Fornshell, Marvin E, THE HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATED OHIO PENITENTIARY, 1907-1908, Image clarified and copyrighted 1997 by Arthur W. McGraw, page 151 Name: Elmer SHARKEY (Prisoner 20517) Crime: Murder Location: Preble County Executed: 18 December 1890 NOTES: Sharkey, using a meat-axe, "murdered his mother in order to secure her property and because of her objections to his intenion of marrying."