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“fore many more years, a more hu-
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evelved, It will be modeled upon
the. Russian communes,
“Tt will not then be necessary

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jo jock thousands of men in cells

aud permit them to rot their days
away in idleness.” ;

Jones asserted “I am not guilty
of murder. My crime accomplice
Welter Barnes. has ‘Yepeatedly
confessed to Chaplain «cK. E.)
Wall
in this matter—vet I am to die.’

T.ast week Barnes, who was cen]

imprisonment for
second degree murder in the same
holdup slaying. issued a statement
saving he was the “trigger man.” |

The state clemency board and!
Gov. Martin L. Davey. however,
reiused to believe his story.

“J don’t think my death -is an
iznoble one,” Jones’ statement;
continued. “I have given my life,
for a friend.”

After expressing regret that his
mother died when he was a child,
the condemned mafi: said his op-
portunities to develop his abilities
had been thwarted and “I never:
had the courage to live decently.”

He described his robberies as
“moral protests” because “I felt:
that society had treated me rot-j
tenlv.” i

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Jones said, too, “I have never --, peste

considered myself entirely respon-,
sible for the robberies that sent’

atts nila an jig ai oe

Jones at his trial had testified!
he shot Lindsey alter a fire-!
cracker expleding in the street?
outside caused him to believe the:

pool room proprietor firéd at him :

first. Lindsey, he said, reached:
for a revolver during the July 4,
holdup in spite of repeated warn- |
ings. f

“It is better to die than not be
able to live proudly,” Jones said ‘
when he was. sentenced — Jast
December. “I’m thankful that the
death penalty is*mandatory,” ey

As the execution date drew '
near, however, Jones changed his :
mind and pleaded for commutation ,

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He has told the real truth of the sentence to life imprison- '

ment. Gov. Martin L. Davey .
denied him executive clemency |
today. , vee

“After due and careful delibera- .~

tion of all the facts x x x the’
parole board has failed to find’
any reason why.I should extend:
clemency in his behalf, and have
so recommended to me,” Davey
said. .
Jones based his plea on a state-’
ment by Walter Barnes that he,!
and not Jones, killed Lindsey.
Barnes, 19,.of Springfield, is serv-
ing a life term for complicity in
the crime. : ; :
-Counsel for Jones said an ah-
normal affection for Barnes
caused Jones to admit the shoot-
ing when they were tried. Jones
also said he wanted to live for a.
girl in Springfield, although shvy.
was not mentioned at
clemency hearing. — '

Sats insite eal ty jal Seni tal, OF

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me back to prison,” and went on”

to explain that “tensions far be-
yond the power of any human be-
ing to withstand were forced upon
me.”
“The statement concluded:
- "This is a crucifixion, not an
execution, But no-one raises their
eves to look at individual convicts
any more.” re Rfid
Prison officials said Jones ate!
heartily of chicken at his last
meal With him was a cousin,
Haro'd G. Jones, serving 3. sen-
tener of 1-0 10 22 years for hurg-
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Everett Jones, 33, Testifies In
Own Defense At Mur-
‘der Trial -

i Continuing his testimony, Jones’
‘said “the man kept smiling as he
‘furned the gun toward me, but
did not say a word. He never:!

SAYS HE WARNED VICTIM.
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Defendant Describes How:
Jeffersonville Poolrooim
Proprietor Was Slain

: Picture on Page 13
-" WASHINGTON C.'H;, Dec. 2.—.

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Taking the witness stand in his,
own defense late Thursday after- ‘
noon after the state had “rested

~its case, Everett Jones, 33, of:
Springfield, charged with ‘first de-
gree murder, told in a dramatic ;

emanner of killing Robert \V.
-Lindsey, Jeffersonville poolroom |
proprietor, in his place of business ,
‘the night of July 4.

Jones, corroborating nearly

_ftime later admitted spending 18

ville shooting. be ra
The cross-examination of Jones! -

‘vas not completed as the court!

+, adjourned until 9 a; m: Friday. © 4

spoke a word all of the time. Sud-:'
denly a firecracker exploded out-,
side and I thought the man had:
fired. I fired involuntarily, and:
then fired a second shot, hardly:
realizing what I was doing. Mr.*
Lindsey slumped to the:floor andj
I hurried out to the car where |
Barnes was waiting.” : ;

Jones said that he had told Lind- ;

‘sey to walk to the back of the?
: poolroom, but Lindsey refused. It!

was then he saw him reach for
his gun, according to the testi-

mony, and leaning across the.

counter, placed his own gun in
Lindsey’s back. Jones testified he
did not fire until Lindsey had
turned about with the gun point:
ing toward him. eae. }

“I did not want to kill him, and
never had any intention of doing |
so.” declared Jones, who a short

years of his life in prison:-,

The climax -of the trial. came
after the state had offered a sc-°
‘ies of witnesses, including twa]
Cloveland. detectives who . said}
Jones had told them that he had |
shot Lindsey after warning him .
three times. The detectives ar-}

rested Barnes and Jones in Cleve-!

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land shortly after the Jefferson-.

Under cross examination Thurs-/
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everything told on the witness “day morning, Barnes .kept~ close-

stand by his companion in crime, itv. to his

Waiter Barnes, 18, also of Spring-

original. testimony,

; i 1 ,sieh” on the witness stand,
field, admitted entering the Lind- | Werinésday. afternoon when

he ac-;

“sey poolroom to stage a robbery. |- cused Jones of: firing the: fatal!
A bd © .

;He told from the stand how ke{
,fired two shots at Lindsey gvhile !

shot. ues

Barnes made ‘an almost perfect

the latter was raising his gun; witness for the state and at no

toward him.

:degree murder, testified for thej
state Wednesday, charging that;
Jones had enteréd the poolroom!
-While he (Barnes) waited outside’
in an automobile. fae Rte a,
‘I warned him three timés -not-
to pick up the pistol which he was
reaching  for,? Jones testified,
“and pleaded with him not to pick
it up. After he did get the gun
and pointed it toward me, I said
, to him, ‘let's arbitrate,’ and start-
| ed backing toward the door,” ~ ee

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; time was defense counsel -able to!
Barnes, also indicted for first! trap him.. y'

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his name to the copy.
Steers remained calm as_ he
eard the verdict carrying the

Verdict Is Read In Wash-
>. ington C. H.
aa Sati

dieved, and later told newspaper-

cause it did not mean long years
behind prison walls. :

: ,' During the afternoon session a Ray R. Maddox, who spoke for 435 , field. At the time of ther ar-
Jury Out One Hour And 11+rumor was afloat that “pals” of Minutes. The penalty of deatn in oer ah Sr pak hake ia Tite. #4
Mi . ' Jones might attempt to remove,the electric chair was asked by" pringtield police said, the

.. Minutes; Statement Is Made g p The defense argument.were in possession of en 2:

Prosecuting Attorney A. N.,Was presented by Thomas T. Craig. bile belonging to Cecil Pro:

After Jones was brought into Springfield. taken from hira oc

handcuffs were.ing a holdup. The same cer »

By Defendant

5 — Browning had several extra:
WASHINGTON C. H., Dec. 3. guards placed about the court- the courtroom,

room and corridors. Extra guards’ Placed on him and two deputy alleged to have been used cy the
.without recommendation for mer-. will be maintained at the ‘county Sheriffs were on duty instead of pair at Jeffersonville.
‘cy was returned late today by a‘jail while Jones remains here, it;one as, had previously” been the/ “Barnes, taking the witness s1
! case during the trial which opened ; for the state at Washington ©.
Monday. This was the first time testified that he and Jones

Verdict of first degree murder

jury in the Fayette County Com:.Was_ stated. -

“mon Pleas Court against Everett ea sence poenpie ity) Pe
Jones, 33, of Springfield, charged xill be brought into
with the holdup slaying of Robert week to be-trie’d 0

W. Lindsey, Jeffersonville pool- yurder charge i on
room proprietor, on the night of the same murd
July 4.

‘Faces Chair

dained.”

‘case. :

of Lindsey and who had endeavyor- |

years in various correctional in-}

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f rT | The jury deliberated one hour!many armed robberies bie )
DEATH if NDATORY jand 11. minutes. ‘6 make cer- and Indiana, having ronbed a Gib jtained. ©
‘ : fain that their verdict could noting station attendant at. Rich- + Barnes IS Bueno
hel - ~~. be misunderstood, the jurors filles! mond, Ind., the same night Lind- jtaking part tm
: ; out the regular verdict form, then |s¢y was killed. - Popes Sein Ba tation
: . ‘As copied it and each juror signe opene riday “was slain. Siiartly afte:
Everett Jones," 33, Calm As he : iWaica a, re pe orning the state announced it (two were return
had no further. cross examination ©. H. and chaz ve
of Jones and the defense ‘stated gree murder. sae “
‘death sentence. He appeared re-jthat it would rest the case. Judge, Springfield potien rere
Harry M. Rankin ordered prosecu- | aiiest om

: ; a sie men that he had expected the {tion and defense counse] to pro-jon charges of ronaary, 6. > of tre

DELIBERATION IS BRIEF ‘cath verdict and felt relieved be. ceed with their closing arguments. {charges invalving the no dus

i ‘ The opening argument was pre-;the Herman B.. Kruezer
sented by Assistant Prosecutor ‘stare at 41 Lagonta av, ine SAF

him from the courtroom, . ‘andithe state.

Jones was handcuffed in the court-+

In his testimony Thursday aft-/heard two shots,

t to kill him, and Coffey, Washington C. H.: Gra
‘never had any intention of doing'Kelley. Marion township:
Judge H. M. Rankin, who pre-.so,” declared Jones.
sided at the trial, commended the, ‘ -
ury for its verdict and stated jville, O., and had made his home’Conn, Washington C. H.: Albert
‘that in his opinion the verdict part of the,time in Cleveland and Barney, Washington C.. Hu: Jos: *
was a just one and the only onqpart of the time in Springfield. Korn, Jefferson township; Hercert
that could be returned in view{He said his parents are dead. ‘Shepherd, Marion township: ©. 5.
; ‘Barnes, who is 18, was born inVannoersdall, Jefferson townshin, ;
‘s, Washington C. H., and lived itand J. E. Wahite, Washington C..
Defense coungel, Attorneys, Springfield with an aunt prior t¢. The 15th jurer was Guy Nix-
Charles S.. Hire. and Thomas T.,gcing to the Mansfield Reforma ‘on ef Washington CH. _. «

Craig announced that .a motion! tory, which is where he met Jones, Bagg ae ee

‘for a new trial would be filed. | He admitted serving two terms in, + |

Jones was born in McConnells- Scott, Marion township:

f the evidence submitted in the:

Jones, who Thursday took thé’ the Boys’ kiana School, and a aur
itt the slaying. series of holdups. | tet
Se Liciesy und we e Lindsey was shot to death about) .. |. see
Sed to justify his crime by saying- 10:45 p. m. on July 4. There, were (Fees ae es
he had warned Lindsey three no witnesses to the shooting, and} —- : ;
times not to pull his gun, stated the peer hes beg ia by New-! > ap

t-more than 18 ‘ton Porter a 15S p. m. ‘ : ‘
eaten satieue | A few days after the shooting
*'. stitutions, being released from the | Jones and Barnes were taken into
“Ohio Penitentiary last Aprij.:custody by Cleveland police de-
ak Since that time, he said, he and }tectives, .and charged . with the.
~. Walter_Barnes had... committed jholdup of a Cleveland drug store;

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in - Ohits' ha duly. an

LJebfersoaville. ino achie

men Were wanted in os

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up to the. Jeffersonville esta
‘ment and that Jones wént =

iShortly afterward, he testiliec, 1

-ce. + state's} evidencf and Mic of Flicieverything told on the witness!zoinz, I had to plug the fellow.”
*. 3° “Spart Moth he find Jones played in;stand by his companion in crime.! Barnes also is charged ‘ith first

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i yeaa se EA: Sth e PERT 5 # AP ees OL I ETT ee eT ee Sian SEMAEERO™ OR 2a ik dC oh aT

Springfielder Keeps Officers At Bay For
3% 20 Minutes Before Being Shot, Subdued

A 48-year-old Springfielder who | the structure, the grocer's 16-year-}
‘considered his grocery “a temple |.old son, Cail, leaped from a.
of God” stood off police and spe- | i ground-floor window, in an effort, |
:¥ _cial deputy sheriffs for about 20; he said. to éeape his father. The!

vinutes Thursday afternoon be- | youth declared First refused to:
fore Keing wounded and subdued. | allow him to open the doors for,

\thert First, who waged a gun, police or answer the telephone. !
ttle with law enforcement offi Shortly after his son’s escape
: j cers at his residence and grocery, | from the house, First jumped from:
F ; 15°5 Columbus av., sustained four | a window. According to police, |
P ssefgun wounds in the abdomen | | First was carrying a shotgun and,

and two-in the right forearm. He ;a .22-caliber rifle. The man made.
a'so suffered gunshot fractures of | his leap from the window after he}
three fingers of his left hand. \had threatened Capt. Abbott from|
Attaches of the City Hospital,! the window with the shotgun. '
where First is under special guard,| When First was outside, officers, }

termed the man’‘¢ condition “faiy’ ' | Protected by steel vests, called!
: Thursday night. be eg “3

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; upon him to surrender. His an-j
i The gun battleAtarted when po- | swer, they said, was to raise the!
‘Jiee sought to arrest First on a! | shotgun and fire.
Watrant —charging Junacy. Pre- | Patrolman Kellis then opened |
viously Deputy Sheriffs L. M. Mull) fire with a shotgun and Patrol-}
and Robert Dietchel had at-, man Henderson followed with his!
tempted to arrest First but he had | service revolver.
} aimed a 12-cauge shotgun at them When captured, First also was}
and ordered them to get out of the! carrying a blackjack, police said. i
“temple of God.” According to! According to authorities, First at :
Mull, this occurred in First's; one time was a patient in the Day-!
grocery. ton State Hospital and since his |
! Mull then summoned police aid.| release from that institution had :
} : Capts. Lawrence Abbott, and Wal-| written a letter threatening death |
{ fer Sweet, Sergt. Howard Roush|to Judge Harry G. Gram, Clark :
and Patrolmen John Kellis and}! County ee and Juvenile court
Alona Henderson responded to’ judge.
: : \rutt's. call. Mull Pecwrtil’ that previous to:
s The officers attempted to enter) the gun battle he had talked with,
| 4 the store’ but found it locked.; First's wife, Nita, and she had,
& } Capt. Sweet then threw a tear-| urged. him to hurry in capturing -
} aes grenade through a_ window. | her husband, for she feared he
, : The party then surrounded the; ; would commit suicide. According
{ huilding and fired several more | to Mull, ‘ Mrs. First declared:
' grenades into it, Mull said. '! that her hushand also had ge
: As ras from the grenades filled j ened her. i

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(peal TH STILE OPEN

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Friends Of Slain Man

i .A call upon friends~ and,, ac-:
- quaintantes of David L. McHenry?
‘to volunteer any  information,,
however. slight, which might help!
‘to: unravel the mystery. of the!
‘man’s murder last Nov. By, Was
jssued . Saturday ‘by Jerome A:
: Nevius, Clark ounty Prose¢tuti g,
' Attorney: Law 3- {y< 3

Prosecvflor Nevius’ request -was

made ina pexteniaat in. which ‘he
‘declared the case “still. open,” in-:
‘sofar as his office is concerned.
The prosecutor undertook. early:
‘in January to join with Spring-
field police in a ‘combined effort:
ito solve the baffling case. .:

j McHenry, assistant. county cor-!
* oner, was found in his automobile}
early in the morning of Nov. 8,;
with a bullet wound in his abdo-!
:men. ‘He died a few hours later’
‘at the Springfield: City. Hospital
“The investigation of the death
-of. David L. McHenry’ ‘still — is
+,open,” said Prosecutor. Nevius. !

' “We are considering every pos-

,sible angle to the case in’an én-'

‘deavor. to solve all questions in

‘the homicide. At this time, we

jwould like to call upon friends‘
‘and acquaintances of McHenry-or.
his family for any and all avail-’
‘able information, regardless: of its!
‘minuteness, which possibly ‘will be:
of help in cleaning up. the: -exist+
, ing _Soubt in the’ case.” "sae!

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e©S princtield Girl Brinzs Comfort To Plan
3 escheduled To Die In Prison Friday Nicht

COLUMBUS, 0.,'March 24.—UP" >” :

a sie oon oe peed ws SPRINGFIELD i AN
DIES IN CHAIR FOR

Spring field, in Ohio Penitentiars's
“doath row" and. now-he wants to -
live for her, declares the man who
is scheduled to die Friday night.

“TL would be willing to sit down
in the clectric:chair and. press the
button myself if it were not for
that+zirl,” Jones said today. “The
girl. (a Springfield resident) could’
do moi yews _mé 4 all o s-i
ons.’ i387
: eo ew S Was conv a the IY.
!up-slayving last July 4 of Robert;

: Lindsey, Jeffersonville pool room
_ operatar. Walter Barnes, 19, serv-
ing a life term in the killing, gave.
prison officials a statement last
. week that he, not Jones, fired the

‘fatal shot. , 2 07 L cn wot oe

Counsel for yJones, - requesting

executive commutation of the sen- ;
« tence to Jife imprisonment, pleaded ;

' that Jones at first adjnitted firing ~
ithe shot because of an abnormal ,
affection for Barnes, No mentien ms . -
(was made of a girl. Gov. Martin COLUMBUS, O., March SEN
L. Davey indicated no action would 1—Everett Jones, 33, of Springfield;
,be taken on the plea before Fri- ,who-had lived 19 of his 33 years
i day, ‘behind prison bars, died in the

Jones, recalling that:19 of his 33: ! S F F eee
years h electric chair at Ohio Penitentiary,
i ad been spent ni: prisons, 3 ‘tonight with this protest:

said he eventually hoped to win his! '
“Ohio. I am a product,of your,

;freedom and marry the 18-year-; j
prisons. ad pe -39 '

sold girl, whom he met a year ago.
Jones, "who as convicted of

Albert Lippe, 25, of Cleveland ;
poset flan Rare “death pend aa shooting to death Robert Lindsey,
cupant today e was condemne " affersonvill Orn o-
to-die June. 27 for the slaying a ee ye sree, te =

‘Dec. 18 of Officer Gerald N, Bode

ene Nee 2- pte: of Cleve’ ‘read for five minutes from a 650-,
“ant , ‘Word statement. Then he ean

Bx opie oh took his seat.

He was pronounced dead by Dr.,

George W. Keil,- prison physician,

F at $:40 p. m., about two and one-

‘ half minutes after the current.

; | had been turned on.

| Reading in.a firm but subdued,

é ; Voice, Jones told the approximate-.

. ily 20 witnesses in the little brick
é death, house: !

“This chair here before me_ is

society's. protection against mur-

derers—conversejy, it is my a

tection against society: 0 I

' Everett jones Pays Penalty
For 1937 Murder In
Qe Jeffersonville

Your Prisons,’ Condenmn-
ed Killer Declares

odie pe mpentes ts <0 8 =

LINDSEY SLAYING:

READS ‘LONG «STATEMENT

“Ohio, | Am A. Product of

prietor, in a holdup last July 45°
stood before the electric chair and.

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RAL REICH. Alias Jim Clark. Mur-

der. Rewards: True Derecrive $100;
authorities, $700. Age, 24; height, 6 feet;
weight, 190 pounds; build, muscular; hair,
blond and wavy; eyes, blue; complexion,
sallow. No finger-print _ classifications.
Wanted by authorities of Dade County,
Missouri, on first degree murder charge.
If arrested, hold and wire Sheriff of Dade
County, Court House, Greenfic Id, Missouri.

OE LAZZARO.
Derecrive, $100. Age, 40; height, 5 feet,

ICHARD KELLER. Murder. Reward: Reward: TrurE
True Derective, $100. Age, 32; height,

10% inches; weight, 148 pounds;

Sought since
Relatives, Cleveland,
Kansas City.
time for sale of narcotics.

blue; complexion, medium. Left little finger deformed.
i December 2nd, 1934.
Woest killed at place of business, Novem-
ber llth, 1933, while attempting to re
robbery. Jf arrested, hold and wire Chief
of Detectives, Police Department, Cincin-

Tf arrested, hold
re T (. Andersen, Delec-
tive Division, Police Department, Omaha,

ARRY ARAN, Alias Harry Katz. Mur-

der. Rewards: True Derective, $100;
authorities, $250. Age, 30; height, 5 feet,
5 inches; weight, 150 pounds; very mus-
cular in arms and shoulders; hair, black
wavy; eyes, brown; complexion, very dark
Lines on face more pronounced than in
photo. May have small mustache. Ar-
menian. Speaks English, Armenian, Greck
German, Lalian and little French. Wanted
since December 12th, 1934. May be armed
Is clever forger. Jf arrested, hold and were
JH McClelland, Chief of Police, Long
Beach, Califorma.


KANE, Joseph Ce, white, electrocuted Ohio SP (Mahoning) January 9, 1925,

"Columbus, Ohio, Nec. 20, 192). = A mother's prayers were answered, but Joseph Clarence
Kane today peered through the bars of the death cell at the state penitentiary and
lauged at justice - laughed at life - laughed at death, A mistake by Chief XJHaxXxea
Justice Carrington C. Marshall of the Ohio supreme court was responsible for Kane being
granted twenty more days of life - it alsoanswered the prayer of Kane's mother that he
be permitted to live until hfter Christmas, Kane was to have been put to death at the
penitentiary early this morning for the murder of 77-year-old Paul Prologo, but the chief
justice's mistake brought a reprieve from Governor Donahey, The chief justice explained
today that he had granted a stay of execution of the sentence to pay a #100 fine im-
posed on Norman G. Kendally, propekbévor of the Nemo theater of Cleveland for violation
of the child labor law and that he had become confused and believed that the stay had
been granted to Kane. RHKXQKHRMAMKAXWAWXXKUA The condemned man's mother had appealed in
tain to Governor Donahey yesterday that he reprieve her son until after Christmas,

't was an awful crime,' she told the governor's executive clerk, 'I know he must
receive the same punishment others have received, But can't the electrocution be
postponed until after Christmas? If he dies tomorrow morning, we will be so unhappy
next week," HKMKUXREXXACLMAXX

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_ Lockstep and Corridor

was allowed the freedom of the halls every night untill 9
P. M. and Sunday afternoons as well.

I do not know who got the money but I do know that a
man who went to the Deputy’s clerk, a lifer named Auburn,
and paid the price, could buy any job he wished. He could
also buy a Hall or a Yard permit or a ticket to Jerico. Jerico
was a special dining roonr where for breakfast you were
served beefsteak or pork chops and fried potatoes, good cof-
fee, bread and butter, etc. The dinner and supper were as
good. In fact, Jerico was the place where all desired to eat
but only those with money or influence were able to do so.
I wish to state that with the money furnished me from my
Fence Innsbruck from Toledo that I was able to eat in Jerico

most of my time. , a )
On Sundays we would go to Chapel at which time we |

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were allowed to be on our side of the walls. There was also
a bench on the chapel stage where sat the condemned men.
At that time however, there was only one man in the death

house, a man named Bruno Kives, who was electricuted while |

ba was there and died game.

There was aise at the Sunday services many visitors from
the outside ayho paid 25c for this privelidge. Each Sunday
the Warden made a short talk to the men at the end of the
services and generally ended up by giving the men permis-
gion to talk during dinner as the silent system was in force

in Columbus.

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‘and your friends could if they wished bring ‘such food : as they ?
wished and you would be allowed to. go to the inside lawn
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stand, and the convict waiter would deliver it to your party
on the lawn on a tray. In fact, these Sunday afternoons
looked more like picnic parties than anything else.

_ Every evening and Sunday men passed along the galleries
selling pies, cakes, candy, peanuts, hot coffee; in fact, every-
thing a man would want to eat. Also daily papers were sold

each night. A man was allowed if he had money, $1.00 cash >
a month to buy daily papers; but the pies, cakes, &c. could

be paid for in checks and you could order from your keeper
all of these checks you wished to pay for.

~ The first pie checks issued were of paper and in the form
of books, and when the man bought 1 a pie, he would tear out
a 5c check and pay for it with the check. But there were
many U. S. prisoners there, and among them several counter-

feiters. It was not long hefore some man was making coun-

terfeit checks so real that they could not be detected. The

counterfeiters sold them for 25c on the dollar, so it proved a
cheap way to buy pies and was eagerly accepted by the anx-
ious pie eaters.

Sometime went by before the Warden discovered that he.

was selling plenty of pies and that business was thriving, but

for some reason the business did not pay from a financial
standpoint. Finaly the fraud was discovered.

The punishments in Columbus were fierce, I did not suf-

fer much as a result of misconduct but I will discribe what

the different: ‘punishments were as near as” I can. For minor

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over it. The corpse had this ‘peculiar
What is more, this claw-
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the finger.

Goddard was shown the ring. -It was a
nartow band, embossed in a design includ-
ing three small birds and an owl.

As he took it in his hands, his: eyes

dimmed with tears. “I gave Hannah that
ring on her eighteenth birthday,” he said.
“Id know it anywhere.”
_ Also there was still a bandage around the
left foot. Hannah, shortly before her dis-
appearance, had run a nail into it, said God-
dard. She had doctored it herself, keeping
the cut clean with a bandage.

Earrings, small circles of gold, were still
in the ears. Hannah’ had worn exactly such
earrings, said her uncle.

This corpse, which had been in the
Miami River for two months, was formally
identified as the body of Hannah Knapp.

On March 3rd, a small crowd gathered
at the railroad station waiting for ‘the
theatre train from Cincinnati.

In the baggage car, with Uncle Charles
by its side, rested the remains of Hannah
Knapp in a metallic coffin, It was 12:35
when the coffin was lifted into the hearse
waiting to take it to’ Wagner’s morgue.

“Well, Knapp, what about it?” asked
Kuemmering the following morning, after
he had broken the news that the body
found at New Albany had been identified.
“Want to confess?”

Knapp took a deep breath. “I might as
well, I guess,” he answered calmly. “I'd
even like to,” he added. “I haven’t had a
good night’s rest since I killed Hannah. I
don’t know why I did it. I’ve cried myself
to sleep many a time, I’ve been that sorry.”

He had awakened on the morning of the
22nd of December, he began, to find his
hands grasping the throat of his wife. —

“She was dead,” he said. “I had strangled
her in my sleep.” ,

He looked ruefully at his large, muscular
hands. “They do things of their own ac-
cord,” he said. “I can’t stop them. It’s my
hands that are guilty, not me.”

The rest of his story was already known.
He had packed the body in the crate, after
wrapping it in a carpet, and driven down
to a place about 200 yards below the sucker
hole. Then he had dumped the crate from
the wagon, shoved it to the edge and pushed
it down the embankment to the river.

“I called ‘So long, Hannah,’ as it went
off,” he continued, “and. waved good-by
until it drifted out of sight.”

It was generally believed that the defense
would attempt to prove that Knapp was
not responsible for his actions. ~

But the Cincinnati Enquirer, knowing
how interested its readers were in. this
angle, engaged Dr. Herman H. Hoppe to
examine the prisoner.

There were depressions on the right
frontal bone and another on the back of his
head, reported Dr. Hoppe, but neither of
these injuries rendered the prisoner ir-
responsible or deprived him of the knowl-
edge of right from wrong. No doubt Knapp
had a constitutional brain disorder.
was not the type to render him irrespon-
sible for his actions.

Mother, sisters and wife were now united
in Ally’s defense. Annie Gamble raised
the money somehow to come to Hamilton,
and made daily visits to the jail with fruit,
cigars and flowers.

After long-drawn-out preliminaries, the
trial started in Hamilton on June 29th,
1903, with District Attorney Warren Gard
in charge of the prosecution and Attorneys
Thomas H. Darby and J. M. Thomas asso-
ciate defense counsel.

Mother Knapp, the most impressive wit-
ness for the defense, took the stand to tes-
tify to the many peculiarities of her son.
Children had nicknamed him Loony Knapp.
He was “crazy as a bedbug,” they said. The

- was prejudicial—“Sane men, who are in-

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accidents he had suffered as a child were |
responsible for his condition, claimed the
sad-eyed mother. He was only six years
old when he had been kicked by a colt when
the family was living at Wheeler, Indiana.
He had fallen from a porch and landed on
his head ‘at Moline, -Illinois: And a few
years later he had had a narrow escape
from drowning at Rock Island, in the same
state. -

Other instances of his queer actions.were
told by his sisters, Mrs. King and Mrs.
Wenzel. Several times the parents had,
moved because neighbors had complained
so heatedly of Ally. But though the other
members of the family had wanted him sent
to an institution, his mother had fought the
idea.

“Every ‘family has its black sheep,” she
had protested, “and Ally is ours.”

As for his confession, he now repudiated
it vehemently. The defense made a stren-
uous effort to prevent its being read to the
jury. But the Court, after admonishing the
jury that it was to pay.no attention to the
confessions of other crimes, permitted it to
be read.

On July 15th, the jury retired. After
twelve hours’ deliberation, it brought back
a verdict of “Guilty of murder in the first
degree.”. That meant the death penalty
for Ally Knapp.

His lawyers immediately put in an ap-
peal to the Circuit Court. To the dismay
of all Ohio, that body decided that the
State had failed to prove that the deceased
had come to her death by means alleged
in the indictment—the State had provided. NP
no evidence of cause of death, manner OF _| Bi ‘ : 77
means aside from the alleged confession. § , seals os ™ closes

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should not have been read to the jury. And
likewise the Circuit Court held that a re-
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And the Circuit Court thereupon re-

mon Pleas of Hamilton and remanded the
case for a new trial.
The countryside was aghast. Even if the
‘body of Hannah Knapp had been in no
condition to show the strangler’s marks on
the throat, hadn’t there been enough other
evidence to convince a jury that her hus-
band, and he alone, could have killed her?
Hadn’t witnesses shown how he had. got
rid of the body?
No one denied that the corpse recovered
from the river was that of Hannah.
‘And the only defense put up at the trial
had been that of insanity.
The Hamilton authorities decided to take
the matter to the Supreme Court of the
state. On January 28th, 1904, that body
listened to the pleas of the Common Court
and the defense counsel.
Suppose the State had not been able to
show the means of death, by strangling or
by choking? The manner of killing was
- not an essential element of crime, says the
common law, argued the State.
The defense of Knapp had relied on its
fea of insanity—and the jury had found
him sane.
Other evidence tying him up with the
crime had convinced the jury that he, and
no one else, was guilty.
The Supreme Court, in turn, reversed the
judgment of the Circuit Court and affirmed
that of the Court of Common Pleas.
Albert Knapp was guilty of the murder
of his wife, Hannah; and the sentence im-
posed must be carried out.
On July 19th, 1904, Ally Knapp was
executed.

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(Continued from page 35) his shoulders.

“Want to hear about that . Indianapolis
girl?” he asked. “Ida something-or-other—
I’ve forgotten her last name by now.”

The detective said he did. '

“I was down on the river front when a
little girl came along,” said Knapp. “She
was lost. I guess she was pretty young to
be let out alone. She couldn’t: have béen
more than two.”

The child wandered through the open
door of a stable and he followed her in.

“I don’t know why, but I was overcome
with a desire to choke her,” he continued.
“I grabbed her from behind and choked
her until she was dead. Then I put her
body in a tool chest and put another box on
top of it. I don’t know why_I did it, but
I did.”

Back at Headquarters, Moton told of
these two additional killings. It didn’t take
long to check up on them. : ;

Emma Littleman’s body had: been found
around four o’clock of the same afternoon.
Two boys named Barr and Coole. and taken
their bathing trunks to the lumber yard
earlier in the afternoon, changed clothes
and gone for a swim ina near-by duck
pond. On their return, they had hunted
for their clothes, forgetting under which
pile they had stowed them. It was then
they found Emma’s body and hurried off
to give the alarm.

M THE BODY was soon identified by her
father. The child had left him to go to the
lumber yard with a basket to gather chips,
said Herman Littleman, who was employed
near by. When she did not come back to.
him, he decided she had gone on home.

Although Coroner Querner thought Emma
might have fallen from the top of the lum-
ber pile and broken her neck, he realized
it.-would have been impossible for her to
have rolled under it after the accident. So
he asked Doctors C. L. Cameron and E. W.
Wallace to perform a post-mortem.

Their findings removed any doubt that
Emma’s death had been accidental. They
reported that there were distinct marks
of blows on her head which had fractured
both the frontal and occipital bones, and _
also strangulation marks on her throat,
with the hyoid bone crushed. She had not
been attacked, they said. ‘

An engineer was suspected, but never
openly accused, and Emma’s death was
still’an unsolved crime. 1

As for two-year-old Ida Gebhardt, | the
Indianapolis police were able to fill in
the gaps in Knapp’s story. .

The child’s body had been found in the
tool chest within twenty-four, hours after
her absence had been reported to the police.
Though she had been strangled, she was
covered with blood and under the body
was a bloodstained hatchet. The child had
not. been assaulted. ;

“I was in the crowd when they found the
body,” said Knapp later when Moton spoke
of it to him. “I don’t remember using the
hatchet,”, he added. “But maybe I did |:
use it.” ;

“Well, we’ve got quite a killer on our
hands,” commented Chief of Police Kuem-
mering.

But would a charge against Knapp for
any one of these three killings stand up in
court? He could deny his confession. And
there was no evidence whatsoever to tie
him up with any one of these murders.

Even the milkman, Woelfe, brought from
Cincinnati to have a look at Knapp, was
not sure he was the man who had stood
at the gate.

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As for Jessie Knapp, Ally now admitted
he was also. responsible for her death, They
were on a bridge over: the Miami Canal
| when he decided to kill her.

“She talked so much of suicide I thought
I’d help her,” he told Moton. “I got her
by the throat and choked her pretty hard.
Then I let her go, to see if she had changed
her mind, but’she didn’t: even whimper.

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' sure she was dead and threw her into the
canal,” ) ©, P : :

But he admitted that maybe she hadn't
been dead when she hit the water.

“She didn’t sink right away. She struggled
a little. I watched her, but she soon went
down and the water did what I overlooked.”

Both :Indianapolis. and Cincinnati were
consulted. Was.there any possibility of
charging Knapp ‘with any of the crimes he
confessed to in their respective cities? And
what was more important, what were the
chances of making the charge stick?

M@ PROSECUTOR.  RUCKLEHAUS, .of In-

dianapolis, thought the chances of con-
victing him of Ida Gebhardt’s death were
slim. However, if Ohio failed to prosecute
him for the confessed murders of Emma
Littleman and his wife, Jessie, he would do
his legal best, if Ohio would release him to
Indiana,

Prosecutor Hoffheimer and Acting Chief
of Police’ Casey, of Cincinnati, were not
much more. hopeful: There was only
Knapp’s confession to tie him up. with the
three murders in their city. It was pretty
‘late now to get evidence against him. With
a good defense lawyer, a conviction was
not a-likely prospect. But if, Hamilton
would hand him over to Cincinnati, they
would hold him and bring him to trial.

It was up to Hamilton to bring him to
the bar of justice and mete him the punish-
ment he so richly deserved for the string
of murders he admitted he had done.

. But without*a corpse, not even a’ charge
could’ be brought against him:: Hannah
Knapp. was missing—that was all. But with
all,the space the: Ohio’ and Indiana news-
papers were giving the case,’surely if the
woman were alive she would have long
‘since got in touch ‘with her ‘family.

~ convinced, and probably by the hand of her
| husband. 8.
'. ; Kuemmering, with his detectives, decided

to go back. to the beginning. Ally had
packed ..his belongings and-sent to Indian-
| apolis a tool box,’a barrel and a trunk. All
| three -were too. small to have taken" care.
| of a corpse. Besides, Knapp'had unpacked

the threepieces in the apartment of: his

| sister, Mrs. Wenzel, with whom his mother

lived. They:had seen no body, both ladies

Now came-an additional bit of informa-
tion from the Schollenberger livery- stable.
Knapp ‘had taken*the horse and ‘wagon

| around’ nine’ o’clock in the. morning. « He

had not returned it until after eleven. Even
allowing that it. took time to load the
wagon and unload it later at the baggage
station, and granting an extra half-hour
for delay at both ends, it’should not have
taken two hours. Raid 03,
A, small boy living close to the Knapp

; home on Fourth: Street now volunteered

that Ally had given him a dime to help

i | the wagon... \

“It’s too heavy for me alone,” Knapp had
said to the boy.” *

This crate had not: been shipped on the
railroad. © ; pees, eat ;

Had anyone in town seen it on the morn-

RHiretter ot 8) é ‘i
“yoo eaxning . ing of December) 22nd, asked the Hamilton
Boer srart “gaol. newspaper? © fry
3) FRIENDSHIP STUDIOS Suburban, Mail’ Carrier. Charles. Mills-
SG2ADAMS ST., ELMIRA.N,Y,,| paugh now came forward.)

ee ee ss seat

“I saw a horse and wagon on the road
toward Lindenwald that morning,” he said.
“In the back of it was a large-crate.”

And George Cooley, a tinner, who knew
Knapp, had also seen him on the morning
of December 22nd, driving a wagon with a
large crate in the back, on the road leading
south from Hamilton, out by Lindenwald.

A. little farther on, this road led close to
the Miami River. Here was a spot called
by the neighborhood the sucker hole, ten
feet deep. Anything thrown into it would
be dragged down into its swirling waters.

A half-dozen men with grappling hooks

..went immediately to the sucker hole, But

though they brought up_a collection of odds
and ends, they found nothing resembling a
crate or anything that could be tied up with
Hannah Knapp.

It was now the end of February. Two
months had passed since Hannah’s disap-
pearance. In the meantime, the Miami
River had been on a rampage with the
water rising and overflowing the bank,
driving families living there from their
homes. If the crate had gone into the
sucker hole, it would have been flooded out.

,The banks of the river above and below
the sucker hole were thoroughly gone over.
Then Graf, Moton and other detectives got
into two skiffs and with pike poles and

_ grappling hooks tried to see if the crate

>} | She. was déad, Hamilton authorities were .

oy

_ bring downstairs a large crate and liftiton

or body had sunk into the muddy bottom
along the shore.

The crate might have lodged on a sand
bar; or been caught by a water-soaked log.
But the current at this time of the year was
unusually swift on account of the swollen
condition of the river. This possibility led
only to a dead end... ;

_Now the County Commissioners of Ham-
ilton offered a $100 reward for discovery
of the body. Men living near the river

-through Ohio and even into Indiana began

spending their leisure eyeing the swollen
waters. :

The first report came from Officer Het-
trick, of Venice, about twelve miles from
Hamilton. A farmer, a month earlier, had
seen a-large box floating by.

Someone ‘else, working. on the Herbert
Grieser farm, reported seeing a box in the
river’ there.’ But the water had risen two
feet and it had drifted on beforé. anyone
could get near.
1A. féw boxes were turned jin to police
from’ other settlements along the Miami
River. They turned out to be empty crates.

WIT WAS possible, admitted the Hamilton
police, that the crate had drifted down
the Miami River to where it flowed into the
Ohio. If so, the chances were pretty slim
that it would ever be recovered or that the
body of Hannah would be found.
However, on March 2nd, came a telegram
from New Albany, Indiana. The steamer
Bellevue, plying between Louisville and
New Albany, was about to swing into the
wharf when Albert Rusk, Merriam .Scott
and George Pusley, deck hands, saw a nude
body bobbing in the water. They immedi-
ately notified Captain Steve Green. A boat
was Jowered ‘into the water and a rope
lassoed around the body. Thus it was

‘towed to shore.

It was a woman, slim and young.

Coroner: Starr, summoned, ordered the
body taken to the local morgue and Chief
of Police Adams hopefully sent a wire to
Hamilton. : ;

It wasn’t going to be easy to identify

“the body, all who saw it agreed. Decom-

position had long since set in.

On receipt of the telegram, Kuemmering
and Charles Goddard, Hannah’s uncle, left
immediately for New Albany.

The face of the woman was not recog-
nizable, But. miraculously the left hand
was almost intact. Many years earlier the
tip of. Hannah Knapp’s third finger had
been cut off, causing the nail to grow down

over it.

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like nail
the finger.
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it Hannah had
killed herself, it

records of as-
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Place while he
She had stuck

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~~ to him; nevertheless, and welcomed him
» ~home when: his sentences were over.
* “Quite a man, isn’t: he?” remarked:
* Kuemmering. ie

' “And he never seems to have had

trouble getting women to marry him, .

either,” added Moton. “If he were rich
and good-looking—but he’s neither.”
“Women are like that,” said the Chief
of Police.
Hannah, who undoubtedly knew of
his past, had been more than willing to

marry Knapp. And now Anna Gamble,

in her twenties, was prepared to Stick
to him and had only resentment for his
sisters, whom she held responsible for
his troubles. “

Ally, probably a little lonesome in the

local. jail, looked -forward to: his chats .

with the police officials and did -his best
to entertain them... :

“T could tell you a lot of stories. that
would make your hair stand on.end,” he
confided to Moton a few. evenings later.
“Of course, if I thought I could he held,

I wouldn’t talk. But the police have

nothing on me and.I’ve got a good mind

to tell you about a woman in Cincinnati.”
The detective was all attention.
“Remember Mary Elkhart; that woman

who was strangled in Cincinnati in

) haa } zy ah bs es
pe Ne sing! mae OAR BRE

18942” went on’ Knapp, puffing at a

cigar presented by Moton. “Well, I killed

her.” eS j
The detective, to induce. him to’ con-

tinue,. laughed... . “You?” “he sneered...

“You don’t expect me’ to believe you

‘fooled the Cincinnati police, do you?”:
“But I did,” insisted Knapp angrily.

“They never even suspected me.”
“How did you‘do it?” asked Moton
cautiously. He already knew the out-
lines of the Elkhart case. It had never
been solved. . * *
Mary Elkhart, an attractive young
blonde in her twenties, had been found
dead on the floor of a cheap rooming
house near Seventh and-Walnut Streets
about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25th,
1894, Ppa i x
A towel round her throat, tied securely
in the back with two knots, showed
how she had been strangled. The woman
wore:a blue dressing gown over her
nightgown. . ‘ on aaa
The investigation brought out that she
had arrived in Cincinnati from Dayton,
Ohio, the preceding Friday, and came
to the rooming house: with a man she
introduced as her cousin. ~ {
She told the landlady, Mrs, Grout, that
she was looking for work. - :
The cousin had visited her several
times. In fact, it was through George

Manders that the crime had been dis-"

covered. The young man had called
Wednesday afternoon and, getting’ no

-answer. to his knocking, had. told Mrs. |

Grout. To her surprise, the landlady
found Mary’s door unlocked. And, 0

opening it, found her dead.

Manders had been arrested immedi-
ately. ; by a ‘

‘In the room, the police found a letter
from. Mary Elkhart’s husband, still in
Dayton, Ohio. The next day he arrived
in Cincinnati to help them. He and his

'™ wife had separated on July 19th, he
f# 6said.’ In her last letter, she wrote that

she was going on-ta Denver with a man
named Lee Tompkins who, the husband
said, had once worked at the Beck House
in Dayton. She had written earlier about
taking a trip West with a train con-
ductor on whom, she -wrote, she’ had
made.a “mash.” ee 4%
But, although these men’ and others
whose names were provided by the hus-
band, were contacted by the police, one

_and all had alibis for the entire day, on

which Mary Elkhart had met her death.

*, And among. them was unlucky George
= Manders, whose flirtation with Mary had
= come to such an untimely end.

The police had been able to find only
one man who threw any light on Mary
Elkhart’s visitors that Wednesday morn-
ing. A milkman, William Woelfe, deliv-
ering milk in the neighborhood about
seven o’clock, had noticed, as he went
up the front steps, a stocky man lean-
ing against the gate of the house.

After Mrs., Elkhart had opened the
door—she was wearing a blue wrapper
over a nightgown, said Woelfe—and told
him she would take a quart of milk,
he had gone back to his wagon for it.

Returning to the house, the stranger
had glared at him, following him with
his eyes and watching him through the
open front door. While Mrs. Elkhart
paid him, Woelfe had asked her if the

man was a friend. of hers. She looked
out’ and shook her: head.
“I never saw him before,” she said.
Doctors Henry Freudenberger and J.
HH. Macready, after making the post-

mortem examination, reported that ‘the
. woman had been strangled about nine

or ten. hours beforé the body. was found.
That made the time of death’ close to the
hour of the mi n’s visit. And though
Chief of Detectives Herman J. Witte had
done his best to locate this swarthy,
stocky man, or any other suspect, he
finally had to report to Coroner Querner
that there was not enough evidence to
warrant an accusation against anyone.

And, so far as the police records of
Cincinnati were concerned, the Elkhart
case was unsolved. : ;

“T did it,’ said Knapp to Moton that
February evening in 1903. “I met. that
woman.. She was no good. She only
wanted money. And I knew she was
playing me off with other men.”

He remembered the milkman. He
defcribed the bedroom, telling of the
washstand in one corner and a gas stove
on a table. And he concluded:

“Her front-door key was missing, re-
member? Well, I took it. But I’ve
thrown it away since.”

“Do you think he’s telling the truth?”
Moton asked Kuemmering when he re-
peated this story.

“He might be, and again he might be
only bragging,” answered the Chief of
Police. “Almost everything. he has said,

he might have read in the newspapers.”

It was decided that Moton should try
to.goad Knapp into talking more, by jn-
sinuating he didn’t believe this story.

“You don’t think I’m telling you the
truth?” Ally retorted the next night. ‘““You
think I got the facts from the newspapers?
Well, I can tell you some stories that

_ will show you I know more than the re-
_ porters and the police together.” :

Moton looked his doubts, and Knapp
went on:

“Remember back. in June ’94, Emma
Littleman, twelve years old? She was

’ found dead in a lumber yard in.Cincin-

nati.”

The detective didn’t remember. But
Ally continued, nevertheless.

“It was a Saturday, a hot day in June.
Jessie and I had signed to go with Pop
Hall’s Circus and I was going down to
their headquarters on Gest Street to ar-
range to have our trunks called for.”

There was a lumber yard on the way
and he had stopped in to rest in the

‘shade. There he saw Emma, with a

basket on her arm. At his invitation, she

. sat down beside him.

“IT began fooling with her and she
screamed. I don’t know why but I put
my hands round her throat until she
stopped. .When I took my hands away
she fell lifeless. I stowed the body away
under the lumber and went home.”

That night Knapp and Jessie left with
the circus. But he read in the next day’s
Enquirer that the body had been found.
He stayed with the circus for several
weeks, but the work was too hard and
in East St. Louis he and Jessie left it
and returned to Cincinnati:

“That sounds like another fairy tale,”
intimated Moton.

Ally shrugged (Continued on page 83)

35


What kind of person goes around bumping off grand-
mothers? Especially someone like Grandma Kate Wilde—

a kindly, home-loving woman without an enemy in the world

CSS:

“Mother has been acting very
strangely lately,” she said. “She’s
been afraid of somebody. That’s
why she kept every window and
door in the house locked, even in
June.”

