John Andrews’ appeal to the state Supreme Court for a new trial in connection with the Jan. 1911 killing of Emile Amann on Tanner Hill was successful. The state’s Supreme Court “after a considerable delay... handed down an opinion deciding that he had not had a fair and impartial trial ...
So I understand that it might be difficult to feel much sympathy for a convicted murderer. John M. Andrews was convicted in county court for the killing of Emile Amann in Jan. 1911 at the city’s water reservoir up Liberty St. He received the death penalty — death by hanging — the ...
The day after John M. Andrews was sentenced to death on a first-degree murder conviction, one of the most bizarre elements of this case broke across the front page of the Warren Evening Mirror. The headline? “STELLA HODGES CONFESSES TO KILLING EMILE AMANN.” “Another sensation in the ...
With the jury on board, the trial of John M. Andrews, the man accused of killing Emile Amann at the city’s water reservoir, began. Both papers devoted a wealth of column inches to the case generally but especially the trial. You can thank me later for summarizing that here. The Mail ...
About two months after John M. Andrews was arrested in connection with the murder of Emile Amann, it was time for trial. “Big crowds still mark the sessions of court today in the Andrews murder trial and in spite of the fact that the securing of a jury is tiresome work the interest of the ...
As the rumors regarding Emile Amann’s murder on Tanner Hill continued - called one of the “foulest murders” in the county - so did the investigation. It was an effort led by two Pinkerton detectives in conjunction with the county’s 30-year-old district attorney - Frank J. ...
