Spoiler Photos - Killing Albert Berch

: Left to Right: Sergeant Jesse L. Berch, Regimental Quarter Master; unidentified teen-age slave “self-liberated;” and, private Frank M. Rockwell, regimental postmaster. Photograph taken in Cincinnati, 1862, at J. P. Ball’s Photographic Gallery. (photograph courtesy of Bill Gladstone Collection at U.S. Army Military History Institute and Library of Congress)

: Reverse side of photo to the left. James Presley (J.P.) Ball was an African-American photographer in Cincinnati as well as an active abolitionist. Confusion on the identities of the two men in the photo at left arose because the photo’s backside lists both men as “on the left.” However, Berch is on the left, Rockwell on the right, and a correction was made in the Library of Congress catalog at the author’s request. As for the young woman, the book describes the failed efforts (so far) to identify her.

: This photograph of Jesse L. Berch was discovered in the Winter 2002-3 edition of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. “R.Q.M.” stands for Regimental Quarter Master, in this case for the 22nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army. It was this portrait that corrected the switched identities in the Library of Congress photo by J.P. Ball (this photograph courtesy of the Marc and Beth Storch collection)

: Gravesite for Jesse and Marian Berch — Mound Cemetery in Racine, Wisconsin

: Letter dated May 14, 1922 from Helen DeLendrecie to Albert and Lula Berch, full contents revealed in the book

: The lost stairway at the Johnson Hotel (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: With anxious words, Aunt Helen writes to “Lulu” (Lula) on June 5th (no year). Presumably, this letter was written in 1924, nearly 6 months after the murders.

: Andrew Taylor Still and Mrs. Alice Patterson (1896) – (photo courtesy of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine; Kirksville, MO)

: Coal Mine, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas (photo courtesy of kansasmemory.org, Kansas State Historical Society, copy and reuse restrictions apply)

: Coal Miners, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansng, Kansas (photo courtesy of kansasmemory.org, Kansas State Historical Society, copy and reuse restrictions apply)

: Initiative Petition for State Question 123, addressed to Acting Governor of Oklahoma, M. E. Trapp, circulated in Marlow mid-December 1923. The signature page was not notarized, and the document never submitted. Photo is from the original petition, which is in the Hollingsworth family collection.

: Elza Roy Gandy, age 24, two years after the murders. This “mug shot” was taken at the state penitentiary at Granite, Oklahoma (photocopy courtesy of Oklahoma Department of Corrections).

: This 1958 photocopy of Marvin Kincannon (left) visiting friends in Colorado Springs was taken 35 years after the murders. The picture appeared in a Marlow Review retrospective article, written in 1997, covering the details of the murders with more precision than in 1923 when the murders occurred. Other than this 1958 photo and the 1924 preliminary hearing photo, we have no other images of Marvin Kincannon. The grainy nature of the picture is due to several generations of copies prior to the photo’s use in 1997 — this version is taken from microfilm at the Oklahoma History Center. Identification of the other two individuals in the photo would be a plot spoiler for readers of the book.

: Discovery of the nearly unmarked grave of Albert Weldon Berch in Marlow Cemetery. The marker in front of the bush is not the Berch gravesite. Rather, a primitive marker was found within the base of the bush. Details of the discovery are included in the book.