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ESCAPED CONVICT CAUGHT TUESDAY NEAR OZARK, ARK. VICTIM IDENTIFIED AS : K ANSAS SALESMAN Summer Festival at Spring Grove Saturday-Sunday MIRY FARMERS TO RECEIVE 30-CENT INCREASE IN MILK Murder--with all grim detaijfe-- litoke the tranquility of a peaceful farm community in this vicinity early Friday morning, when Mervin Staines, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Staines, found the almost node body of a young: man with a bullet hole in his head, lying face down near the roadside of his father's farm, located about two miles northeast of Ringwood. Staines was on his way to a nearby pasture to bring several horses back to the farm when he discovered the body of the murdered youth, clothed only in an undershirt one sock. Capture Alleged Muderer lack Russell, an escaped convict, is believed to be the murderer, was captured Tuesday about 11 o'clock •.-nr., at Ozark, Ark., with the police car which he took from a garage in Kansas City. Sheriff Edinger talked with the sheriff of Franklin county, Arkansas, fcesday afternoon. He was informed that Russell was caught in a tourist camp, where he had made arrangements to stay in a cabin for two days. This aroused the suspicion of the caretaker of the camp, who informed the sheriff. The sheriff went to the camp and called the man from the cabin, telling him his gasoline was leaking from his car. It is reported that Russell stepped from the cabin unarmed and was im mediately captured. He made no resistance but told the sheriff if he had been armed there would have been a fight. It is said that Russell stated after lis was arrested that he was glad the manhunt was" over. He admitted three different kidnapping jobs but denied murdering Hamilton. Sheriff Edinger made a demand for the prisoner, stating that the murder was committed in McHenry county and that there is evidence enough here to send him to the chair. Notify Police . In Russell's possession was the re. ifilver taken from the McAllister, Okla., guard, after his escape. OttM Buchert, Richmond police officer, was notified by Staines after the finding of the body, and he in turn reported the discovery to Sheriff Lester Edinger, who, with his assistant, Chief Deputy Harold E. Reese, rushed Immediately to the scene. It was evident that the youth, late that evening identified as William Scott Hamilton, 23 years old, of Arkansas City, Kan., was shot at the place where his body was found. ^ His underwear trunks were found in a nearby field! They had been torn from his body. On his left foot was a sock. The right side of his head lay in a pool of blood. The victim was shot under the leu ear. The bullet lodged in the right temple and was removed after the body had been taken to a Woodstock undertaking parlor. There were burns on the chest and abdomen, indicating that the young man had been subjected to burns before being slain. Several articles of jewelry and clothing were found on the body, which eventually led to the identification of the victim. Identified by Ring A gold Elgin wrist watch with a leather band was on the left wrist. On the back of the watch was engraved the name, "Billy S. Hamilton." It was still running and registered central standard time. On his trunks were found the letters, "B. H.," corresponding to the name on the watch. An onyx ring with a Greek inscription, quite worn, was discovered on a finger of the left band. This ring provided the clue that really clinched the identification Hf the victim. Tentative identification was estab- Bshed by this clue when the national Secretary of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, to which Hamilton belonged, and which the ring represented, was contacted at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His files showed only one Billy Hamilton of the victim's approximate age, the son of Fred C. and Anna Hamilton, of Arkansas, Kansas. A telephone call to Mrs. Hamilton at that city brought the information that her son was employed as i traveling salesman for the New Era Milling Company of Arkansas City. She said her son left home on Monday. July 10, and was last seen at Pittsburg, Kan., on Wednesday at 11 a. in. Both Mrs. Hamilton, and her husband, a filling station operator, were unable to make the trip to Woodstock to