James Henry Mackrill (1906)

MACKRILL

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 12/9/2009 at 19:33:02

The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, September 14, 1906
Page 4

THE COUNTY NEWS - St. Charles

James Mackrill died Saturday morning at the residence of Dr. Sayre, after an illness of only a few days duration. His father, George Mackrill, was in Mexico, having gone there on Tuesday, the 4th. Interment was at Blair Chapel.
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The Madison County Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 27, 1906
Page 4, Column 4

Wrongfully Jailed; Died From Effects

One of the saddest deaths that has come to our notice lately was that of James Mackreel, of St. Charles, who died at his home last week from the effects of disease contracted in the Des Moines jail where he had been incarcerated for a month without warrant or charge.

He was rounded up with a lot of vagrants about a month ago because he happened to be in that vicinity, and thrown in jail, where he was refused trial or release until his father finally discovered him. The police records did not contain his name, in fact the father twice called at the jail and was told there was no such person there. At last he asked the privilege of visiting the prisoners, and when he came to the bum cell there was his boy, sick, pale and haggard, held nearly a month without a trial or even papers against him, guilty of no crime. He was taken home but died within a few days.
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Coordinator's note: Middle name taken from Madison County Death Records.

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