The People v. Russell

William T. Russell was tried at the November term, 1925, of the criminal court of Cook county on an indictment charging him with the murder of his wife, Mary, on August 28, 1925, and upon a verdict of guilty was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for fourteen .years. He has sued out a writ of error to reverse this judgment.

Russell was fifty years old and had been a police officer of the city of Chicago for seventeen years. He had been twice married. By his first wife, who died in 1901, he had one child, Eva, who was three years old when her mother died. He married his second wife,…