Sangamon County IL Archives Obituaries.....Ballard, C A 1908
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Cook County Herald, Jul 10, 1908
Cook County Herald, Arlington Heights IL
July 10, 1908

Man Stabbed Thirteen Times

Negro Slays Father of Girl Whose Room Black Invaded

Joe James, a negro from Birmingham, Ala., is under heavy guard in the city 
prison in Springfield, kept from the infuriated relatives and friends of C. A. 
Ballard, a mining engineer, whom the negro butchered with a penknife in the 
Ballard home. Ballard discovered the negro shortly after midnight in the 
sleeping apartment of his 16-year-old daughter, whom the brute had just 
awakened. He attacked him with bare hands. The negro drew a penknife and 
slashed the man until he fell fainting from thirteen wounds. He died Sunday. 
The negro fled from the scene, but, overcome by exhaustion and the effects of 
drink, he fell in the road near Reservoir park. He was discovered there by 
four little girls. Sons of Ballard headed a mob which was beating the negro to 
death when the police arrived on the scene and hustled him to prison.


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