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Mrs. Emily Strutynsky, a mild-mannered Ukrainian school teacher, walked into St. Michael the Archangel church, pulled a gun from her dress and killed the Rev. Father Basil Stetsuk on October 7, 1923. She claimed she had to kill the priest because he was a “such a bad leader of the Ukranians”. Strutynsky's husband, the Rev. Nicholas Strutynsky, was the former priest of the church and had been driven away to a church in Pennsylvania. She was to go with him, but planned the murder for weeks. Strutynsky spent four years at the Kankakee State Hospital, Department of the Criminally Insane before she slipped away July 9, 1927 and jumped in the river. (Photo by Chicago Tribune Historical Photo)
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