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Fort Madison IOWA RP 1910 HANGING Execution PRISON John Junkin BLACK MAN Negro 2
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Here is a nice REAL PHOTO postcard view showing the HANGING OF JOHN JUNKIN at the FORT MADISON IOWA PRISON on August 1, 1910 for the MURDER of Clara Rosen. On online search found that one site listed this as happening July 29, 1910 instead of August 1s ... Read More
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Here is a nice REAL PHOTO postcard view showing the HANGING OF JOHN JUNKIN at the FORT MADISON IOWA PRISON on August 1, 1910 for the MURDER of Clara Rosen. On online search found that one site listed this as happening July 29, 1910 instead of August 1st. Junkin, a BLACK MAN, was accused of murdering a WHITE WOMAN. The photo shows the graphic scene---a HOOD is over Junkin and you can make out his skin on the neck in the photo. Written on the back: HANGING OF JOHN JUNKIN AT FORT MADISON PENITENTIARY AUG. 1ST 1910 NEGRO MURDERER OF CLARA ROSEN in old pencil.Following are the legal executions which have occcurred at Fort Madison Penitentiary since its establishment in 1838:
October 1, 1894, James Dooley, of Adams county, for the murder of his sweetheart. 16 years old when hanged.
February 8, 1895, J.K. Cumberland, Shelby county, for the murder of two men.
April 20, 1906, Joseph Smith, negro, for the murder of a woman.
July 29, 1910, John Junkin, negro, for the killing of Clara Rosen at Ottumwa.
September 18, 1922, Ira Pavey, Sioux county, for the murder of Claude Letner, alleged booze runner.
September 25, 1922, Eugene Weeks, Polk county, for the murder of George Fosdick, Des Moines grocer.
December 7, 1922, Orrie Cross, Polk county, for the murder of George Fosdick, Des Moines grocer.
The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, February 25, 1909
NO Clue YET Found:
No clue to the murderer of MISS ROSEN in Ottumwa, has yet been found and it
is feared that he never will be apprehended.It seems a strange thing when
young girls are murdered thus on the public thoroughfares of a populous city
Punishments could not be prescribed too severe or drastic for such
ghoulish acts.
Ottumwa MOB Visits Albia:
Last week JOHN JUNKIN, colored, arrested as a suspect for the murder of
CLARA ROSEN at Ottumwa, was brought to Albia and placed in the county jail
to avoid a mob that might be raised to avenge the murder of MISS ROSEN.
The outrage committed on MRS. JOHNSTON Saturday night by a negro stirred the Ottumwa people
to the quick and a few hot heads organized a mob of fully two hundred people and came to Albia on
a freight train for the purpose of lynching JOHN JUNKIN.
When the accused man was placed in Sheriff Griffin's care he was suspicious
that an attempt might be made to lynch him and he arranged with the chief of
police at Ottumwa to notify him if any signs were noticeable that a mob was
gathering.
About 12:30 Monday morning Sheriff Griffin was notified by telephone that a
mob of two hundred people headed by Messrs. Kerby and Finney, was on its way
to Albia to Lynch the colored suspect.The sheriff called County Attorney
Bates,Marshal Woofter, Patrolman Roberts, Ed Webb, George Harris and Andy
McCreery to the jail and laid his plans before them.The mob was thwarted.
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