THE LAW AND JUDGE LYNCH - 200 YEARS OF MURDER IN JOHNSON COUNTY, ILLINOIS

ARTICLES WORTH READING
A Time When Justice is Not Working
Decade of the 1840’s – a Surge in Violence
Short or No Sentences Was the Norm
The Courts Began to Gain Control of Justice
Deaths Attributed to Accidents Not Included in this Book
Copyright Laws and the Public Domain
Appendix

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1813 – First Murder in Johnson County
1814 – John McIntire stabbed John R. Conley
1820 – James Hawkins shot Samuel Langdon
1837 – Belk & Teagues shot Andrew D. Scott
1841 – Daniel Mosley poisoned David Davault
1841 – Morgan Morris shot William Edwards
1841 – William Wilson killed Phillip Riddle
1846 – Charles Spencer killed by men of Vienna
1847 – Did Dr. Fairlee kill Perry Herill?
1852 – Jeptha Randolph indicted for murder
1856 – David Bridges stabbed Daniel Walton
1857 – Wm. Huckleberry killed Jas. Atkinson
1860 – Sam’l Leonard killed Wm. Showen
1860 – Reuben Merriman shot Young Elkins
1860 – John G. Hardy charged with abortion
1862 – Thos. Robertson/Sarah Canel charged
1862 – A.J. Bunch killed Francis M. Sumner
1863 – Abraham Nash shot Benj. M. Adams
1865 – John A. Fleming shot James P. Hodge
1866 – Simmons/Graden killed Nacy Simmons
1866 – Newt A. Pearson stabbed John Conder
1868 – Lannes Patillo shot Angereau Franklin
1870 – J & J Harper A/M Thomas Welch
1871 – Peter Herin shot Cyrus Keith
1871 – John Murry killed by unknown
1872 – John C. Clymore murder mystery
1873 – Samuel Hazel A/M Joseph Bush
1873 – Elijah B. Dilts killed George Dennie
1873 – Daisy Breese killed Don Breese
1874 – Sabe Peterson charged with manslaughter
1874 – Wm. Gupton killed Anthony Eschbach
1875 – Pete Davis stabbed Virgil Brock
1875 – J.C. Peterson killed Mr. Adams
1876 – Mysterious murder – Carter killed Prouhet
1876 – James H. Arnett charged with A/M
1877 – F.M. Kennedy killed Hyrum F. Sheerer
1877 – Harrison Burklow shot David Wagner
1877 – Mrs. Barnes killed Hood boy
1877 – Powell Short killed William Arnett
1877 – James H. Arnett shot Ed Mutz
1877 – James Lowery Fort, a dangerous man
1878 – John Hill & Frank Balleau charged in KY
1878 – William Penrod shot John Bradshaw
1878 – Frank Chapman killed by unknown
1879 – Dock Bond’s son killed at West Eden
1879 – Meacham & Howard killed Meacham
1879 – John Dougherty shot by posse
1880 – Clay & Reynolds charged with shooting
1880 – Stephen Copenheafer shot Wm. R. Hodge
1881 – Marshall Roberts killed John Adams
1881 – Ira Coats stabbed Joseph Venable
1882 – Randolph or McGinnis killed infant
1882 – Callahan & Hitchcock killed infant
1882 – James W. Bayles killed by Church and/or Bridges
1883 – Leonard Armstrong killed Milton Thomas
1883 – J & R Howerton shot Frank Smith
1884 – Martha Lambert killed a child
1884 – David Avery killed Daniel Gage
1885 – Mary White killed an infant
1886 – Arnett, Newton, Newton shot Frank M. McIntosh
1886 – W.H. Murry killed a farm hand
1886 – John Randolph killed Frank M. Thomas
1887 – S.L. Strickland shot by unknown
1888 – Felix A. Boyt mystery
1888 – Harry Green killed John Stacy
1888 – William Steele killed Irene Barnes
1889 – John Bridges killed, Charles Arnett wounded
1889 – George M. Barnwell stabbed Joseph W. Ogden
1889 – Mr. Johns killed Mary Haden
1889 – Joseph B. Doss shot Edward Jarrett
1890 – Riley Kelley killed Henry Laningham
1890 – Priscilla Clay killed George Pearce
1890 – Wm. F. Sullivan shot Marcus & Alice Sullivan
1890 – James M. Gore shot John Scarlet
1890 – Lydia Smith shot Ephraim J. Cooksey
1891 – Burb & Ed Stanley killed James H. Arnett
1891 – James Winchester shot Winster Elkins
1891 – John Hartline killed Miss Thurman then himself
1891 – Dixon, Dixon, Jones, Harris killed John A. Simpson
