Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1929, Page 24

24 TRACINEVEAPON SOLDINCHEAGD City’s First Executed Slayer ] Captured by That Method. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, May 78— Fashions in homicide have changed elaborately since | Cook County's earliest murder of record, but ultra-modern detective methods are | strikingly like those used to fasten guilt upon the first slayer. Chicago now is tracing killers through clues left by their weapons, and that is precisely what happened to one Joe Morris, or Norris, in 1836. . Methods Were Plain. Joe's work had ngne of the frills that | today's stylists would demand. It was plain and unadorned. A stranger, whose name is lost in the years, had a sum of money and Joe wanted it. He got it by clouting the gent over the head with a pound weight, wrapped in a shirt, and then stabbing him with a knife. Both knife and weight corresponded to the wounds, and Joe swung from the walnut tree, despite his denials. The Jury was out six hours. From the scaffold he attempted to picture himself as a sort of Robin Hood, who “stole from the rich and gave to the poor” but they drove the wagon out from under him before he became con- vincing. Buried in “Bunkum.” Teeling in Chicago forced thé case to be heard in the “wilderness” of Iroquois | | THOMAS W. CUNNINGHAM, Sheriff of Philadelphia, who is subject to arrest by the Senate for refusal to an- swer questions in connection with the Vare election investigation. The Supreme Court decided yesterday that the sheriff could be arrested. —Assoclated Press Photo. County, and even then Joe was guarded by 24 frontlersmen. He almost escaped by breaking his fetters, But was taken in the act. ‘He was buried, ironically enough, ata spot known as “Bunkum.” Later his body was disinterred for research and it is recorded that one of the resurrection- ists later died from exposure incurred while employed in opening the grave. ‘Thus the first killing had its innocent bystander. 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