Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-06-22
HAYMARKET JUROR
BADCER[D TO HIS
GRAVE, WIFE SAYS
Foreman of Panel Which Con-
victed Chicago Anarchists,
Dies After Long Years
OF Annoyance.
REQUIRED A BODY GUARD
Friends of Condemned Men
Never Let Him Rest After
Verdict Is Returned
to the Court.
REQUIRED A BODY GUARD

Chicago, June 22.--With the death of
Frank Stewart Osborne foreman of
the jury that convicted eight anarchists
of murder after the Haymarket riot
in 1886, in New York, June 10. story
of his persecution by friends of the an
archists. from that time until his death.
has been revealed by his widow.
Several attempts to associate him
and innumerable letters containing
threats against hts life have made up
the persecution which started within a
few hours after he had read the ver-
dict, sentencing some OF the anarchists
to death and others to long terms in
prison.
That this persecution caused the I'LL
ness which resulted in his death was
the declaration OF Mrs. Osborne, when
she passed through Chicago 4 on her
way to Delavan Lake. Wis. from Gin
cinnati, where her husbands body
was buried last week. Mir. Osborne
succumbed to heart disease While on a
trolley car, journeying from New York
City to his home at Arverne. n. Y.
Police Guard for Year.
AT first the letters We're turned over
to the police but try as they would TO
capture the writer's, their enemies as
Well as Osborne's, they failed. AT one
time the revenge seekers became SO
bold that the police provided Osborne
with an armed escort and for more
than a year he was accompanied by
these guards.
Mrs. Albert III. Dainty who enter
tained Mrs. Osborne yesterday told the
complete story
Mr.. Osborne" she said was a per-
secuted man from the hour the jury
brought in its verdict until he died.
Wherever he went he was followed by
letters mailed from places near him
containing threats to destroy him
Some were signed. others were not
but in no case was anyone able to find
out where they came from. Some Were
| mere scrawls, others We're legible, well
| written messages; some We're specific
and others We're of a general nature
but practically every one told him lle
was a marked man and could not es-
cape.
Enioyes Short Respite.
Three years after the trial he left
| Chicago and went to New York to Ell
gage in business. There was tempo.
| rary lull ia the threats. but soon they
commenced streaming ir again. One
| night he went to labor meeting in 6
large New York hall, and while there
W., ICiS Wy pCliCe plllCSiS Iildt ~ I)IO
was on foot to kill him that night. Fol
more than year thereafter he wal
under police guard.
| Then a cessation of threats caused
u relaxation. The respite was only fol
a short time. Several times he received
notes telling him that had 1t not beer
for some trivial cause, he would have
4 been killed.
1T was constant strain and nj
doubt worried him greatly His chie
concern seemed to be the verdict itself
| Though he never doubted 1T was right
I the thought that he had been called
! upon to sentence men to death seemed
almost too much for him to bear III
spoke to me Of 1t often, terlning it III
awful duty, but nonetheless one tha
| he could not sflirk'
Scene at the Trial
The work of irnpaneling the jury o
| which Osborne was foreman, was begu,
about a month after the riot and wa
not completed until 9S3 veniremen hn,
been examined The jurors retired ol
August 49, 1896, and late In the evenin,
We're taken from its quarters In tn
criminal court building to the Rever
| house: This was certain sign that
! had reached verdict, and the neg
morning the court building and high
| ways leading to 1t for half a mile Ii
every direction were jammed AT /
O'Clock the jury's verdict was read
After the trial. Judge Joseph e. Cary
who presided, told the Jurors they ha
discharged their duty we'll He cornpli
mented Mr.. Osborne on the splendi
method he employed in keeping har
mon;.
1 Mr. Osborne was 60 years old at tn
time Of his death. When summoned t
the jury, he was a department hea
with Marshall Field & Co.