Armstrong 28 (2 results)
Language: English
Published by This led Canada to ban the general public and journalists from witnessing executions. Ellis refused to retire and continued operating under aliases.`, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1911
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Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.Meir Turner
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Very Good. Wanted Poster 270 x 185 mm. In acid free Mylar sleeve. Will be shipped flat between heavy cardboard layers, never rolled. [Transcription:] CINCINNATI, OHIO, AUGUST 8, 1911. WANTED FOR MURDER! CHARLES JONES, COLORED. Warrant issued. For the murder of his wife, Bertha Jones, a white woman, on or a…bout July 14, 1911. On this date she disappeared. On August 4, 1911, her body was found in a sewer at Norwood, Ohio. Charles Jones is 38 years of age; black kinky hair; dark brown complexion; 165 pounds; well-built; eyes maroon; 5 feet 9 inches. He has a scar at the first joint of left middle finger rear near the hand; a small irregular scar at the third phalange of right middle finger front; a vertical scar one inch long in upper part of right ear -this scar is very distinct; small scar at top of head a little to the right of middle line. By occupation a coachman and teamster. BERTILLON. [Table containing Bertillon system anthropometric measurements and handwritten notes] Height: 5 ft 9 in / 1 m 75.0 | Head, Lgth: 19.6 | L. Foot: 27.8 | Class: 7 Mar 2? | Age: 32 / 1905 Outs. A: 1 m 74.0 | Width: 15.1 | Mid F: 12.7 | Color of Left Eye: Areola. Periph. Z. | Born in: Mo. Trunk: 93.5 | Cheek Wdth: 14.1 | Lit F: 9.6 | Fore A: 48.4 | R. Ear: 6.5 | Pecul. [Mugshots: Profile and Frontal views, Chest Number 9349] DESCRIPTIVE Incl.: Regd. / Hgth.: 2m. / Width: . / Pecul.: [Handwritten notes] Ridge: Rect / Base: Drop / Root: sm / DIMENSIONS: Length: m / Projection: sm / Breadth: g / Pecul. Teeth, Right Ear: op / 7. E. / Chin: . Beard: - - | Hair: Blk | Complexion: Dk Brown | Weight: 165 | Build: Well Measured at Cincinnati, O., June 16, 1905 by Pfingster REMEASURED His previous criminal record is: July 1, 1905, shooting to kill a police officer of this city; 5 years in the Ohio Penitentiary; May 31, 1910, assault and battery upon a white girl - no prosecution, case dismissed. A liberal reward will be paid for the arrest of this party. WM. H. JACKSON, Chief of Police, Cincinnati, Ohio." An important historical broadside of early 20th-century American law enforcement, race relations, and forensic science, The Bertillon System. It deals with high-profile gruesome capital murder cases and a sensational cross-border backdrop. It highlights the high-profile media and police response to an interracial marriage ending in homicide during an era of profound racism. Jones was born in Missouri c. 1873, moved to Cincinnati, worked as coachman and teamster (a driver of horse-drawn wagon teams). In 1905, he shot a Cincinnati police officer and served 5 years in the Ohio Penitentiary. Shortly after his release, on May 31, 1910, he was arrested for assault and battery of a local white woman. The case was dismissed without prosecution. He married Bertha Courtney (referred to in local records as Bertha Jones). On July 14, 1911, Bertha disappeared. On August 4, her decapitated body was discovered in a sewer line in Norwood, Ohio. Police Chief William H. Jackson released this circular on August 8, 1911. Investigators theorized that Jones was a serial killer, connecting him to other local homicides, including the death of an associate, black man named Charles Johnson, who helped Bertha leave Jones. After the discovery of Bertha's body Jones fled to Canada, using the alias "William Campbell" in Montreal. There, in August 1913, Jones (now Campbell) slit the throat of George Muir, the ex-boyfriend of his new girlfriend, Lillie Jackson. He was arrested by Canadian authorities. He was arrested in Montreal for Muir's murder. Ohio never extradited him for Bertha's murder because Canada hanged him on Jan.24, 1914 for George Muir's homicide. The execution drew such chaotic crowds that Canada banned the general public from witnessing future prison executions. See The Woman in the Sewer - on YouTube. The media coverage of the murders and manhunt drew national attention, including The New York Times, with emphasis of the marriage being interracial. decapitating the man, and on March 28, 1935, at Montreal's Bordeaux Prison, the same facility where Charles Jones had been hanged 21 years prior, Tomasina Sarao was hanged along with two accomplices for a murder-for-insurance plot, she was decapitated. (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
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Kershaw #344; Moreland and Bannister, p. 90; Armstrong 28; Warkentin 1974; Skelton 1964 p. 258 and 272; BN du Q # 1155; Lemon 1987
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Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, CanadaAlexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books
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