“Have you any idea who she
feared?”

“No. I asked what was troubl-
ing her, but she only laughed and
said she could take care of her-
self.”

Mrs. Whipple said that her
mother was 64, and had been
widowed only a short time. Rem-
ington recalled John Wilde as a
kindly old gentleman who had
worked as a telegrapher for the
Lake Shore Railroad for many
years.

“When did you last see your
mother?”

“Last night. She spent the eve-
ning at my home, leaving about
nine o'clock. She phoned me the
moment she got home, saying she
was all right.”

Remington questioned Ethol
Lamphier next. Lamphier, a sal-
low-complexioned man in his early
30s, explained that he worked
nights at the Durkee Famous Foods
plant on the outskirts of town.
“My hours are from midnight to
eight a.m.,” he said.

Lamphier explained that he fre-
quently did odd jobs around the
house for the victim. Like taking
out the ashes, mowing the lawn
and tending the furnace. “She
was kind of on the spot after John
died, so I did what little I could
for her,” he said simply.

Remington thanked them and
returned to the murder room
where he found Dr. George J.
Linn, the Wilde family physician,
completing his examination of the
victim.

“Got anything, doc?” he in-
quired.

“Mrs. Wilde was literally beaten
to death,” said Dr. Linn. “She has
deep bruises under both eyes. Her
nose and right jawbone are broken.
Also, seven ribs on one side and
four on the other, are caved in.”

“All of which means?”

“That you won't have to search
for a murder weapon,” said the
Physician. “Mrs. Wilde was punch-
ed to death.”

“Only someone out of his mind
Would kill like that,” Remington


> Rembigtoa.” “and Berry

AMie ‘to ‘question the. neighbors. .
Aside from the fact-that Mrs.
Wilde’s money had : “been” ‘stolen,
 theré was little on which to work.
Mrs. Jennie Wistert, who lived
several doors ‘down the street, fur- 2
nished their first lead. She said |
she was sitting on the porch’ wait-
ing for her husband’ to return —
from work when she noticed a.

glaus of the Btate. Police lab de-
‘tail. They were assisted by.E. C.

Fuller of the’ Mansfield » ‘police

‘dept. a fingerprint: expert.

“While the latter - “dusted ‘the
smooth surfaces for prints, the ~
‘others’ busied themselves taking
pictures and: ‘searching for cles. .
_It was Bloomline who discovered —
“several brownish colored hairs.

clutched in the victim’s’ hand.

‘Elated, he dropped them in 2
cellophane envelope ‘and. ‘marked

ay sees SO ee ae

, about. the rat who id. this,” he

|». the Bouse failed to reveal a single

side out,” Re

> Killer sd observed. ‘pay. "to wort
. Id say he had- this caper apretty.
“ well cased.”

“ve a hunch weice ‘looking’ for
someone Sofa knows this town in-"
‘said. “He
knew enough about the two fami-

: lies to know just when to. strike.

the murder scene in the:
capable hands of the Mans-
field Sek aa -the local officers

Arrow indicates window of -at-
- tic. It was by climbing tree and
forcing this Undo that slay-
er first. tried to break in.


Indiana,

. The’ Bowling -

formed |

holding - the

In the meantime Berry revur
with. disappointing . news. “I 1o-

‘cated the model-T: Ford, all right,”.

he said, “but the guy had a per-

‘te

Profile and full-face views of
garbageman (above) who mess-
ed up more lives than his own.

rR ethers

»
w)

4
pee
€

‘another light, he

mate the killer’s weight.
received Bloomline's
report later that day. With inter-~

est ‘he read: “Killer is a male,
“with brown wavy hair. Age, be-
~ ‘tween 30 and 35 years. Approxi-
“mate weight, 150 pounds.”

He quickly summoned Sheriff

“Berry to his: office and showed
‘him the ‘report. “According to that

description,” he said, “Ethol Lam-

““phier is our man. He has brown
“wavy hair and is 33 years old. Also,

he’s around 145 pounds.”
’ Berry shook. his head. “There’s

t' least a couple of hundred men

town who can fit that des-_

Katherine Wilde holds the
grandchild who will one day
discover her battered body.

Mies

ek:
ianight ”
aie

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chief deputy and jailer, she faced
an angry mob of armed men when
they demanded entrance. Being
well aware of their intention she
blocked the door with pistol in
hand, defied the potential hang-
men and thereby, to her everlast-
ing credit, saved the good name of
her county and state.

At this hearing, the attractive

young victim faced the glowering
suspect and said: ‘“‘He’s the man.”
Her teacher and four school mates
corroborated her, placing him in
the vicinity of the crime.
Sheriff Rollins offered in evi-

dence the woolen threads, demon-.

strating before the Magistrate how

perfectly they matched the color.

and texture of Kirby’s trousers.
Through his counsel the defend-
ant still maintained his innocence
and was held under heavy bail
for grand jury action. .
Meanwhile, Art Fowler returned

CONFIDENTIAL
EMEGHIME

“Employees have to punch their
cards every hour, on the hour,”
he told them. “Failure to do so
means instant dismissal. If you'll
notice, Lamphier’s card was punch-
ed every hour.”

Remington examined the card.
Koch was right. It showed that
Lamphier hadn’t left the plant at
any time during the night.

Disappointed, “the investigators
returned to their offices. While
many of the clues pointed to Ethol
Lamphier as the slayer, his time
clock alibi apparently absolved
him of any connection with the
crime.

Chief Remington received sur-
prising news from the Mansfield
identification expert the next
morning. Lamphier, said Fuller,
had once served eight years in
the Mansfield Reformatory, from
1917 to 1925. Later, when he was
sent to the Massilon State Hospital
for observation, he escaped.

“He’s got to be our man,” snort-
ed Remington, laying aside the
report. “But that time clock has
us stymied.”

“Maybe somebody punched it
for him?” said Berry.

Remington shook his head.
-“That’s out. I’ve already checked
that possibility. Nobody at the
plant likes the guy well enough
to do him a favor.”

“I think we should have another
go at the plant,” said Berry. “Per-
haps we'll stumble onto some-
thing.”

At the plant they drew Albert
Lohbauer, the night watchman,

36

from Nashville and, after a con-
ference with the sheriff, was com-
pletely absolved from all suspicion
in the case. -

Fatefully, Henrietta Rollins, as
jailer, was destined to experience
another nerve-tingling experience.
Shortly after his preliminary hear-
ing, in the absence of her husband,
Kirby called her under pretense of
needing instant medical attention.
Gripping the bars with both hands
he stared wildly at his comely
keeper, demanding that she take
him to the hospital. Realizing that
he was attempting to make her
the victim of a diabolical ruse, she
refused. Whereupon, he produced
a safety razor blade and threat-
ened to kill himself unless she com-
plied. When she again refused, he
bared his breast and began slash-
ing himself over the heart.

“Go right ahead,” she said calm-
ly. “It will be a good riddance.”

With this, she returned to her
office and called a physician, who
found upon examination that the
prisoner’s wounds were superficial;
and that his illness claim was
false.

On November 29, 1948, the de-
fendant was brought before Judge
John A. Mitchell for trial at Car-
thage. For lack of evidence in
other suspected cases, hé was only
indicted on the charge brought by
the parents of the Wooten girl.
District Attorney Baxter Key had
carefully marshalled his evidence.
Through his counsel, however,
Lawrence Kirby entered a guilty
plea—aird Was given a sentence of
twenty-one years in the state pen-
itentiary.

’ Note: The names Rosemary Wells,

Jane Hocker, Mrs. Imogene Worthy,
Art Fowler and Betty Clark, used
in this story, are fictitious.

MURDER PUNCHES THE TIME CLOCK

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An’ answering bullet cracked the
windshield; a second ripped into a
front tire.

The prowl car went into a scream-

ing skid, then whirled crazily to a
stop in the middle of the street. The
officer leaped out, unhurt, 4s the
coupe spurted around the next corner.

But it didn’t get far. A block away
the driver swerved past a rough spot
in the paving and ovérshot the curb.
The Buick careened across the side-
walk, flattening a hedge and. splin-
tered the porch of a small cottage.

. The officer ran toward the crash.
He was too late. A woman in the
cottage had glimpsed two men dodg-
ing away from the car.
ished into the darkness.
* Police reinforcements were soon
swarming all over the neighborhood.
Streets were blocked, alleys combed.
Technicians arrived to inspect the
Buick, which had Indiana license
plates. There were no fingerprints, |

| but the experts made three other tell- |

ing finds. epre

The trunk contained Jim Caldwell’s
license plates, and a gray hat. Be-
hind the seat was an empty match |
folder.

On the folder was the legend: BOB
LINDSEY’S CAFE, JEFFERSON-
VILLE, OHIO.

“Couldn’t be better,” Cavolo said.
“The match folder nails that Jeffer-
sonville job to their hides, all right.” |

With a dragnet sweeping the city,
Cavolo returned to his office. He put
through a call to Sheriff Icenhower
in Washington Court House, informed |

him of the fugitives’ tight link to the |
cafe slaying. . : f
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he’d be in Cleveland by morning.
Ten minutes later, one phase of the
investigation came to an abrupt end.
The office door banging open and
Haase marched in with a struggling, |
indignant, young blonde. He sat her |
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“Betty Fullmore,” he said with a
relieved sigh, “Alias Lucy Gilmore.
Got a lead on her at a cafe where she |,
used to work, picked her out of a |
swell downtown hotel. Living there |
like a queen.”

The blonde glared. ‘“Who’s busi- |
ness is it except mine?” ee
“Ours.” Cavolo smiled faintly.

“We've a bad habit of spoiling a per-
son’s fun—on stolen cash.”
iS) crossed long legs.

laugh,” she said.

. For the next few minutes she par-
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$400. She appeared increasingly con- |,
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warning. She tensed, her full, red
lips. trembling.

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Why?” ,

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boy friend and his pal are wanted for
a downstate shooting. What’s the |

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behind that gun.
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He readily admitted his identity and
guilt.

Less than 30 hours after the crime
had been committed, Robert L. Smith
signed a confession. Prosecuting At-
torney Edwin E. Dunaway filed first-
degree murder charges against him.

Sitting in the Little Rock jail the

‘ burn him!
mind, “They’d have got me anyhow. .

following morning, Smith looked at

the stout bars and cursed his luck.
They’d give him life, or maybe they’d

coming, but why did he have to be the
boob who did ‘it? ‘

Bob had asked for.a morning paper
so that he could read about himself.
The jailor brought it. A small item
in the Arkansas Gazette immediately
caught his eye.

The autopsy performed on her
bullet-riddled body revealed she

Sallie Mae had a killing.

had an advanced’ case of cancer
of the liver. Doctor Howard A.
Dishongh, coroner, said patholo-
gists reported the malignancy
probably would have taken her
life in from six months to a year.

Smith was later sentenced to die in

_the electric chair.

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ran last night, luck was all on his

side. Got past the state police with-
out even a narrow squeeze.”

“Our best bet for nailing him, too.”

At 9:30 the next morning, a
sprightly, old man bobbed into the
sheriff’s office and-got to the point at
once.

In a pipey, excited voice he identi-
fied himself as the owner of a gas sta-
tion on the outskirts of tiny James-
town, 11 miles east of Jeffersonville.
“And Tom Kise, who works on a
farm near there,” he added, “owed
me $85 till an hour or so ago.”

Icenhower stared. ‘“So?”

The visitor hitched at his belt. -

“Tom was busted the afternoon of the
3rd. That’s when he tried to bum
some gas off me. Showed up with an
old Pontiae coupe.”

“Black?”

“Right. But this morning Tom
peeled the cash he owed me off a roll
big enough to give a steer indiges-
tion!”

When the station owner described
Kise as a slim, angular man, about 33,
a heavy drinker and gambler, the
officers lost no time in looking for
him. But they didn’t find him at the
farm. He’d quit after a dispute on
July 2—and he had drawn only $10
back pay.

The farmer gave them a lead on
Kise’s girl friend in Washington Court
House. She turned out to be an em-
bittered young blonde who claimed
she hadn’t seen Kise in a week.

“Tom borrowed a hundred dollars
from me to pay off a gambling debt,”
she declared angrily, “then made him-
self scarce. I wouldn’t put anything
past that guy!”

The search was widened to nearby
cities. Although Holman said he
knew Kise well, which eliminated
him as the man who had entered the
diner the night of the slaying, Icen-
hower wasn’t discouraged.

“That stranger may be out of the
picture all together,” he reasoned.
“Just a coincidence he fitted the gen-
eral description of the man Fuller
saw.”

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ROUGH, TOUGH AND DEAD

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 31

Several hours passed. About noon,
a Washington Court House policeman,
walking his beat in the business dis-
trict, snapped a second look at a
disheveled figure passing him, then
turned .suddenly.

Tom Kise surrendered meekly.

But he’d recovered his voice when
he was hustled into the sheriff’s office.
A limber, sardonic man wearing a blue
shirt and soiled tan trousers, he
snorted indignantly as Icenhower
counted out $207 from his wallet.

“Who cares where I got the dough?”
he rasped. “Maybe I busted open my
piggy bank!”

“Maybe,” the sheriff drawled. “And
maybe you can tell us a few things
about Bob Lindsey. How about it?
Where’s your pal with the black

coupe?”
' Kise’s jaw dropped. “Lindsey?”
he blurted. “You’re nuts! I never

had anything to do with that. job!”

Icenhower sat back in his chair.
“Tm waiting,” he said softly, turning
the bulging wallet over in his hand.

The suspect shifted nervously in his
chair. “Well, I don’t remember much
that night,” he said. “Met a guy ina
tavern here and we toured the town
for a while, hitting the bottle. Never
even got his name before he took off
for Cincinnati at midnight.”

“Where were you at 10 o’clock?”

“Maybe at the phone office here in ..

town,” Kise muttered.:“The guy made
a call to Chicago. I don’t know.the
exact time, but it was a while before
he left town.”

As for his sudden wealth, he main-

‘tained that he’d been. saving money

for a spree. Icenhower let that pass,
picked up his hat and went down the
street to the telephone office.

Summoned from home, the night
manager had no trouble recalling
Kise and his companion on the night
of the murder. ‘The Chicago call was
placed at 9:48,” he said, consulting
his records.. “And both men were
here for a good half an hour after
that. Tipsy, It was all I could do to
get’ them out again.”.

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“One less black coupe to account for,
anyway,” he said to Yeoman. “But
that puts us right back where we
started.”

“Farther back,” the deputy cor-
rected. “The killer’s had time enough
to be on either coast, if he ducked out
of the state.”

Nothing developed in the next 24
hours to prove that he hadn’t. By
that time, though, things suddenly
started happening in Piqua. The
elderly witness who had taken down
the -license number of the masked
gunmen’s car had unexpectedly found
the missing paper in his suit pocket!

And three hours later the manhunt
shifted to Cleveland, Ohio, 200 miles
north. It was Detective Lieutenant
Charles Cavolo, director of the city’s
auto bureau, who: acted on Piqua’s
urgent request for the arrest of a
man named Jim Caldwell.

According to the state motor vehicle

’. department records, the plates on the
. bandits’ Buick coupe had been issued ’

to him.

Not long afterwards, Caldwell, a
tall, thin, blond-haired butcher, was
in custody. He calmly acknowledged
ownership of the license plates.

“T haven’t a thing to hide,” he told
the lieutenant. “The plates were
swiped off my car a couple weeks ago.
I didn’t report it because I have a

record. Did time on a bum rap in-

Wisconsin two years back. I was
afraidenobody’d believe me.”
Cavolo* studied him. “A pretty

weak story,” he said bluntly. |

“T know it,” the butcher replied.
“Sure, I made a mistake. That’s plain
now.” .

Somewhat to the officer’s surprise,
Caldwell had an unshakable alibi for
the 3rd. His employer vouched for
the fact that he’d been at work all that
day. But it wasn’t quite enough to
win his release. Not when Cavolo,
on a sudden hunch, summoned: a
suburban grocer to headquarters.

The recent holdup victim of a tall,
blond man, the grocer needed only one
* quick look at Caldwell.

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‘the phone. “Not much doubt about

those being the shots,” he said over

_his shoulder. “Which puts the tall guy

right on the scene at the time the Doe
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Icenhower: put a call through to
state police headquarters in Colum-
bus, relaying the murder details. ‘Then,
after alerting the authorities of all
surrounding counties to be on the

lookout for a black coupe and a Janky
man in light-colored trousers, he
started for the victim’s home nearby.

By the time he returned, Coroner

C. C. Hazard had supervised removal ,
‘of the body to the Washington Court

House mortuary, promising immediate
recovery of the two embedded pbul-
lets.

The third slug had spent itself in
the wall behind Lindsey’s body. A .32,
Icenhower adjudged with an expert
eye. It was Yeoman’s lone find at that
point.

“No prints except Lindsey’s on the
cash register,” the deputy reported
glumly. “Evidently the guy had him
scoop up the bills.”

Icenhower shrugged. “Lindsey’s wife
didn’t have much to tell, either. Just
that he carried a heavy wallet. As far
as she knew, he hadn’t been afraid of
anyone robbing -him.”

These were two setbacks that soon
lost most of their sting, however. Cir-
culating among the spectators again,
the shrewd county prosecutor had
turned up a second lead. That was
when Dale Holman, a young diner
cook, unfolded an odd story about a
tall stranger to whom he’d served a
sandwich at 9:30.

“The fellow walked in when the
place was empty,” he recounted to the
officers. “Suddenly, he hopped uv, his

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Lindsey’s cafe (the store with the awning) in Jeffersonville, Ohio.

right hand jammed in his pocket—
kind of sidled along the ‘counter
toward me. i t

“Maybe he was set to pull a gun;
I don’t know. Some tourists came in
just then and he faded out the door

-fast.”

Icenhower’s interest _ quickened.
“Remember how he was dressed?”

“Blue shirt and tan trousers,” Hol-
man told him. “He had an old, gray,
felt hat pulled low on his face, too.
Sure, I’d know him again. Any place.”

Yeoman glanced at the sheriff.
“Good chance he’s the same fellow
Fuller saw. Got cold feet in the diner
and roamed -around until he caught
Lindsey alone. Did you notice if he
had a car outside your place?” he
asked Holman.

“T didn’t look.” {

Quickly, the other onlookers were
questioned. .None, however, had ob-
served the tall stranger or a suspicious
black coupe in town that evening.

With that much settled, Icenhower -

dispersed the crowd and phoned in to
the state police a description of Hol-
man’s strange customer. Then he and
Yeoman inspected the murder scene
again, went over it carefully. But they
were still empty handed when they
finally locked the, establishment and
climbed into their cars. .

ACK at his desk in the county
courthouse building .30 minutes
later —1:40 a.m.—Icenhower

promptly placed a call to Piqua. He
was connected with the night chief of
police, reported that there was a pos-
sible lead on the men who had pulled
the drugstore job.

A bright overhead bulb etched
weary lines in the faces of the offi-
cials; across the room a fan churned
the sultry air with futile vigor.

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6

Yeoman smiled. Without humor.
“Those two guys are probably on.a
tour, all right.”

“Well, even if they’re clear here,”
the prosecutor remarked, “we're still
not too bad off. Not with the motive
apparently fixed, three bullets for

ballistic tests later on and Holman to.

look over any suspects we pick up.”
The sheriff tapped a long, gray.ash
off his cigar. “Just se Holman’s imagi-
nation wasn’t working overtime on the
guy he saw,” he commented wryly.
‘Coroner Hazard’s autopsy report,
revealing nothing new, came later. But
there was no response to the manhunt
alarm by the time Icenhower finally
headed home at 3:45.
A brief two hours later, however,
he got a call on his bedside phone.
The message jolted him wide awake.
Police in Chillicothe, 35 miles east, had
nabbed a young man in a stolen black

‘Chevrolet coupe after a furious run-

ning gunfight.

“Carried a .45,” the detective on the
wire said tersély, “And his alibi for 10
o’clock isn’t much.”

Full daylight had broken when.

Icenhower finally rode into the neigh-
boring city. Dale Holman accompanied
him. It was a bright, hot morning, with
flags rippling in a slight breeze and
colorful bunting fluttering across the
store fronts.

At police headquarters the suspect
was fidgeting nervously. He wore a
dark shirt and light-colored trousers.
A. tense silence gripped the room as
Holman walked up to him.

“Not the man I saw,” he said, turn-
ing away with a disappointed shake
‘of his head.

Icenhower stayed on for an hour,
putting the prisoner through a close,
-hard grilling. But he refused to be
shaken from his heated denial of the
crime, which was to win him a. book-
ing for car theft, not homicide

“He'll be around for a while, any-
way,” the sheriff said before leaving,
“in case we need him in a hurry.”

By noon, Icenhower and Yeoman
had interviewed dozens of Jefferson-
ville residents still stunned by the
tragedy that all but canceled out the
town’s ambitious celebration plans.
But, despite the clamor of everybody
to help, no fresh leads were uncovered.

Several “hot” tips on the local own-
ers of black coupes were quickly
proven to be nothing more than ru-
mors. Three ex-reform school inmates
were picked up for routine investiga-

tion. Each promptly slid free on an -

airtight alibi. A railroad worker, who
had once quarreled with Lindsey
over a bill, was given a clean slate.

“Stuck,” Yeoman groused as he and
the sheriff finally headed back toward
the county seat. “If the killer’s a local

= product, he’s done a neat job of cover-
‘ing his trail.”

Icenhower squinted out into , the
glaring sunlight, a cigar jutting from
a corner of his mouth.

“Seems to be it,” he said bleakly.

the guy in the cafe.” quickly established robbery as ‘he motive for the pre-Fourth of July slaying.

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who pulled a gun on me!” he snapped.

While Caldwell was indignantly
sputtering his denial of the crime, a:
haberdasher arrived to identify him
as the man who had robbed him a
week earlier.

“Okay. I’m it,” the bulghae ad-
mitted. » “But I. wouldn’t. be here if
that punk hadn’t double-crossed me
on-those plates! I told him to lay off
any jobs with ’em.”

Adroitly, Cavolo pressed his advan-
tage until he had the whole story. It
evolved, principally, around a stocky »
youth of about 23, whom Caldwell

‘had. met by chance in a local tavern

several weeks before. He had intro- :
duced himself as Lyle Hanlon. -

“He wanted me to hook up with him
on some jobs downstate,” the prisoner -
recounted. “But I turned him down
because I don’t go for. partners. Too
much trouble. Then: he offered $20
to use my plates to get a hot car out
of town.”

Caldwell shook his head glumly. “I
needed the. dough, so -it was a deal
with me the sucker.”

What did he know. about Hanlon?

“Nothing,” he muttered: ‘“Nothing~

at all.”

Identification experts checked the
voluminous criminal records without
discovering anything on Hanlon.
Then, in the event the youth had
given a phony name, Caldwell

searched the rogue’s gallery files for ee,

his photograph. |
Meanwhile, Detectives John Cisna
and William Haase, a pair of experi~-’

enced sleuths, were busy on:another °
‘angle, They sped to the tavern where

Caldwell said he’d met Hanlon, ques-
tioned the employees.
A bartender on the night shift

proved to be a good source of informa~

tion.
“Sure, I remember seeing those two.

‘guys here a couple weeks ago,” he re-
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selves. No, I'd never seen either one
before—or since.”

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vigorously, rubbing a damp white ©

towel over and over the same shit on
the bar.

- “Say, maybe I can help you some
more,” he remarked suddenly. “Be-
‘fore the blond fellow came along, the
kid told me about a classy waitress he
knew in a beer parlor down the street.
A blonde. I:took it they were. good
friends,” he: added.

The. detectives dropped in at*the

other beer spot ten minutes later. It
was empty, except for a rawboned
bartender and a waitress more gray
‘than blonde. Obviously, she was past
the point to charm an aspiring: big-
‘time operator like Hanlon appeared
‘tobe.

“What's it?” the man behind the bar
said with ‘a fixed smile.

“Couple of: cokes,” .Haase replied.

“And some information. Seen, Han-,

lon: lately?”

- |. ‘The barkeep walked over with two. -
bottles.

“Hanlon? Jay. Hanlon, you

“luck "-now,” he

, detective . replied.

Cisna shook his head. “Lyle Han-
lon,” he said. “Look, he was sweet on
a blonde working here. ‘That mean

anything?”

It did. ‘The bartender suddenly
looked angry. Calmly, Haase~dis-
played his shield.

“Never heard his name,” the man
said, leaning forward. “But he made
a hit with Lucy Gilmore, who was
here till a week ago. She didn’t show
up one morning—and neither did a
roll we’d cached in the back room.
She got away with a cool 400 bucks.”

, The address the blonde had given
proved to be an empty building. “The
boss didn’t report it,” the bartender
explained, “because he wanted.“ to
handle her in his own way.”

Shapely and blue-eyed, about 20,
Lucy had confided in none of the help.

‘Nor could they. recall any customer

other than Hanlon with whom she’d
been friendly. Hanlon, himself, was
never very communicative.

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worked before?” Haase wanted to
know. —

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But-she “had been adept at her work,

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well.

When the two detectives put their
findings before Lieutenant Cavolo, he
reflected for only a brief moment.
‘Let’s see what can: be turned up on
her at some tavern or cafe,” he said.
“A good-looker like her should be
remembered easily, even if she
worked under a different name.”

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added. “Caldwell
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back this way. for a while, either.”
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into headquarters, wiping blood off

his face.

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he gasped to the desk sergeant. “Tall
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and his pal on the Piqua job are in
town.”

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we're taki) along with us now.”
Dingmar ‘d in his face, stand-
ing there v hands spread on the

bar, his eyes roving about the room
as he watched his forces gathering.

With the gun at Dingman’s head, I
still think we might have got away
with it. The room was still in a hub-
bub of drunken merriment, with the
girls carrying their drinks from table
to table, and customers drunkenly ar-
guing with one another about nothing.

But the situation took an abrupt
about-face in a manner that neither of
us could have foreseen.

One of the girls, coming back
to the bar with her tray, tumbled to
what was going on. Her face con-
torted with rage and contempt as she
saw the gun in Dwyer’s hand.

Without warning, she kicked at
Barney’s hand. I saw her white leg
come up, with the red slipper at the
end of it like a ram. The toe of the
slipper struck his hand hard.

Caught unawares, Dwyer’s grip re-
laxed as the leather shoe cut cruelly
through his fingers. The gun flew
up in the air in an are and tumbled
on the floor behind the bar.

“You ain’t going to arrest nobody
here, little boy,” she said to Dwyer.

Dingman never moved. If he had
come bounding over the bar at us
then, which he could have done, with

me in good stead. That band of quick-
thinking, hard-hitting agents that had
drilled into me the precept: “Never
lose your head. Outsmart ’em. Out-
bluff ’em. They'll fold up every time.”

“We’re not as dumb as you think,
Dingman,” I said. “You think you’re
pretty smart, with your little gang of
gorillas. Give us credit for being a
little smart too. You make one move
and you’ll wish you hadn’t.”

He looked puzzled, and I saw that
I had him. I laughed heartily.

“You don’t think we would be so
dumb as to come to a place like this
without plenty of help, do you?” I
said. “I’ve got seven men in this room
right now. All I’ve got to do is give
a signal and the others will come in
here, and there won’t be enough left
of you and your place to put in a
whisky glass.”

He stared at me, and then I saw his
eyes flick around the room. He was
puzzled. Was I lying or telling the
truth? He couldn’t tell. There were
so many people in the room that he
could not tell a customer from an
agent.

When his eyes finally came back to
me there was a question in them. He
didn’t know what to do.

“Listen, Frank,” I said, “I’ve heard
you were half smart. If you are, now’s
the time for you to show it, Why

eau Sada, 4tUs some Girly trick ol
these coppers.”’

“Shut up,” he said. “Go on. Tell
me more.”

“Sure,” I said. “I'll tell you all
about it. Ill even make a deal with
you. You send your boys back to
work, as if nothing happened. I'll
give my boys the signal to disappear.
You and I will get into a taxi together
and make the trip—just you and I.
What do you say to that?”

He turned it over slowly in his mind,
looking at me now and then sus-
Piciously. The redhead stood by, like
a cobra ready to strike at a moment’s
notice. Then—

“Okay,” he said. “I’ll go along with
you, like you say. Only don’t cross
me up.”

“Frank,” I said, “you’re talking like
aman. Get yourself together and call
a cab and we'll go along.”

“Never mind the cab,” he said. “We
can go in your car. Only don’t ruin
the party, that’s all.”

At that I gave the signal to all my
henchmen in the hall to stay quiet
and behave themselves. I even found
myself waving to a fat lady not to
shoot. But Dingman, having swallowed
the bait, accepted it all at face value.
Barney got our coats. Dingman slipped
on an overcoat, and out we went, just
the three of us, Dingman’s topper
looming high above our heads.

e-by-tne-Sca jn force, charging

om all angles, and herding a score

ustomers into the patrol wagon

J with the waitresses in their
boudoir slippers and whatever attire
they could grab up.

Sergeant Simon J. Callinan headed
the detectives who tore down from the
walls the lewd paintings, or hacked
them into oblivion. .

Some of these murals were brought
in ‘ ¢ evidence, for Dingman was
charged with maintaining a public
nuisance, with corrupting the morals
of the youth, and with being responsi-
ble for filthy and obscene entertain-
ment. What we did not know at the
time we made our raid was that Buf-
falo police had been patiently at
work getting evidence against Ding-
man’s hell-hole for weeks before we
tumbled in.

Dingman was convicted of main-
taining a nuisance and was sentenced
to 60 days in the penitentiary and
fined $250. The other case against him
dragged through the courts for a year
before he finally pleaded guilty to a
charge of producing an indecent ex-
hibition, and was sent up for twelve
months in the Erie County Peniten-
tiary.

Not long after the raid, the old house
on the Towpath caught fire and burned
to the ground. Dingman’s gold and
power went with it.

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spring Bobby Sullivan meant just one
thing. The rat was hungry. The girl
was a good money-maker. Keller
knew it! If he could affect her release
he’d have a meal-ticket and be able
to lie low.

Indianapolis police exerted every
effort but they failed to take the wily
fugitive in tow.

Months rolled by. March came. The
Sullivan woman was let off in Federal
court with a one day jail sentence,
then set free.

Sergeants Beeker and Davis shad-
owed her night and day, but Keller
never turned up in her company.

April 12 came—a significant red-
letter day in the Richard Keller man-
hunt. Fay Davis was compelled to
drop the full burden of the search on
Cliff Beeker’s shoulders while he at-
tended the criminal court trial of
Willard Kingston one of the men that
had been arrested with Dick Keller
in Louisville a year previously. Kings-
ton, tried for a dairy robbery, was
convicted and sentenced to prison for
seventeen and one-half years.

At roll-call the next morning Davis
was surprised when Morris Corbin,

36

clever little detective sergeant, cor-
ralled him and asked: “Say, Fellow,
how’d you get that conviction yester-
day?”

Davis was perplexed. “I don’t get
you. Come again.”

“That charge was a year and a half
old, wasn’t it?”

“Yeah. September 1932.”

“T found the getaway car on that
job. Remember?”

Still mystified, Davis nodded.

“Three months later I got a tip that
Kingston, Street and Hanson com-
mitted that robbery. We made a raid
on Kingston’s home the sixth of Jan-
uary and batted out those three guys
for suspected robbery. Then after
holding them in jail for ten days we
had to turn ’em loose because the wit-
nesses couldn’t identify them.”

“I know,” Davis said. “Kingston
testified to that yesterday.”

Corbin scratched his head. “Then
tell me .. . If those guys weren’t guilty
three months after the robbery, how
could one of ’em be guilty yesterday,
eighteen months later?” :

Davis lit a cigarette and let the
smoke dribble upward from his nostrils

before explaining to his fellow officer.
Finally he said: “Just one year ago
this month we brought Kingston, Dick
Keller and another fellow from Louis-
ville. Remember?”

“Yeah.” Corbin nodded.

“Keller made bond one month later
but the other two didn’t. Right?”

“Right.”

“Then Keller was pinched in July
for that Shelbyville robbery and in
September a jury acquitted him.”
Davis paused.

“Go on,” Corbin prompted.

“That arrest gave Joe Foppiano an
excuse to draw down on Keller’s bond,
so we went to Shelbyville and brought
him back for a hold on the same
vehicle-theft charge that was still
pending against him and Kingston.”

“I know,” Corbin said, following his
brother detective closely.

Davis inhaled deeply and flipped
away the butt of his cigarette before
continuing.

“At that time Kingston had a writ
of habeas corpus on file in Superior
Court, if you remember, and it looked
like we would have to turn him loose.
Then Dick Keller came to our rescue.

He told Chief Morrissey he would put
a hot finger on Kingston, and testify
for the State, if the Chief would O-R
him.” :

“That’s news to me,” Corbin mur-
mured., :

“Sure, We kept it quiet when Keller
squealed about the dairy robbery.
He said Kingston told him all about
it while they were in jail together.”

“And you mean to say that convic-
tion yesterday was the result of Kel-
ler’s signed statement?”

“That’s the substance of it,” Davis
replied.

HEN Sergeant Corbin terminated
the conversation and left Head-
quarters, he was thoughtfully consid-
ering the news he had learned.
Summer passed. And in Cincinnati,
Louisville and Indianapolis numerous
tips and leads passed through the po-
lice departments. Police officers were
often close on Richard Keller’s heels,
but he seemed to possess the knack of
vanishing in thin air.
More months passed without any
tangible evidence being turned up that
might lead to the fugitive’s where-

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of his partners was just so much
wasted breath. They wouldn’t talk,
even though they must have known
that he would sing if positions were
reversed. Roads were blockaded out of
the city and the bridges spanning the
Ohio River into Indiana were closely
guarded, but no further trace of the
fugitive ever was found in the Ken-
tucky city. Thus, while the baking
company job cast some light on the
killer’s activities, it did nothing to-
ward leading to his capture.

Back in Indianapolis the informa-
tion that Sergeant Morris Corbin had
picked up nine months previously
was tormenting the diminutive officer.
So when a lull came on his regular
assignment on the hot-car detail, he
began a little private investigation on
his own. The first person he sought
was Mrs. Kingston.

“I’m sorry,” she countered his query.
“I can’t tell you much about my hus-
band. We were separated and I wasn’t
familiar with his activities.”

Corbin showed his surprise. “Sep-
arated! Well—I didn’t know that.”

“Of course I visited him in jail and
we discussed a few things,” she went
on. “You know him and Keller used
to be in the contracting business back
in 1930. But Dick couldn’t stand pros-
perity so Bill bought the business and
Dick went to bootlegging.”

Corbin stretched his legs and offered
the attractive girl a cigarette. “Did
Bill say what their business was in
Louisville?”

She nodded. “They were driving a
beer truck from there to Newport,
Kentucky, for one of George Remus’
old partners, I think he said.”

T= Sergeant tucked that tidbit in

a pocket of his mind for future
reference.

“Did you know the girl that was ar-
— with your husband, Mrs. Kings-
on?”

She smiled and nodded. “If you
mean Ann Stone, yes. I became ac-
et with her while he was in
jail.”

“No hard feeling toward her?”

She laughed.

“Of course not. They were to be
married after our divorce. She thought
a lot of Bill. She even raised money
for his defense. But something hap-
pened, I don’t quite know what, and
the money was lost.”

Corbin thanked the girl and took
his leave. The next place he visited
was the county jail. Deputy Sheriff
Harry Cooke was the first man he saw
there. He came to the point at once.

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“What, then, had motivated the shoot-
ings? Who was the killer or killers?

An immediate tri-city roundup of all
police characters and suspicious-look-
ing strangers was undertaken in Cin-
cinnati and across the river in her
sister cities of Newport and Coving-
ton, Kentucky.

Not until 34 hours after the murder
did the police receive their first defi-
nite information concerning the crime.
Then Jacob Lange, the wounded sign
salesman, regained consciousness for

-the first time and told his story.

“Mr. Woest and I were sitting in his
rear office when we heard the front
door open. A man called out, ‘I came
for my laundry.’ Adolph excused him-
self and went out to the counter. It
was very quiet and I heard the man
say: ‘This is a robbery! Get your
hands up!’

“But Adolph didn’t put his hands
up. Instead, he ran back into the of-

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snake .. » he beat me
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fice where I was and jerked open a
drawer in his desk. When he straight-
ened he had a gun in his hand. Just
then there was a roaring gunshot from
the open doorway. I jumped to my
feet and turned toward the man who
fired the shot. I wanted to help
Adolph, but the man in the doorway
fired again and that’s all I remember.”

Police went into renewed action
after the wounded man’s statement.
For two days they worked unsuccess-
fully to find a lead. Quite unexpect-
edly they found a tailor-made break
that all police dream about. An at-
tractive, blue-eyed blonde walked into
Police Headquarters. Her calm, drawl-
ing statement was addressed to the
desk sergeant.

“I loaned a gun to a man the other
day,” she said, puckering her lips of
cherry red to blow an unruly curl
from her forehead. “He was gonna
sell it for me. When he came back

Richard Keller and his wife: She didn’t be-
lieve what others said about her husband

later, he was all excited. ‘Get rid of
this,’ he told me. ‘It’s hot! I just killed
a man!’

“So I thought I’d better bring it
down to Police Headquarters.”

She laid a package wrapped in
newspaper on the desk of the startled,
red-faced sergeant and one moment
later found herself the center of at-
traction in Detective Chief Emmett D.
Kirgan’s private office.

“What’s your name?” the Chief
asked, and signaled a secretary to re-
cord the conversation.

“Marjorie Wilson.”

“When did you lend this gun?”’

“Armistice Day.”

“To whom?”

She did not hesitate. “Dick Keller.”

Kirgan searched the faces of his
men, but the name hadn’t registered.
He turned to the girl again. ‘Richard
Keller?”

She nodded.

‘“Where’s he live?”

“He stops now and then at the Hav-
iland Hotel.”

The Chief nodded to a detective and
said, “Check it.”

“Tye! s from Indianapolis or Chicago,”
the girl went on, “I don’t know which.”

“What makes you say that?” as]
the Chief.

A puzzled expression spread aci
her pretty face. “Once he told me
lived in Indianapolis, but all
clothes have Chicago labels.”

‘Do you happen to know the ne
on the labels?”

“Mort Cooper. Chicago.”

“When did this Keller bring

’ gun back to you?”

“That same day.”

“Why’d you wait so long to brin,;
down here?”

Terror welled in the soft blue e
“I was afraid.”

“Afraid of us?”

“No. Him.”

“What’s this Keller look like?”

Gre paused a moment, biting
lip. ‘Well, he’s got thick b!
hair, he’s light-complexioned, tt
faced, green-blue eyes, five feet r
inches tall, I guess, and weighs ak
one hundred and sixty pounds, at
thirty years old. And he dresses swe

The detectives traded jubil
glances. Hers was an exact dupli:
of the description given by
wounded sign salesman.


How was this Keller dressed?”
he girl answered willingly. “In a
wn suit and light top-coat, but that
sn’t mean anything.”
Why?”
He’s got lotsa clothes. He hardly
rc wears the same suit twice.”
Clothes horse, eh?”
he shrugged her shapely shoulders.
zuess so.”
. Headquarters man, sleeves rolled
bounded into the office.
Ballistics check!” he snapped glee-
y. “It’s the murder weapon!”
‘uestioning went on for another
r, while two long-distance calls
e put through. The first one was
Yhicago, where officials promised to
back as soon as they had checked
r files. The other call was made
ndianapolis, since Marjorie Wilson
| Keller had told her he lived there.
nd it was in the Hoosier capital
that the officers hit something hot.
or Keller was known by practically
ry officer on the Indianapolis force,
ording to information one of Kir-
’s men received over the phone.
What’s more,” the officer related,
ler was picked up last April in
lisville with a couple of other guys
all were returned to Indianapolis
stealing a car. Keller made bail in
y. In July he was pinched with a
named Trout and extradited to
‘Ibyville, Indiana, to stand trial on
bery charges. He beat that rap just
» months ago and was returned to
ianapolis because his bondsman
led down. Then the chief of police
R-d’ him.”
Let him go on his own recognizance
vhat a break,’ Kirgan moaned.
Simon says if he’s in town they’ll
» him in twenty-four hours. In-
napolis is his home.”
‘thief Kirgan immediately dispatched
) members of his Homicide Squad,
ectives William Cleary and Al
iwach to Indianapolis, then leaned
‘k in his chair with a sigh, con-
iplating his next move.
Vhen Cleary and Schwach returned
h pictures and the criminal record

of Richard Keller and reported to their
superior it did not surprise Chief Kir-
gan. Keller was on 28, but his
criminal record dated back sixteen
years and ran the gamut of various
offenses, from petty larceny to rob-
bery. Ex-bootlegger, pander, reefer,
narcotics addict and associate of
every type of law-breaker, he had a
score of arrests and five convictions
to his discredit. This included one re-
lease from penal servitude on grounds
of insanity.

“That’s the defense we'll be up
against when we bring him to trial,”
Kirgan said.

“Simon says he comes from a re-
spectable family,” Schwach put in. “A
hard-working mother, brother and
married sister. There’s a detail cov-
ering the home night and day. Same
with all his friends and acquaintances.”

“Maybe he never left Cincy,” Cleary
suggested.

Kirgan nodded. “Correct. Now you
guys get out and hump!” he instructed.
“You're on this case until it ends, and
with the narcotics and female angle
you’ve got plenty to investigate.”

E breve Chief picked up the pictures
and disappeared into the Bertillon
room. Within twelve hours every po-
lice officer in Cincinnati and Newport
and Covington, Kentucky, was carry-
ing a mug of the wanted fugitive. Cir-
culars and pictures were sent out to
surrounding cities, including a set to
the FBI in Washington.

In Chicago officers found there was
no account of Richard Keller at the
Mort Cooper haberdashery. But when
the clothier was shown a photo of the
wanted man, Mr. Cooper readily iden-
tified it as one of Richard Reynolds.
No, the man had not put in an ap-
pearance for over a month. Yes, he
would notify authorities if Mr. Rey-
nolds returned.

Chicago addresses that Cooper had
on his books were also visited and like
promises were exacted from every
apartment house manager who recog-
nized the photo.

In Louisville, Captain Oltjen as-
signed Detectives Seaton and Hall, a
veteran team who had arrested Keller
seven months previously, to cover the
city night and day.

A month sped by. Mr. Lange re-
covered sufficiently to leave the hos-
pital. Before letting him entrain for
home, Assistant Prosecutor Dudley
Miller Outcault took him before the
Hamilton County Grand Jury and once
again the wounded sign salesman iden-
tified Richard Keller as the bandit and
assassin.

Al Schwach and Bill Cleary made
their second trip to the Hoosier capi-
tal when the indictment was - voted.
They parked their squad car head
first into the curb at Headquarters, and
the sunflower background of Ohio
license plates, with numerals and of-
ficial police star of blue stood out con-
spicuously amongst the contrasting
colors of the Indiana tags. Across the
street, gloomy and medieval-looking,
loomed the ancient edifice of the Mar-
ion County Jail. North of that,
and diagonally opposite Headquarters,
ranged a row of professional bonds-
man offices.

The Ohio officers entered the police
station.

“Keller can’t be in town,” Chief
Simon said after greeting them. “If
he was we’d have had him.”

“Chief Kirgan thinks it would be a
good idea to enlist the aid of the press

now that the indictment has been re- «

turned,” Cleary suggested.

Simon nodded. “I’ve been waiting
for that.”

“Have you double-checked every
possible connection?” Schwach de-
manded, hoping that his prompting
might bring to mind one that had
been overlooked.

Simon bit the end from a cigar. He
pushed the box of smokes across his
desk. “Cliff Beeker and Fay Davis are
two of my best men. They know Dick
Keller as well as you men know each
other and they’re as hot to nab him
as you fellows are.”

Simon struck a match on the seat

Richard Keller didn’t have enough time with the Reverend
Alexander ‘Patterson to talk over the things that bothered him

of his trousers and then continued.
“Morally, we feel obligated to make
the arrest and we will!—” He shook
his cigar at the two officers to em-
phasize his next statement— ‘What
Dick Keller’s done may only be a drop
in the bucket to what he’s liable to
do. Two murders, three, or four will
make no difference to him now if he
gets in a spot where shooting will get
him out.”

‘If he’s high on weed there’s no
tellin’ what it’s gonna cost to get him
back,” Bill Cleary mumbled audibly.

The Chief agreed. “So you gents can
help best by covering your own city
thoroughly, leaving this end to us.
Concentrate your efforts on every
street woman in Cincinnati. That’s his
main racket. If you don’t find him at
that be on the alert for another heist,
he must be getting low on funds.
Meanwhile, we won’t pass up a single
bet on this end.”

Richard Keller: The red stain he
saw was tomato juice, not blood

Al Farb, a professional bondsman
with offices across the street, was
the man who walked into Head-
quarters the following day and brought
the Chief out of his chair with a start.
For, according to Mr. Farb, Simon had
overlooked one bet—a cinch bet. She
was Bobby Sullivan, wife of a former
Keller pal who was serving time in
priscn. The Sullivan woman had lived
with the killer until he ditched her
for more glamorous women.

When Cleary and Schwach. were in
conference with Simon, Bobby Sulli-
van was roosting across the street in
the Marion County Jail on a federal
charge of forging narcotics prescrip-
tions.

“I saw that Ohio police car parked
out front yesterday,” the dapper little
bondsman said, “but I didn’t realize
its errand until I read the newspaper
this morning.” Then he tossed the
bombshell: “While it was there Dick
Keller was in my office arguing with
me to take the Sullivan girl out of jail.
He was broke, so naturally I refused.”

IMON’S cigar shook in his hand.

“Did he say where you could get
in touch with him?” he asked.

The bondsman shook his head.

“Could you contact him and make
him think you changed your mind?”

Al Farb smiled futilely and pointed
to the newspaper in his hand. “Not
after this,” he said.

Simon swore. Keller’s attempt to

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Willard Kingston: “I don’t need

NE of the men on the floor was
quiet.
The irregular edges of the
3001 of blood which surrounded his
oody trailed off to merge with a sec-
ynd crimson splotch which had satu-
cated the clothes of another man.

A sighing moan escaped the lips of
the second man as a doctor probed his
wound.

Awed onlookers and two patrolmen
stood in a half-circle around the phy-
sician. ' .

“Better get an ambulance,” the doc-
tor snapped. “This man has a ‘ood
chance if we can get him to the hos-

32

any coppers to fight my fights”

pital soon enough. The other fellow
over there is dead. Shot through the
head.”

Lieutenant George Schattle of Cin-
cinnati’s Homicide Detail rushed up
to the slaying scene as the wounded
man was being loaded into an ambu-
lance.

He had been at Headquarters when
a call came in that two men had been
shot at the Standard Laundry at No.
1019 Central Parkway. With a squad
of men he raced to that address.

