Newspaper articles about Patrick Gaffney's shooting and other related articles: 

The images are so small and illegible that I transcribed the articles so that you can see exactly what they say.

March 18, 1919

GROGAN, GUNMAN, SAYS HE'S GUILTY

Cleveland Crook Puts His Case Up to Judge When Arraigned.

CLEVELAND, March 18. - John Grogan, gunman, pleaded guilty to homicide
when arraigned in criminal court today on a charge of first degree murder for
the shooting of Patrolman Patrick Gaffney.
Under the homicide plea it is up to the judge to decide the degree of crime. 
Judge Levine will set a date for hearing for witnesses.
Grogan for years has been mixed up in major crimes in Cleveland and special
state prosecutors believe that his story will link up the chain of evidence against
those responsible for making Cleveland and "easy town" for crooks.

June 27, 1919

GUNMAN GETS LIFE

CLEVELAND, O., June 27. - John Grogan, notorious gunman, today was sentenced
to the Ohio penitentiary for life for the murder of Patrick Gaffney, East Cleveland policeman.

Sentence was imposed by Criminal Judge Stevens after Grogan pleaded guilty to second
degree murder.

November 8, 1920

Jiggs Losteiner Denies Murder

CLEVELAND, Nov. 8. - Guarded by nearly 100 policemen, detectives and deputy
sheriffs, George "Jiggs" Losteiner, 35, wounded Bedford bank bandit, was taken
from the hospital to court here today.  He entered a plea of guilty to the robbery
charge, but pleaded not guilty to the charge of slaying Patrolman Patrick Gaffney
here in 1918.  Losteiner's trial on the murder charge was set for November 29. 
Police said they had a good case against him.

December 3, 1920 

MURDER TRIAL STARTS

CLEVELAND, Dec. 3 - Fourteen witnesses will be produced by the state
here Monday when the trial of George Losteiner, charged with the murder
of Patrolman Patrick J. Gaffney, gets under way.  Losteiner was wounded
and captured while he and several others tried to escape with $2,500 after
holding up the Bedford bank.  Gaffney was killed in December of 1918. 
John Grogan, a pal of the prisoner, is now serving life for the killing.  Police
charge Losteiner had a hand in the murder.  

Lima News (Ohio)
July 22, 1921

The two youths were said to have fired the shots, after an attempted holdup.

The first man to be sentenced by the trial judge for stated periods of solitary, was
Alexander Kish, Seneca-co convict, who was received Feb. 16, 1915, to serve a
life sentence, after having been found guilty of first degree murder charges, with
recommendation of mercy.
Kish's sentence included "the fifth day of each month, and the four previsions days
shall be spent by the prisoner in solitary confinement in a darkened cell."  This later,
on the recommendation of Warden P. E. Thomas, was changed to solitary the first
day of each month.
MURDER WOMAN
Kish brutally murdered an aged woman at Bellevue, and rifled her home, disposing
of most of the goods in the town limits.
The most notorious of the eight men who regularly go into the "C. C.'s" or corrective
cells, as they are known, is George Loestiner, Cleveland gangster.  He spends each
Christmas Day in solitary.  On Christmas Day, 1920, Patrolman Patrick Gaffney of
East Cleveland, died from wounds inflicted by Loestiner.

July 27, 1937

LIFER DIES IN PEN HOSPITAL

Clevelander Who Led Break 11 Years Ago, Succumbs.

COLUMBUS - (AP) - George "Jiggs" Loestiner, 52, serving a life term for
murdering a Cleveland policeman during a robbery, died today in Ohio penitentiary.
Loestiner died in the prison hospital.  He had been ill about three days, but
physicians had not diagnosed the ailment.
He was sentenced to prison Dec. 12 1920 for killing Patrolman Patrick J. Gaffney
In 1926, six years after entering the penitentiary Loestiner was one of the leaders
in a bold escape by 12 convicts through the main entrance.  he and the others were
captured within a few hours, however.