At Camp Chase in Ohio, two Union deserters who murdered the assistant Provost Marshal of the Seventeenth District are executed

J.B. Cook, the Assistant Provost Marshal of the Seventeenth District of Ohio was shot down in his yard at his home in Cambridge, Ohio.  Two Union Army deserters, Hiram Oliver and his brother-in-law, John Wesley Hartrup, had fled to Illinois and bought adjoining farms.  They had been dismayed at rumours that Cook was pursuing them and decided to strike first.  They were both convicted of murder and executed in the early afternoon at Camp Chase in Ohio.  (By John Osborne)