The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-14
A Chicago Murderer.

tall and Athletic frame, and,
not Tithstar ding over two years of
incarceration, decidedly handsome
of feature. sits within the shadow
of the gallows IN the Cook county
Jail on the north side. George II.
Painter is his name, and unless Gov.
Altgeld should interpose executive
clemency before tomorrow morning,
and of any such intention there are
no indications .oday, his life will
pay forfeit for the crime for which
he was convicted and sentenced to
be hanged, This was the murder
of Alice Martin, woman with
whom he had lived several years as
his wife, and the crime was com.
mitted on Sunday, May Il, 1891.
From the day of his arrest up
to the present time Painter has
always stoutly protested his inno-
cence, and on the trial the evidence
was purely circumstantial. Ike is
the son of once prominent Metho-
dist preacher of New York, now de-
ceased, but the precepts which he
learned in his boyhood days were
soon forgotten. His first employ.
ment was as a clerk in Brook
Ign, and after tying the
same occupation for while
in Chicago he turned his attention
to gambling, and became sporting
man about town in every sense of
the word. His agreeable presence
and fascinating manner made him
favorlte with the women whose tastes
were like his own, and out Of his
many Appropriateness he chose Alice
Martin fol paramount The two
lived together Oh the West side of
the city, but the life they led was
naturally not a happy one and
quarrels bet Eeen the two were fire.
: Quent. 1t was claimed at the trial
that he had not only lived on the
wages OF her shame but had beaten
and threatened to Kill her for not
! supplying him with ~ mach money
q az he needed. The circumstances
surrounding the murder were in
volved in mystery. All that is
known is TIA. on the Sunday night
O in question Painter came out of his
/. room and yelled to the tea ants in
the other parts of the building that
his wife had been murdered. When
J. the neighbors rushed to the room
they found the woman lying dead
" on the floor Her body had been
It terribly gashed and mutilated, and
there was blood all over the Moor
and on the walls. Painter notified
the police and professed to he pros
II trated over the afl lir. Suspicion
o was directed against him, however,
) and he was arrested. A few days
y later the overcoat which ne always
II wore was found in closet literally
" saturated in blood. On the trial he
% attempted to prove an abb, and
= witnesses were called who said he
ID had spent the day and night up to
i midnight at a west side saloon.
The tenants of the house, however,
swore that they had heard him
" quarreling with the woman some
time before be gave the alarm, and
that they had seen him acting sus-
piciously about the building earlier
te in the evening. He was promptly
ID convicted, and upon being brought
N into court for sentence created a
sensation by asking Judge Clifford
to grant him twenty minute
private interview, saying that if he
was given the ear of the Judge he
d. would never be hanged. The re-
OF quest was refused and sentence was
u, passed The case was taken to the
~ supreme court, where the verdict
~ was affirmed, and the date for the
=" execution set for tomorrow
-, -, Recently Painter created something
10 of sensation by trying to induce
10 the authorities to demonstrate hi
or innocence or guilt by putting hin
i'll under hypnotic influence. He ap
n. pealed to Annie Besant, Professor
a Carl Sextus, and theosophists ant
hypnotists in all parts of the coun
RS try, but without success. Within
as few weeks he caused a
appeal to be made to the court t.
sanction the experiment, but an ex
haustive examination of the record