of nervousness and is bearing up well under the strain.
The quietude which marks his behavior during the final hours of his life
is significant of the fact that even in this man of mental development little
above the animal, the spark of divinity has been made to glow.

The feeling of hatred against his enemies has vanished. Among his
last words to his attorneys, William F. Eltzroth and Lawrence K. Langdon,
was the statement: "I see that I8ve got to die in that chair, -- but it's
: all right. My trial was fair,--but I did not fire the first shot. But never
; mind that now. Tell the people down there that I bear no hard feelings
against anyone." ce.

: He thanked his attorneys in his humble, awkward way for their untiring
services and shook hands with them through the bars of the annex, for the
last time. Senator Eltzroth, the elder of the attorneys was moved to tears
by the parting and Mr. Langdon was deeply effected. As they moved away
down the corridor they heard a final "God Bless You," shouted by the colored
man.

When midnight arrives Deputy Warden Wood of Greene County will procéed
with guards to the annex, the large death cell where those condemned to die
are kept together. White will be seated in the chair while the prison barber
shaves his head. Usually a single spot is cleared of hair for the application
of the current but White has requested that his whole head be shaved, and
the request will be granted.

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Then he will be led to the adjoining room where the chair stands. It
is a walk of not over forty feet. The current will be thrown on by Deputy
Warden Wood. as Warden Gould refuses to take part in an electrocution.

There is the barest thread of hope left for the condemned man. His
attorneys have an appointment with Governor Harris this afternoon at half
past two. They will talk the matter over and present the strongest arguments
possible in the colored man's favor. For the past few days they have redoublec
their efforts to gain new evidence. Reports that two young men of Franklin
saw the shooting and did not believe that the negro fired first, reached
them, and up to the last minute they are sparing no personal expense to
unearth the evidence which might save the life of their client. The certain
outcome is not yet known and this hairlike possibility stands between White
and death.

The state board of pardons refused to recommend a commutation of the
death sentence. Unless new developments come up, there is little prob-
ability that Governor Harris will interfere with the execution of the sentence,
as he has begun to put into practice his new policy of sitting with the
pardon board in first degree homicide cases to put an end to the custom
of attorneys for condemned men repeating their arguments to him after failing
to convince the board.

Yesterday the board devoted most of the afternoon and evening to
hearing tks pleas for White. His attorneys tried to show he had not pre-
meditated the killing, but the board considered there was premeditation
from the fact that he had determined he would not be taken back to the
Mansfield reformatory from which he had been paroled, and had bought a
revolver.

Judge Milton Clark wrote what the members of the pardon board state
is the clearest and best statement of a case that they have ever received.
He showed that there was a possibility of the act not haveing been premeditated.
The electrocution of Henry White will end the second murder trial in the
history of Warren County which has resulted in the conviction and death of
the accused. The killing of Marshal George Basore of Franklin occurred

‘October 31. Henry White and Sadie Freeman, his paramour, were seated in the

office of the C.D. and T. traction company then located in Earhart's drug
store. Mayor McLane and Marshal Basore had reason to believe that he had
stolen goods in his possession. The Marshal stepped to the door and motioned
for the negro to come out. He rose and stepped to the door. There was a quick
exchange of shots. Witnesses say the negro fired first. Marshal Basore

fell dying. White fled up the street., over the canal and was caught. He

was brought back to town where there were hostile domonstrations, but he
received no more injuries. He was brought to the Lebanon jail.

White broke out of the Lebanon jail the week before his trial, which
occurred December 11. Wandering blindly to the southern part of the county
he was coralled near Level. He stood in the twilight in a little cabin with
a hammerless shot gun aimed at his captors. Had he known how to work the
gun another terrible chapter might have been written.

Strange to say, sympathy swings to the side of a desperado in cases
where it would not be felt for an ordinary criminal. Many people in the
eastern part of the county believe that White should not suffer the death
penalty, while the western part is almost solidly approving of the sentence,
The difficulty which was met in securing a jury shows the increase in the
sentiment in opposition to capital punishmeht. Western States are trying
life imprisonment for the limit with success. The result of a straw vote
of twenty-five people, taken upon the streets of Lebanon, was seventeen to


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eight against the execution of criminals.

From: The Western Star, July 25, 1907

OUT OF HARMONY

With our present civilization says Dr. Evans who saw negro killed.

Dr. Rice K. Evans, of Franklin, a young man of firm and outspoken
convictions, witnessed the execution of Henry White.» He was one of those
who said , on the witness stand during the trial.that he wanted the negro
to go to the electric chair. He also said to White personally, "I want
you to live well while you are here, but I want to see you die in that
chair". Having changed his opinion since the electrocution he expresses
himself thus: The whole thing, from start to finish, is one awful tragedy,
without a sunbeam or a ray of hope and to me at this mement the death
sentence seems out of harmony with our present civilization. Now at this
time it seems to me that the taking of a human life, for whatsoever cause,
or by whatsoever means, is but an echo of that barbaric age when men de-
manded an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!

During the final five or six minutes of waiting I could only vaguely
ask myself, "Is this the highest form of justice; are we really competent
to so gravely judge this man? He shot down George Basore, in cold blood,
of course; he was guilty of wilful murder, to be sure; but might there
not be some environment, some predominating influence in the early training
of this man, for whic we, society at large, are directly responsible--some
factor over which he had no conyrol, which made hig different from you and
me?" The great state of Ohio was about to treat this ignorant negro as
though he were a wild and dangerous animal, and why? Because, on the 30th
of last October, in a moment of wild excitement and unbalanced equilibrium,
he pressed the trigger which sent a bullet to take a human life. He wags
guilty, unquestionably, guilty of murder in the first degree but is it our
prerogative to say that he must die? Are we on a plane sufficiently elevated
above waxkx earthly prejudice and human passions to judge a man to death?
Is it within our province as human beings, prone to err, to say that this
vessel, marred in the making must be shattered?

Last December when this negro broke jail and there was a possibility
that he might excape punishment, I was as thirsty for his blood as nay
man in Warren County but when that great iron door that leads to the death
cell swung back upon its hinges and I saw that negro led out between two
guards across the intervening space and up the steps to the death chair,
I could not but think without a particle of personal pity for him, "Theré
is something radically wrong in this part of our much boasted civili,ation."