identify their son. Mrs. Hamilton is in a serious condition as a result of the shock of the slaying The father, likewise, is confined to his home. Begin Search for Convict -Policemen of all Chicagoland and gftthorities throughout the middlewest fefgan a search for Jack C. toweeli, desperate convict, who escaped last Tuesday from the state prison at Mc- Alester, Okla. In his flight he kidnapped three men, and it is believed it was he who tortured and murdered one of them, Hamilton. Russell's escape was made with aW surd ease. The warden in the Okla* homa penitentiary, where Russell wal serving ten years for; robbery, permitted him to go to McAlester, accompanied by only one guard, to ha«* his eyes tested. While in McAlester, the guard, Henry Riddle, let the prisoner go to a hotel room on the pre* text of making a telephone call, an# it was in there that Russell overpowered the guard, tied him up with K bed sheet and walked out with hi* pistols. "I'm Chicago bound," he said. "When I get there I'll kill the gii$ who put me in the stir," meaning his wife, Mary, a resident of Chicago, who supplied police, with information rw suiting in his iarrest and subsequent: incarceration in December 1937. Leaving the hotel he chanced upon R. E. Brown, a McAlester photo* grapher. A quick flash of a pistol and Brown was cowed. He let the convict get into his automobile, obey* ed orders, and drove out of the city; Early Wednesday morning, outside'p7 Pittsburg, Kan., Russell released Brown and halted a new blue coupe, which authorities believe was driven by Hamilton, en route to Joplin, Mo. What happened from that time until Hamilton's body was found Friday remains a mystery. Sheriff Edinger and other investigators have a plausible explanation for the murder. They believe Russell killed Hamilton to get rid of an inconvenient witnesi| and to get his clothing and car, Much has transpired since the dis» covery of Hamilton's body neatff Ringwood last Friday and Russell has been reported seen in many different localities. Hamilton's ear *** Jeuad at Kerfosha, W*s., early Satufday morning Joe Beam, former Woodstock resident, wlto4»ltetflaMafe«i#oltlMNtfiXaaMli informed Sheriff Edinger that a ne# Dodge coupe was found abandoned in Kenosha that morning. The car was locked and still carried Kansas license plates issued to Billy S. Hamilton of Arkansas City, Kansas. The third kidnapping took .place Friday night in Kenosha, when a mail answering Russell's description, forced Bsrnett Egholm, 20 years old, of Oklahoma City, who was visiting a sister in Kenosha, to. drive him to Elgin in his car. A mile east of Elgin the desperado pushed Egholm from the csr and headed for Chicago. He told Egholm he would leave his car in the 1500 block on Madison street in Chicago. The night before, on Thursday, h* telephoned his wife and said: "Mary, this is Jack. You know I got out. "I heard about it," she answered. He let it be known that he intended to kill her. Just as he was being} started to Oklahomapenitentiary sev eral years ago he said, "Just tell Mary I'll get he yet." Russell was reported seen by two girls in Emmetsburg, Iowa, Saturday. The girls, hitch-hikers, were given a ride by a man in an automobile bear, ire Oklahoma licenses at a point f|ve .vviJes east of Emmetsburg. He continued west to Emmetsbure but failed to stop for cross traffic in that city when signaled by a policeman. He raced through town, telling the girls he could not risk talking to h policeman. At the western limits of the town he let the girls out, saying „he must drive on alon| . Becoming suspicious, they hurried back to town and told the policeman their story, giving him the license number of the automobile. It was t»i<? license number of the car belonging to Egholm. whom Russell hadjnd- "iiapped in Kenosha. Posse Conduct Search Or. Saturday night a posse nrer conducted a search east of Joliet, -vhere Russell had been reported seen. All toads in the area were blocked by police radio blockade. At midnight the search centered near Marley, a small village east of Joliet. Patrolman Mech of Blue Island pursued an Oklahoma car on Route 6, near Makena, until the gas in his motorcycle gave out. Sunday, license plates were stolen from a car a half mile from the home of the convict's wife in Chicago. Police thought Russell