Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1915 — Wife of Warden at Joliet Thought Murdered. [ARTICLE]

Wife of Warden at Joliet Thought Murdered.

A negro, Joe Campbell, serving a sentence for the murder of a child in Chicago, a trusty and personal house servant of the warden at the penitentiary in Joliet, is in a bad way as the result of the burning to death of the warden’s wife while the warden was away from home Sunday. Evadenoe seems already to point, to the fact that this negro, the last person to see Mrs. Allen alive, first brutally beat her and then set the bed on fire while she was lying in an unconjscius condition. The negro denies being in the house when the fire started. Monday tone thousand convicts were given a signal and made a futile attempt to get the negro from his cell. Most all the prisoners feel very kindly toward Mrs. Allen as she was the one to establish the honor system at the prison and was known as the “Angel of Joliet” The warden said: “If it is true that this atrocious crime was the work of a trusty, then the honor system is a failure and my faith in man is undermined.”