Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1915 — Negro Trusty Convieted Of Murdering Warden's Wife. [ARTICLE]

Negro Trusty Convieted Of Murdering Warden's Wife.

,In Joliet Monday the jury that tried Joe Campbell, a negro trus|y, for the murder of the wife of Warden Allen, was convicted and sentenced to be hung. Warden Allen waa at French Lick Springs when his wife was murdered. Her apartment* had been Bet on fire in an effort to conceal the crime, but the fire was discovered and the murder disclosed. Campbell was arrested, he was already serving a sentence for manslaughter, but had been made a trusty. Following the murder Warden Allen resigned. The law requires a warden _to reside inside the prison and he said that he could not do this because of the horror attached to his wife's murder. Mrs. Allen had been a comical opera musical star before her marriage.