perhaps stole them to replace the telltale Oklahoma licenses. Mrs. Hattie Miller reportd to police Sunday that a man resembling Russell had followed her car from Oak Park to her home in Melrose Park. The most extensive search centered in Marion and Jefferson counties in PHOTOS TAKEN AT THE SCENE OF XM'HENRY COUNTY MURDEI NEARBY NEWS TAKEN FROM GOLUMN8 OF OSE EXCHANGES Fire, fanned by a strong west wind, Thursday afternoon destroyed the Ibarn, silo and shed on the Hawthorn farm, Butterfield road, near Libertyville, causing damage unofficially estimated at $10,000. The blaze started in the barn, apparently from spontaneous combustion, according to a farm hand. Recent Illinois postmaster nominations which have been made in Washington. D. C., were those of C. Mantel Wightman for Grayslake, Josepn Hucker for Lake Villa, Raymond Kennedy for Libertyville, and Joseph Daly, Waukegan. Under provisions of recent civil service legislation, these postmasters are appointed without term, indicating that the position is §>ermanent. Sheriff's deputies are examining clues that may lead to the identity of robbers who last Wednesday night ptole an adding machine and a typewriter • from the office of the Antioch Dairy. Entry was gained through a window that was pried open. Mrs. John McGurn of Lake zAfctl was painfully injured Monday afternoon of last week when she was bitten On the right arm by a collie dog. A Wauconda physician cauterized the wound. CHICKEN DINNER STARTSAT NOON BENEFIT OF ST. PETER'S - CHURCH THREATENED STRIKE AVERTED is Saturday evening of this week St Peter's parish at Spring Grove will open its annual two-day carnival. Every preparation has been made for one of the finest summer carnivals, with new concessions and up-to-theminute games and amusements, which will afford fun for all. Wholesome and beautiful gifts will be on display at every booth. The Antioch Junior Legion Drum and Bugle Corps will furnish music Sundayfhroughout the afternoon and evening. This popular group, consisting of forty-five young people, has made remarkable progress since its organization several years back. A fine musical program to in store for all who attend. St. Peter's has long been famous for its spring chicken dinners. Hundreds are served each year. "Well prepared and plenty to eat" is the motto of the parish ladies who prepare the delicious meal. A half chicken is given with each plate. Service will begin at 12 o'clock noon, DST, to 4. Supper will be served at 6 p. m. Surrounded by water and covered j day-to-day basis The threatened milk strike in the Chicago milk shed was averted early1 this week when the milk distributors accepted the terms of a producer ultimatum and paid 30 cents moFe per hundred pounds to the farmer fop Grade A milk. Spokesmen for the dealers said the increase of two-thirds of a cent per quart will not be, passed along to the consumer immediately, but if the higher wholesale price continues for any length of time a rise of one cent per quart to the consumer will be ia«r<* i table. Negotiations for an entirely new marketing agreement between the farmers and dealers will be started. Dealers pointed out they must wait for legal opinions before signing a new contract. One spokesman said: "This is the first time the farmers ever changed their contract without an agreement. They simply told us the price of milk had gone up and we could take it or leave it. We had to take it for the time being at least," He said the distributors are seeking a new source of supply and will not agree to the new price except o© a with large shade trees, St. Peter s | Arthur H. Lauterbach, president of parish grounds offer a perfect setting. tj,e Pure Milk Association, discounted for a summer picnic and holiday. The;this threat saying: village of Spring Grove is located on Emil Malovsky, 15 years old, ofju.g. 12, ten miles north of McHenry Cicero, suffered a bad cut on the right foot Sunday of last week, when he stepped on a clam shell while wading in the Fox river at Burton's Bridge. A physician took four stitches to close the wound. Charles K. Francis, former state, representative, and Fremont Ells worth, retired railroad operative, were seriously injured Wednesday morning of last week when their automobile left the concrete roadway opposite the McGee estate farm on route 