Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1919 — CHICAGO MORON PAID PENALTY FOR CRIME THIS A. M. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO MORON PAID PENALTY FOR CRIME THIS A. M.

Thomas R. Fitzgerald was hanged in the Cook comity jail this Friday morning for the murder of little Janet Wilkinson. An eleventh hour attempt to obtain a stay of execution before Federal Judge Landis failed. Prior to his execution Fitzgerald chatted freely with deputy sheriffs on the death watch when he was not Occupied with writing farewell notes. A jailer entered the death chamber Thursday evening and the moron ■smilingly made a request for eggs and lamb chops for his dinner, exhibiting not the slightest trace of fear of the fate that awaited him. Fitzgerald’s crime was one of the most terrible in the history of Chicago.