Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1915 — Double Murder Mystery Solved. [ARTICLE]

Double Murder Mystery Solved.

Science proved the master hand in the solution of one of the most horrible crimes in the history of Chicago. By means of a single finger print taken from the handle of a blood stained hammer, the police trapped Russell Pethwick, a grocery delivery boy, into confessing the slaying of Mrs. Ella Coppersmith and her two-year-old son, Jack, at their flat on May 6th. Pethwick said that he had quarreled with the wdman over a grocery bill and said that she had attacked him and he took her own hammer and knife and killed her.