But ten minutes after his arrival he
knew little more than he had when
he received the call. Apparently there

were no witnesses to the shooting al-
though he had several squads out in
the neighborhood seeking persons who
might have seen it or anyone hurrying
away from the laundry. —~

However, he did learn one thing—
the dead man was Adolph Woest,
president of the laundry.

A hurried search of the premises
disclosed a revolver near Woest’s body
but it hadn’t been fired. All windows
and doors, except the front entrance,
were locked and barred.

The day’s receipts were still in the
cash register.

“Looks like the motive for this
wasn’t robbery since no attempt was
made to grab the money,” Schattle
commented to one of his men. “The
only other possible motives I can see
right now is labor trouble and a per-
sonal or business enemy.”

To check these the Lieutenant dis-
patched ‘several men to talk with all

Deputy Sheriff Harry Cooke: His
story of a blackjacking in a jail
gave officers a lead to a ‘murderer

employes and friends and relatives of
the victim.

One of the officers who accompanied
the wounded man to the_ hospital
called Schattle to report that the man’s
name was Jacob Lange. He was un-
conscious and probably would be in
that condition for several hours, ac-
cording to hospital physicians.

OPING that Lange would come to
long enough to tell what happened
Lieutenant Schattle detailed two men
to stay by the wounded man’s bedside.
As the hours passed that Armistice
Day in 1933 the investigators found
that they were making no progress.
Detectives had been unable to find
any witnesses to the crime. All of
Woest’s employes insisted that there
had been no labor friction of any kind.
The victim’s family and friends were
equally certain that he had had no
enemies who would have slain him.

Sergeant Morris Corbin: He knew
he would find a killer if he could
locate a double-crossed woman


TTT one

| morning. An autonsy was held by
| Drs. W. M. Hoyt and W. B Roads and
} .
lit was determined that death was di-

4

irectly due te a concussion of {he
| bert side Of the brain, The evamina-
ition disclosed five broken ribs, two
'on the right side snd three on the

‘Jeft, all fruetured near the sternum,
i The bridge of Mr. Milehell's nose W2g
Lcrushed and both esos and tye
j°r part of his face were badly dis-
Colored,
| Charges of murder ia the first de-
| sree were filed against Kittrelly Won-
day morning by Prosecuting Attorney
'G. W. McDowell. Judge N. Cralg Me-
Bride immediately summoned the
members of the grand jury for the
recent term ‘of court, ordering them
to appear at. 10:00 a. m. Wednesday.
“Lynching Party” Rumored

In scattered localities rumors were
heard that an aitempt might be made
to lynch the Negro. When it was
made known Sunday morning that all
hope for Mr.’ Mitchell's recovery had
been abandoned, Sheriff H. U. Miller
took the prisoner to a nearby county
jail for safekeeping in order ty
forestall any ‘attempt that might be
made at mob-violence. While no “def-
inite evidence of any trouble of tha‘
nature was discovered, the. officers
thought it best:to take every precau-

Seve .

tiopary measure,
Early Trial ‘

a

great.

hours: must elapse
me the defendant is

|
|

|

held. aes
~Once’a jury has } é
should: not. take: ng to present. the

ice: in ease ‘and ‘turn ‘the
fate of Kittrells-over. to the jury...
_-o*Indletment ‘Before ‘Funeral
“> AD Unusual feature of ‘the case fs
that: the indictment ‘of the accused
man was réturned by the #pecial. ses-,
sion of the-grand jury before funeral

evidence’ in ‘the

Services “were held for’ Mr. ‘Mitchell.

funeral services were held at the |
Presbytrian Churenh Wednesday  aft- }
ernoon. Masonite orders of which Mr.
Mitchell wad a member conducted the }
last rites. Rey, PP. A. Johnson wag in
Chirge of the ceremonies, Burial was
nade in the Hillsvore Cemetery,

Mr. Mitchell. was born on a farm |
near HiNsboro in 1843. Hig parenis |
had come here from Treland shortly
before, He faught school for several
years in filinois and traveled for a
Cincinnati firm. Later he returned
here and engaged in the hursery busj-
ness, eventually becoming a pramin-
ent farmer. He retired 25 yeais
| &80 ‘and moved t) Hillsboro, later
disposing of hig farm.

Despite his advanced years he
was very active and was a famillar
sight on Hil!sborg streets,

He Is suryived by one brother
Matt Mitchell, three nieces, Mrs, Fay
Holladay, of near Hillsboro, Mrs. Ed.
Roberts, Newark, and Mrs. Hugh
Wood, South America and one nephew |
Lewis Garrison, Columbus.

DETAILS OF CAPTURE

Coated

Offivers Run Down Meager (lues and
liet Confession—Kittrelly Seen
By Two People...

A sample box of DeWitt’s Kidney

[had given t tae
i bottle “of m

trella: the, even!
int tq -take “them.


.

_First Degree Murde

8:30 Thursda morning and = s‘gued

= vee ee

cFAVE IND eS TER
MY ial ER Be
NG fy SACL
ER ATCHELL CASE

LN UMA Ds Lc

Charged in Bill Wed-
esday Noon

MAN DIES SUND AY|

Civil War Veteran, 91, Robbed |
and Fatally Injured in Attack
by “Barney” Kittrelis Last
Wednesday Night

ANCA aaa

re oe nnn tee,

firme) “Barney” Kittrelis, 26, colored,
was indleied on a charge of first de-
Sree murder Wednesday at 11:50 a
in, at a special session of the gran3
jury for the murder of Thomas \Miteh-
ell, 91, Civil War veteran and prum- |
inent, wenithy retired farmer,

Kitérells has sigued 9 confession
Mating that he inflicted the injuries
on Mr. Mitchell, which tater proved
fatal, while robbing him in front of
the residence of Judge N. Craiz Me-
Bride on. East Walnut Street last
Wednesday evening shortly after sev-
en o'clock. He. was arrested about,

the confess MMeay after

Kittrells will be arraigned Friday ;
morning.

‘dr. Mitchell died Sunday evening
in the Hillsboro Hospital from the
effects of a blow on the head which
Kittrells says he administered with
his flat. Officers are inclined to be-
Neve that the aged victim was struck
with a rock.

Rumors of lynching led- officers to
take the prisoner aut of the county
the morning before the death of the
victim. No indication’ of violence has
beon manifested,

Mr. Mitcheli wag robbed and severe-
ly beaten when he was on his way
from the Highland‘ House where he
makes his home to the home of
Judge. MeHride. It is charged. that
Kittrells followed hinv down the street

 Bnd-atiacked im swhen.in the shelies
of darkness. The loot consisted of
between $4 and $5. Running up 2
dark alley between the McBride home
‘and that of. David: Evans, the assail-
ant left Mr. Mitchell. lying on. his
face, on the. Sidewalk hear the en-

‘4rance ° ‘to’ the former residence. The |.

' attack- was. witnessed. by Miss ‘Ade.

~Swisshelm who was walking on. the |’

other: side. of the: street and who sum-
moned -help for “the injured man. It
‘ia’ believed that: Kittrelis kicked Mr.

MitcheH in ‘the: cheat after he fell.

Officers Get Confession

Kittrells was arrested at the home |
of James Rockholi on Liiley Avenue !
by Marshal Ira Bean and Night Offi- |
cer RR. (. Schwelnsberger who got a:
complete check-up on the youth's
activities of the night before. They
found that in addition to the assault
on Mr. Mitchell, Kittrells had burg-
larized the Smith Drug Co. and the
Standard Oi) Station here; that  fol-
lowing the attack he had = drunk
heavily of ‘moonshine whiskey and
attended a crap game in which he
lost amounts of money similar to
those procured from Mr. Mitchell and
the drug store. Postage stamps ani,
pennies, thought to have been taken
from the filling station were found on /
Kittrells’ person at the time of his |
arrest,

The trial will probably start about
April 1.

Copy of Indictment

A copy of the indictment follows:
“The jurors of the Grand Jury o!
said county, on their oaths in the
name and by the authority of the
State’of Ohio, do find and present
that Irmel Kittrells, on the 21st day
of February in the year of our Lord,
1934 at the county of Highland afore-
said, ‘unlawfully and purposely and
‘while’ in perpetration of a robbery
killed one Thomas Mitchell, contrary
to the statute in such case made and
‘provided, and against the peace and
dignity of the State of Ohio.”

Members of Grand Jury

Those serving on the grand jury
are: Mrs. Grace Gilmore, Liberty,
_Mrs. Clara Kelley, Madison; J. W.
Fenwick, Whiteoak; Glenn A. Harris,
Madison; Mrs. Letla Thompson, Dod-
son; ki. H. Edwards, Penn; Mrs, Lu-
cille W. West, Fairfield; Mrs. Gussie
Caldwell, Madison; Miss Mary Milner,
Fairfield; Thos. E. Smith, Madison;
Mrs. Lillian Wood, Madison; George
Zionecker, Madison; Edgar Caldwell,
Madison; Ferris Hughes, Liberty and
Misa Lou >, ape Liberty.
“In presenting the case to the grand
jury, Prosecutor McDowell examined
the following witnesses: Dr. W. B.
Roads, Dr. W. M. Hoyt, Robert C.
Schweinsberger, Ira Bean, Jesse
Thompson, Ada Swisshelm, Ww. N.
Batterfleld and H. U. Miller.
' | Autopsy Held Sunday
_ Mr. Mitchell died Sunday at 8:36
p.m. ‘alter sinking eee since that

Mets: Aegacd
HLL SBoHO O40
Maral /; / 12 of

AZ ; So Lockstep and Corridor”

this manner. I call it cold blooded slaughter.

been made better because of it, but I believe a little worse as
a result of it. Yet not long ago a certain sheriff compelled

those in a certain jail to see a fellow human being legaly hung :

or slaughtered, whatever you wish to call it...

Three other men were tried in the Court at Columbus for = .

the murder of Guard Ladunburg of the prison. The two

O'Neil brothers and another whose hame I can not remember, 2

killed this guard in an attempt to escape and were tried and
found guilty and received the death penalty, which was after-
wards changed to life sentence by the Ohio Supreme Court.
One of the O’Neil boys later escaped but was returned, and
. these men are still there I believe, as a law was passed pro-
hibiting the pardon or parole “of men convicted of a crime
committed in prison where a life was taken.
the Supreme Court in the O’Neil case Was a bitter disap point-
ment to Warden Coffin and he said he would keep these men
and several others from all liberty and privelidges given the
other men. ae

_ Warden Coffin built what was called “The Demons’ Cage”,
A section of the cell block was cagedin. This space contained
‘six cells and it was intented that those placed in this cage

should work amd sleep there and never leave untill dis-_ 4
This cage was named
after a bad man, Ira Marlett, who was known as “The Prison

_ charged which meant probably never.

Demon”. Another bad man was Otis Hurly, who walked

up on the chapel stage one Sunday during service and tried
_ to cut the throat of Daisy Sprague, one of the women convicts — a
-Hurly received | fourteen. years: for —
this and he and the 0" Neil boys were placed in the Demon’s

who was” sitting there.

Cage with ‘Marlett. Saad were still there when a left. thi

The law says |
legal execution. Neither I or any I have ever known have ever

The decision of...

Thirty-five Tera) Prise Life oe = 73

‘Sprague, the girl bookeeper of the Glove Shop, another con-
tract I forgot to mention. He was no doubt insane, brought
‘on I believe by prison punishment. He called guard Booker
in his cell one evening ina joking way and then tried to kill
Booker by sticking a knife in him. This was after he had

a built. Hurly was in stripes at the time and at all times car-
- vied a large ball and chain.

very sour disposition, but I also think that this man was im-
properly handled and that punishment inflicted caused him
- to be worse and to attempt murder twice. Men like Hurly
can be cured if the proper methods are applied and by the
proper persons and befvure it is too jate.

This Otic Hurly was in tne or thought he 4 was, with Miss

a tried to ki Miss Sprague and before the Demons’ cage was —

He was to blame for many of his troubles as he was of a

a)


70 Lockstep and Corridor

water turned on him. As the man was blindfolded he never
knew when or where he would be hit. This was the most

severe punishment inflicted and a man generaly came out of
it half drownded.

They also had what was known as the humming bird. A

man would be stripped and blindfolded and an electric bat-..

tery applied to different parts of his body. This also was a
very severe punishment. They had also the strapping post
such as was used in Ionia and, taken altogether, a man who
refused to satisfy the prison contractor or the prison offitials
had a hard row to hoe.

I know that in this place that most punishments were in-
flicted because of the demand of the Prison contractors be-
cause of the reports for noet- doing tasks. Many men were
driven desperate and insane because of these conditions.
Columbus at that time had an insane asylum inside the walls
containing about 20 convicts most of whom had been driven
insane because of abuse inflicted upon them while there and

generaly as a result of-not being able to satisfy the demands

of some Contractor. :

One man hid out 77 days in an attempt to escape, being
made desperate because he could not do enough work, and
as a result agi being punished time after time. This man

would have died under the shop floor where he had hidden

himself had not his partner told the officers where he was in

order to save his life. In Columbus at that time the guards »

were on the walls night and day and the walis were well
lighted at night making it very difficult to get away, so there
was very little chance for this man to escape.

_ During my stay at this prison only one mah was put ‘to

ee death in the Electric Chair—Brano Kives. It was the custom
at that time to allow all condemned men all the Tiberty pos;
eee = sible. Every. day Kives would be taken from the Death Manes Sie

o . wee at ig
- ee jiia itt oe ds Sie eh aaa v Bit bs
ae mae oy Meet iy pas ik MA sii’ Sehr Nats og 7
— fe i im ed | uae era : : peat

aii h stab Qa GH!
Baie

Thirty-five Years of Prison Life : ogy

and in company with his guard be allowed to roam around in
the prison park and each Sunday attend chapel service. Of
course a man under death sentence always receives all the
attention and favors the other convicts can show him. We.
all felt sorry for Kives and counted the days he had to live
probably as much as he did.

oe had my cell in the wing of the prison that the witnesses
to the execution had to pass through to enter the Death
room. On the night of the execution you can guess that we
were very nervous, also very quiét. We had seen the guards
placed in the dynamo room in the “afternoon to protect it as
it had been tampered with once before and delaved the exe-
cution of Willie Hass, a 17-year-old boy, who was said to be
the first to suffer the death penaity in Ohio by electricution.
A little after midnight all in our ward could hear the

‘witnesses pass through to enter the death chamber. TI can-

not understand why a human being can wish to go to,a place
of this kind and see a fellow human being put to death. After
a short time, the witnesses returned and we knew that poor

_ Bruno was dead and had paid the penalty demanded by man,
_ although I do not believe it would be God’s demand.

Did you ever think of the cold blooded way in which man
goes about to satisfy his demands of 4 life for a life? He is

tried as we say by a jury of his peers, found guilty, taken to
jail, fattened up like a prize hog and then a certain number

of his fellow beings clamor for the privelidge of seeing him

_ Slaughtered in cold blood. The man may have the privelidge
as of. counting the days and the hours before death for Society

3 ae demands that the condemned be given time prepare to meet
. his. God.

“No man executed ever brought to. life thie person - mur- 2 =

in in institutions where, e three persone. were ‘killed in = J

ey reduce. murder. a ee ;


OR Be aE ey agree pater wee ANS tra

Seven Gangsters Slain In Chicago Massacre

~aerensennr

de seer

Sed ee

iy. SS re a
eee ae
Beit he -

~eada Charlies F. Frey, Repub-

Democrat Cats Fost After Re-
count of Votes for That
Office

WINS BY FIVE VOTES

Is Foremost

Murder Vict

»

“I would be happler after this is:
over tonight if I knew that his soul
was acceptable to God.”

This was the expression of Mrs.
Henry For today in a conversation |

™ jican, Today's Figures
Disclose t

(Special te The Sar) '
UPPER SANDUSKL, Feb. 15—2
>. Murraf, Democrat, was officially
eclared elected to the office of mm-
lasioner of Wyandot coanty fallow-,
1g the completion of a recount of]
‘Mes for that office in the county!
vortly before oon today. The re
vant showed Murray in the lead oi
is opponent, Casrles F. Vrey, Re
ubliean, by five roten o
The reeownt was ordered by Judge
ari B. Carter, following testimony
ken in commea pleas court where
ae case was cerried from the court
a justice of fhe peace. Dissa tle
ection over the counting of the rntes
eulted in the filing of the auit by
aarien F. Frey, the retiring commis
mer add candidate for the. office at
e November election.

Murray was represented by F. E.
athery. Marion. and A. K. Hall.
pper Randuskr. and Prey by Feink
Dorr, of Tiffin and F. J. Stalter,
this place.

with a representative of The Marion
Star. Mre Foos referred to Everett
Koon, who tonight was to pay the |
supreme penalty for murdering the!
aged busband of Mrs. Fooa _

There is no hatred or revenge In
tbe heart of the fragile white-baired
old ‘ledy as she recalls the tragedy
that bas left an uneraseablé ecar on
her memory. Tears sprang to her
eyes and rolled down her cheeks to-
day as she seid. “I have hardly
thought of him, The loss is more than,
l-cap stand.” '

Quiet Restored |

A visit te the community In which
the tfagedy occurred last May re
veals bo physical stains of the brutal
murder of the aged farmer. The quiet
countryside bes returned to aormal|
from all outward appearances. The
peatefulnema brought by the hear).
blanket of crystal white snow belies
the story that a few sbort months.
ago the commanity wae throbbing
with the news of one of the most”
brutal murders in the history of the!
county. The marks of the crime have
been erased. But the scars over the
hearts of Mra. Yoo and ber family
are still unhealed. |

Mrs.

a a RED eR Pe

Concern Over Koon’s Soul

in Mind of
im’s Widow

No Sign of Hatred or Desire for Revenge Shown in Words of
Mrs. Foos Today as Husband's Slayer Faces Chair;
Aged Woman Now at Daughter's Home

Directly to the east of her win-
dow Mra. Foow looked out upen Lak
ene Chapel, where whe and ber Bue-
hand attended church® services for
many yearn, A sshort way ta the
fouth of the chapel lay the cemetery
where her fsther and mother apd
many other refatives and friends are
baried. In tne cemetery Mr. and Mra.

, bows bad placed Bowers on the graven

of relatives less than en hour before
they returned to their home to be at
tacked and mobbed hy the prowler.
Dec. 3 marked the fifty-eneond an.
‘’versary of the marriage af Mr. end
Mra, Foon. Jan 16 marked the same
anniversary of the found
‘est home. It was im a She-room log
“bin on Mr. Fone’ fathee'a farm.

MAN STARVES SELF
TO DRIVE OUT DEVIL

Religious Fanaticism Blamed
for Hunger Strike of
34 Days

ee rr tr ee

MISSING BOY
LIST HERE. 4

iv. 0 DAYS
Perenta Call on Authorities
for Ald Following Disap-

pearance of Youngsters)
ONE RETURNS HOME

Latest Additions Make Total
of 21 Runaways on Renord
Herd In Few Men

Two more Marien youths were re-
perted missing this morning et thele
homes, raining the total to four with-
In the last two days and te 2 fing
the last few months. g

The two boys who disappeared
laet might aro Robert Andrews, 13,
eon of Mr. and Mra Howard An
drews, 280 Franconia av, and Wit
ten Birmbanm, 38 148 MewWitiams

et. Max Birnhenm, father ef tha

Bartram av, Vele Eckert. 7, af Mon.
ea missing Dut later returped te his
home. No word hed bees rerrived I
thie morning concerging the Mailow

Headed tor ¥. M. C. A. \
The Andrews and Birnbawm boys
left their homes last night afte

vrel address, Dr. Boper took the view.

auguration of New Prexy
with Much Ceremony

DEGREES CONFERREO

New Schoo! Head Cites Need
of Teachers with Christian
Character

(Bperkal te The ftar)

DELAWARE, Feb 13—Atteeded
by the most pretentious ceremonies
which have graced an event in Oablo
academic circles ia receat yeara, Dr,
Edmund Darioon Soper wae inaug-
urated as the oeveath president of
Obio Wesleyan university bere thie
@orning. Conferring of honorary
slegrees upon four distinguished cal-
lege presitenta and the delivery of
th. Moper's inaugural address upon
“Academic Freedom in a (Christian
College” were outstanding features of
the program.

Repressntatives of pnme 130 colleges
and universities garbed te black gowns
which contrasted sharply with the
brightly colored hooda, marched te the
long academic precession which moved
(rom Edger Hall te Gray Chapel for
tbe ceremanice of the morning.

Dr, Soper wee inducted inte the
neealdency of the university hy Walter

‘A. Jozes, Columbus, president of the}.

beard of trustees. Whee that puint le
the progrem was reached. at which
the Iste Bishop Theodere RB. Hender

pon war to have delivered an addrem
oa “NMetbodiem and Higher Educe-
Won,” Mr. Jones on behalf of the wnt-
versity pald a brief but solemn tribyte
te Birhop Henderson whe was a

trustee and @ leader in eniveraity

affairs.

Bahep Welch Gives Charge
The charge te the sew president wos

given by Rishap Welch, former presi-
dent ef Odie Wealeyan university, and
was (alowed by Dr. Goper's inaugura)
addrerg.  Capferring of the degree of
dcetor of love upen Pyreidest Wihlise

P. Few, Dube cnirersity, Durham,
NM. Carolina: Presidout Merwta G

Filter, Dichincom eotleas,, Certizie,
Pe.: Preekfent' G) Romley

DePauw univessity, Creenenstls, Ind.,
and Award ®& Parsons, Marietta col-

. Marlette, the Gual feature of
tom ar. wae aleo reperted te palue — E vie

Osram

¥

pregram.
The Inaugural ceremenion were
heard by an audience which ever

owed the rapecity of Gray Chapel.

In Glecussing “Academie Freedeg
na Christian College” ia ble inaag

Gay
~-STAVO

Chair Gone as
Is

Everett Koon, 28, w
State ettegel tonight.

“I will not In
Governor Cooper said
lambue teday.

Executive intervention was Kawn's
only hope to eerape from dying ia tte
electrie chale.

The decision af the gevernee came
following earlier reporta (rm (‘a
lumbue which Indicsted that there
wae. prebdability of bis Granting «@
tay of e1ecu’ion.

The governor deviared be bed ther”
eughly reviewed the cease apd) = bad
heen entirely cnavinced that Ruse
had -teeelved a fair trial, and that he
had heen “adequately” conricted of
deliberate munter. .

Mahte Thereagh Inquiry

The chief executive stated he had
not only conferred with. bere of

REFUSES TO GRAN
F EXEC

renner

Executive Meets~ with State Cl a

Talks Over Telephone with Judge Scofeld
and Attorasy Jehnson

GIVES DECISION AFTER CONF ERENCE,
Slayer of Henry Foos Finds Only Chance To

Taken
terfere with the scheduled execution,”?

d at the end of a several ho
ence with members of the state clemency board pig ore

=

UTIO

Beard and

Final Action

Ta the letter

to the gorernes
Wedacaday a

Koen

Pdane of the coe

Neiyeres recently motitied Keee hy
ter that to earry the :

sapreme coart weuld i [a

that every legal means vo pe

death chalr had bevn exksested, -

Was thea thet Kose sppealed tw

the rlemency board, but hed alee ene-
sulted Judge Reofield, of Martca,
ard Attorney Hemer K. Jebneoa, of
Morlon, wha defended Kaon.

. Huth of the latter concurred in the
Governor's eplainn that Keen bed ro
colved @ fatr trial and that bie every
{nterest ber been safeguard, even
ta the extent of a full review of the
Cone by the appellate court.

“Ne new matter was presented at

hen! tog ta the Y. M.

ened

Point that the Cheietian college poe

eur conference today, which would
hotify gg heey aoe part ef the semeqpnintene.:
soverner,” ted.” ; ; : ;

Riertiy (wn hee weer the ea gerd Beta for Rettet
ercer ‘telephone = wit : Sd Drake ~
Judge George . fiecteld ef the youn) pages aa
men phras court beow, and 4 prac: 8, Systane ee
SR a Ran | ME RES De Bw

ie .
bere let viz 33.) 8 Smeaangen ;
Across dohnaon joorer eet
Keon appested to the gerersoe tant | beteqnerters b
Wedsseday for » reprieve or. te com
mute a? ppp vt Vite taprison-
a

— vie gerernes ad

serernor fo, @ reprieve or te Hlpadio

en ae
~ the ae

HOOVER LOOKS GVER=:
HURRICANE SECTION


pir ear ap ALL UEAU THLLO
ttle were sulted beth to

: r oa Chetan interpre AE Ahi) :

: tr Be yee difseult Clean-Up Operations Started
are thiae whhh lie in the Today by Service De-
persbology and me tology, | 6 .

Z aaree of Paternstiom H partmen

aiing “with theae questions Citipdnpmnmae

ant phases of dead trees stanting between the curb
satrverual fielda and aulewalhs wil te eat down, ae

phe Chrenan desetor
pte, Mie PEG Sty Menetirt stated thakang nae it
tes wishing trees removed abeuled

taon coming to college must

nto the full atream of the Kuwdhthon i sats, aa
v, they wiuat know what te

tit: nih the ning. of the IS HOSTESS

dof an educational inetitu bot 0 ia!

f de more bewnous than “Mrs. Willlam Ullmer Entertains

eurantiom, Ip ne way can Trinity Missionary Group

he lost someon of ao conr-

by suthhehling facta of¢

ewponta, The student bas

nd that he be faced

of a question; each

presented faithfully and

call the wertiee department

Mew Wiliam Ulimer wae bestese
stwembere of Triacty Lutheran Abd
 Mimcensey eociely Thursday af
tereeen at her home seven miles ant!
Marron on toe etblehem rd. The

ster, the Kev FM. Koepphin
ene} the cregram with the presen
psteven: hee led ap AD bess aii igre, moathly thpie end. the
Bhs bition elinl reesei sc oeecshin-thac MA berseh ieeelesh

eontreta of the Jase 40
yaa been no reatraint exer.
in authority. On the

[Thomas aed Mea Roepylia con
‘cite! @ real ng

Touring "i> business sepa on plans
q ie berennal shee cre mad= te serve meala during the
emulty and in defending the nnael inetatite ta he held Feb. it

veh 8 Mrs Anna Heiner aud Mre
tokerd Raktauf were named to serve
“1 the proceam committee for the
at meeting Moerh 14 at the ben:

frow aeuls outside, the
ny predecemors has heen
ideat tolerance aod free

ere it cani be truly Maid ie Ate 3. 8. Wolfinger, when the
D freedom is to be found ssnnal election of officers will be
HPiian schools of America. . i

hey. i
et lustitutions of bigher Cues were Mra. Harry Sluaer, |
act more freedom than in + Marion; Mra, Joseph Allmendin |
b better things might be. Sra Adam Goyer, Sirs. Chria|
“her, Mrs. Samuel Kehwaderer, |
‘ew. ROOD, Keller, Mra. Joba Tron. |

. “ |
SS MUOKE ALOL Tr Mra Gail Smith, Mra Samuel All |

mendinger, Mra Marold Keener, ;
ODAY Minaew Marie Hender, Isabel Beiter,
| aud Louse Bender. e

ON PAUR 1

he signing of the Vati-| rr au et |
ma wers submitte! to! ~'™ cagvg wae H
r

Mr. end Mra. Carl Corbin enter- |
Tie bag Secret the | 'a#tped members of the Tayal Work-
@ the Vaticea in June, tT Class, of the Mt. Olite Bunday
mal call on the Italian *bool, last might at their home,
ulring! Palace, ‘That, 'Ofee miles south of Agoata, Twen-

p : call, Gaeate included Misse Ruth Im-
7 eae thet hedy, Winona Nmith and Damon
eee

Wave spreads in Europe,

session: Carl Corbin, President;
Frank (Clay, view president: Mra.

and Rome are cor-

- are icebound. | Kramer, treasurer,

i . schools { pak ° k and all of the fixing,
werk nd 300 are INFANT DIES AT ite kt ee
© Bet cold. ’ MEADOW ST. HOME chaplain planned to visit the man, to

Meadow at., died this moraing abput

tee ruler of Russio’ |

oa with Communists Lee, besides the parents,

pility of making Rus Funeral services will be beld Mon-
uld call “truly Com- da

Ing to Lenin's ideals |
f

r
od him on a inuch

ae in other thiazs.| alt pay MEETING

travel a rough road.
ee

the man talk to
only 40,000 O00

than half the dis-

at certgin times?

The meeting opened with devotions

hostems. (ueste included Mrs, Reesie

TW. Cheiae.

weather! Hermaa st.

agiU probably oradi. | the annual roast pig dinner given by

mertury registered for the chacch menibera last night.

dianer, a program waa enjoyed under
the direction of Dr. J. F. Neldbart,
ebairman, .
serwesemttialaees: thors
SOCIAL HELD
A wecial hour and potluck dinner
Were enminted list nieh® he wanes.

degrees fee the
the coldest,

ewe ear (seam ( ep

Members of the Otterbeia
Aud pociety met fot an all dey met:
‘ug Thursday at the betme of Mra.

(erecta Camp. Thirteen wembers and
two guests, Mre J.
| Mra. Grace Moetn, rejended ta roll
tpee of paternalism. Werk ef eliminating all dead trees: call, and during the business session
ebat” Phnie Ua ger miuat in the ety wae started this morning, the Ga°ste were eniled as members
the student: by the public servica glepartment. All, of the sorlety,
fe@ilng carpetrage and at the
dour @ egfeteria dinn-r wae Berye)

Te Pt Ont eeedig to OL A Heredict, wervjce The pest meeting will be Mereh 14. .

KOON PLEADS FOR
~NEW TRIAL TODAY

Governor Cooper Investigates
Case on Eve of Man's

| norte aide “mob which was
| apnibilated by the Buper stroke of Nearly 3%) people enjoyed the

gangland. Moras was varioualy re ISeasant(bigu whoot suntor class!
‘The tune was spent

ecritheally Il of influenza.

; 8nd are beld at the detective bureau
for questioning.

by detectives, that Moran, in true gun-

Continued From Vase One
were oBriale of the
hewapaper inen and othera,

the Aeillo gang on the North Bide,
rivals of the Moran faction.

“IE don't want anjthing to eat.
T want jaa new trial”

‘This waa the heart rending, woul.
racking appeal «f
TAMER tn death row pt the Oblo prison
ashe faced prospects of death via the
electric chaie abont
wheo arched by prison officials what.
Le wished for bis last eneal

That consiet, with the brand of the
Gret murderer, Cain, atdmped beavily |
nerme bis brow, be
8, alias Cecil Ian, convicted slayer |

j detective burean, the police do pot
know who directrd the slayings.

remnante of the Joe Saltie gang atil!

control the south side beer and “alhy”
operations, working together, They
alan bave territories on the west side.’
ut prior to the murders yesterday. 44
it waa not thought they were seeking |
to eneroarh upon the north aide gang

Then, too, various rnmors couple the |
murders to a Detrout gang, but thie: helpful Neighbor; Hattie Miller, |
haa almoat been discarded inaemoch . Amelia Hpitaendorf, three
as Chicage has ita own gangsters and
there apparently could be no reason.

Hut names mean little bere. |

Hlere below ls » picture of the site. |
ation se it existed when it was re
garded as certain that
“make the trip tomight.”

Appalling Milence

evists bere.

| Prompted by fear of death, bung over
Three other doomed men
| aloo occupy celle there, in “the tomb

of the living dead.”
Koon's death march will be a
who wrote what | stim reminder to those three. They| *ere shot by a policeman today after
; tou, are scheduled to take the walk| they had held up a grocery store and
kidmapsd a chauffeur to meke their
“getaway.”

; TAKE CHARGE j death row,

silent.

through the “little green door” jn the

The Marion county man at that

time waa scheduled to be escorted to, the policeman and the bandits the
\ 'y-Gre members responded to roll| the death cell immediately adjacent to | hauflsur was wounded.

@ the pope's imprieon- d
the death house about 5 o'clock to
Only a thickness of a wall) liam Kattlebut were Harry Meyer |
dows The following newly-elected neparates the narrow room from eo, 89d Robert Manning, both of De. Mrs. Katherine Heil Victim of
officers preside! for a short business ciety's “instrument of death:”

night.

battle, im which the bandits returned
the fire, took place as both machines
were peeling at Alty miles an boor.

After the last repast, the prison
thousands of coal) Loretta Mae 10 weeks’ old daugh- «fer him the consolation of God in MAN IS FATALLY INJURED
in Walea and else ter of Mr. and Mra, Asa Howman, 72; the hour of death,
5 1 At approximately 7:30 o'clock, the
13 o'clock following fveday Illness! cuarde were to escort bim to the death
of Inflvuenss. The child was born in | house, where be was to be strapped
ald to be a prisoner} iii, city on Dee, 1, 1028, to Asa and; to the chair, the black maak adjusted
| Katherive Howman. jon bis face, and 2,200 volts of elec
Yke to go to Ger The child is survived by a wee cnn used to send his soul inte rages : ih
2 “| Vernus Marie and a brother, Willle eternity. t the same time ice were at-
“tempting to identify the body of 8 siding on Olentangy av. there.
prea sina wee killed when struck on
the Town atreet brid by an aut
modile drives by Charlee Whitt, The | Dumber of years ogo,
‘ietim was pushing @ cart, without
Nghta, when struck, ;

OHIO STATE MOVES TO

, It was Warned from prisoa offelals
y afternoon at 2 o'clock ia the To} that the plot whieh culminated in the
; "Numi ledo ay, Mission with the Rev, Wil-! death of the aged farmer, Heary Foos,
him, “Rumis | tiem Bowman officiating. Burial will’ originated within the grayish old walls
be made in Marion cemetery, of this Institution.

In 1925 Koon was serving « minor
sentence on a charge of carrying con-
PLANNED BY CLASS) cealed weapons. A distant relative of
PY Bigual corps, car-; Pang for an all-day sewing moet wren roe
: radio ja the Pan-| ing Feb. 21 at the bome of Mra, Freq | Stretch.
caked to Commaniler Needles, Park blvd, were made ata that be how:

’ Tailos meeting of the Progressive class of the | "2™® of money around ¢ ee, ts
at among genuine Community church last night at the believed to have formulated the plan
bome of Mrs. Irwin “Luta, Pearl st. of robbery 1a Koon's mind.

Five weeks after Koon was released

e . le charge, which wae in May,

hy Mra. Nose Walker and Fred | OF th :
Sei nd flowed yea] OR Ben he eaten ote
hour. Luncheon wae served by the Fooa and bis wife entered the dwelk
. ing. A fight ensued. Foos’ skull waa

Sharp, Fred Needing, Irwin Luts and crushed. He died tha neat day, On
he same day, Koon wau captured and

The nest regular meeting will be in} |
two weeks with Mra. BD. 1. Carpenter, $975 was found on bis Peter ey

A trial followed. Koon was found
citleens with @ pre ‘albania encodes gullty and sentenced to die on Nov, &

Night sod Saturday A stay was granted Pending an appeal.
x ANNUAL DINNER The appeal was overruled, and he was
Weather bureau. ¥ CIVEN AT CHURCH again sentenced to be electrocuted on
- Some warmer, Places were laid for about 60 at | Feb. 15, today,

COLUMBUS, Feb. 15—A resolu-
tioa @liminating “Hell Week” actir-
ities of fraternities and sororities and
limiting the time of the initiation to
the various Greek letter organisations
to 36 boura, has been adopted by the
faculty of Oblo Mtate university,

The re was sponsored by

k

A carelesaly-dropped bint
Fora foolishly kept large

The action was taken by the faculty

eee arene
from streets and: (be members of the Loyal Daughters | A
j class of the Pirst Reformed church
and 13 for low, | Van's Melody Boys furnisbed miale| ,
TBtterday the tem.) Curing the dinner hour, Following the
<3 ee

Says Moran Gang Sore Over,
Hijacking of Liquor

charges ferther Peodiag iefermating
he said he expects to receise later to

ceo xo oe STAGE SONY JANE

dsy. Large Audience Sees Produc-:

The key to the situation. it is gea- fe te at ;
erally believed, lies in the finding of’ ON in High School Audi-

George “Baga” Moran, leader of the torium

ported in hiding, fleeing the city and

Forty men have been rounded us

eut of buminess in ene comm unity

Moran Weald Keep Sey Charley Mitcheli aod Som Ntreck,

Eren if fowad, it was pointed ou! whose interests ke oppose) is

Neught, too, were the members of ‘hat the war was conelud~l

According to one of the heada of the

“Spike” (Donnell, Capone and

Neal.
The charactor depiction was

ment,” police said. Kam Streck, running for senator;
. © @ @ Harry Weiss, breddy Beadle, ¢ sim-

. ple son of a rich father,
Two Bandits Are ’ Business minagér of the play was
Killed by Policeman 3 Mins Eather titer and the manager

of i r
CHICAGO, Feb. 15—Two bandits with, Sting Whasteet “see ae

\b-Latin teacher, coached the play.

In the exchange of abots between FORMER CARDINGTON

fered | RESIDENT CLAIMED!

troit, The chauff-ur was Walter
X meal was then to be set before, Harris. - Influenza at Home in

. A him. As the prisoner would aot order ;
. AU waterways, ex. | Ferm Martin, secretary and George iis lant dinner, Warden P. FE. Thomas) "€ automobile and the revolver

said the menu would consist of chickes

Kattlebut commandeered @ pase Columbus

Ward was received here today of,
the death of Mra. Katherine Heil, a
sdhbashienn former resident of Cardington, at her
o'clock. Mra, Heil had been ill only |
WHEN HIT AT CROSSING! « short time but her age, combined

{

COLUMBUS, Feb. 15—Willlam | "it ® severe attack of jnduenss, |
A. Justice, 71, wen fatally injured Sbe was born in Morrow count

today when struck by a shifting en- vere
sind abca rallroadge tng: here. Ifs and married Jacob Heil, formerly a

Seaeban ne HON, Ee ede Fe eee

caused her death,

welkkpowa citizen of Cardington, in|
Columbus about 23 or 36 years ago re- |

She is survived by eight children. |
Wer busband preceded her in death a

day morning at 10 o'clock in the Heil
home at Columbus, and burial will
be made. in the cemetery at Carding. |

MITTENBURLER HEAD
OF DISTRICT GROUP

Harding Hotel Manager Nam-

ELIMINATE “HELL WEEK”

Roderic! cattle, of the department ed Vice President in State
of bistory and chairman of the council Association
of student affairs.

nee they believed that “Iteil Charles D. Mittenbubler, manager

Week" bad a bad effect on the acholar- of Histel Sanding, hes been waimed vice
Bbip of the initiated,

—___.
AKRON MAN CHARGED

president of District 11 of the Obio
Hotel nesociation, sccording to an
announcement made yesterday by Phil
A. Ling, president of the state organ-

WITH VOTING TWICE) isation.

COLUNDUR, Feb. 15—3 eon be Mr. Mittenbubler’s new office
Ia alle h ’
Neveninr lation Jewry C: Rep | wil bore Jundicon, The Team
Alrom man, but who now is in Wash. | Deedes Marion, are Anhland, Craw-
Ington, D. C, found himself entangled
in the meshes of the law today,
Governor Cooper insued a requ laj- 4
thon on the chief justice of the District | 4t>

: biomes, requesting Roy's return OFFICERS CHOSEN

a
Roy ts accused of voting by mail,
aed again in person.

embraces 15 counties over which be

ford, Delaware, Erie, Huron, Knoa,
Licking, Morrow Ottawa, Richland,
Randuskhy, Seneca, Union and Wyan-

| Directors Reslert Execetive Heads of | if

———+

C. C. BRO

tiav, “Muopy Jone.” etaged inet urzpt
in the echoed auditorinm. The plae
Mery centers arouod a gitl ed.ter,
Renor-Jane M.-querd, ate, driven

Marion Ster eS

paper, determisal to start ane y in
man fashion, woold abrug his shoul another viewtty. Grom) Dame Luew
dere and say be koew nothing. It ie vcliel it that sbe sould be ma!
seneraily believed he owoml of op for another paity and, inatead
erated the “Cartage Cn” garage and, hindering ber, these gentlemeu oe-
warehouse where the mamarre o tually aid ber in her ambitioa
curred but in the face of any direct “'9rt @ paper against their demir,
evidence police would be unable to “he proved xo worthy and Charles
accuse him of anything. Mitebell wae ao thoroughly feates

122% 4,10

‘harlea Leeouins penitent and fin.l'y
the busbaod of bis once arch eo. my.

Music for th: orrasion was (ur-
‘rosbed by the following: Diano ele,
Miss Mary Blirnbeth Cooper, bumo
‘phone band composed of serond era:l-
ers, local dust, Misses Martha Mautz
cad Eather Seiter; clarinvet solo, Leo

{ollowa: Ruth Weis played the part
Deggy Foater 9 teord.ng house
keeper; Helen Klingel, Pansy Drie
ser. Bired help in the boarding house!
Edith Whiteman, Locille Brand ra

times a
widew, but not discouraged; Mar-
cuerite Brooks, Ruby Wade, another,
for Detroit or St. Louie gangsters editor; Gertrule Rinnert, Sunny-Jane!
trying to buck such @ combine as: Marquerd, ediuor heroine; Lawrence
Chicago gangetera pur-| Weise, Joe Sfartin, taxi driver; Har
chase large amounts of liquer in, Old Green, Charles Mitchell;
Detroit but that is a “working agree-|Clevator manager,

grain
Emerson Dietech,

“A Pleasure To Recor
Relieved Rheu
Kil

ya few weeks ago tP
8 Nu-Erb was entire
known in Marion, but due to th
merit of thie great herba) med
has eprung into almost instan:h
larity and scorea of local m
women are coming daily to St
Rams Pharmacy,
St. to fell of the wonderful q
| be obtained through the use
Erb. Amon them is Mr. aw
fer, 612 Park St, Marion, Obi
is employed by the Blue Lint

bome in Columbus this morning at 1,

“For the past eleven years
been a chrenie victim of sfoma

Traxler, “Gas formed, in what
Funeral services will be held Mon-| like @ buge lump in the pit ies
causing me much d

and severe peins, This conditio
sisted po matter how careful I
my diet and I suffered misery
one meal fo the next.
were very weak and I was tro
with @ dull, aching palo actos
back, staggering dizsy spells,
spots before my eyes and sick
billlous attacks, I became ert
Nervous, slept poorly at
awakened each morning with a

{n my joints ant muscke aod
would become stiff, sore and sw:

“For many years I had bw
bled In this way and although I
ell kinda of medicine T am bere te
that Nu-Erb Is the first one to
me any relief for it baa surely
wonders for me 1a a remarkably
+ entirely evercome 1b
digestion, gad, sourness and all
distrewa and peine

atronger, the pelns hare jeft mr
and they do not disturd me at 8


eee oe ;

eae

ENTERED AS SEND.

AT THE FOSTOFRFICE AT MARION, tn her

CLASS MATTER

a

ATRAET

a—— | Residents of Nelsonville Dis-
March trict Gather for Slayer’s
shou. J. Funeral

Michael |

whose
op above
twie the

20 RELATIVES PRESENT

| Final Chapter Written in Story
tured of; Of Man Who Took Two
ec Bap} Lives

‘riptural
~ honor.
mam deep
Saint

At 3:30 o'clock ‘yesterday aftet-
poon a!) that was mortal of Everett

naps Koon. slies Cecil Dean; was laid to
-f Rome} pest in Greenlana cemetery at Nel
he walls ronville. Koen died=in ‘the death
apel for! enaie at Onio penitentiars Friday
4 lronse night tv pay the penslty for mur-
lead won dering ~Hevry Foosx, aged Marion
1 Saint’ county farmer.

he mast! pring services were held at the

vpn grief
of per-
. ma arble !
arch of!
we ftimest
hu being.
ae ocean

; ing establishment. where the = lvaly
was taken following the exrcution.
In this «ame mortuary the bodr of
Koon's motber had been prepared for
burial nearly 12 years age, {wo years
Aefore her son took the life of his
first. victim.
Attracts Great Crowd

The funeral yesterday was one of
the largest ever beld in the mining
country, actording to reports from}
the Nelsonville undertaker today.
Redidents of Doaurille, Roon's bey-
howl home, iurne] out almost to the
last man.

A brief service was read over the
body by the Rev. P. Prilgen: pags
tor of - the "Neloonvile Holiness
‘church. os

About 20 relatives of the d:ad con-
vict were among those who attended |
the funeral A brother and sister’
. living in Deoanville were there. The
it you iM) farher, Isaiah Koon, who haa also
he aDETY! worn the prison stripes for murder.
ou. But’ was unable to attend. He is con-
have Not | fined to bis home with a broken leg.
C hell.” | Wife Absent
; Koon’s young wife. Viola Lanning
ictionary,; Koon, of Floodwool, was not present
Instead of{ bat ber parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bale:
3 24,000! Lanning, at(ended.
ber in a When the iast word« were aaid over!

agains’
« When
lied bim
icture of
Angelo,
clinal in

<ht more
muany
-e, could
od could
sed ito
removed

wer than! cloda of earth began to thump on the
= of the| rougbbox as the grave was filled, the
y Amer-! last chapter was written in the life
1 “Geet! of Everett Noon, killer of John - Roub-
world yt inet, 65, and Henry Fuos, ;

cvs v7 OHIBAGO MEN GIVE =

iterature.
‘iter ka
are

are, weet

valent Board of Education Head
“i ‘Fells of Seeing Slayers’
Auto

auge, you ‘
19 «words:
lospohere |
ean petind | St.

ww
|

CHICAGO, Feb. 1S—Trail of the
Valentine's day massscre pquad,

l
|

LARGE THRCNG

j ebapel of the C. L. Stout ucder'ak-;

The aver-| the lowering casket and the frozen|

TIS ON GANGSTERS

CARRIED BY LINDY.
Merion Residents Get Ove of Lithées
in Fist Panama Air Mail

R. hid Nr. c. W. Holts

. #4) Mound «1, are ia

vital at of one of the 40.000
lette#s carted by tol Charles
Lindbergh in his reccnt flight
carrying the first a.r mail from

Panama.

“The letter was written by
Wiliam  Hboltsberry, who is
stationed at the Flamenco

station at Fort Amador in the
canal zone. The letter reached
its destinatien in Marion last

SENATOR REED

Missouri Senator Charges
Temperance Being Turned
into Persecution

' WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—Before
a crowd that jammed the sevate gal-
leries, Senator Jamea A. Reed, Demo-
crat of Missouri, this afternoon made

a second attack upon existing prohibi-
tiun conditions and the Joves bill, in-
creasing penalties for dry law viola-
} tions,
| Reel continued a speech, started
Saturday. in which he charged the de-
sire to provide heavy penalties for
probibition vielations bad turned tem-
perance into petaerntion: He pre.
{ tested againat “atrocious penalties.”
A final vote on the bill was ex-
pected ‘late in the afternoon as ap
agreement bas been made, limiting de-
bate after 4 o'clovk.

Reed announced be would not
make public the list he threitened
Saturday to writ?, of thore who

“vote drr and drink wet.”

“J would not violate the confidence
of my friends who were mersly eigen
ing a bit of the sunshine of life,’ be
guid. “All these ple may compoxe
themselves. J have never Qunk to the
Jevel of an informer.”

