Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1896 — FOUR UNDER ARREST. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOUR UNDER ARREST.

Quartet of Chicago Toughs Charged with T. J, Marshall’s Murder. The coroner’s jury has charged Frank Carpenter, Charles Gurney, Clarence White and John Lang with the murder of

Thomas J. Marshall, one of the most prosperous young merchants of Chicago, and the quartet has been held for trial. The murder was one of the most sensational which have occurred in the western metropolis in years. One evening just before it was

time to close -the general merchandise store known as the Golden Rule, located ■ on West Madison street, owned and conducted by Mr. Marshall, three men entered the store by different doors and approached the cashier’s desk, where sat Miss Mattie Garretson. One of the men ordered her to deliver over the cash, emphasizing his demand by pointing two revolvers at her. She refused to compiy with his demand, and closed the cash drawer, throwing off the combination. The would-be robber aimed a blow at her head with one of his guns, which she barely managed to dodge. There were seyeral lady clerks standing about waking for the time to go home. They saw what was going on at the desk and began to scream. This attracted the attention of Mr. Marshall; who was in another part of the store talking with his general manager. Just as he was about to start toward the desk one of the other men app/eached him and leveled two revolvers at nis head; Frightened by the screams of the girls, the burglar at the desk started to back out of the store; guarding his retreat with his revolvers. Marshall advanced toward the man who was coming his way and he, too,.started out of the store, keeping Marshall covered all the time. Seeing that the latter was bent upon his capture, the man fired both revolvers just as he reached the door. One ball struck Marshall in the temple and the other in the heart and he fell back dead.

The screams and the shots had attracted a large crowd about the store doors and the robbers and murderer saw that they were in danger of being cornered, so they began to fire into the crowd, injuring two or three people, and clearing a way for their escape. They ran in different directions, but in such a manner that they came together a short distance from the store. One of them was captured, by a pedestrian just as he reached the rendezvous, but the others coming up he was set at liberty and the trio vanished. Half a hundred suspects were rounded up by the police, and out of the lot the four named above were identified by the clerks as those who participated in the tragedy.

T. J. MARSHALL.