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Following that insurrection, Warden Hill announced that Chaplain George Whitmeyer, onetime rector of an Episcopal church in bloody Herrin, Ill., "had fomented discontent, carried messages for convicts and, knowingly or not, had been instrumental in a jail delivery plot." Chaplain Whitmeyer resigned three days after the thwarted escape. Said he: "I resigned because I was the man who disclosed the plans for the attempted prison escape, only to have the guards deliberately trap and shoot these three men after they had been allowed to climb down the outer wall. It was such brutality that aroused the other prisoners...
...before have airplanes dropped illegal bombs in the U. S.: 1) during a coalstrike war in Logan County, W. Va. in 1921, when 6,000 non-unionists employed by mine owners dug trenches, mounted machine-guns, sent bombers over their 8,000 unionist foes; 2 ) in 1926, during the Herrin, Ill. Birger-Shelton rum-running feud...
Delegate Otis F. Glenn of Illinois, the stocky, drawling lawyer who prosecuted the murderers at Bloody Herrin, was watched for as the man slated to place Candidate Lowden in nomination. Delegate (Mrs.) Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of the late famed G. 0. Politician Mark Hanna, said she had accepted the honor of seconding Delegate Glenn's motion. Other notable daughters were to be present-Mrs. Leona Knight of Providence, R. I., to cast at least one vote for her father, Candidate Curtis of Kansas; Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University...
...Charles Birger, lean gang chieftain of Williamson county, in which lies bloody Herrin, had paid the two young men $50 apiece to kill Mayor Adams. His conviction for first degree murder was regarded as having finally put an end to Herrin atrocities. Last week final appeals failed. He was to be hanged by the neck on Friday, April 13, unless Governor Len Small, famed pardoner, intervened...
...petty criminal, Moneymaker Mayes kept four gangs of bootleggers and counterfeiters busy putting $800,000 of his currency into circulation. Prominent among his outlets were the Birger and Shelton gangs whose activities (TIME, Feb. 21) have heightened the ill-fame of Williamson and Herrin counties, Illinois. Birgers and Sheltons, feuding cutthroats, machine-gunners, hijackers, in their liquor deals, used to dupe each other and be duped by Mr. Mayes's money...