“Force for Reason”

Reed declared probibitionists were
sctking to “substitute force for rea-
son, penalties - for paavneeien and
‘ eruelties {or charity.”

“Where they once aa to rescue
j the perishing they now send him to
jail,” said Reed. “They absndon the
Bible, the church book and the ten-
peraice tract for the lasb. the prisos,
the gun and the Bludgecs.”-

coiling attention to the recent
Durast test for a new. metbod of ev-
forcing prohibitica, Reéd pointed out
that 187 contestants had recorr
mended the death penalfy for pro
hibijion vio.ations. He told of an

lators be “bung my their tongues on
, aa airplane avd carried over the
country.”

“A lady even suggested that the
gorecnment distribute poisoned liquors
through Dbootlegsern smiying only a

other contestant, who urged that vio |

New Model
Co. Line To Supply De-
mand of Trade |

Added to Huber,

ORDERS ON HAND

Lighter and Lower Priced
Machine Being Produced;
Sales Made in Canada

Additional expansion of the farm) —
fractor industry in Marion was inde} >
cated today with the announcement
that the Huber Manufacuring to. bas
added a new model to its line and
thst production ia already under Way
to fill ordera now on bend.

The latest model, known as the
Huber New Light Four. was desigued
to supply the demand for a Ughtet
type of tracfor than the company bas
been producing. The opening eched-
ule of production calls for SOU of the
new mulels cud 2U0 of these have
already been soki, mostly to custom-
ers in Canada.

Rating

Hersepewer

The new mode} has 2 20-30 borse-
power rating, measing thef it bas 20
horsepower on drawbar operation aad
36 on belt operation. The company
also prduces three types of tractors
larger than thin. The new model
sellp at a lower price than the beariee
ty pes,

The new tractor is intended chiefly
for use up medium sized farms and ts
designed for thresher operation.
ploughing. am] farm use in generel.
All Huber tractors are operated by
gaeoline or kerosene motor power.

Prospects for he year in all
branches of the Huber plant ere good.
officials state. Tractors made there
ate being sold to customers in prac
tically all perts of be Unite: States
aud to export trade.

Bhip te Austrailia

One of the moet fruitfal felds vow
being served by the loral company ts
in Ausfratia, @ large shipment of
tractors baving been made there last
week.

The Haber plant is now operating
with its average force of approx:
imately 200 men and with some de
‘partments working | entll i o'clock at
night.

sondtt F iia AL
“HV AUTOACEIDENT

WwW. E. Oreutt Uninjured as Car
is Wrecked Near
‘ sustained when she les]

Ashtabula
| the stag?
W. E. Orewtt, principal of Central Svat ONS eters
Junior High school, hed a SAIFOW xireet theater.
escape from serious injary whea bl 7. soung-loohing
machine which he was driving skidded | iopled ute the pit

AY tM

any tee

my

at the sanual dunier |
Prem will be held The

PANNY-WARI
ormeunie

NEW YORK, Feb.
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of the road near ait Saturday tenupted | to jump lightly

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REVEAL FILM STAR
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as the result of the disclosure of fhe!

erate berecif from sarcotic #ddicfios
Mim Rubeas’ mother, Mrs. Theresa |

Rubens, also was said to be co tae)

addict and that she is waging 2 Sahl ceily uw we him rave.

eqAS SERGEANT |

Dede en me a DAWN USK FLIGHT :

te | preveed regret in reeing Werts leave |

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C. S. WERTZ
RESIENS POST

TO TRY LONG HOP

pine SPREE mo.

City Police Cfficial To Be Rep-
resentative of Local ;
Business Firm

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IN SERVICE 6 YEARS
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Reardon To Take Day Ser’
geant’s Post; Leaves Va- |
cancy in Night Force

Ciaud S&S Wertz, day desk sergeant ,
of the Marioe police department the fF
last siz yeara rengned that positics
Uis mernieg. The resigatce wae ;
mren to Rafety Director Wiliam Bf
Ltrajyer and was sccepted. i

Werts sll aGliated Merch) F
1 with the Manon Electric & Rapply |
Co 13 North Prospect ot. in the
t2pacity of @ traveling repreeente-
tive) Aceeptrace oof tbe  jweioa
same only after a considerable salary
ine eee orer bis present pd was of- | Pes
terel Wertz stated. !

L. E. Reardon. night desk sergeant ©
foo teveral years. will be promoted
(> the day shift, leaving a vacancy in
the night force which will te titled, “_ fed 4 oh
temporarily {rom members of the de
partment until the civil seevice com. | ap — of Les oon
desk | ter

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Dusen eis a time for a
pergrant ecraminatien.

“Ite sith a grest deal of regret |
that I leave the department.” Werts
sisted, “My afSliatons bere have,
beer most pheasant and I have made) a
friends wbom I regret t leave}

A high compliment was paul to the!
Gepsiting sergecnt by Director |
Btrayer |

“Werts was an efficient oBeer,” |
be said. "My assorstioe with him
aas been a pleasure and I regret ain-
His work ia
the department was of bigh

~ PLANNED BY ARMY

Captain Eaker Will Fly, from!
Brownsville, Texas, to
Panema Canal Zone

caliber.”
Cluet J. W. Thompson alse ex-!

bie department

Panama Canal sene om March 10. it
was announced bere today.

The pilet will be Capt, Ire
Faker, well-known Siler, end the

ror

DRY. GENES
ANGIETBLAYED

FOR CURDS

Chicago Police Sent into
West Side To Find Mem-
bers of Gang

CLEANUP DEMANDED

State's Attorney's Office Be
feves Boer Flats Largoly
Responsible However

CHICAGO, Feb 16—“lt wasa't
beces, i's the cleaning sad dyeing
Tecbec.”

Tia taforma’ comleg ever the
Grapelive telegraps system of the
waderwerld, sent equsds of detectives
Lote the West Bide bere today tognd
tuembers of a geng believed to have
been responsible for the wheirsale
slaughter of serena members of
George “Buga™ Moran's gtng, who
were lined up against 4 well and
massscred by machine gud bulleta

The murder of Jobs Ciay, business
agent ef the lsendry drirore’ upien,
several weeks age, wee onld to be the
wederiging motive for tbe slayings
Extermination of the Netth Side
“mob“ was ordered in the sorrei
cenals of the underworld. it was
caid, whee an “investigating com.
mites” reterned @ report that
Morsa's outSt was trying to “meascle
in” eg the cleaning 62d dyeing
“recket" om the Weet etd Bouth

Slden, controlled exclosirely by
“Beartece Al” Capeve and dis
egrets.

Baths Moran's ESerts

Clay te oaid to bave balbad the ef.
torts of the Moran gung emf te have
reperted their mew activities te
Capene and othess It w84 peinted
out that Moran and bie Pen were
“broke” because of alleged police
“hijacking” of their alobel. shipped
here from Detroit, and that they
were trying desperately (© gain 9
fostheld on the lvcrativ® cleaning
and Cpoing bustuce in Caletga,

Becangg of the efforts t@ stop the
Moran’ men, Clay was bled, dorian.
tives eaid they hearned.

It wes members of thle Went Bide
mob, sald to be costroiied by “Bear.

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PAYS PENALTY,

LA RUE MAN HEADS
COUNTY ASSOCIATION

D. 0. Clifton Elected Presk
dent at Wool Growers’ Ane
nual Mesting

D. D. Cilftoa, of LaRee, wae elect
wl president of the Marlies county
Weel Growers Cooperative aspuria:
thew at its renual ergasization meet-
ing beld last night iu the commen
Ness court rovn. herr str

Other efficere clected are I. J.
Dowce, of Cliriden tewnsbip, vice
president, aed Pael CG Smith of
Marton, stergtary and treasurer,

About 20 members were present

the meeting at which delegates fer
the state meeting te be held in Co
limbus co Fo 37 gad TB, onere
Carl Brechles-

R were
named as de'egates with K. T. Mil
lor and J. W. Hoagland te act as ab
teruntes,

3. 7. Walket, secretary off the
ORte Association of Wool Orewerm,

face Al’ Capes, thet reeted reoms

aan ei

eDuitee oe

%eas the only ppeaker ea the pre-

Wan
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Chair

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Morten Gter Glad Writer

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the murder vf Hoary Foos, T3)e0r

Man, Who at 23 Had Recerd ef Taking
Pays Debt to Society as Eleni

TV generations of crime met the event ns
Pama fn Ohio State Penflentiary ot Me dg

Everett Koon, who, though only 28, had :
years of hia life behind prison ake was dessin ok

eld Marien couaty farmer whem he

Ue bad served time
for bills, i

been out of the dig prioun at Co! by the state lant

Physician at Koon

By W. ¥. BYCMANAN °

niewed,
As Everett Kuea's Me was

wight the

Iumbue caly a sbert time whee bel Kova prepped

ratered the me beme, serth of here a cong an :
lam May, took the aged farmer's broken leg. : a:
rell ef mosey and thea, when cavght. Everett Keoa’s ’
beat the eld man late unconerinun Tera to Page B .. *

Also Witnesses: Death

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‘fm Judge W.-C, McKeough
Lot Cleveland, who wag toastmas
cut t e bantwet, tonights? >
4 NOMINATED FOR OFFICE
«Cy Bell and J,.W.! Worrall ha

Sigma
“Amang

meeting. was

‘Lbsen nominated for the’ off!

‘tator ‘of the Dayton

i: The atnual election will’ be ‘held
+ Schlipf,*
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One of Freeman's brothers and his father were inmate§ of the
insane asglum in Athens. His mother died 11 years before. His
parents were divorced in 1916 ( Ray was 7 at the time). There
Ona? 5 bhildren in the family. Ne was employed last winter on the
CWAL ©

Ray Freeman had some relatives waiting outside at the execution.
They were Mrs. Maggie Napper, sister; Wilfred Freeman, brother;
G. A. Napper, eousin and William Napper, brother- in-law.

None of Thackers relatives were present.

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Both bodies were taken to Hawk's station by Undertaker Strong and

a @ouble funeral was held Saturday Nov. 24, 1934. They were

executed Nov, 22, 1934,
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I hope this will be of some help to you. If there is anything
further I aan check, let mm me know.

Sincerely,

SNe : Lote th ee OG P

Mrs. Alice Lauderback .

nt and he
he minia-
is skill.

uuble and
‘ration of
il release,

antly, for *

often are
walls,
Jack was
freedom,
ht society
which to
r.
seard the
> modern
» Peniten-
@::
was
on of
Ile com-
: date of
od job it
re today.
artistic
a solid,
strument
snuffing
‘n’s lives
years to
lack was

role for
con ime
Jack won
Peniten-
arpenter.
went on

ths after
had left
deputy
the Mid-
a mur-
is The
iin gate
'r famil-
guard in
ere the
clongings
pockets.
ind one
warden’s
shuffled
ir with a
»prietary
down.
ly to the
his taut

10ugh
icity
held

sturdily under the strain put upon them,

Convict Jack was dead.

His had been a_ workmanlike job,
when he made Ohio Penitentiary’s clec-
tric chair.

* *

Potrourri—Omozh agkot bottom facub.
It'll probably give the printer the jitters,
but that is Rum Row’s “peeg” J.atin for
message: “Champagne in bottom of
boat,” according to Forrest Redfern, De-
partment of Commerce radio inspector
... Rotary Club and clergy have gone
into huddle at Tarrytown, New York,
over “psychological whipping post.”
Rotarrytowners and ministers plan to post
sinners’ names publicly, just like Winchell
... You can neck in a shady Inne in Mt.
Pleasant (New York) for only ten dol-
lars, but you can’t buy near beer in
Alabama for any price .. . Florence
Mallee—and we don’t mean Vallee—teen-
year-old gel of Thomas Mallee, chief
deputy internal revenue collecter, has
junked collitch for stage ... Frank Com-
sky, seventy-one, dropped charges of
felonious assault in Brooklyn court re-
cently against Joseph Stybosky, seventy-
two, who knifed him in car during argu-
ment. They’d been pals for years...
Three Chicago youths collected sentences
totaling 199 years for hammer murder
there... Smacking cop with a fish cost ,
Joseph M. Graf, Rutgers stude, twenty-
five dollars . . . It’s possible to commit
murder in three states, all of which boast,
death penalty, and earn no more than
on year in guol ... A monkey recently
served five days in Chicago hoosegow for
shoplifting . . . Officers of French Foreign
Legion not long ago scotched rumor that
there was ns woman in their ranks by
ordering whole outfit to showers... In
Ye Goode Olde Days condemned English
ladies were burned at stake. But first
they were strangled .. . Several hundred
dizzies have filed bandit-foiling invention
at patent office. It’s a metal doodad that
you drop on sidewalk when _ stick-up
artist tickles you with gun. When it
hits pavement it sets off series of alarm
gongs, waking up nearest policeman .. .
Swedish cops had to lash Otto Knudsen,
Eskimo hunter, to steamer berth and ship
him back to ice fields after he'd) gone
violently nurts watching his first movic.

_*

OU probably knew it all the time, but

if found guilty of murder in Utah you
get your choice of execution by hanging
or rifle squad .. . They’re getting so used
to that sort of thing in the Windy City
that Matthias Stieren, Chicagoan, got him-
self shot in the neck last Safe-an’-Sane
Fourth and didn’t even know it until July
6th. His best friends wouldn’t tell him
Jack Van Zandt of Redford, Okla-
homa, was arrested recently for cutting
off his mother-in-law’s nose ...In Chi-
cago, the father of Peter Vasilenko, fugi-
tive murderer, turned his son over to the

True Detective Mysteries

lg . .. Parallel incident occurred in
aris a short time ago when a mother
routed her son to the guillotine by testi-
fying against him at his murder trial...
Peeping Tom who whistled “Yankee
Doodle” outside their windows while

Evanston (Illinois) residents were clam-

bering into their nighties was found by
eops to be a_ fugitive parrot ...A
“vicious” dog which Peter Nichales, now
in Gary (Indiana) jailhouse bought to
keep revenuers away from his place licked
hands of a flock of them and then led
dry men to spot in yard where they stood
comfortably in shade while the pup dug
up eight bottles of giggle-water evidence
for them ... Because he was “disgusted,”
Carroll Stephenson, eight-year-old Long
Island boy, tried suicide swith nn rope

». John Lopes, arrested for first time
in Chicago speakeasy raid at age of 104
told officers, “I must be slipping.”

* *

ECAUSE his trials for murder were

costing the county too much money,
Wheelwright (Kentucky) made the Inte
“Bad John” Hall chief of police...
Wouldja like to take a cruise? Unidentified
gangster was put in boat the other day and
sent over Horseshoe Falls... New York
robber recently gagged himself to keep
his teeth from chattering while he helped
commit hold-up ...If a shoulder strap on
your bathing suit slips at Coney Island
it may cost you one dollar; both straps,
two dollars, That’s all. . . Because he
abused his mother, kicked his blind father
and refused to work, ‘Frank’ Calabro
drew u long reformatory stretch .
Roosevelt, Long Island, has burglar who
filches nothing but goldfish ... He bought
her no pair of roller skates with part of

* $3,000 that he had found where she had

hidden it, so Johnny Amato’s mother
didn’t even whip him when he returned to
his Chicago home with ninety-two dollars
that he hadn’t found time to spend...
After shelving capital punishment for
forty-one years, Italy has resumed use of
death chair, But it isn’t electric. Pro-
cedure is to tie condemned man to chair
and shoot him in the. back ... Luis Laz-
aroff of Denver put: pistol to his head and
pulled — trigger.  Trigged clicked, — gun
Jammed and Luis fainted ; . . You have
na legal right to grow as tall as you like
in Los Angeles... A man walked out of
Sing Sing the other day and nobody blew
uny sirens or rang any bells. He . was
Leonard F. Miller, a new guard, who quit
after cight hours because he didn’t like
the place .. . Found—A blonde who
admits she’s dizzy. Dot Aragone, Brook-
lyn gal indicted in a slaying, told police

‘ she was “dazed” at time it happened and

couldn’t remember .. . They laughed at
him when he got up to commit ‘suicide—
and they’re still laughing. Frank Beattie,
White Plains (New Yawk) love-lorn lad;
held gun to his chest and_pulled: trigger.
Gun was loaded with blanks and ‘Frank
was fined five dollars for violating anti-

fireworks ordinance.

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Fate came full circl

e for a man with

y appropriate name|

of Justice, decreeing his death in the very electric chair he had helped to:

perfect. Charles Justice was a familiar figure to law

enforcement

authorities in Ohio
around the turn of the
century.

His conflicts with the
law led to two compara-
tively brief periods of
residence in Ohio Peni-
tentiary in Columbus.

Then came more seri-
ous trouble. And on Jan.
20, 1902, Justice was
sentenced to 20 years in
the penitentiary for cut-
ting with intent to wound. |

Justice met another in-
mate, Harry Glick, who
had been assigned the
task of building an elec-
tric chair — then a new
and different method of execution.

Glick had completed the chair but
it didn’t work efficiently. Justice, who
was handy with tools and had picked
up considerable knowledge of electri-
city, looked the chair over and found
what it needed — clamps for the arms
and legs.

Justice worked with Glick in rebuild-
ing the chair and with the new clamps

it worked just fine.

- Justice was regarded as a model
prisoner, hard working and obedient.

The parole board was convinced that

9, 1910,

MELPED TO

OHIO DEPARTMENT OF MEINTAL HYGIENE AND CORRECTION

THE SUBJECT WAS AELEABED FROM PRIBOM, BEATED ANOTHER
PENITENTIARY TERK AND AGAIN WAS TURNED LOOSE.
Jacxsow cane 20 West Spainga STREET FOR THE LABT
ving, exvrewcen To pis vor Fiasr Deorsx Hurvgn.
BA 27, 1911, ME WA8 SUMMARILY EXECUTED I¥
PERFECT.
Jacksou's AgAL wanx was Cusnegs Jusrice! He WILL BE AECAL~
bED BY HISTORIANS AB ONE WHO WAB

I OS eeeeeeeayeeeermr”

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT of the execution of
murderer Charles Justice wos issued by the
authorities at Ohio Penitentiary where he was
electrocuted.

deviecom ar CORRECT CO

OHNO PENITENTIARY
284 W, SPtG STREET
COL URABUS, O70 43215

BOCES

Ow Worcnegean

Ow Ocroa-
TRE DEVICE WE HAD
THE AREAL {1RONY, Mowsrka, 18 THIBos<

"volar BY MI8 OWN PETAAD".

he had rehabilitated. and on April
19, 1910, he was paroled and once again
outside the grim walls.

But Justice was not able to enjoy
his freedom for long.

On Nov. 9, 1910, Justice was back
in Ohio Penitentiary, found guilty of
first-degree murder and sentenced to
die. .

Nobody knows what thoughts may
have crossed Justice’s mind when he
was led into the execution chamber
on Oct. 27, 1911.

Then he was strapped into the chair
he helped to perfect — to be shocked

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ALLHOFF

N the green, grassy rectangle within the bleak, gray
walls of Ohio Penitentiary there is—or was until
recent years—a miniature wooden house of many
rooms. It is a skillfully contrived model of sturdy—
if somewhat ugly—American architecture. Occasionally, some
prisoner there treated it to a spring coat of fresh white paint.

The model is often noted
by visitors to tho stato
prison, and the moro por-
sistent of them. elicit the
story that goos with it, It
was, of course, made during
the spare time of a convict
—a convict who possessed
the knack of making things
of wood.

But that fact alone does
not lond it special signifi-
cance, for prisoners with
scarcely a tool of any sort
and little in the way of
material, are still making
intriguing things that hel
them forget the long stretch
of listless years ahead. Watch
charms fashioned of ‘soup
bones, xylophones fashioned
of scrap brass, purses of
intricate, beaded designs and
cigarette holders of myriad
colors made of broken combs
and old toothbrush handles.

Occasionally, some more
enterprising prisoner with a
few dollars at the prison
commissary, will build him-
self a radio. Tiven moro
ingenious was ona convict in
whose cell—after the catas-
trophic fire that swept the
Ohio institution in April,
1930—was found a radio.
It was an innocent-looking
enough set of the homemade
variety. Its unique feature
lay not in the music it would
»roduce, but in the workman-
like coils of copper inside,
which, functioning properly,
would convert sugar, watcr
and potatoes into a superior
grade of alcohol.

But to get back to the
miniature—the model house
on Ohio Penitentiary’s lawn—and the story of the prisoner who
placed it there...

It is a woird story—and tho convict’s name will bo withheld.
We shall refer to him, simply, as Convict Jack, although both
his right name and his picture can be scen today, hanging
framed in a small building at Ohio Penitentiary.

Convict Jack was sentenced to the prison years ago. It
was, to be more definite, during the early years when hangings
still were in vogue in Ohio. Jack charged with some minor
felony, was put to work in tho prison’s planing mill. IIo

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The chair that Jack built....

showed marvelous aptitude. His record was excellent and he
seemed to like his work. In his spare time he built the minia-
ture house which today is on the lawn attesting to his skill.

As has been said, he gave the prison officials no trouble and
when the parole board finally got around to consideration of
his case, they immediately voted for his probational release.
Albeit a little reluctantly, for
skilled carpenters often are
rare within prison walls.

And so, Convict Jack was
about to win his freedom,
when progress brought society
a new toy with which to
punish its offenders,

Tho oloctric chair.

Ohio voted to discard the
rope for this more modern
lethal weapon, Ohio Peniten-
tiary necded an electric chair,

Jack, soon to be freed, was
assigned the construction of
the “death chair’. He com-
eee it before the date of

1is parole, and a good job it
was, too. It’s there today.
Not, panem an artistic
sort of thing; but a solid,
heavy, ‘efficient instrument
quite capable of snuffing
out condemned men’s lives
for many, many years to
come. Convict Jack was
rather proud of it.

Then came the parole for
which he had _ been im-
patenting waiting. Jack won
lis freedom. Ohio Peniten-
tiary lost a good carpenter.
The prison routine went on
unbroken.

Nor many months after
Convict Jack had _ left
Ohio Penitentiary, deputy
sheriffs brought to the Mid-
Western institution a mur-
derer) for execution, The
guard at the main gate
greeted tho prisoner famil-
larly, So did the guard in
the bull pen, where the
killer’s personal belongings
wore taken from his pockets,

Weeks passed and one
night when darkness had fallen and the hands of the warden’s
watch stood at half past eight, the condemned man shuffled
into the doath house. Ho seemed to look at the chair with a
more than casual interest. A grim smilo—almost a proprictary
smilo—twisted his pale lips fora second. ‘Then he sat down.

A moment later guards had strapped him securely to the
wooden bit of furniture. Another moment and his taut
body pulled against the arm-rests of that chair as though
he would break them. But the 2000 deadly volts of electricity
surged through him and ebbed away and the arm-rests held

sturdily
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VICTIM!
Captain Ralph E. Byrns, retired
lake captain, who grappled with
the killer in this story on a Sunday
night in February, 1913-——and lost

i ELL,” said Warden Pres-
ton I. Thomas, as he looked
at his massive gold watch,
“the hour has arrived.”

We who had been sitting in the
Ohio Penitentiary executive offices
on West Spring Street, in Columbus—
an even dozen of us—waiting for the
eerie hour of midnight, stood up.

In those days the State of Ohio,
in order to relieve a murderer of sus-
pense, put him to death as soon as
the hour hand of the clock began its
cycle on the day set for his doom.

The telephone shrilled imperiously.
Warden Thomas seized the instru-
ment. Our hearts stood still. Another reprieve from Governor
James M. Cox, perhaps. But no, that wasn’t the message.

“Covington, Kentucky, calling Frank Kinney,’ floated
over the wire. We all could hear it quite plainly there in the
death-like silence.

Not one of us moved. Kinney, who was to die within five
minutes, wanted on the telephone. Kinney, who even now
was receiving his last sacrament from Father Kelley.

The warden spoke quietly. It would be impossible to call
Mr. Kinney to the telephone just then.

“Then tell Frank good-bye for me,” came in a girl’s voice,
distinct and clear over the one hundred and forty miles of
copper wire.

There was something caressing in the way her tone lingered to
give a little roll to the “r’” in his name. We wondered what
memories the voice would have stirred in Kinney.

“Who's talking?” demanded Warden Thomas.

“Tt’s the Kid,’ came the answer.

There was a click. The nocturnal caller had hung. up.

* * *

The Kid! Those two words brought us all up short, for
the story of the crime of Sunday night, February 2nd,

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FRANK H. WARD

Formerly of the
Scripps-Howard League
of Newspapers

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got on his trail through a “hot”
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1913, in Cleveland, was fresh in
our minds, as we newspapermen
had just written a resumé to
be tacked on to the lead story
on the execution of Kinney.

When Captain Ralph E.
Byrns, a retired lake captain,
and his wife had returned from
church that night to their home
on Ansel Road at about half
past nine, they noticed a light
burning on the second floor.
Although they had left no light,
they thought nothing of it as
their married children carried
keys to the parental home.

Entering the vestibule, Byrns
heard a step above him, and
started up the stairs. On the
landing he encountered two
unmasked burglars, one tall and
heavy, the other slender and
short. They were hurrying
down to reach a window they
had left unlocked in the down-
stairs lavatory.

Cees BYRNS leaped for
the intruders, and the trio
clinched on the stairs. §o fierce
was the struggle that the heel of
one of the sailor’s shoes was
twisted off, and he was hurtled
from his footing. ‘Still he clung
to the two burglars. His life-
time of service in the gales of
the stormy Great Lakes had made
him rugged, and he was more
than a match for both outlaws,
despite his sixty-two years.

Struggling now in the re-
ception room, the tangled trio knocked
over a telephone. One of the thugs
wrenched an arm free, and drew a
revolver. Two jets. of. flame pierced the
darkness. Both sent bullets into the
captain’s body. One entered his shoulder,
the other his forehead. Zip! Another
leaden pellet crashed through the trim-
ming of Mrs. Byrns’ hat, as she stood
near the door, screaming.

When the telephone fell, the receiver
was jerked from the hook. Miss Elizabeth
Vonthune, an operator at the Bell Doan
Iixchange, heard the shots and the sound
of the struggle. She notified the police,
and an emergency patrol was raced to
the place. When it arrived, Captain
Byrns was dead, and the burglars were
gone.

Detective Captain Alfred Walker got on the job, and was
given sixty men to solve the crime. They swarmed through
the neighborhood. '

The burglars had taken some jewelry, including a Masonic
watch-charm. It was their sole loot. They had left behind
a brown velour hat. A bloodstained overcoat was stuffed
into a broken window pane in the Byrns basement. Sewed
against the lining was a corset stay.

A clerk at Browning, King and Company’s store recalled
selling the hat—it was of an unusually large size—and he

(Above) Airview of downtown Colum-
bus, Ohio, taken from over the state-
house. Circle indicates location of
Penitentiary. (Left) The murderer
who was called on the long-distance
phone by the mysterious ‘‘kid’’ just a
few minutes before he went to the chair

furnished detectives with a detailed des-
cription of the purchaser. It coincided
with that furnished by Mrs. Byrns of the
burly intruder, and was identical with
that of a man wanted for many Cleveland
burglaries.

Detectives located a street car con-
ductor on the near-by Payne Avenue
line who remembered that a hatless man
boarded his car at Ansel Road shortly
before 10 o’clock Sunday night. He
kept holding one hand to his mouth, in a nervous manner,
and his fingers were covered with blood.

Combing the downtown rooming-house district, detectives
came to a house on Hast Eighteenth Street which had just
lost two roomers. One was Nellie Woods, a waitress about
thirty years of age. The other was a heavy set man who
had seemed to have no day-time occupation. It was Tuesday
noon when this information was obtained. The pair had
packed up and left hastily the day before. In the man’s
room was a Masonic watch charm, (Continued on page 67)

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True Detective Mysteries

67

Who Was “The Kid?” A Cleveland Murder Riddle

which Mrs. Byrns identified as the prop-
erty of her husband.

So, thirty-six hours after the crime,
Cleveland detectives were certain they
had the name of one of the slayers—
Frank Kinney. At least that was the
name he went under at the rooming-house.
They also thought they had the name of
his girl friend, Nellie Woods.

Two weeks later Nellie Woods met Mrs.
Thomas McDonald, whom she had known
as a girl in Cincinnati, on the streets of
Chicago. Nellie did not know that Mrs.
McDonald’s husband was a Chicago police
officer, working out of the Desplaines
Street station.

Nellie confided in Mrs. McDonald that
she and her boy friend had just moved
fronr Cleveland two weeks before. Where
had they lived there? On East Eighteenth
Street. What did her friend do? Well, he
was working now as a motorman on the
elevated lines in Chicago. She was rather
vague as to his Cleveland occupation.

Tee night Mrs. McDonald passed the
information along to her husband. He
had been studying a police circular giving
a description of both Kinney and the girl.
McDonald was struck by the similarity
of the descriptions given by the circular,
and by his wife, of Nellie Woods.

Detective Captain Walker rushed to
Chicago as soon as the police tip came.
After a few days he and Chicago detec-
tives located the loquacious Nellie in a
rooming-house on Wells Street. Some
clothing of a man of Jarge proportions
was in her room, so they just waited
until Kinney came home from work.

“Women are hell!” snarled Kinney,
when he was told how he was traced.

The brown velour hat fitted Kinney
perfectly. Nellie saw that she was in a
jam, so she identified the overcoat found
stuffed in the Byrns’ basement window.
She knew it was Kinney’s, for she had
sewed the corset stay in the lining to
serve as a reminder that he was to buy
her some like it.

Kinney admitted that he was one of the
burglars, but denied that he had fired
any shots. It was his pal who had fired.
And who was his pal? . }

“Just call him ‘The Kid’,” said Kinney.
“T don’t tell names.”

During Kinney’s trial, which was under
the régime’ of the late United States
Senator Cyrus Locher as prosecuting at-
torney of Cuyahoga County, the legend
grew in Cleveland that “The Kid” was a
girl, dressed as a man.

.

* * *

The night seized us in its boisterous, icy
embrace as we left the warden’s office for
the death-house, and filed behind Thomas
in a column of two’s, spread out like a dis-
jointed caterpillar. We were all shivering
in more or Jess degree I think—not be-
cause it was cold that night of December
12th, 1915, but because the law was about
to take the life of a fellow human being.

The St. Louis Limited went speeding
through the night, a long are of yellow
light. It awoke the echoes as it gathered
momentum and roared over an iron bridge
near the penitentiary. In most of the
berths the green blinds were down. It
slipped by, its lights grew dimmer, sounds
of life died away.

We looked about us, and could see
guards, rifles 6n their shoulders, pacing the
high stone walls. The snowflakes swirled
madly, smarting coldly on our cheeks.
Beyond the grey walls of the peniten-

(Continued from page 51)

tiary, the city of Columbus’ was sleeping.

We were close to the death annex, in
one corner of the prison yard. The patient
chug of the idling motor of a hearse that
stood at the door throbbed through the
night. The attendants had not thought it

worth while to switch off the ignition. It.

would all be over so soon. Leaning against
the hearse were two men, puffing on
cigarettes as they waited for their dead
passenger. At their feet was a big wicker
basket. ~

Warden Thomas halted’ us and re-
quested that we maintain absolute quiet
in the death-house. He read off our names,
and each one of us whispered, “Here.”
Then he opened the door of the red brick
building and we followed him in. It was
a square, bleak room, and sawdust was
sprinkled over the floors to muffle our foot-
falls. I thought of a butcher ‘shop. A big

_ oaken chair, with a lot of silver con-

traptions, stood in the center of the
room. It was the only chair there. All: but
the main actor in the drama must stand.

We formed in a line against the white-
washed wall in front of the chair. Distri-

buted about the room were uniformed ~

guards. Near me was a physician, a stetho-
scope in his hands. In-one corner was a
screen. Behind it, on the wall, were three
switches. One of these was connected
with the chair. Only the prison electrician

knew its identity. The attendants would °

turn them simultaneously, and each would
think one of the others had started the
fatal current. I thought of the scriptural
injunction,

“Whosoever sheddeth man’s blood,
by man shall his blood: be shed.”
The finely attuned receivers that were

our ears detected a faint sound out in the
hallway. The little green door swung open
silently. Then came Father Kelley, walk-
ing backward slowly, reading from the
open Bible in his hands. Could it. be
possible, I thought, they were going to
kill the condemned man so soon! I looked
at my watch. It “was 12:05.

ACING the priest were two guards. Be-

tween them was Frank Kinney. He
was a bulky, virile looking man with gray
hair worn slightly longer than the prevail-
ing fashion. He was looking not at us,
but through us; at things apparently in-
visible ‘to anyone but himself. He seemed
somewhat bewildered with his new sur-
roundings. ‘He looked fairly young except
for his eyes, which were as old as death.
Kinney padded along silently in carpet
slippers. His trousers hung _ loosely.
Through the open collar of his'clean, white
shirt I could see his hairy chest.

Father Kelley made the only sound

‘with his chanting. Kinney continued. to

look through us. Perhaps he was climb-
ing again the long stairs of his years. His
orbs were fixed—unflinching, immobile.
He knew he was staring death straight in
the face. Mayhaps he keenly sensed the
full contrast between ‘the actual present
revolving about him and the deep mystery
hiding his destiny.

Kinney sat down in the chair of his
own volition. Quickly two guards were
at his side. One pulled the ripped left
leg of his trousers open and adjusted a
baat electrode on the white flesh.
The other clamped his arms to-the chair
and placed an electrode on a shiny spot
that had been shaved on top of his head.
Kinney closed his eyes and sank back in
the chair.

Warden Thomas stepped forward.

“Frank Kinney, have you anything to

say why the sentence of the court should
not be carried into execution?” he in-
quired of the figure in the chair.

I was standing between Price Russell,
executive secretary to Governor Cox, and
a veteran correspondent for the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. I saw Russell’s hand flutter

‘involuntarily toward an inside coat pocket.

I knew what was in that pocket; a
signed reprieve. .
Governor Cox had twice postponed the
date of Kinney’s death. Once I had been
his messenger to convey the respite. I had
found Kinney playing checkers in his cell
in the annex. He was alone, calling off

‘the moves to the doomed man in the

adjoining cell, who also had a checker-
board. :

For some reason or other, there had
been a tremendous protest from women
everywhere against electrocuting Frank
Kinney. Why, no one seemed quite sure.

All that last day the Governor’s office
had been bombarded with telegrams, tele-
phone calls, visitors. Their messages were
all the same,

“Frank Kinney must not die tonight!”

Governor Cox had gone East on busi-
ness. He had left with Russell a signed
reprieve, to be used only in case of
newly discovered evidence. Russell’s reach
for the reprieve was an involuntary im-
pulse to save a man’s life. He knew that he
was the only person there who could do it.

I SAW Russell’s hand halt. I turned to
the veteran correspondent.

“They’re going to kill him,” I whispered.
It was my first electrocution. I leaned
against the wall. My face grew ashen
white, the correspondent said.

All this happened in a second or two.
Kinney ow was answering Warden
Thomas.

“Hell, no; let ‘er go!” he exclaimed.

There was only one thought in his
mind; to be done with it. He did not
speak in a wheedling, modulated tone. He
fairly shouted the words.

The last thing I saw before I turned
to the wall was a guard placing the leather
helmet over Kinney’s head. It didn’t en-
tirely conceal the face. It looked like an
aviator’s helmet. Kinney’s lips were com-
pressed. His hands were clenched on the
arms of the electric chair—much as you
would rivet your fingers around the arms
of a dentist’s chair when you anticipated
agony.

Father Kelley was still praying, with
bowed head. The: doctor was twirling his
stethoscope—calmly waiting.

For four minutes I heard the crackling
of those big straps on the chair, and saw
the electric lights dim as the voltage in
the chair reached the peak of twenty-one
hundred volts, then brighten as it was
decreased. As the lights dimmed, a moan

‘went up from the sixteen hundred men

in the prison for the repose of the soul
of Frank Kinney. The requiem was re-
peated each time the lights dimmed.
Then the current went off suddenly.

A white-faced guard rushed forward
and unloosened the straps around Kin-
ney’s chest. The expression at the corners
of the guard’s taut mouth gave me food
for thought.

The physician listened with his stetho-
scope. Then he turned to us and said,

“I pronounce this man legally dead.”

The outraged majesty of the law had
been avenged.

Silently we marched out of the room.
The motor of the hearse was still chug-
ging. The wicker basket was gone.

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- which puzzled the police of this city and Hamilton, the body was cut and there were marks

--on he woman's throat which indicated that she had been choked to death, The mystery in
the case had remained as deep as ever until the confession of Knapp, Mrs. Jennie Knapp was
a Cincinnati woman, and before her marriage was well known in Cumminsville, She was killed
on August 7, 189), Knapp says he killed the wman under the canal bridge at Liberty St.

/ and then threw her body into the water. He evidently strangled her, just as he had the other

~ victims, before the body was cast into the water, Knapp was never suspected. He said at
the time that his wife had left home, without télling him where she had gone, and bwent to
the home of her sister to search for her, The police arrived at the conclusion that the
woman had committed suicide, ‘ :
"The Mary Eckert murder had been enshrouded in mystery until Knapp made his confession, the

. woman was found strangled to death in a house on Walnut St. A towel had been used to
strangle her, This heinous crime was committed Aug. 1, 189), Headquarters detectives Haxé
worked unremittingly on the case without unearthing any evidence, the late Yol. Deitsch and
others tried to solve the mystery, and they wound up their efforts by declaring the man who
killed Mary Eckert also committed similar crimes at Denver and elsewhere KAKAUAMEXKKE through-
out the country, His methods were likened to those of 'Jack the Ripper.'" ARKANSSS AGAZEITE,
Little Rock, irke, 2/27/1903 (6/1.)

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poth decided, in some bewilderment.
A letter to Knapp brought no reply.
But another to his mother brought an

- courtship and marriage. He and Anna
- May Gamble, twenty-two, had been mar-
ried on February 2nd, by Magistrate
Smock. They had known each other only
a few days. They were very happy. She
gave Mamie their address.
Still the Kings weren’t satisfied. It was
decided that the husband should consult
Eugene Rankin, a friend who was a de-
tective with the Pennsylvania Railroad.
“rq have a talk with the Hamilton
police,” advised Rankin. ‘‘See what they
can find ‘out.” ="

So, in mid-February, King arrived in.

Hamilton and was soon talking with
Chief of Police Kuemmering,

Why King should’ be worried about
Hannah Knapp was not clear to the Chief
of Police. But to satisfy him, Kuemmer-
ing agreed to find out what he could

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about the missing woman. He sent De-
tective Graf to the house where the
Knapps had lived.

“Be came back to Hamilton after

Christmas,” Graf. was told by his former —

landlord, Datillo, ‘“‘and sold the furniture
and some of his wife’s clothing.”
The detective examined the rooms.

‘There was dust over the place;.no sign

of bloodshed, however. Whatever had
happened to Hannah Knapp, if anything,

-had not taken place here.

Charles Goddard was next contacted.
He knew of no trouble between the
Knapps.

“Maybe Hannah just got tired of Ally,”
he suggested. ‘

He had nothing against Knapp, he
added. But then Hannah was his favorite
niece and he had never. understood why
she, an attractive young woman, should
set such store on him. She certainly had
been in love when they were married.

“T saw her the last time on the after-
noon of December 21st,” said Goddard,
“and she mentioned nothing about leav-
ing Hamilton or Ally to me. But maybe
her half-sister, Mrs. Lida Sterret, knows
more.” i: ‘ !

Mrs. Sterret could add nothing. Han-
nah had not told her of her plans before
leaving Hamilton, and she had. heard

‘nothing. from her. since.

Kuemmering and Captain Francis
Lenehan, at King’s urging, agreed, to
continue. the investigation. Ally had
sold the clothing and furniture to neigh-
bors, they learned. And he had taken
some boxes to the railroad station.

At the livery stable, Schollenberger
looked up his records and said Knapp
had hired a horse and wagon from him
on the 22nd.

William Jellison, stableman, revealed
that Knapp had been there on the 21st
and asked about a wagon.
~ “T told him it would cost him $1.50

and he said that would be ‘too much.”

But.the next. morning; about nine
o’clock, Knapp came for the wagon and
paid the money.

At the railroad station it was not diffi-
cult to trace the shipment made on the
22nd. The baggagemaster said Knapp
had arrived there and after buying a
ticket to Indianapolis, had checked three
pieces on it—a tool box, a barrel and a

‘ packing box.

Kuemmering was extremely interested
in this shipment, so the Hamilton freight
office wired to Indianapolis to check up.

The three piects, came word from the
Indiana city, had arrived there on De-
cember 3lst. But-.the freight station
chad been closed on New Year’s Day. On
January 2nd, Knapp had appeared with
his checks, and the three pieces, tool

chest, barrel and box, had been handed

over to him. : j
“We still can’t be certain he did away

- with het,” said Kuemmering. “It may.

all be a wild-goose chase, after all. We
don’t even know she’s dead.”

“Quite true,” agreed Lenehan.

But it might not be a bad idea to
check, up on Knapp. What kind of.repu-
tation did he have?) Had he ever been
in any trouble with. the police?

The.man peered cautiously from behind
the lumber where he had been concealed

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Letters were sent to several cities in,
adjacent ‘states asking if Alfred Knapp
had ever been convicted of any crime
that had brought him a prison sentence.

Within a few days came several an-
swers. He had. done two years in an
Indiana prison for petty larceny. Joliet,
Tllinois, said he had served one year in
prison there for grand larceny. He also
had spent one year at Michigan City,
Indiana, and four in the penitentiary at
Columbus, Ohio, both for criminal as-
sault. :

' . Zooks as if our Ally had quite some
-record,” commented Chief Kuemmering

to Captain Lenehan.

“And if he was convicted four times,
how often did he get away undetected?”
said the Captain.

-" Tt was now decided to check up with
Mrs. Ed King, and the following day
Lenehan arrived in Cumminsville.

The sister was reluctant to talk. But
finally, persuaded by her husband, she
revealed that Ally had been in’ and out
of trouble all his life.

“But he’s not mean or ugly,” ‘she in-
sisted. “He’s always so.,kind ‘and easy
to get on with. He’s not bad.”

Only now and then he seemed to be
possessed by 2 wild spell.

' “Was he ever accused or suspected of
killing anybody?” was the final question.

“Never,” answered Mamie King em-

. phatically. “He was never cruel, not

even with animals. Everybody’ always
liked him.” f

Back in Hamilton, after a talk with
Mayor Bosch, Kuemmering telegraphed
to Captain Kruper, of the Indianapolis
police, asking him to urge Knapp to re-
turn to Hamilton to help in the search

‘for his missing wife. .,-.,; '

“If he comes,” agreed. Bosch and
Kuemmering, “it will mean his con-
science is clear.”

Captain Kruper went to the address
where Ally was living in the basement
of a house. He found the recently mar-
ried couple apparently happy and satis-
fied with their lot.

“What do you want me for?” Ally pro-
tested. “Hannah left me. And I think
she is dead, that’s why I married again.”

“Why do you think shé’s dead?” asked
Kruper. .

“She once told me if she ever left me,
she wouldn’t want to go on living,” an-
swered Knapp simply.

“But you had no right to marry with-
out -some definite knowledge of her
death,” remonstrated the Captain.

“Well, I know women,” answered Ally
thoughtfully. “And I believe Hannah
meant what she said.”

Both his wife and mother were much
more resentful of the police than was
Ally himself.

The elder Mrs. Knapp, when she
learned that the investigation had been
brought about by Ed King, was resentful.

“Rdq’s not a policeman,” she said an-
grily. “Why can’t that man mind his own
business?”

“T wouldn’t believe Ally had done
wrong,” protested his bride. “Not even
if the whole world swore to it ona stack

. of Bibles.”

However, Knapp himself, the least up-
set of the family, agreed willingly to re-

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found alive, he didn’t care. Then he
could get a divorce and remarry Annie,
he said.

This message, relayed to Hamilton,
brought Detective Moton to Indianapolis
within twenty-four hours to escort him
back. _

Ally was without money. His wife’s
uncle and her half-sister refusing to
offer him hospitality, there was no one
to take him in.. So Knapp making no
objections, it was agreed to house him
temporarily in the local jail.

Comfortable in the jail he was mildly
interested in the investigation. Detec-

tives Graf, Hettrich, Fischer and Moton,’

all actively engaged, made a point of
dropping in on him and keeping him sup-
plied with cigars. The forty-year-old
Ally, glad of their company, was always
willing to talk,

“Maybe he’ll spill something acci-
dentally,” said Kuemmering. “Let him
talk his head off,”

Ally told of his early days, of a variety

of jobs he had had. He and his second
wife, Jessie, had been with Forepaugh’s
Circus a couple of seasons, he said; he
as trapeze artist, Jessie as a cook.

“Never knew you were so athletic,’
commented Moton one evening.

“Look at my hands,” answered Knapp,
holding them out. They’ were short and
stubby fingered. He clenched them to
show how the muscles rippled.

“Pretty good hands for strangling,”
suggested the detective.

“You said something there,”
Ally with a grin.

“I: guess you’ve got away with a lot,
roaming round the country,” continued
Moton. ‘

Knapp was in specially good. humor
that evening, mightily pleased with him-
self. i

“I could tell you some good stories,”

replied

he agreed,

But he did not continue,

Moton, reporting this conversation,
had an idea that Ally might have got
away with something big—although,
according to the police records, he had
never been accused of, or even involved
in, anything like murder,

From relatives, the police had already
checked up on his other wives. He had
married a young woman named Emma
Stubbs in Terre Haute, Indiana, many
years before. But their marriage had not
lasted long. Emma had walked out on
him. It was rumored that she had since
died; but if So, of natural causes, and far
from the side of Ally.
could not be responsible for her passing.
Jessie Conners, his second wife, whom
he had married at Lawrenceburg, In-
diana, in 1886, had met an untimely end,
by suicide. >

“She was just unhappy,” said Knapp to
Moton one evening when the latter
brought the conversation around to
wives. “And one day she threw herself
into the canal,”

that his wife, Jessie, was missing. Miser-
able because he couldn’t get a job, he
explained, she had often threatened to

He, of course, B',.

commit suicide. He was afraid ‘that was
exactly what she had done. How, he
had no idea.

On August 8th, Joseph Graff, seated
on the canal bank, fishing beneath the
Wade Street Bridge, found his line
caught by a heavy load. Finally he
managed to bring the weight to the
surface, It was the body of a woman.
After making his line fast with its load,
Graff set off for the nearest police station.

Coroner L. A, Querner, who examined
the body, said it had been in the water
some time. There were bruises on the
head and shoulders, probably from ob-

jects met while in the canal, ¢

‘ Knapp, because he had notified the
police that his wife was missing, was
sent for. He immediately identified the
dead woman as ‘his wife, Jessie.

' He had seen her last at nine o’clock the

’ preceding Tuesday, he explained, She

had walked with him to the office of the
Enquirer, and when he Said he was going
to step inside to the counting room to
ask about a job, she had agreed to wait
on ,the sidewalk for him. When he re-
turned, Jessie was gone.

