Kate’s notes: These articles are being filed under “Illinois”, the location of the crime. More articles on the trials will be added as I find them.

Two news items from the New York Tribune
August 14, 1921

Fugitive Sought Since June
As Wife Slayer Is Caught
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Prisoner Faces Trial for Strangling 
Woman and Inflicting
Mortal Wound on Skull

   TERRA HAUTE, Ind., Aug. 13. --
Thomas I. Gilliland, twenty-three years old, wanted in Granite City, Ill., on a charge of having murdered his wife, Serena Gilliland, last June, was arrested here, and is being held to-day pending instructions from Granite City. Gilliland refused to discuss his arrest.
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   ST. LOUIS, Aug, 13. -- The body of Mrs. Serena Gilliland, thirty-five years old, in connection with whose death Thomas I. Gilliland is held at Terra Haute, Ind., was found buried in a crude grave in a wheat field near Granite City, Ill, June 16 last. Police immediately started a search for her husband.
   The body had been buried about a month, the authorities estimated, and death was due, an autopsy disclosed, to a blow on the skull. There also were indications that she had been strangled.

-- transcriptions by Kate Maynard, 2010