Appeal Second Conviction in Keil Murder

KEIL, MURPHY, HARLAN, ECKERLEBE, GIBBS, DOHS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 8/5/2009 at 21:23:06

Waterloo Courier, August 11, 1897

APPEAL ECKERLEBE CASE

Dubuque, August 4-It is stated that Attorneys Gibbs and Dohs, counsel for Chris Eckerlebe, convicted of the Bellevue murder of Mina Keil in a second trial and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, will take an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Justice Harlan, of that court, in a recent lecture stated that the evidence of the tramp, Murphy, which was mainly instrumental in convicting Eckerlebe, should not have been admitted.

J. W. Ellis, History of Jackson County, Volume I, Page 279.

"Some months after Eckerlebe's incarceration at Anamosa he was adjudged insane and was placed in the insane ward and has remained there ever since."