She was about to become a mother,

_ Was. worried about finances; that was

all he knew, he declared.

One more shove and this
would be another crime
police could never solve

Mrs. Mamie King and Mrs. Martha
Rice, another sister of Knapp, backed
up his story about Jessie’s fits of de-
spondency. She had more than once
spoken of suicide to them.

“ For two pins I’d jump into the canal,’

She told me on her last ‘visit at my
house,” said Mrs. King.

‘And Coroner Querner had returned a
verdict, “Drowning in the Miami Canal:
a suicide.”

Knapp had moved in then with the
Kings. Here the courtship with Han-
nah Goddard, then living with them, had
flourished. Six weeks later Hannah and
Ally announced they were going to be
married.

Since the Cincinnati authorities had
found nothing suspicious in Jessie’s
death back in '94, there was no reason
why Hamilton should now.

And if one wife had divorced Ally and
another had committed suicide in prefer-

“ence to going on living with him, no

wonder the man thought Hannah had
either abandoned him or killed herself, it
was agreed, ‘

But there were those records of as-
Sault against Knapp, with sentences for
both. These had taken place while he
was married to Jessie. She had stuck

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adding victim after victim to

his list, then vanished as completely as if he’d never existed

LMOST EVERYONE in Hamilton, Ohio,
who knew Ally Knapp, was sorry for him.
It wasn’t his fault that he couldn’t get
steady work. He certainly tried. He’d been de-
voted to his wife, too.. Neighbors of theirs on
Fourth Street used to laugh when Ally, driv-
ing a coal wagon, passed the house. He’d
always signal, so that Hannah could wave to
him from the window.

And now Hannah had walked out on him. Just
before Christmas, too.

On the afternoon of December 22nd, he went to
see his wife’s uncle, Charlie Goddard, who was very
much surprised at the news.

“You’ve had a hard time,” agreed Uncle Charles,
“but I thought you were getting along better. I didn’t
know Hannah was thinking of leaving you.”

When the Knapps ‘had arrived in Hamilton, they
had been practically penniless and Uncle Charles had
taken them in. Then Ally had obtained a series of
odd jobs and finally had saved enough to buy fur-
niture and set up housekeeping in two rooms rented
in a house belonging to Charles Datillo.

“Did she take her clothes?” asked Goddard.

Knapp shook his head. “Only a few things. But
she asked me to'forward them to her,” he explained.
“To Indianapolis,” he added.

“You have her address, then?”

Ally hadn’t. But he thought she would leave word
for him at his sister’s, Mamié King at Cumminsville,
on the outskirts of Cincinnati.

“You know what I’m thinking?” he went on. “May-
be Hannah is at Mamie’s now. And she’s just acting
this way to get me to move to Indianapolis. She don’t

like it here in Hamilton. She wanted to move away.”

Mamie, two weeks earlier, had invited: the Knapps
to spend Christmas with her. But Hannah had an-
swered that they didn’t have enough money for
the trip. However, it was possible that she might
have gone to them now. Anyway, Ally was going to
Cumminsville, hoping to find his wife there and per-
suade her to return to him.

“Where’s Hannah?” demanded Mamie King when
he walked into her home the day before Christmas.

“Ain’t she here?” asked Ally in surprise.

Mamie shook her head.

“I hoped she might be,” he said with a deep sigh.
“I guess she’s left me.” Tears came to his eyes.

Mamie looked at Her younger brother. He was
shaking with sobs. “Don’t take on so, Ally,” she
tried to soothe him. “Hannah’s got a soft heart.
And you know how crazy she was about you. Maybe
when you find her you can make it up with her.”

He stayed over the Christmas holidays with Mamie
and Ed King and then told his sister he would re-
turn to Hamilton to see if Hannah had come back.
If she wasn’t there, he would go on to Indianapolis
in a few days..

Mamie did not hear from, or of, Ally until the first
week in February when a letter came from her
mother in Indianapolis. She opened it at the break-
fast table.

“Ed, what do you think?” She suddenly put the
letter down.

He waited patiently for her to continue.

“Ally’s gone and got married again.”

“Married!” exclaimed Ed, much surprised at the
news. “But what of Hannah?”

There hadn’t been time for either Hannah or Ally.
to get a divorce. Then Hannah must be dead, they

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the affair,

uttered not one word from the
time he stepped through the door
until the first blast of electricity
arched his body against the strap.

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pronounced dead, all witnesses

onfirmed | With the exception of two surgeons
Political, | quickly filed from the room, The

s | Surgeons quickly took Koons’ body
, from the chair and removed it to

oVoLucier stepped
mand stood at one side.
‘A dense cloud of heavy smake

{RAR.UIholic pest, the” Rew,

the second, fatal shock.

Earlier Koons signed over the
corneas of his eyes to the eye bank
with the remark:
' “I saw some of the boys who
lost their eyes on Guadalcanal. I
want my eyes to go to some vet-
eran.

“I want to try to atone partly
for my crime.” ioe

Koons’ plea for clemency was
turned down ‘Monday by Gov.
Thomas J. Herbert.

The Springfield man sat quietly
in his death row cell as the hours
ticked away. He played solitaire,

read and conferred with his
spiritual advisor, the Rev. Mr.
Wail.

His last meal was served from
6 to 6:30 p. m. in the tiny de-
tention cell a few feet behind the
chair. Prison guards escorted
Koons to that cell at 5:30 p, m.

Koons is the sixth man facing
death at state hands to “make
this grand, final gesture to society
which will make it possible for

t
others to see,” the physician said.

Visitations

Are Reported

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Lagonda District Boy Scout
commissioners’ staff meeting was
held Wednesday night in the Scout

nine commissioner:
I gd et, Ty eaPs

County: officials were present at

The second electric charge was

Lima Airport —
Fire Loss Set
At $75,000

started by
wiped out the Lima municipal air-
port installations four miles west
of the city, and injured one man
last night,

port Manager Charles J. Parsons
at $75,000.

were destroyed in the blaze.

received first and second degree:
burns,

All previous , operations have | was using the torch in one of the
been successful, the doctor said. hangars. A nearby plane became |@
er ignited and the flames rapidly

spread through the building and
jumped to the field's other hang-

fire department fought the blaze
futilely.

Former Diplomat
office, Woolworth Building, sin, Astonished At

perent, Ralph | (Wns

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Of Sabotaging

step. ‘ :
Johnston, new president of! the
Motion Picture Association ‘of
America, said of Russia:

“She has not joined the related
‘arganizations of the United Na-
tions, such as UNESCO. the Food
and Agricultural Organization and
the International Labor Organi-
zation.

“Neither has she become asso-

cottage and landscape ground at

ing at. 2233 Sunset av., for use | will be held Sunday afternoon, ac- |
as a drug store and barber shop.|cording to Anthony © Ellinger, |
‘ | president. Cl

LIMA, O., April 3—UP—Fire

an acetylene torch

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Damage was estimated by Air-

Two hangars and six light planes t

Robert Fuller, 26, Geneva, O.

but was
reatment.
Fuller, said Manager Parsons,

released after

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Volunteers from Elida, O., and
pumper truck from the Lima

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Annual Easter ced | unt for |
members of the Cosmopolitan Club, |

urer of the Yost Superior Co., will
be principal speaker at the dinner
meeting of the Co-Operative Club
at 7:30 p. m. Thursday in Hotel |
Shawnee, a

field Lodge No. 536, Loyal Order
of Moose, is being cofducted from
2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p. |m. Thursday |

st. a
Keith Wheeler residance, 2646 E.
Main st., at 11:05 a.

was estimated at $10, | |

Testimor

By Bath |

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Department appointee, criticising
the Ohio Farm F
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{ U ° d N ° 'Greater Springfield and Clark Krug's announcement can
ie ‘, [ordered by Dr. J. B.C. Eckstorm,| Unite ATIONS ‘county Associgtion. planned to |Lewte appeared before a J
Y. April | prison Physician, who refused to | : -jmeet at 4 p. mi Thursday in the | Labor Sub-committee to renc
officials ' pronounce Koons dead after the. PHILADELPHIA, | April 3.—% | asociation “Offers 10. consider {charge that the Centralia n
pproval of; first shock. 92) 8% ». ‘The Soviet Union stood accused preparation ofp list af aominees |died “because of criminal ;
pecial ses} Warden Frank Henderson said today of “sabotaging” the United | for'the 26 vacap. ies on’ the hoard | gence of J. A. Krug.” :
embly to! ordinarily one blast “of 2,200 volts; Nations and Eric Johnston de~ ‘of directors. wich will oceui in| © Recalling that he had mad
Palestine’ -:s sufficient but that Koons was so | Clared it is up to the international | May, according 4 John McKenzie, | statement originally before a ks
_ thin the second. joit was necessary. | body to determine whether Rus- } chairman. If the lixt is completed }ate hearing last week, Lewis
replies to; He termed the necessity for a, sia wants world union or world Thursday. it is’ expected that it the committee:
per’ states second electrical wave as “highly , revolution. ‘will be presenteg to the board of | “I have not said that J. A.
by Acting | unusual.” ha Headlining a group of four | directors at itsimerting at 8 p.iby. an affirmative action
Hoo, top!. Twenty men, including two speakers at a rally of the United ' April 10, in the YMCA. ; these men. I say that by h
pbusy with pries.s and a Protestant minister, ' Nations Council of preg wom a ‘action he has permitted the
S for the gatiwred in the execution chamber | the former pees tb OF the OCS.) Blais ot agri! ture. in the: lives‘ die.
ic! prob- of t!e little red brick death house Chamber at mpi 3) Negus ine of urban as welf as rural citizens’ “He withheld from them s
May. at 7:58 p. m. Wednesday. j that. “Russia has been. the eee as ihe subject 6f a talk by ©. E, that it was in-his power to
posai had = Maintaining his stolid composure culprit in undermining the United Rowland, Clark§ County agricul.” * * he stands at the top
ht of the throughout, Koons marched into Nations, : " suctive tural agent, at flip luncheon meet. | nothing to stop him from. m:
s in ad- the room unaided and calmly ' Through use of “obstructive ing of the Jusfo: Chamber of /the coal mines safe, excep’
RS Aces seated. himself “in the gaping policies” Johnston rec ee hat Commerce Thuts.y inthe YMCA, lack of desire to do so.”
23 other ‘wooden chair. Two guards stepped Russians ieee weakened ZN. that ‘Although only per-eent of the . But asked by Represent |
the plan to the sides of the chair and |! Was wasn Rs kt Gteece population is: engesed directly. in Kearns. (R-Pa) whether pr [
necessary quickly strapped Koons in. 80 Turkey, thus. forcing. the agriculture, 88@per cent make OWhers carried out safety nk
The Springfield: Navy veteran United States to take the injtial i (

ures beer than the govern:

Lewis replied: “No, worse.” [’
The UMW chief added qu

"That doesn't excuse the go:

ment jor not enforcing its

, contract terms.”

This was reference to

, Safety code provision in the L

» (heir living threggy agriculture by
processing, distr#iion, ete. “he
pointed out, » 4 ‘

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“Incorporation phyecrs were filed
jin Columbus WeBnseday for the
| Arthur Electrie@.., Ine., listing
; Merton S. Artht#. Lawrence N. .
' Brown and Elden|T. Reid as the Contract with the governmen
incorporaters, ac@rding to press | Frequently emphasizing hi
dispatches. ‘The Jiim was incor. | Marks by banging his fist «

JRHICS ULOSEC Eee

a Mes nasi nin’ ' : ; i 939 tabie, Lewis called the n
Bis: Gnd Re giner: Hpom where they removed 4. with the International | porated in theMilimount Oe OT tenth traps” and declared
me time, | his eyes. Bankoor ania Vv shares of no flardock. The elec: ) |
* : : y ank or the International Mone- ‘ Abi? / every man who goes to wo:
mt docu: j/6 The surgeon’ In charge.’ who: ON" og These and other | Wie contracting Sand supply firm i mine will be isti
“in the asked not to be identified, said the joe va Rt al fe ae is located at $8.4 High st a coal mine wi statisti e
eyes. packed ina snecial container, 28eneles were s oe - , er Id: ae Killed oF injured every six yep
Rvou' be Would errive in Cleveland by air Dvlitical understanding end {Wor Repiacing theo Rev. Joseph M. Krug said that a review © ps
‘ nig ibe after 9:30 p.m. would be trans: |e ee mutta rogram of Dando, who becé il} Tuesday, SPection reports did not ind)*
terial fetred ‘and reach the Columbia! /7e Unite “ “Tr i Bre de- UO. W. D. Allbecke.: Hamma Di- 'UMduly hazardous condition
Fe cn. University < Medical‘ Center eye did to Greece and Turkey is de- | vinity achool, wif icad the 7:39 2013 mines. But, he directe:
hs _man- ssa sstoration in New | Signed, said Johnston, “to prevent ae ervice |iMmediate re-examination of
Jasti bank for sight restoration in New far.” He: dec! the U.S > Pp. m. Lenten cof}munion service Ar r
é alestine | York City at 3:30 a. m. Thursdav. | war. e eclared , U.S. aims | thursday in ary Lutheran jty conditions and practices <
Ene Cte man. who was convicted of ,t° Stop Russian aggression and | Church, Dr. Robe: G. Remsberg | With consideration of any fe
British | sy ; : |help the Mediterranean nations ; ‘ eo Cellioc. x: ae or state inspection reports.
the tres chopping to death his own mother nein themeaives of Wittenberg Colles: will preach Navy Captain N. H
Cc * | approached his last hour im “good Dees vat the Easter Sunday worship | aa ~ reat - H. Coll:
3 ©M- | shape.” Warden Henderson re- ‘ vi service. A Leoeie to subse tha wane oe
ge ported. He received a last-minute, | @ - 7, oO ses a nor bgat bhai cir t
unexpected visit from his aunt and | IX oning Springfield policg iv ursday were ea pong : ge i the union
uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Koons e e investigating twosputo theft re- prosendinng azardous as to re:
of Columbus, this afternoon, | AL ) »lications Per alley ee Ce Uh antivice anlatet tke
we One): Later, he told the warden he did. per Valley pk. Yéperted his car ‘ mene
| not want to see anyone. } * Was taken fromM his residence pany be ftir for’ rem);
1 of in- | But” Koons ate freely of his Are On File Wednesday, while@Luciile Ander- Taalonents Mash Sin the
Amber of | enormous final meal, which he | - Rate | SON, 234 S. Arlington av. told po- i tralia disaster in which 111 mie
boval ON | chared with two inmates, Wacden SIX applications are scheduled i jice her car was #fpien from. the ‘Jost. thei lives el
arshall’s \ Honderson said that Koons specifi. 'to come before the Sprinxfield | 200 block on Kenilworth av. i These as sea ide that Q
‘ cally requested the men present. | Board of Adjustment at its meet- a local inion eatety somatic
rations “As evidence of his calmnoss,!ing at 4 p.m. Friday. The ap-| Robert L. Pidcoek. 20, of Enon, OO". ay beet vd
nerennels ee aime Beato 0 " \ ;. require the withdrawal of m
€ Cons | guairls reported Koons drank three | plications are: arrested by troops of the Ohio: bony unsafe mine areas: (2
must, in Quarts of Jemonade, se | gp Catt E: Williams, 1206 W. North | State Patrol at 229 a. m. Thurs: imminent dancer ese ane
'pensa- | “When Koons. stepped into the st, and J. W. Monteith, 1608 | day and charged with violating the | eral inspector may require \
a tied execution chamber he was Weat-! Broadway, to erect a steel ware- | drivers’ license la scheduled 10 “drawal of .the miners: and
= uc Ving the regulation prison gark=-a | house ut 2223 W. Main st. for use ; Ppear for arraignment Saturday phe federal inspector reports
ori light grey shirt and darker grey! as a storage warehouse for the jin Municipal Cour He was re-'ous danger by telephone so
= fie pants, with black shoes and socks West End Gas and Appliance Co. pleased until taat Bie on his own coal mines administrator
¢ Bre fey silane ateuped forward to. Charles and Ruth Brown, 1803 | Tecognizance. jmove immediately to with:
exami P Jody SHEAS ear? a arate tN -- ‘ Stents ;
current a sudrd threw open the shirt, | Kentucky Bhi nae add "te..8 sacs Demonstrations @Ad di. cussions ‘ Mee drone Collisson and\.-@
tion 3, Tattooed on his breast weve two, IME at 1802 Clay st, to be use gon vader and team’ 80°" SVEN mete” Savers, director of (OT
tion Is entwined hearts. ,as @ grocery store. — j by Roger F. Marshall and William “Bureau of Mines, “to proceed in
ent, 10 “she Rev. K. E. Wall, prison — Rev. L. E. Conklin, 2211 Beatrice | J’ Larcey, Jr. of Br Cleveland the utmost speed to check seVit!
® WES Betestant chaplain, spent the last ; St. and Chester N. Conklin, 1828 joffice, Ohio Bell Terhone Co.. | conditions in the mines where fe?
cI ‘minutes with Koons, and as spir- |W. Washington St., to use a gar-! before member: -0 8 ‘ Club, mine safety committee ana (th
i FAQ atr $ , ir - Churs -
W 8% Vitust solace stood silent, head ‘axe at 2211 Beatrice st, for ajat their iu: ‘iurs- | management can not agree |
2 na ‘bowed, directly in front of the | WeSdworking shop. “jday in Hor —_———__ ——________ and
Booger | condemned man as the rubber | Public hearing for an applica | Carl fh G
sh oe hood was strapped in place, tion of Max Cavanaugh and M. Kientcbe The
q ais fer: Just before the first shock of 'T. Homa for permission to build | as hee ad
Ppa current. surged. through Koons’ | a t

the hardywartEre
Eastern s_

1802 Selma rd., and thelp families, |

on a

B. F. Downey, secretary-treas- |

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Firemen were call to the
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o extinguish a roof fire, Damage

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Disavowed’

COLUMBUS, Apri} 3—UP—Gov.

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Following a


The George And Isabella Williams Murders
And The
Trial And Hanging Of Wesley Johnson

Called the most brutal and atrocious
crime ever committed in Henry
County, the murder of Mr. and Mrs.
Williams, who resided on the county
line between Fulton and Henry Coun-
ties, six miles north of Napoleon,
occurred on Tuesday, October 23,
1883.

About 1 P.M. on Thursday the mur-
ders were discovered when a neighbor,
Addison Crew, went to the Williams’
home. He found George lying in the
barn with his throat cut and a gash in
the head. Crew ran to arouse the
neighborhood.

Henry Andrews was the first to go in
the house and he found Mrs. Williams
lying on a bedroom floor with her
skull cut open. A two months old baby ~
was in the bed, crying and famished. SERS (alll ae =i

Coroner Cloud was notified and the
next day the bodies were examined by Murdered by Johnson on the
Dr. Shoemaker and Dr. Bloomfield. Night of Oct. 28, 1888.

Circumstances pointed to a man in
the employ of Williams’ uncle who
lived several miles away. On Wednes- |
day, the young man named Wesley
Johnson, had acted strangely and quit
work and went to Wauseon. When the |
murder became known, Johnson was |

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arrested and placed in the Wauseon CHARLES FOSTER

jail. The murder was evidently com-
mitted for robbery purposes as it was
known that George Williams had sold
clover seed a few days before. Johnson
was also suspected of having set fire to
his employer’s barn a few days before
the murders.

An ax was found hidden in a straw
stack and identified as the murder
weapon. Johnson was brought to the
Napoleon jail and crowds gathered to
stare at the jail hoping to get a glimpse
of the accused man.

The Williams funeral took place in
the Napoleon Methodist Church and
hundreds attended the double funeral.

In November, the Grand Jury
brought two indictments against Wes-
ley Johnson.

In December 1883, jokesters sus-
pended from the north portico of the
courthouse an effigy of Johnson that

WILLIAMS.

Upeited Source. Lkse of Wesley Johnsen, Nepoleen Ohio 1884 ee


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34

created quite a stir on the Sabbath
morning until cut down by janitor
Cowdrick.

The trial started on the Sth of Febru-
ary, 1884, and the court room was
filled. The case heard was the murder
of Isabella E. Williams. On the second
day the courtroom was packed and
hundreds turned away. Before the trial
was over, more than sixty witnesses
had been called. On February 12, 1884,
the jury with Abraham Willard as
foreman, found the defendant, Wesley
Johnson, guilty of murder in the first
degree. On February 16, Johnson was
sentenced by the judge to be confined
in solitary confinement until May 29,
1884, and on that day to be hanged by
the neck until dead.

From Tuesday until Wednesday
evening of the week of the hanging,
over 2000 people visited the jail to look
at, visit with, or stare at Johnson.
Before 7 A.M. on the 29th, people
began to pour in and early trains
brought vast numbers.

The scaffold, arm and leg bindings,
and the rope were the same as used for
the hanging of a wife murderer in
Wood County in the summer of 1883.

The scaffold and platform were
erected in the northwest corner of the
jail. It was 10 by 14% foot in size and
was 8 foot above the floor. The trap
was 3 foot square, worked by a lever
and was the property of Colonel Mat-
tice of Cleveland. He came to Napo-
leon and for several days superin-
tended the platform erection and
tested it several times.

The undertake arrived from Delta
with the coffin, which was taken into
the jail and placed in the corridor on
the !ower floor.

At 8 A.M. the sheriff read the death
warrant io Johnson. Rev. Brake and
Rev. Zook remained with Johnson
until 9:45 when Johnson was brought
to the scaffold by Sheriff Brown of
Wood County and Sheriff Blair of Ful-
ton County. The prisoners hands and
legs were tied, and the black cap
pulled over his head. During which
Johnson said, “God help me.” and the
trap was sprung. Twelve minutes later
he was pronounced dead.

Co. F., 16th Ohio National Guard
had been detailed to guard the jail and
to allow only those who had admit-
tance cards in to the execution. After
Johnson was pronounced dead, the
undertaker cut him down and placed

“LOU MEYERS,

son was Infatuated.

his body in the coffin. The vast crowd
was allowed to see his body. The sher-
iff had issued over 200 admission
cards.

The body of Wesley Johnson was
buried on May 29 at Zion Church bur-
ying ground. The morning after the
coffin and body was reported gone. On
or about June 12, it was returned and
re-interred. Rumor was that friends
had removed the coffin to prevent a

grave robbery, and had concealed it in
a nearby granery.

Johnson wrote two confessions
before his death. One he gave to his
advisor, Rev. Brake of south Toledo, to
be released after the execution. The
other he gave to his brother, Rev.
Edward Johnson. In these he confessed
to the murders and to the barn burn-
ing of his employer.

G.L.E,

Street scene, Napoleon, Ohio — the day of the Johnson hanging, May 29, 1884.


JOHNSON, Wesley, white, hanged

Napoleon, Ohio, May 29, 1884

Wealey Johnson.

Wesley Joblmaon, convicted
fn of ebruary laat oof the
double murder last October of
Mr. and oMra. George  W,

w Wilitams, of Fulton county,

Ohio, wax hanged ato Napo

leon, Ohbto, May 20.) Tle made
Be a full confesxton to his spire
jtunl adviser, The confession

about $50, and fled. ig in substanee that Johnson,
Two days after he was who 148 only twenty-three
arrested on suspicion, | 7 years Old, and has served one
on account of some ‘ term in the penitentlary, be-
articles having been came cnamored Of a wanton,
Reon in his possession who threatened to elope with
belonging to the mur- Y {oa rival unless he (Johnson)
dered couple, and was : could raise a certain sui of

~ Aubsequently tried and money by a certain date, Oct.

convicted. The erime 23, 188%,
in detall was ono of Johnson knowing that

the most horrible and young Willlams had been
revolting ino criminal akclling off his property, went
history, and cold- to his house on the night of
blooded beyond paral- Oct. 2, saw Williams go to
lol In the annals of the the barn to feed his horses,
State. Johnson Inys and deliberately chopped him
All the blame upon the down in his tracks with an
woman, Whom he ax. He then went to the
loved with an Infatun- house, .

fon mionont idolatrous, The door was opened by
Mrs. Williams, who supposed
{t was herhusband returning
trom the barn. On seeing
Johnson she screamed and
ran, pursued by the murderer,
with the blood dripping from
the ax which he ‘had used to
fve re ee - Kill her husband. She fled to
A an inner, room and begged
piteously for her life and that
of her little six-weeks-old
babe, asleepin the bed; but
all to no purpose.. The mur-
derer knocked her down with
the ax, and then buried it in
her head three times up to

the helve. Hethen ransacked |
the house, obtaining only


YL
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‘Wesley Johnson, h
Murder ofthe Williams Family. :

i:
bak oe 4S

ung to-day for the

blige UeViieU iva, UOCUMIPalucd Vy bid
spiriiual advisor, was led to the seaffold.
death warrant was read. Sheriff
Bernes asked Cowell whether he had
anything to say, to which Cowell re-
pliea.

“No, sir, I am guilty.”

The Sheriff then asked him whether
he wished to be understood as guilty of
the crime of which he stood convicted.
He replied:

“Yes, sir, my punishment is just.”

The ‘trap was sprung at 16 minutes
before 1 o'clock, in 11 minutes Cowell

|

was prpnounced dead, Thus a little

THE FIRST HANGING.
In the

he Williams butchery, was attracte
ry a lurge number of buzzards continu

vools nea? his house.
ty hia ey

aa ot a eow or

joe tigi there bags

e .

le bes OPPOY te arricnne ac tie SPOt
| and finding there the body a man, the
' clothes torn and flesh decayed and eaten
| from. the bones
, About two weeks before the finding
‘of this body two strangers called at the
j house of James Crawford in’ Liberty
/township and asked for something to
jeat. One of the strangers carried in his
‘hand an ugly looking stick that was
neither cane nor elub, but’ which he
| swung along asanodd sort of ornament.
|The request for food was supplemented
with the explanation that they did not
‘have time to eat it there, but would
‘take it with them and eat iton the way;
‘they were buying cattle, were very
{busy and could not stop, ete. Mrs,
| Crawford kindly did up some eatables
in a copy of the Napoleon NORTHWEST,
which had pasted upon one side a sub-
scription label bearing the name of Jas.
Crawford, and the men departed.
When the strangers had gone out of
sight, the circumstance of their call and
| their actions, which would seem to have
lbeen very usual and commonplaces
' worked upon the mind of Mr. Crawford,
tod the more he thought of it the more
suspicious he became. At that time
vavford wus the civil engineer of the
c¥. aml an artist in the way of port-
fait drawing. So strangely did his
thoughts revert to the two travelers that
| he made a pencilsketch of them, even to
‘the curiousstick oueof them had carried,
and so perfect to life was the sketch that
| It afterward served as the principle fac-
‘tor of identification in a very singular
| case.
|; Now it so happened that two men,
' Job Cowell and William 'Trendwell, had
escaped ashort time before froma Mich-
-igan prison. Trendwell had robbed ta
bunk In Adrian, of whieh he wes eash-
Her, and after arrest, trial, and convie-
_tiou, was inearecrated iu prison. Cow-
‘ell wasa fellow prisoner, and the two
, concocted a plan to escape, which they
snecessfully exeented, and. friends of

latter part of July, 1864, the at-
ention of Squire Bolan, who lived in
treedom township, near the scene of

rae that had been at-

less than 20 years ago occurred the first

curs

THE SECOND.

d
1-| ing to the laws of man, run his course

ly hovering over a small patch of with Wesley Johnson. To-day In ac-
Finally, to grat-| cordance with the Divine malediction,
tloalty, the Squire repaired to| Whosoever sheddeth man’s blood, by

way shall bis blood be shed,’ Wesley,
Viresod has paid the penalty of his
tacting the attention of the buzzards | crime and gone to meet his reward for
wad OW which they were feeding.‘ Tm-

the deeds done in the body.

dhe court records of Ohio searcely
furnish an instance of a crime so horri-
ble in its details as that one, the news
of which broke upon the ears of the peo-
ple of Henry and adjoining counties on
the morning of Oet. 25th, 1883.
Onthe evening of Oct. 23rd, George
Williams, ayoung man full of hope,
aid happy in hishumble home with
his wife and one child, had finished the
labors of the day and, before retiring
for the night, bad gone to the barn,
perhaps to feed his horses. Little did
he think ashe left that loving wife,
preparing for bed, that within a few
moments eternity would dawn upon
both of them. Little did that fond
father and Joving mother apprehend
that within a few moments that inno-
cent babe, the tic that sealed the plight-
ed love of two young hearts, would be
anorphan. Little did George or Issa-
bell Williams anticipate that at that
moment acriminal, for the punishment
of whose crime, the laws of man are
totally inadequate, was lurking in the
darkness thirsting for their life’s blood.
Little did they think that at that mo-
ment a fiend more foul, more devilish,
than the vilest of the devil’s satellites,
awaited with upraised weapon ready to
send iterashing through the brains of
his victims. But the fatal moment was
athand. Atone fell blow George Will-
jams was laid Jow with his brains ooz-
ing out at the ugly wound in his head.
But here the work of this more than
devil in human shape was only begun.
carrying in his hand the weapon, reek
Ing with the blood of the husband, he
proceeded to the house and withalmost
unequaled fiendishness drove the ax to
its eye Into the head of that young wife
and mother as she was about to retire
for the night.
For two daysafter the committal of
this brutal murder the ghastly corpses
lay putrefying in pools of their own
blood, unknown of man suve by him
whose foul land had strack them down,

hanging In Henry county. To-day oc-

To-day hath the sun ofjustice, accord-

When the news of Johison’s arrest

became known an d populace
clamored for his blo: it is not
improbable that had een for the

extraordinary precautions of the offi-
cials of this and Fulton county, . Judge
Lynch would have revenged, so far ag
possible, this awful murder and the
gallows cheated out of its own.

The arrest was made by Sheriff Blaire
of Wauseon. At the time of the arrest,
nor for that matter, at no time since,
has Johnson manifested any great de-
gree of uneasiness. pie Sage ,

A day or two after the arrest he gave
to an interviewer the following brief
account of himself, which tallies very
poorly with the volume of evidence ac-
umulated against him.

“My name is Wesley Johnson. I was bora in
Fulton County and am 23 yeara of age. I was mar
ried about two months ago in Fulton county. My
wife etill ives with her parente. I have not lived
with her, but worked around on farms by the day.
Thave heen employed most of the Aime by John
Williams, who owned the farm on which Gcorge
Willlains ved, I worked on that farm and took
dinner at Gcorge Williams’ houre, séveral times.

Lou Myers, Johnson's Reputed Wife.

his maiden effort before a jury he oecu-
pied thelr attention for nearly three
hours. He was followed by Messrs,
Knupp and Hubbard, counsel for the
defensé, who made eloquent.appeals for
justice'and mercy, but it seems that
the minds ofthe jury were already con-
vineed-and. the annestu of ths cremenrt

life was published in the Loledo isco on
Fybruary 13th, the day the sentence of
death was passed upon him:

Capt. Williams, an vncle of the man so foully
murdered by Weeley Johnson, this morning gave
your correspondent brief history of the early life
and home training of the young man who Jast night
was pronounced guilty of murder. He ssid:

{ knew the parents of Weslcy Johnson forty ycara
ago. In going to Wauseon I had to pass their house.
The old man had many of the characteristics of Wea-
ley. He wae hard-hearted snd it was said dishon-
est. The old man was very ignorant and hada
mania forrcligion. Often, in paseing the house!
sow the childreu—and there were # great family of
them—out on the roadaide and abont the house,
stark naked, nota stitcn of anything to hide their
nakedness. When arriving at Wauseon I would
find the old max dressed in broadcloth and s plug
hat. Ithink complaint was made and Johnson was
threatened with summary vengoarce if he didn’t
clothe his children and keep them in the housc,

“The boy Wesley grew up a thief, and it became
#0 generally known that if any one missed anything
they went to Ed. Johnson (that's the preacher) and
told him Wesley had been stealing again. Ed.
would goto Wesley and accuse bim of the theft.
Wesley would generally acknowledge it and give ap
the property, or give it to Ed. to restore, Then be
would be # good boy for awhile, when he would
break away again and be as bad an even” Be
couldn't help it)" satd the narrator, “It wae born ia

> ¢

Whew dn eal k

Alesvp he? kia feel'nee for deordsand hia wife

| _

while eloquent and worthy of note, hud
little or no effect. The closing argu-
ment was made by Judge Hagg, for the
State. Of him the reader needs but the
name of the speaker to know that
it was one fraught with logical reason-
ing. After the closing of the argu-
ments Judge Moore charged the jury,
giving them a fair and impartial outline
of their duty, and the points to be con-
sidered by them. They retired at 20
minutes of 5 o’clock on the evening of
Feb. 12, and at 5:30 reported to the
Court that they had reached a verdict.
Shortly after they were returned to
the court room and the verdict was
read:
GUILTY AS CHARGED IN THE INDICT-
MENT. j
During the rendition of the verdict
the stillness of death pervaded the court
room. The six days of breathless sus-
pense was now ended and the vast aud-
fence repaired to their homes to await
the day of

Isabella Williams, one of the Victims,

and I qnit work on Wednesday and went to Ken-
dalville to soo my wife who was visiting there. She
paesed me on the road, going to Delta. I went to
Toledo and came back as far as Wauseon Thaorsday,
When I got off thu train the sheriff arrested me asa
witness in the barn burning affair, ond about noon
I told him there was no use holding me on that, aat
bad told him all that I kuew abont it. THe then said
Iwas held for murder. I did not ask him who was
murdered, but Mr. Barnes told me last night that it
wae George Williams aud wife. That was the first [BR
I knew of the murder.’* *

Johnson waived a preliminary exam-

THE SENTENCE,
which was pronounced on Saturday
Feb. 16., and which is embodied in the
Court records of Fel. 12th and 16th,
and which are as follows:

This day came the jury heretofore

ination before the justice and his case
went directly to the grand jury which
was in session at the time of the killing. |
On Thursday Nov, 1, two indictments ]
for murder in the first degree were
brought in against him. He was taken
to the jail where he was kept in close
confinement until February 5th, 1884, |
when 1

empaneled and sworn, and said defend-
ant, Wesley Johnson, being brought
into open court in custody of the sheriff
his counsel coming and the prosceuting
attorney being present on behalf of the
State of Ohio, and the trial thereof pro-
leecded. The defendant, by his counsel,
concluded his argument, and the final
argument of the State was concluded,
and the enld Jury was then charged by
| the Court and retired in: custody of the
sheriff, to deliberate. And the said de-
fendant, Wesley Johnson, being present
in open Court, and his counsel also be-
ing present, as weil ns the prosecuting
laltorney in behalf of the State of Obio,
land thereupon came the said jury here-
|tofore empaneled, sworn and charged
| as aforesaid, and on their oatha do say

ied

His TriAt. COMMENCED, 4
From the time of the Indictment to
the opening of the January term of |
court the, trial of Johnson was
looked forward to with much’ interest
and when at last the day came for eall-
ing the case the large auditorium of the
court house was litterally packed with
enger listeners. Never before in the
history of Henry county, or its courts, j

te «
“When he etole Kanffrrau’s watch be didn't do It
because he wanted the watch, but that irresistable
mania made him take it, His brother, as usual,
prevailed on him to return it. He gave it to hie
brother, asking him, as he always did, to take it
back. The people at that time thought it abont
time to check his career of crime, 80 he was arrest-
ed, prosecuted, and rent to the penitentiary for a
year. Bince he came out he avoided company, and
was in the habit of prowling around alone.
“That he was cruel beyond comprehension, ia
earned from one wh used to chum with him and
gave up bis company on account of the damnable
orucities he perpetrated. He would catch pigs or
cata, the latter he preferred because, as he said, they —
would move, and squirm, and yell more, take them
to the woods, tie them tan stake, and bnild a fire -
aroundthem., He wou'd then sit down and laugh
at their agonizing screams. This barbarity he de-
Nguted in, and when bis hoy companions refused to
go with him, he would yo off by himeelf and enjoy
Indian mimicry.” : 3
The above story has, in substance,
been corroborated by persons who hive
lived for years in the neighborhood. in
which Johnson was reared. A few days
ago a gentleman who has long resided
in the Johnson neighborhood, while in

rer Spared

conversation with a representative of
this paper, stated that after Johnson °

re({urned from the penitentiary he went
to the home of his sister, Mrs, Knight,
who received him with sisterly affection
and told him that if he would stop his
stealing he might come and Hve with
them. Jobnson promised falthfully to
reform, and established hfs home with

Trendwell furnished him with a large

onsuspicioned dy the peacible and

has there been such interest manifested | ‘that they do find the said defendant,

his sister: but he had net been with her

seer Ott tee stoamet


he Williams butchery, was attracted
) - ea number of buzzards continu-
i | ering over a small patth of
4 ar his house. Finally, to grat-
dy nm curiosity, the Squire repaired to
“be spot, expecting to find there the car
“ass of a cow or horse that had been at-
“acting the attention of the buzzards
“\nhd on which they were feeding. Tm-

ge bibs PROP Os te area peg ae Ce Bpou
and finding there the body a ian, the
| clothes torn and flesh decayed and eaten
from the bones

About two weeks before the findiug
| of this body two strangers ealled at the
house of James Crawford in Liberty
township and asked for something to
eat. One of the strangers carried in his
hand an ugly looking, stick thatcowas
‘neither cane nor elub, but’ which he
swung along a¥anodd sort of ornament.
The request for food was supplemented
with the explanation that they did not
have time to eat it there, but would
ike it with them and catiton the way;
they were buying cattle, were very
busy and eould not stop, ete. Mrs.
Crawford kindly did up some eatables
in a copy of the Napoleon NORTHWEST,
which had pasted upon one side a sub-
scription label bearing the name of Jas.
(rawford, and the men departed.

When the strangers had zone out of
sight, the circumstance of their call and
their actions, which would seem to have
‘been very usual aud commonplaces
worked upon the mind of Mr. Crawford,
_and the more he thought of it the more
suspicious he became. At that time
Crawford was the civil engineer of the
county, and an artist in the way of port-
rut drawing. So strangely did his
thoughts revert to the two travelers that
he made a pencilsketch of them, even to
the curiousstick oneof them had carried,
and so perfeet to life was the sketch that
it afterward served as the principle fac-
tor of identification in a very singular
ease,

Now it so happened that two men,
Job Cowell and William Treadwell, had
escaped ashort time before from a Mich-
iyan prison. | Treadwell had robbed a
bank in Adrian, of which he wes cash-
‘ter, and after arrest, trial, and convie-
tiou, Was incarcerated in prison. Cow-
cll wasa fellow prisoner, and the two
concocted a plan to escape, which they
suevessfully executed, and friends of
Treadwell furnished him with a large
som of money to aid him when once he
was faraway. They were known to
have started for this part of Ohio.

A copy of the NorTHWweEst containing
the description of the body found on
Bolan’s place found its way into the
hands of ‘Treadwell's friends, who im-
mediately took steps to determine
whether the body was not that of
Treadwell. The body was exhumed
and an investigation instituted which
| fesulted in establishing beyoud a doubt
the identity of the corpse as that of
Treadwell. Further search of the prem-
ises revenled the copy of the Norrit-
west with James Ciawford’s name

To-day hath the sun ofjustice, accord-
dng to the Jaws of man, run his course
with Wesley Johnson. To-day in ac-
cordance with the Divine malediction,
“Whosoever sheddeth man’s blood, by
man shall hix blood be shed,” Wesley
Johnson has paid the penalty of his
crime and gone to meet his reward for
the deeds done in the body.

Phe coun records of Ohio scarcely

shag rt ews AS UE Uy dads

umulated against him.

“My nameis Wesley Johr is born in
Fultou County and am 23 yee I was mar
ried abont two months ago in yunty. My

wife pti]! lives with her paren » not lived
with her, hut worked around on farys by the day.
Thave heen employed most of the\ime by John
Williams, who owned the farm ‘on which Ccorge
Williams lived. I worked on tbat farm and took
dinner at Gcorge Williams’ house several times.
Alwuve*e* kind fecl'ngs for Geormand hix wife

Lou Myers, Johnson's Keputed Wife,

his maiden effort before a jury he oecu-
pied their attention for uearly three
hours. He was followed by Messrs.
Knupp and Hubbard, counsel, for the
defensé, who made eloquent appeals for
justice and mercy, but it ‘seems that

the minds of the jury were already con-
vincedeand- the Annaats of tha rte@Gt

“The boy Wesley grew up @ thief, and it became
60 geLeeally known that If avy one miesed aaything
they went to Ed. Johuson (that's the preacher) and
told him Wesley had beea stealing again, Ed,
would gota Wesley and acouse bim of the theft.
Wealey would generally acknuwledge it end give wp
the property, or give itte Ed. to restorw, Thee be
would be # guod boy for awhile, whem be woald
Dreak away again and be ae bad as ety, Be
couldn't help it," watd the narrator, “It was bork ia

Pa wit - > .*

Hien On wedae w

awe

‘’ a i-** a 4
while eloquent and worthy of note, hud

eee
pA enne ter Mohn

When he stole Kanffrrau’s watch be didnt do It
because he wanted the watch, bn¢ that irresistable

furnish an instance of a crime so horri-
ble in its details as that one, the news
of which broke upon the ears of the peo-
ple of Henry and adjoining counties on
the morning of Oct. 25th, 1883.

Onthe evening of Oct. 23rd, George
Williams, a young man full of hope,
and happy in hishumble home with
his wife and one child, had finished the
labors of the day and, before retiring
for the night, had gone to the barn,
perhaps to feed his horses. Little did
he think as he left that loving wife,
preparing for bed, that within a few
moments eternity would dawn upon
both of them. Little did that fond
father and loving mother apprehend
that within a few moments that inno-
cent babe, the tie that sealed the plight-
ed love of two young hearts, would be
anorphan, Little did George or Issa-
bell Williams anticipate that at that
moment acriminal, for the punishment
of whose crime, the laws of man are
totally inadequate, was lurking in the
darkness thirsting for their life’s blood.
Little did they think that at that mo-
ment a fiend more foul, more devilish,
than the vilest of the devil’s satellites,
awaited with upraised weapon ready to
send iterashing through the brains of
his victims. But the fatal moment was
athand. Atone fell blow George Will-
janis was laid low with his brains ooz-
ing out at the ugly wound in his head.
But here the work of this more than
devil in human shape was only begun.
carrying in his hand the weapon, reek-
ing with the blood of the husband, he
proceeded to the house and withalmost
unequaled fiendishness drove the ax to
its eye into the head of that young wife
and mother as she was about to retire
for the night.

For two daysafter the committal of
this brutal murder the ghastly corpses
lay putrefying in pools of their own
blood, unknown of man save by him
whose foul hand had struck them down,
nnsuspicioned dy the peacible and
peace-loving citizens of that neighbor-
hood and unwatched save by the eye of
him who reigneth over all.

On the 2th of Oct., a neighbor, Mr.
Addison Crew, had occasion to go to
the house of Mr. Williams, and he it
was who first discovered the lifeless
body of George Williams lying in his
own blood in the barn. Tle it was who
first raised the ery of MCRDER that soon
echoed and re-echoed with its blood-
curdling efleet throught the counties of
Heury and Fulton. The neighborhood
heing aroused, a ¢rowd soon gathered
at the late residenceof Williams, where
asickening spectacle met their eyes.

Jabeled thereon, The peculiar shaped |
Club neticed in the bands of one of the |

There upon the floor of his own barn

ees Pa ;
Isabella Williams, one of the Victims.

and I quit work on Wednesday and went to Ken-
dalville to see my wife who was visiting there, fhe
passed me on the road, going to Delta.. I. went to
Toledo and came back as far as Wauseon Thursday.
When J got off thy train the sheriff arrested me asa
witness in the barn burning affair, ond about noon
I told him there was no nse holding me on that, as I
ha! told him all that I knew about it. He then said
Iwas held for murder. I did not ask him who was
murdered, but Mr. Barnes told me last night that it
was George. Williams and wife. That was the first
I knew of the murder.” * /

Johnson waived a preliminary exam-
ination before the justice and his case
went directly to the grand) jury which |
was in session at the time of the killing.
On Thursday Nov. 1, two indictments |
for murder in the first degree were
brought in against him. He was taken
to the jail where he was kept in close
confinement until February 5th, 1884,
when

His TRIAL CoMMENCED. :

From the time of the indictment to |
the opening of the January term of |
court the, trial of Johnson wax
looked forward to with much interest |
and when at last the day came for eall-
ing the case the large auditorium of the
court house was litterally packed with
eager listeners. Never hefore in the!
history of Henry county, or {ts courts, }
has there been such interest manifested |
in the progress of any criminal trial;
never before have the people of this
vicinity listened with such breathless |
suspense for the result of a trial, and]
perhaps never before has such & uni-
versal “amen” been said to the verdict
of any twelve as there was on Tuesday
evening, Fel. 12, 1884. : {

the killing of the Williams’, and the |
commencement of the trial, Prosecut-
ing Attorney Cehill spared no time or
expense in the preparation of the case |
and the calling of the case found, dim
ready with the mode of proceedure of |
the prosecution all outlined and mapp-
ed out. We give below the outline as §

lay the body of Williams with his head

taken from his menioranda:

{

During the time intervening between

little or no effect. ‘Che closing argu-
ment was made by Judge Hagg, for the
State. Of him the reader needs but the
name of the speaker to know that
it was one fraught with logical reason-
ing. After the closing of the argu-
ments Judge Moore charged the jury,
giving them a fair and impartial outline
of their duty, and the points to be con-
i} sidered by them. They retired at 20
minutes of 5 o’clock on the evening of
| Feb. 12, and at 5:30 reported to the
}| Court that they had reached a verdict.
Shortly after they were returned to
the court room and the verdict was
read: !
GUILTY AS CHARGED IN THE
MENT.
During the rendition of the verdict
the stillness of death pervaded the court
room, .The six days of breathless sus-
pense was now ended and the vast aud-
ience repaired to their homes to await
the day of

INDICT-

THE SENTENCE,
which was pronounced on Saturday
Feb. 16., and which is embodied in the
Court records of Feb. Izth and 16th,
and which are as follows:

This day came the jury heretofore
empaneled and sworn, and said defend-
ant, Wesley Johnson, being brought
into open court in custody of the sheriff

‘his counsel coming and the prosecuting
attorney being present on behalf of the

‘State of Ohio, and the trial thereof pro-

ea’ cecded. The defendant, by his counsel,

| concluded his argument, and the final

‘argument of the State was concluded,

‘and the said Jury was then charged by
the Court and retired in custody of the

sheriff, to deliberate. And the said de-
fendant, Wesley Johnson, being present
in open Court, and his counsel also be-
ing present, as weil as the ;prosecuting

attorney in belialf of the State of Ohio,
and thereupon came the said jury here-
tofore empaneled, sworn and charged

words and figures following, to-wit :

The State of Ohio, Henry County, SS.:
Ohio vs. Wesley Johnson.