1892 – Joseph & Benjamin Arnett charged with abortion
1893 – Henry Seibman shot James M. Jones
1893 – Frank Gore A/M Jodie Hopson
1893 – Elijah Pierson killed Jonah Dorris
1893 – Will Steel stabbed Ernest Lee
1894 – Dunn & Rodgers killed Robert Kelley
1894 – Murrie & Keltner killed Willie May
1894 – Hess & Bratton shot Eli Ballowe
1895 – Levi & Mark Lennon killed Frank Adams
1896 – A.D. Stanley shot John Austin
1897 – Joe Jones murder mystery
1897 – Buck Johnson shot Samuel Wallace
1899 – William H. Turley killed Frank Murrie
1899 – Samuel Gold killed George W. Howell
1899 – Burnett & Farris charged with killing John Maupin
1899 – Hosea Smith charged with abortion
1899 – James Winchester murdered by unknown
1899 – Carterville Mine Riot Murders
1899 – Second Carterville Mine Riot Murder Trial
1900 – Vesta Hogg killed Clara Gurley
1901 – Cage Bellamey charged with death of Mary Gurley
1901 – Verazonni Jones shot Robert Martin
1902 – Effie Ray & Tim Fitzgerald killed baby girl
1902 – John Adams killed Frank Rushing
1902 – Sam’l “Bunk” Ragsdale killed Wm. D. “Bill” Ragsdale
1903 – Frank Womack killed Ezra Edmondson
1904 – Ona Jane Brummitt killed Samuel R. McCall
1904 – Harvey & Ellen Hartline charged with abortion
1905 – Charles F. Dunn murdered Wm. Richard “Whit” Dunn
1905 – Fred Perkins shot John Betts
1906 – Minnie Reese killed her baby
1906 – Bub Martin shot Mose Hodge
1906 – John Gore killed Oscar Gurley
1906 – Thomas Isom shot George Henson
1907 – “Pinkie Plumber” – Minnie Taylor charged in KY & TN
1907 – Samuel Martin killed Lemma Stokes
1910 – Hosea Taborn killed Allen Clark
1910 – Newton C. Blevins killed James DePalma
1910 – Thomas H. Sheridan killed Harry Thacker
1910 – Kitt Taber shot by unknown
1911 – B.K. “Klebe” Jacobs killed George W. Henson
1912 – Duff Howell killed Charles M. Farris
1912 – Jesse Ed. Wamsley charged w/killing Dan’l C. Robertson
1913 – Lester “Little Shot” Winchester killed Bent Gore
1914 – Marion Henderson shot Monroe Davis
1914 – Ellis & Hunsaker charged with killing Albert Ellis
1915 – Boner Brothers killed Roy Whitehead
1916 – James Hood shot Pete Hamilton
1919 – Bert Campbell shot Cecil Stonum
1921 – Otis Atnip killed Ward Kelly
1921 – Was Henry Fitzgerald poisoned?
1921 – Did Bertha Weiss kill Charles O’Brien?
1922 – Albert Sanders killed Daniel Needham
1926 – Edwin Peters & Wesley Reagan shot at Roadhouse
1926 – Landis Cox killed Frank Cox then himself
1927 – Henry Newton and Raymond West shot each other
1927 – Raymond Street killed Clayton Carney
1930 – Arthur Raymond Drennan killed by unknown
1933 – Carlos Green killed Walter Hastings
1933 – Raymond Short killed James Louis Underhile
1933 – Ardell “Spike” Johnson A/M of George Latham
1933 – Lloyd Haden killed Troy Murphy
1934 – Johnson County’s William Cody Kelley in Colorado
1934 – Norman Tavender killed Harry Newkirk
1940 – Audie Turner shot Lynn Capron
1941 – Everett Adams stabbed George Marion Newton
1946 – Who killed Margaret Latham Simmons
1947 – Burel Shrum murdered Margaret Radford
1952 – Pennington/Brown charged w/ killing Harry M. Canada
1954 – Thos. Lee Latham & Spike Johnson killed Maggie Gray
1957 – Bill Powell Jr. A/M of Bill Powell Sr
1960 – Unsolved murder of Bunice Tyner
1968 – Ruel Stroud killed Helen Stroud then himself
1972 – Bobby Frank Cherry killed Rebecca Howell by arson
1979 – Albert Garza A/M of Elry Faulkner
1984 – Ronald R. Duncan shot Lillie Duncan
1984 – Mary Ann Batson killed Brenda Denson
1985 – Who killed Paul Hook?
1986 – Wm. Richard Davault shot June Davault then himself
1994 – Edward Hale shot Robert Eugene Blackburn
1995 – Larry Ford shot John J. Avery
1996 – James L. Stevens killed Pamela K. Salazar
1999 – Bruny & Duncan killed Joseph Michael Duncan

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