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Source: Herald Weekly Dated: Nov. 7, 1896 CHICAGO, Nov. __ - Gen. Joseph T. Torrence died at his home in this city of Bright's disease, with which he has been ailing some time. His estate is worth several million dollars. Joseph T. Torrence was born in Pennsylvania 53 years ago. His career is an example of what is a self-made man can become. Apprenticed to a blacksmith at an early age, he was an assistant foreman when 17. The civil war breaking out he enlisted in an Ohio volunteer regiment, was wounded at Perryville and led the party that captured Morgan, the guerrilla. His title he owned to a subsequent period, when he was appointed by Senator (then governor) Cullom, to command an Illinois militia regiment, and distinguished himself in quelling riots in 1877. After the war Gen. Torrence took charge of the Chicago iron works and later became connected with the Joliet Iron & Steel Co. It would be useless to enumerate the enterprises in which he was interested, but his organization of the Chicago Elevated Terminal railway in 1891 cannot be overlooked. He conceived the basic idea of the elevated roads now in operation in this city. Among his gentler attributes may be mentioned a love for children. |
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Source: San Antonio Express, San Antonio, TX Dated Sunday, Aug. 3, 1902 - Vol: XXXII, Issue: 215, Page 16 CHICAGO WOMAN IS SUSPECT GIRL SAYS EIGHT BABIES HAVE DIED IN HER HOUSE. Police Will Exhume the Bodies to Ascertain the Cause of Their Deaths. Suspected Woman Makes Admission. Chicago, Ill., Aug. 2. - The police have arrested Mrs. Nell Campbell of 655 Grand avenue on a charge of allowing an infant to die from insufficient nourishment. It is alleged that within the last three years eight other infants have been buried from the woman's house. Yesterday Dr. Welfeld was called in the Campbell house to attend the infant which has since died. He found it in such a condition that he refused to issue a death certificate, claiming that the child died of starvation. The assertion that eight children have died in the house is made by Viola Campbell, 14 years of age. Mrs. Campbell says that she is the mother of the girl, who claims that Mrs. Campbell has said on other occasions that she was not a relative of hers. A letter was received at the Campbell house three weeks ago, the girl claims, which was written by John Reade, a printer of Cincinnati. In this letter Reade told the girl that he was her father and that she had been kidnaped from her home in Cincinnati ten years ago. Concerning the children, who, according to the girl, have died in the house, Viola Campbell says that they were received from a woman living on Wells street in this city. She says that they were obtained by Mrs. Campbell because her husband threatened to leave her because they were without children. None of the children lived long. Mrs. Campbell claims that the child that died Friday was the daughter of her dead sister, and while denying that there have been eight deaths in her house, admitted to the police that three children had died in her house within the last ten months. There is no evidence against Mrs. Campbell save that of the girl Viola Campbell but Police Inspector Wheeler, who has the case in charge, declares that he believes her story and says that the bodies of the children that have died will be exhumed in order to determine their number. The girl declares that they were all buried in one lot in Calvary cemetery. |