14, and three miles west of Fox Lake. LAST RITES FOR FOX LAKE WOMAN HELD ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON Funeral services for Mrs. Harry Jensen, 50 years old, who died at her home at Fox Lake after a lingering illness, were held Saturday afternoon, July 15, in the Lutheran church in this city at 2:30 o'clock, with the Rev, three miles northwest of Woodstock.ji| p -Meyer of Woodstock officiat- Francis is in the county seat hospital j jng Burial was in Woodland cemereceiving treatment for brain concus- tery. The above pictures describe the horribl" death which Billy S. Hamilton of Arkansas City, Kansas, suffered at the hands of an exconvict near Ringwood early Friday morning. At the top the almost nude body of Hamilton is seen stretched alongside a lonely gravel road. He md been stripped of all his clothing with the exception of an undershirt and one sock. The second picture shows Mervin Staines, 16-year-old farm boy, pointing to the spot where he discovered the body of Hamilton. George Wurtzinger, Woodstock Sentinel representative, is standing by. The bottom picture shows police officers viewing the scene, Sheriff Lester Edinger is in the middle of the group of three. He is flanked on the left by Otto Buchert, Richmond police officer, and on the right by his chief deputy sheriff, Harold E. Reese. T. B. Merwin, Woodstock undertaker, is standing by the car. ANNOUNCEMENT MADE OF SE6EL ROSENTHAL I NUPTIALS ON JUNE 11 Friends in McHenry have received announcement of the marriage of Miss MISSING FARMER COMES HOME DAY LATE; WIFE AND POLICT RELIEVED sion and bruises about the body; Ellsworth, driver of the automobile, is a hospital inmate suffering from pelvic injuries regarded as precartous, according to information from the hospital. John Kasper, 52, a farm hand employed on the Ray Seymour farm, Wauconda, sustained « dislocated left shoulder fast week Thursday, when he fell from a hay mow. A Wauconda physician took him to the Condell Memorial hospital in Libertyville, where he was given anesthetic and the shoulder put back in place. Oliver Buck, 20 years old, residing on the Long Grove road in Ela township, narrowly escaped serious injury when he was accidentally shot while dozing in a chair at the home of his parents last week Sunday morning. He was struck on the left side of the j body, the left side of his face and chin and on the right hand by scatter shot when a .22 caliber rifle was accidentally ftred by Gerard Neuses, 15 year* old, employed as a farmhand on the Buck farm. With full assurance that the fed "The PMA and other producers who joined in the demand for the price increase control ninety per cent of the milk in the Chicago area. There is some milk up north in Wisconsin that they could buy, but it wouldn't b^ enough to go around." The farmer's increase, which raises the price to 65 cents above the COO-, densary price per hundred pounds, was demanded for a period ending July 31. It was after weeks of negotiation between organized milk producer groups shipping Grade A milk to the city of Chicago, that an agre^me^t was finally reacehd by the members I of the Chicago Milk Producers Coun- The deceased was a daughter of cil to ask their dealers for an increase Mrs. Adolf Krepel of Lily Lake and in price of thirty cents per hundred spent , her early life in this vicinity. J pounds for their producers. Besides her mother she is survived by, This proposal was presented to the her husband, one daughter, Esther, buyers of Grade A milk in Clycagro by three sons, Carl, William and Ever- the PMA and other members of tbk ett, and four brothers and two sis- Chicago Milk Producers Council. ters. Dealers Disagree _ Milk dealers were-, not in ac<wd SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES with this decision. Some agreed th»t VISIT RROOFCFIELQ? ZOO the Price increase asked for was *•«" j while others made the statement that : Z" T the increase was not justified. The Junior and Epworth Leagues For the past six weeks farn,er of the Community church, with their (jucers shipping milk to Chicago hav-> respective leaders^ Shirley and Wal- received for milk the lowest nrice c-» record for miny years. Production decreased about twenty per cent since the peak of production in June. It was only after serfous conside'-nter Colby, last