Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1919 — CHILD'S MURDERER QUICKLY INDICTED. [ARTICLE]

CHILD'S MURDERER QUICKLY INDICTED.

Chicago, July 28.—Within an ‘hour after a coronor’s jury had held Thomas Fitzgerald, confessed murderer of six-year-old Janet Wilkinson, to the grand jury, the latter returned an indictment in the criminal count charging Fitzgerald with the murder, and asking for a speedy triad. Assistant State’s Attorney James O’Brien said that as soon aa counsel could he obtained for Fitzgerald the case would be brought to trial. Fitzgeradd yesterday confessed that he had strangled Janet, a neighbor’s child, to death x last Tuesday and later led officers to the body, which he had buried under a pile of coal in the basement of the apartment in which he lived. Mrs. Muriel Fitzgerald, his wife, who had been held by the police, was released this afternoon. Police warned her against returning to her home at this time, as feeling against her husband was running high in the neighborhood. Latter, she decided to remain in custody of the police until tomorrow.