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Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 2 Dated: Nov. 19, 1886 SIX YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY. The Sentence of Burrus, the Woman-Shooter at Chicago. CHICAGO, ILL., Nov. 18 - The trial of Asa J. Burrus for the attempted murder of two female employes of Dun's mercantile agency was concluded this afternoon. Burrus was found guilty and sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. The defense attempted to show that Burrus was insane and not responsible. The crime for which he was tried was committed about one year ago. On the evening of October 23, 1885, Mrs. Goode and Miss Walters, who were employed in a commercial agency, having finished their day's work were quitting the agency at 146 Monroe street on the way homeward. As they stepped from the door, Burrus, who had been waiting about, advanced, and producing a pistol, deliberately fired at Mrs. Goode. So close was the range that her veil was burned and her face filled with powder. The shot took effect in her right ear, and passing entirely through her head, buried itself in the left facial bones near the surface. Mrs. Good reeled and pitched forward. As she fell Miss Walters, with a scream, seized her stricken companion's cloak. On the instant Burrus fired again, the bullet meant for Miss Walters, striking her just in front of the right ear and ranging backward until lodged in the base of the brain. Without a word she dropped to the walk, falling half across the body of Mrs. Good. This tragic scene, which consumed but a moment of time, happened while the street was filled with people and flooded with the light of a hundred gas and electric lamps. Burrus at once started at a run down Monroe street to La Salle, turning then into Madison and running eastward to Clark, where he was stopped by a policeman. A hundred shouting citizens had taken up the pursuit and Burrus was narrowly saved from lynching before the Harrison street patrol wagon arrived. The two ladies, then thought to be mortally wounded, were carried into neighboring drug stores and later transferred to the county hospital. In the course of weeks, when their wounds had sufficiently improved they were removed to the home Miss Walters at El Paso, Ill., where they have since remained until brought to Chicago a few days ago to appear at the trial. The difficulty between Burrus and the women began in St. Paul where they were all three employed in the same office. Unpleasant relations, savored with scandalous misunderstandings are between the man on the one hand and the two ladies on the other, until the ladies were transferred at their request, from St. Paul to this city. This was in the summer of 1885, and a month had scarcely passed when Burrus came to Chicago and entered the local agency. Thus again thrown together the feud was renewed. |
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Source: Cleveland Leader (Cleveland, OH) Page: 6 Dated: Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1892 OHIO SUPREME COURT CHICAGO, June 21. - At 10:20 o'clock this morning, Jeremiah Connolly, aged 19, and George Sherry, aged 21, were hanged for the murder of Hugh M'Conville, on the evening of the 19th of January. The young men were on a protracted spree, and started out on the evening of the murder with the avowed purpose of killing somebody, and before meeting M'Conville they had assaulted some half dozen persons - one a woman. Seven minutes after the trap was sprung the young men were pronounced dead, and fifteen minutes later the bodies were cut down and delivered to friends. It is many years now since there was an execution in Chicago. |