Thursday enjoyed a day at the Brookfield Zoo. Accompanying them were Mrs. C. H. Duker Mrs. Glenn Peterson, Mrs, C. W GThf Sunday1 SchooT'cfa^seV "of the'tiont* thesf f"ctJ and to Lutheran church also spent the day condition wf the farmers at th» time at the Zoo. Those who made the trip ani with them were Mi s. F. C. Feltz, Mr3. Emil Florence Voeltz. members of the Chicago Milk Pr*- nem wert'TOIS- ducers Council notified their dealers Patzke. Mrs. P*ul Schwerman ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Lewis Parry, Hartland farmer, who was reported missing to the sheriff's Lillian Segel of Chicago, daughter of j office Tuesday after an all night Mr. and Mrs. David Segel of this city, [ waiting up party had been conducted J erai government will grant the sum to Harry Rosenthal, formerly of New; the night before by the Woodstock city! 0f $45,000 of PWA (Public Works Ad-j Haven, Connecticut, which took place [police and Mrs. Parry, returned home, ministation) funds to McHenry county. annual picnic June 11, at the East End Park Hotei j Wednesday unconcerned and without for building a span of roadway a|be held on St. Antholz and Mrs. Fred PLAN CARNIVAL of milk would incrase thirty ee**t« n®«* hundred pounds and they could takv ft or leave it. Those farmers who are not mem- Patrick's Pl.ns are being completed for the ^ of or„m„t,OI,s belon»ir? tofc and chicken Anner^. Milk now being approached to organize and _ » . . . . , . . i * " • „ i 1 0 m t h e c n i c a e o j j c . u k r r o a u c e ; - ? C " > u n - preference to this rather than to fol- perpftre and serve the delicious ^meal ^ _ not to be" was reported at the sher-|}ow their regular road building pro-1 for which it is famous. . ( T>j,e «Council" is made ud of memiff's office because the man was fearsouthern Illinois Monday. The escaped prisoner was repoited seen on that day at Salem, Marion county and at Mount Vernon, Jefferson county. A man said to have boarded a Milwaukee road train at Emmetsburg, la., had vanished when the train reachee Fox Lake. This attracted attention because Russell was believed to have been seen Saturday at Emmetsburg. From Emmetsburg he was believed by gram. The highway whifch is expected to be the beneficiary of the federal in Chicago. Following the ceremony, | knowledge that he had been the cen there was a reception for eighty, ter of attraction. Parry's <t!sappea«-- guests. 1 a nee which was a case of "to be or The bride was attired in a fitted white satin and lace gown with a, . . ... shoulder length veil held to her dark ed to be in ill health. hair by a coronet of satin and pearl?. ] The history of the ca=e is that he ^ lllo'Her corsage was fashioned of white departed Woodstock early Monday to and purple orchids. (visit a Chicago physician whicK he Mrs Rosenthal is a graduate of the Had been doing once a week since! ties over McHenry Communitv High school, June 18. In the agreement with his, school house route. class of '33. She attended the Chi- family he_was to call home upon his cago Academy of Fine Arts, the Uni- return. trifle over seven miles-in length, sup-l grounds Saturday and.Sunday; July ^ ervisors at their July 11 meeting gave , 29-30. The ladies of ihevparish will ^ Mnk producevs Mrs. Ray McGee spent hlit liWek ^ ^ grant of $45,000. wijl run north and' Chicago with Miss Helen O'Sulli- ^ieVedThat the "Councileast from Crvstal Lake to McHenry. van> a former teacher here. While thus connecting the two municipali- there she saw John Barrymore in the bers of various groups including P. M. A., Independents and others. It is the one what is known as the Hokum I Mrs. Beulah Wahl nmeyer of Chi cago sustained ugly lacerations on her ich. His return was made Wedversitv oF Wisconsin^ and graduated nesday, and under the agreement he| right knee and elbow Sunday of last from the Universitv of Illinois. She did call home. While m Chicago he:week when she tripped and fell while is an accomplished artist and prior to missed his doctor and decided that he|waikinff aCroSs the lawn at^Lake burlier marriage had been teaching art in would stay over the night thereby Chicago saving himself extra tram fare, but The groom attended Central College somewhat too thrifty he failed to teleand Northwestern University. phone or wire his wife of his intentions. She, naturally, became