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Nothing further was done until the tenth day of October, 1870, when the court, Charles E. R. Winthrop, James L. Primm and James Ervin, ordered that a special tax of three mills be levied upon the taxable property of the county, under and by virtue of " An act to amend an act to authorize the county court to issue bonds, approved February 16, 1865, and in force February 28, 1867. Private Laws of Illinois, 1867, Vol. I., page 890."
Plans were at once solicited, and those submitted to the court by Samuel Hannaford, of Cincinnati, Ohio, were adopted by the county authorities, April 21, 1871.
On the 26th of the same month notices were issued soliciting bids for the erection of the building, and all bids were to be presented by the 10th of the following May. The old jail was sold to Thomas Turner for $15. The con- tract was let to E. Haugh, of Indianapolis Ind., on the 10th of May, 1871. The contract price was $14,150, and the payments were to be made on the first day of each month. Ninety per cent. of the value of the materials and labor were payable at that time.
The contractor gave bond in the sum of $15,000, on the 18th of May, with B. F. Haugh, J. R. Ilaugh and Thomas H. Butler as sureties, and work was commenced. The brick work was sub-contracted to Norris & Hinckley. To pro- vide the means to pay for the work, James Ervin was ap- pointed financial agent for the county to borrow 811,000. Bonds were to be issued, payable in one and two years, and to bear interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. James L. Primm was also appointed superintendent of the building on the same day, July 6th, 1871, at which time the contractor was also paid $1000. On the 18th of the same month the financial agent reported that he had effected a loan from the Belleville Savings Bank, and a bond for $5000, payable in one year, and one for $6000, payable in two years, were issued to that institution. Ou the 16th of Au- gust of this year a tax levy of 40 cents on the $100 was levied for jail purposes. On the fourth day of December, 1871, a furnace was purchased from Blanchard & Garrison, at a cost of $200. On the 15th of the same month a final settlement was made with the contractor and the building received. The only extra cost above the contract price was the additional allowance of $200 for extra plumbing, and $391.50 for extra masonry. In connection with the jail is a handsome two-story brick residence for the sheriff. The jail is of brick, and best described by the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities, in their report for 1878. It is as follows :
"The jail is in the rear of the sheriff's residence, two blocks west of the court house; brick walls, not lined ; boiler-iron floor; ceiling of lath and plaster ; eight iron cells, with grated fronts, double row, back to back. These
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COURT HOUSE. PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PERRY COUNTY, ILL.
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IIISTORY OF RANDOLPH, MONROE AND PERRY COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
cells are surrounded on four sides hy an inner corridor for the use of the prisoners, and jailor's corridor surrounds this again on four sides, next the outer walls. The two are separated by a cross-barred grating, which also extends over the inner corridor making a perfect cage ; the effect is very light and airy. Bar locks, with levers in jailor's corridor. Eight large windows ; good natural ventilation ; heated by furnace ; privy seat in corridor ; force-pump ; wooden tank in attic ; bath tub and fixed basins. Large cell for female prisoners in upper story of sheriff's house; in good repair clean and roomy, and would be strong if a better quality of iron had been used in its construction."
THE COUNTY ALMSHOUSE.
