Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1907 — MURDER SENSATION INTERESTS RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

MURDER SENSATION INTERESTS RENSSELAER

Chicago's latest murder sensation has a direct local interest for Rensselaer people. Lately a young woman named Emiiy Miller died in a hospital in Chicago and her body was taken to Boone county, 111., her former home for burial, by Chauncey Johantgen her reputed lover, who gave out that her death had followed an operation for appendicitis. Her relatives after wards got suspicious and had her body exhumed and an examination showed that death had resulted from a criminal operation. Johantgen was arrested and he implicated Dr. H. W. Fox, for whom a warrant has been issued but who has so far kept in hiding. The circumstance which gives to the affair its local interest, is that the Miller girl is the person who was married in Chicago on Jan. Ist 1902, to Charley Vick, of our city, who already had two wives and who resected her three w c’rs after his bigamous marriage. The subsequent pursuit of Young Vick and his arrest and escape, in the southern part of this state, was fully related at the time.

Regarding his saamage to Miss Miller a Monday’s Chicago paie? gives his picture and says: CLAIMS ROYAL LINEAGE. Vick met Miss Miller while she was visiting her sister, Mrs. James Hanrahan, 219 Wood street. His courtship was brief. He told his sweetheart that he was the sou of a wealthy farmer, and that he was •descended from George 111., that his family belong to the old Southern aristocracy and had given its name to Vicksburg. These sta ements had their effects on the impressionable girl. After dinner at Mrs. Hanrahan’s on New Year’s the couple went to Justice Under’ wood’s court and were married. After three week of married life Vick gave Mrs. a cheek for $lO “to show his appreciation,’ and left town. The check proved to be bogus. He was arrested later but baled out by one of his father-in-law and disappeared.