This is the district in which George B. Fern and Cora Henderson met their deaths under such mysterious circumstances.
Here is a partial list of the happenings of recent date in this one neighborhood, the first four named cases being within one business block:
GEORGE B. FERN, dry goods merchant, 1393 West Madison street; found in his store with bullet hole in his head, mask and revolver with one chamber empty at his side; police say he committed suicide; coroner’s jury returned a murder verdict; the grand jury also declares it was a case of murder.
CORA HENDERSON, blind woman, 1385 West Madison street; found dead in her house, hole in her skull; murder theory worked upon by police; later theory advanced that she might have met her death by a fall.
F. W., tailor, West Madison street; robbers drove up to his store in broad daylight while he was eating in a restaurant next door and intimidated clerk with revolver, loaded in tailor’s cloth, drove away.
W. H. D., West Madison street, grocer; hole drilled in his safe; burglars scared away when D. came to open store.
MRS. FRANK W., Washington boulevard, house entered; $200 stolen.
MRS. MARGARET D., Washington boulevard; house entered; $200 worth of property taken.
MRS. WARREN F. H., Warren avenue; house entered; $500 worth of property taken.
MRS. CHARLES C., Washington boulevard; hearing a noise at her front door, went onto the porch; a burglar who had been trying to force an entrance into the second story dropped at her side, revolver in hand; he escaped, frightening off pursuers with his revolver.