Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1920 — 17 IN JAIL AT CHICAGO WAITING TO BE HANGED [ARTICLE]

17 IN JAIL AT CHICAGO WAITING TO BE HANGED

Chicago, August 7. —Richard Wilson, a safeblower, today was sentenced to be hanged October 15 for the murder of Thomas O’Donnell, a factory watchman. . Wilson’s conviction bnngs the nuber of murderers waiting to be hanged in the county jail to seventeen. Eight are under sentence to die October Lfe As there only is room in the jail for a double gallows, the men will be hanged in. relays. Wilson’s companion in the crime, Harry Andrae, is to be hanged October 15. Andrae was convicted of shooting the watchman when the latter found him and Wilson preparing to blow a factory safe.' Wilson was convicted as an accessory.