, 1873-08-28
Rafferty, Proves Too Much for tho Wau-
kcgans, and is Brought Back
to Chicago.
Peri Has Conc Into the Cigar Making
Business ut Joliet, and Don't
Care Much.
Perfect Has Received Legacy, and fnbs
Along Comfortably with In
creased Prison Comforts.

Details Not Generally KNOWN
About All Our Other Pct
Jnil-Birtls.
or Ohicago'e unhung villains, Chris nnfforty
Is tho greatest. md yet tho most happy. This is
tho fellow who took MIN ut vital part OF an
officer, whom ho had Just invtod to drink, with
as much coolnesB md elaboration as ho would
fill pipe. He Is now in our County Jail, whore
le spends tho time mostly IN carving wooa with
h pooket-knifo; mud tho prisoners count him
their most distinguished aeeociato. Chris, It
will be remembered, was Bridgeport b'hoy,
dangerous, sullon-bloodcd day-laboror about tho
brick fields when he worked, and q drunken
bully when ho 1oafod. THO police held = wnr-
rant for Ills arrest, and Officer Patrick O'Areara,
hearing that ho WIS to bo found. toward mid
night Of tho 9th OF August, 1874 at that oyor-
memorable saloon on ualstod street. whore tho
city seems to have struggled into dusty fields,
accompanied by mother ofacer, undertook to
arrest him. Chris was sitting at a tablo whom
tho officers ontorod and after fow words had
passed., offered thom drink ; and, at his TO-
quest tho warrant for his arrest was read out
aloud Tho request for reading Was morely
fciut to engage thor attention. As soon as it
began, ho pulled out q large navy royolver, and
lot them know that they wore at his mercy.
Osfoara waa shot doad, with tho words asking tho
brute "not to shoot ~ expiring on bis lips, and
his companion would have shared tho game fate
lad not his finger caught between tho trigger
and tho chamber, md held thero, whilst ho
ntruggled with tho ASSASSIN for lifo. Chris
slipped and led. His capture whs speedy;
and mover has there been such universal Joy ct
an arrcst, such unanimous condemnation Of q
murderer in Chicago, as there was in regard to
aoar o;n1oarn do;n, h;a honr;,on du.v wsa ~ ~.
tooA 11o' e,AAo 1'' n 0e1I ""' w.
1oroo up On tho snElno ol snls nl'n "ppoli1o ZOE
blood; aud still Chris-bully bhoy Chris, hector"
ine defiant Chris-]iyes conteptod and cheerful
-; ,.so,,t ~,,.rtar. ,.rr,nr, wood for noot;n,o
Az raaAs,A' saaAs, -. ,.s "eeH ~. eser
as though mnfuof was IN aes 10 ne 1oJtul4y re-
me1nbered, nurdorors tho only deserving esea-
Chris ,yae tr;ed at thu sento,nbor torn. 1879
1' r.:@':A.1 49, . A3 -, s' 80, 80
OF our osnnanal ooas1' az sne DnoSa WHO nao
ever dabblod thoir tlsss IN the blood ot ponce
were there: all tho t1ackguArds, mud aome
" .;n'u,etona ,sith ~ n,,atot,on no,;ona ~ hrm,n
onl:.s. 'ra -, ~ ~. s'tau -. 49,
ohaf1ty' ano'eleo IN INC noso' 1os tue
guilty Of murder aud sentenced
to bo hanged on tho 4th Of October. Alas the
t~;.1 w. I'll ~ orrora ~ or,;aaon nnd commits
stlai "as lu u ol.otn =. o4s1o @
Mon there was naru'y s1ep u II .nas ~ as.ulo
In. Chris counsel did his simple duty, and
took the matter to the supreme Court fof error
in the record. The supreme Court had to to grant
q aupersedeas, staying execution of the son
tence OF deetn,-the9 coalant heIp tnan.
BelyeB,-ostensiblY On tho ground that
the Court had erred IN Iofuslng
change Of Vonuo; aud at tho septom-
bor tatm at the supreme Court tho Judgment r r.
corded against Haiferty was reversed ana the
now trial, to begin afIosh: In such case, the
formal remittitur Of the snpromn Court to the
Criminal Court ehonid nave been procured,
authorizing tho rodockeslng OF INC case tor tfial'
seeurac{es s and nogligencas that attended tho
prosecution on the part OF the people: through
out this, and nearly ali our murder trlais SINCE