Hammill, James c1854 – 1896

HAMMILL, HAMMIL, LOGAN

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Date: 11/22/2020 at 14:28:12

Iowa Plain Dealer December 29, 1896, FP C4

A Sorrowful Way to Die.
During the past week there passed away a man in the Howard county jail, incarcerated there charged with a felonious crime. At the recent term of the district court his condition was such that his case was continued to the next term. In his life, sickness, death and burial may be found a lesson and a warning. Probably against the admonition of parents, brothers or sisters he chose the life of dishonesty and dishonor to one of purity and uprightness. Caught burglarizing a store at Elma he was arrested bound over to the grand jury, and without friends was lodged in jail, indicted, and was awaiting trial and sentence to the penitentiary. Overtaken with sickness he was a stranger among strangers with none to love him, none to sympathise with his hours of pain, no one to mourn his death and none in sorrow to follow his remains to the grave, and no one to mark the grave where Thomas Logan sleeps the sleep of death. Thus dishonored, unwept and unmourned passed away the man who gave his name as Thomas Logan. A few hours before his death he gave his name as James Hammill and stated that he had friends by the names of Duffy and Collins at Coxsackie and Haverstraw New York. His age was 42 years, he was buried in St. Joseph’s cemetery his funeral being from the Catholic church.

Transcriber’s Note: He gave two different names while in jail.

Source: Decorah Republican Jan. 7, 1897 P 3 C 2

A Sor{r}owful Way to Die.
Cresco Plain Dealer.—During the past week there passed away a man in the Howard county jail, incarcerated there charged with a felonious crime. At the recent term of the district court his condition was such that his case was continued to the next term. In his life, sickness, death and burial may be found a lesson and a warning. Probably against the admonition of parents, brothers or sisters he chose the life of dishonesty and dishonor to one of purity and uprightness. Caught burglarizing a store at Elma he was arrested and bound over to the grand jury, and without friends was lodged in jail, indicted, and was awaiting trial and sentence to the penitentiary. Overtaken with sickness he was a stranger among strangers, with none to love him, and none to sympathise with his hours of pain, no one to mourn his death and none in sorrow to follow his remains to the grave, and no one to mark the grave where Thomas Logan sleeps the sleep of death. Thus dishonored, unwept and unmourned passed away the man who gave his name as Thomas Logan. A few hours before his death he gave his name as Jas. Hammil.

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