34 Unseen Vintage Chicago Crime Photos from between the 1900s and 1950s

Sheriff's Deputies Joseph Jacobsen and William Braun, from left, hold onto murderer Richard Carpenter, with help from fellow Deputy Jack Smietana during Carpenter's five-day trial, which began Nov. 7, 1955. According to the Tribune, Carpenter "refused to clean up or dress up and had to be dragged in handcuffs and leg irons to the courtroom." Carpenter confessed to more than 70 robberies in a two-year span, in addition to killing Detective William J. Murphy, 34, and seriously wounding Officer Clarence Kerr, 26, on Aug. 17, 1955. Carpenter, who was often uncooperative in the courtroom and jail, was found guilty and sentenced to die by the electric chair. He was executed on Dec. 19, 1958.

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