Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1906 — MURDERS AROUND CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

MURDERS AROUND CHICAGO.

Brutal Killing? , of ~Women Hai Stirred ui» Whole City. Chicago citizens are discussing ways and means to check murders and robberies throughout the city. The fiendish killing of Mrs. F. C. Hollister on Friday night has thoroughly aroused the authorities and citizens generally. A movement by all interests in the city toward safety and more adequate protection to the Individual, especially women, is ‘ the result One thousand more policemen are demanded. In a revolting murder, the circumstances of which are unparalleled in the criminal annals of Chicago, Mrs. Franklin C. Hollister, a woman of refinement, choir singer and philanthropic dark alley on the North Side Friday night at the hands of Richard G. Ivens, degenerate son of a carpenter. While Mrs. Hollister was undergoing the fearful experience which resulted in her deatH severaT women friends and fellow choir singers were expressing deep astonishment at her absence from the rehearsal and from the funeral of the morning. Following Is a list of the very recent wanton and atrocious murders of women In Chicago: Mrs. E. F. Mize, murdered at Fiftyeighth street and Washington avenue by a man whose identity is not known, Aug. 22, 1905. Miss Maude Reese, murdered in her flat, 200 Evanston avenue, by a man whose identity is not known, Nov. 21, 1905. Mrs. Carl O. Almberg, murdered by J. E. Moeller in an alley off North Clark street and Buckingham place, Jan. 5, 1906. Mrs. A. W. Gentry, murdered in her apartments, 582 La Salle avenue,.by a man known as F. J. Constantine, Jan. 6, 1906. Mrs. Franklin C. Hollister, murdered in the rear of 368 Belden avenue by Richard Ivens, Jan. 12. From the pulpit the cry of alarm was given Sunday. A mass meeting of citizens was announced. Resolutions were adopted on the subject at the ministers’ weekly meetings. Laymen generally expressed their approval of the stand of the clergymen. The Rev. J. N. Hall, pastor of her church, referred to the crime and to their loss. He said: “When we think of the atrocious crime which has taken from us one of our members it Is evident that only the power of the gospel makes possible our marvelous restraint at this time.. While we do not cry for revenge, we do demand Justice, and It Is our hope that out of this wanton murder will come a greater protection for the women of Chicago and the greater safety of the home.” The Dally News says: Where mur--d*Y is so frequent as it is In Chicago, and where the murderers so often select women as their victims, these crimes cannot be regarded as mere sporadic outbreaks. They Indicate a widespread and dangerous contempt for law and defiance of organized society. Furthermpre, they Bhow that Chicago has within Its borders a spirit of animalism which causes men to kill for the mere pleasure of killing.