worried of his whereabouts and notified the city police on Monday evening, then Sheriff Edinger on Tuesday, notifVd the bureau of missing persons in Chicago, thus did the case start. And with the return of Parry one Mr. and Mrs. Rosenthal are now living at the Elmo Hotel in Chicago. where a man resembling him stole a police captain's automobile early Monday. The search shifted suddenly to , ,, , w ... . Salem Monday after a deputy shwiTs * talf days late did the cas^ en| car was forced from the road by a( car with Missouri licenses. It wa*| CARD OF THANKS suspected Russell might have invaded, wjsj, to thank our many friends the district in the Kansas city police i an(j ioyai Lily Lake neighbors for captain's automobile. _Tbeft °f an! their kindnesses shown us in our re at Mount Vernon, thirty caused an<ither flurry, it^charging Russell with issued BS*e gNM"t* Kansas City,t justice automobile miles south, A warrant the murder of Hamilton at Kenosha Monday. A murder charge was filed against Russell last Saturday by State's Attorney Carroll in a warrant from the cent bereavement, the sudden death of our husband and father, Mr. Louis Schroeder. Mrs! Louis Schdroeder and daughter Mrs. C. Hendricks. 9 Order your Rubber of Charlat F. Hayes. at The « . / She was taken to the Ross emergency hospital in Wauconda where four stitches were necessary to close the wounds. Two Chicago men were saved from possible drowning in Grass, lake Sunday of last week by the quick action of Ralph Jensen, Jr., of Lake Marie, who rescued them in his speed boat. Louis Worsek, 44, and Edward Horanzy, both of Chicago, rented a row boat from Haisman's resort and rowed out on Grass lake, with Horanzy entertaining with his piano^accordian. Horanzy stood up in the boat, upsetting the craft. He, Worsek, and the accordian spilled into the lake. Splashing about in the water, the men cried for help. Jepsen who was in his speed boat, rushed to the scene and pulled them out. Jepsen brought the men to shore at Weden's resort where the inhalator squad from the Antioch firet department worked on the distressed but most fortunate men. They fetkfc gaftigt fortunate men. They _tage-play. "My Dear Children.' Misses Norma & Peggy Oeffling spent Tuesday in Chicago. weapon of defense ove" the dealers. It is the same old story from the buyers that they are seeking a new source of sugaly. There is onlv one source of sup^y of Grade A milk for Chicaeo and that source comes from both recovered but the accordian went the Chicago milk shed. It is higi to the bottom of the lake. time the buyers get the idea out cf Donna Jean Gerritsen, two and one- their head that there is anv other half-year old daughter °f_ Mr. and sourCe of supply and meet the de- Mrs. Joseph Gerritsen of Fox Lake, was drowned last week Monday while wading in Nippersink lake with her five-vear-old brother, Leo. The little mands of the producer in the Chicago area on a fair basis. Strike Averted From all reports had not the buyboy became mired in the muddy bot- #rs accepted the ultimatum of the Chitom when he attempted to go out to CMfo Mnk producers Council a "shed get Donna as she toppled into the wi<je" strike would be under way a» water. He started crying, attracting present time. There could. have the attention of Miss Noreen O'Don- been no out gnd the dealers nell, 16, Chicago, who is vacationing &nd layers realized it. The hope is in the Fox Lake district. Miss O Don- that a more cemented agreement, can nell got Leo safely to shore but he ^ cached to avoid a strike in th* kept on crying. He told Miss O'Don- near future if the buyers change their nell that his sister. Donna Jean, was mind an<j reduce the price. in the water. The little girl's body| Chicago newspapers nave n«?t dor.e was recovered, but efforts to revive much good for the producer in their her proved futile. jfieht for the consumer They ha*» Emery Wuest, 21 years old, of Chi- sided in with the cago, was badly injured laat week the producer with the Monday when he struck a rock while farmer has been the goa " diving in the lake at Wauconda.. Ex- speak. It is high tune the amination disclosed a fractured nose was recognized as and the artery ip his nose was sever- sumer ed, causing him to suffer the lost of a iacge auaatity othtoftjU c Rubber at The Flsind--It '•4 ;