D. 1884, twit, February 12, 1x#1, criminal action

iu the Indictment.
Asnanam M. Witrarp, Foremsv.”

for the defendant, Wesley Jolinson, the

as aforesaid, and on their oatha do say
that they do find the said defendant,
Wesley Johnson, “guilty of murder in
the first degree,” as charged in the in-
dictment, and said verdict is in the

State of
No. 95, in the Court of
Common Pleag of said County, January Term, A-

“We, the jury, find the d-fendant, Wesley John-
son, guilty of murder {nu the Firet Degree, a6 charged

Thereupon, at the request of counsel

Court ordered that the jury be polled,
and upon each juror being called by
name and inquired of if the verdict just
i read was his verdict, each for himself

mania made him take it, His brother, as usual,

prevailed on him to return it.. He gave it to hie

brother, aeking him, a& he always did, to take it

back. The people at that time thought it aboot

time to check bis career of crime, 80 he was arrest

ed, prosecuted, and sent to tho penitentiary for a

year. Since he came out he avoided company, and

was in the habit of prowling around alone.

“That he was crue! beyond comprehension, ia

earned from one who used to chum with him and

gaye up bis company on account of the damnable

orucities he perpetrated. He wonld catch pige or
cate, the latter be preferred because, as he said, they
would move, and squirm, and yell more, take them
to the woods, tic them tu a ntake, and build a fire
around them. He wou'd then sit dowo and laugh
at their agonizing screams, This barbarity he de-
lighted in, and when bis hoy companions refused to
go with him, he would yo off by himself and ‘enjoy
Indian mimicry.” ese

The above story has, in substance,
been corroborated by persons who hive
lived for years in the neighborhood in
which Johnson was reared. A few days
ago a gentleman who has long resided
in the Johnson neighborhood, while in

The Baby whichthe Murderer Spared

conversation with a representative of
this paper, stated that after Johnson
returned from the penitentiary he went
to the home of his sister, Mrs, Knight,
who received him with sisterly affection
And told him that if he would stop bis
stealing he might come and live with
them. Johnson promised faithfully to
reform, and established hts home with
his sister; but he had not been with her
buta short time until the dominant
faculty for stealing attested itself, and
he would earry off any article he could
get his hands upon, even stole hiw sis-
ter’s veils, and his brother-in-law’s
coat. He finally became 80 intollerant
that his sister Was compelled to drive
+{him from her roof.

The same gentleman, in speaking of
Johnson's revengeful disposition, stated
that only a short time hefore the mur-
der of Williams he got into a little die
»| pute with his brother Fa, who wae at
that time hullding n new house and
barn, and threatened to burn both the
house and barn na soon ag they wer
This threat so tereified Fd,

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NO. 14.

THE CURTAIN FALLS ON THE
LAST ACT.

The Murderer of George and Isabella
Williams Meets His Doom on the
Scaffold To-Day.

The Trap Sprung at 10:00 and in 12
Minutes Johnson is Pronounced
Dead.

He Confesses His Crimes to His Broth-
er and Spiritual Advisor.

Napoleon a Mass of Living Humanity
- To-day—No Violence Attempted.

‘He Meets Grim Death Without # Tre-
by sek yee mor.

His Last Words: “God Help Me!”
Sherifi Aller's Demeanor Under the

, Trying Circumstances Cool and
gaat ae Collected,

“> Murder of the Williams Family.

S00 ' 9H FIRST HANGING.
“Yn the latter part of July, 1864, the at-
2entlon of ‘Squire Bolan, who lived in
Sreedom township, near the scene of
he Williams butehery, was attracted
ty a lurge namber of buzzards continu-
ly hovering over a small pateh of
yomls near his house, Finally, to grat-
fxr byia $ . ts

eorrrt lhe Hage CMe p phen rece

George Williams, one ofthe Victims.

drawing by Mr. Crawford was also
brought into requisition, the indentity
of the dead man as one of those who
had called at the house of Mr. Crawford
was established beyond a doubt. Cow-
ell was the other and no doubt had
slain his companion. Detectives were
puton his track and in less than a
month he was captured in his father’s
house in Sandusky. He was brought
to Napoleon, indicted, tried, found
guilty, and sentenced to be hanged
August 11th, 1864. The day came, the
scaffold was erected in a small inclosure
on the south side of the jail. At 12:20
the doomed man, accompanied by his
spiritual advisor, was led to the seaffold.
The death warrant was read. Sheriff
Barnes asked Cowell whether he had
anything to say, to which Cowell re-
plied:

“No, sir, ] am guilty.”

The Sheriff then asked him whether
he wished to be understood as guilty of
the crime of which he stood convicted.
He replied:

“Yes, sir, my punishment is just.”

The trap was sprung at 16 minutes
before 1 o'clock, in 11 minutes Cowell
was prpnounced dead, Thus a little
less than 20 years ago occurred the first
hanging in Henry county. To-day oc-

curs
THE SECOND,

To-day hath the sun ofjustice, accord-
ing to the Jaws of man, run his course
with Wesley Johnson. To-day in ae-
cordance with the Divine malediction,

way . Fnsiststnndo<« tare 3* ’

NAPOLEON, HENRY CO., OHIO, MAY 29, 1884.

EXIT JOHNSON]

lay the ghastly corpseof Mra. Williams,
while in a bed in the same room lay the
almost famished child of the victims to
this horrible crime. Bek

To cut down that young father and
mother without a second’s warning was
cold-blooded butchery, and to leave
that innocent babe to starve and die
was cruelty beyond the power of man
to describe. 9 oie

No sooner had the first’ excitement
subsided than the question, “‘who did
this awful deed?’ began to be asked.
Hardly had this question been” given
utterance, when suspicion fell upon

WESLEY JOHNSON, --
a young man in the employ of Mr. John
Williams and who it will be remember-
ed by those who have followed the his-
tory of the murder, and _ trial- of the
prisoner, was noticed to return to his
home at a later hour than ugual on the
night of the murder, and was also no-
ticed to act strangely that night and on
the day following the murder, and be-
fore the day was'over informed his em-
ployer of his intention of going, that
afternoon, to Wauseon and taking
the train for Kendalville,Ind, where he
said his wife was visiting. The nervous
actions of Johnson while in Wauseon
when he first went there on Wednes-
day, aud after the discovery of ‘the
murder on Thursday, excited the suspi-
cion of the people there. He was shad-
ed for a while and then placed -.- ‘
UNDER ARREST.

When the news of Johzson’s arrest
became known an excited populace
clamiored for his blood, and it is not
improbable that had it not been for the
extraordinary precautions of the offi-
cials of this and Fulton county, Judge
Lynch would have revenged, so far as
possible, this awful murder and the
gallows cheated out of its own.

The arrest was made by Sheriff Blaire
of Wauseon, At the time of the arrest,
nor for that matter, at no time since,
has Johnson manifested any great de-
gree of uneasiness. . f

A day or two after the arrest he gave
toan interviewer the following brief
account of himself, which tallies very
poorly with the volume of evidence ac-

umulated against him.

“My pame ia Wesley Johneon. I was born in
Fulton Connty and am 24 yeara of 686 I was mar
ried abont two months ago in Fultou county. My

3 The time of the killing.

4 The absence of Johnson from his
place of employment.

5 The arrest of Johnson and _ his
identification.

6 The missing wares.

7 The identification of the breastpin.

8 The finding of the watch, pocket-
book and fountain pen.

9 Identification of the watch, pocket-
book and fountain pen.

10 Expert testimony.

11 The amount of money Johnson
had in his possession at the time he
left his employer.

12 The amount of moncy spent at
Wauseon after Oct. 23, 1883.

This outline was followed step by
step and, after establishing the killing
and venue, or place or county in which
the act was committed, according to the
prescribed forms of law, the name of
Johnson was hardly mentioned without
carrying with it some chain or link of
evidence implicating him more deeply
in this the blackest of crimes. The ex-
amination of witnesses, of which there
were some sixty, was concluded on Sat-
urday morning,Feb. 9th, and court was
adjourned until Monday morning the
lith when the arguments of counsel
were commenced, Prosecuting Attorney
Cahill opening on the part of the State
withan exhaustiveand convincing re-
view of the evidence. In this almost

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Lou Myers, Johnson's Reputed Wife.

his maiden effort before a jury he occu-
pied thelr attention for nearly three

wife still lives with her parente. I have not Ilved

hours. He was followed by Messrs.

ed to the jail of the said county, in ces-
tody of the Sheriff.

Court adjourned until 9 o’clock to-
morrow morning,

The State of Ohio vs. Wesley Johnson. No, 95, lo-
dictment for Murder in the First Degree, Entry
of Saturday, February 16th, A, D. 1684.

This day came the Prosecuting Attorney, on be
half of the State of Ohio, the snid defendant, Wesley
Johneon, being brought into open Court, in cnetody
of the Sheriff, his counsel slso coming, and there-
upon the said defendant, Weeley Johneon, by hie
counsel, fled a motion for s new trial, for reasons
therein stated, which said frotion was read in open
court by the counsel for Wesley Johnson, and said
motion was submitted to the Court for Ita declaion
withont argument, and the said Court thereepen
overruled said motion for a new trial, to which ruling
and decision of the said Court, the said deferdant,
Werley Johnson, by the counsel, excepted. And
tkereupon the Court prenounced the sentence of the
law upon the said Wesley Johnson: “That the said
defendant, Wesley Johnson, be taken thence to the
jailof Henry County, and therein confined in soli
tary confinement, until the 29th day of May, A. D.
1884, and that on that day he be taken thence by the
Sherif tothe place of exeeution, provided by bim
according to the law, and there, between the hours
of 10 o’clock A. M. and 2 o'clock P. M., of that day,
he be hanged by the neck natil he is dead. That he
pay the costa of this prosecution, and execution is
awarded therefor.” :

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY.

From all that can be learned of John-
son’s history, his early training was
of a nature well calculated to prepare
him for murder and the gallows. Born
of a viscious nature, his surroundings
in early life'were of a character caleu-
luted to develop the one dormant fae-
ulty, brutality. :

The following brief sketch of hisearly
life was published in the Toledo Bee on
February 13th, the day the sentence of
death was passed upon him:

Capt. Willams, an uncle of the man so fonlly
murdered by Werley Johnson, this morning gave
your correspondent a brief history of the early life
and home training of the young man who last night
was prouounced guilty of murder. He ssid:

U knew the parents of Wesley Johnson forty ycare
ago. In going to Wauseon I had to pass their house.
The old man had many of the characteristics of Wee-
ley, Ho was hard-hearted and [t was said dishoa-
est. The old man was very ignorant and hada
mania forrcligion. Often, in passing the housel
saw the children—and there were a great family of
them—out on the roadaide and about the house,
stark naked, not a stitch of anything to hide their
nakednces. When arriving at Wauseon I would
find the old max dreseed in: hroadcloth and @ plug
hat. Ithink complaint was made and Johneon wae
threatened with summary vengoance if he didn’t
clothe his children and keep them in the house.

“The boy Wesley grew up a thief, and it became
80 generally known that if apy one miseed saything
they went to Ed. Johuson (that’s tho preacher) and
told him Wesley had beeo stealing agaia. Ed.
woald goto Wesley and acciee bim of the theft.

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Beaver Ohio 45613
Aug. 25; 1982

Watt Espy

Law Library

Box 6205

University, Al. 35486

Dear Mr. Espy,

I located the death records on William Jones, Luke Jones, and
John W. Jackson. This is the information I got from them,
William Jones, age 25,; occupation, miner; born Jackson Co.,
lived in Coalton, Jackson Co., Ohio; hanged for the murder of |
Anderson Lackey,

Luke Jones, age 23; occupation, miner; born in Jackson Co.,; lived
in Coalton, Jackson Co., Ohio; hanged for the murder of Anderson
Lackey. '

Both of tthese deaths were recorded as havin,, taken place on
Feb, 29, 1884, They were both white men,

John W. Jackson, age 22; born Jackson Co.,; occupation, peddler;.
lived Jackson Co.; race, white. Record didn't state the crime.

I couldn't find anything on Laban Stevens,

We recently acquired some old newspapers covering the 1930/s,
From June 4 (when Ray Freeman and Herbert Thacker committed their
crime) till Nov. 2 ( when the 2 men were executed) the newspapers
were full of articles covering the trial,:eta,

From these articles , I have tried to extract the infromation you
want. mt

Ray Freeman and Herbert Thacker on June 4, 1934 brutally beat the
allegedly wealthy Stephen Huntley, age 74, to death with shotgun
stocks in the backyard of his farm in Milton township. Two days
later they were arrested and confessed to Sheriff W. P. Turner.
The clothing Thacker wore when the crime was committed was the
chief clue leading to the arrest, All Freeman and Thacker got
from Huntley was $23.

They were tried in July and Thacker was quickly convicted but it
was necessary to give Freeman two trials before he was sentenced

to the chair,

The execution of Thacker and Freeman marked the first time that
persons were ever sentenced to the chair from Jackson County.
Their deaths also marked the first death sentence of any kind
that had been imposed by local courts eince 51 years ago when

the Jones boys were hanged.


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Jackson County Genealogical Sociéty

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Jackson, Ohio 45640

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\ Watt Espy
| Law Library
Box 6205

Dear Mr. Espy,

I have checked all the sources I could find for executions prior
to 1885 in Jackson County. ' There doesn't seem to be any that
you don't already have, namely; John ww, Jackson, hanged ay ll,
1883; Luke and William Jones, brothers, both hanged on Feb. 29,
1884; Laban Stevens, hanged on May 23, 1884,

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If there is anything else I can check for you, I'll try to do so.

Sincerely, |

Mrs, Alice Lauderback
secretary

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the tall prisoner,
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night Lindsey was shot!” he ex-
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‘somewhere. We _ weren’t ‘ thinking
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Jones picked the diner first, but that
‘fell through. When he saw the cafe,
he said it was his meat. You know
the rest.” : .

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adjoining office, handed him a paper
with a telephone number. -

“A number in Springfield she called |

twice on the 4th,” the detective ex-
plained. “Took it off the hotel’s
switchboard records.”

Cavolo’s eyes narrowed. “Might be
Hanlon she called down there,’ he
reasoned. ‘“Springfield’s only a short
hop from Jeffersonville. Keep after
her, Bill, while I see what happens
with this number.”

He got. his answer from Springfield
an hour later, “The number’s listed

to a relative of Everett Jones,” the
| chief of. police stated over. the phone.

: “And that boy’s as tough as they
come.’

The officer proceeded to prove it by.
sketching a criminal record - that «=

reached back into the ’20’s. A lanky
man of 33,. Jones spent most of his
youth in various industrial schools, In
1931 he escaped from the Mansfield,
Ohio, reformatory while serving a
larceny sentence. He was nabbed in
Denver. in a stolen car.

“Jones was at his relative’s home
here on the 4th,” the Springfield
official continued. “A husky kid
named Walter Barnes with him.
Barnes got the calls from Cleveland.

They disappeared in the Buick the -

next morning.”

After arranging for Jones’ “police
photograph to be rushed to him,
Cavolo hung up and faced Betty Ful-
more again.

“No use holding out any longer,”
he said, not unkindly. “Tell: us where
to find Walter Barnes and his pal
Jones, and you'll help save them from
being run into the ground. That'll
happen sooner or later,.Maybe they’ll
try shooting it out and—”

The blonde moaned. “Don’t kill
them,” she’ whispered weakly.

It came without further prompting
—the information thaf the fugitives

had a West Side hideout. An expen-.
sive, second-floor apartment; a virtual

arsenal.

Then she had more to tell. earfully,
she admitted the theft of the $400
from her former. employer,

“Kverything’s' so mixed up,” ‘she

‘sabbed hopelessly. “I took the money —
for Walt because I love him. I still.

do. I don’t want him dead now!”
Within a matter of minutes:a squad

‘of detectives -had converged on the.

gunmen’s address, But the apartment
wasn’t raided then. Instead, Haase
put it under a tight surveillance, de-
ploying heavily-armed aides: around
the building. .. ~

“If the pair’s inside,” he pointed
out, “they’ll. be set for us. And if
they’re away, they. may show. up
before, long. Whichever it is, we'll
let them make the next move.”

However, dawn broke with ab-
solute calm over the West Side. There
was nothing to indicate the gunmen’s
whereabouts. At 9:30, after a. con-
ference with. -Icenhower, | Cavolo
issued. a cryptic order to Hasse: “Hit
the apartment!”

_. Three husky, fearless. detectives _
-| promptly kicked in the door, Guns |.
"| drawn, Mey swept through an un-— c

furnished suite of rooms. Nobody
there. Nor was an “arsenal” in evi-
dence.

Haase growled, “Those two mon-
keys must’ve lit out just ahead of us
last night!”

“Luck’s still right at their heels,”
fumed Cisna.

So it seemed for several more
minutes. Then, suddenly, two men
veered around a corner a block away,
froze in their tracks. Patrolman
Charles Nunn, guarding the street;
saw, them the same instant they’d
sighted him. A “Mutt-and-Jeff” pair.

He started forward, moving fast,

“his service revolver out of its holster.

But the draw was.a snade too late.
Whirling, the two ran back up. the
street.
“Halt!” the patrolman shouted, then

hurried laced a dullet after them.

They darted across the street, leaped
into a sedan parked at. the curb with
its motor. idling. ©

A volley of shots rang out as: the
car roared off, picking up speed with

‘every turn of the wheels. Two blocks

ahead, Patrolman Bill Farrell heard
the gunfire as he waited out a red
light in ‘his prowl car. The sedan
passed him with a rush. Farrell cut
in after it, his siren screaming.

Five minutes later, the chase was
all over. It came to a skidding climax
in a dead-end street,. with the sedan
pinned against a building. The two
occupants stepped: out, blinking in-
nocently at Farrell’s .45.

-“What’s wrong,” drawled the man
who had. been behind the wheel. He
was six feet tall.. .

Farrell didn’t reply. He waved the
captives’ hands. over their heads,
frisked' them, Both were unarmed.
But the rear seat of the sedan yielded
a .38 revolver and a stack of ammuni-
tion, -

Whisked to headquarters, the tall

prisoner calmly ‘admitted he was .

Everett Jones, He grinned, nodded to
his younger companion.
“This’s Walt . Barnes, gentlemen,”

he said, lounging back in. a chair.

“Why quibble ‘about it? We made a
bum try with that car this morning.

‘Swiped it. last night when we were
tight. We’re ready: to take the rap on

it. 2°"
“Keep on,” Cavolo: urged. “There's

more to tell, you know. About the ©

Piqua drugstore job’and Bob Lind-
sey’s murder in Jeffersonville.”
Jones’ lips twisted in a sneer. Across
the room, Walt Barnes laughed de-
risively.
“You can’t pin a bum rap onus,”
the youth scoffed. “We loaned that

‘Buick to a couple of bozos on the’3rd.

They brought it back to us in Spring-
field and said they were red-hot. We

figured they’d bumped the old guy:
-when we read about it in the papers.”

That was the claim they both clung

. to in- the hours that followed. Mean-

time, Icenhower had placed a call to
Dale Holman in Jeffersonville. The

cook reached . Cleveland - eb font
- night. ie .

Both: Jones end ‘Barnes were im-
ediately paraded through a <police

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ait : ber. Would to God Ohio had such a|‘‘he would get ‘up early Monday
S.cg es eluding, for one year, & PO} oy aber for Charles King.’? mornings to do the family washings
ae. ia Sas Rintory'ot 0 ments, denied the correctness of bread. : : ;
: King’s confession and the authent:. ‘*The children loved him. We all
* i, the afternoon neighbors found EL Suge
ve Mother Collapsed ‘I cannot ‘see how he could have!
bodies of Mrs, King 2od her four] 1. Governor White and his|done sach a thing for which he was |
fee | SNe eee Paine started a | bated King’s fate, Mrs. Kosa King, Myers, whose talk eontinued for
Uetober 24, 1929—Lin.a police re-
\ potted King cen at the home of a) = —
- Wetober 27, 1930—Police arrested em
King at Fairport Harter, - Ohio, ‘ ;
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confessed the killings to police, New style covers, 3-Pe.
| Placed On Tiial . ; Floor Lamp and stand, E
preliminary. examination. in, mn-)
Nicipal court and wap held fo the} | ing the approval of shoe End Table, Easy
ni Terms “eeennnen------X
December 1,.1930—HKing went t3). : '
trial im common. pleas court on an}. ’ everywhere. _
der of his son, Robert. ' + <3
~ December 5, 1930—A jury found
without mercy, © | ° me
«The murder verdtct and the subse- |
in the electric chair was followed hr
a vigorous effort by King’s *attor-
“neys Mare Fiehrer and Paul Ba-}
tlen, appointed. by the state as de-
_at appeals, They lost there. They al-
‘so were unsuccessful’ in their et-
—» " Court. | Their appeals—two of then
‘. . =-to the governor, were futile,
-} "Ae King’s body reposed here tu- |
ooo day, police reconstructed the trag: |-
“Early on the morning of Wed-4
“ nesday October 23, 1929, neighbors
the five King children. ‘The neighbor
id no: attention, “believing. ’ the |:
ache, ree
Several hours before—at. 11
> eequent testimony tended to show}.
—King was seen walking along Bal-)~
~ his home. King told a friend he was
sin the dumps’? and intended to}
+>» his mother resided, ae
“’ = » At 9:30 o’clock Wednesday morn-
eee | “> house in which the King family |’
‘+>. lived, called to collect the rent, Re-| Pils aias banc Wend
op the door, be left. LP For anagem Pe
is ‘eon, Mr. Ce Net pit en geet
” King home. The boy smelled gzs ules
~~ and ealled hia r-other. The tragedy

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atzention because of the gruesome} i 45 death in a gas filled eham- “Often times,’? Myers recalled,
ice seareh in. all parts cf the coun-| sn, defense, in closing its argu-| “‘Other times. he would bake
Wefober 23, 1928—At 4:90 o'clock eity of the farewell note. loved ‘Chariie.
eons dead. or dying: ta, theix home pardon’ ‘board, ‘for 10 minutes de- indieted,”” ” :
nitinn-wide seatch for King. -
mother. ‘ Son
| where he was workirg at bis trade! 9-Pc- Livin tj
—barbering. * : PR Tst 8
| October 27, 1930 King broke and | ~ STYL&v SH OES QUALITY Mt apa -
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fa October 30, 1930—King waived | The new spring shade that is meet- Bridge Lamp and stan
grand jury without bond. conscious women,
.  indietment charging him. with mur- e
King guilty of first degree murder,
quent sentence of the man to death
neys ‘9 obtain a new: trial, Attor- g
) 2 * fenders, took the case to the court |—
forts bdfore the: Ohio Supreme
Reconstruct Tragedy
“edy. for which he was convicted.
heard the cries of a child—one of
Ss ‘child was suffering from a tooth-
o'clock on the previous night, aub-
timore and Ohio railroad tracks near
take a freight train to Lima—where
‘ny, Henry Heinlein, who owned the oe G an Satie sh . $3.9 : i oR
~~ eeiying. no response after rapping; | ‘careles ¢ert
sea 4:15 /o’elock, the same after-| he Bre St
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produced here by courtesy of that:
paper.

Although he knew he had but 80
hours to live, Irmil Kittrells waa
calm, composed, and unafraid when I
talked with him in death row at Ohio
Penitentiary Friday.

When Guard Emory Slagle, former
Greenfield police officer, unlocked
the door to Kittrell’s cel), the Hills-
boro slayer stepped out into the nar-
row aisle that runs along tn front
lot the death: cells and J talked vin
him through: fine wire mesb part!-|
tion that runs from floor to ceiling in|
‘front of death 10w. |
After introducing myself and my’
purpose, J asked him if he knew any-|
one in Greenfield.
“Oh, yes, ‘I know lots of people|
there,” he replicd. “I know Roy Wil-|
liams, the ‘barber, and his father.
‘I've been to.thelr house lots of’
time. I] know Leonard Johnson and
Arthur Jenkins, and I used to know
oer. Fishback. I did some work for
‘him.

At this péint he asked me to re-
, beat my purpose and I told him I!
was, going to write of my visit with
him in the Greenfield Republican.

“Newspapers are funny things,” he:

‘said, kindly but firmly. “I know how
they doctor things up. I could tell you
ia lot aout_what 1 think, but yoa’d
| just doctor it up, so I guess I'l] just
keep what I think, and {| guess that
lis all.”

He half turned, as if he was ‘going
to walk away.

I pretended not to have noticed his
'ac.ions, nor to have heard what he

said, and called attention to how we),
he looked. He replied that he ree |
ceived fine attention and that if a

-man tended to his own business he
received fine care and treatment
there.

1 asked Kittrells if he knew any
Hillsboro newspaper men. He said he
knew ‘Mr. Barrere,” that he “helped
plas@@imers fine, new, modern home,”
and said, “He is a fine gentleman.”

Clean-cut, soft voice, careful in his
selections of words, the body of aud
athlete, I told him he certainly did
not have the appearance of a crim-
inal at all. (And I meant it. It was
no hard task to picture many good
qualities in this young ma.)

~ Blames Unemployment
My words seemed to touch hin.
His eyes, which in 80 hours were to
be closed never to see again, dropped
for a second. His lips, which would
soon be sealed for all eternity, seem-
ed to tremble. But it was only for

a second. He braced up and calmly,

vet most sincerelv said:

Twas Dever-aroway,
good jobs, in Dayton and other placea.
And if I could have obtained work
last year“I «would: never have Yeon
here. I was absolutely refused work
on the C. W. A. I knew Matthew
Crabtree and Wilbur Wright. I used
to work tor Crabtree at the chair
fuctory. I went to ths C. W. A. head-
quarters time after time and each
time was asked if I was married. 1}
wasn’t married, so I didn’t get any
work. Why, I only govt three days
work the whole time. A single man
has obligations the same as a mar-
ried man.”

Fearful that I would. get the im-
pression that he was finding fault, he
was quick to add that he blamed no
one. He said he guessed they didn’t
have work for him, and there was
no use to cry now.

Asked if he had had many visitors.
he said his sister visited him, and
added that she would come anytime
he wanted her. He said lots of people
wanted to come, Jiut he was trying
“to take this thing calm” and _ he
didn't think it would do anyone any
good for them to come.

Considered Trial Unfair

In reply to my question if he
thought he had had a fair trial, he
said he most certainly had not. He
snid in the first place the Hillsboro
police officers weren’t fair in telling
him his victim was not badly hurt
‘to get him to confess. He saidif his
‘cause had been heard by a jury he
{would have receiv2d mercy, and that
if he had the money to carry the case
up to a higher court he would get
merey there.

, “Ill go to my grave saying I don't.
‘belleve the lick killed him,” he told,
| me. He said if Mitchell had been a
man ten years younger he would have |
withstood the blow. “I most certainly:
did not mean to kill him,” he said,
j“but I was drinking. I know that is |
no excuse.” |

He spoke most highly of Sherif
‘Howard Miller and of Judge McBride. |
‘He referred to Judge McBride as one |
ot “the most noble men in Highland |
county,” and said ne wished him SUC: |
cess in his campaign this fall. He
said if he were able to he would vote
for him in a minute. He also was
most appreciative of the efforts At-
torneys H. 8S. Pulse and Burch Hug-
gins had put forth in his behalf.

“I was born on the seventh day of
the seventh month of 1907,” he tole
me {n answer to my question about
his age. He said his mother died wher
he was 18 months old, Speaking of
his home life, he said:

“TJ had a very wonderful home—a
splendid home... just as good as
anybody. Don’t "you say anything
against-my family.” He said his fath- |
er and sister lived in Hillsboro and
he had # brother in Cincinnati, |

His last trip to Greenfield was madc |
|Cbristmas week, when he delivered
fruit to Greenfield groceries for Lisi-
‘ando Bros., Hillsboro fruit merchants,


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afternoon ‘and presented their case,
Prosecuting’ Attorney Gorge W. Me
(Dowe}]' and George LL. Garrett
presented the State at the hearing.
~ argued that no testimony
had been introduced at the trial of
‘Kittrells which would tend to
that he had ““purposely”

iMitchell and charged that thé court
jhad erred In find of
,murder in the lL. 8,
(Dougan, chairman of the board, -jn-
| tervened and stated that it was not
‘fn the Province of the board to act
on the , Judiciousness of the court
but to consider extenuating circum.
(oranone and newly found evidence..

| MeDowel} stated that Kittrells haa
‘been justly and fairly tried and had
‘been Sentenced to death under ‘the
Statutes of the state of Ohio and that
his guilt had been proven beyond any
reasonable doube.

Pulse made the plea that the
should not be electrocuted on
grounds that he had no. “purposely”
killed Mr. Mitchell, a partial reitera-
tion of Mr. Huggins’ statement. Ho
further said that he was satisfied
with the tria] in every de‘ail but the
thought life im-
proper penalty to
He cited the Harry Mag‘})
murder case and the William Hughes
murder case, for which ani
John Boggs and Willard Brucks,
spectively,

youth

in the penitentiary, Stating that borh
were more vicious crimes than the
one in question,

Clemency Is Refused .

Garrett's Statements were that Kit-
trells had had a fair and impariia!
trial and that since three capahle
judges had concurred in the finding
he saw no reason for executive jn.
tervention,

‘Ihe members
White’s Secretary: took the ease under
i promised to have an
Mr. Huggins went
to Columbus Monday to make further
Pleadings for clemency but executive
intervention was declined y
of execution was refused.

Kittrells was convicted March 14,
three weeks almost to thé minute
after his attack on Mr, Mitchell. The
negro attacked the aged Civil War
veteran in front of of
Judge N. Wal:
Nut Street on February 2} and rob-
bed him afte:
beating h
the last that he struck the aged m
| his fist but other Witnesses
n the trial that they believ-
ed Mitchell had been felled with a

heavier object. Mitchel] died February
24 in the Hillsboro Hospital,
Shortest Murder Trial
,  Walving the right to trial by jury

Te-

tho.

of the board and Gor.
pes at 2:00. A brother, Cecil, of Cin-

7 F b tes gros . 4
through his attorney, ‘Kittrells was
tried before. a tribunal of three
Judges, Judge McBride, Judge 4. M.
Rankin of Fayette County and Judge
, Charles Dechant of Warren County. |
iHestimony’ wag completed’ and a!
finding rendered on the first day go
W4s sentenced to.
death that same evening after what
-Was probably the. shortest’ murder
trial in the history of the state. |

The negro was arrested the morn-
ing, after the attack in a state of
drunken, stupor, The Attack had tak. ;
‘en place at about 6:50 p. m., Wednes-
day evening aud Officers R. 4,
SchWweinsberger and-Ira Bean uncoy-
‘ered Kittrelis’ trail which 1d through
the burglary of both . Smith's Drug
Store and the Standard Oi] Station.
here as well QS. severa} Crap games
and a drinking party.
Confesses Attue
; Ile confessed the attack Friday aft-
ernoon. and Mitchel] died on Sunday,
‘He entered a Beneral plea of no:
‘Bulliy in the trial but took the wit-!
-Dess stand and confessed the murder
corroborating a statement which
‘had previously signed, and asked tha:
;Mercy be shown him in the Passin-y
‘of the Sentence,
i Following the electrocution, the
body of Kittrells was brought to
Hillsboro by the 4M. §, Stockwe 1 (‘o,
unty men Witness-
Fhey were H. S.
N. F. Emery, Charles Car-
roll, H. &. Barnes, Press-Gazette
| Tepresentative; Harold Mullenix,
| Walter Vanzant, Wayne Schoenberge;
and Robert H. Boulware, News-Her-
, ald representative, and Paul Fairley
te.

ther newspaper men were present. |

Funeral Services

be held at the New Hope Baptist’
(this) after.

nd Leroy Brizius, Greenfield. Six
o
| Funeral] services for Kittrells will

cinnati, is the Only survivor in the
immediate family. His uncle, “Pomp”
Kittrells, and his cousin with whom
the youth made his home since early

hood," Mr@ mw Metcalf, sur-
Vive. The latter claimed the body
from the State. Burial? will be made
in the Hillsboro Cemetery,

KITTRELLS INTER VIEWED

Greenfield
Will

Condemned Man Telly
Editor He Holds No Il
Against Officers

Mack Sauer, editor of the Green-

field Republican, was’ admitted to
death row in the Ohio Penitentiary
Friday and gained an: interview wita
Irmil Kitirells, Hillsboro negro who

Was Awaiting execution. This inter- |:

OOTY t

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He remembered well many of Green-
field’s leading groceries and thet:
proprietors. “>

Dillinger Henchmen Play Silitatre

In the cell to his right, reading a
|magazine, sat Clark, ‘one of the Dill-
inger gang, while in the. adjoining
‘cell on his left was Charles Makley, ,
another. Dillinger sagster, doomed to
die July 13. Next Was Wop English,
who was sitting on. @ ehatr in the
aisle talking through the screen to
‘his wife, each speaking earnestly in
‘low voices, yet with no display of

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‘emotion. English had only 5 days to,
live, And then there was Harry Pier-
pont, another Dillinger gangster
doomed to dle July 13, in a cell at!
the other end of death row. Each of
them playing solitaire in his cell and-
not looking up as I walked alongs.
Bundles of magazines and newspap 'r3
stuck between the bars of their cells.
“Thanks, and goodbye,” I said to |
Kittrells. He bade me goodbye and we |
parted—I to pass by six guards ta |
the great outdoors . and freedom—he
to return to his cell to await the,
shaving of his head and the slitting
of his trousers for the-placing of the |
electrodes, which in 80 hours would

hurl him into eternity.
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KNAPP, Alfred Ae, leyear-old white man, electrocuted Ohio State Prison (Butler), 9-19-190)),

"Indianapolis, 2-25-19038A special to the Sentinel from Hamilton, Ohio, says Alfred Knapp,
who was arrested in Indianapolis early this morning and brought to his city on suspicion of
having killed his wife, Hannah Goddard Knapp, Dec. 22 last, has confessed, ‘hen it became
public that Knapp had confessed there was much talk of mob violence and the authorities pre-
pared to resist any attack on the city jail. Under a strong guard, Knapp was moved to the
county jail, where he is now, under a special guard. The authorities believe they will have
no trouble tonight. Knapp admitted this afternoon to Director of Police Mason, Captain
Lenehan and Mayor Besch that he choked his wife to death on the morning of Dec, 22, but says
that he don't know why he did it. He says that he then came to town, hired a spring wagon,
secured a wooden box from one of the shoe stores and drove back home, There he stuffed the
body into the box, being obliged to double it up in order to get the lid down, He then
drove to Leidenhald, about 2 miles south of the city, and crossed over to the Miami River,
just west of Lindenwald. Reaching a high blugf over the river he dumped the box containing
the body into the water and drove back to town, Knapp was taken in hand by. the police this
morning and ordered to take them to theplace where he had thrown the body, Knapp also told
Chief of Police Kuemmerling that he had somthing else on his mind that he would tell bee
fore he died. ‘I may tell it to you in the morning,' he said, ‘but I will not tell any-
thing about it tonight. I cry every time I think of poor Hannah and I feel like crying
when I think of this other thing,' This statement is believed to be the forerunner of a
confession from the prisoner that he killed his first and second wives, both of whom died
very mysteriously." ARKANSAS GAZEITE, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2-26-1903 (9/h.)

"Hamilton, Ohio, Feb, 26, 1903-Alfred Knapp, the Indianapolis man arrested yesterday, who
confessed to the murder of his third wife, today made a full confession of 5 murders,

Among them is that of Ida Gebhardt, the West Indianapolis girl, who was found murdered and
outraged in a stableon July 3, 1885. Sanpp's confession, which was sworn to before Mayor
Bosch is as follows: 'On January 21, 189), I kllled Emma Littleman, in a lumber yard in
QEEXK Gest Street, Cincinnafii, On August 1, 1894, I killed May Eckert, in Walnut St.,
opposite the YMCA in Cincinnati. On August 7, 189), I killed My wife, Jennie Conners
Knapp, under the canal bridge, in Liberty St., Cincinnati, and threw her into the canal.

In Indianapolis, in July, 1895, I killed Ida Gebhardt, On Dec. 22, 1902, I killed my wife,
Annie Knapp, at 339 South lth St., in Hamilton, and threw her into the river out by Linden-
wald, This is the truth, (Signed) Albert Knapp.' 'I make this statement by my own free
will and not by request of any officer or anyone else, (Signed) Albert Knapp." 'Sworn

to before me, this 26th day of February, 1903, (Signed) C. F. Bosch, Mayor,' After his
confession Albert A, Knapp admitted he had repeatedly assaulted women criminally and
killed some of them, He said he met the Littleman child in the lumber yard and assaulted
her and choked her to death when she made an outcry, He said: 'I went to the room with

the Eckert girl, sat down with her and assaulted her, She BXX#BH cried and I strangled
her with a towel and hurried from the house, Iwas mad at my wife, Jennie Conners Knapp,
when I killed her, We were walking along Liberty St, I got her down under the bridge on a
pretext and choked her to death, JI deny that I poisoned her, I never told anyone I did.
“fter she was dead, I threw the body into the canal, Ida Gebhardt I killed, but my memory
isnot clear as to what I did.k I cannot tell what made me kill these people. I could not
help it. Some kind of a desire to kill took hold of m, and I could not resist the tem=
ptation to kill. I am sorry for my crimes, but now I hope they will be easy with me,'
After the confessions, a formal charge of murderin the lst degree was filed, Knapp talks
mich of the 'Pearl Bryan' murder and is afraid of being lynched, He does not want to be
taken from the county jail. Unless prevented by his attorneys, it is expected that Knapp
will make further confessions, He is now suspected of stranreling three women at Evansville,
Ind., and to have assaulted andkilled women elsewhere, He was in the Cincinnati House of
Refuge when l7years-old-age, and new records are being discovered almost hourly.
"Oincinnati, Ohio, 2-26-1903-Ihe three mrders which Alfred Knapp confessed committing in
Cincipnati could never be solved by the police, Two were dropped as suicides’ and the thir
is a strangler' mystery. The dead body of Emma Littleman was found on June 21, 189h, in
the limber yard here designated by Knapp in his confession. The body of the girl was about
half under a lumber pile. Thepolice made an exhaustive examination, but were unable to
secure evidence of a tangible nature. Despite the position in which the body lay, the de-
tectives finally said it was their opinion that she had committed suicide.

"{he finding of the body of Mrse Jennie Knapp in the canal a few years azok was a crime

T was not the wind, Mrs. Wilde
realized, as she got ready for bed
on the night of June 24th, 1935.
There was somebody in the house.

She slipped into her wrapper

and started for the door. Just as

she reached it, it opened. A lean,
lanky figure stood framed in it.

The old woman screamed. “Get
out! Get out of here!” She flew at
him, tried to shove him out of the
room. He seized her arm roughly
and she cried out again and sank
her teeth into his hand.

He let out a screech of pain and
punched her on the chin. “Why,
you—!” he roared, and as_ she
crumpled to the floor he grabbed her
throat and began to beat her uncon-
scious form in blind, savage fury.
Then he let go of her body. It
dropped to the floor with a thud.

He stood over the old woman,
gloating down at her. Then, with a
guttural whine, he fell, upon her,

GRANDMOTHER

POLICE WERE FORCED TO FACE THE PROBLEM
OF AN IMPOSSIBLE CRIME DONE BY A MADMAN

By E. C. FULLER

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and they served to put the finger

on a bloodthirsty rapist and killer,

ripped off her clothes and sated
himself.

When he was finished, he lifted the
bloody, bruised body, threw it on the
bed and covered it with a sheet. He
grunted contentedly, walked leisurely
out of the room. A moment later, the
front door slammed. The house was
peaceful and still once more.

T was not until the middle of the
next afternoon that the crime was
discovered, Genevieve Whipple,
Mrs. Wilde’s 8-year-old granddaugh-
ter, found the body. She had been
sent to the house by her mother, who
was worried because she hadn’t seen
or heard from the old lady all day.
Chief Frank Remington of the Nor-
walk, Ohio, Police and Sheriff David
A. Berry were on the scene within
half an hour after the finding of the
body.
The first thing that caught their
eyes were the smudges of grease on

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the bedclothes and door jambs. The}
immediately phoned me at my office
in Mansfield, thirty miles away; but
since I was ill in bed, I was forced
to send three members of my staff—
Homer Bloomline, Harry Glassglaus
and -George Bastian—to take the
fingerprints and bring them to me
for examination and possible identi-
fication.

But among all the prints scattered
around the death chamber, they were
able to find only one clear print. The
others were smudged beyond identi-
fication. The solitary print was found

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enough, hé wasn’t as scared as he
should have been. Instead, he felt
sore as hell that this snarling brute
should be able to get away with it.
He climbed slowly out of the car.
As his feet touched the ground he
straightened. Then he wheeled

sharply, let fly with a vicious hay- .

maker. But he missed the Gorilla’s
chin by a fraction of an inch.

The Gorilla let out a bellow of rage,
swung on Dyer with his gun, pounded
him savagely to the ground.

“Stop! Stop!” the girl screamed.

The Gorilla answered her with a
brutal laugh, went on beating Dyer
with the gun. Finally, his blood lust
sated for the moment, he dragged
the boy back into the car, tossed him,
bleeding and unconscious, into the
back. With his gun, he prodded the
girl into the front seat beside him and
drove off at top speed.

One hour later. after he had had
his pleasure, the Gorilla brought the
girl back to her home. But first, he
dumped Kenny Dyer on the outskirts
of Industrial City, then drove on to
the girl’s house, left the car there and
fled down a dark alley.

A local hotel posted a reward of
$500 for the capture of the Gorilla
and offered the use of its “gun room”
as a gathering place for young men
anxious to form armed posses, but all
efforts to locate the fiend failed.

T about eleven o’clock on the
morning of July 29, Detectives
Roy Rose and Carl Ketchem were

cruising along St. Joseph Avenue in
a prowl car. Suddenly, as_ they
reached the 700 Block, Rose spotted a
man hurrying down the street, clutch-
ing a package.

“Say! Now I know who that guy
is,” Rose exclaimed. “That’s the third
time I’ve seen him this morning.”

“Who is he?” Ketchem demanded.

“That’s Jim Quinn. We got a pick-
up order on him.”

“Then what’s keeping us

Ketchem stepped on the gas. It was
a matter of seconds till they over-
hauled the fleeing man. As they drew
close to him, Rose let out a whistle
of surprise. “Gosh! Look, Carl! He’s
got a crooked right arm!” :

Ketchem nodded. “If that shirt fits
him,” he said grimly, “Mr. Quinn’s
gonna have a lot of explaining to do.”

“Wonder what the devil he’s carry-
ing in that package?” Rose mur-
mured. -

But their prey had gotten the wind

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whole thing had been of no real con-
sequence. Certainly it didn’t seem
like a reason for breaking into a
house and slugging a helpless old
woman to death.

Moreover, Lamphier had an alibi

for the time of the murder. He had
been with a neighbor of his, one Bert
Hollister, till after ten-thirty that
night. They had been listening to a
fellow named Barney Smith playing
his guitar. It was about half past ten
that Bert and he had gone around to
Lamphier’s garage to get his car.

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in murder after alleged confession.

up. He knew he was being followed.
Suddenly, he ducked into a saloon.

Ketchem slammed’ on the brakes,
and he and Rose darted in after their
man. But instead of rushing up to
Quinn and clamping the steel .brace-
lets on him right away, they strolled
up to the bar, ordered a couple of
beers. Quinn was standing at the bar
also, nervously gulping down a shot
of whiskey.

“Hello, Jim,’ Rose said to him.
“Haven’t seen you around for a long
time. Where you been?”

“You know damn well where I
been,” Quinn muttered.

“Sure, I know. In the can. But
you’ve been out a coupla months
now,” Rose said. “What you been
doin’ since you got out?”

“IT was out in Omaha. Just got back
this morning.”

“Too bad we didn’t know you were
coming,” said Ketchem. “We'd have
had the mayor and a brass band down
to meet you.”

“You coppers gimme a pain!” he
snarled. ‘First you toss a guy in the
can. Then you make it so tough he
can’t get a job an’ earn an honest
living. Why don’t you give a guy a

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Lamphier then drove to the local
branch of the Durkee Famous Food
Company where he worked as a fire-
man on the night shift. This was
confirmed by Hollister over the
phone. ,

During the entire time they were
questioning Lamphier, Sheriff Berry
was puzzled. There was something
about him that he knew he should
remember. It was like having an
itch that you couldn’t get at and
scratch. Then suddenly, just as they
were about to send Lamphier on his

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chance to go straight for a change?”

“Going straight is entirely up to
you, Jim,” said Rose. “Come on with
us. The Chief wants to ask you a few
questions.”

“What for?”

“He just likes‘to look at your pretty
face,” said Ketchem. “Come on! Get
a move on.”

“T ain't done nothin’,” Quinn pro-
tested. “I only blew into town this
morning.”

“Your limousine is waiting for you
outside, Mr. Quinn,” Rose said-with
a little laugh. “Step on it!”

EN minutes later Quinn was shoved

down into a chair in Chief Dun-

can's office, with Duncan, Rose,
Ketchem and Sheriff Moran sur-
rounding him. They had taken his
package from him and opened it. It
contained a loaded 45. Then they
brought out the shirt. The moment
Quinn saw it he turned pale. “What
—what’s that for?” he demanded in a
hoarse, quavering whisper.

“We're givin’ you the shirt off our
back,” Moran said, chuckling. “Let’s
just slip it on for size.”

“No! No! I won’t put it on! I
won't!” Quinn shouted, getting to his
feet, his eyes popping out of his head,
a cold sweat beading his forehead.

“Well, now, maybe you'll change
your mind,” said Moran. ‘Come on,

boys! Hold him while I get it on
him.”
Quinn roared and cursed and

struggled, but the officers were too
much for him. Moran got the blue
denim work shirt on him. It_ fit
like a piston in a cylinder. The
crooked right sleeve matched Quinn’s
crooked right arm perfectly.

Finally, to make identification com-
plete, George Beavers and Kenny
Dyer both positively identified James
Edward Quinn as the Gorilla.

Faced with this crushing mountain
of evidence, Quinn cracked and con-
fessed.

But one thing still puzzled Sheriff
Moran. Why had Quinn discarded
his work shirt with its crooked right
sleeve? Why had he left such a
damaging, damning piece of evidence
at the scene of his crime?
get smiled when Moran asked

im.

“IT was all through with work
clothes,” he said. “I wore ’em long
enough in stir. I wanted a white
collar for a change, so I threw away
the old one.”

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way, it came to him. Berry took
Remington aside. ‘Look, Chief,” he
whispered, “I’ve just remembered

something about this bird—”

“What did you remember?” Rem-
ington demanded.

“IT want to make sure first. Maybe
I’m wrong,” Berry said. “Can you
keep him here for about fifteen or
twenty minutes more?”

“I don’t know,’’ Remington
shrugged. “There isn’t much more
to ask him about, but if it’s really
important I might be able to—”

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“It may be very important.”

“Okay. Ill keep him busy.”