In 1865, a tract containing ninety aeres of land was pur- chased at a cost of seventeen hundred dollars, for a poor farm. The farm lies one mile due south of the county seat. No attempt was made to utilize it for many years, the farm being rented to various persons in the meantime. The sup- port of the paupers, scattered all over the county as they were, became burdensome, and presented many opportuni- ties for exorbitant charges from all sides. John Baird, Charles Gaemalley, and Elihn Onstott, the board of County commissioners at the time, entered an order, on the twelfth day of October 1874. for a vote to be taken at the ensuing November election, on the proposition to build ao almshouse by levying a tax, in the years 1875 and 1876, not to exceed twenty-five hundred dollars each year. The vote was taken and the proposition receiving six hundred and fifty-five votes for, and there being but five hundred and sixty-two vote: again-t it, a plan was prepared by John Chapman of Du Quoin, and adopted on the seventeenth day of March, 1875. At the same time bids were ordered to be received up to noon of April 8th. At the last named date, the pro- posals ten in number were opened, and the contract for the erection of the building given to D. P. Delano and John M Bayless for the sum of four thousand three hundred and thirty seven dollars and fifty-four cents. The payments for the work were one thousand dollars on the fifteenth of May, 1875 ; one thousand dollars when the brick work was completed, and the balance when the building was com- pleted, and received by the county commissioners. On the 13th of April, 1875 the contractors filed a bond for five thou- sand dollars, dated April 9th, 1875, with II. R. Pomeroy, B. F. Pope, Sr., and P. N. Pope as snreties The bond was ap- proved the same day. To provide for the payments, it was ordered that the following sums be borrowed from the fol- lowing named persons, at the several different times, and that the county clerk, W. S. D. Smith, issue nine per cent. interest bearing county orders, receive and pay out the mon- ey. The loans effected were as follows :
Murphy, Wall & Co., May 1, 1875 $500,00
44
.. July 15, 1875 500,00
=
= Oct. 15, 1875. 1,000,00
G. R. Hincke & Bro., July 15, 1875
500,00
Oct. 15, 1875
1337.54
Total amount borrowed . $3837.54
Interest-bearing county orders, payable annually, were issued in compliance with the order. John Baird and Chas. Gaemalley were appointed superintendents of construction
by the commissioners. The work was rapidly pushed for- ward, and the first payment was male May 1st, 1875, one thousand dollars; the second, one thousand dollars. July 15th, and the final payment of twenty-three hundred and thirtys.even dollars and fifty- four cents, together with eighty- seven dollars and fifty cents for extra work was made Oct. 15th of the same year. The building was received by the commissioners on the ninth day of December, 1875. The building is a handsome two-story brick, with cellar under the kitchen. The main building is thirty by fifty feet. On the first floor there are six large rooms, with ten foot ceiling. Also a large hall thirty nine by ten feet. On the second floor are two halls, thirty nine by four feet, and sixteen by ten, and eight large bedrooms, with a ceiling nine feet, six inches. There is also a wing, twenty by thirty-six feet, with dining-room, kitchen and store-room, on the first floor; and a porch six feet wide along the wing. On the second floor there is a hall extending the full length of the building and six feet wide, and three chambers.
The rooms are well lighted and ventilated by large win- dows. The building is a credit to the county, and a blessing to those, who have to seek shelter beneath its roof. It is doubtful whether there is a county in the whole state, that takes more care of its indigent poor than Perry. The aver- age number of inmates has been thirteen, annually. The county commissioners appoint a superintendent, annually, and the following named gentlemen have held the position : John M. Bayless, appointed, January 1st, 1876; Alexander A. Kimzey, January 1st, 1877; and William E. Gladson, January 1st, 1878, and has held the position to the present time. The physicians in charge since its commencement, have been Dr William L. MeCandless for the year 1877 ; Dr. R. S. Peyton, for 1878 ; and Dr. William L MeCand- less since that time. There were twenty inmates, according to the state report of 1880, twelve of whom were children We append the closing remarks of the state visiting agent for 1878. "This is one of the best kept Almshouses in southern Illinois ; the county supplies everything required and pays the keeper three hundred and fifty dollars a year."
THE CIRCUIT COURT.
The first fine assessed in this eourt was one of fifty cents taxed against Joel Crain and Afton Crawford for an atfray for which they had been indicted. They were each fined at the April term, 1829, and John Pyle, jr., was fined twelve and one-half cents, on an indictment for an assault.
At the April term, 1>30, Joseph Brayshaw was admitted as a naturalized eitizen, the first citizen admitted in Perry county.
At the succeeding October term six persons of color, Soudon Parkes, Agga, Jeremiah, James, John and Simeon presented proofs of having served out their time, as slaves, and were granted certificates of Freedom.
At the Sept mber term 1832 Leonard Lipe and Lewis Wells, and at the May term 1833 Benjamin Johnson were certified as having been soldiers of the Revolutionary war and entitled to pension accordingly.
