Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-02
MURDER PREMEDlTATED is
NOW THE CHARGE
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worked in iron shop No II. max
ing hoes. He is reported to have
been hard working and was fire.
quently paid overtime for the in
| dustry shown Junkin was to be
released January II, 1909, his SEN
tence having been shortened for
good behaviour, but shortly before
the time arrived the criminal com
mitted a slight misdemeanor and
served eight days moref He was
released from the penitentiary
January 10. 1909.
With the murder of Clara Rosen
John Junkin has reached the climax
of a criminal career, which, consider
ing his twenty-six years of age, would
be hard to parallel in any records OF
crime in the country. His is a case
of a strong mind wrongly applied, foI
Junkin is in no sense stupid man
Instead he possesses diabolical in,
genuity and we'll developed percep
ton.
Junkin, say the police, has always
been addicted to the use of liquors,
and he was known to have graduated
from this beverage to the use Of
dope His father, say the officers
came to his death through the exces-
sive use of liquors, having fallen to
his death from q hay NOW while in
toxicated. Numerous stories depict.
ing the depraved nature of the negro
date back to his early boyhood. It Is
| stated thaf uyhn I,,t lol IL
at one time amused himself by tortur-
ing cat, cutting off first the claws
of the feline and afterwards severing
the hind legs of the animal and left
it to suffer.
In 1892 Jurkin committed the first
offense which attracted very wide At
tention. He robbed McCarrolPs hard
ware store of sum Of money and
was sent up to the reform school at
Eldora. Here his criminal instincts
again continued to sprout. While in
Eldora he is alleged to have thrown
a live setter dog into the furnace OF
the heating plant and stood by and
watched the animal burn to death.
After serving his sentence in Eldora
he was released and came back to Of
tumwa. He committed numerous pet
ty crimes which kept him in Jail mucn
OF the time and in April, 1905, he was
sentenced to five years in the peni-
tertiary. This was for stealing a purse
from Lena Stebb on Wapello street
between Second and Main Junkin's
five year sentence was shortened. He
was released January 10, 1909, after
serving three years and nine months
of his Snnfannn Tho 81
Rosen murder was the elimination of
his depradations
Junkin Arrested Twice.
John Junkin was first placed und ar
arrest by Officer Joe Beaman, shortly
after the murder was committed, but
failure to couple him with the crime,
resulted in his release upon February
s. He was not arrested again until
the report was sent to the officials by
Pawnbroker Redman, February 1G,
about the colored man selling the dia-
mond. Beaman again made the ar
rest. He was repeatedly :uizzed by
Chief Gallagher and other aids of the
local police while in the city Jail here,
and when the reported mistreatment
of Mrs. Johnston was made known
he was hurried to Abba by Officer
Frank Harris.
Wanted at GaIesbura
Frank Weaver, the colored man
whom Junkin endeavored to implicate
in the murder of Miss Rosen, was last
night taken to Galesburg, where he
will have to answer to the charge of
robbery of woman He is accused
o. grabbing a purse from some WON
an while she was walking along the
main street in the Illinois city.