Berry returned to his own office.
There he phoned me at the Identifi-
cation Bureau in the Reformatory at
Mansfield.
_. “Fuller, look in your files and see
if you've got anything on a bird
named Lamphier—Ethol B. Lam-
phier’s the full name,” he said.

“Okay,” I said. “I'll call you back.”

Ten minutes later I rang him back.

“That baby’s got a record as long
as an elephant’s trunk,” I said with
a chuckle. “He did an ‘eight-year
stretch here at the Reformatory from
1917 to 1925.”

“What was he in for?” Berry asked.

“Rape.”

“What else you got on him?”

“Well, before he was sent here he
had been committed to the Massilon
State Hospital,” I read from his file
card. “He’d been married in 1910,
but his wife got a divorce. Said she
couldn’t live with him. Seems he
had escaped from Massilon and then
tried to commit suicide by hanging
himself. It was after that his wife
decided to get a divorce.

“They sent him back to the Hospi-
tal in 1913, but he escaped again and
nobody seems.to have bothered to
bring him back. Then in 1916 he got
married again and in 1917 they sent
him here. He was twenty-seven at
that time.”

“What kind of a guy was he sup-
posed to have been?” Berry asked.

“Well, according to our records, he
was pretty erratic. He was badly
burned by a live wire when he was
a baby and that’s supposed to have
affected his brain somehow. Ordi-
narily he’s okay, but when he gets a
couple of drinks in him he gets abu-
sive, moody and violent. On one
occasion he went after his own moth-
er with a gun.”

“Shoot her?”

“No. Turned out the gun wasn’t
loaded, luckily for both of them. How
does all that fit?” I asked.

“Like the well-known glove,” he
said, and I could hear his almost
gloating satisfaction over the phone.
“There’s_a better than even chance
Brother Lamphier may get burnt by
another live wire pretty soon. Only
this one he won't survive.”

ERRY, as I later learned, returned

to Remington’s office. He took the

Chief aside, briefly outlined what
I had told him. Remington nodded,
grimly came back to Lamphier.

“Lamphier,” he said, “your alibi
checks, up to the time you reported
for work.”

“Sure it does,” Lamphier said con-
fidently. “Why shouldn’t it? It’s true.
Every word of it!”

“Yes, but where were you after
you reported for work?” Berry shot
at him.

“Why—why-—I was working! What
do you think I was doing?” Lamphier
exclaimed, getting indignant.

“The whole night?”

“Sure, the whole night!”

“I see,” Berry said.
prove it?”

“Certainly I can prove it! I got to
punch a time-clock every hour when
I make my rounds. That'll show I
was there the whole time.”

“Mmm,” said Remington. “Maybe
we'd better check that. Just to be
safe.”

Despite his loud and lusty protests,
they held Lamphier as a material

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witness »:!e they checked his time-
clock sto:

Meanwii''*, at the Reformatory, I
had been ‘oing a little lead-follow-
ing myse! The results of both
Remington and my _ investigations
proved qui‘© startling.

At Remington’s end they discov-
ered that the time-clock had been
punched at 12 o'clock, 1, 2 and 3. But
there was unmistakable evidence,
also, that it had been tampered with.
The regular punch-disk had been re-
placed by one that had been punched
in advance for each of those hours.
Furthermore, a thorough check-up on
all of Lamphier’s fellow workers re-
vealed that no one had seen hide or
hair of him from midnight until
shortly after 3:15 a. m.

Still ancther damning piece of evi-
dence was the fact that the nature
of Lamphier’s work was such that
he got lots of grease over his clothes.
This would account for the grease
marks found in the death chamber.

Still more. the plant's night janitor,
one Alfred Lohbauer, informed Rem-
ington that he saw Lamphier at about
3:15 that morning and that he ap-
peared pale and agitated, and was
sweating profusely. He had asked
Lamphier where he had been and
Lamphier told him he was “cleaning
out the septic tanks.” Checking this
with the day man, who had relieved
Lamphier at 7:30 a.m., Remington
found that this was a lie.

At my end, I discovered still an-
other piece of crushing evidence. A
comparison of the one fingerprint
found at the scene of the crime re-
vealed, beyond any reasonable doubt,
that it was identical with that of
Lamphier’s which we had in our files.
There were no less than six definite
points of similarity between the two.

Ethol Lamphier’s alibi was knocked
into the proverbial cocked hat. He
was indicted for first degree murder
and for murder while committing
rape.

Under Ohio laws, a person tried
for first degree murder can waive
his constitutional right to trial by
jury and be tried by three common
pleas*judges. Lamphier elected the
latter course.. His case came before
Justices E. G. Martin, Charles H.
Huston and Walter J. Mougey. Prose-
cutor Rex F. Bracy represented the
State and Don Bell, appointed by the
court, put in the defense.

Lamphier had admitted going to
Mrs. Wilde’s house to get some dies
which he claimed belonged to him,

‘but which Mrs. Wilde had refused to
give him. He admitted breaking into
the house and confessed to the mur-
der. He killed her, so he said, be-
cause she had fought with him and
tried to make him get out. It was
the sight of her, bleeding and uncon-
scious, that aroused his passions.

Bell's defense was that Lamphier
had been born under an evil star and
that the State was the real culprit.
Although experts refused to declare
him insane, Bell charged that it had
been up to the State to keep Lam-
phier in an insane asylum when he
escaped. Since the State had neg-
lected to do this and had allowed
Lamphier to roam about at large,
even after his arrest and imprison-
ment in the Mansfield Reformatory,
it was the State who was to blame.

But the court refused to entertain
this argument. Unanimously, the
three jusiices voted Lamphier guilty
and sentenced him to death.

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TIME

CLOCK

IGHT - YEAR.- OLD Georgia

Whipple hummed a tune as.’
she skipped along the flag

stone walk leading to her grand-
mother’s home at 97 W er
Street, in Norwalk, Ohio.
Climbing the porch steps,
pressed the ivory door bell and
waited. When several minutes
passed without an answer, Georgia
pushed the button again, this
time more. insistently.
Still there was no answer.
With childlike impatience, ‘she
turned the knob and stepped %
side. Although it was a bright,
sunshiny day outside—it w
25, 1935—a cold clamminess se
ed to permeate the old house.
“Grandma Kate!” she called.
one answered.
Shaking her blonde locks #in
bewilderment, Georgia bega
room-by-room inspection of &
house. The kitchen was empty
and so was the parlor, but at the
bedroom she drew up short, dazed.
What she saw caused a tiny, wail-
ing scream to stick in her thrdat.

Mrs. Katherine A. Wilde—her
“Grandma Kate”—lay on her baek,
her face chalk-white. Her eyes
were open and staring, yet vacant;
and unseeing.

Terrified, Georgia ran scream-
ing to the Copeland home next
door where she stammered out the
gruesome news. Mrs. Agnes Cope-
land quieted the child and quick-
ly notified the police. Five minutes
later two squad cars swung into
the tree-lined street and braked
at the curb. Chief of Police Frank

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‘Remington led the way ‘tpatie: fol-

lowed closely by Sheriff David A.

Berry and Coroner J, A\ Bradjsh.,

Heading \straight for the bed-
room, they found Mrs. Wilde
stretched out on the floor, face
up. She was dressed in an old-
fashioned flannel nightgown. Her
fgce was..swollen almost beyond
recognition: by powerful blows,
while: ugly bruises marred her
throat.and chest. Specks of blood
were everywhere.

_ Bradish “slipped. a thermometer
under the dead’ woman's armpit.
eet e this “1 ne estimate
the’ time of death,” he

“The average corpse
the «atesof three degrees'@
It’s not as conclusive as an»
sy, but it comes close enough. bid

_ Remington studied the batter-
ed some of the woman he had
kno his life. She had been
a kindly, home-loving, church go-
ing “woman. Norwalk revered her.
Why, then, would anybody want
to kill her?

Bratish removed the thérmée
meter and consulted it. “According
to this,” he saidj.“she’s been, dead
approximately, 12 hours.”

Remington “checked his Wwafth.|

ey “It’s two p.m.,” he mused. “Which

‘means she was murdered around

two-o'clock., this. ing.”

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wu the coroner began a
cursory examination of the
victim, Chief Remington studied

Ethol, white, elec. Ohio (Huron) 11-1-193

the room. It was a shambles. Sev-
eral chairs lay overturned, while
the contents of several dresser
drawers were scattered about the
room, An alarm clock lay near the
bed, its glass shattered and the
hands stopped at twelve minutes
past two. Grandma Kate, he re-
flected grimly, had waged a good
fight.

Scrutinizing the bed, he saw that
the pillow and mattress bore in-
dentations where a body had lain.
From this he reasoned that the
aged woman had been sleeping
when attacked.

The contents of the _ victim’s
handbag lay strewn on the dresser.
Included among them was an
empty kidskin wallet. Had robbery
been the motive?

Berry returned after checking
the doors and windows. “I’ve got
news,” he said. “The killer made
two attempts to bust in. He made
it the second time.”

The sheriff explained that the
initial attempt had been made
through the attic. “The killer
climbed a tree, jumped onto an
overhanging shed, and then slip-
ped into an attic room. The door
leading downstairs however, was
locked.

a He. then..retraced his steps,

- placed ~ a concrete bloék under one

of the kitchen windows, climbed
on it, smashed the glass and
climbed inside.”

“He was persistent,” said Yem-
ington. He told Berry about ‘the
wallet. “If he was only after mgn-
ey, why did he have to kill he
old lady?” he wondered.

The ere answer..came*®a
moment later fr6m Goréner Brad-
ish. “It sounds incredible, gentle-
men,” he said, ghaking his h
“put that poor woman was crim-
inally assaulted!” *

The officers stared at him
open-mouthed surprise. Remi
ton recovered first. “Are you su
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Bradish nodded. i“There’s
doubt about it,’ he said:

Remington instructed one of his
men to contact the State Police
laboratory at Mansfield~ at a
for assistance. “We’re going : a
need all the help we ag bets
this one,” he safé

Remington strode to ‘the bade
where he recognized the stately,
white*haited Mrs. Copeland.
slain woman’s daughter, Mrs.
tor Whiyple, was slumped in;
armchair weeping copiously.
‘Copelahd’s\ son, Ethol
was lounging against the

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Whipple,” said the pé

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know.”

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at his victim as she lay
asleep in her bedroom.

INSANITY —— ;
and suicide were commonplaces in the
nefarious life of Ethol B. Lamphier.

on the dining room window which
apparently had been broken by the
killer in order to gain entrance.

When they brought me the print I
asked them if the police had def-
initely established the means of en-
trance used by the killer. ;

“The dining room window,” said
Bloomline. “But Berry thinks the guy
first tried to get in by climbing a
tree at- the back of the house and
getting onto the porch roof. That
didn’t work, so finally he broke the
window.”

“Were there any signs of a strug-
gle?” I asked. .

Bloomline nodded vigorously. “I'll
say there were! The bedroom looked
like a slaughterhouse. Blood every-
where. Furniture overturned. The

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place was in an awful condition.”

“T see,” I murmured. For a couple
of seconds I thought it over. Then I
asked, “Has the autopsy report come
through yet?”

Glassglaus handed me a sheet of
paper. I read it carefully. The cause
of death, according to the Coroner,
was the brutal pounding the 65-year-
old woman had received on_ her
breast. It had shattered seven ribs on
one side and four on the other. One
of her lungs had been collapsed by
the terrific force of the blows and
had filled with blood; the other,
though not collapsed, was_ severely
damaged and was partially filled with
blood. The woman had been brutally
raped. .

Meanwhile, the local police had
been making a thorough canvass of
the neighborhood around the mur-
dered woman’s home. A dozen or so
hoboes and vagrants were rounded
up, held and questioned. Without
exception, everyone offered an alibi
for the time of the killing; and upon
investigation they all stood up.
Furthermore, when their fingerprints
were taken and compared with the
one clear print found at the scene of
the crime it was definitely estab-
lished that none of them tallied.

Meanwhile, I had climbed out of
my sick bed and, against my doctor’s
orders, had gone to Norwalk to talk
over the case with Sheriff Berry and
Chief Remington, and also to look
over Mrs. Wilde’s house for other

clues to apprehend the criminal.
My first stop was Remington’s
office. We got talking it over and I

asked him if he had any idea of what
the motive for the killing might have
been.

He shrugged. “Might have been
most anything, Fuller.”

“How about rape, Frank?” I asked.

“Well, I don’t know,” he said,
lighting a cigaret. “Sure, I know the
autopsy report says she was raped.
But hell! a guy doesn’t bust into a
house in the dead of night just to
rape a 65-year-old woman, a grand-
mother! It just don’t make sense.”

I had to admit it didn’t and that
rape didn’t seem like a convincing
motive for the murder.

“How about robbery,
asked. “Anything taken?
Money?”

He shook his head, sighed. “’Fraid
you're barking up the wrong tree
there, too. Not a blessed thing was
touched. Only thing we found out
of place was the old woman’s sewing
basket, and the killer probably
knocked it down when he climbed
through the window.” .

We sat there in silence, glum, dis-
gusted. Then I said, “You know,
there may be a personal angle to this
whole thing.”

Remington looked at me sharply.
“Personal angle? What do you mean
by that, Fuller?”

“Look, so far we’ve been going on
the theory that the murder was more

then?” I
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or less incidental. We've been as-
suming that the killer broke into the
house for some purpose other than
murder—robbery.or rape.”

“Well?” i)

“Maybe he went there for the ex-
press purpose of killing her.” .

Remington pondered that for a
minute or two, tugging at his lip,
puffing nervously at his cigaret. “I
don’t know,” he said at last. “Seems
to me if the guy wanted to murder
her he would have used a gun or
even a knife. Something that was
quick and clean and wouldn’t give
the old woman a chance to let out a
yell and bring help.”

“Yes, I suppose you're right,” I
said. “But there’s still another angle
you haven't conside. -d.”

“Namely?” i

“Supposing he didn’t go there to
kill her, but just to settle an old
score with her. Supposing he had a
grudge against her and wanted to
get even.”

“A grudge? What kind of grudge?”

I smiled. “That, Frank, .. i8° what
we've got to find out. We've got to
find out if anybody knows whether
the old woman had any enemies.
Maybe someone she had a quarrel
with lately.”

“What the devil would anybody
want to quarrel with an old dame
like that for?” Remington demanded.
“She was just a homebody, minding
her own business and living her own
peaceful little existence. What could
she quarrel about that would be im-
portant enough for someone to beat
her up and kill her?”

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I shrugsed. “People have quar-
reled and been killed for trifles,” I
said. “Don't forget one of the worst
wars in history was started because
an archduke got bumped off in a
place noboiy could even pronounce.”

“Well, maybe so, maybe so,” he
murmured, thinking it over. “What
do you think we ought to do, Fuller?”

“If I were you, I’d go over the
whole town with a fine-toothed comb
and see if I couldn’t find someone
who had a quarrel with her recently,
someone who might have had a
grudge against her. Ask around
pnens all her friends, her neighbors,
er relatives. It'll take time and a

helluva lot of legwork, I*know. ‘But, fuinace and mending things.”

it may pay off big.”

“You know, I think you got some-
thing there,” Remington said, getting
up out of his chair. “I think I’ll have
the boys get started on it right away.”

So it was that the Norwalk police
embarked on a private survey of
their own. Scores upon scores of per-
sons were interviewed. All were
asked, among other things, the same
question: “Do you know anyone who
had a quarrel with Mrs. Katherine
Wilde recently?” :

As I-had foreseen, it took a vast
amount of time and effort. For sev-
eral days it seemed hopeless. Every-
one had the same answer: No, there
was no one who had quarreled with
Mrs. Wilde, no one who had ever
made any threats against her. We
were just about ready to give up
when Mrs. Wilde’s son, whom we
had already interviewed, came _ to
Headquarters.

“You know,” he said to Chief Rem-
ington, “I’ve been thinking over what
you asked me about my mother
having a quarrel with somebody, and
I just happened to remember some-

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thing regarding a slight quarrel.”

“What was it?” Remington asked
eagerly.

“Well, it wasn’t very much and I
don’t suppose it really means any-
thing. The whole thing was really
so petty.”

“Even so, it may lead us to some-
thing important.”

“One of my mother’s neighbors
was a Mrs. Copeland. She’s got a son
named Lamphier—Ethol Lamphier, I
think is his full name. Anyway, after
dad died Lamphier used to help
mother with odd jobs around the
house. You know, things like chop-
ping wood for her and tending the

Renvington nodded. “What’s
got to do—”

“I’m coming to that, Chief,” young
Eddie Wilde said. “You see, mother
sold Lamphier her old car a while
back and he used to take her riding
in it occasionally. Then one day, they
had some sort of an argument about
the payments on it and, from what
mother told me, Lamphier got kind
of hot under. the collar about it.”

“Did he ever threaten her?”

Wilde shrugged. “I can’t say. May-
be he did. But evidently he cooled
off after it was all over. They seemed
pretty friendly. Personally, I don’t
think it amounts to a hill of beans,
but I thought I ought to tell you
anyway. Just in case.”

It didn’t take long to bring Lam-
phier in. His version of the argu-
ment jibed pretty well with Wilde's
and there seemhed little reason to
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ing of the murder and noticed
that he was perspiring freely.

“I asked him why he was sweat-
ing and he said he had just finish-
ed cleaning out the garbage pools,”
went on Lohbauer. “Later, when
I made my rounds, I passed the
pools. They hadn’t been cleaned
at all!”

Despite the ever-mounting evi-
dence against Lamphier, the time
clock blocked the police at every
turn. That he was the murderer
was now more than just mere
suspicion. Remington and Berry
were contemplating their next
move when an employee went to
the time clock and looked furtive-
Iy around. Unaware that he was
being watched, the man quickly
made some adjustment in the
mechanism behind the clock and
then punched his card. While the
amazed officers watched, he re-
peated the performance a second
and a third time!

He was striding rapidly towards
the exit when Remington collared
him. “I saw what you just did!”
cried the chief. “Suppose you
start explaining.”

At first the employee denied he
had tampered with the clock, but
changed his mind when he saw
that denials were useless.

“Yeah, I fixed the clock to regis-
ter a couple of hours ahead,” he
confessed. “I haven’t been feeling
well, and wanted to get a few
hours’ rest before checking out.”

At Remington’s request he de-
monstrated how the operating
discs behind the time clock could
be manipulated to register any
time desired. “Who else knows this
trick?” asked the chief.

“One or two others,” shrugged
the man.

“Does Ethol
about it?”

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The employee nodded.

Remington’s face was. grim.
“The hands of that clock are go-
ing to send Lamphier to the hot
seat,” he predicted.

Lamphier was quickly taken into
custody and questioned by Chief
Remington, Sheriff Berry and
Huron County Prosecutor Rex F.
Bracy. He vehemently denied hav-
ing murdered Mrs. Wilde and in-
sisted he was on the job through-
out the night despite his co-
worker’s confession that he knew
how to manipulate the clock.

He blanched when the night
watchman, Albert Lohbauer, was
brought in. He slumped wearily
in his chair when Lohbauer told

how he found the garbage pools |

on the morning of the murder.
Suddenly he began _ sobbing.
“Yes, I did it! I did it!” he scream-

ed. “I—I didn’t mean to, but I

did it!”

he recovered his com- | }

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posure,

that he left the food plant around
one a.m., that morning and went
to -a neighborhood tavern. Over a
couple of drinks he began mulling
over all the work he had done for
Mrs. Wilde without getting paid.
It made him mad. He decided to
break into the house and steal
what he could,

After climbing the tree to the
attic window and finding the door
locked, he retraced his steps and
forced the kitchen window to gain
entrance. Stealthily making his
way to the bedroom, he was
searching the bureau for money
when Mrs. Wilde awoke and start-
ed screaming.

Fearful lest her screams arouse
the neighborhood, he battered the
defenseless old. woman to death
with his fists.

Later, a search of the Copeland |

home uncovered a pair of blood
soaked overalls. Laboratory tests
proved them to be the same type
blood.as the dead woman’s.
Lamphier waived his right to a
trial by jury, electing to place his
fate in the hands of three com-
mon pleas justices. The slayer
went on trial for his life in August,
1935, before Judges E. G. Martin,
Charles H. Huston and Walter J.
Mougey. The state ably represent-
ed by Prosecutor Rex Bracy and
his wife, Assistant Prosecutor
Hazel Bracy, quickly convinced the
justices of Lamphier’s guilt.

The judges only two hours
to deliberate fat¢. They found
him guilty of |murdé¢r in the first
degree withogt rgécommendation
for mercy. Et hier walked
the Last Mile on the night of No-
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“Bob always kept the wallet filled,”
Lester recounted for the benefit of
the newcomers. “Never tried to hide
the fact, either. He’d just grin when
anybody’d tell him to watch his step
with all that money.”

“Could be a local punk just got itchy
for the wallet,” Yeoman suggested.

Sheriff Icenhower tilted back his
straw hat, glanced around the room.
Orderly; no indication that any strug-
gle had taken place.

“Might account for the gunplay,” he
nodded. ‘Maybe some local guy
wanted to be sure Lindsey would
never put the finger on him. Walked
in and started blasting.”

As Yeoman was unpacking his
fingerprint equipment, Icenhower in-
spected the cafe. But if the killer left
any clues behind, he didn’t see them.

INVESTIGATOR—
Sheriff Ieenhower rushed to Cleveland
from Jeffersonville to be in on the kill.

He tested the rear door. Locked. Yet,
apparently, nobody in the vicinity had
witnessed the gunman’s escape via ‘th
street. 7

All the marks of a well-planned job,
the sheriff reflected. Still, as he knew
from experience, that didn’t neces-
sarily eliminate a roving, professional
bandit from the picture.

A quick-shooting thug had perhaps
misjudged a move by the proprietor
as a sign he was going for a gun. Or
Lindsey, in a flash of. ill-advised
bravado, had tried to run a bluff.

Icenhower turned to Lester end
questioned him closely. But there was
little the horrified man could add to
what he’d already told.

“Just walked in as I was going
home from a movie,” he explained,
“and here Bob was.”

The sheriff asked, “No cars parked
near here when you came along the
street, Jim?”

Lester shook his head.
all.”

As Icenhower dismissed him with
thanks, Prosecutor Browning came in
from the street. A flushed, handsome
youth in a green sports shirt followed
him across the room.

“Jack Fuller,” Browning told the
sheriff, “saw a black coupe down
the street just before Mr. Lindsey was
shot.”

Icenhower’s eyes
youth. “Let’s hear it, son.”

Fuller told his story rapidly. He’d
been in the cafe alone with Lindsey
until:shortly before ten o’clock. As he
left for home then, he noticed a black
coupe of undetermined make parked

“None at

about 300 feet north on Main Street. A.

tall man in light-colored trousers was
standing beside it.

“He started this way as I turned
south,” the youth continued. “But
whether or not he actually came to the
cafe, I can’t say.”

The officials glanced at each other.

They’d heard about a black coupe
from Piqua, O., 85 miles northwest, at
10:15 that morning—a °’35 Buick,
which two masked gunmen, one a
strapping six-footer, the other sev-
eral inches shorter, had used to flee
a bold drugstore holdup. An elderly
man witnessing their flight had jotted
the car’s license number on a slip of
paper, then lost it in his excitement.

“Possible those bozos cut over here,”
Icenhower said softly, “with the tall
one doing a solo while his pal stuck
at the wheel.”

Fuller added that he heard three
sharp reports from the direction of the
cafe soon after he left it. “But I
thought they were just loud firecrack-

SUSPECT—
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having “bumped off the guy in the cafe.”

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First and only execution in Fayette County was G. W. Smith
in 1867 for murder of John Gray. Smith was hung in jail yard.

Leo Halterman sentenced to death for killing of his half
brother Charles Halterman, Dec. 23, 1926. Mrs. Charles Halterman
was also slain, but he was tried onl'y for the brother. Confessed
he killed because of riff between he and his wife which was caused
by UZs Mr. and Mrs. Charles Yalterman. Buried at Beaver Ohio.

Everett Jones, killed pool room owner Robert Lindsey on July

ith, 1937, during robbery attempt. Companion in crime Walter Barnes

sentenced to life in prison, later released, now leading model life.
Everett Jones had served nineteen of his thirty three years in
prison. He confessed to the murder on the witness stand. After

electrocution he was buried at the penitentiary. No one ever
Claimed the body.

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Mildred, Nov. 22, 1943. Collett a farmer from Wilmington, Chio
was a brother in law to Mr. McCoy. His wife and Mr, McCoy were
brother and sister. Motive-money and land. His wife was next in
line to inherit. Electrocuted April 20, 1945.

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of two killers in a harrowing

By GAIL V.

HEN Jim Lester turned down

Main Street at 10:15 p.m., he

didn’t expect to find Bob Lind-

sey’s cafe open. That afternoon

the proprietor had averred, “I’m
locking’ up early. Just about dead on
my feet.”

Nobody had better reason to feel
that way. For the past month the
affable, 55-year-old Lindsey had la-
bored ceaselessly in planning the cele-
bration for the next day. As chairman
of the event, he was determined to
give Jeffersonville, Ohio, the biggest,
gaudiest Fourth of July in its history.

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chase to the electric chair

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details to be worked out, Lester
thought as he crossed the street and
pushed into the cafe. The narrow
front room was ablaze with light, but
deserted.

At the rear, a thin yellow light
pierced .a crack in the door of the
small office.

Lester walked over to the soda
fountain, noting the closed office door.
“Don’t tell me you’re busy rehearsing
a speech for tomorrow, Bob!” he
chuckled.

When there was no response, he
ambled toward the back, his gaze
wandering ahead idly. It moved

fe when the killers walked in and told

him to put up his hands. The 55-year-old proprietor resisted, was mowed down.

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across the room, stopped on the out-
stretched leg below a table. As he
sprang forward he saw the rest of the
crumpled body.

The lanky proprietor lay face down
on the worn floor, both arms twisted
under him. Lester paled. Only last
week Lindsey had complained of a
heart attack. Had it struck again?

He knew the answer the instant he
gently eased the prone man onto his
back. Lindsey’s head lolled sideways,
exposing a round hole drilled squarely
between the eyes.

“My God!” Lester whispered numb-
ly, staring at two more bullet wounds
in the chest.

With a shudder he whirled and ran
to a phone in the rear of the room.

Fayette County Deputy Sheriff C. D.
Yeoman arrived a half an hour later,
shouldering his way through an ex-
cited throng of townspeople clustered
in front of the cafe. Lester met him
at the door.

Behind the lunch counter an older
man stooped over the body in the
glare of an unshaded ceiling bulb. But
the local physician’s dash to the scene
had been entirely futile.

“Went almost instantly,” he said
somberly, straightening up. “Close to
45 minutes ago, I believe.”

Yeoman looked at his watch auto-
matically. ‘About ten,” he grunted.
He knelt beside the dead man, avoid-
ing a smear of blood on the floor.
“How many shots, Doc?”

“Three,” the physician replied, tuck-
ing his stethoscope in his medical bag.
“You'll find one of the bullets around.
Passed out below the back ribs.”

The rangy deputy leaned forward.
“Powder burns on the shirt,” he ob-
served. ‘The gun couldn’t have been
far from him.”

“No. Not more than six feet, I'd
judge.”

“Probably just across the table—a
target the killer couldn’t miss on a bet.
Anything been touched, Jim?”

Lester mopped his forehead ‘with his
handkerchief. “No, sir,” he said.

“Good,” Yeoman nodded, stepping
past the corpse to the cash register on
a wall shelf. There wasn’t much ques-
tion about the motive by the time
Sheriff W. C. Icenhower and County
Prosecutor A. N. Browning appeared
five minutes later.

Not only had the cash drawer been
cleaned out, but a wallet Lester said
the victim usually carried was missing.


than he’d had previously; and in addi-
tion, Powell promised aid after listen-
ing to the plans that Corbin explained.
And he was assured of making the
trip with Ann Stone on the Fourth
because Powell would be gone.

Before the holiday arrived Powell
dug into old files and came up with
a newspaper story containing pictures
of Street, Kingston and William Han-
son. “I’ll just have a new sheet
run off the press with this 1933 yarn,”
he said, “and substitute Street’s mug
with yours. Then if the girl happens
to get suspicious at the last moment
you can spring this clipping and allay
all her doubts.”

Afterward Corbin was grateful for
the news-clipping angle. When he
made the long trip with the unsuspect-
ing girl it was a warm sunshiny day
and he found her to be a jolly com-
panion, with likes and dislikes no
different than a man finds in any aver-
age woman. He waited outside the
prison while she went in to visit her
old sweetheart.

IN she came out the detective

was prepared for the worst and it

did seem that she measured him a
little peculiarly.

“T’]] bet he was glad to see you,” he
said foolishly, unable to think of any-
thing more appropriate.

When they were seated in a cafe
she made known the results of her
interview. “Bill said I ought to make
you show some proof of your identity,
Chuck. He gave me some questions
to ask you and he said if you answered
them okay, I was to go ahead and
play ball.”

Corbin’s heart dropped, but he
laughed and reached for his wallet.
“I oughtta burn up at that,” he com-
plained cheerfully, “but I can under-
stand.” He unfolded the news-clipping
and handed it across the table. “For-
get the questions after you read that.
I brought it along just in case some-
thing like this did come up. It’s noth-
ing to be carrying around, so satisfy
yourself and then we'll tear it up.”

Ann scanned the clipping closely,
then handed it back to him. “This
happened before I knew Bill,” she
apologized. “It was his idea, not mine.”

Corbin tore the clipping and tossed
it on the floor. The food arrived. He
waited for her to speak.

‘Dick’s in Chicago,” she finally said.
“He’s working in a tavern tending bar.
That’s why the Law ain’t been able
to catch up with him. He can’t drive
a car so there’s no danger of them
locking up on him through a traffic
violation. He’s dyed his hair black

Why Take the

on each floor, at No. 9270 Foster Ave- -

nue, Brooklyn.

“Jt’s them,” she murmured without
waiting to see the slain couple’s clothes
and a photo of Soro’s unmutilated face
that the officers had brought with them.

Taare ley ory lenaw?” ~~ Movforth

and as long as he watches his step and
keeps working they’ll never pick him
up.”

That was the moment Morris Corbin
fought the hardest battle of his career.
He wanted to jump up and shout. He
wanted to bombard the girl with an
avalanche of questions, but instead
he throttled his ambitions and choked
back his desire.

“He says if you collect the two hun-
dred and fifty dollars from Keller, try
to squeeze him for more. Also—I’m
not to go with you.”

That solved a perplexing problem
that had been bothering the officer for
some time. But he asked: “Why?”

“He doesn’t want me to get mixed
up in any trouble that might arise.”

Corbin smiled. “Did he say where
Dick was working?”

She shook her head and buttered a
slice of toast. . “No, except that he
was working on West North Avenue
a month ago. He didn’t know the
address.”

*“Damn!”

Ann Stone smiled.

“You don’t need to look so discour-
aged,” she put in. “Bill said go down
to the Lomax Street fire station and
ask for Fred Martin. He’s a fireman
there. If Keller’s in town Fred’ll know
where to find him.”

On the trip back the detective said:
“Kid, if you don’t mind I think Pll
drop you off at Lafayette and put you
on a bus for Champaign. I’d like to go
on to Chi and start looking for our
friend Keller.”

It was agreeable with the girl and
that was the last Morris Corbin ever
saw of Ann Stone. Afterward, on a
special trip to Champaign that had
nothing to do with business, he learned
that she had left the restaurant and
her whereabouts was unknown.

On his arrival in Indianapolis Cor-
bin reported immediately to his su-
perior. After finishing an account of
his investigation, he said: “Can you
imagine Keller being reformed!”

“Reformed?”

“TI mean he isn’t operating any more.
Know what that means?”

Simon swore. “It means that if we
can’t capture him behind a bar we'll
have to drive him back into circula-
tion again.”

b ae little detective beamed. “Ex-
actly!”

Simon riffled through a desk file,
and came up with the object of his
search. “It’s that old vehicle indict-
ment. Keller and Kingston were
indicted by the Feds on that rap be-
cause the car was driven to Kentucky.

Bride for a Ride? . (Continued from Page 25) ogricy

“Did you see this fellow Frankie
Plier or Player and his mother?” De-
Martini interrupted. ~

“J heard them all coming down the
stairs. I didn’t see them, though. I
didn’t look out into the hall.”

“Did Soro and Mary often go out

What’ya say we call the G-Men in to
handle this Chicago angle?”

Corbin agreed. “It’s too big for us.”
A wistful look appeared in his eyes.
“But, Boy, I’d sure love the chance.”

So in July, 1935, the manhunt for
Richard Keller shifted to Chicago as
abruptly as it had shifted from Cif-
cinnati to Indianapolis.’

G-Men taking up the trail this time
covered the Lomax Street fire sta-
tion and canvassed every tavern in
the Windy City. But if Sergeant Cor-
bin’s ‘information was correct, the
elusive killer must have got wind of
it. The fire captain at the station ad-
mitted that Keller had been coming
around but all at once his visits had
stopped. And the fugitive couldn’t be
found behind the bar of any tavern.

Once again he seemed to have
vanished into thin air. Was this an-
other false alarm? Had Ann Stone
deliberately misled the Indianapolis
detective? Had she known his true
identity all the time? Had Keller
really been working in Chicago?

Sergeant Corbin steadfastly clung to
his theory. Instead of growing dis-
couraged, he warned that Keller would
soon strike again, basing his belief on
the fact that the man was not to be
found working in Chicago during the
intensive manhunt. Keller had felt
the heat. Though he had not been
captured, he was flushed from the
apparent security of his “respectable
citizen” pose. And that promised one
thing. As soon as he needed money—
somewhere—sometime—Richard Kell-
er would strike again.

And Corbin was right.

Sunday morning, November 10, 1935,
just two years lacking a day from the
time of the Cincinnati murder, a well-
dressed man entered the grocery store
of Lodovico Nardi in St. Paul, Minne-
sota.

“Give me a pound of coffee,” the
man said.

When the grocer turned to comply
he felt the muzzle of a gun prod the
small of his back.

“This is a stickup!” the bandit
barked. “Don’t get funny.”

Sergeant Morris Corbin’s theory had
worked out to its logical conclusion.
Dick Keller was back in circulation
again.

But for once, the murderer had
underestimated his victim. The man
he was attempting to rob was a stu-
dent of jujitsu. Without turning
around Nardi went into action. His
arms swept backwards. One hit the
gun and he sidestepped. The gun
roared, puncturing a can of tomatos

table in the dining-room were three
glasses, the sediment’ of red wine nes-
tling in the bottom of each.

But there were no finger-prints on
the glasses. And there were no ad-

on a near-by shelf. Nardi’s other hand
swept around the gunman’s neck.
Furiously both men rolled and fought
on the floor. But the fugitive was no
match for the expert.

Keller was disarmed.

The first thing he saw when yanked
to his feet was that red streak of
tomatoes running down the shelf. And
right then Dick Keller must have
thought of another haunting similar
stream that had been before his eyes
night and day. Terror leaped to the
blue-green orbs. Under cover of his
own gun he saw no avenue of escape.

- SPITE of the fictitious name he
gave, Chief Eckert of St. Paul recog-
nized him the instant Keller was
marched into Headquarters. The Chief
challenged him immediately on his
identity.

“You might as well admit it,” he
warned, “we’ll peg you on your finger-
prints anyway.”

“Okay,” Keller sighed miserably.
“But that Cincinnati charge is a bum
rap. I’ll beat it easy,” he bragged.

November 11, 1935, a significant day,
Keller agreed to waive extradition and
go back to the Ohio city willingly. And
because Cincinnati had the strongest
case, St. Paul authorities surrendered
him to them.

On January 1, 1936, Richard Keller
went on trial before Judge Charles S.
Bell and a jury of five women and
seven men, and as Chief Kirgan had
prophesied two years earlier, he plead-
ed not guilty and relied upon an in-
sanity defense.

His attractive wife, Gladys Lykkon
Keller, whom he had married while a
fugitive, his mother, brother and sev-
eral others testified that in their opin-
ion Keller was insane. There was also
a deposition from an Indianapolis doc-
tor to that effect.

But Doctor A. T. Ratliff, Cincinnati
psychiatrist, testified that he had ex-
amined the defendant and found him
sane.

January 16, Richard Keller was
found guilty as charged, with no
recommendations on the insanity plea.
The following day Judge Bell read the
death sentence to the downcast de-
fendant before a crowded courtroom.

Richard Keller walked his last mile
to Ohio’s death chamber on July
1, 1936, and before three-score wit-
nesses paid his penalty.

For obvious reasons the names of
Marjorie Wilson, Bobby Sullivan, Clar-
ence Celler, Fred Martin, “Butch”
Street and William Hanson as used
in this story are fictitious.

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so deep it could find no outlet in tears,
she answered questions in the hollow
tones of one hypnotized.

So certain had she and her husband
been of their terrible loss after seeing
newspaper stories and photographs
that her husband had gone to Nassau
Caunty to elaim the bodies, she said.

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abouts. The anniversary of his crime
found police no nearer his capture
than they were the day they started.
And then in December, 1934, Richard
Keller came out of his shell long
enough to make a quick and profitable
foray.

An armored truck service delivered
a weekly payroll to the Ballard and
Ballard Baking Company in Louis-
ville, Kentucky. Two minutes after
the truck’s departure three gangsters
stormed the baking company’s office
with drawn guns and snatched the
money before the startled cashier had
a chance to lock it in the safe.

Louisville police lost no time swing-
ing into action. Within 48 hours they
captured two of the three bandits. One
was James Trout. At once the name
struck a responsive chord in the mind
of Captain Oltjen for he remembered
that Trout previously had been ar-
rested with Keller for another job.

“Where’s Keller?” Oltjen asked the
rugged little heist-man.

“Keller?” A puzzled expression
crept across the features of Trout. “TI
never heard of the man.”

However, as things turned out,
Oltjen didn’t need the bandits to iden-
tify their partner. Victims of the rob-
bery readily picked the photo of Rich-
ard Keller as the third bandit.

But where was Keller? Questioning
of his partners was just so much
wasted breath. They wouldn’t talk,
even though they must have known
that he would sing if positions were
reversed. Roads were blockaded out of
the city and the bridges spanning the
Ohio River into Indiana were closely
guarded, but no further trace of the
fugitive ever was found in the Ken-
tucky city. Thus, while the baking
company job cast some light on the
killer’s activities, it did nothing to-
ward leading to his capture.

Back in Indianapolis the informa-
tion that Sergeant Morris Corbin had
picked up nine months previously
was tormenting the diminutive officer.
So when a lull came on his regular
assignment on the hot-car detail, he
began a little private investigation on
his own. The first person he sought
was Mrs. Kingston.

“I’m sorry,” she countered his query.
“J can’t tell you much about my hus-
band. We were separated and I wasn’t
familiar with his activities.”

Corbin showed his surprise. ‘“Sep-
arated! Well—I didn’t know that.”

“Of course I visited him in jail and
we discussed a few things,” she went
on. “You know him and Keller used
to be in the contracting business back
in 1930. But Dick couldn’t stand pros-
perity so Bill bought the business and
Dick went to bootlegging.”

Corbin stretched his legs and offered
the attractive girl a cigarette. “Did
Bill say what their business was in
Louisville?”

She nodded. “They were driving a
beer truck from there to Newport,
Kentucky, for one of George Remus’
old partners, I think he said.”

[= Sergeant tucked that tidbit in
a pocket of his mind for future
reference.

“Did you know the girl that was ar-
— with your husband, Mrs. Kings-
on?”

She smiled and nodded. “If you
mean Ann Stone, yes. I became ac-
— with her while he was in
jail.”

“No hard feeling toward her?”

She laughed.

“Of course not. They were to be
married after our divorce. She thought
a lot of Bill. She even raised money
for his defense. But something hap-
pened, I don’t quite know what, and
the money was lost.”

Corbin thanked the girl and took
his leave. The next place he visited
was the county jail. Deputy Sheriff
Harry Cooke was the first man he saw
there. He came to the point at once.

“Say, Pal, I’m running down the

loose ends of an idea. How about
helping me?”

Cooke smiled. “Shoot!”

“Can you think of any reason why
Dick Keller dreaded a return to jail
that September when we brought him
back from Shelbyville? I mean some-
thmg serious enough to make him
squeal on a pal?”

The Deputy grinned. “I can give
you one good reason.”

“What?”

“The pal.”

Corbin squinted his eyes. “Go on.”

“You never heard about Keller get-
tin’ his head whaled with the black-
jack?”

“No-o-o-o!” The detective’s sur-
prise was sincere. “Spill it.”

“Do you remember the girl that was
arrested with Kingston in Louisville?”

“Good-looking brunet—her name
was Ann Stone.”

Corbin nodded.

Cos fished in his pockets for a
pack of smokes before continuing.
“The party they were driving for in
Kentucky loaned the Stone girl two
hundred and fifty dollars to get her
man out on bond. And she made the
mistake of letting Keller accompany
her to Indianapolis. Keller told her
she might get pinched if she showed
up here at the jail, so she gave him
the bond money and waited at a hotel.
And that was the last she saw of Dick
Keller until the money was all spent.”
* “And she told Kingston?”

Cooke nodded. “And he told us.
Then a couple months later you guys
picked Keller and Trout up for that
Shelbyville job and they laid in jail
here a week waiting extradition.”

“TJs that when Keller got his head
whaled?”

A grin spread across the rugged face
of the Deputy. “That’s when. Keller
was to leave the next day. Bill knew
it. So the evening before, while every-
body was eating supper, Kingston
leaped up from the table and grabbed
the blackjack from one of our deputy’s
pockets. He slugged Dick’s head until
the jack busted and B-Bs flew in every
direction.”

Disappointed, Corbin left Headquar-
ters. He knew that if he did get a
chance later he needed more facts than
he now had so he decided to pursue
his theory.

The next step, Corbin believed, was
to talk to Kingston who was miles
away at the State Penitentiary. So
the Sergeant made the trip on his own
time.

“J don’t need any coppers to fight
my fights,” Kingston remarked when
Corbin found him, but he was not
hostile.

Sergeant Corbin shrugged his shoul-
ders, and then asked one more ques-
tion as casually as he could. “Where,”
he drawled, “is Ann Stone?”

For a moment he thought the pris-
oner was going to reach across the
wide table and seize him by the neck.
The man half raised from his chair.
His voice hissed. His eyes blazed.
“Leave her out of this! You hear!”

The detective heard. He had the
key to the riddle and that was all he
sought. When he left the prison he
was highly elated. Now his plan was
complete. “Find the girl. Find Ann
Stone,” something kept repeating all
the way home. “Find her and you'll
end the Keller manhunt.”

But finding Ann Stone was no easy
task.

She wasn’t in Indianapolis. Louis-
ville authorities had no trace of her.
However they did send her photo-
graph, an eye-filling, dark-eyed brunet,
if anything, more beautiful than Kings-
ton’s wife.

Corbin lost no time in launching his
search. It was a slow, disheartening
task. On his own time he made peri-
odic trips to Cincinnati and Louisville
in search of the attractive girl. Months
sped by on wings, but once started,
the little detective did not lag. And

then luck finally played his way. From
a Louisville truck-driver, he learned
that Ann Stone was working as night
girl in an obscure little road-house
that catered to tourist trade, and those
roaring knights of the highway, night-
truckers. The place was just outside
of Champaign, Illinois.

Corbin lost no time in getting to the
road-house. His heart swelled with
triumph that warm, rainy night in
May, 1935, when he entered the de-
serted establishment and came face
to face with the girl whose picture he
carried in his pocket-book. He doffed
his slicker and mounted a stool.

“Bad night,” he said.

“Tl say it is,” she said, smiling
agreeably.

He ordered coffee and bacon and

Captain Dan Gilbert: He looked
to the draft registration for a
clew to the leader of the gunmen
who shot down a payroll guard.
Turn to Page 2 for this story

eggs. He got the steaming coffee first.
“You worked here long?” he asked.

She looked at him pointedly.

“T used to stop here all the time,”
he added, grinning. “But I never saw
you around.” Looking at her like this,
the detective thought she was even
prettier than the picture in his pocket.

“Evidently you haven’t stopped here
for some time,” she said, breaking the
eggs into a frying-pan.

“you’re right about that.” He
laughed. “I used to haul liquor along
these parts, but Uncle Sammy objected
and took me out of circulation.”

“You mean they caught up with
you?” She held the pan over the small
gasoline flame.

Corbin downed his coffee. ‘“Some-
thing like that,” he finally said. “For
about two years.”

They talked of inconsequential
things for the next hour and then
when a truck-driver barged in and
ordered a big meal, Corbin paid his
check and departed, not wishing to
crowd his luck too far.

From then on the detective managed
to get over to Champaign once every
week and his friendship with the girl
grew by leaps and bounds. She was
glad to see him enter and seemed as
though she was reluctant to see him
go. June came and he figured the
time was ripe to play his hand. Either
he would hit the jack-pot, or get a
lemon for his long, hard struggle.

The girl leaped to her feet when he
entered and ceased the polishing in-
stantly. “Whew!” she gasped, a broad
smile of greeting upon her lips. “You
look as cheerful as an undertaker out
of employment. Or have you lost your
one best friend?”

Corbin snorted. “You have hit the

nail squarely on the head. You oughtta
be a prophet.”

She gathered the silverware from
the counter, then paused. “Honest?”

He slouched upon.a stool. “Best
bootlegger ever drove these parts.
I’ve been hunting him every day since
I sprung from stir.”

“Lots of those fellows used to stop
in here,” she said, clutching the silver
to her closely. ‘“What’s his name?”

“Bill Kingston!” Corbin snapped.
“From Indianapolis.”

Knives, forks and spoons crashed to
the floor. Ann Stone swayed on her
feet and her eyes grew wide with
fright. For a moment the detective
thought she was going to faint. But
she recovered herself quickly and
leaned across the counter close to his
face. “You—he was your partner?”
Amazement flooded her voice.

“Do you know him?” Corbin asked
in feigned surprise.

“What’s your name?”

“To you—” he pretended to weigh
her query carefully—‘Butch Street.”

She straightened and drew in a deep
breath. “I’ve heard Bill speak of you,”
she said. “You know Dick Keller, too,
don’t you?”

Corbin’s heart kicked around his
ribs and leaped to his mouth. He
gulped and nodded. “Where are they?”

But she wasn’t ready to answer
questions yet. “You were pinched with
Bill in Indianapolis, wasn’t you?”

“In 1933. How do you know so
much? What’s your name?”

“You’re from Chicago, huh?” She
still persisted in getting everything
straight.

Corbin nodded again. ‘“Where’s Bil)
and Dick?”

A hungry gleam leaped to the dark-
brown eyes. “Bill,” she said wist-
fully, “is in prison. Dick is on_ the
ax ag hunting him for murder.”

“No!”

Bitterness crept into her next words.
“And I hope they catch him! The
dirty snake!”

The man’s eyebrows raised. “So
you know him real well, too?”

“T ought to,” she snapped. “He beat
me out of two and a half yards. I bor-
rowed the money to get a lawyer tc
help Bill. On top of that Keller signe«
a phony statement and that sent Bil)
up for seventeen years.”

