The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-11-13
NEGRO KILLS
WIFE; SEES
HER DIE

At 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Tom Chappel shot his wife three
times at Fields and Howard avenues,
u Hammond, then stood against the
paling OF the fence and watched her
expire.
At 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon he
SAt In the Office OF Police Chief Bun
ae and surrounded by detectives.
salnly told OF tho cold blooded muir
der, OF the events hat cad up to II,
And as -nonchalantly as though he
were describing a baseball game. told
Sf the Staying OF a fellow employs
during a strike at the Chicago stock
lizards. He had shot him because
he WAS sucker on the draw" and
as pumped two bullets into the face
IF the dude.'
And while the slayer detailed his
Killings, patrolmen in an outer Of
Ice recitsd for the tenth time how
Ghappell was capturedI how three
tutos loaded with coppers arrived on
HE scene Of the murder five minutes
litter the alArmi how Sergeant San
Tor Singer averted another possible
Killing when he met the slayer as he
btepped from the door of his house,
10 which he had returned for his
l~verooat, and with a twist of the
wrist sent flying the gun with which
chappell hoped to NOW his way to
freedom through the throng that
luttered the street. crying lynch
iimi XIII the black siayerl XIII
he murderer of Minniel"
Minnie Chappell, "a years old, COL
red, about to become a mother, was
lain as she ran to summon police
o shield her from the terrible wrath
II her husband Following a fight
n the rooms which the couple oc-
upied In the house at the northwest
borner of Fields and Howard W.
Minnie Chappell fed down the stairs.
fter breaking away from her hus-
and who had tried to hur1 her from
/ window. Desperate with fear she
lung 10 the butcher knife with
Fhich she made a vain effort to pro-
ect herself. Her husband frustra-
4 ed by the woman's sister and bro
her in law. and maddened to frenzy
Y fter being struck br a bottle In the
lands OF his wife's protectors. ran
INTO his room. opened his trunk and
pok from it a huge and hideous IS
alibre revolver. He followed his
i Eife.
Scarce a hundred feet from the
louse he caught Up with her. He
alsed his revolver and fred three
lines. The first bullet grazed the
Fonan's left cheek. The second
truck her IN the back of the head
nd ripping through her skull. came
ut, tearing away part of her lip. At
hat moment she raised her left arm
nd the third bullet penetrating her
houlder struck the appraised wrist
md passed through that
She sank to the sidewalk. Failing,
he turned her head partially around.
Her husband stood against the fence.
,anting while at his side dangled
he revolver still smoking.
Over her husbands shoulder the
lying woman caught a glimpse of
tousled haired pickaninny leaning
Eith o~utstretched arms from a win
low of the room that was to know
Ter no more. It was four year old
fohn Andrew. her SON. And with
hat picture shimmering before her
faze and her ears resounding with
he shouted threats Of the mob. she
He'd.
Tom Chappell says he stood for
Dme time at the fence. Then he
urned. went back to his O for
rs handsome new o~vercoat, placed
lis gun IN q Goa pocket where It
you'd be handy to get at. and fall
4 ng to find the sister In law. Mrs
cssie Jackson, whom he would have
bumped off, as casually as passins
he time Of day. sauntered down the
tairs- The cops. he thought, would
iot arrive for at least ten minutes
hat would give him time. As for thu
Fnraged mob OF his own color whc
hanlored in the street for his blood
le would take care Of them. He was
net a. the door by Singer. It was
III over. Chappell was a prisoner
Il And while they were booking him
II Il said
wanted TO KIM her. I hillet
ter am glad that I did. l would
10 Il again"
Locked in death cell. he slept like
: log through the night He wa:
reused a couple OF times to answe,
luestions Cor the coroner and foi
detectives. He grgnbied because hi
leep was disturbed
He killed his wife because some
me told him that she was enter.
aiming men friends while he work.
q nights at the Standard Steel Cal
company.