James Emerson: Wanted For Murder

 James Emerson was born about 1894.




He was called Jim, he was wanted for murdering George Papp and Alexander Orr at Granite City, IL 24 Feb 1915.


here's a longer article on the murders before they names Jim as a suspect.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104257443/james-emerson/




The reward was $200 cash

Here are article from 1916


Says they weren't sure it was him

There were no other articles so I am guessing it wasn't him or there would of been a trial or something.






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