Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1906 — IVENS IS HANGUP. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IVENS IS HANGUP.

Confessed Slayer of Mrs. Hollister Executed in Chicago. Richard G. I vens was hanged Friday in Chicago. His life paid the law'’s penalty for the thrice-confessed murder of Mrs. Bessie M. Hollister, Jan. 12. Trembling In every limb, the youth inarched

to the gallows. The rope was adjusted, the trap sprung, and his neck was broken by the fall. There were few witnesses to.the execution. Physicians, necessary officials and newspaper reporters were the only spectators in the jail gallery. The parents and immediate friends of the youth were even denied the privilege of speaking to him before he walked to his fate. Mrs. Bessie M. Hollister, was murdered on the evening of Jan. 12 near the carpenter shop owned by William Ivens, father of the murderer, 368 Belden avenue. The body was found next

morning on a refuse pile outslder -a sLtble adjoining the shop. Richard Ivens was arrested a few hours after under cross-examination by Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler and Inspector Lavin he broHe down and confessed, giving all the details of the crime. Mrs. Hollister was the fourth woman murdered within a period of five months, the first having been Mrs. Eliz-

abeth Mize, who was killed near Del Prado Hotel, Aug. 22, 1905, and whose murderer is still at large. The details of the- crime committed by Ivens were so revolting that the whole city was aroused to action. Mass meetings were called in every section, anti-erime associations were formed and a campaign for an increased i>olice force started. In order to make the increased police force possible a crusade to raise saloon licenses to SI,OOO was started and after a bitter struggle was carried.

RICHARD G. IVENS.