Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-03-04
MURDERER ENDS FAKE
STUPOR AT GALLONS
Church Carried to Death Cham
Der But Awakens to Pray
Before Hanging.

chicago. March 4-Harvey w.
Church, strapped in chair. dropped
through the trap at the county jail
at asa o'clock yesterday afternoon and
10 minutes later was dead of strangu-
lation
The force Of the drop broke the
chair. but did not disloCate his neck.
Thus ended the career of one of the
most coldbl CODED murderers In the his
tory Of Chicago. 10 save whose life
the most frantic efforts have been
made by attorneys.
Alienists have claimed all along that
Church was Stimulating insanity and
this was proved by the fact that he
shook of his stupor on the way To the
sallows and during his last moments
in the death chamber. He called for
his parents and sister. His mother
tainted and was unable to respond
hut his father and sister did what they
could TO comfort him.
/ ON the Way to the gallows he per-
spired freely and after the moose ana
! cap had been adjusted, he began to
pray. At first he mumhled. but his
Voice became stronger and he re-
/ heated the Lords Prayer distinctly.
Then he lapsed into silence again, the
signal was giVen and the trap was
sprung. These were the first words
/ he had spoken for as days. when he
began his hunger strike.
other prisoners in the Jail did not
stage their usual hideous clanor of OBJ
scenity. profanity and rafting OF cell
doors. Heretofore this has been one OF
the features Of an execution, but this
time everything was silent. For one
thing, the hanging OF Church means
the practical end of the insanity dodge
for murderers.
The murders for which Church was
hanged were committed September
Of last year Church. who wanted 6
new automobile. went o a garage
nicked out a IS 900 car and asked tina
a salesman be sent him and the car Il
a bank where he had certified checi
waiting. Bernard J Daugherty was al
rected TO accompany him and as al
afterthought the manager also tol'
Carl O. Ausmus. tanother salesman
TO go alongD Instead of going 10
bank. he asked them To drive 10y nj
home until he attended 10 an errand.
He went into the house and in
few seconds appeared at basemen
door and beckoned Daugherty 70 com
in. As Daugherty descended tn
stairs. Church hit him over the hea'
with a baseball bat. Then he dragge
the body into a coal bin, Gu
, Dsueherty's throat, handcufred hin
and cleaned up the floor. Ten minute
, later Ausmus, worried owe
! Daugherty's absence, started down Tn
stairs. He also was struck down, b.
, hands tied and ne was beaten to ur
consciousness. Church testified tina
= Ausrnus was hot dead when he burie
. him under the garage floor across tn
Y street from his home and that h
q stamped on his face and chest TO crow
5 him into the narrow grave. He too
e Daugherty's body TO the Desplaine
= river and threw IL in.
. Half an hour later he returned
his home. whistling merrily. and ash
e ed a neighbor 10 take a ride in his ne
= car. That night he and his motht
10 and two girls drove to Indiana Harb'
Y and back The next morning he ar
, his mother drove 10 Adams, WiscoI
= sin. where his father had a farm.
Meanwhile the body of Daughert
had been found I'm the river. the hanC
" cuffs had been traced to Church ar
he was arrested at Adams. Wis. Tw
days later he made a complete comics
sion. Boosting OF how easily he ha
disposed of two large men.
4, Photographs Of the hanging we
4 permitted for the first time in Coz
county's history.