For the next hour the little detec-
tive listened to a running account 01
events that were as familiar to him
as the nose on his face. It was easy
going from that moment on, and he
had no trouble worming his way int
her confidence. Before departing,
date was made. They’d make a tri)
to the Indiana prison and if Bill could
tell them where to find Mr. Keller that
gentleman would have a couple un-
welcome, very unwelcome visitors
Ann set the day for the Fourth o:
July.

ee road did not see the new clouc
brooding on the horizon until it en-
veloped him and threatened to upse'
all of his carefully laid plans. 1)
June, 1935, Editor Talcott Powell 01
The Indianapolis Times launched
newspaper campaign against under-
world connections that were tying int
judicial channels. And his revelation:
were so startling that the editor’s lifc
was threatened before the crusade hac
gone two weeks.

Powell appealed for police protec-
tion. Detective Chief Fred Simon
complying, assigned his ace marksma)
to Mr. Powell’s side night and day
And that marksman was Sergean’
Morris Corbin.

The little detective raved. Ninetee:
months the Keller manhunt had bee:
on and just when he was gettin:
somewhere he had to wet-nurse a
athlete who could lick his own weigh
in wildcats any day.

Three days later Corbin changed hi
mind. Guarding the fiery newshoun
had its compensations. The detectiv:
found that he had more time nov

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Mrs, Rosa King, 74 years ‘old, |r,
of Lima, Ohio, and Leo King, Sio-
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at 4 o’clock.

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of ‘Atquinas College, Columbus, and

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" itate- Wide, Interest
the King case!’ held state-wide’

ness of th& crime and success of the

for one year, B po-
parts ‘ef the coun-

tly, A chronologteal Ristoty of the
case follows:

* Oetober 23, 1920—At 4 30 o'clock
+1. the afternoon’ neighbors foand

“1 Ind., with’ relatives of his mother

| Lhave gone with Etkel and the bors,

pon:

eo | z

been about 7,000 eubie feet—jnte the
‘ Polies found Mra. King breathing
faintly. Her right arm, near whie)
[a peayer book ves lying, was. towet.
ing the lifeless body of her ‘‘baby**
Charles, Jr., the lone survivor.
| The other children, Keith, 5; E:on
shi Robert, 14 and Paui 9, aoe
leeping in_an upstairs room. Keith
and plage teh found dead. Robert
cra TH died at Mercy ~ hospital,
ing diec the following MOF

i

when Charles, Jr., resovered. Cor-

oner Edward Cook questioned him.

Boy's Statement

The boy aid: ‘‘Daddy was mad

ause he couldn't find his tools*’,
The boy has not made a statement

since, ‘He now lives.in Fort Wayne,

He does not know that his father is
dead, He does not know that he was
the only: one ofthe family” to sur-
vive the gas.”
Poliee found a

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hich later proved
instrument of evi-
ulted in King’s ¢o"1-

pi ee I had to. 1
was poor, but wae happy and some
people wanted to part us.~ Iwill
leave the insurance policies ‘to pay
expenses . nd don’t look *»+: me, as

John Ablers, John Bokey and Wil-
liam Fess, all of Coldwater, enused
mé to do thie.””’ >” :

The note was not signed!

. Police found other: papers whieh
ir dicated that King was in financitl
difficulties, ©.

Running up Sr ataet blank walls iu
their. search for King, police, wo
resorted mainly to ‘‘vovering — tho
ecuntry’” with circulars, found ‘&
trace of the slayer in Fairport Har-
b6r, one year after the killing.

Police Officers Herschell Hain2s
o1.d Oscar Deqker:atrested King. If3
wae identified by the sped: on his
head.

Returned to Hamilton, Kine bits
ed loss of memory. For one hour he
denied he was King. Then, he broke
and, for one hour,*related a cot-
fession to the crime and signed 3
statement of guilt.” :
He told of. kissing his wife and
bors before he left the house. He
‘said hig wife opened oné eye and
that the ‘'grey eye’? followed him
in his year’s. travels scout city. to
city.

King’ s indigtment <n one murder
count by the. grard dary followed
quickly. after h’s [re ‘iminary © are
raignment in majieipal court. © 4

Sia «Jury's: Verdict

‘On. December: 3, .intig’s\> trial
‘opened: After a 2 ur-day~ hearing
King was convicted—‘ be jury taking
17 ballote,

Pleading for the @ sath’ penalty, B,
F. Primmer, then” prosecutor,» ex-
claimed: ‘' Nevada: sends its mur-

ber. Would to God Ohio had sueh, a
chamber for Charles King.”” ~
The defense, in closing ite atga-
ments, denied the correctness ‘of
King ’é confession and the authent: .
city of the farewell note. >: =~
“Mother Collapsed”

sons dead or dying in their home

bodies of Mre, King end her four}

While Governor White “and his

Sent Out Circulars - as :

derets to death in a gaa filled eham-|

Philadelphia £Maneier. and
lieist, born in, Philadelphia. ved
there, April 8, 1921. -

1 ames Ford Rhodes,
American historian, born~ in
“Cleveland.”

Died- at Brake
Mass., Jan. 22, 1927. ;

r

the; Th year-old sioiher: his brother
Leo and Leo’s wife, eat in the of-
fiees of ‘the Governor’ 's secretary,
adjoining.

“The Governor refuses to act!’’

A clerk delivered” this - message
into theante room at 2:55 o'clock.

The niother. collapsed into-\ the
arms of.her daughter-in-law. They
were escortedefo a waiting room.

Leo King, surrounded by® friends
from Coldwater, appeared stunned
as he left the ‘room to * join” his
mother and wife.

----, Family. Silent

No. members of the Hing family
made statements.

Coldwater residerts—15 of them
| business men, - professional. men
and’ just piain: folks’ who left their
homes and tbeir businesses to ask
executive clemency. for ‘‘Charlie’’,
walked silently from the room. Some
were in tears.

“467 did ‘not -helieve ate Was A
chance for Charlie’’, commented Dr.
P. F. Weider, who was ‘King’s phy-
sician for years.

The Coldwater deelgates who. bad
spent 70- minutes in the Governor’s
office in. passionate | ‘pleading ‘‘‘to
give Charlie a stay’’, returned to

ge Bjeekice: record ‘of

King’s trial, ng emphasis u
facts which, he Ee vcintaed: ea
serious doubt as to the guilt of the

man.

Six Arguments’ .
” Samaing up his plea, the attorney
listed six causes why, in his opinion,
a Stay of execution ‘should. be grant-
ed. They’ were: ‘
First: Al} Coldwater knew him as
a loving father and kind husband.
Second: Circumstances indicated
it we isspossi pte for him to do the
ac
Thirds Evidente showed the wife
and one child were living when the

{| tragedy..was discovered.. -Testimony

purported to show that victims were
exposed to gas 13 hours. Meter read-
ings showed 7,000 cubic feet of gas
had passed through the meter at the
house from two days before the
tragedy was. discovered <uutil — the
afternoon. when the ‘bodies were
found. King allegedly was seen last
at the house at ll-v’clock the night
before the gas was loosed. Claim was
that if King had turned on the gas
at 11 o'clock 13,000 “eubie feet of
gas would have been metered.
Handwriting
Fourth: A Suicide theory was pos-
sible, it being ‘contended ‘that’ Mrs.
King loosed the gas. ;
Fifth: Experts -examined ® hand-
writing on two notes, one written by
King; the other also written by him,
according to state’s claims. One ex-
pert ssid both notes were not writ-
ten by the same mau. The second
said the sime man wrote both.
Sixth: A great doubt exists as to
whether King committed the crime

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| for which he was convicted. :

Concluding “his appeal, Myers
said; ‘‘We are not asking parole or
cominuntation of the septence.; We
are merely asking a stay of execu-
tion because we believe’ we will be
able to proguce evidenée to prove
that Charlie was not:guilty.’’

Governor's Questions

‘Governor White asked Myers why
Coldwater had’ not taken an active
interest in the King case at the time
of the ‘trial. The Governor. also

ee hoince-—-their efforts’ in vain,”

Leads Appeal

appeal. Describing King’s. life--in
Coldwater as that of the ideal hus-
band and father, the attorney pic-
tured King’ as a man who worked
eight hours daily at the barber trade,
then went home to his wife abd chil-
dren. 2 =)‘
“Often times, " My ers recalled,
thé would get: up early Monday
| mornings to do the family washings.

“Other times® he would bake
bread.

“The children loved him. ‘We all
-}loved Charlie.

441 cannot see how tie could have
bite such a thing for: which he was

argon. Doarg ae.

indicted?” =: .

“Attorney Burl Myers, who. grew |
up with King, took the lead in the |

Cash of
Credit

asked why King Nad disappeared for!

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ek Bald ewe

Prosecutor eaten where.

and signed: the oes fy
ing the. two burgls ries and the. at-
{tack on Mr, Mitch He. told t e. of’

Acers. that chesstn ck. the - “aged man

Poni 3
“Late. Gat 5

‘tle of: “patent i ta eh chased sees
‘wrapped up: the -p ickage he inserted
| @: Sample-of- pills.2 Goins. the
Ee. be: giver the sample.
velne was. for. ‘another: “party.: Ayres
ave. him: fo. Samy les, . piacl g iene
dn @ small. paper: ‘bag,

» Gola: gave. the imedicine ‘and. ‘one
of. the Samples: tg) Kittrells, telling’
plea tot take. them: his uncle. fi

“Kittrell wag: ext neen- near. th
mlsboro™ ‘Bank “by. Bert Rice. ‘The
two, men’ spoke” ang: Kittrells® started
‘down Raat. Main. street... ‘Rice followed
sclose sbebind ® Kitiras, Rolng” in’ ‘the

“and <saw. Kittrells
Fast and. Walnut,

‘House, he. > aoe tee ast: Street

Li. Lite: that “afterng nd on Sch weinahers: |

er asked if, he airack,

ian Ada ‘Swisshelm” was walking
“down: ‘Fast Street“and: ‘turned east: on
Walnitt,: ‘going to. the’ “home! of: AW:
‘Kelley,.She_-saw., the youth run across

“and: pttack: Mr, “Mitchell “in: front’. of
‘the: McBride ‘residence, :: ‘ghe’:-tmme-
diately: aventcinto. the” [Kelley home
which * ‘ig’ directly: across.” the: ‘street
‘from the scene of the attack and told:
Mr. Kelley, » Kelley, tealled the. police

| from. the’ gouth | ‘side-of Walnut Street}

rand ‘went to help Mr? ‘Mitchell, wate
ce Migs. Swisshelm did: not know Ritt-:
rella but. gave police a- description
ot Mr,’ ©'Mitehell’s ‘“ assailant. which.
‘tallies with. the accused. man.;. She.
‘sajd- he. was ‘wearing a. dark. ‘over-
‘coat. abd a cap,.Kiterelts: "was wear-|
ing? similar. ‘clothing ‘at the time ot
his. arrest. When asked - “to” jdentify’
‘the ‘Negro in’ the: “ity. jail,~ Miss:
Swisshelm © ‘gaid =that*: ‘she : could - snot}
gay positively that’ he: “was the Ton:
"whom: she had seen ‘the night: ‘before.
as Mitchell's: ‘assailant. pad ~worked
‘quickly. and. fled. ‘up: an- alley} at “the
side, of the McBride’ foaldencss :

ise Taken - ‘ta “Hospital ye

Bridp residence. : The.’ ‘Anjured © “man

sidewalk. “ Schweinsberger. sent - “Wage
her to take Mr. Mitchell to. the office
of Dr. Roads. Mr. Mitchell, inn semi-|
conscious. condition, . sald. he. aid: ‘not
swant to go.to'a. doctor, ‘that: he. ‘want-
ed’ to'go. home. He was “taken, howe

ea “administered. ee 3
“ Sehweinsberge remained,« a the
scene of the crime: for a: short time.
‘ang-then came to. the physician's. of-.
. Mr. Mitchell: was taken: : “the
ywpaital, ‘ptm ‘apparently. ‘against: his
will, “where. he: wag treated. He: was
‘conscious at’ “tlmes ‘but

down 19. viel ro
womett nes. his -¢ tag, tne ema

bron oe ee al
Alichll a placed in: &, bank book

‘= "When: Officers - ‘Schwelasberger ‘andl
‘Wagner: ‘arrived on the scene,, Kelley}
wag leading Mr. Mitchell: -awey: from}
the ppot where he was: found, ‘a tew|
feet cast of the. entrance. to. the Me-

had: been: jying on his” ‘face ‘on: thet

re first ald

a z Beolined
in 2.

mt

Saas VAS


j
{
{
made a aes {
| home of

and gone -into _ the af
aria ‘Byans, next Ora or pong . ‘
said he notited that 4 é ‘
ieee out in thé McBride home si (
wondered if any one Ws en bes 1
McBrides were away from home. He, ;

says he does not remember beltg at-',

tacked and did, not know about it

was told Thursday. .
m8 met Gallon of ‘Whiskey ee
Investigating further, See bette
ger, found that Kittrell oat cet.
Hard, aleo colpred, want $0 0% Og
of Jesse Thompson iq East. radigne
asked Thompson to go with them 2 |
a crap game.; Thoripaon refused Ot
gihe tro lett. They weal
| :

Going to @ hema on North West
Street, Kittrells gave Thompson ay
dollar bill to-get a half. pint of whis-;
key. The whiskey was 25 cents and
Kittrella gaye Thompson 60 cents to.’
atart in a ¢rap game which they!
were planning to attend.

 -Rebbed “Some Old Man”

Thompson. asked Kittrells during
the crap game where he got so much
money andy Kittrells replied that: he
had “knocked somé old. man in the
hend and robbed him.”

The three went to the home of Roy
Trimble on Smokv Row he Kitt-
rells Ipst about’ $4. He left the game
Slote and Seturaed: later and: ‘lost,

ut $6. more. It is bélieved ‘that* he:
ede Smith’s Drug Store and ‘the
Standard ‘O31 Station between the
timo he. left the gars and tho time he}.
returned. e° rag PG. ae

ee The robberies at both places were
committed! in. a ..similar ,. manner,

rocks being thrown gre the glass}

‘In the doors at both establishments
to gain’entrance. At Smith's. Drug
i Store, a. valuable Belgian door giass|
whe smaghed and $7.25 was missing
from théceash register. No merchan-
| dise was disturbed. Two large rocks

[ At the oll station, the glass was
broken and, instead of reaching in
| the opening and turning the night-
‘latch, Kittrells had apparently cilmb-
ed in. Finding only a few pennies
and some three-cent postage s'amps.
he left, climbing out of the broken
window, using a stool. The stool was
found near the door and the tell-tale
plils were found at the side of the
stool.

shear
Was Convicted Twice .

Kittrells was sent to the Reform
School at Lancaster for. burglarizing
the ‘Economy Store, committed Dec.
8, 1923, After he was freed from
that institution, he was sentenced to
serve an indeterminate sentence in
the reformatory at Mansfield for the:
burglary of the Fred Hill Filling
Station on South High Street, then
owned. by Leonard H. Fenner. He
wis comnrtted to the Mansfield’ in-
stitution Novenvber 2. 1929, and was
‘paroled two years later.

The youth was questioned about
the theft of the Ford coupe of Dr. J.
Wiler Harrold ‘from in front of the
latter’s residence on the night of the
other crimes, but he maintained his
innocence, The tar’ was’ foend » the
following morning edb the residence;

(of Charles Bowles on South ' East
Street. © & pee ne

Much credit’ Bhould be given the
work of Schweinsberger on this case.
He had very few ‘clues to work on
but succeeded in placing the crim-
inal under arrest quickly and obtain-
ing the confession soon - after the

commission of the offenses.’ Marshall
Lean and Prosecutor McDowell co-
operated with him and worked very
hard on the case. pase

ed

were found: on the floor inside: the
| store. a ;

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KITIRELLS, Irmel (Barney), black, elec. Qpio (Highland Co.) 6/25/1934,

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NECRO IS CALM AS
- STATE TAKES LIFE

Kittrells Dies in Chair
For Death of Thomas
Mitchell

PLEAS ARE FUTILE

Executive Clemency Is Refused
Defense Attorneys in Decision
Monday—Condemned Man
Is Dead at 8:54 P. M.

Monday night at $:50 the State of

‘1Ohio took the life of Irmil Kittretls,

26-year-old negro, in payment a
the murder of Thomas Mitchell, 91.
wealthy retired farmer of Hillsboro.
KKittrells died tn the electric chalt
at the Ohio Penitentiary after yea
ernor White and the Parole Boar:
had declined to offer executive clem-

:ency in the case.

The youthful slayer went to his
death calmly and without making .
final statement. It is customary ot
the warden of the penitentiary to as
a condemned prisoner if he has acid
last statement to make immediately
before he zoes to his doom but. such
was not the case Monday night.

Kittrells entered the death chamber
calmly and seated limself in the re
tric chair immediately after entering
the room. He walked steadily and bedi
not in need of any physical aid.
stoically surveyed a small group A
witnesses which had gathered at e
execution but made no signs of recon

i any one.
me Dead at 8:34 P. M.

After Kittrells was strapped in ane
lchair by guards, the first echo
electricity was passed through he
body at 8:51 p..m. He was formally
‘pronounced dead at 8:54 by Dr.
George Keil, penitentiary ‘physician.
The witnesses consisting of news-
paper men, officers and other —
ested parties, were ushered into the
death house at the penitentiary by
Warden Preston E. Thomas only a
few seconds before Kittrells was
brought in. The only sign of emotion
that could be detected in the prison-
er was.a noticeable quick beating
of his. heart which could be seen
under his shirt <
The

s a at the
trousers. The shirt was open at |
neck. A. spot, about four inches in
diameter on the” top of Kittrells
head had been*shaved.

me
Calm as Straps Are Fixed

Kittrells did not resist bis fate bu:,
after quickly seating himself in the
chair, readily lent himself to the
labars of two guards who were bus.-
ly engaged in Strapping him into the
chair and fixing the two electrodes in
place. After slitting Kittrells’ right
trouser leg with q knife, one guard
placed a metal band containing an
electrode on the calf of the negro’s
leg while the other fixed the other
electrode in place on the prisoner's
scalp. This was held in position by
an elastic band under Kittrells’ chin.
The prisoner made no objections to
the actions of the guards,
With straps around his chest and
neck and clamps holding his legs and
arms jn place, Kittrells was held se-
curely in the chair. A black mask
was then lowered over his face.
At a nod from Warden Thomas,
one of the guards pressed a button
immediately back of the chair and
a buzzer was heard. Almost momen-
iarily, a red light was turned on over
the chair and the first current enter-.
ed the body of Kittrells,

Jerks as Current Starts t

A sudden jerk caused by the draw-
ing up of all the muscles in Kittrells’
body was all that could be seen and
the lethal electric current continued
to pass through the body of the con-
victed man. Shortly the flesh began
to burn and A sizzling notse was
heard as smoke, accompanied by an
obnoxious odor began to arise from
the electrode placed on Kittrells’ leg,
‘Khe red light over the condemned
man’s head went out and the guards
removed the . strap from his chest,
Dr. Keil stepped forward from his
place at the side of Warden Thomas
and placed a stethescope on tho
breast of the elayer, Finding a fain:
trace of heart action remaining, he
hesitated momentarily before making
another examination. After listeniug
intently a second time, Dr. Keil took
his watch from his pocket and an-
nounced, “YF find that sufficient elec-
trio current has ‘passed through the
body of Irmil Kittrells to produce his
death at 8:64.”
_ Warden Thomas then said, “Gentiles
meu, you are excused,” and the wits
nesses filed from the death honso
before the body of the slayer waa

taken. from the chatr.

prisoner was garbed in a
white shirt anda pair of dark grey |

__The death row where Kittrells wad

NEW S-HERALD >
Hills boro, Ohio
6/28/1934,

ae oot en ee mee — *

NEGRO IS CALM AS.
STATE TAKES LIFE

(Continued ‘From First Page)
confined until shortly before his eX-
ecution, 1s lo¢ated on tne opposite
pide of the penitentiary from the
chamber in which, the electric chair
is located, Near the cells in the death
row are -three: electric awitches. Only
one of thése switches throws the
currnt into the death chamber. The

switches are wired differently for:
each execution, —

“Aiwaits Death Calmly =|

ne last man who talked with Kit-
tretts was H: 8. Stockwell who had
peen Sent to *bring the negro’s body
to Hillsboro’ for burial. jhe con-
demned: man was awaiting execution
in’ a solitary..cell located directly ir
the rear of the electric chair. A3
Stockwell passed the cell, Kittrells
recognized -him and’ called him by
name. - i as

“pid you come up to get mat" ask
ed the colored youth. Stockwell an-
swered that he had.

“How are: all the folks dowrFr

home?” queried Kittrells. He was told

that they were in good pealth,. Th?
condemned man was told by the fu-
neral directgr that his relatives were
not coming to Columbus.

Stockwell ‘asked Kittrells how he

jwas feeling and was. told “gusta!
little nervous.” Stockwell noted that:
bis hands were trembling slightly. He
saw the dishes on which Kittrells |
bad been served a roast chicken din-
ner followed by a dessert of ice)
cream, The meal had ‘peen entirely.
|consumed. Chicken bones remained |
on one of the plates. »—
It {3 customary at the penitentiary |
for a man condemned to die to .Ye-
celeve anything he wants to eat for
his last meal. Mrs. P. EB. Thomas |
ysually prepares this meal personally
‘as she did in Kittrells’ case.
‘Confers ‘With Ministers

During Kittrells’ last week in the|
penitentiary, he was exceedingly re-
ligious, according to prison ‘attaches.
‘Rev. B. W. Moore, the minister of &
colored Baptiet church in Columbus, |
and Rev. C. W. Pfleuger and Rev.
(fvomas Carter, algo of Columbus.
: visited him frequently in his cell in
‘death row and read scripture to him
and sang hymns with him. According ;
to Rev. Moore, the youth was ina
tate of collapse Monday afternooa
Vbut became exceedingly peaceful |
‘early in the evening. The expression
‘on his ‘face when he siepped onto |
th platform on which the electric.
chair is mounted was one of mingled |
complacence and despair.

s Ask Commutation

Attorneys H. S. Pulse and Burch D. |
Huggins succeeded in gaining aa
audience with. the Parole Board and
a secretary of Gov. White, Friday '

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the Morgan sang) ‘Whar of the Wool Growers 1( 70! oor was put to dentb-tn the elertrie| ae burial epece today,

purpewe of eee iee | Combines of Malew? Me. Watter hate rr one stated this morning ty a
bis ourit worl 0m | etsy tuld of the work of the state Dr} ; ong face telephose conversation
for the group | axeertation and ioe ya ar ales of een eG mon Ps oe car mmenee that lodiea.
Mepped Up nes 2 memier ips the Phyelcvena who edjusted stethosroper! 1 ree Nevldense of me aie sero
af police were in ,etate beend ( cirectors of the essa ta their care lant night to determine ne

Hen Red wie

Conursnitlen : +; Be

Uh ibe West Nido ‘alle to be present for| gEtBee all Mo had passed from the | tre rime be raunding Nelsowy ite He 3:

treet members nf bie’ Ved Say ye 4 ye “N) bealy of the condemned map den their fellow eltinwn tata way 24 ;

\ EL bua Val ers fal eepand pe Tedem> Hemet, Keto tne le. its iwan: ra ft

Sy iveing ging the sgh > ove » The littl town of Doaarille, z ee
gh tere tess | WEATHER OUTLOOK | (ara ierler the Co 1 stuat | boybond boner ve no ad

undertaking ovtablishmest at Neleoe-| talk of the ex teda
b tevtlon
time. the state's | Cold and Plenty of Rain Pore: ast pin Te gp ogi wip << a one ee ae wae “ tee
police bradquar- | toe Wiel 2 pec te make funersi arrange Page 8
heynote oof the} ee

tuation in Chives) Crile Ais, Feb 1G = Weather out

iain crite net inno nes | KOON 'S Smile. Vanishes |

fall liquor resorts | tegion of the (reat Lakes: Cold tae
taf the hootlegzer

Ane cel See|As He Sights Death Chair

rang will disrupt

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POE Rebates ts siahagabare’ 4

Ohio Valley: A period of  ralas BY JAMES 1. RENICK Umie penitoatia fast night ¢
goad or Wednesday aod again at Marien Bier Sieg Writce He was prschine tn he Ge
oF th ehdvol the: week Moderate tom-| Temblike silesce, Heed and was follewrd by » eieenr
Hpmenta today ton: sparse’ the’ Sirol WAIT’ eudscala” the Everett Kous, murderer, wes in | Cuard.
etlon ta ted shor k- strer half of the week. the electric ebair, i Greste Gld Pricng wd
ved SSvaneye ie PORT. ap ee A bork 08 « door and the buss of Koon passed t t tu
eradearae @ ARREST 14 ON INDECENT | on ctertrie pase Santee Png oe yt be =o sae
A sinister whine and & ere , | 7% papile dilated, giea 4 ig
antic order to the PLAY PRODUCTION CHARGE; sputtering sowed like ‘ Feerth | 7. & flicker fe mod rar { re
om Mates Atior NEW TORK. Feb. 16—The author.’ July spartien Me | face ae be cought sight of e boron wd
4 te 8 contere inducer and 12 players of “My Girl sputter and crackting—torrible ai. | {rivad, 4
Ors sod captains, pridtey’ fared charges today of giving ience the

t etrelmed the eardrums | “Helle Goergia,” be
ap or suffer indict. inilecent§ performance. Police bore dows Jike a terrige rae | olmast chsertyl, notte vate

. “Byers.” raised the production at the Repyblic ihe nerves of the eye witnessrq He

SHR further develop. ineter last night o@ the growed It And thes the priece physician

a i ae [was an uberene play. Bail wes $500 ‘reaking the silemee with thers
a. | and all furnisbed boeds, | words: “Badicteot cerrest has Possed
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Koons was accused and convicted of the’ ._
hatchet murder of his mother, Margaret;
at their home on Lagonda Avenue on Jan,

25, 1946. Koons was a naval veteran of ~
the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is the
gist of the front page column, In addition
it relates that he willed his eyes for ©
cornea transplants.

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- . On
sternal judgment seat
Owe Sherk Does Work

Yor one minute and seren seconds
the curreaf passed through hia bedy.
Ope ahock was al] thet was necessary.
™ ree bundreds volts.

] peck swelled slightly, turned
far tre wae a sickening sizzling
aa the gmmole curled up along his
ght bee from the electrode. <A faint
sor of burning flesh.

And@ tbroagh ft all an awful ai-

znce broken only by breathing and
Se

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Koon that all legal means of escaping
death chair have been exhausted.

Feb. 13: Koon appeals to governor
for reptieve or commutation of sen-
tence to life imprisonment.

Feb. 15: Koon notified that gov-
ernor refuses to intervene. Convict
dies in electric chair.

THE WEATHER

Cloudy with light anow or rain in
northern and eastern sections tonight
er Sunday. Colder Sunday in Central
and northern parts.

MARION OBSERVATIONS

Coe reer eens esetonse

WEATHER OBSERVATIONS

Observations of the United States
weather burpau, taken st 8 a. m. to-
éay. ;

Yesterday's high: Miami, 78; Jaeck-
sontille, 58; Tampa, 76.

Today's low: Pas, 34 below; Prince
Albert, 23 below; Winnipeg, 24 below.
DAILY TEMPERATURE REPORT

8 A.M. Maximum
- Teday Yesterday

RL ep RR NE HHA CL ASIA IE FE ERRELE 9 ASE ESR I
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AG

i. Ochs, William Ocha, Amber
Komerlott, John J. Francis, sberiff,
Jacob Barclay, Burdette Bindley,
aud Murray Powers, James Henick
eud W. T. Buchanan, repressnta-
tives of The Marion Star.
Story of Foos Slaying

* The community around ILikens
chapel, north of Mfarion, was lashed
to a fury last May 29 when news
epread with lightping-like speed that
Henry Foos, aged and respected
farmer, and Mra, Foos bad been at-
tacked and robbed in their home. <A
posse quickly gathered,

The trail of the assailant was
picked up by George Bird, son-in-law
of (be aged couple, Bird, with e
neighbor, drove to Marion, where
they picked up Patrolman Mert
Yocum, Driving east on Fairground
tt, they located the suspect in an
open field to the north,

Koon made no resistance when
arrested. Ilis hands were covered with
blood and in his pocket was found a
roll of bills taken from the Foos bome.
Koon later confessed that he bad
entered the Foos home while Mr. and
Mrs. Fous were away, When they
returned they discovered that the
house bad been ransacked. Imme-
diately they went upstairs, where they
discovered that several articles of
Jewelry bad been taken.

Attacks Aged Couple

As they returned to the frst floor
Koon met Mr, Foos at the foot of the
stairway. <A struggle followed in
which Mrs. Yoos was severely injured
and Bir. Foou received a fractured
skull, a broken jaw and a crushed eye.

The county courts mored rapidly io
disposing of the case. In less than a
munth and a half after the murder
Koon was under death sentence. ‘The
prosecution was directed by Frank
Weidemana. He -was assisted by
Carter Patton, his law partner and
city police prosecutor.

The verdict of guilty of murder
while committing a robbery was the
second first degree murder verdict

without mercy ever returned in
Marion county. .
For three almost unbearably bot

aye tbe Courtroom was fammei to
capacity. Tho trial itself was rather
coloriess, It was an unequal batt
between an enraged citizenry end a
friendlees suspect.

Attorney Homer EB.’ Johnson. ap-
pointed by the court to defend Koon.
was forced to contend with the sus

'} pect’s confession in the fight to save

him from the death chair,

Bubsequent occurrences {n

at,

4

Re Ae date 9 ot lp pally

| Try Tenders Yeo Cream is your!
*. Sunday menu-—Adv,

ceased. ‘The doctor stepped forward,

want sis lowes?
followed by other visiting physicians. action te dt”
The official physician pronounced Bur Wate
Koon dead. “What da you

It was now 7:21 p. m.

Everett Koon bad paid bia debt to
society,

On a finger of bis left hand a
wedding ring, placed there dereral
years ago by tender, Joving, truating
fingers, gleamed brightly, We will
wear that token of love to his grave.

Koon was removed to the death cell} Me. Burt raid
about 4 o'clock yeaterady afternoon main in Klowda
where jit is just nine stepa to the weeks Jonger. Ber
death chamber through “the little menta of hia own
Green door.” operate with Mr

Dying sunlight Bickered through the; tera laboratory ne
ope small window casting shadows! The interview ¢
seross the cell, As the ahadows grew | atrolled ucross the
longer Koon kuew that his time was| tiful estate filed
rapidly approaching. | Howers, royal pal

Lawrence riser }
“Je ought te b
plied Mr. Pol,
out and it ought
in possible, Ir
thing the world o:
faps cominerer, f
tape everything.”

4 Came twilight, those few fleeting | +f varinue descrip

minutes between dusk and dark whew |
the world seems to be at peace, And |
Koon watched the shadows siesppent |
in the falling gloom. A visht from!
the prison barber and chaplain ond fi
twilight. settled joto darkness,
. Bits Hina) Hours
The lone eloctrie light bulb threw
of a aickly yellow Sight, casting F
deeper and more alnister shadows jo;
the death cell and the figure gat; |
buddied ja one corner, alone with bis i
thoughts, a :
Thoughts of bis past life and per-|f
haps thoughts of the great hereafter. | ;
For Koon bad only a few minutes Jeft |p
in this world. | ;
Came the chuz chug of a motor | i
hearse drawing up through the yard, :
stopping at a nearby door, Came tha! fi
tneasured beat of guards approaching. | |
Darkness Lad settled outside, ;
A key grated in the lock.
“Twilight and evening bell,
Acd siter that the dark,”

MIRS, GARDNER DIES
AT PARK ST. HOME

}
Widow. of Wm. Gardner’
Passes Away. at Age
3 : of 77

Mrs. Prisclila Gardner, sze 77,
ded at ber home, 000 Perk st, about
neon todsy following an illness that
began the day befere Christmas. .

Sbe was bora in England sn Dec.
23, 1852, to Myr. and Mea. Jobn Hor-
ten. She marrieg William Gardner

in Engiacd about 45 years sgo and)
they moved to this country imme °
diately after thelr merrisge. Mr.
Gardper aor oe ten years efter! i! “The whisper
their arrival t country.

Mrs. Gardner was a member ‘ 1;

Trialty Baptist charch.

Bhe is sur ived by one sister, Mra.
W. J. Gay, €2% North Mata at.
Funeral services Bave not Leen ar-

US is a mod:
ative service
with ebility aod {
season. i ,

; W. C. |
_ VUNERAL I


Loe

T 1@ 1939

made to sate bim. He told -bim-that

FOOS SLAYER CALM | his time was pearing, Just as the

a AIR night was closing in on the colorless
: He saw what bis life bad been, be!

Everett Koon, Who at 28 Had: added He knew ow what crime

teeant. Ths bravado and carefres
xilled ‘Two Men, Pays Su- i swing be carried the day be was a--
preme Penalty

the stir Deane
| chevkel
down the:

per of men as tfey
watches and dotteu

T° Sgures on note Paper.
* W. Royle. prsoa pay:
‘od forward with bie
-+ baad, as the guard

‘rom Koon's cheat the

> that he wore, Warden

TS mas held owt bis band
pel le, Byte ecd peisteld te

‘SAME DOCTORSEES
BIRTH, EXECUTION:

Physician Who Bought Koon! ne longer remind be ws
into World Is Present in Leereal City.
a he Serats
Death Chamber Museolinl = ur

value of advertiaing, wo) ::
atone orer,

Cestinued From Page One i

| babatants that Koon speat much ef)
| bis life and where be returaed after! cai
the Mansfeld red.”
retformatory gerera! years ago, } The young maa, wih religous de
Toe father, Isaiah Kona, also ati — pragt me et “fs se ae
one time ceuvicfel of murder, lives) 'ythree dara sy Le cap
at Doanrille with a son Walter ang, OCt bee more than aueiber week oi

, Chaplain Read

; STARTS ON PAGE 1 BY MOTO!

ts! Ford Says .Tr
"Wrong with
or Enfo!
. to be dnmel up b
T Lima, OL Fret cocal. 3! dome The rural «
swerving Rime? oo drive tel the heart of tbe »
fowm bis father, George Con bern dry.”
i Neo Por! poate
null be dry Cin a 4
“Other :
than not he crs
educa’; to the &
Dusiuess f0 use al

raigned in common pleas court here Kans ba.scoveral ches:
, Was gone. ' There wo tead t
wil 1 bntw: then, Stet ¥ heeds amc a 23a steady heart beat I

i" rpued steady, :
T wouldn't hare made such @ foo ot Two spectators near the. death
myself.” Those were bis iast Boris

. cbamber fumbled their wa -
j to the prisen chaplain. Leflore he And. tbe heart beat vention bot
hen: adh be told Vtaplan Pty xtow weaker, Weaker, Now a Le was Teleased from
' Be wanted to see some one from bome thump, anotber al, tbe d—the!
Chaplain Reed brougtt ine. 1. Steut : peated ei ieee =

end.
{ Nelsonville undertaker. He iNquitm: Doctors Gire Verdict
; &# to bis fatber, bis peopic, Lis bone Dr. Kyle examized Keen. so did
bays Goodbyes ‘Dr, AL Lo Pritegard, the Nelsourille

3.8
ht

Continued From Page One
clock last night was as color-
bis crime acd subdeeqoent trial

tSmurder, trials and execu-
e is uruallr seme ceilor.
Jan ipterte!, some drama yf
e foal crime aod eapiation
iuerg Tas Both.og but drab-

The bour neared.

L efor for a satay of execu-

sppeal to Gov. Myers Y.

-: sesterday, fanied. The gorer-

scliral be would not interfere
wiet. That was all.
Decides to Eas

sot Koog, who earlier in the

wared be wanted potbing tu

fore be died, wanted nothing ;

-w trial, changed bis mind as

or refused bim clemency. H

net beartily, but be ats. |

penitentiary chicken din-

vl at bis side eat Prisop Chap-

O. Reel For nearly two |

+t laplain Heed talked to Koon. i

item of the bereafter. He;

“2 that every effort had been

i chair,

KODAKS
PRAMES
7 PHOTOGRAPHS

1 Tow,
' prison guard entered the
| chamber with Koon.

| large namber of men that stool hud

| George

Shortly after 7
oclork he prepare) for s deem j
Earlier in the day he bac said zo |
bye to the other three men in death!
At 7:14 Chaplain Real and a|
little death |
It was but nine
steps from bis cell t> the chair. |

He walked in unaided. He looked |
around. He was surprised at the!
-|
dled before him. H's large eres, acem. |

| ingly bulging more than ever, glanced |
' through the crowd and settled ou one!

face. A amile, “Ile}lo, Georgie!” To!
Rateman, night policeman at;
Neleonville.

“Hello, Everett!”
awered.

In a minute bis whiteebirted and
dark trousered form was seatnd in the

Bateman an-:

Two minutes jt took to strap bim in
the chair. One guard rolled up bis
pants leg and adjusted the electrode,
another strapped bim about the chest
and then bis arms were bound to the
arms of the ebhair that was in an
instant to carry bim into eternity. i

Utters Prayer |

Koon's lps moved in prayer. He!
was calm. Me glanced about at the
3O beavy-breathing men that stood
pearly within reaching distance of the
chair. Then, as the straps were
tightened again be closed his eyes for

‘toetor who bad brought Koon inte
the world. Dr. C. CL Buta, alse ef
Nelnoay Ne. steppal up to the pit:
form aml listened for “ue beart heat.
Dr. Kyle repeated bos elamination
and said seftly:

*T find) sufficient curren: hae

Pasced through this man Koen to
cause bis death.” That was at 7:21,
just three minutes after the current
had been turned on,

Warden Thomas
“That's all...

And the crowd slew!r walked from
the death chamber into the prisca
yard,

Outside the death house there stood
the bearse waiting for ia burden
Undertaker Stout Led driven op from
Nelsonville tp carry Kodao's Lady back
to lis home town, -

Slowly the crowd  wealicd back
fo the prison office, cach man cluuh
Ing Io be hand a ship wf paper,
“Prison Complimentary.” Tt) was
revessary to turn im those compli-
mentaries to get out of the prwon.

The night sir was cool, be stars
were bright abore. Jt seein(T Impos-
sible that within eight minutes a man
had been alive, of this world, and
then dead, bis soul in eteraity,

Everett Koon bad paid for bis bust
for unearned money.

Nurion's second electrocution was
over.

turned = about.

ao unmarried dacshrer, Koon's
mother died about 32 rears ago. Mer
funeral was conducted by the Stout
eetabliasmert which now bas the body
ef tbe som
Widew at Fioodweed J
Nestled dowa among the Athens
county hills is anotber littl mining
town, Floodwood. * Liverets young
wife ig waiting there. Viola Lanning.
now Mrs. Viol Koon, bas beea mah-

{ ing her home with ber father, Mayle

Taauing, since ber erparatioa from
Koon some time before be left the
Mining country last May. The, cou-
Dle bad Qeen married several years.
There were no children,

Sunday atternovn Koon will be
Placel under six feet of garth, A
hearse will bear hia body to the grave
A fuserel procesalon will follow, A
coffin will pe lowered into Ube grave
as.trief! wonls are spoken orer ot
Then there will be a thump, thump
a {regen clouds of earth corer the
casket.

Terbaps there will
tinguish between
those of two other
the Atbena county
age and the othe
Today both of

be little to di»
this funeral and
mes, one held jn
bills several years
rin Marion lace May.
these are under the

same six fet of snow covered earth, |
to their graves at!
Koon!

These two went
the hand of Eyerett Koon,

his fast comtinoes
e e

Tae unbappr fath-
eon's belside, begs
bot in vain, |

Once such mea es (i Uiforiusate.
self-starving ereeture were Prasat as
religious martyra and beross. = Met
kaow better pow. Ther da not he
liewe that it pleases tind or frightens
the devil fe hare weak Lamesa bem:
torture thimeelves. :

KOON LOSES SMILE .

stands at the

te fo eat

ASHE SEES CHAIR

Face Turns Chalk-White After
Slayer Enters with Show
of Cheer

———_.
Continued From Page Ove
electrodes and straps were being
adjusted. A mask was placed corer
bis face. Via Lipa kepe moving.

although ny sound was uttersl.,

Ik was 7:10 p. mo.

Streps and electrodes were adjusted
and inspected by the warden. The

svarde stepped bach, ;
The seewonds crawled like wounded

cat

Me

peeing fhe aw al oe
Stem cf tue count
Asked how the «

Varese war. ant
au unterest in thea
Need Mor)
“Tf pepe tek
seurger fk and
the cht pate the
cone *
Fort deeclanl d

aa Wel as ty men

onl There are
tod DOO mer aha
fences working in

end he sare, ‘mab

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they will reat in
Ford pall. "We re
Peeves and we dk
BDY are the « mplerd
tTreerde, We give t

Vord termed ths
mhoe Mhke Me
‘eghtenel ree the
want aby nary. |
whe want: he bigger
he the onee to eres
Cora pot heliere

jeu

evbdicra dragging themselves acroes a
batuetield. .
A kvock on the door leading to the

died to erase bin debt to sorlety for |
Ailling John Robinett, GS, avd Menry

Fova 72.

the last time.
The electrode was Placed on his
bead, on the spot that had been

ahouul tre to kep 1h
ity with Gat Mrite
Hation,

NOLONG DELAYS

GROUND FLOOR STUDIO

shared a little while before. The elas-
tie strap was stretched under iis |
chin, stretched further until it pulled |

Similarity in
The killer's methods varied little in
the two crimes, records show, Robdi-

eaecutioner’s alcove. The auund of the
“ready” buszer.
It was pow 7:18 p. m.

“The big prea

HOLD UP JUSTICE

Wheels Grind Efficiently in
Avenging Foos
Slaying

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tentiary by Sheriff? James A. Deel.
2U: Attorney Jobnsoa files
motion for stay of execution with
court of appeals, Case is also taken

to higher court on errur.
Oct. 29: Appellate court Srants

nett was etruck down with @ beary
iron bar in a little railroad waiting
roum Mr. Foos was beaten over the
heed with a rock.

Five persons from Nelscaville saw
Everett Koon executed last bight.
George Bateman, 3 short, heavy-set
oight policenian of the town, stood is
the front row of the witnesses, Ble
was the first to attract Kooo's at
tention as he entered the death
chamber. Others from Nelsonville
were Dr. Pritchant and Dr, Batts,
Bout, the mortielan, and Ralph Joba-
son, gly ‘

Witaceses from Marien

Fifteen Marion persons were there.
Among them newspaper mea,
police and sberi@ officials and others.
Those from here who witnessed the
execution were Irt Reasoner, Claude
Werta, police sergeant, Vernoa Dut-
ton, Ira Sbrock, police captain, Her-
man Irey, Kay Thompeon, Theodore
B. Ochs, William Ocha, Amber

With a slasling, cracking whine
2.500 volts of electricity snepped
through the form, now strangely
pathetic.

Koon started violently Hig body
stew taut ap Sf threatening to break
through the beavy strepe, and then
relaxed. The body that once threbbed
with the Joy of life turned a brick red.
Veins stood out in a bright contrasting
purple, : i

A thin spiral of blue) amobe
emanated from the clectrwden, The
daly settled back im the chair, The
current bad been turned off.

Now It was 7:19 p.m. }

, Battling fer

Guards opened the irt at the
throat. Koon's beart cuuld be seen
beating against his breast. Much like
®o electric fan just turned off Bere
thoes final Beart beat, Slower and
slower came the beats and then finally
ceased. The doctor stepped forward,
Somerlott, John J. Francis, sherig?, | followed by other visiting physicians.
Jacod Barclay, Biegler’ The official physician prooouaced

Renick Koa dead.

bis head to @ sceming|y-strained poai-
ton.

A leather mask was handed one of
the guards. He quickly alipped it over
the white face of Koon. There was
no sound. A few drops of water from
the sponge in the head electrode
trickled down the right side of Koon’s
face, onto bis shoulder,

The guards looked at the warden.

“You are ready?" he questioningly
nodded his bead. An affirmative nod.
More nodding. And tbe guard to
a nee ie bs thee stay of execution. Set Nov, 26 as date

“ +“ - for bearing appeal on error.
a aia eee ek a Nor. 20: Hearing beld in common

} pleas court room bere.

ee ee Nasa Dee. G: Verdict of tower court sus
sound. The hum of the current, tained by Judges Kent Hoghes,
| Koon eCcuined sharply et hig} Charles 1. Justice and Silan Richards.
straps, more of a sudden powerlul| Dee. 15: Appellate court sets Feb.
jerk. 135 os date of exrccution.

And Ererett Koon stood before the| Feb. 1: Attorney Jobnson notifies
eternal judgn:ent seat. Koon that all legal means of eacaping

One Shock Does Work death chair have been exhausted.

For one minute and seren seconds| Feb. 13: Koon appeals to governor

the curren? for reprieve or commutation of pen-

od thie big usey bubs
Soho.” }
Frewns on ¢

Capital puswbmen
declare! Font when
er this subject, ;

“It dore nt deo e
pat a person out &
committing a enh
Ishment te no deter
eho commit major *
taken care of im pm

“The day te com)
will know jn advan
vale ere cangereus, &
denciee mill be dete t,
and conhtera: ted."

“What was yuur
Inet vettonel preside
Was the intense int
the soters a guod thi }
try?

“Certainly it wap
that the poopie of thie
want no bore? Th
action te it”

Pur VWaterwa,

“Whee de yoy th

Special
Weed Chains


LECOUNT, Henry, white, hanged at Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 26, 1852,

"AFFECTING SCENE = H, Lecount, who was executed at Cincinnati on Friday last, was
forty-seven years of age, and left a wife and six children. The following touching
scene tramspired in prison the day before Lecount's execution: 'His wife visited him
yesterday afternoon and the scene of meeting was extremely affecting - so much that
even the stern cheek of the guard sparkled with a tear, They conversed for a con-
siderable time, embraced and when she was about to leave, after having bid him the
last farewell, and taken the last look upon the face of the choice of her heart, he
franticalyy called back, crying, ‘Pray for mel' Both the wife and brother stood mute
When Lecount threw himself upon his knees, saying 'I will pray for youl' He gave
forth his thoughts, askéd the blessing of Heaven upon his wife and children, his mo-
ther and his brothers, and added, 'My God, keep them from an end like minel' Mrs. Le
is a plain, small woman, of quiet and unassuming manners, worn down by grief, After
having completed his prayer, he bid his wife and brother farewell, saying, 'Give my
love to my children,' and seizing Mr. Baumgartner (assistant jailor) by the hand,
saids 'If I had been treated by all men, Joe, as I have been treated by you, I would
never have been here, The world has used me roughly. May you always be happyl'"
CONSTITULIONALIST AND REPUBLIC, Augusta, Georgia, December 1), 1852 (2:3.)