The first sentence of imprisonment pronounced was at the October term 1834 imposed upon Augustine Davis wbo upon
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a charge of Lare ny was ordered confined in the county jail for thirty davs. Not until four years after, at the July special term of 1838, was confinement in the State Peniten- tiary adjudged necessary the county then having been in existence eleven years. At that term J. Bennet for stealing a horse was ordered to be sent to Alton, and to be confined at hard labor fourteen and one-half months, and in solitary confinement for two weeks.
The first Divorce observed upon record was granted at the May term of 1839 upon the petition of Eliza Lakin against Adam Lakın.
THE FIRST MURDER TRIAL.
The first person tried in this county upon the charge of murder, was one William Corberly. The cause was brought on change of venue from St. Clair county, where the indict- ment had been found. The first order regarding this cause, appears on the record of April 30th, 1842, when James Shields, the prisoner's attorney, appeared before judge Walter B. Scates, and made a morion that the cause be s'ricken from the docket for want of jurisdiction. The motion was sustained and an order in accordance therewith entered. His attorney appears in court again with a peti- tion for a writ of habeas corpus, and upon a hearing on May 3d of the same year, the prisoner was ordered to be delivered to the sheriff of St. Clair county. The cause came up for trial in this court, on the fifteenth day of October, 1842. Willis Allen was the attorney for the people, and John Dougherty appeared in defence of the prisoner. A jury composed of James Huggins, John Hug- gins, Euclid Logau, Peter W. Robinson, John Ayers, John M Campbell, John King, Daniel Gunn, Samuel S. Wilson, William Linton, William Hutchings and Samuel Browo, was secured. The same day the prisoner entered a plea of " not guilty," the trial completed and the verdict of the jury rendered, finding the prisoner guilty and fixing his punishment at two months and three weeks in the peniten- tiary, with two weeks in solitary confinement.
At the October term, 1856, a meeting of the members of the bar was held, Ben. Bond of Clinton county, chairman, and Wm. Stokes, secretary, at which Wm. H. Underwood, B. M. Cox, P. E. Hosmer, R. S. Bond and A. J. Dickinson were appointed a committee to present resolutions commem- orative of the death of H. B. Jones, a member of the bar, who had died.
Of the murder trials, which have been had in this county, the death penalty was never adjudged by the jury, until November 8th, 1873. At the November term of the circuit court, John Feefee and George Williams, negroes, were put upon trial for the murder of a farmer named Mattison. They had been stealing his hogs, and were being followed by Mattison, when they riddled his body with bullets, and left him lying dead in the field. The cause came up for trial before judge Amos Watts, on the first day of November, and issue joined and plea of " not guilty," entered.
D. W. Fountain appeared, alone, for the people, while the prisoners were defended by Gen. Jones, E. H. Lemen, Lewis Hammack and M. C. Edwards. The following jury was obtained after several days' effort : Samuel J. Brown,
William G. Brown, Julius Schlegel, Jesse Green, James M. Wheatley, James Smith, Absalom Adkins, Jonathan M. Rice, Daniel Benson, James Horner, Isaac Lipe and Ephraim Pyle. On the morning of the 8th of November, the jury rendered a verdict of guilty, and fixed the punish- ment at death by hanging. The criminals were sentenced to be hanged on the 28 h of November, 1873. The scaffold was built and every preparation made by sheriff, Leonard T. Ross, to carry into effect the sentence, when governor Beveridge commuted the sentence to imprisonment for life.
TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF VAUGHN.
