Joseph G. Crane

Joseph G. Crane was a Union Army officer who was appointed mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (the state capitol) in 1869. He was stabbed to death[1] on the capitol steps by Edward M. Yerger, a former Confederate Army officer who edited a newspaper.[2] After military officials arrested his assailant, a writ of Habeas corpus was filed and eventually appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in Ex parte Yerger. After it ruled, a deal was made and he was released to civil authorities, bonded out, and moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He was never tried.[3]

Crane was a breveted colonel. He was killed June 8, 1869.[4] Yerger was represented by his uncle William Yerger who had served on the Mississippi Supreme Court in the 1850s.[2]

Under Crane’s authority a piano was seized from Yerger’s family to satisfy a tax assessment.[5] Yerger owned and edited the Evening Journal in Baltimore.[6]

See also

Further reading
  • The Tragedy of Tuesday, June 8; The Killing of Col. Joseph G. Crane, Mayor of the City of Jackson, Miss., by Edward M. Yerger (1869)[7]

References
  1. "THE TRAGEDY IN JACKSON.; The Murder of Colonel Joseph G. Crane, Mayor of the City by Colonel Yerger". The New York Times. June 15, 1869.
  2. Nossiter, Adam (June 16, 2009). Of Long Memory: Mississippi And The Murder Of Medgar Evers. Hachette Books. ISBN 9780786748488 – via Google Books.
  3. "Browse subject: Crane, Joseph G., 1825-1869 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  4. Yerger, Edward M. (June 1, 1869). Trial of E.M. Yerger before a military commission for the killing of bv't. Col. Joseph G. Crane, at Jackson, Miss., June 8th, 1869 : including testimony of all the witnesses arguments. Clarion Book and Job Printing Establishment.
  5. Society. (Founded 1890), Mississippi Historical (June 1, 1918). "Publications. Centenary Series" – via Google Books.
  6. Humanities, National Endowment for the (April 23, 1875). "Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, April 23, 1875, Image 2" – via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
  7. The Tragedy of Tuesday, June 8th: The Killing of Col. Joseph G. Crane, Mayor of the City of Jackson, Miss. from the Clarion of June 10th. 1869.
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