Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1898 — CHRIS MERRY HANGED. [ARTICLE]

CHRIS MERRY HANGED.

The Man Mho Brutally Murdered Uia Wife in ClilcnK'o East November Pays the Penalty. Chicago, Appil 23. —Christopher Merry, uxorcide, was hanged in the county jail corridor at noon Friday. Merry died game, making no scene on the scaffold, as had. been predicted. [“Chris” Merry’s crime was cue of ihe most brutal that have been committed In Chicago in years. The night of Noven her 13 he quarreled with his wife, Pauline Ballou Mcriy, and after choking her to Insensibility he deliberately crushed her skull wlih a poker and hid her buoy under the floor of their home at 60 Hope street. The following night he, with James Smith and Thomas Hickey, took the body and burled It In a va.ant lot at Eighty-seventh street and Western avenue, ftvasse- aj days before the dead woman was missud. Hickey’s ai res: follow vd, a< u after his confession came the discovery of the bedy, and subsequently the arrest of Smith ar.d Merry In Kentucky.J