The history of this crime is best told in the language of the Globe-Democrat, of June 17th, 18x2: "James Vaughn was a tall, good-looking fellow. He worked in the coal mines the best part of his life, and so was not tanned and browned like the general run of country laborers. He wore quite a swell mustache, parted his hair neatly, and when dressed for the grave in a suit of broadcloth he looked like anything but a murderer. In June, 1881, there was a meeting of Democrats held in the town of Tamaroa, Ill., nine miles northeast of Pinckneyville. It was here that Vaughn lived at this time, together with his father and mother and their children. Ben Vaughn was the favorite brother of James, and Ben liked fun as well as any man. Ben, although a Republican, went to the Democratic meet- ing, and when one of the speakers was soaring to the top cloud, Ben spoiled the effect by shouting ' Hurrah for Gar- field. This breach of the peace riled William Watts, the city marshal of Tamaroa. He pulled his revolver and pointing it at Ben he frightened the latter so that he took to his heels, with Watts after him, still holding the revolver and flourishing it as though he intended killing the fugitive. The latter ran clear to his father's home and entered the house just as Watts was catching up with him. James Vaughn heard of the escapade of his brother and of the chase, and the more he thought of it the madder he got. ' If Watts ever tries to arrest or fool with me as he did with Ben,' said Vaughn, ' I'll kill him just as sure as there's a God in Heaven.' On August 4th, just two months after the occurrence noted, James Vaughn, filled up with whiskey, took a walk about the public streets of Tamaroa. He talked loudly, said he did not care much for anybody, and less for Watts, and as he talked the latter appeared and told him he was disturbing the peace, and that he would arrest him if he did not shut up Vaughn turned his nose up at the marshal and told him he could not arrest him unless he was armed with a warrant. This statement appears to have irritated Watts, for he seized hold of his man and said he would have to come along. Vaughn jerked away from Watts, and this made the latter very angry. He raised his cane, and struck Vaughn over the head with it. Vaughn seized the cane and raised his right hand, which contained a pocket-knife with the big blade open. Vaughn aimed for a vital spot, and his aim was true, the knife severing the subclavian artery. Watts fell to the ground, saying, 'I'm a dead man,' but before giving up life, and while in the very thrves of death, he drew his revolver and aimed at Vaughn, who, noticing the marshal's
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move, beat a hasty retreat. The dying man aimed at the fugitive, but the cartridge failed to explode. A second time he fired. This time the weapon responded, and a bullet piereed Vaughn's left leg, inflieting a slight flesh wound. The next moment Watts toppled over and wag dead. Vaughn was seized by bystanders, and before them he said : 'Oh, I'm a man of my word. I told you I'd kill that man if he ever tried to arrest me, and I've kept my word.' "
An indictment for murder soon followed his arrest, and on the first day of May, 1882, James Vaughn was arraigned before judge George W. Wall, on a charge of murder. He entered a plea of " not guilty." Mortimer C. Edwards, the county attorney, assisted by R. W. S. Wheatley, Esq., conducted the prosecution, and Messrs. R. M. Davis and E. H. Lemen, the defense. The first two days were spent in obtaining a jury, which was as follows: John W. Rush- ing, P. S. Wilks, George Kraft, Charles Seifert, William Stewart, W. H. Sterling, Christian Schwartz, Jacob Thomas, Chesterfield Harold, Hugh Devinney, James Knox and R. P. Burbank. The cause was given to the jury on the evening of May 3d, aud at fifteen minutes past twelve the next morning, they rendered their verdict of guilty and affixed the death penalty. The usual motions were made in the case, but all were overruled, and on the 13th day of May, judge Wall passed the sentence of death, selecting the 16th day of June, 1882, as the date for the execution, the first and only one in the county. The case was then taken to the Supreme Court, who affirmed the decision of the jury in the lower court.
Sheriff, Thomas Penwarden, had named 12.15 P. M., as the hour for the execution, and at that time twenty-five persons were admitted to the body of the jail. This included the sheriff's guard, the spiritual adviser of the condemned and the reporters. The scaffold was in one corner of the jail. To reach it the tops of the cells had to be scaled, and reaching this point was made easy by a temporary wooden stairway. The little crowd gathered on the top of the cells and awaited the coming of the condemned. At 12.20 Vaughn was taken out of his eell and led to the seaffold by the sheriff. The minister walked by his side and stood by him upon the trap. After prayer the death warrant was read, and then the sheriff asked Vaughn if he had anything
to say. He answered. "I have got nothing at all to say," whereupon the clergyman said that Vaughn had asked him to speak for him. He said that Vaughn was very sorry that he had killed Watts, but confident and hopeful that Christ would pardon him for all the sins committed in this life. Ile repented for the crime, and had faith that God had a pardon waiting for him in Heaven. After this last statement the sheriff' put on the black cap and adjusted the rope. Then the minister and the sheriff stepped off the trap, shaking hands at the same time with Vaughn and bidding him good-by. Deputy sheriff Lemen raised the axe and severed the rope that held the trap up. The door fell with a erash and Vaughn was sent flying into the unknown world. There was a twitch of the ropes and then all was over. The fall was nearly six feet and had broken his neck. Thirty five minutes after the drop life was pronounced extinet by the attending physicians. Vaughn was a Ten- nesseean by hirth, hailing from MeNair county, that state. He was thirty three years of age at the time of his death.
