Death of Lazarus Averbuch
Death of Lazarus Averbuch "This is an account of a 1908 murder in Chicago. But is also the story of what may be the most bizarre newspaper photo ever published (that’s Averbuch’s corpse in the photo). Lazarus Averbuch was an 18 year old immigrant from Ukraine. One morning he went to the home of Chicago’s police chief. The police chief shot the young man dead in his doorway. Was it self defense, as the chief claimed? Or “profiling” of a poor, Eastern European immigrant?" Lazarus “Jerome” Averbuch (1889–1908) was a 19-year-old Russian-born Jewish immigrant to Chicago who was shot and killed by Chicago Chief of Police George M. Shippy on March 2, 1908.. The incident occurred during an era of public fear of foreign-born anarchists in the United States, following their involvement with the Haymarket affair in 1886. The exact circumstances of the shooting remain contested, but Averbuch's death has inspired speculation, ideological arguments, and works of fiction....