STATISTIC'S.
The growth of the county in wealth can in no way be so clearly shown as by giving the assessment rolls at different periods. We select two, which are here appended, viz: those of 1860 and 18x2.
Assessment of Perry County In 1860. SHOWING TOTALS.
Number. 4,250
$177,630
Neat Cattle.
11,345
135,285
Mules and Asses.
557
26,305
Sheep
6,27]
6,273
Hogs.
10,667
10,841
l'arriages and Wagon ?.
1,207
38,000
Checks and Watches
1,04
6.586
Pianos ...
6
335
Iroods and Merchandise
67,075
Manufactured Articles,
2,295
Moneys and Credits.
49,620
U'nenumerated Property.
78,614
Aggregate.
$603,015
Deductions
24,804
Total value of taxable personal property.
$576,151
Lands ..
$1.014,84G
l'own Lots.
169,917
Total value of lands and town luts
$1,181,763
Total value of real and personal property ..
$1,760,914
TAXES.
SS,276 29
State School Tax, 20 cents on SIum,
3,521 83
State Tax on forfeited property redeemed
39 53
State Tax and Interest remaining dne from formier years.
128 02
County Tax, 40 cents on $100.
County Tax and Interest due from former years
167 55
Speci .. I County Tax
6,755 32
Total Tax levied.
$25,932 19
Acres in cultivation-Wheat, 10,296; Corn, 17,157; Other field products, 2,469.
Assessment of Real Estate, Personal Property, and Principal Articles of Perry County, Illinois, for the year 1992.
Improved Lands.
Unimproved Lands.
Total Lands.
Improved Unimprvd Lots. Lots.
Total Lots.
Horses.
('attle.
Mule and Asses.
Sheep.
Hogs.
Steam Engines inel'dug Boilers.
Acres
Value. Acres
Value. Acres
Value. Lts. Va!ne.
Lts.
Val.
Lts. Value.
No.| Value.
No.
VAL.
No.
Val.
No. Val. No. Val. : 21
Val.
Town 4, range 1 ..
9933
1774H
169071
7737
16183
25485
185254
26
1995
45
71
1419
47:2
14285 554
5384
124
408
183
79
1170 4
520
6,
1 ..
13624
150404
6105
11034
20029
167438 602
12235x
232
707%
834
229430
349
52G
5285
$45
244
355
418
487 :0
2940
4.
4136
32265 12337
28342
1+473
60647
1.59
4750
263
2630
4.2
1245
50 337
338 3
400
14
4.
3 ..
2472
17321
1.5022
27497 17494
14738
91032 221
47019 342
4.344
563 52250|
324
9830
582
4210
87
2490
267
247 377
460 7
1155
6,
3
10:34
96513
11238
21056
21472
117560
121546
24
2041
94
128
3051
252
76:26
3×3
7880
74
2255
290
204 289
292 4
225
5.
4.
12260
113952
10660
21:205
22020
135157
24
28:35
×7
431
3265
229
8350
226
2325
64
2283
317
324 341
345. 3
450
6,
4.
8787
73043
14178
29432
22965
102475
$137109G 1044
8203197 1098 82062 :142 $221120.3244
Totals
117784 M1113154 132687
8101555 4490 813269 1052 833960 2726
$2829 5088
$6460 57 871-5
:
469
5.
3.
7074
69490
12178
22442
20153
$118217 147
$27045
300
$1045
447
$11690
310
8054 424
$1185
104
$3280
Stix 275|
$380 10.
$1030
2 ..
2
9573
86370
1032
20096
19x96
1071454
24
7470
356
366G
3776 129
4235
237
237
809
1221
2.
10582
100311
0037
18666
19619
119047
2×9
9035
30G
3240|
191
1958
38
1130
3155
260
260, 264
265 2
90
4,
=
4.
10460
97564
12342
23982
22802
4.
288
919"
39×
3619
85
3 00
607
607. 315
335 3
195
3035
103 685
10%
100
101 161
107
218
7225
216
2151
8230
$17367
18163
8257942 247471
Value.
Horses
Bonds, Stocks, Joint Stock Companies, etc
2485
7,043 65
State Tax, 47 cents on 3100.
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HISTORY OF RANDOLPH, MONROE AND PERRY COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
Fire and Burglar Proof Safes.
Billiard, Pigeon Hole, Baga-
telle or other similar , ables.
Carriages and Wagons.
Watches and Clocks.
Sewing or Knitting Machines.
Į Pianofortes.
Melodions and Organs.
Annuities and Royalties.
Merchandise on hand.
Material and Manufactured
Manufacturers' Tools, Impie-
ments and Machinery, etc.
Agricultural Tools, Imple-
Moneys of Bank, Banker, Bro-
Moneys other than of Bank,
Credits other than of Bank,
Property of Saloons and
Household and Office
Investments in Real Estate and Improvements thereon.
Grain on hand.
All other Property not other-
Total Fair Cash Value of Per-
Dogs.
NO.
Val.
No.
Val.
No.
Val.
Val.
No.
Val.
No.
Val,
No ..
Val.
NO.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
Val.
No.
Town 4, Range 1
4
205
165
2980
172
357
110
788
10
490 21
415
11165
1563
3262
1945|
775
4506
65
250'
43463
5,
1
1 100
1
223
3454
204
363
106 1018| 1
75,11
255
1
10: 32800 2555 1430
44
+,
2
96
973
64
74
167
57
610
4
10- 2
300
1 20
2470
5825
2833
50
20
32844
146
6
2
138
216
11
157
48
87
663 18
1200,21
465
12820
700
124
2462
180
1315
350 3050
25
5828
40 415
518.37
44
5.
3
1, 300
4
70
197
308.
1567
17 $
44
21.
2
60
3
60
995
15G8
800
40
1900
60
21×69
90
44
4,
4.
1
15
119
1931
112
237
5x
301
1
5
12:
95
2678
1608 2116
2766
28927
102
:
6,
4
103
1904
99
25.
75
387
1
37
6 155
3116
10 495
1962
940
2793
26131
99
Totals
18 800
9 275 177
26213
728 3394
997 7267 71 3590 98 1810 1 10 61021 3265 3707
Assessment of Real Estate, Personal Property, Principal Articles of Perry County, Illinois, for the year 1882.
Personal Property.
Num- ber.
que
Assess- ment Value.
Real Estate-Lands.
Num- ber of Acres.
age Val- Assessed ue Per Aere. Value.
3254
$31 24
$101,555
Horses
4490
9 63
13,269
Neat C'attle.
1052
32 28
33,960
Mules and Asses.
2726
1 04
2.829
Sheep
50NX
1 27
6.400)
Hogs.
57
124 70
7,105
Unimproved Lands.
128,982
2 00
258,452
Steam Engines and Boilers.
18
44 45
SOHO
Billiard, Pigeon-hole, Bagatelle or other similar tables
30 55
975
Carriages and Wagons.
1717
15 75
26,213
Watches and Clocks.
1728
1 90
3,394
Sewing and Knitting Machines ..
997
7 20
7,267
Piano Fortes.
71
50 42
3,580
Melodeons and Organs
98
19 00
1,810
Franchises
Total Assessed Value of Euumerated Property ..
$238,527
Amount of Unenumerated Property.
$61,021
Merchandise
3.265
Mau'f Tools, Implements and Machinery
3.707
Agricultural Tools, Implements and Machinery.
25,732
Moneys of Banks, Bankers and Brokers, ete
2,299
Moneys of others than Bankers, etc ..
31,213
Railroad Property.
Aver- age Value
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